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The S.E.A.L.s, pulled by their S.D.U.s. The S.D.U.s lights dim the fluorescent green. Boyer, the three-man S.D.U. driver, intense, determined. Boyer's fluorescent green instrument panel is charting their approach to the island. They've drawn close to the island. Commander Anderson swings an Underwater Spotlight, which reveals –a large water intake pipe jutting out from the Island's bedrock, 7 ft. in diameter, covered by a grate thick with rust, barnacles and seaweed. There's a small jagged hole, presumably through which Jack escaped 33 years earlier.
The S.E.A.L.s cast off the S.D.U.s and direct their lights inside the hole in the grate. Jack stares at the hole. Commander Anderson nods to Jack: "lead the way."
Jack does so. Enters the pipe. one by one, the S.E.A.L.s and Ianto follow Jack in. .
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Pvts. Royce, Scarpetti, Gamble and Starling walk the shoreline, peering into the black water. Royce reports into the Walkie-Talki9e "Looks all clear, sir."
"Baxter turns to Saxon "Nothing."
"Tell 'em to stay out there." Saxon orders.
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A large subterranean room under the island's power plant. A large wooden cistern in the middle. The S.E.A.L.s emerge in the cistern and climb out. The room has one exit, sealed with a heavy iron door.
Commander Anderson explodes "Thank-you very fucking much, Captain, you've led us to a room with no exit."
"Skipper, blow it or burn it?" Boyer asks.
"No time for the torch. Explosives'll bring the fucking world down on us." Anderson sighs, then turns to Jack "An idea, please, we're tight on time."
"Wait for me to unlock the door." Jack replies calmly.
"You do not look like Jesus Christ, Captain, so I'm having a hard time how you're going to accomplish that."
Jack points "Under there."
Underneath the steam engine is a tiny crawl space. Steam release valves periodically emit burts of seam. Commander Anderson gapes "You are shitting me. You catch one of those steam bursts and you're a corpse."
"True." Jack agrees as he unshoulders his equipment "I memorized their timing."
Jack sits on the edge of the crawl space. F.B.I. looks inside the crawl space: white hot bursts of 500 degree Fahrenheit steam blast down.
S.E.A.L. Shepherd nervously asks "Uhh sir, you said never leave his side ..."
"You're not required to follow, Lieutenant Shepherd. This man is going to die."
Jack grumbles to himself "That's been said to me before ..."
Jack takes a deep breath and he rolls –into the crawl space - he logrolls one revolution... STEAM BURST another evolution STEAM BURST another revolution STEAM BURST Jack rolls to a stop on his side. STEAM BURSTS on either side of him. Jack collects himself. Breathes deeply and rolls again. His movements are precise, from memory. He rolls past each burst, any imprecision certain death ...
In the cistern room Ianto, Anderson and the S.E.A.L.s watch Jack, amazed. S.E.A.L. Reigert asks "Who the fuck is this guy? Houdini?"
In the crawl space Jack rolls past the Steam Release Valve and disappears. In the Cistern Room - Several seconds pass. We hear the door being unbolted. It creaks open.
There stands Jack. He finds Ianto with his gaze and winks.
"Welcome to the Rock."
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TUNNELS UNDER ALCATRAZ
Here, the tunnel moves up a steep incline to a locked steel bullkhead. S.E.A.L.s Reigert and Dando check it out. S.E.A.L. Dando sighs "She's at least three inches thick sir."
"Shit." Anderson huffs "Burn it."
Dando unpacks an Acetylene torch. Reigert turns on the Acetylene valves (tanks rigged to Dando's gear) and sparks the torch. IT FLAMES UP, white hot. Dando starts toward the bulkhead. Jack steps past him, bending his kitvhen fork into an awkward shape. He fishes the fork in the lock; twists it, and... POP. Jack throws open the thick bulkhead door. And climbs through the bulkhead muttering "Guys are worthless."
Commander Anderson gapes as he asks "Who is this guy... ?"
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DRAINAGE PIPES UNDER MAIN CELL HOUSE
The team arrives at a series of concrete drainage pipes. Jack points up to one of them.
"The shower room?" Anderson asks and Jack nods. Sndrrson waves a hand "After you."
Jack and the S.E.A.L.s climb into the drainage pipe. The S.E.A.L. team with Jack leading the way, climbs toward a faint light emanating from a Drainage Grate above. S.E.A.L. Reigert readies a Fibre Optic Seeing Device; he pushes the fibre-optic camera up through the grate.
