I am Legend

ANNA

They think it's a dream.

He smiles. Returns to the motorman's station.

ANNA

Robert?

He turns to her.

ANNA

Thank you.

INT. SUBWAY TUNNEL - NIGHT

As the train RUSHES down the tunnel, REVEAL CORTMAN. On the roof of the lead car. EVA and a MUSCULAR WARRIOR atop the passenger cars.

INT. SUBWAY TRAIN - NIGHT

We HEAR a window SHATTER and the SCREAMS of children. Neville and Anna REACT. He grabs the MACHINE GUN, loads a fresh clip and positions Anna at the controls.

NEVILLE

Just keep your foot here, your hand on

this. Let the train do the rest.

FOLLOW NEVILLE as he MOVES into the rear car. Standing there is the MUSCULAR WARRIOR. The children huddle in fear in a far corner. The Muscular Hemocyte RUNS toward Neville. Neville SHOOTS, but this guy is big and rushing on blood. He keeps coming. Neville calls to the children...

NEVILLE

Get in the next car, THE NEXT CAR!

The children MOVE to Car No. 2. Neville empties the clip, but the Hemocyte grins and moves in for the kill. Neville PULLS OUT the last PIPE BOMB and lobs it at the Hemocyte...

NEVILLE

Say good-bye.

Neville DIVES. The BOMB EXPLODES inches in front of the Muscular Hemocyte, igniting him and the car in BRIGHT WHITE FIRE. In the second car, Neville attempts to calm and quiet the distraught children, but when he HEARS GLASS CRASH and ANNA SCREAM, he tells them...

NEVILLE

Stay here. Don't move.

IN THE LEAD CAR, Neville finds EVA cradling ETHAN in her arms. CORTMAN holds a struggling ANNA from behind, his TALONS at her throat. Although still moving damn fast, with no one at the controls, the train is losing speed. Neville raises the machine gun, but Cortman can only sneer...

CORTMAN

Put that wretched thing down.

Cortman's talon presses into Anna's flesh. Neville lowers the weapon. Cortman gestures to the smashed open window.

CORTMAN

Lose it.

Neville complies and throws the machine gun away.

CORTMAN

On your knees.

NEVILLE

No.

CORTMAN

On your knees, Neville, and beg for her life.

Do it, or she'll watch her brother die quite

painfully.

Eva HISSES. Neville looks at Cortman with contempt. What's that? Just past Cortman and Anna, over their shoulders, through the front window of the train... Is it...?

Light at the end of the tunnel. Neville goes to one knee.

CORTMAN

Do it.

Neville drops to the other.

NEVILLE

Cortman? Do you pray?

CORTMAN

Pray?

NEVILLE

If you don't, I would start.

Neville goes to floor and braces himself. Cortman turns... Through the front window, he SEES. A THICK METAL DOOR.

EXT. BEACH - NIGHT

The train CRASHES out of the tunnel, THROUGH the barrier, off the tracks, INTO the SAND, where it topples on its side,

INT. SUBWAY TRAIN - NIGHT

Neville, Anna, Cortman, Eva, the Children--all thrown out like rag dolls. A SEAT becomes UNHINGED and SMACKS Neville in the skull and he drops.

EXT. BEACH - NIGHT

The lead car SLIDES TO A STOP about ten feet into the ocean's edge. WAVES CRASH against its hull. RAIN pummels the beach. THUNDER AND LIGHTNING fill the raging sky.

INT. SUBWAY TRAIN - NIGHT

Chaos. Children crying, smashed glass, twisted metal. The boy Ethan gets his bearings and searches the car for his sister. Anna is near the front of the car, crawling away from an apparently unconscious Cortman--his legs PINNED under smashed and twisted metal. Also knocked out is Neville.

The lead car is sinking into the sand. WATER rushes in and the car's flooding. Ethan moves to his sister, but the way is BLOCKED by a battered, bloody EVA. She HISSES at the boy.

ANNA

Ethan! Run! Run and hide!

The boy knows to listen. He crawls through to the beach. Eva LUNGES for him, but a BULLET rips through her shoulder.

ANNA

Hey bitch!

Eva SPINS to see Anna pointing a gun at her.

ANNA

Leave my little brother alone.

Anna FIRES, unloading every bullet into Eva's chest. Eva tries to press on, but the wounds are too severe. She drops to her knees. Her flesh tries to repair itself, but too much blood is lost and there's too much damage to the heart. She hisses and dies. Anna hurries to Neville. She shakes him...

ANNA

Robert!

Neville is out cold.

ANNA

I need you!

Neville's eyes open. She starts to help him to his feet when a WAVE CRASHES into the lead car and it SINKS DEEPER into the sand. Anna SLIDES down the aisle, into the water. He reaches, but she's gone. Using the seats as a "ladder," Anna pulls herself out of the water. She's nearly clear when... CORTMAN GRABS HER ANKLE. Anna SCREAMS. Cortman EMERGES from the water and draws a deep breath. Anna struggles, but Cortman's grasp is tight.

Neville finds his COMBAT KNIFE, slides to them. He SLASHES Cortman's arm, virtually severing it at the wrist. Anna frees herself. Neville pulls her out of the car...

EXT. BEACH - NIGHT

The lead car SINKS deeper. WATER FILLS the interior. On the sand, Neville and Anna get to their feet and see the rest of the CHILDREN in the second car, WATER on one side,

FIRE--from the burning third car--on the other.

He and Anna run to the car and help the panicked, crying children from the wreckage. Neville lifts a helpless child into his arms and nods in the direction of the TUGBOAT.

NEVILLE

Take them to the boat!

INT. SUBWAY TRAIN - NIGHT

In the lead car, Cortman is drowning. His hand dangles and blood forms a cloud in the rushing water. He spies EVA'S BODY down the aisle. He looks at her dead eyes. The pool of blood around her. Cortman closes his eyes... And wills the blood to him.

It creeps down the floor, along the walls, to his TALONS. He lifts the crimson to his lips and DRINKS.

EXT. BEACH - NIGHT

The rain is incessant. The children cover at the thunder and lightning. Anna and Neville lead them down the PIER, to the TUGBOAT. Two more children--too weak to walk--remain at the train wreck and Neville returns for them. Anna scans the faces of the others, searching for...

ANNA

Ethan?

INT. SUBWAY TRAIN - NIGHT

UNDERWATER, Cortman holds his hand to its split-open wrist. The HAND FUSES to its former limb. Muscles bulging from the feeding, Cortman LIFTS the twisted metal and frees his legs from the wreckage. Eyes open wide, glowing with hate, he SWIMS through the cracked open windshield, into the ocean.

EXT. BEACH - PIER - NIGHT

Neville returns to the boat with the last two children. A panicked Anna meets him,

ANNA

I can't find Ethan!

Neville scans the beach and CALLS OUT...

NEVILLE

E-THAN!

A FLASH OF LIGHTNING illuminates the LIGHTHOUSE and NEVILLE SEES the BOY in the window, hiding.

NEVILLE

He's in the lighthouse. You stay.

(re the children) Watch them.