TERMINATOR II: THE UNCENSORED AND UNABRIDGED FILMSCRIPT
PART VII
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142 Int. First floor corridor/ Lobby
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A ROVING GUARD, MOSHIER, strolls down the long corridor from
the first-floor office block. A punch clock swings at his hip,
and he's just completed his circuit of the building. He passes
the bank of elevators and rounds the corner to the front desk,
calling out--
Moshier: "Honey, I'm home..."
He sees the desk is deserted and frowns. Figures Gibbons must
be in the can, so check that first before getting alarmed.
TRACKING WITH HIM to the restroom around the corner.
Moshier: "Hey, man, you shouldn't leave the --"
<-142A->
OVER HIS SHOULDER we see past the door as he pushes it open,
revealing Gibbons handcuffed to the urinal. Moshier spins on a
dime and sprints to the desk where he slaps his hand down on the
silent alarm button.
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143 Int. Security station
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Terminator's hand swishes the card repeatedly through the
scanner slot on the locker. Nothing happens. The light on the
locker is blinking red.
SARA: "What? WHAT IS IT?"
Guard #2 motions toward a light flashing on the console.
Guard #2: "Silent alarm's been tripped. It neutralizes the
codes throughout the building. Nothing'll open now."
Dyson takes that in, and we see his nerve snap.
Dyson: "We should abort."
SARA: "NO!! We're going all the way! You got that, Dyson?"
She's right in his face. Somehow, it works for him. He nods,
getting some resolve from somewhere.
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144 Int. Lobby
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Moshier's gotten Gibbons loose. He's on the phone to the cops.
Gibbons: "... multiple armed suspects. Look, I think it's the
guy from that mall shootout, and the woman... yeah, her. Pretty
sure. Just send everything you've got in the area--"
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145 Int. Security station/ Lab
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John jumps up on a desk next to the wall-mounted locker. Dyson
stares in amazement as John starts pulling his counter-
electronics gear out of his knapsack. It's just another Insta-
Teller to him.
John: "You guys get started on the lab... I can open this."
<-145A->
Dyson leads Terminator and Sara to the main lab doors. Another
servo lock. He tries his card. Nothing.
Terminator: "Let me try mine."
He unslings the M-79, pulling it over his shoulder in one
motion. Sara grabs Dyson and drags him back down the hall.
Terminator opens the breech and slides in one of the fat 40mm
H.E. grenades. He flips the thing closed with a snap of the
wrist.
SARA (yelling as she runs): "John! Fire-in-the-hole!"
John drops what he's doing, and covers his ears. Terminator
fires at inhumanly close range.
<-145B->
The door EXPLODES into kindling. The concussion blows his
jacket open, and flying shrapnel whizzes all around him. Before
the thunderclap has faded Terminator walks into the fire and
smoke. John goes back to work without missing a beat. Sara and a
stunned Dyson walk through the burning doorframe into the
Artificial Intelligence lab.
A SIREN is sounding. The HALON FIRE-CONTROL SYSTEM has been
triggered. The invisible gas roars in, putting out the flames.
Dyson: "Fire's set off the halon system! Here... hurry!"
Dyson runs to a wall cabinet and pulls out some BREATHING MASKS.
He hands one to Sara and dons the other. Then he reaches out to
hand one to Terminator.
Dyson: "Here!"
Terminator doesn't need a mask, since his oxygen requirements
are so low. He ignores Dyson as he removes his massive back-pack
and opens it. Dyson shrugs and tosses the mask on a desk. He
turns to Sara.
Dyson (yelling through the mask): "We'll have to keep these on a
couple minutes, till the gas clears."
Terminator pulls two five gallon jerry-cans of gasoline from his
pack. Sara starts pulling out book-sized, olive-drab CLAYMORE
MINES, stacking them next to the gasoline. Dyson stares. Part
of him can't believe they're really doing this.
Cut to:
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146 Int. Dyson house - Night
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The T-1000 moves slowly through the ravaged office, analyzing
what has happened here. He walks down the dark hallway. The
place is deserted. The police-walkie clipped on his belt (real,
not simulated) blares to life.
