NATURAL BORN KILLERS

     Mallory crumples to the floor, SCRAAMING in agony.

     TWO SHOT of the Guards looking down at her.  We can hear
     Scagnetti still SPRAYING her.  They can't look at this anymore.

     Mallory wiggles on the floor as Scagnetti keeps spraying her.

     CU of Scagnetti's bloody face smiling.

     The DOOR whips open and MICKEY steps through aiming the shotgun.

                         MICKEY (to Mallory)
               Honey I'm home!!

     He blows GUARD 1 away.

     CU of Mallory -- she hears it, but can't yet see.

     GUARD 2 is whipping up his gun, FIRES a round as he is hit and
     BLOWN across the room.

     Right next to Mickey, TECHNICIAN 4 (we will work backwards as
     they are eliminated) takes a hit in the gut.  Mickey spins to
     confront:

     The CAMERA dollying down to the "Scag" crouched over Mallory, his
     gun pointed right at Mickey about to fire.

     Squatting, Mickey has the shotgun trained on Scagnetti.

     They're positioned across from each other on opposite sides of
     the room.

     Nobody fires.

     We DOLLY PAST the faces of both WAYNE and ROGER, inside the room
     now, filming this LIVE.  They both hit the deck flat, as do the
     OTHER HOSTAGES.

     Just the Two Men.  The Showdown.

     CU on Scagnetti's face

     CU on Mickey's face

     CU on Scagnetti's finger putting pressure on the trigger, then
     CAMERA moves up to a CU profile of his face.

     OVERHEAD SHOT of Mickey.  CAMERA moves down in front of him into
     a CU of his face.

                         MICKEY
               Looks like we got a Mexican standoff.

                         SCAGNETTI (not backing down)
               Slide the shotgun over here, asshole, put your
               hands behind your head, your forehead on the floor

                         MICKEY
               Or what?  You'll wound me?  I can blow you in
               half Scagnetti an' ya know it.

                         SCAGNETTI
               I've never wounded anything in my life.  I got
               you locked right between the eyes, Knox. I've had
               you locked from the "jump" you fuckin' phony.

                         MICKEY
               If you don't drop that toy, I'm blowin' you in
               half on three.  So, if you got me locked, take
               the shot. One...

     DOLLY in on Scagnetti's gun in FG, past the gun, to his face
     CU of barrel of shotgun.

                         MICKEY (O.S.)
               Two...

                         SCAGNETTI
               Come on! Shoot me! I was just fuckin' your
               girlfriend. She came so hard she broke my nose.

     DOLLY continues closing on Scagnetti's face

     Wayne watches, beyond himself.  Television nirvana.

     Roger filming

     ECU on Mickey's face

                         MICKEY
               Okay Scagnetti...you win.

     Scagnetti is in pig heaven as MALLORY, reddened with mace, looms
     up behind him with a prison fork clasped in her hand.  She yanks
     Scagnetti back by the neck and drives the fork deep into his
     throat.

     ECU the back part of his head.  We hear the sickening sound of
     the fork plunging into his throat.  His head jerks back
     violently, farther into frame, still held by Mallory

     ECU of Scagnetti as his face is racked with pain. He gurgles,
     eyes bulging.

     She lets him go, stands.

     Wayne and his TV audience unbelieving.

     She looks down at him.  Raises her foot and pitches him over onto
     the floor, trembling, still alive.  He tries -- through the
     remainder of the scene -- to get back up on his knees, the CAMERA
     trembling from his POV on:

     Mallory running into Mickey's arms, passionately kissing.  This
     kiss has been a year coming.  Now they're doing something
     everybody told them they would never do again.

                         WAYNE (on TV, getting into it)
               This kiss has been a year coming.  They're doing
               something everybody told them they would never do again.
               At this moment they are the only two people on earth.

     We are enraptured too. Roger's CAMERA does a 360 around the
     loving couple.

                         MALLORY (inbetween kisses)
               It's taken you so long to come to me.

     Scagnetti from a FRONTAL ANGLE spoils the scene with his GURGLING
     SOUNDS as he climbs to his knees. The two lovers look down at him.

     Mickey, distracted, cracks open his shotgun, showing it to be
     empty as he reloads it.

                         MICKEY (smiles)
               Lost your touch Jack. You had me. Two shells.
               Two guards.

     Scagnetti realizing it.  His POV:

     Mallory looms over him.

                         MALLORY
               Get the picture, ya fuckin' squid?

     She lifts her foot and sets it down on the CAMERA, covering the
     FRAME.

     CU of Scagnetti as his face is shoved down to the floor by
     Mallory's foot.  She grinds her foot into his face.  Scagnetti
     gives up the ghost in that position.

     INT. PRISON CORRIDOR - MAIN ROOM - DAY

     CU of MCCLUSKY'S SHOES cutting a mean path down the hallway.
     CAMERA rising to his face.  A computer printout of several
     hundred pages in his hands.

