NATURAL BORN KILLERS

     CU of Mallory's bare foot rising off the floor in SLOW MOTION

     CU at floor level of Mallory's foot coming down on top of the
     cigarette, then grinding it out -- SLOW MOTION.

     Scagnetti watches this, gulps.

     INT. RECREATION ROOM - DAY

     Where the television was first smashed; the tone has shifted from
     insurrection to riot  Instead of subduing the PRISONERS, the
     SEVEN GUARDS are now in full retreat, swinging nightsticks over
     shield.  The Prisoners, all desperate angry men, attack them --
     bring them down.

     INT. LAUNDRY ROOM - DAY

     The RIOT is spreading.  The MEN take one of the GUARDS and throw
     him into a huge spinning WASHING MACHINE and slam the door on
     him, watching him go round and round.

     INT. INTERVIEW ROOM - DAY                                    162

     The interview winds down.  JULIE very pleased -- a big "thumbs
     up" for WAYNE who gleams.  Dollar signs all over his brain.

                         WAYNE
               You have ultravision Mickey...you see things
               others don't. You see the shadows.  Tell us.
               Describe Mallory, Wayne...I mean Mickey.

                         MICKEY
               Describe Mallory?  Okay.  She's my wife, she's
               pretty, she's got brown hair, two eyes, two
               feet...

                         WAYNE
               Don't play dumb with me Mickey.  You know what
               I mean.  Describe Mallory.
                    (points to his head)
               What's up there?
                    (points to his heart)
               What's in here?

                         MICKEY
               That's indescribable.

                         WAYNE
               Well, riddle me this Batman.  How do you feel
               about the fact that you're never gonna see
               Mallory again?

                         MICKEY (smiles)
               Says who?

                         WAYNE
               Says the United States Government of America.

                         MICKEY (laughs)
               When have they ever been right?

                         WAYNE (pressing)
               Then was it really worth it?

                         MICKEY
               Was what worth it?

                         WAYNE
               Was massacring all those people worth being
               separated from your wife for the rest of your
               life?

                         MICKEY
               Do you think up all these question or does it
               come from some central casting for reporters?

                         WAYNE
               No Mickey, I can't let you get away with
               rhetoric.  Answer the question.  Was it worth
               it?  You haven't seen, heard, or smelled
               Mallory in a year?  Was it worth it?

                         MICKEY
               Was an instant of purity worth a lifetime lie?
               Yeah, it was.

                         WAYNE
               Excuse me, did you say an 'instant of purity'?
               What was that instant of purity?  The bodies
               you left behind?

                         MICKEY
               That's only part of it.  I mean, its a big,
               big part.  But it's only the chorus, it's not
               the whole song.

                         WAYNE (passionately)
               Please explain to me, Mickey, where's the "purity"
               that you couldn't live without in 48 people who
               are no longer on this planet because
               they met you and Mallory? What's so fucking
               (BLEEP) pure about that? How do you do it!!

     CAMERA ZOOMS in on a pore-catching CU of Mickey.  Pause.

     ECU profile of DEPUTY WURLITZER on the intercom, hearing the news
     of the riot for the first time.  His expression shows.  He
     signals to MCCLUSKY who goes to the phone.

                         MICKEY (meanwhile)
               You'll never understand.  Me and you, Wayne, we're
               not even the same species.  I used to be you...then
               I evolved.  From where you're standing, you're a
               man.  From where I'm standing, you're an ape...I'm
               here...I'm still evolving...and you, you're stuck
               somewhere else man.  You're presenting a reflection
               of yourself. You buy and sell the Fear. You say
               why?  I say why not?

                         WAYNE (with Mike Wallace intensity)
               Awright, Mickey...now let's cut the BS, let's
               get real.  Why?  Why this "purity" you feel
               about killing?  Why forchrissake, why!!!!

                         MICKEY (laughs)
               ...I guess...Wayne...you just gotta hold that
               ol' shotgun in your hand and it all 'comes
               clear to you like it was for me that first
               time.  That's when I knew my one true calling
               in life.

                         WAYNE
               And what's that Mickey?

                         MICKEY (smiles)
               Shit, I'm a natural born killer.

     COMMERCIAL MUSIC plugs in.