Dispatcher (V.O.): "All units, all units. 211 in progress at
2144 Kramer Street, the Cyberdyne building. Multiple suspects,
armed with automatic weapons and explosives. SWAT unit is en
route..."
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147 Ext. House/ Street
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The T-1000 sprints up and throws his leg over the big C.H.P.
Kawasaki. Fires it up. It smokes an arcing scorch-mark on the
pavement as it spins around and roars away.
Cut to:
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148 Int. Cyberdyne building/ Lab
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TIGHT ON A LARGE DISK-DRIVE. State-of-the-art. Very expensive.
A FIRE AXE smashes down through the housing, shattering the disk.
<-148A->
WIDER, revealing a scene of high-tech pillage. Terminator beats
the disk drive into junk and steps to another. WHAM. Same
routine. He's already demolished half a dozen. Sara topples a
file cabinet, scattering the files. Dyson staggers up with an
armload of heavy M-O (magnetic-optical) disks and drops them on a
growing stack in the middle of the floor. He and Sara have their
breathing masks hanging down around their necks, since the halon
gas has dissipated.
Dyson (to Sara, panting): "Yeah, all that stuff! And all the
disks in those offices. Especially my office... everything in my
office! (to Terminator) These, too! This is important. (SMASH!)
And all this here... that's it."
<-148B->
Sara goes into Dysons office and starts hurling everything out
the door onto the central junkpile... books, files, everything on
the desk. A FRAMED PHOTO of Dyson's wife and kids lands on top of
the heap. Tarissa, hugging Danny and Blythe, all grinning. The
glass is shattered.
<-148C->
Terminator cuts a swath, under Dyson's direction, exploding
equipment into fragments with his inhuman swings. SMASH! It's
carnage. Millions in hardware, and all the irreplaceable fruits
of their years of research... shattered, broken, dumped in a heap
for the big bonfire of destiny. Dyson stops a second, panting.
Dyson: "Give me that thing a second."
Terminator hands him the axe. Dyson hefts it one-handed. He
turns to a lab table... on it is another prototype processor.
Dyson: "I've worked for years on this stuff."
Swinging awkwardly but with great force he smashes the axe down
onto the processor prototype, exploding it into fragments. His
shoulder is agony, but he looks satisfied.
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149 Int. Second floor security station
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John taps away at his little lap-top, which is running code-
combinations into the card-key lock. Suddenly, the green light
on the locker goes on and it unlocks with a clunk.
John: "Easy money."
He whips it open, revealing a rack of keys. But the VAULT-KEY
is distinctive, a long steel rectangle on a neck-chain. John
grabs it and runs toward the lab.
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150 Int. Lab
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Sara and Terminator are working like a crack team, rigging the
explosives. She is taping the claymores to the gas-cans with
duct-tape to create powerful incendiary bombs. Terminator is
attaching claymores and blocks of C-4 plastic explosive to the
large MAINFRAME COMPUTER cabinets nearby. All the claymore are
wired back to one detonator which has a RADIO-CONTROL RELAY
switch.
Dyson: "How do you set them off?"
Terminator shows him a REMOTE DETONATOR, a small transmitter
with a red plunger.
Terminator: "Radio remote."
He makes a plunger-pushing motion with his thumb and an
accompanying "click" sound. Dyson nods. Just then John comes
running in, holding up the key.
John: "I got it. Piece a cake."
SARA (to Dyson and Terminator): "Go! I'll finish here."
They run out as the SOUND OF SIRENS grows louder outside.
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151 Ext. Cyberdyne building
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The security duo of Moshier and Gibbons cowers behind cars in
the parking lot in front of the building. They turn as L.A.P.D.
BLACK-AND-WHITES pour into the lot, turning the area into a disco
of whirling blue and red lights.
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152 Int. Second floor security station/ Stairs
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John and Dyson sprint through the security station, heading for
the vault. Terminator herds the three guards to the stairwell,
pushing them through the door. With their wrists bound, they
stumble down the stairs. Terminator FIRES A BURST from the MAC
10 over their hs. T, showering them with plaster dust. Their
feet fly as they clatter down the steps.
Terminator: "Later, dickwads."
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153 Ext. Cyberdyne building
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The cops are jumping from their cars and ducking behind them.
