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Yes, sir ! Fleet, this is Roughneck
patrol, over ...?
Rasczak moves off down the line giving orders.
RASCZAK
Corporal, I want pulse cannons there
and there ! Rifle teams, spread out
along the ridge ! Sugar, bring up that
flame thrower !
GILLESPIE
Fleet's pulling the battle group back
to safe distance... They'd like us to
knock out those batteries, sir.
RASCZAK
They'd rather spend our lives than
risk their ships. Who's got the nuke ?
DIZZY
That'd be me, sir.
RASCZAK
Heat it up.
Dizzy activates a tactical nuke. It makes a distinctive HIGHPITCHED SQUEAL.
RASCZAK
Roughnecks, you may fire at will.
The Roughnecks open fire. Bugs are blown to pieces but they keep climbing. A
warrior breeches their line. Sugar Watkins torches it. The nuke's ready light flashes.
DIZZY
I'm hot, sir !
RASCZAK
FIRE ! BLAST SHIELDS DOWN !
Johnny blows a warrior away from the edge. Dizzy leans over and fires. The rocket
streaks down toward the battery.
RASCZAK
HIT THE DIRT !
An explosion in the two kiloton range turns the world black and white. When color
returns Johnny and the others look down on the smoldering crater which was once the
bug battery.
GILLESPIE
Now comes the part I hate the most.
JOHNNY
What's that ?
GILLESPIE
We go down into the colony and make
sure all the queens are dead.
127 INT TUNNELS - DAY - THE ROUGHNECKS
fight their way down gassed-out tunnels into bug city. They meet warrors at
every turn and kill them. Helmet lamps make weird shadows of dead bugs
piled everywhere along the way.
SUGAR WATKINS
You knew the Lieutenant before the war...
What was he like ?
JOHNNY
He was a teacher , kind of a know it all...
Always had this little smile.
SUGAR WATKINS
Geez, I don't think I've ever seen him
smile.
JOHNNY
Must fill your bottle up real quick
when your wife and kids get smeared.
Johnny joins Rasczak, Ace and Dizzy and they blow away several warriors
guarding the entrance of a large chamber.
128 INT BUG NURSERY - DAY - THE QUEENS
are eight meters long with corpulent bodies and tiny heads. Only one survives,
and though she is herself dying, her abdomen, rippled by life within, continues to
undulate.
JOHNNY
All dead except one, sir.
RASCZAK
Kill the bitch.
JOHNNY
Yes, sir.
Johnny signals. Dizzy's pulse cannon rips open the dying queen. Thousands of
wriggling premature bugs come spilling out. Horrified, knee-deep Roughnecks
set them afire.
129 EXT TANGO URILLA - BASE CAMP - DAY - FLEET ENGINEERS
unload PRE-FAB BARRACKS from HERCULES CARGO BOATS.
Roughnecks eat. Rasczak stands, banging a spoon on his mess kit.
RASCZAK
Tango Urilla is now bug free. Means
the Roughnecks have killed a
helluva lotta bugs...!
Roughnecks cheer. Rasczak kicks open a CARGO MODULE. Beer kegs
rool out. He kicks open a second module. Inside, musical instruments.
Ace picks up a violin.
RASCZAK
I expect the best, but I give the best.
Habve some fun. That's an order !
130 EXT BASE CAMP - NIGHT - LATER - ACE
leads a little quartet, plays a sweet fiddle. Roughnecks laugh and dance.
Dizzy tries to pull Johnny into the fun.
DIZZY
C'mon...
JOHNNY
Nah, I don't do that anymore...
DIZZY
You used to dance...
JOHNNY
I said no. Want me to pull rank ?
DIZZY
Well, excuse me, sir...
Dizzy heads back to the others. Johnny turns and finds Rasczak regarding him
with an odd, sad smile.
RASCZAK
Yopu asked me some advice once, Rico.
Want some now ?
JOHNNY
Yes, sir...
RASCZAK
Never pass up a good thing, eh ?
Gillespie appears.
GILLESPIE
Lieutenant, Brigade's on the com...
Rasczak heads away. Johnny joins Dizzy.
JOHNNY
Hey, Diz...
DIZZY
What ?
Johnny takes her hand, bows implishly.
JOHNNY
May I have the honor ?
He pulls her out among the others and they begin to dance. Ace watches
with a grin, puts some spirit in his fiddle.
131 INT COMMUNICATIONS - NIGHT - RASCZAK
is in holo conference with an INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
At 0821 we received a distress call from
Planet P, priority code, requesting
reinforcement...