                         MCCLUSKY (O.S.)
               What's this?

                         WURLITZER (O.S.)
               A list of prisoners.

     TILT UP to McClusky's face, exasperated.

                         MCCLUSKY
               What the fuck do I need this for -- I asked for
               a list of hostages.

                         WURLITZER
               The hostages?  How'm I supposed to know.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Just get it! What I gotta tell you everything!

                         WURLITZER
               I'm working on it.

     INT. CONTROL ROOM - DAY

     MCCLUSKY turning into a GROUP of DEPUTIES clustered around the
     VIDEO MONITORS

                         MCCLUSKY (urgent to Deputy)
               What are those, gates? Try closin' 1-2-3 again.

                         GUARD (at controls)
               They're still jammed open sir...(rapid fire)
               We got fires in 5-6 north...the Psych unit
               looks like a zoo.  They're slaughtering each
               other.  All our informants are being tortured.

     ON THE FIVE MONITORS:

     MCCLUSKY sees mayhem:  Cons fighting cons, fires, yelling, water
     flowing from broken toilets and sinks.  Cons are pounding out
     steel mesh windows with pipes.  Rape and murder.  In the Psych
     Unit:  violence, sexual perversion, people dancing, crying,
     climbing.  Everyone feels the demon's arrival.

     Even McClusky.

                         NAPALATONI (O.S.)
               Capt'n!

     McClusky glances at him, then back at the monitors.

                         MCCLUSKY
               What is it, Napalatoni? (mispronounces name)

                         NAPALATONI (corrects name)
               Mickey and Mallory Knox are loose.

     McClusky looks, remembers.

                         MCCLUSKY
               What do you mean they're loose?

                         NAPALATONI
               They're armed, they got the Wayne Gale crew and
               Kavanaugh and Homolka.  Scagnetti's dead.  They
               got cameras and they're on TV right now!

     McClusky holds a frozen look, as if a fuse has blown and his mind
     has shut down.

                         MCCLUSKY
               Jesus Harold Christ on a fuckin' crutch, is
               this happening to me?

                                                           CUT TO:

     INT. MALLORY CELL - DAY

     DIOPTER SHOT - Wayne's personal phone rings loudly.  Everyone
     looks at it.  Wayne slams it to his ear.

                         WAYNE
               Yeah!

     MICKEY uses the camera crew's gaffer tape to tie the HOSTAGES (3
     TECHNICIANS, WAYNE, JULIE, KAVANAUGH and HOMOLKA) to each other,
     in a train pattern. ROGER is given a short leash with camera.

                         MICKEY
               What's your name?

                         HOMOLKA
               Duncan...Duncan Homolka.

                         MICKEY
               Okay, Duncan Homolka, step forward.  Keep
               coming.  Put your solar plexus right against
               Kavanaugh's butt... Grab his arms...

     They squeeze together.  He wraps them.

                         MICKEY
               We're gonna go through some heavy fire. We're
               gonna march down the hall and right out the
               building.

                         KAVANAUGH
               You don't have a chance in hell. If they have
               to kill us all they will.

                         MICKEY
               Police psychology, Kavanaugh.  You know the way
               I feel about cops, but you don't know how I
               feel about my father.  So when you sound like
               him, that makes me feel like hurting you...

     A tense moment.

                         MALLORY
               Come on Mickey -- we don't have time for this
               shit.  I wanna get outta here before this
               place blows up.

     During this Wayne is pleading on the phone, guietly.  Mickey in
     BG, tying the hostages, casts an amused glance.

                         WAYNE
               ...look honey, nothing happened, I swear! I've
               been faithful...since that incident...I don't
               know what you think you found.  Look we'll talk
               about it when I get home...about two hours...is
               Jimmy okay?...Of course I'm not okay...this is
               worse than Baghdad...listen if I get through
               this Delores, it's all straight sailing from
               now on... I love you.

                         MICKEY (to Wayne)
               Hey Romeo, you say something about a news van.

                         WAYNE (clicking the phone off)
               Sure Mickey, we have a van.

                         MICKEY
               Where's it parked?

                         WAYNE
               Out front.

                         MICKEY
               Let me have the keys.

     Wayne point to JULIE, who digs through her pockets and tosses the
     keys to Mickey.

                         MICKEY
               How come you never talk?

                         ROGER (the cameraman)
               She was born without a tongue.

                         MICKEY (repulsed)
               Oh my God!  (to Julie)  Sorry.

     Julie shrugs her shoulders like "what're ya gonna do" as Mallory
     tapes her up.

     Wayne approaches Mickey like he is insane and has to be handled
     gently.

                         WAYNE
               Mickey, can I talk to you alone?

                         MICKEY (taping a hostage)
               No.

                         WAYNE
               This is crazy.  You can't escape like this.

                         MICKEY
               Probably not, but we're gonna give it the old
               college try.

                         WAYNE
               We'll all be killed!

                         MICKEY
               Exciting, isn't it?