Emphasis on small arms here. They react to the sound of
automatic weapon fire inside the building. Behind them an ugly
BLACK S.W.A.T. VAN screeches into the lot.
<-153A->
We hear the THUMP OF ROTORS as a POLICE CHOPPER arrives and
swings in close to the building. It rakes its XENON SPOTLIGHT
through the second floor offices.
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154 Int./Ext. Second floor office
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Terminator crosses the office toward the floor-to-ceiling
windows. He is outlined starkly by the spotlight as it rakes
through the dark offices. Without breaking stride he kicks an
executive desk toward the window.
<-154A->
Glass explodes outward and the desk topples, falling to the
sidewalk below.
<-154B->
Terminator, standing at the edge, FIRES A LONG BURST which
strafes the police cars lined up below. Cops duck as glass
flies. Terminator, with his superb aim, hits no one. But notice
is served.
<-154C->
The cops (surprise) FIRE BACK. Terminator turns and is walking
calmly from the windows as glass, office furniture, drapes etc.
are riddled by return fire. A few rounds hit his back, but he
doesn't notice. He reloads as he walks.
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155 Int. Vault antechamber
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TIGHT ON A KEY inserted into one of the vault locks.
WIDER as John and Dyson stand poised, hands on keys.
John: "And let's see what's behind door number one."
Dyson nods and they turn the keys together. The vault grumbles
to itself, withdrawing its locking bolts with a final KLONK!
Together Dyson and John swing the door open.
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156 Ext./ Int. Lobby
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The varsity takes the field as the SWAT TROOPERS sprint forward
by squads. They flank the lobby and work their way inside,
deploying rapidly. They move and freeze, behind cover, quivering
with adrenalin. They have all that great SWAT equipment: body
armor, gas-masks, M-16s, tear-gas launchers, ropes. The works.
They make a lot of hand signals and keep their mouths shut.
They're well-trained and deadly.
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OUTSIDE we see cops firing TEAR GAS grenades through the broken
windows into second floor offices.
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158 Int. Vault
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John and Dyson are isolated from the world in this silent steel
womb. Dyson opens the cabinet containing the terminator relics.
It's John's turn to stare with uneasy dj-vu as he sees the
terminator hand and CPU.
Then in one vicious move he sweeps his arm behind the inert-gas
flasks and hurls them to the floor. They SHATTER. John snatches
the CPU and the metal hand out of the broken glass.
John: "Got ol' Skynet by the balls now, Miles. Come on, let's
book!"
Clutching the steel hand and pocketing the chip like it's a Mars
bar he just bought, John runs out. Dyson follows.
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159 Int. First floor corridor/ Stairwell
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We see the advance squad of SWATs make it to one of the
stairwells. They start up, two at a time, covering each other
ritualistically by the numbers.
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160 Int. Lab/Hall
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John pelts into the lab with Dyson stumbling along behind him.
Sara has just finished wiring all the charges to the central
detonator.
John: "Ready to rock?"
SARA: "Ready."
John tosses her the metal hand. She catches it and bends to
put the hand in her empty back-pack. Sara zips the pack and
starts to shuck into it.
Dyson's running out of steam. The bandages at his shoulder are
soaked with seeping blood. He stands in the middle of the lab,
saying goodbye in his mind, looking weak and empty. Terminator
strides into the lab.
Terminator: "Time to go. Right now."
He and John head back the way they came, through security. Sara
sees that in her work, she has set the detonator down twenty feet
away, near where Dyson is standing.
SARA: "Dyson, hand me the detonator. Let's go--"
He gingerly picks up the detonator. Starts toward her. Then--
<-160A->
CRASH!! THE DOORS AT THE BACK OF THE LAB ARE KICKED OPEN. SWAT
LEADER and two others OPEN FIRE.
Their M-16s rake the room. Sara dives behind a computer
cabinet. Dyson is HIT. He is slammed to the floor by the impacts.
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IN THE HALL, John hears the firing and spins to run back.
John: "Mommm!!!"
Terminator grabs him as bullets slam into his broad back. He
makes it around the corner with John, out of the line of fire.