                         WAYNE (ecstatic, to himself)
               GREAT!! Oh fuckin' brilliant! DID YA GET THAT!

                         JULIE (sign language)
               Through the roof!  The whole country was
               watching.  I heard 80, 90 share!!!

                         WAYNE
               Oh Jesus, we'll be famous...how can I top this!

     McClusky freaking out on the phone.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Where! For the love of Pete! Shitfire Leroy!
               Okay...Okay.. Mobilize the men. I'm on my way.

     Hangs up, to the room.
        
                         MCCLUSKY
               CLOSE DOWN ALL THE CAMERAS!  We got a riot
               going on in the Rec Room in B Wing.

                         WAYNE
               Is this a joke?  Are we finished!  We're live
               for chrisake.  We got another 10 minutes!  200
               million Americans are...!!

     MICKEY takes it all in.

                         MCCLUSKY
               You sure as hell are finished!  They got guns,
               hostages, explosives.  Close it down now!

                         WAYNE (disappointed as hell)
               Then could we go with you and film it?
               Dwight, forchrisake!  "Live!"

                         MCCLUSKY
               You stay here and you shut up!  I got to see what
               the hell's going on down there before I can let
               you film anywhere, it all started cause of your
               goddamn peckerhead show in the first place!

                         WAYNE
                    (following him out, trying to grab Roger)
               But the world is watching Dwight -- you can
               never get 'em back!  You'll be famous.  It's
               history!  Dwight!

                         MCCLUSKY (to Kavanaugh and his men)
               This asshole's still tryin' to tell me what I'm
               gonna do in my jail.  Fuck him!  This
               nanderfuck don't know what he's dealing with
               here, but we do.  And he ain't gonna be
               responsible, we are.  So keep your shotguns on,
               your fingers on the triggers, and be ready to
               fire at a moment's notice!  Phil, Frank you
               come with me! Jim you stay here. Let's go!

     McClusky, Wurlitzer and DEPUTIES 3, 4 exit--leaving THREE GUARDS
     and Kavanaugh with the LIVE CREW...and Mickey who pops gum,
     smiles...

     INT. RECREATION ROOM - DAY

     Pandemonium.  PRISONERS holding GUARDS hostage, working their way
     out the ROOM, into a CORRIDOR.

     INT. CORRIDOR - DAY

     The PRISONERS storming the GUARD CONTROL CENTER.  SHOTGUN blasts
     from the GUARDS kill SEVERAL MEN but they are so desperate they
     get into the Tower anyway, piling over the bodies of their dead
     comrades.

     INT. CONTROL CENTER - DAY

     The MEN ransack the keys, hitting the electric locks and controls
     -- kicking open several NEW CORRIDORS at once. Men running in
     all directions.

     INT. MAIN TIER - DAY

     TWO INMATES chase a SNITCH -- throw him off a railing.

     INT. MAIN TIER - DAY

     The "telegraph" hits the 5-Tier MAIN ROOM.  The MEN there start
     to go crazy, running down from all levels, attacking the GUARD
     TOWER in the center of the room.  SHOTGUN BLASTS are fired.

     CAMERA TRACKING OUT -- the noise of a buffalo stampede grows
     through the prison.  Madness is coming!

     INT. INTERVIEW ROOM - DAY

     Everyone's nervous, locked in, hearing the noise.  WAYNE stares,
     dying to get out, be part of the action.

     JULIE nervously eats donuts.

     The THREE GUARDS shift nervously, shotguns ready, eyes looking
     out.

     MICKEY strolls a bit, smoking, in the middle of a stupid joke no
     one really listens to, stretching.

                         MICKEY
               ...so the mother says to the sister 'Okay, you
               can go to the drive-in movie with Bobby as long
               as you take Little Johnny.'  The sister says
               okay.  They go to the drive-in, they come back.
               The Mother gets Little Johnny and says,  'Okay,
               what happened?  Where did ya go?'  Johnny who
               can't talk, goes...

     Mickey, as Little Johnny, draws a square in the air, and acts
     like he's driving.

                         MICKEY
               Mother says, 'The drive-in movie.  What did
               they do?'

     Mickey, as Little Johnny, acts like he's kissing.

                         MICKEY
               'They kissed.  What else?'

