Final Destination

And I fuckin' HATED FRANCH CLASS!

ALEX CLEAR

Carter, stop it, you Get control of yourself!

fuckin' maniac!!

CARTER

That's what I'm doin'!

CLEAR

I know what you're doing! It's alright

to be scared, Carter. You don't have to

prove to us how big your balls are. Not

now.

CARTER

I'm not afraid! I DECIDE WHEN IT'S TIME!

I control my life! I control my death!

BILLY

Watch it! Watch it!

EXT. A SECOND TRAFFIC LIGHT INTERSECTION - NIGHT

Carter barrels through the intersection as a car makes a left turn at the

intersection.

TURNING CAR DRIVER'S POV - CARTER'S CAR

flying down the road, appears to be heading straight towards him.

INT. CARTER'S CAR - NIGHT

Carter takes his hands off the wheel and raises them in the air, like a

terrorized child on a roller coaster...

EXT. A SECOND TRAFFIC LIGHT INTERSECTION - NIGHT

The turning car HONKS, ROARING through the intersection as Carter's car

nearly clips the rear end of the turning car.

INT. CARTER'S CAR - NIGHT

Cater hooks his elbow on the window and his right arm around the front seat,

driving; no hands.

CLEAR ALEX

Stop the car! Let us out!

BILLY

I am... so close to puking, you

don't wanna know.

CLEAR

We're afraid, too, Carter, but we're not

going to quit. Maybe you are. You act like

you're not, but you are!

Carter eyes Clear in the rear view mirror.

CLEAR

So, stop what you're doing and STOP

THIS CAR! Right fucking now!

EXT. BACKSTREET - NIGHT

In the backseat, Alex and Clear ease... just as a railroad crossing arm

drops INTO FRAME in the REAR WINDOW. O.S., the CLANG CLANG CLANG of a

RAILROAD CROSSING ALARM.

OUT OF THE FRONT WINDOW

The front crossing arm drops INTO FRAME before the car. Carter turns and

flashes a "that's why I stopped smile."

INSIDE THE CAR

CLEAR

Move it!

Carter turns off the engine, then sits back into his seat and folds his

arms, indicating he has no intention of moving.

ALEX

Billy, get out!

Scared to death, Billy fumbles with the car door handle. From the front

passenger seat, he looks up and to his left...

OUT OF THE DRIVER'S WINDOW - BILLY'S POV

A locomotive headlight arcs across the trees... approaching.

RETURN

CLEAR ALEX

Can't you open the door?! Easy, Billy, just open it.

Billy collects himself...

CLOSE - BILLY'S DOOR HANDLE

POPS open!

EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT

The train appears around the blind bend...

INT. CARTER'S CAR - NIGHT

Billy opens the door and pours out. Clear and Alex are quickly behind him.

Carter remains in the drivers seat.

EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT

The train WARNING WHISTLE BLOWS as Alex, Clear and Billy hustle away from

the car, on the same side of the tracks. They quickly turn around, desperate

to convince...

CLEAR

Carter, get out!

ALEX BILLY

Don't do it! Don't do it! It's coming! It's coming!

INT. CARTER'S CAR - NIGHT

Arms crossed, Carter remains in the front seat. As the interior fills with

light from the headlight of the oncoming train, Carter turns and looks at

them with a smart ass smile, pleased that he's shown how brave he truly is.

With a beam of cocky definace...

CARTER

It ain't my time.

He cooly turns back to the ignition, grabs the key and turns it over... only

to be met with the DULL CLACK of a dead engine.

CAMERA SWEEPS INTO HIM AS his EYES FLARE with tension...

CLOSE - IGNITION

he turns it, again and again... nothing.

CARTER

looks up...

EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT - CARTER'S POV - THE TRAIN

is moments away.

ALEX, CLEAR AND BILLY

assess the situation...

ALEX CLEAR

Get out! Get out of the car! Get out! Get out of the fuckin'

car!

INT. CARTER'S CAR - NIGHT

As he turns away from them, Carter sees something in the rear mirror...

CARTER'S POV - REAR VIEW MIRROR

the passing shadow is darker than any surronding darkness.

CARTER

as if the image has effected him, he looks to his lap belt and CLACKS the

button. He tugs at the restraint, but it will not move. He's strapped in.

He tries to open the door... it won't open. He pulls at the door handle...

tugs at the seatbelt... panicked. Horrified, he whips towards the others.

CARTER

I can't get out!

EXT. TRAIN TRACKS - NIGHT

Alex, Billy and Clear look at one another, equally frightened...