     Duncan Homolka starts to cry.  Wayne's cellular phone RINGS again
     in his pocket.  Everyone stares.

                         WAYNE (interrupted)
               SHIT! No one has this number!
                    (slamming the receiver to his ear)

                         MICKEY (continuing to the others)
               Now, when we get out there, you do what we say
               or it's shotgun city.  If we say move, you
               move.  If we say left, you move left.  If we
               say right, you move right.  If we say mole, you
               dig a hole.  Got it?

     During this, Wayne pleads on the phone with 'the other one.'

                         WAYNE
               ...She called you???...Oh shit! She doesn't
               mean that...Mai Ly, it's not "either-or,"
               that's bullshit...It's not evidence...Mai Ly I
               can't talk to you like this...look I'll be
               there as soon as I can...Two, maybe three
               hours, we'll settle this, I promise...I
               promise...what do you mean 'is this real?'  Do
               you think this is a show?  They're dead people
               here, honey.  I gotta go!

                         MICKEY
               Wayne! Wagons, hoooaaa!

     The hostage train moves out!  Roger hauling the video camera.
     Mallory grabs Wayne around the neck and jams her pistol up to his
     head as he pockets the cellular phone.

                         MALLORY
               Let's go.  Tongue in two faces.

     INT. MAIN TIER - DAY

     CAMERA flies down CONVICTS running.  They hang a GUARD off the
     railing by his neck.  He dangles there.

     INT. BARBER SHOP - DAY

     CONVICTS are cutting the throats of the SNITCHES in the barber
     chairs.  Smoke is pouring out everywhere.

     INT. MAIN TIER - DAY

     TEARGAS is fired at the CONVICTS as the GUARDS rush the 5-story
     MAIN TIER, retaking it.

     A CONVICT FIRES a teargas grenade right into the head of ANOTHER
     CONVICT.

     Out of this morass of smoke and gas, MICKEY and MALLORY lead
     their CARAVAN, blasting both GUARDS and CONVICTS who try to
     attack them.

     CAMERA MOVES with them through smoke, flame, gas, dying bodies --
     as if it were a process shot behind them.  There is no stopping
     Mickey and Mallory.

     TECHNICIAN 3 and TECHNICIAN 2 go down, dead, wounded, dropping
     out of the caravan.

     KAVANAUGH is wounded

     JULIE is wounded, but can't yell out. It's sad

     ROGER'S VIDEO captures it all.  The FOOTAGE we see through his
     camera is very similar to Vietnam footage.  It's shaky, real
     harsh, and it captures the pandemonium of battle.

     The soundtrack is a mad mixture of yelling, crying, laughing and
     gunfire.

     MORE DEPUTIES appear, tracking them.

     The wild CARAVAN runs in the other direction, FIRING behind them.
     TECHNICIAN 1 goes down and Mickey's HIT in the leg, but keeps on
     running and FIRING. Mallory sees this and screams.

                         MALLORY
               Mickey!

                         MICKEY
               Don't stop.

     Roger's CAMERA right alongside them.

                         ROGER
               Man, oh man!...this is better than Vietnam!

     INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE MAIN TIER - DAY

     MORE DEPUTIES appear at the other end of the HALLWAY, catching
     Mickey and his crew in a treacherous CROSSFIRE.

     Mickey and Mallory get back to back with each other, using their
     SHIELDS firing from the rear and the front.

                         DUNCAN (hysterical)
               Please don't kill me! Don't kill me!

     Wayne's hit in the ass and ear. Anger in his face. ("Fuck! Fuck!")

     Julie is killed, geysering blood all over Mickey and Mallory.

     Roger's camera WHIP PANS from that to catch a DEPUTY hopping
     around the corner.  The SCREEN FLASHES WHITE with a BLAST.

     Roger's HIT, and the VIDEO CAMERA goes haywire, reeling out of
     control, then THUNKING to the ground.  Roger screams O.S.

     CAMERA lies on the floor, video still recording. Roger rolls into
     FRAME screaming.

                         MICKEY
               Get the camera!  Get the fucking camera!

     Wayne, angry beyond his character, reaches down inside himself
     and grabs the gun off a dead Deputy -- and fires a blast at an
     oncoming DEPUTY who drops.  He fires at another, and another!

                         WAYNE
               YOU BASTARDS! YOU FUCKSHITEATIN BLOODY BASTARDS!!

     As Mallory swipes the camera from the dying Roger

     Mickey firing cover for her, sees Wayne has gone nuts.

     Kavanaugh is hit again, looks like he's dying.  It looks bad for
     the hometeam, but suddenly:

     OWEN is there.  A mild looking man in convict's uniform, calm,
     emotionless, with his thinning hair he could pass for an
     accountant.  In one arm is a 12-gauge.  On his other arm is a gas
     grenade launcher.

     He's blasting down the approaching DEPUTIES, letting gas grenades
     blur the corridor.

     The Deputies scatter.

     Through the smoke, Owen looks down at Mickey.