FIGHT CLUB

JACK

I'll take the stairs.

Jack darts to the side, throws open the stairwell door.

PG 121

INT. STAIRWELL

Jack dashes DOWN the steps.

INT. PARKING AREA

Jack races from the stairwell into the parking area, eyes combing the

place. He darts from one SUPPORT POST to another, his eyes frantically

searching.

He moves around a support post and sees -- Tyler, sitting on the

ground, his back against the post.

TYLER

Looking for something?

JACK

Where are the charges at?!

TYLER

Don't end a sentence with a preposition.

JACK

WHERE ARE THE CHARGES AT, *FUCKHEAD*?!!!

TYLER

Listen to "Elephant Balls" ... shit, slinging a gun. *Where did I go

right*?

JACK

I'll find them.

Jack moves away, continues looking around support posts.

TYLER

There's eight floors of parking.

JACK

I don't give a shit.

TYLER

You do -- because you don't have enough time.

Tyler grins, points to his watch.

TYLER

... Ten minutes.

Jack stalks back toward Tyler, gun raised.

PG 122

JACK

TELL ME WHERE THE CHARGES ARE!

TYLER

They're all up and down the building. They're not just here. If you

tried to stupidly pull a fuse on a charge, you'd just cause it to blow

up. The charges are set to go in a specific order -- so that the

building will implode and collapse. If you *did* defuse one of the

charges, you'd fuck up the sequence, and the building might fall the

wrong way. Why don't you just find a television and watch the party?

JACK

I'm awake. I have control of the body. You can't give orders.

TYLER

I don't have any orders left to give. It's all set.

Jack boils over, then cracks. He drops the gun, falls to his knees and

clutches at Tyler. He touches Tyler's face.

JACK

Tyler. You're real, aren't you? This is all a big joke, isn't it?

You *are* real, you son of a bitch!

Tears well up in Jack's eyes. He hugs Tyler. Tyler hugs him back.

TYLER

We're both real.

Jack squeezes harder, then lifts his head -- he's hugging ANOTHER JACK.

The real Jack gasps, flinches backwards, landing on the gun. He

turns, grabs the gun, and turns back around. Fifty feet away, Tyler,

standing, leans against a pillar. He winks.

Jack raises the gun, turns it around and aims it at his own head.

JACK

There's only one way to stop all this.

Jack shoves the barrel into his mouth.

PG 123

TYLER

You better not. If our body is found dead, the Space Monkeys have

orders to kill Marla.

JACK

Marla is gone -- and you don't know where.

Tyler's hand suddenly DARTS INTO FRAME, CLOSE-UP and SNATCHES the gun.

NEW ANGLE

Tyler, laughing, holding the gun, dashes for the elevator. Jack

sprints after him.

INT. ELEVATOR

Jack manages to leap inside just as the door closes. He lunges at

Tyler and fights for the gun. Tyler, laughing, manages to retain it.

The elevator climbs rapidly -- blinking numbers indicate floors

whizzing past.

INT. TOP FLOOR LOBBY

The elevator doors open and the struggling pair whirl out and toward

the GLASS WALLS. Tyler SHOVES Jack's HEAD against the window, turns it

so Jack is looking down.

ANGLE ON STREET

A GREYHOUND BUS sits idling right by the front lobby doors, having been

allowed through the cordon.

INT. TOP FLOOR LOBBY - RESUMING

As Tyler and Jack continue to stare downward.

JACK

That's ... not the bus.

TYLER

You know it is.

Tyler swings Jack away from the window and shoves him backwards.

TYLER

Now, can you grasp that there's nothing you can do?

Jack raises the gun, aiming at Tyler. Tyler laughs, but flinches --

just as Jack FIRES. The bullet chews out a CHUNK of the wall.

PG 124

JACK

I'm not going to kill myself. I'm going to kill *you*.

Tyler laughs, but he starts rapidly moving down the hallway.

TYLER

You can't kill me! How can you kill me?!

Jack FIRES again, missing Tyler. Tyler breaks into a sprint. Jack

does the same.

INT. HALLWAY

Jack turns a corner, sees Tyler at the end of the section of hallway,

heading for an intersection. Jack aims the gun at Tyler. RAPID CUT

TO:

SECURITY CAMERA POV - HALLWAY

Jack aims the gun at himself. RAPID CUT TO:

INT. HALLWAY

Jack FIRES. As Tyler flinches down -- RAPID CUT TO:

SECURITY CAMERA POV - HALLWAY

*Jack* flinches down, having shot at himself. RAPID CUT TO:

INT. HALLWAY

Jack resumes sprinting until he turns a corner to

INT. NEW SECTION OF HALLWAY

Jack sees Tyler turn, freeze, then leap sideways toward a room. Jack

FIRES. The bullet GRAZES Tyler's leg. RAPID CUT TO:

SECURITY CAMERA POV - HALLWAY

Jack, with the gun still aimed at his own leg, falls backwards,

bleeding from the graze wound his just gave himself. RAPID CUT TO:

INT. HALLWAY

Jack pulls himself to his feet, and, his face now looking completely

insane, runs with his limp, holding the gun up, ready to fire. He

turns a corner to --

PG 125

INT. TOP FLOOR LOBBY

And suddenly, Tyler LEAPS onto Jack. RAPID CUT TO:

SECURITY CAMERA POV - LOBBY