BILLY

Man, he really is next.

Alex takes off toward...

CARTER'S CAR

Alex hustles around the drivers' side. CAMERA SWEEPS INTO THEM as Alex

desperately tries freeing the seatbelt.

THE TRAIN

the WHISTLES SCREAMS!

CLEAR AND BILLY

tense, as the train nears...

ALEX AND CARTER

Alex grabs Carter by the shoulders and strains with all his might to pull

the much more muscular kid out of the driver's window.

CLOSE - CARTER'S SEAT BELT

the shadowy presence is reflected by the chrome buckle, however, after it

passes... the seat belt begins to TEAR.

ALEX AND CARTER

As CAMERA SWEEPS IN to ALEX and he releases and deep GROAN...

ACROSS THE TRACKS

The train TEARS THROUGH the front end of the muscular car! GLASS and METAL

ERUPT as the locomotive THUNDERS THROUGH FRAME.

CLEAR AND BILLY

must turn away from the shower of metal and broken glass.

ALEX AND CARTER

Alex holds Carter by the shirt at the shoulders, dragging him away from the

wreckage. The two boys collapse on the road as the trian continues to ROAR

PAST...

TRAIN TRACKS

as the heavy train wheels THUNDER and CLACK, a broken two foot long shard of

the car's debris BOUNCES upon the tracks, kicked about by the train wheels.

CLEAR AND BILLY

run to the two survivors.

CLEAR

runs and falls into Alex's arms, holding him tight.

ALEX, CLEAR, CARTER and BILLY

Carter lies on the road, urine stains around his crotch, hyperventilating

and near tears.

CLEAR

Scared now?

Carter looks at the piece of seatbelt.

CARTER

It broke!

BILLY

No one's that strong.

CLEAR

(to Carter)

Bullshit. He saved your life...again!

CLOSE - TRAIN WHEELS

continues to kick around the chunk of twisted metal...

RETURN

The THUNDERING TRAIN intensifies the situation...

BILLY

THAT'S RIGHT! HE'S RIGHT! YOU ARE NEXT! I'M

GETTING THE FUCK AWAY FROM YOU!

Billy begins backing away from the others.

CARTER

SHUT UP, BILLY!

BILLY

WE DON"T NEED THIS NOW!

Billy continues backing away, horrified.

BILLY

I DON"T NEED IT EVER! GET AWAY FROM HIM!

HE'S NEXT!

CLOSE - TRAIN TRACKS

the debris rattles beneath the wheels...

CARTER AND ALEX

still on the ground...

CARTER

FUCK YOU, BILLY! I'M NOT DEAD!

BILLY

backing away...

BILLY

YOU WILL BE! YOU'RE DEAD! YOU'RE DEAD!

TRAIN TRACKS

the debris bounces directly on the track. With great power and force, a

train wheel runs over the debris, cutting it in half. It catches in the

wheel and is spun around until shot out with the force of a missile...

BILLY

BILLY (CONT'D)

AND YOU AIN'T TAKIN' ME WITH YOU!

FWOOP! The metal tears ACROSS FRAME, ripping Billy's head from his

shoulders.

ALEX, CLEAR AND CARTER

The ROAR of the TRAIN seems exaggerated as they are frozen in horrified

shock.

EXTREMELY WIDE - ACROSS THE TRACKS

The train CLEARS FRAME and is gone... REVEALING, across the tracks, Alex,

Clear and Carter can do nothing but watch Billy's decapitated body macabrely

wobbling on it's two front feet beforw falling to the ground.

CARTER

Jesus fucking Christ!

For a beat, there is SILENCE... until, in the distance, SIRENS can be heard,

approaching. As Alex stands and Carter manages to rise on wobbly legs...

none of them can remove their eyes from Billy's body.

ALEX

(to Carter)

You should have been next. After

Lewton, you should've been next. That's

the only pattern. You should be dead.

CARTER

You're the fuckin' devil.

ALEX

(to Clear)

But I saved him. I intervened. Just like

the plane. That's the design.

CLEAR

Police are coming.

ALEX

That's why It skipped Carter and

went to the next one in the path

of the explosion; Billy.

Alex looks at Clear as if expierencing an intense epiphany.

ALEX (CONT'D)

My intervention in the death of 180

survivior will cheat the design.

CARTER

"Intervention?" What are you God,

now?!

ALEX

Of course not! God's aren't afraid to

die! Gods don't die! We do!

CLEAR

You're losin' it. The police will be

here. We have to go to the cabin.

You can hide there. Get your head together.

Alex considers, mind racing... then realizes

ALEX