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The Duke of New York Revealed
Snake Plissken
Where's the President?
Cabbie
The Duke got him. Everybody knows the Duke's got him. You don't have to put a gun to my head. I'll tell you.
Snake Plissken
Who's the Duke?
Cabbie
The Duke? The Duke of New York, A-Number-1, the Big Man, that's who!
Snake Plissken
I wanna meet this Duke.
Cabbie
You can't meet the Duke! Are you crazy? Nobody gets to meet the Duke. You meet him once and then you're dead!
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A Leader Held Hostage in a Dangerous Land
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The world's greatest leader is a hostage in the most dangerous place on Earth. Now only the deadliest man alive can save him.
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New York: A Prison Without Escape
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New York City has become the only maximum security prison for the entire country. Once you go in, you don't come out... until today.
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Countdown to a life-threatening decision
Romero
You touch me... he dies. If you're not in the air in 30 seconds... he dies. You come back in... he dies. Twenty seconds.
[takes a package out of his shirt and unwraps it to reveal the President's middle finger, complete with ring]
Bob Hauk
I'm ready to talk.
Romero
Nineteen. Eighteen.
Bob Hauk
What do you want?
Romero
Seventeen. Sixteen.
Bob Hauk
Let's go. Let's go!
[to his soldiers; USPF troops pull out]
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The Duke's Bold Declaration of Victory
The Duke
They sent in their best man, and when we roll across the 69th Street bridge tomorrow, on our way to freedom, we're going to have their best man leading the way - from the neck up! On the hood of my car!
[addressing his followers; cheering erupts; more cheering]
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A Proposition Between Allies
Bob Hauk
You're gonna kill me now, Snake?
Snake Plissken
I'm too tired. Maybe later.
[pause]
Bob Hauk
I've got another deal for you. I want you to think it over while you're resting. I want to give you a job. We'd make one hell of a team, Snake!
Snake Plissken
The name's Plissken!
[coldly glares at Hauk; leaves in disgust]
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New York Transformed into Maximum Security Prison
Narrator
In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises four hundred percent. The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A 50-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline, across the Harlem River, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline. It completely surrounds Manhattan Island. All bridges and waterways are mined. The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made. The rules are simple: once you go in, you don't come out.
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Confrontation Between Hauk and Plissken
Bob Hauk
I'm not a fool, Plissken. S.D. Plissken... American, Lieutenant: Special Forces Unit "Black Light". Two Purple Hearts, Leningrad and Siberia. Youngest man to be decorated by the President. Then you robbed the Federal Reserve Depository... life sentence, New York maximum security penitentiary. I'm ready to kick your ass out of the world, war hero...
[He puts his glasses on, leans forward; reading Plissken's file; puts down the papers he has read; to Plissken, directly]
Snake Plissken
Who're you?
[calmly strikes a match against Hauk's desk to light his cigarette and in a bored tone of voice]
Bob Hauk
Hauk, Police Commissioner.
[takes his glasses off and sets them down on his desk]
Snake Plissken
Bob Hauk...
[thinking]
Bob Hauk
Special Forces Unit "Texas Thunder"... we heard of you too, Plissken.
Snake Plissken
Why are we talking?
[annoyed]
Bob Hauk
I have a deal for you. You'll receive full pardon for every criminal action you've committed in the United States. There was an accident. About an hour ago, a small jet went down inside New York City. The President was on board.
[he opens a drawer on his desk and takes out a certificate; lays the certificate on the desk; stiffly]
Snake Plissken
The President of what?
[bored]
Bob Hauk
That's not funny, Plissken. You go in, find the President, bring him out in 24 hours, and you're a free man.
Snake Plissken
24 hours, huh?
Bob Hauk
I'm making you an offer.
Snake Plissken
Bullshit!
Bob Hauk
Straight, just like I said.
Snake Plissken
I'll think about it.
Bob Hauk
No time. Give me an answer.
Snake Plissken
Get a new president!
[looks around the room]
Bob Hauk
We're still at war, Plissken. We need him alive.
Snake Plissken
I don't give a fuck about your war... or your president.
[directly to Hauk; seriously]
Bob Hauk
Is that your answer?
Snake Plissken
I'm thinking about it.
Bob Hauk
Think hard.
Snake Plissken
Why me?
[pause, while he smokes]
Bob Hauk
You flew the Gullfire over Leningrad. You know how to get in quiet. You're all I got.
Snake Plissken
I guess I go in one way or the other... doesn't mean shit to me. All right... I'll do it. Give me the pardon paper.
[pause]
Bob Hauk
When you come out.
Snake Plissken
Before.
Bob Hauk
I told you I wasn't a fool, Plissken.
Snake Plissken
Call me Snake.
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Nuclear Fusion and a Urgent Mission
Bob Hauk
In 22 hours, the Hartford Summit Meeting will be over. China and the Soviet Union will go back home. Now, the President was on his way to the summit when his plane went down. He has a briefcase attached to his wrist. The tape recording inside has to reach Hartford in 22 hours.
Snake Plissken
What's on it?
Bob Hauk
You know anything about nuclear fusion?
Snake Plissken
No.
Bob Hauk
The survival of the human race, Plissken. Something you don't give a shit about.
Cronenberg
I'm going to inject you. It will sting for a second.
[approaching Snake with two injection guns; places both guns on the sides of Snake's neck and injects him, producing a loud bang]
Bob Hauk
That's it, Plissken.
Cronenberg
Tell him.
Snake Plissken
Tell me what?
Bob Hauk
That idea you had about turning the Gullfire around 180 degrees and flying off to Canada.
Snake Plissken
What did you do to me, asshole!?
Bob Hauk
My idea, Plissken. Something we've been fooling around with. Two microscopic capsules lodged in your arteries. They're already starting to dissolve. In 22 hours, the cores will completely dissolve. Inside the cores are a heat-sensing charge. Not a large explosion, about the size of a pinhead, just big enough to open up both of your arteries. I'd say you'd be dead in 10-15 seconds...
[makes the OK sign with his right hand]
Snake Plissken
Take them out, now!
[chokes Hauk]
Cronenberg
They're protected by the cores. Fifteen minutes before the last hour is up, we can neutralize the charge with X-rays.
[nervously]
Bob Hauk
We'll burn out the charges if you have the President.
Snake Plissken
What if I'm a little late?
Bob Hauk
No more Hartford Summit. And no more Snake Plissken.
Snake Plissken
When I get back, I'm going to kill you.
Bob Hauk
The Gullfire's waiting.
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New York City: A Prison of Despair
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1997. New York City is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane.
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