RASCZAK
I thought 4th brigade cleaned out P.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Owen reported the eradication of a low
generation colony a month ago. That's why
MICOM wants onsite assessment.
RASCZAK
Sounds more like some idiot at
Military Intelligence Command
wants to get me and my cap troopers
killed...
The Intelligence Officer reddens.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Take your group down to P and have a
look see. Leave the thinking to us,
Lieutenant. That's not your job.
RASCZAK
My job is to protect the lives of my
soldiers so they can kill bugs, Major,
and if you're walking me into a trap-
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Bugs don't lay traps... They aren't
intelligent ! Unlike you, they're stupid
enough to follow orders !
VOICE (O.S.)
That'll be all, Major. Dismissed.
The Intelligence Officer disappears abruptly. A new hologram appears.
Rasczak's jaw drops. It's his former student Carl Jenkins, now a Colonel,
weary and pissed off.
CARL
This conference is over. Do your duty,
Lieutenant. That's an order.
Rasczak recovers, salutes stiffly.
RASCZAK
Yes, sir.
132 INT PRE-FAB SLEEPING UNIT - DAY - JOHNNY AND DIZZY
are making love. The door pops open. Rasczak stands there. Dizzy ducks under
the covers. Johnny manages a salute.
RASCZAK
Corporal, the Roughnecks are moving
out for Planet P immediately. Get
yourself squared away and report to
Gillespie for logistics.
JOHNNY
Yes, sir !
RASCZAK
Who's that with you ?
Dizzy shows herself, grinning.
RASCZAK
Report in ten minutes.
Rasczak slams the door shut on them. They fall back into one anothers arms,
laughing as they resume lovemaking.
DIZZY
Planet P ? What kind of name is that ?
JOHNNY
They ran out of names a long time
ago in this part of the galaxy.
133 EXT PLANET P - BAD LANDS - DAY - THE ROUGHNECKS
move through canyons of towering wind-carved rock formations.
Gillespie carries the communications package.
GILLESPIE
I don't understand it, Lieutenant.
It's not getting anything from 4th
Brigade...
not even their transponder.
RASCZAK
Keep trying, Sergeant.
134 EXT CANYON FLOOR - CONTINUING - DAY - THE ROUGHNECKS
walk in a column far below. Something is watching from the above... HOPPERS,
lots of them, moving from rock to rock for better position.
135 EXT CANYON FLOOR - CONTINUING - DAY - ACE
sees something out of the corner of his eye.
JOHNNY
BUGS...!
The hoppers hit. Several Roughnecks go down. Everyone opens up.
Dive-bombing bugs are blown to bits. Roughnecks set them on fire
when they hit the ground.
DIZZY
Johnny, watch out !
A burning bug hurls itself at Johnny. Johnny jumps out of the way as
Dizzy fires, blowing it apart. The deadly hoppers seem to be everywhere
above them in the rocks.
RASCZAK
LET'S GO ! ON THE BOUNCE !
136 EXT FLAT LANDS - DAY - THE ROUGHNECKS
move out into the open. In the distance they see 4th Brigade HQ, a walled
compound and partially constructed landing pad.
RASCZAK
Gillespie, put in call for retrieval.
We're off this rock.
Gillespie, do you read me ?
GILLESPIE
AAAAAAAAAAA !
Two hoppers are pulling Gillespie up into the rocks where other bugs
join to feast.
RASCZAK
Throw a rifle !
Dizzy tosses her Morita to Rasczak. Gillespie writhes in the hopper's
claws. Rasczak fires, killing Gillespie.
RASCZAK
I expext any one here to do the same
for me... Rico, Watkins, Flores, Levy
prepare for rear guard action. The rest
of you make for 4th Brigade.
Johnny and the others cover the Roughneck retreat as hoppers soar down
on the flat lands from the canyon walls.
RASCZAK
FIRE...!
Johnny and the others blast bugs out of the air.
RASCZAK
FALL BACK 100 METERS...!
A second wave of hoppers come in.
RASCZAK
AND FIRE...!
For now, the sky is clear.
RASCZAK
4TH BRIGADE HQ ! ON THE BOUNCE !
137 EXT 4TH BRIGADE HQ - DAY - THE OUTPOST
is 50 meters by 100, standard issue pre-fab. The Roughnecks land on the
compound wall. Inside, WORKER BUGS graze on the remains of 200
dead cap troopers strewn over the complex.
RASCZAK
Jeez, Command really humped the bunk
on this one...
Rasczak turns away. Roughnecks engage in the sport of methodically
killing the workers.