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IN THE LAB, bullets rake over Sara's head, smacking all around
her, clanging into the machine protecting her. She can see
Dyson, slumped on the floor. Debris and flying glass rain on her
as the SWATs pour on the fire. The detonator is clutched in his
hand. He rolls to face her, his eyes bulging from the pain of
his torn-up guts.
Dyson: "Go."
<-162A->
Sara hesitates a split second. Then she snap-rolls and fast-
crawls through broken glass and debris into the hall where--
TERMINATOR grabs her by the jacket and hauls her roughly to her
feet. Bullets rake the walls behind them as they sprint forward.
They round the corner. John does a fast take that she's not hit
and they run together through the security checkpoint.
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163 INT. Security station/ CORRIDOR
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John reaches the door first, and tries it. Locked. Terminator
unslings the M-78 Blooper smoothly, opening the breech.
Terminator: "Get back."
He pulls a grenade from the bandolier over his shoulder, and
slides it into the bore. Flicks his wrist. The breech snaps
shut. Sara and John have a split second to duck and cover.
Terminator: "Cover your ears and open your mouth."
<-163A->
They do. KABOOM!!! Twenty feet away the door, and half the
wall around it, EXPLODES outward. The backblast hits Terminator
full force, but he strides through the smoking hole before the
debris has even hit the floor.
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164 Int. Corridor
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Terminator leads John and Sara down the dark corridor. Tear gas
seeps under office doors and hangs in the air. They start to
cough. She pulls off her breathing mask and hands it to him.
Terminator strides ahead of them. He reloads the blooper as he
walks. Up ahead is another security door. He closes the breech
with a wrist-snap and fires one-handed. KABOOM!! The door
vanishes in a FLASH- THUNDERCLAP. Plaster chunks and burning
debris shower around him. He doesn't flinch or slow down. They
enter another corridor. Terminator reloads the grenade launcher.
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165 Int. Lab
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SWAT LEADER moves cautiously through the lab. Cat-stepping, he
circles around a desk which blocks Dyson's body from his view.
His M-16 is levelled crisply. We look over his shoulder as he
rounds the desk, revealing--
MILES DYSON is not dead. He will be very soon, but at this
moment he is conscious. He has propped himself up against the
desk, and holds a BOOK in one hand. A heavy, technical manual.
Below the book is the detonator, upright on the tile floor. The
message is clear. "Shoot me, the book drops on the plunger.
Adios." Dyson wheezes, trying to draw enough breath to talk.
Dyson: "I don't know... how much longer... I can... hold this
thing..."
Swat leader seems to see the wires, the claymores, the gas cans
all around him for the first time. His eyes, visible through his
gas-mask, go very wide. He spins and motions his squad back.
Leader: "Fall back!! Everybody out! Move it! OUT NOW!"
They retreat so fast they crash into the next group coming up
the stairs.
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166 Int. Corridor
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Terminator reaches the main elevators. Hits the button. Sara
and John are coughing and stumbling in the choking darkness,
buddy- breathing with the single mask. The doors open. They get
in the elevator and head down.
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167 Int. Lab
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Dyson is lying amid the ruins of his dream. Sprawled on the
floor, he has his back propped up against the desk. He is bathed
in his own blood, which runs out in long fingers across the
tiles. His breathing is shallow and raspy. He still holds the
book, trembling, above the switch.
In his lap is the picture from his desk. He has pulled it from
the debris next to him. A tear trickles from his eye. His wife
and children smile up at him through broken glass.
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DYSON'S POV-- He sees only the picture. WE PUSH IN SLOWLY. The
sounds from outside are fading... megaphones, the helicopter,
distant sirens, all become fainter... replaced by a ROARING SOUND
which swells as the image of the picture grows dark. Darker and
darker, the blackness rushing at us now with the sound of
thunder. It gets louder, and LOUDER. Like a black train
pounding at us, only it is a roiling cloud of red and black...
blood-red fire boiling up through a cloud-mass black as iron. It
is the cloud-column of a hydrogen bomb, FILLING FRAME, shaking
our senses with its power.
And then-- It begins to recede. The thunder rolls away, dying
into a wind which is like the last winds of a great storm, ebbing
into a soothing breeze as the iron clouds swirl away, giving way
to an image of gauzy light. As if behind a soft veil we see--
<-168A->
Danny and Blythe running toward us, laughing, in slow motion.
