The Running Man1987
[The resistance hacks into the ICS broadcast and puts in their own video of spliced clips]Damon Killian:
[on video] And who loves you, and who do you LOVE?!Studio Audience: KILLIAN!!!Killian: YES!!! [zoom in] YES!!! [zoom in further] YES!!!["KILLIAN IS LYING TO YOU" appears on the screen]
Damon Killian:
[on video] And who loves you, and who do you LOVE?!
Studio Audience:
KILLIAN!!!
Killian:
YES!!! [zoom in] YES!!! [zoom in further] YES!!!
["KILLIAN IS LYING TO YOU" appears on the screen]
[The audience and Killian watch the video in confusion]
Audience member:
Hey, what's going on?!Killian: [on video] We don't lie - lie - lie... like our previous winners Whitman, Price, and Haddad. You remember them! [stills appear of the corpses that Amber found in the locker room] There they are at this very moment, basking under the Maui sun, their debt to society paid in full. Watch that screen.[Raw footage of the Bakersfield massacre begins to play]Dispatcher: [to Richards] Yankee Nine-Niner, what's the status of the crowd?Ben Richards: Food riot in progress. Approximately 1,500 civilians. No weapons are evident.Dispatcher: Proceed with Plan Alpha, eliminate anything moving.Richards: I said the crowd is unarmed! There are lots of women and children down there. All they want is some food, for God's sake!
Killian:
[on video] We don't lie - lie - lie... like our previous winners Whitman, Price, and Haddad. You remember them! [stills appear of the corpses that Amber found in the locker room] There they are at this very moment, basking under the Maui sun, their debt to society paid in full. Watch that screen.
[Raw footage of the Bakersfield massacre begins to play]
Dispatcher:
[to Richards] Yankee Nine-Niner, what's the status of the crowd?
Ben Richards:
Food riot in progress. Approximately 1,500 civilians. No weapons are evident.
Dispatcher:
Proceed with Plan Alpha, eliminate anything moving.
Richards:
I said the crowd is unarmed! There are lots of women and children down there. All they want is some food, for God's sake!
[The audience and Killian continue to watch in bewilderment]Dispatcher:
As you were, Richards. Proceed with Plan Alpha. All rioters must be eliminated.Richards: The hell with you! I will not fire on helpless human beings!Dispatcher: You have your orders, Yankee Nine-Niner, proceed with Plan Alpha.
Dispatcher:
As you were, Richards. Proceed with Plan Alpha. All rioters must be eliminated.
Richards:
The hell with you! I will not fire on helpless human beings!
Dispatcher:
You have your orders, Yankee Nine-Niner, proceed with Plan Alpha.
[Cut to ICS control room]
Tony:
Where's it coming from?
Brenda:
The network satellite.
[Just as Tony is about to turn the dial to override the satellite, Stevie and several other resistance fighters burst into the control room, guns pointed]
Stevie:
[menacingly] Don't touch that dial.[Cut back to the video]Richards: Abort mission. We return to base...Dispatcher: Saunders, do you copy? Take command. Detain Richards and proceed as ordered.[Fight breaks out]Soldier: Richards, what the f*** are you doing?![The soldiers overpower Richards and knock him out]
[Cut back to the video]
Richards:
Abort mission. We return to base...
Dispatcher:
Saunders, do you copy? Take command. Detain Richards and proceed as ordered.
[Fight breaks out]
Soldier:
Richards, what the f*** are you doing?!
[The soldiers overpower Richards and knock him out]
[Cut to the studio, where the audience gasp at the footage in disbelief]
Killian:
Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll please bear with us, we're experiencing technical difficulties!
Mrs McArdle:
Bullshit!!
[Richards and the other resistance fighters burst into the studio with guns]
Richards:
It's showtime!
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