RASCZAK
Rico, you're acting Sergeant now.
My last Sergeant lost the com pack.
Put together a search team and find
the radio shack.
We need retrieval.
JOHNNY
Yes, sir.
138 INT 4TH BRIGADE HQ - OFFICE COMPLEX - DAY - JOHNNY
surveys the aftermath of the last stand with Rasczak, insect and human dead
everywhere.
DIZZY (O.S.)
It's here, sir.
139 INT COMMINICATIONS - DAY - RASCZAK AND JOHNNY
enter the radio room. A DEAD MAJOR is slumped over the console with
hole in the back of his head. Johnny checks the equipment.
It' dead, too.
JOHNNY
Diz, see what you can do.
DIZZY
I'm on it !
Dizzy goes to work. Rasczak checks the wound in the back of the dead major's
head.
RASCZAK
What's that look like to you, Rico ?
JOHNNY
Looks like a bug was in his brain, sir.
ACE (O.S.)
Lieutenant, I think you're gonna
wanna see this, sir.
140 INT MESS HALL - DAY - A BUG HOLE
in the middle of the floor is surrounded by carnage.
ACE
Dirty bugs came in right when they
were having chow !
RASCZAK
Gas that hole and seal it.
Then they hear a sound. Tap tap tap. Rasczak signals for quiet. Tap tap tap tap.
It's coming from the kitchen.
141 INT KITCHEN - DAY - THE ROUGHNECKS
enter cautiously. The noise is coming from a freezer. Ace stands ready to fire.
Johnny levers open the door, jumps back as GENERAL OWEN, 60, tumbles out
face first.
ACE
Officer on the deck, sir.
RASCZAK
Pick up the general !
Roughnecks prop him up. General Owen tries to talk, but no words come out.
Rasczak bends down to listen.
GENERAL OWEN
Get out... you gotta get me out...!
RASCZAK
General Owen, sir ?
The old man grins, hugely relieved.
GENERAL OWEN
At ease, Lieutenant. Thank God for you,
for all of you...this is grand...
so where's the boat ?
142 INT COMMUNICATIONS - HALLWAY - DAY - JOHNNY AND RASCZAK
help the old General, now wrapped in a blanket, rambling.
GENERAL OWEN
I was forced to hide, of course. The security
of the Federation in this theater of operations
was at stake !
JOHNNY
Diz, what's with the uplink ?
Dizzy lokks up from where she is working on the radio controls.
DIZZY
Workin on it...!
GENERAL OWEN
They get in your mind... they make you do
things ! Look here... They did it to Farley...!
He points at the hole of the dead major's head.
RASCZAK
The distress call... The bugs wanted us
to rescue you...!
GENERAL OWEN
Oh, you can be sure of it ! They were
biding their time... waiting for the most
opportune moment !
Rasczak's lost interest in the general. He's on the com.
RASCZAK
To all Roughnecks, this is Rasczak.
Prepare for attack. Repeat. We are
going to be attacked...!
GENERAL OWEN
They weren't gonna do it to me.
Oh no ! I know too many secrets !
Rasczak looks at General Owen with contempt.
SUGAR WATKINS (O.S.)
Fire in the hole !
An explosion in the mess hall closes the bug hole.
143 EXT OFFICE COMPLEX - DAY - GENERAL OWEN
blinks as he steps out into the light. Roughnecks snap to attention.
General Owen looks at the carnage that was once his command and
begins to keen, collapsing to his knees.
GENERAL OWEN
Oh God...! My soldiers...! All of my
boys and girls...!
The Roughnecks are shocked. They've never seen a general break down before.
Lieutenant Rasczak slaps Owen hard.
LT. RASCZAK
Shut up ! Your soldier's dead and
you're not !
GENERAL OWEN
I know... I wish you'd shoot me...
LT. RASCZAK
I oughta !
And it looks like Rasczak just might, but just then Ace touches down
next to Johnny and Rasczak.
ACE
Lieutenant, we got trouble !
144 EXT RAMPARTS - DAY - RASCZAK
and Johnny join other stunned Roughnecks to see THOUSANDS OF BUGS on
the march from every direction. Bug batteries open up in the distance.
RASCZAK
Warm it all up ! Everything you got !
Levy, collect the big guns from the
towers. Watkins, put General Owen
with the wounded. Rico, where's my
communications ?
JOHNNY
What's going on, Diz ?
DIZZY (O.S.)
I got power ! Gimme a minute !
Johnny runs for the communications room.
JOHNNY
We don't have a minute !