     Mickey, as Little Johnny, squeezes imaginary breasts.  The guards
     relax, listening.  It gets their minds off the outside riot.

                         MICKEY (surprised)
               'He felt her up?  What else?'

     Mickey, as Little Johnny, acts like he's undressing.

                         MICKEY (dumbfounded)
               'They took off their clothes?  What else?'

     Mickey, as little Johnny, pantomimes a fucking motion.

                         MICKEY (angry)
               'They did that!  What were you doing?'

     Mickey, as Little Johnny, vigorously jacks off.

                         MICKEY (as Mother)
               'Little Johnny, NO!!!

     Everybody in the room breaks up. As Mickey finishes the punchline
     he steps in front of KAVANAUGH, laughing, and SLAMS his elbow in
     his face. Kavanaugh staggers. Mickey grabs his shotgun, rips it
     from his grasp, then bashes him in the face, swivelling to
     confront:

     The THREE other GUARDS reacting.

     Mickey SHOOTS DEPUTY 1 in the chest, blowing him off his feet.
     He flies across the room and lands in a thudding heap.

     DEPUTY 2 raises his gun, fires.

     Mickey fires simultaneously, dropping to a crouch.

     Deputy 2 crumples into the wall, firing off another blast -- SLOW
     MOTION.

     The stray blast takes the SOUNDMAN right in the chest, blowing
     him across his equipment.

     Mickey takes a hit in the shoulder, spins, pumping the slide.

     DEPUTY 3 fires, missing -- hitting one of the TWO VIDEO CAMERAS.
     It cracks.

     Wayne terrified, running for a corner.

     ANOTHER CREWMEMBER, the boom guy, goes crashing down, hit,
     screaming

     CU of ceiling being blasted.

     Mickey spinning on Deputy 3.

                         MICKEY
               Drop it -- put the gun down.

     Deputy 3 (DUNCAN HOMOLKA) is a tired and old guard, very scared.
     He drops it.

                         MICKEY
               Smart move ... open the chamber.  Empty the
               shells!  Everyone raise your hands.

     SEVERAL TECHNICIANS shoot up their hands.

     HOMOLKA's shells hit the floor.

                         MICKEY
               Wayne!  Where the fuck are you?

     Wayne in the corner, cowering, thinks Mickey's gonna kill him.

                         MICKEY
               Get up!  Get a camera.

                         WAYNE
               Uh...uh...where's Scotty?

                         ROGER
               He's dead.

                         MICKEY
               ... and unless you wanna play follow the leader,
               shut up and do as you're told.
                    (to Homolka)
               You...toss it.

     Homolka tosses his shotgun over to Mickey.

                         MICKEY
               Hands behind the head!

     Mickey grabs the burly Kavanaugh, who's on his knees, by the
     collar.

                         MICKEY
               On your belly, Kavanaugh, the fun's just
               beginning.

                         KAVANAUGH
               You'll never get out of here, Knox.  You're
               dreaming -- they'll mop you in a bucket.

     The battered Kavanaugh glares back at him, drops down.  Mickey
     bends over him and takes hold of his right hand.

                         MICKEY
               I am the most dangerous man in the world,
               Kavanaugh.

     Mickey snaps the trigger finger on Kavanaugh's right hand.
     Kavanaugh screams.

                         MICKEY
               And when the most dangerous man in the world
               tells you to do something, you oughta think
               twice before refusing.

     Mickey snaps the trigger finger on Kavanaugh's left hand.
     Kavanaugh screams. ("Fuck you!")

                         MICKEY (points at him)
               You're the law.
                    (points to himself)
               I'm the law breaker.

     Kavanaugh shuts up.

                         MICKEY (to Roger)
               You...you got a camera?

                         ROGER
               Uh, both cameras are shot to shit!

                         MICKEY
               Too bad for you.

                         ROGER (quick change)
               Uh uh we can get an image.  Got a video
               shoulderpack!  Remote Beta.

                         MICKEY
               Good.  Put it on your shoulder.  We're going
               out.  All of us.  One big party.  Shoot
               everything I do.  (pregnantly) Got it?

                         ROGER
               You bet.

                         MICKEY
               Wayne, tell your station we're going to resume
               our broadcast "alive."  Make it happen Wayne.

                         WAYNE (with feigned enthusiasm)
               No problem, chiefo, you got it!