Tarissa is behind them, smiling. They are in bright sunlight, an
image of motion and life, a slice of memory so vivid and precious
a man needs only this to face eternity. We see their hair blown
by the wind, the wind which blows through history now, changing
it...
We tilt up into a pure blue sky until the sun comes into frame,
spearing straight into the lens with pure light and we...
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CUT TO THE PUPIL OF HIS EYE, the sun becoming a glint of light
in that 169 pupil, as we do a SNAP-PULLBACK to see Miles Dyson
at the moment of death. His face is almost blank, his gaze
fixed, seeing what we cannot see, seeing a future which is
changed... there is the faintest hint of a smile, the instant the
light fades from his eyes and he is gone-- His arm drops and the
book hits the switch--
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170 Ext. Building
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As the face of the building EXPLODES in an eruption of glass and
fire. Remains of the second-floor windows shower the parking lot
and a huge fireball rolls out, leaping into the sky. The cops
look up, stunned. The helicopter banks away from the heat.
Burning debris falls among the cop cars and a number of officers
break ranks, pulling back.
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ONLY ONE OF THEM seems to be moving with purpose. A BIKE COP
who has just arrived drives through the disorganized crowd,
directly toward the building.
<-171A->
T-1000 guns the bike up a ramp to a pedestrian bridge which
crosses from a parking structure to the Cyberdyne building. It
enters on the second floor, which is now a burning maze.
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172 Int. Second floor/ Office/ Corridor
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T-1000 drives into the smoky wreckage. It draws a Hoechler and
Koch MPK machine pistol and cruises slowly into the firelit
offices, scanning.
<-172A->
IN THE CORRIDOR the bike skirts flaming wreckage as it idles
forward. T-1000 scans the leaping shadows for its prey.
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173 Int. Ground floor/ Elevator/ Lobby
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The elevator doors part and Terminator eases a look out into the
corridor. The walls on either side of him ERUPT WITH BULLET
HITS. The SWATs have the lobby end of the corridor blocked off.
They're totally trapped, cut off and screwed.
John (to Sara): "Don't forget. It's always darkest right
before... you're totally fucked."
<-173A->
The SWATs fire a tear-gas grenade toward the elevators. It
spews the vicious CS gas out in a swirling cloud which envelopes
Sara and John, who are pressed against the back-wall of the
elevator.
Terminator: "Keep your eyes closed. Don't move."
(they nod, eyes squeezed shut)
"I'll be back."
He slings the grenade launcher over his shoulder and walks out
into the corridor.
<-173B->
BLAM. A tear-gas grenade ricochets from wall to wall as it
flies down the corridor. It skids to rest in front of
Terminator, throwing out a white cloud which quickly fills the
corridor.
<-173C->
In the elevator, Sara and John are choking, handing the
breathing mask back and forth desperately. They're scared. This
looks like it.
<-173D->
ANGLE ON THE SWAT TEAM, gripping their weapons at the mouth of
the corridor. They watch the boiling cloud, waiting.
<-173E->
THEIR POV-- on the wall of boiling smoke. A FIGURE APPEARS.
Walking calmly. Totally unaffected. Terminator emerges from the
smoke. Not even misty-eyed. Not what they expected.
Leader (through megaphone): "Stop where you are. Lie down on the
floor, face down. Down on the floor, now!"
He continues to stride toward them. The SWATs tense up.
They've never seen anything like this. They're not sure what to
do. Closer and closer.
Leader: "Drop him."
They OPEN FIRE. The corridor is filled with CRACKING THUNDER.
The rounds tear into Terminator's chest. Stomach. Face.
Thighs. His leather jacket leaps and jerks as the rounds hit
him. The SWAT's think the guy's wearing body armor or something.
They keep firing. The rounds tear into him, staggering him
slightly, but he keeps coming.
Leader: "You're not hitting him!"
SWAT #1 (getting scared): "Yes I am!"
Terminator draws his .45 smoothly. Unhurried. He shoots the
nearest man in the left thigh. As he screams and drops,
Terminator shoots him in the right thigh. Terminator bends down
and picks up the shrieking man's weapon... the TEAR-GAS LAUNCHER.
