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A Deadly Game Awaits Schwarzenegger's Challenge
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A game nobody survives. But Schwarzenegger has yet to play.
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Audience Enthusiasm for Damon Killian
Damon Killian
And who loves you, and who do you LOVE?!
[on video]
Studio Audience
KILLIAN!!!
Killian
YES!!! YES!!! YES!!!
[zoom in; zoom in further; "KILLIAN IS LYING TO YOU" appears on the screen]
Audience member
Hey, what's going on?!
Killian
We don't lie - lie - lie... like our previous winners Whitman, Price, and Haddad. You remember them! There they are at this very moment, basking under the Maui sun, their debt to society paid in full. Watch that screen.
[on video; stills appear of the corpses that Amber found in the locker room]
Dispatcher
Yankee Nine-Niner, what's the status of the crowd?
[to Richards]
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!
Dispatcher
As you were, Richards. Proceed with Plan Alpha. All rioters must be eliminated.
Richards
The hell with you! I will not fire at helpless human beings!
Dispatcher
You have your orders, Yankee Nine-Niner, proceed with Plan Alpha.
Tony
Where's it coming from?
Brenda
The network satellite.
Stevie
Don't touch that dial!
[menacingly]
Richards
Abort mission. We return to base...
Dispatcher
Saunders, do you copy? Take command. Detain Richards and proceed as ordered.
Soldier
Richards, what the fuck are you doing?!
Killian
Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll please bear with us, we're experiencing technical difficulties!
Agnes McArdle
Bullshit!!
Richards
It's showtime!
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A Game Where Survival Is Unlikely
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2019. A game nobody survives. This year might be the exception.
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Discussion of Last Season's Contestants
Amber Mendez
Whitman... Price.
[checks dogtags]
Fireball
Haddad.
[appears just as Amber looks at Haddad's corpse; enters room]
Mendez
They're Running Men. Last season's winners.
Fireball
No. Last season's losers.
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The Game Zone and Its Deadly Pursuers
Damon Killian
You know how this works. The game zone is divided into four hundred square blocks, left over from the big quake of 97, and I don't think any of us will ever forget that. Once inside the zone, the Runners have three hours, they've got to go through all four game quads, three hours or less, and they're gonna need every second, cause you know who's on their tail?
[audience laughs]
Studio Audience
The Stalkers!
Killian
Who?!
Studio Audience
THE STALKERS!!!
Killian
And you know what happens then!!
Studio Audience
Anything goes!
Killian
What?!
Studio Audience
ANYTHING GOES!!!
Killian
Right! Without further ado, it's time to start... RUNNING!!
[goes back up the stage; faces audience with arms up high]
Killian
On your marks! Get set!...
[to Richards]
Ben Richards
Killian! ].
[[w:I'll be back|I'll be back]
Killian
Only in a rerun. GO!! GO!!
[pauses; softly; loudly; Richards' sled launches; Laughlin's sled launches]
Laughlin
You son of a bitch!
Killian
GO!! YES!!
[Weiss's sled launches]
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Conflict Over Honor and Reality in Competition
Captain Freedom
Forget it, Killian, I won't do it!
Killian
It's not a request, moron, it's an order.
Captain Freedom
I don't need this crap! This stuff is garbage! I was killing guys like this ten years ago with my bare hands! I'm not going for any of these tricks! This is a sport of death and honor, Code of the Gladiators!
[strips off gear]
Killian
Cap, will you spare me the combat Zen speech? What the hell's the matter with you? Can't you see what's going on out there? This isn't a game! They're betting on Richards up there!
Captain Freedom
Bullshit!
Killian
Get out of here! Get him out of here! What's the matter? Steroids make you deaf? Get him out of here NOW!!
[to his bodyguard Sven; Sven stays still]
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Choosing a Victor in a Deadly Game
Damon Killian
OK Agnes. Who do you think is going to make the next kill? Fireball or Dynamo?
Agnes McArdle
Boy, that is a toughie. Umm...I am going to go with...Ben Richards.
[thinks; Audience boos]
Killian
Agnes, Ben Richards is a Runner. You have to elect a Stalker.
Agnes
I can vote for anyone I want and I endorse...Ben Richards. That boy is one mean motherfucker!
Bettor
Two hundred dollars for Richards!!!!
[at street bookie; other bettors join the bidding; bookie shrugs shoulders and sets up the board at RICHARDS: 100-1]
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A Dark Humor Encounter in The Running Man
Buzzsaw
Richards, I love this saw. The saw is a part of me and I am going to make it part of you!!
Ben Richards
That's all right, keep it!
[moves chainsaw away from face and positions it between Buzzsaw's legs; shoves chainsaw up through Buzzsaw, who shrieks in pain before he dies]
Amber Mendez
What happened to Buzzsaw?
[rejoins Richards as they walk away]
Richards
He had to split.
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Survival in the Deadly Game of 2017
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It is the year 2017. "The Running Man" is a deadly game no one has ever survived. But..... Schwarzenegger has yet to play.
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Confrontation and Anger in The Running Man
Ben Richards
You cold-blooded bastard! I'll tell you what I think of it. I'll live to see you eat that contract! But I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and BREAK YOUR GODDAMN SPINE!
[rips camera off the wall and speaks into it to Killian, who just offered him a job as a Stalker; smashes camera]
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Entertainment vs. Reality in The Running Man
Damon Killian
Yes, I know a Stalker died. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Well, it IS a contact sport. Now look, you people at the Justice Department cannot have it both ways! You hired me to entertain. If you want to keep the people away from tax revolts, food riots, and bread lines and parked in front of their TVs? Well, you ain't gonna get that with reruns of ]!...Gilligan's Island?...You know!...'...Yes, the one with the boat!
[On the phone getting chewed out by government officials for the death of Subzero; [Gilligan's Island; Hums a few bars from "The Ballad of Gilligan's Island"]
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Survival in a Dystopian Future
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The year is 2019. The finest men in America don't run for President. They run for their lives.
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