145 INT COMMUNICATIONS - DAY - DIZZY
has the board up. Outside the battle has begun. Nukes go WOMP ! and
pulse guns chatter.
DIZZY
What frequency ?
JOHNNY
All bands.
DIZZY
Roughneck patrol to battle group...
Roughneck patrol to battle group...
RODGER YOUNG (O.S.)
This is Rodger Young... What's going
on down there ? We're taking plasma !
We have Orion P-11 as clear !
JOHNNY
SHUT UP, SIR ! We need pick up now !
RODGER YOUNG (O.S.)
What is your position ?
JOHNNY
Landing zone is extremely hostile.
Come down on this transmission !
RODGER YOUNG (O.S.)
Inside 4th brigade compound ?
That's crazy !
JOHNNY
Then I hope you have a crazy
pilot ! Keep the line open, Dizzy !
Johnny races out the door.
146 EXT 4TH BRIGADE HQ - DAY - THE COMPOUND
is white hot as Roughnecks on the walls unload nukes. Johnny crosses
the compound, lands next to Rasczak on the wall.
JOHNNY
Boat coming down, sir !
The Roughnecks stop firing as they run out of nukes.
ROUGHNECKS
I'm empty...all nuked out... Me, too !
Johnny scans the battlefield. Nukes have turned the surface into dark glass.
Now, out of the smoke, come the bugs, steaming glass cracking beneath
millions of marching feet.
ACE
Jeez, we musta killed a million already...!
JOHNNY
Not enough, I guess.
Sugar Watkins sees Genera Owen in the compound below,
stumbling aimlessly among his dead soldiers.
SUGAR WATKINS
General ! GENERAL, stay with the wounded...
Sir, the general...!
RASCZAK
Ah, the hell with him...
Hoppers sweep into the compound. The Roughnecks open fire. General Owen
make easy pickings for ones that get through.
RASCZAK
Fall back... form a circle ! If no
living bug comes over that wall,
we cannot be harmed.
Dizzy arrives on thr bounce as the Roughnecks fall back into the compound.
Bugs pile in over the walls. The circle affords them 360 degrees of kill zone.
RASCZAK
Rico, Flores, Watkins, Levy ! We
control the sky until retrieval !
JOHNNY ET AL
Yes, sir !
Rasczak, Sugar Watkins, Johnny and Dizzy stand back-to-back in the center
of the circle, sweeping the skies with the heavy guns from the towers.
Hoppers are blown to pieces.
ACE
Getting low here, sir !
DIZZY
300 rounds and counting, sir !
RASCZAK
Make every shot count !
Johnny looks up. A RETRIEVAL BOAT hurtles down through bursts of
bug plasma, takes a grazing hit, rights itself with retros and lands within
the circle. Roughnecks cheer, saved !
RASCZAK
Sergeant, secure the boat !
JOHNNY
Yes, sir !
Roughnecks move to protect the boat. The hatch blows open.
RASCZAK
Board the wounded !
Dead bugs ring the compound walls, forming ramps for living insect
soldiers to enter the compound in greater numbers.
RASCZAK
Move to retrieval on my command !
First group, now...!
The circle shrinks as Roughnecks fall back and board the boat.
More and more bugs pile in over the compound walls.
RASCZAK
Alright, Flores ! Levy ! Rico...!
Suddenly, the ground collapses under Rasczak. He falls in to his waist,
vomits blood as something chews on him from below.
RASCZAK
AAAAAAAAAAAA !
JOHNNY
Cover us, Ace !
Ace and the others fire from the boat. Johnny and Dizzy fire at the ground
around Rasczak. Rasczak stops screaming. They try to pull him free.
JOHNNY
Hit your jets, sir !
RASCZAK
I can't My legs are gone...
Get on the boat...
The compund wall collapses. A wave of bugs charges in.
RASCZAK
Rico, tell'em to glass this goddam planet.
I've never seen so many bugs upstairs at
the same time...
JOHNNY
We're not leaving you here, sir !
Weakly, Rasczak picks up his pulse gun, checks the power.
RASCZAK
This is my farm. Get on the boat,
NOW ! That's an order, Sergeant.
JOHNNY
Give'em hell, sir !
Johnny and Dizzy run for the boat. Rasczak opens fire, picking his shots,
but soon the bugs are all over him.
RASCZAK
C'mon you sons of bitches !
There's no bug alive can kill a
real mAAAAAAA !
At the boat, Dizzy turns to look back at Rasczak. A hopper swoops
down on Dizzy, it's claws ripping into her abdomen.
