The Rock

MASON

Do your job, Billy – I'll try to hold 'em off.

Mason blasts away at Frye and Darrow, allowing Goodspeed to sprint for the exit toward the lower lighthouse.

As Frye holds down Mason with fire, Darrow sprints for the opposite exit. Frye, firing while retreating, moves back inside the Command Center.

EXT. MAIN CELL HOUSE – DAY

Goodspeed exits and sprints toward the lower lighthouse.

EXT. / INT. ALCATRAZ – LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Sgt. Crisp smokes a cigarette next to launcher. Goodspeed enters, gun raised. Crisp spins, drawing his .45.

GOODSPEED

Don't...

Goodspeed shoots Crisp. Crisp falls dead.

INT. INFIRMARY – CORRIDOR – DAY

Mason advances toward the command center's door. Suddenly the HEAVY STEEL DOOR creaks open and –

A SATCHEL EXPLOSIVE flings out, sliding across the corridor floor toward Mason. Mason turns and sprints away. Frye bolts from the room, sprinting the other way.

Mason dives away as the satchel DETONATES, imploding the corridor walls, collapsing the ceiling. mason's engulfed in two tons of plaster and crumbled cinder block.

INT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Goodspeed's detached the V.X. CHEM ROUND from the rocket. He's about ready to pull out the poison pearls when..

Darrow barges in. Goodspeed, c hem round in hand, moves behind the stairway and scaffolding in the room's middle.

INT. INFIRMARY COMMAND CENTER – DAY

Frye, at the GUIDANCE CONTROL COMPUTER, into walkie talkie.

CAPTAIN FRYE

Crisp, Darrow, come in...

(thinks; clicks walkie-talkie to new channel)

Cox, McCoy, get your asses up here!

EXT. ALCATRAZ – WHARF WATCH TOWER – DAY

Pvts. Cox and McCoy, standing watch, leave the watch tower and hurry toward the infirmary and lower lighthouse.

INT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Darrow moves one way, Goodspeed the other. Goodspeed holds the chem round in front of him.

CAPTAIN DARROW

Give that to me.

GOODSPEED

You shoot me, I'll drop this and we're both dead. One of these pearlslll kill everything within 200 feet. You know how this shit works?

Darrow drops his gun. Pulls out a TITANIUM BLADED KNIFE.

CAPTAIN DARROW

You know how this shit works?

Darrow advances on Goodspeed. The only route to Goodspeed is between the rocket and the window. Darrow continues advancing. Goodspeed eyes the launcher's IGNITION SWITCH. As Darrow passes between thewindow and the launcher...

GOODSPEED

You know the Elton John song, "Rocket Man"?

CAPTAIN DARROW

I hate it.

Darrow lunges. Goodspeed stabs the IGNITION SWITCH. The V.X. ROCKET LIFTS OFF, HITTING Darrow square in the chest.

EXT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

The V.X. ROCKET BLOWS Darrow THROUGH THE WINDOW and wings off, clearing the cliffs. Darrow falls from the rocket –

GOODSPEED

Well it happens to be my favorite fuckin, song!

EXT. ALCATRAZ – PARADE GROUND – DAY

Darrow plummets, IMPALING himself on a STEEL FENCE SPIKE. The V.X. ROCKET swerves madly across the bay –

INT. PIER 39 COMMAND CENTER – MOBILE WAR ROOM – DAY

FBI RADAR TECHNICIAN

Second rocket's away, sir.

(confused look)

It went in the Bay sir.

INT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Goodspeed's alone now with the last V.X. CHEM ROUND. He -pulls out the STRAND OF POISON PEARLS. Suddenly an AXE BLADE comes through the door.

EXT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Capt. Frye chops at the door lock with a FIRE AXE.

INT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Goodspeed looks around frantically. Only one place to go. Up. Goodspeed scrambles up the interior metal stairs.

EXT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE ROOFTOP – DAY

Goodspeed emerges on the roof. Sets down the chem round. Pulls out the POISON PEARL STRANDS, his hand shaking. With the other hand, he unclips the ROCKET GUIDANCE CHIP.

The COPPER STRANDS holding the pearls are corroded. A strand BREAKS. Four PEARLS fall. Goodspeed catches three. The FOURTH drops, hitting his SHOE. It rolls along the rooftop. Goodspeed sets aside the other pearls and dives, grabbing the stray pearl an inch from the roof's edge.

Suddenly the HUGE LIGHTHOUSE WINDOW behind Goodspeed EXPLODES, showering Goodspeed with glass.

ON THE ADJACENT ROOFTOP

Pvt. McCoy, wielding a smoking .60 CAL MACHINE GUN. McCoy fires a wicked, long, sustained burst, emptying his entire ammunition belt.

The LIGHTHOUSE SEARCHLIGHT FRESNEL blows to shreds. Goodspeed rolls away, GLASS SHARDS raining down on him, cutting him. He's a sitting duck.

