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The rebels burst through the embassy gate, right into a volley of gunfire from the Gurkhas. Three fire, three cock, three fire, three cock and the rebels are stopped dead. The mob retreats. Gueng sees the chance, motions and all the Ghurkas jump into the Jeep. EXT. EMBASSY REAR - DAY A crowd is chasing the escaping Rolls and Land Rover. The mob is firing single shot and automatic weapons at them. The mercenaries all fire back. They hang from the windows of the Rolls firing their automatic weapons. EXT. LAND ROVER - DAY Mike fires his M-16 for the first time and shoots a rebel. The guy falls dead. And then the mercenary next to him, Miura, gets shot and falls off the Land Rover. One of the mercenaries hanging out of the Rolls, Kracauer, buys it, too. Mike is freaked out. He swings around and empties his whole clip, then slams in another. EXT. EMBASSY REAR - DAY The Gurkhas drive the Jeep through the hole in the wall right into the angry mob. The Gurkhas fire and fire in every direction, but are finally overrun. As the crowd surges in on them, they drop their carbines and pull out their curved, foot-long Kookri knives and go in for hand to hand combat. The Gurkhas are the greatest hand to hand fighters in the world and take down ten opponents before one Gurkha goes down. The angry rebels keep coming like ants as the remaining Gurkhas, now only three left, covered with blood, blades flashing, try to make it to the edge of the jungle. Now it's just Gueng and Tenzing, back to back, fighting to the death. INT. ROLLS ROYCE - DAY Sir Robert throws a look over his shoulder. DENSMORE On the floor in the back, Sekou is indeed awake. NYERERE DENSMORE
DENSMORE NYERERE Sir Ian smiles. SIR
IAN EXT. TURN OFF - DAY The turn off to Tsevie comes up and Sir Robert honks and pulls over. The Land Rover backs up. Sir Robert leans out the window and points at the rutted dirt road running off to the right. DENSMORE INT. LAND ROVER - DAY Werner slugs Mike in the arm. WERNER Mike shakes his head and comes out of his daze. MIKE EXT. ROLLS ROYCE - DAY Mike runs over and hands Sir Robert the handset. He keys it, but it is not on. DENSMORE MIKE Luckily Cyril Franks does and he radios Krasker. KRASKER Cyril hands back the handset and Sir Robert turns to Mike. DENSMORE MIKE Sir Robert doesn't bother to wait for the answer. He leans out the window and motions to Randall in the Land Rover. DENSMORE EXT. TURN OFF - DAY The Land Rover goes down a gully and turns onto the rutted road into the jungle. INT. ROLLS ROYCE - DAY Sir Robert guns the car. SIR
ROBERT EXT. TURN OFF - DAY The Rolls Royce bounces down the incline and goes bombing into the jungle. Moments later, a group of trucks, Jeeps and cars drive up, filled with twenty-five shouting revolutionaries led by Koudougou Boroma. They almost go past the turn off when someone spots birds flying from the trees where the rutted road goes into the jungle. The caravan goes back and follows.
About a half mile down, the road becomes so thin that the Rolls Royce won't go any further. Everyone climbs out and Sekou is carried to the back of the Land Rover. His Wife gets in with him. The Ambassador and his Wife also get in. Sir Ian looks back sadly at his abandoned Rolls Royce. His wife pats his shoulder. They drive ahead and everyone else walks quickly. Shots can be heard behind them and the sound of vehicles approaching. They are really humping through the jungle and in no time, Mike has dropped to the rear. EXT. LAND ROVER - DAY The Land Rover gets caught in a deep mud puddle and is abandoned as well. Sir Robert and Cyril Franks carry Nyerere on his stretcher. Everyone else walks. NYERERE EXT. ABANDONED ROLLS ROYCE - DAY Koudougou Boroma is in the cab of the truck that pulls up behind the Rolls Royce. Many vehicles pull up behind him. The truck pushes the Rolls, but it is stuck too deep to get pushed out of the way. Koudougou jumps out of the truck and runs around the Rolls in pursuit. At least FIFTY REVOLUTIONARIES follow him. EXT. JUNGLE ROAD - DAY Randall and Werner lead the way, followed by Wolfitt, Thornsby, with Sir Robert and Cyril carrying Sekou. The other two mercenaries are helping Mrs. Nyerere, Sir Ian and his Wife. Mike brings up the rear. The radio is breaking his stinking back. A gunshot rings out in the jungle behind. Mike looks back, then hurriedly yells ahead. MIKE But no one can hear Mike because he's so far back.