The camera turns, looking in a 360 degree radius, and transmitting images of -THE PRISON SHOWER - a tiled room with shower heads and a 20 160A ft. ceiling. Above, a mezzanine circles the showers; here Alcatraz's guards once watched inmates below. Commander Anderson views the shower room images on a Tiny (2 inch by 2 inch) Wrist-Held Video Monitor. Jack is eyeballing it, the VM looking juicy. Jack wants one.
The shower is deserted, but there's something of interest A MOTION DETECTOR (a blue beam flashed from a transmitter to 161A a receptor) across the grate.
"Motion sensor." Anderson whispers as he gingerly lifts the grate. Reigert wiggles his hands past the edges of the grate and nudges the beam transmitter (with one hand) and the beam receiver (with the other) away from the grate.
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INFIRMARY COMMAND CENTER
A silent alarm next to Pvt. Royce blinks on. Royce turns to Maj. Baxter. "Sir. Anti-disturbance trembler tripped in the shower. We got visitors"
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The grate pops open. S.E. .s Boyer and Reigert, wearing Night Vision Glasses, emerge taking defensive positions back-to-back. Commander Anderson follows. Then, one by one, the rest of the S.E.A.L.s emerge.
Anderson hisses to Lt. Shepherd in the drainage pipe) "Stand fast. We'll secure the area."
He directs Boyer and Reigert to a tiled column. They creep across the tiled floor, taking "check and defend" positions behind the shower's columns. But suddenly, shockingly... FLOODLIGHTS flash on. Coming from the mezzanine above.
The S.E.A.L.s whip off their night vision goggles.
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PIER 3-9 - MOBILE COMMAND TRAILER
We see the illumination of the shower room (transmitted from the S.E.A.L.s cameras.) Sanchez demands " What's that...what the hell is that?"
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ALCATRAZ - DRAINAGE PIPE UNDER SHOWER ROOM
Ianto, Jack, and Lt. Shepherd react to the sudden illumination above.
Ianto whispers "What's going on?"
S.E.A.L. Shepherd whispers back "Don't know."
The S.E.A.L.s whirl around, startled, unnerved, squinting into the blinding whiteness of the floodlights. Saxont's voice booms out "Drop your weapons."
The S.E.A.L.s, terrified, hesitate but do not drop their weapons as they stand back-to-back, weapons trained at the catwalk. Squinting into the white light. The S.E.A.L.s behind the tiled columns take cover. We cannot yet see Saxon and the marines.
The situation is chilling as Anderson shouts "Anderson here, General Saxon. Commander. Team Leader."
"Commander Anderson, if you have any concern for the lives of your men, you will order them to safety their weapons and place them on the deck at their feet"
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PIER 39 COMMAND CENTRE
On the monitors we see the floodlights above on the Mezzanine and hear Saxonls voice.
Sanchez groans "Oh Christ this isn't happening."
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Saxon looks down at the S.E.A.L.s. Baxter's next to him. The other marines are at positions around the mezzanine perimeter, M-16's trained and ready.
Anderson shouts "Sir, we know why you're out here. God knows I agree with you sir, but like you sir, I swore to defend this country against all enemies. Foreign, sir, and domestic. (shouts louder now) General, we've spilled the same blood in the same mud. You know goddamn well that I cannot give that order..."
S.E.A.L.s Reigert and Boyer stare into the floodlights as Saxon replies "Your unit is covered from an elevated position, Commander. I'm not going to ask again."
On the mezzanine level Cpts. Frye, Darrow and Pvts. Cox and McCoy have their weapons trained; they're pumped and trigger happy.
"Don't do anything stupid, Commander. No one has to die here." Saxon shouts.
"You men following the General: You are United States Marines and under oath you forgotten that? We all have shipmates we remember - some of 'em were shit on and spit on by the Pentagon - that doesn't give you the right to mutiny."
That's a nice speech, Commander." Saxon is unswayed in his conviction "I heard plenty like it in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. They all added up to zero. Pretty words aren't gonna get you out of this, Commander. Now abort this mission. Goddamn it, abort."
Behind the column - S.E.A.L. Boyer, just 20, having never seen combat, is trembling with fear, indecision. "It's us or them, Reigert, fuck they're gonna waste us ..."
"Get a grip on yourself ..." Reigert hisses back with alarm.
On the mezzanine - PVT. Cox's boot nudges a tile which has come loose from its mortar. The tile inches to the edge of the mezzanine. Then it falls ... Boyer, reacting to the falling tile, brings up his machine gun and fires a sustained burst in its direction –
And all hell breaks loose.