It is one of those new rotary jobs that holds 12 rounds in a big
drum. Terminator shoots the next SWAT square in the chest with
the tear-gas launcher. The gas canister hits the guy's body armor
and doesn't penetrate. But it's like getting slugged in the
stomach with a full-swing from a baseball bat. The SWAT folds
double and hits the tiles, gasping.
Terminator is an image from Hell, a tall figure in shredded
black leather, streaked with blood. One eye is a bloody socket,
the metal eye-servos glinting. The flesh of one cheek hangs down
in tatters, revealing the chrome cheekbone beneath. The whole
front of his jacket is blown open, revealing his metal chest
armor.
The remaining SWATs start to fall back. One turns to run and--
KPOW! A gas canister nails him in the back, sending him
sprawling.
<-173F->
Terminator fires three gas grenades into the lobby. It fills
rapidly with the white gas, cutting the visibility to a few feet.
It is total pandemonium. SWAT LEADER crouches in the fog, white-
knuckling his rifle. Terminator looms suddenly out of the mist
right in front of him. POOM! Terminator drills him in the leg
with the .45. As the guy screams and drops rifle to clutch his
leg, Terminator rips his gas mask off. The SWAT leader drops
writhing to the floor, choking and gagging, clutching his
bleeding thigh.
Terminator walks up to two SWATs at the front doors. POW-POW.
Leg and leg. He snatches off their masks as they fall. The
gunfire has stopped. Nobody can see anything. Screams and
whimpers echo in the smoke.
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174 Ext. Building
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Smoke boils out the front door as a figure emerges. Firing the
tear-gas launcher with one hand, Terminator launches all
remaining rounds among the cop vehicles. Unprotected officers
run, choking and half-blind, slamming into cars and tripping over
each other. It is a total route.
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AT THE SWAT VAN one of the SWATs is rapidly handing out the
remaining masks to unprotected cops. A FIGURE appears out of the
smoke beside him. He looks up. His mask is ripped off and he is
handed the empty launcher. Instinctively he catches it.
Terminator grabs his flak vest with one hand and sails him out
into the mist.
<-175A->
Int. Swat van
Terminator strides the length of the van and climbs into the
driver's seat. No keys in the ignition. He flips down the sun
visor. The keys fall into his hand. He starts the van and slams
it into gear.
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176 Int. / Ext. Lobby
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The tear gas has cleared to a thin haze. The uninjured SWATs
are tending their wounded. They look up at the sound of shouts
and a roaring engine.
<-176A->
THE SWAT VAN CRASHES INTO THE LOBBY in an explosion of glass and
debris. Cops scatter as the van screeches across the lobby in a
smoking one-eighty, sliding to a stop across the corridor which
leads to the bank of elevators. Terminator backs up until--
crunch-- he seals the corridor with the back of the van.
<-176B->
Sara and John stumble along the corridor, coughing. They leap
into the back of the van and Terminator hits the throttle. The
van roars across the lobby and exits through blown-out windows.
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177 Int. / Ext. Second floor
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T-1000, astride the Kawasaki, looks down from a second-floor
office and sees the van tearing away across the parking lot with
the remaining cops firing at it. It knows. It looks around.
Analyzing options. It sees the helicopter hovering outside the
building at the end of this corner office block... It twists
full throttle on the powerful bike. Roars through the office,
accelerating fast, straight at the windows--
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T-1000 BLASTS OUT THROUGH THE GLASS, airborne on the motorcycle.
It rockets across the gap to the hovering chopper and--
<-178A->
SLAMS into the canopy. The impact of bike and rider pitches the
chopper radically. The startled PILOT fights to regain control as
the bike tumbles to the pavement below.
<-178B->
The T-1000 doesn't. It clings to the shattered canopy.
Nightmarishly, the pilot watches as the T-1000 smashes its head
through the plexiglas canopy and rapidly POURS ITSELF through the
jagged hole. It reforms instantly into its previous self on the
passenger seat.
<-178C->
It hurls the pilot out of the chopper and slides into the
driver's seat. The chopper is auto-rotating, spinning out of
control. It drops toward the parking lot. T-1000 recovers
control ten feet above the ground.