Everyone arrives at the airstrip. All except Mike, that is. INT. JET - DAY Krasker sits in the cockpit and sees the people at the opposite end of the airfield. He begins taxiing down the landing strip. EXT. JUNGLE ROAD - DAY Mike is running as fast as he can with the stupid radio weighing him down. He can hear the revolutionaries screams and gunshots behind him getting closer. He's starting to panic badly. MIKE But no one can hear him. EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Mike leaves the jungle, arriving at the landing strip. He sees everyone running toward the jet which is coming toward them. He is way behind everyone except one straggler who seems to be losing ground - it is Julius Thornsby struggling with the heavy canvas deposit bag he's carrying. Suddenly the air all around him is split open by bullets whizzing past. Mike glances back over his shoulder and sees twenty revolutionaries coming out of the jungle with their weapons blazing. EXT. JET - DAY The jet is two-thirds of the way down the field and is beginning to turn back around and stops. Randall arrives at the open door and turns back to yell. GRUBB Sir Robert and Cyril arrive with Sekou and they hustle the stretcher into the jet. Next, the other two mercenaries arrive nearly carrying the Ambassador and his Wife. They put these folks on the jet, then help in Mrs. Nyerere. EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Mike is still quite a ways from the jet and is catching up with Thornsby. There are ten of the faster revolutionaries coming up behind them, all firing their weapons, led by Koudougou. Several bullets hit Thornsby in the back and he falls to the ground, the heavy deposit bag still clutched in his hands. Several more bullets hit the radio in Mike's back. It begins sparking and burning. Mike screams as he runs, trying to get the burning radio off of him. MIKE The radio drops off as Mike is coming up on Thornsby who is holding up the deposit bag, blood oozing from his mouth. THORNSBY He dies. Mike never stops running and takes the bag like a hand-off in a football game. EXT. JET - DAY The jet is beginning to taxi away down the airstrip. Everybody on board is watching from the open doorway. EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Mike is twenty yards from the jet and the revolutionaries are thirty yards behind him. Mike is weaving and ducking, the deposit bag wedged in his arms like a football. Bullets whiz past him on all sides. INT. JET - DAY Randall and the others crowd the doorway watching. RANDALL EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Koudougou Boroma is way ahead of the other revolutionaries and is really hauling up behind Mike. As he is almost within reach of Mike, Koudougou aims his Uzi at Mike's back. Mike suddenly swirls around with the heavy deposit bag out in front of him. He knocks the weapon right out of Koudougou's hands. INT. JET - DAY Everyone starts screaming. EVERYONE EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Mike keeps running, but so does Koudougou. He comes right up behind Mike and throws himself on Mike's back, knocking him down. EXT. JET - DAY A giant groan is emitted by everyone watching from the jet doorway. EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Koudougou is on top of Mike pounding on the back of his head. INT. JET - DAY Werner turns to Randall, his M-16 in his hands.
Randall grabs the barrel of the M-16 and yanks it down. GRUBB EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY The rest of the revolutionaries are 25 yards behind Mike and Koudougou and are gaining on them. They have stopped firing so as not to hit Koudougou. Mike's face is smashed into the ground. Koudougou's fists are pounding on him. MIKE Mike reaches back, hooks his arm through Koudougou's and flips him onto his back. Mike climbs on top of him and brings his knee down hard on Koudougouls throat, momentarily incapacitating him. Mike slugs him as hard as he can in the nose, then rolls off.
