room.
11 Back at the control panel. Fran stares at the screens. Confusion
still reigns.
Man: FRANNIE, GET ON THE NEW LIST OF RESCUE STATIONS.
CHARLIES RECEIVING ON THE EMERGENCIES...
Fran pulls herself away from the monitors as the argument rages
on screen.
12 She fights through the heavy traffic and reaches Charlie, a
harassed typist who holds the receiver of an emergency radio
unit under his
New Rose Hotel Script
Cmon, you know this better than
anybody, right?
Theres a full-scale subterranean war
been raged for every shred of information.
The corporate suits are killing each other by the thousands...
... each year.
It is like the Holocaust of the twentieth century.
Everybody knows about it
and nobody says anything about it.
The government is as capable
as any corporation.
"Potato...
rages O.S. He lowers the
binoculars. He is forty-five years old. Features severe. The left
side of his face is heavily scarred. A patch covers that eye. An
impressive man, forged in the furnace of a lifetime of war. The name
stitched on the band of his beret is CONNER. We push in until his eyes
fill frame, then...
DISSOLVE TO
FIRE. SLOW ROILING, ENORMOUS. FILLING FRAME. *
VOICE (SARA CONNER) * Sk
BLIND AND FERAL WHITENESS
... Glacial desert... gusts of snow... superimpose:
ANTARCTICA 1982 WINTER
A SOUND
Loud and strident. A helicopter streaks across frame. It
travels precariously close to the ground; its chassis
battered and swayed by the wind.
INT. COPTER
Red dials beam on the faces of two men. One carries a
rifle and searches the horizon with binoculars. The other
pilots. Their unkempt
blind fright,
but l never hit anyone.
So God must have directed my bullets.
Why, he even sent an angel...
to deliver this weapon.
Just how do you intend
to dispense this law?
With this. And a rope.
And will you rely again
on the grace of God?
l intend to practice...
and give him some help.
Get on with the reading.
lve turned to the Book of Psalms...
and l will read from Psalm number ...
which l d