<-178D->
Cops hit the deck as the tail-boom swings around, going over
them by inches. The chopper lifts out in a power climb, roaring
away across the parking lot toward the fleeing SWAT van.
OKAY, BUCKLE YOUR SEATBELTS, HERE IT COMES...
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179 Int. / Ext. Swat van/ Highway - Night
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Terminator looks back at his two passengers as he turns the boxy
van onto a divided highway. Sara and John are catching their
breath, still coughing from the CS gas. Terminator looks to the
rearview mirror. He sees the xenon searchlight of the chopper
behind them, gaining.
Sara looks around the inside of the SWAT van. It is a rolling
armory. There are rifles, ballistic vests, all manner of
equipment.
SARA: "John, get under these. Hurry!"
He sits against the front bulkhead of the van and she piles
bullet-proof vests on top of him, completely covering him. Then
she grabs two M-16s from the wall-rack and loads them. She
starts on a shotgun as--
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The SWAT van weaves through sparse traffic at high speed.
Terminator slews the unstable van around cars and trucks which
seem to be crawling. The van hits its top speed of 80. They
swerve to miss the back end of A WHITE 18-WHEEL TANKER.
<-180A->
The chopper swings in behind them, closing fast.
<-180B->
T-1000 reaches through the shattered canopy with the MPK machine
pistol 180B and FIRES. The back of the van CLANGS WITH HITS.
The door windows are BLOWN IN.
Terminator weaves the van, trying to throw off the T-1000's aim.
The unstable vehicle screeches and wobbles on the edge of
control. One of the doors is kicked open. Sara, wearing a
ballistic vest, crouches in the doorway, whipping up the M-16.
SHE OPENS FIRE.
<-180C->
Bullets riddle what's left of the chopper's canopy as the T-1000
returns fire. The van is stitched with hits.
<-180D->
INSIDE THE VAN holes are punched through the thin sheet-metal
walls, ripping up the interior. The vests covering John are hit
repeatedly. We see that Sara has hung two Kevlar vests on the
inside of the back door and she ducks behind these as bullets hit
around her. She pops back out and fires in controlled bursts.
The M-16 empties and she grabs another.
<-180E->
Terminator serves around a car which is changing lanes, hitting
it and knocking it skidding.
(God knows what they omitted here, but they did, ED.)
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<-181A->
Sara reloads and keeps firing. The van swerves around a Toyota.
A moment later the helicopter passes it, the rotor just clearing
the top of the car.
<-181B->
T-1000 FIRES the machine pistol.
<-181C->
Sara has popped out to fire. She takes a HIT in the thigh, and
several rounds 181C hammer into her Kevlar vest. She is thrown
back onto the floor of the van. She lies there, an exposed
target--
<181D->
Terminator sees the T-1000 preparing to fire again. He locks up
the van's brakes. Tires scream as the vehicle shimmies. Sara is
thrown forward, sliding up to the bulkhead next to John. 182 And
the helicopter SLAMS RIGHT INTO THE BACK OF THE VAN.
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The rotor disintegrates. The back doors of the van are crushed
in as the canopy, the whole front of the fuselage is HAMMERED
INTO JUNK, trapping the T-1000 inside twisted metal. The chopper
hits the pavement, flips sideways, and cartwheels... smashing
itself into a shapeless mass of twisted metal. It falls away
behind the van, tumbling end over end.
<-182A->
Terminator fights to control the van, which is fishtailing
violently from the impact. It smashes up against the center
divider, screeching along the concrete, and then pulls away.
Terminator puts the hammer down and the van accelerates. He
swerves to avoid an UGLY PICKUP crawling like a snail ahead.
THE RIGHT FRONT FENDER of the van, crumpled by slamming the
wall, is sawing into the tire. The tire blows and peels clean
off the rim. The steel wheel grinds across the pavement,
striking trails of sparks, and the van slides sideways and
topples--
STEEL SCREAMS on pavement as the van grinds to a stop on its
side.
<-182B->
INSIDE THE VAN, John crawls to Sara, who is groaning and holding
her bleeding leg. She is white and shocky. Terminator starts to
extricate himself from the crumpled driver's seat.
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