Everyone is cheering wildly. EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Mike picks up the Uzi, rolls behind the abandoned truck and begins spraying bullets at the revolutionaries from a prone position. Many revolutionaries go down. INT. JET - DAY Randall screams to Krasker. GRUBB KRASKER WERNER GRUBB DENSMORE Krasker begins turning the jet back around. EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Mike has a crazed look on his face as he keeps firing at the approaching mob. And then he's out of bullets. Mike crawls over to Koudougou's moaning body. He punches him again in the face, pulls another clip of bullets from his belt and reloads. He turns and keeps firing. Suddenly - BOOM!! - an explosion occurs right in the midst of the revolutionaries, sending several of them sailing through the air and causing them all to turn around. EXT. JUNGLE - DAY Coming out of the jungle behind them is Tenzing, covered with blood, screaming with fury and firing an automatic weapon. He stops firing long enough to throw another grenade. EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY Mike jumps to his feet, screams a wild war cry and attacks. He and Tenzing are now catching the confused revolutionaries in a crossfire. INT. JET - DAY Randall turns to Sir Robert. GRUBB EXT. AIRSTRIP - DAY The revolutionaries scatter to the right and left. Mike and Tenzing meet in the middle, then turn back toward the approaching jet. They both run as fast as they can, Tenzing quickly moving ahead. As Mike passes Koudougou, who is sitting up, he scoops up the deposit bag and smacks Koudougou in the face with it for good measure. Tenzing is now covering him. INT. JET - DAY Sir Robert, in the cockpit, sees the bag in Mike's hand. DENSMORE EXT. JET - DAY Tenzing gets to the door of the jet and Randall and Werner reach down and hoist him in. The revolutionaries are regrouping and firing at the jet. INT. JET - DAY Krasker turns back from the cockpit. KRASKER EXT. JET - DAY The craft begins to swing around. Mike is running for all he's worth, the deposit bag in his hands. Bullets whiz all around him. GRUBB WERNER TENZING Mike is beside the jet running at about the same speed that the jet is taxiing. He tosses the deposit bag up and Randall catches it. GRUBB MIKE Randall, Werner and Tenzing are all hanging out the door, their hands outstretched. Mike raises his hand and is several feet away. MIKE GRUBB TENZING They take hold of his legs and he hangs out the door, upside down. He swings out and grabs one of Mike's hands with both of his. Mike is yanked off his feet and dragged. One of his combat boots goes bouncing off. Randall, Werner and the two other mercenaries pull on Tenzing's legs, dragging him back into the jet. The jet is building speed and leaving the revolutionaries behind. Mike is dangling in the air by one arm, but Tenzing won't let go. MIKE They get Tenzing back in and Randall and Werner reach down and take hold of Mike's shirt. With a mighty pull, Mike is yanked into the jet. LADY
ANNE Krasker slams the throttle to full and the jet lurches forward. He shakes his head as he eases back the stick. The jungle is zooming at them. KRASKER DENSMORE The jungle is coming at them way too fast and the jet is still on the ground. KRASKER EXT. JET - DAY The wheels leave the ground. INT. JET - DAY Krasker yanks the stick all the way back. The tops of the trees come at them at 200 miles per hour. EXT. JET - DAY The jet bursts through the foliage unscathed and shoots into the air. in one second, the revolutionaries on the airfield are the size of ants, the muzzle flashes from their weapons still visible. In another second, the airstrip is gone. INT. JET - DAY Everybody cheers and applauds. Krasker pulls a wad of colorful money out of his pocket. KRASKER Randall sits Mike up against the bulkhead. He is wheezing and gasping, sweat pouring off of him. Everyone crowds around to congratulate him. GRUBB Mike looks at all of them, smiles weakly, then his eyes roll into the back of his skull and he passes out. DISSOLVE: EXT. HEATHROW AIRPORT DAY A limousine pulls up outside the terminals at Heathrow Airport. Out of it steps Sir Robert, Krasker and Mrs. Nyerere. The chauffeur takes a wheelchair out of the trunk and unfolds it. Densmore and Krasker help Sekou out of the car and into the wheelchair. Both of his legs are in casts. NYERERE DENSMORE KYERERE Mrs. Nyerere kisses Densmore on the cheek. Krasker looks on. KRASKER DENSMORE NYERERE Mrs. Nyerere pushes Sekou in the wheelchair into the terminal. A moment later another limousine pulls up. Out of it steps Randall, Werner, Kaarl, Mike and Tenzing. Mike's arm is in a cast and sling. Randall hands both Mike and Tenzing business cards. GRUBB TENZING GRUBB MIKE GRUBB MIKE They all shake hands. Densmore and Krasker step up. DENSMORE GRUBB Krasker hands Randall several colorful bills of foreign currency. KRASKER GRUBB KRASKER Randall puts the money in his pocket. GRUBB Randall Grubb departs. Densmore and Krasker look at each other, confused. DENSMORE KRASKER Densmore turns to Mike and Tenzing. DENSMORE TENZING MIKE DENSMORE MIKE
They all shake hands. Densmore and Krasker get back into the limousine and drive away. INT. LIMOUSINE - DAY Krasker turns to Densmore. KRASKER DENSMORE KRASKER DENSMORE KRASKER DENSMORE KRASKER DENSMORE KRASKER INT. AIRPORT TERMINAL - DAY Mike and Tenzing walk through the airport. MIKE TENZING MIKE TENZING MIKE TENZING MIKE TENZING MIKE INT. AIR INDIA DESK - DAY Mike and Tenzing step up to the desk. Tenzing checks in and Mike purchases a ticket. The CLERK behind the desk asks . . . CLERK Mike grimaces and starts to sweat. He hands over his bogus passport. The clerk looks through it, stops and looks closer. Mike is panicked. CLERK MIKE CLERK MIKE He gets his ticket and passport back. He and Tenzing proceed toward the gate. MIKE TENZING MIKE TENZING MIKE TENZING They step into line to get on the plane. MIKE TENZING Mike takes out his little wooden chessboard. THE END
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