     As Wayne reaches for his cellular phone, Mickey notices something
     in the back of his belt, under his loosened and frayed shirt.
     Mickey reaches for it.

                         MICKEY
               What the hell is this Wayne!

     It's a 40 calibre Glock semi-automatic.  States of the art.  But
     Wayne will not give it up so easy.  Quick as a wink, Wayne goes
     for Mickey's wrist -- tries to put him into an aikido sweep-down
     move -- accompanied by a fierce SHOUT.

                         WAYNE
               Eeeeeeyaaahhhhhh!

     Nothing happens.  Mickey just stands there, grins -- then smashes
     Wayne in the face with a straight arm.

     Wayne hits the floor, in GROANING pain.

     Mickey brandishes Wayne's gun.

                         MICKEY
               You're a naughty boy bringin' this in here,
               Wayne.  What would the lawman say?

     Turning his attention back to Kavanaugh, Mickey propells him out
     the door.

                         MICKEY
               Get me to Mallory -- and she better be in one
               piece.

     INT. MALLORY'S CELL - DAY

                         SCAGNETTI
               OK, spread um!...I'll show ya I'm the bad
               motherfucker here!

     MALLORY smiles and suddenly starts to dance.  Spreading her arms,
     undulating her belly.  She's a natural born dancer.

     SCAGNETTI watches her, fascinated, misunderstanding.  He peels
     off his shirt.

                         SCAGNETTI (changing tone, intimate)
               I know you... I saw what you did to that kid at
               the gas station... I know what you like.

                         MALLORY
               Yeah?...what do you think about...right now?

     Mallory is weaving like a cobra around him, getting close but
     never touching him, making him sweat. Pulling his pants down half
     way, he takes her seat.

                         MALLORY
               Tell me what you want...

     Scagnetti is screaming with lust and murder.  His head revolving
     360 degrees around the back of the chair to watch her.  He can't
     help himself.  He's not thinking straight.  He's lost it.

     She gets in his face, very close.  About to kiss him first with
     her belly, then with her lips.

     We even think she might be going along with him.  He's moving his
     lips closer to hers.  She smiles -- that long slow orgasm of a
     smile.

     Then she nails him.  Smashing into his face with a headbutt.
     Breaking his nose in an explosion of blood and pain.  Scagnetti
     lets out a horrible SCREAM.  She tears into him.

     EXT. MALLORY CELL - DAY

     The TWO GUARDS fumble with the keys to open the cell door.

     INT. MALLORY CELL - DAY

     The TWO GUARDS burst through the door to find SCAGNETTI face down
     on the ground.

     MALLORY'S standing, her foot pressed against the middle of
     Scagnetti's back, pulling his arms behind him trying to break his
     back.  His body is bending like a branch, and he's screaming.

     The TWO GUARDS are on top of her like tornadoes, beating the shit
     out of her with their shotguns.

     She slugs it out with them.  Is Scagnetti alive...   Barely
     crawling on the floor, a crumpled wormlike moan escapes his lips.

     INT. PRISON CORRIDOR - DAY
 
     MICKEY at the helm of WAYNE, JULIE, TWO HOSTAGE DEPUTIES and a
     party of FOUR TECHNICIANS hustles down a corridor of the prison
     past SCREAMING INMATES flying in all directions.

     INT. PRISON KITCHEN - DAY

     A SHADOW of a PRISON GUARD stumbles into frame, followed by a MOB
     of other SHADOWS carrying nightsticks and bars.  Suddenly we are
     out of shadows as:

     The MOB catches the PRISON GUARD and stuffs him, mercilessly into
     one of the LARGE OVENS, turning up the heat.  He SCREAMS
     horribly, the sound carrying over:

     INT. ANOTHER CORRIDOR - MAIN TIER - DAY

     This SCENE is a TRAVELLING CU that never leaves MCCLUSKY --
     trailed by WURLITZER and STAFF.  We can make out activity on the
     edges of frame and we can vividly hear the sounds of chaos all
     through the prison.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Get two men up on that tier.  And I want men
               with rifles all along the walkway.

                         WURLITZER
               Capt'n

                         MCCLUSKY
               Where do the air ducts lead?