McCoy casts aside the .60 Cal and unshoulders a SNIPER RIFLE. Draws a bead on Goodspeed again. Goodspeed, bleeding, terrified, cowers, awaiting death.

A SILHOUETTE APPEARES behind McCoy. It's Mason, dirty and bloodied. McCoy spins. Mason bats the rifle aside, KNEES McCoy in the solar plexus, grips McCoy's NECK – SNAP! – and HURLS him off the roof. McCoy falls 5 floors.

Goodspeed gives Mason a thankful glance. And hears the DOOR BURST OPEN BELOW.

INT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE ROOFTOP – DAY

Frye roars inside. Looks around. Starts up the stairs.

EXT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Frye barges onto the roof. Sees the DISMANTLED CHEM ROUND. Goodspeed's at the edge of the roof looking down.

CAPTAIN FRYE

Give me the guidance chip.

Frye raises his M-16 as Goodspeed jumps. Lands hard on the ground below and sprints off.

EXT. ALCATRAZ – IN FRONT OF THE LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Goodspeed sprints toward the NEW INDUSTRIES BUILDING.

EXT. LOWER LIGHTHOUSE ROOFTOP – DAY

Frye fires form the roof. M-16 ROUNDS kick up dirt around Goodspeed. Frye curses and head back down the stairs.

EXT. ALCATRAZ – IN FRONT OF LOWER LIGHTHOUSE – DAY

Frye exits and sprints after Goodspeed.

INT. MAIN CELL HOUSE – STAIRWELL – DAY

Mason come down the stairs. Suddenly Pvt. Cox looms on the stairs below. Faces off with Mason. Cox draw his knife and lunges. Mason catches Cox' wrist.

Cox, with his free hand, hits Mason. Hard. Mason recoils. Counter punches. On comes Cox. He's huge and menacing. He hits Mason again. Again. Again. Cox has Mason backed up to the stairwell.

 
INT. NEW INDUSTRIES BUILDING – DAY
 

Goodspeed, frantic, sprints across the floor, SPLASHING through puddles. He loses his footing. falls and slides across the floor, clutching the guidance chip and pear.

He gets to his feet. LIMPS behind some RUSTY MACHINERY.

Frye enters. Sees RIPPLES IN PUDDLES left by Goodspeed. Frye creeps across the floor. Following the ripples.

INT. MAIN CELL HOUSE – STAIRWELL – DAY

Mason's nearly through. Backed up against the railing. Cox comes in again. WHAM WHAM. Mason spits blood and teeth. Mason moves to his pocket. As Cox comes in for the death blow –

Mason pulls the MOTOR OIL from his picket and sprays it in Cox's eyes. The big man is dazed, blinded. Mason steps aside and rams Cox over the railing. Cox falls to his death on the floor below. Mason looks down at him.

MASON

Snakes hate the stuff.

INT. NEW INDUSTRIES BUILDING – DAY

Frye creeps close to Goodspeed's hiding place. Goodspeed lunges from behind the machinery, jamming his fingers into Fryels mouth and ramming home the POISON PEARL.

Goodspeed HAMMERS his fist into Fryels JAW. We hear the glass breaking in Fryels mouth. Fryels eyes widen. GREY SMOKE SPEWS FROM HIS MOUTH AND NOSTRILS. His eyes bulge.

Goodspeed tries to step away. Frye bearhugs him, pressing his face close. Frye open his mouth, spewing forth a CLOUD OF POISON in Goodspeed's face.

CAPTAIN FRYE

You're comin, with me.

Goodspeed shoves Frye away. Frye drops, his body quivering. Blood pours form his ears and nose. Frye spasms in a sickening dance of death.

Goodspeed reels away, COUGHING. Dizzy, he falls to his knees. He's gassed and knows it. Desperately, he rips at his PANDLEG. A SYRINGE taped to his calf. ATROPINE.

He pulls it free and hesitates. A beat, then – he PLUNGES the long needle into his chest. Into his heart. Depresses the plunger.

EXT. SKIES OVER SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA – DAY

The F-16s, flying north along the California Coastline, bank right and dive down onto San Francisco Bay.

INT. NEW INDUSTRIES BUILDING – DAY

Goodspeed's world slows down. Is he dying? He sees IMAGES in SLOW MOTION He and Carla together his parents moments from his childhood...

Slowly Goodspeed's breathing normalizes. He gazes up at the dawning sky. SEES something shimmering in the distance. Through the HEAT WAVES...

THE SOUADRON OF F-16s.

INT. PIER 39 COMMAND CENTER – DAY

Sanchez, Director Womack, and the FBI Technicians watch from the window as –
 

The F-16s wing across the Bay toward Alcatraz.

SANCHEZ

May god have mercy on their souls.

CARLA

(face buried in his hands)

You can't do this, you can't let this happen.