DIZZY
AAAAAAA ! GET IT OFF ME
GET IT OFF GET IT OFF
GET IT AAAAAAAAAA !
Johnny blows the bug off her back. Blood sprays from a deep gash in
her neck. Johnny picks her up, tries to stop the blood with his hand.
The life is leaving her eyes.
JOHNNY
Hang on, Diz... don't die on me...
A TANKER BUG breaches the broken wall. Ace jumps out to help his
friends. The hatch closes just as the tanker bug sprays. The boat blasts
off, dripping metal.
147 INT CARGO BAY - DAY - JOHNNY
holds Dizzy in his arms, drenched in her blood, fighting G-forces as the
boats heads for orbit.
DIZZY
I bought the farm, didn't I,
Johnny ?
JOHNNY
No, you're gonna be alright, Diz !
DIZZY
It's alright 'cause I got to have you,
Johnny...
MEDICS push Johnny aside, go to work on Dizzy.
148 INT BOAT - COCKPIT - DAY - JOHNNY
slams into the cockpit. Out the front screen, violent bursts of BUG PLASMA
fill the sky as they break atmosphere.
JOHNNY
Get on the com and tell Fleet to
glass that rock...!
The co-pilot turns around. It's Zander. His eyes narrow.
ZANDER
On whose authority, Corporal ?
JOHNNY
This would be mine, sir. Acting
Sergeant John Rico. I've assumed
command on this mission.
The pilot turns around. It's Carmen.
CARMEN
Johnny...! I thought you were dead !
JOHNNY
I'm not, but alot of my soldiers are.
Glass the planet !
Johnny leaves. Carmen punches up Fleet Command.
CARMEN
Rodger Young, this is inbound shuttle
De Ruyter with an official request from
the Mobile Infantery to bombard
Planet P-11...
149 INT BOAT - CARGO BAY - DAY - JOHNNY
returns to Dizzy's side as the medics struggle to save her. Blood pours
out of her mouth. Her body thrashes.
DIZZY
JOHNNY HEH HEH CAN'T HEH
BREATHE GOD JOHNNY CAN'T
HEH HEH HEH HEH...!
Dizzy dies. A Medic slaps her. Her head lolls, mouth open, eyes blank.
They drop her and move on to the next casualty. Johnny sits there,
stunned. Carmen enters from the cockpit.
CARMEN
Negative on your request. Fleet
Command has the battle group
on standby...
Carmen sees Dizzy lying dead on the deck.
CARMEN
...I'm sorry.
JOHNNY
We gotta choke on the mud and the
blood and Fleet can't be bothered to
spit.
CARMEN
No, I think something's up. The Sky
Marshall's here.
She points out for a viewing port. Johnny looks. Fifteen battle groups,
100 ships strong, lay off Planet P, all of them dwarfed by the Sky
Marshall's flagship, Buenos Aires.
CARMEN
I thought you were KIA, Johnny...
JOHNNY
That was just a mix up.
CARMEN
You look so... I don't know, you
look like you've really been in it.
JOHNNY
What happened to your eye ?
Carmen touches the scar over her eye.
CARMEN
Almost got knocked out of the sky
over Big K.
JOHNNY
I like it. It's kinda...you.
150 EXT BATTLE GROUP - ORION SYSTEM - THE BOAT
lands on the flight deck of the Rodger Young in the midst of the
flotilla.
151 INT OFFICERS QUARTERS - DAY CYCLE - ZANDER
enters, watches Carmen dress. She hums as she checks herself in the
mirror, touches thr scar over her eye, smiles.
ZANDER
Where are you going ?
CARMEN
A funeral.
ZANDER
That girl who died on the way up
...his girl ?
CARMEN
Yeah.
ZANDER
How do you feel about him now ?
CARMEN
I don't know, Zander.
ZANDER
I do.
152 INT RODGER YOUNG - GUNNERY DECK - CARMEN
enters as Johnny speaks. Dizzy is laid out in dress gray. The surviving
Roughnecks have gathered to pay final respects.
JOHNNY
Dizzy bought the farm. She was my
good friend, and friens are the best
luck anyone gets... But in war, we must
go on without our friends. We take
with us their memory, and we are left
to wonder if there is meaning in their
death. Let me tell you what it is:
Dizzy bough the farm so we can keep
on fighting.
Several INTELLIGENCE OFFICERS march into the bay.
JOHNNY
Officer on deck !
Everyone snaps to attention. Colonel Carl Jenkins strides into the room.
His eyes are hollow, and he looks grim. He returns Johnny's salute,