                         SMITHY
               Over there.  But they'll hear somebody
               approaching thru 'em.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Then turn the power back on.  The machines
               supply us with the cover noise we need.
               Smithy, get on it.

                         SMITHY
               Right away Capt'n!

     McClusky snatches the walkie talkie from him, talks into it.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Bergman, you in place?

                         BERGMAN (O.S.)
               Sure am, Capt'n.  Nothin' clean yet.

                         MCCLUSKY (into walkie talkie)
               Pass this on to your teams...the second they
               get a lock on a blue, they're to take the shot.
               Do you understand?

                         BERGMAN (O.S.)
               That's a big ten-four, Capt'n.

                         MCCLUSKY
               It's that or death, Bergman!  Do it!

     CAMERA follow MCCLUSKY as he heads in another direction.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Wurly, are the sharpshooters in place?

                         WURLITZER
               Yeah.

                         MCCLUSKY
               You sure?

                         WURLITZER
               I think --

                         MCCLUSKY
               Never say you think when you know, or you know
               when you think...What do you think, Wurly?  How
               many explosives do you think they have in there?

     McClusky now reveals the MAIN TIER in utter pandemonium. He barks
     out.

                         WURLITZER
               It's hard to say Capt'n.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Take a wild stab!

                         WURLITZER
               I'd say enough to destroy this wing.

                         MCCLUSKY
               The entire wing?

                         WURLITZER
               That's my opinion.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Jesus Harold Christ.  How'd I let this happen!  I
               was too soft, Wurly...When I get my prison back,
               there's gonna be hell to pay!

                         WURLITZER
               There's gonna be hell to pay!

                         MCCLUSKY
               Pure Hell!

                                                           CUT TO:

     ON TV:

     SCREEN FILLS WITH STATIC

     INSERT TITLE CARD:  "SPECIAL REPORT"

                         TV ANNOUNCER (V.O.)
               We interrupt this program to bring you a
               Special Report.

     INT. NEWS ROOM - DAY

     Title Card recedes in frame to expose an active NEWS ROOM in the
     BG.  News Anchor ANTONIA CHAVEZ is lowering herself behind a desk
     while adjusting her earphones.

                         CHAVEZ TV
               Good afternoon, I'm Antonia Chavez and this is
               an W-A-T-C-H Special Report. (fingering earphone)
               I'm being told that we're taking you right now
               live to Batonga Penitentiary where Wayne Gale
               continues his interrupted interview in the
               middle of a full-scale riot.

     INT. PRISON CORRIDOR - MALLORY WING - DAY

     VIDEO FOOTAGE of WAYNE caught in MICKEY'S HOSTAGE TRAIN ~- is all
     handheld and harshly lit.  Wayne's crouched, moving backwards,
     trying to reassert control over the situation as well as his own
     terror.  The relationship he has to his mike and the camera
     certainly helps.

                         WAYNE (into camera)
               This is Wayne Gale reporting live from Batonga
               where you can tell by the blood and carnage all
               around me that the final chapter in the book
               called Mickey and Mallory has not yet been written.
               An incredible war has broken out here in Batonga,
               unlike anything I've ever seen!  Grenada.  The
               Gulf...Batonga will stand alongside them as...

     The CAMERA swings wildly on ROGER's shoulder to catch MICKEY
     edging up to the exterior of MALLORY'S CELL -- about to break in.
     CONVICTS screaming continue to run by CAMERA without direction
     occasionally flitting to a stop to stare or to make a face in the
     camera, chased off by Mickey's gun.

     INT. MALLORY'S CELL - DAY

     SCAGNETTI is holding his bloody nose, screaming, blood all over
     his face.

                         SCAGNETTI
               She broke my fucking nose!  That bitch broke my nose!

     He glares over at MALLORY who lies with the shit beaten out of
     her in the corner.

     GUARD 1 has his shotgun barrel placed in her mouth.

     CU on Scagnetti.  He's a hand grenade with the pin pulled as he
     walks over to her.

                         SCAGNETTI
               Hold her!

     He grabs a can of MACE from GUARD 2's belt and brings it up to
     Mallory's face, as she's propped up by the Guards.

     Mallory and Scagnetti trade looks.

     Scagnetti gives her an intense blast of mace right in the face,
     eyes, and all over her body.