G. I. JOE: HAUL DOWN THE HEAVENS

Written by

Buzz Dixon

 

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - AIRFIELD

DUKE

What do you make of it, Flint? Why would the Northern Lights suddenly go haywire?

DUKE

Who's buzzin' the base? Oh no, it's your flyin' fool girlfriend.

FLINT

Lady Jaye?

DUKE

Get that girl in tow before I kick her in the afterburner! Come on, get a move on, now!

LADY JAYE

I cut short my furlough and gave up an African safari. This better be good.

FLINT

Depends on how you define "good." Duke wants you to meet some people. There's a disturbance in the Aurora Borealis. It may be melting the polar ice cap.

LADY JAYE

What? Are you kidding? That could flood every coastal city on earth!

FLINT

You catch on fast. Duke wants Snow Job, you, and I to escort a UN science team to the Arctic Circle to investigate. There they are.

FLINT

Dr. Johannsen, Lady Jaye.

DR. JOHANNSEN

Uh, delighted. Can't we speed up the loading process, Flint? The situation up north is becoming critical.

FLINT

We'll be taking off within the hour, sir.

DR. ENTWHISTLE

I'm amazed you barbarous thugs can do anything constructive.

DR. JOHANNSEN

Dr. Entwhistle, our geologist.

LADY JAYE

My pleasure.

DR. ENTWHISTLE

It's certainly not mine. This is supposed to be a scientific expedition, not an invasion. All this military hardware is unnecessary and, frankly, unwelcome.

LADY

Just a second, sweetheart!

FLINT

At ease, Lady Jaye. Get your gear stowed, ma'am.

DR. ENTWHISTLE

Yes, sir! Right away, Mister Joe, Sir!

LADY JAYE

People like that give me a pain. We're only going along to protect the expedition.

RIP CORD

Look out! It's gonna topple!

FLINT

Who's the joker running that crane? I'll bust you down to private!

FLINT

Huh?

LADY JAYE

Nobody home. Maybe someone got careless and left it in gear.

FLINT

Yeah, or maybe it was sabotage.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE

FLINT

Snow Job, scout ahead. I'd like to keep this expedition from falling through the ice.

SNOW JOB

Gotcha, Flint!

FLINT

Oh, and no side trips to sell refrigerators to the Eskimos.

SNOW JOB

Aw, would I do a thing like that?

FLINT

Move 'em out! Yo Joe!

SNOW JOB

Whoa! Bad news, Flint. No direct route to the Aurora. We'll have to circle this gap.

FLINT

That'll take hours. We'd better camp here.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - JOE CAMP

FLINT

I'll draw up a guard roster.

DR. ENTWHISTLE

How typically macho...and paranoid. Next I suppose you'll want to draft us.

LADY JAYE

Brother. Would I love to put her through boot camp.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - JOE CAMP

SNOW JOB

What's that?

FLINT

Snow Job! Let's get outta here!

FLINT

Empty!

DR. ENTWHISTLE

We must...get out!

LADY JAYE

I was trying to, lady!

FLINT

Somebody's trying to kill us.

DR. ENTWHISTLE

Nonsense.

LADY JAYE

Oh, really? I suppose the Snow Cat hotwired itself and chased us around of its own accord.

DR. ENTWHISTLE

Ionization from the Aurora started the motor. The machine simply ran wild.

LADY JAYE

I bet.

EXT. CITY - HOTEL

INT. HOTEL - ROOM 1091

DR. ENTWHISTLE

G...I...Joe! Tell them! Hurry!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - JOE CAMP

FLINT

What's the condition of the ice, Snow Job?

SNOW JOB

Pitiful. Turning into slush. If it gets much warmer, the Snow Cats'll sink.

FLINT

Hovercraft would be perfect up here.

LADY JAYE

What's going on back there?

LADY JAYE

Now we'll see who our saboteur is. Gotcha!

SNOW JOB

C'mon, Flint!

LADY JAYE

Hey, you forgot something! Me!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

FLINT

Faster! He's getting away!

SNOW JOB

Where did he go?

FLINT

Try over there.

FLINT

What's that?

SNOW JOB

Awesome! Totally awesome!

FLINT

Cobra!

SNOW JOB

What are you thinkin' they're up to?

FLINT

They're behind the disturbance in the Aurora!

SNOW JOB

We'd better get back!

"DR. ENTWHISTLE"

Not a bad guess for a G. I. Joe.

FLINT

Entwhistle, what are you doing here?

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL CENTER

DESTRO

A warning flare!

COBRA COMMANDER

Sound the alarm!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

SNOW JOB

You're crazy!

"DR. ENTWHISTLE"

No, not crazy. Merely your enemy!

SNOW JOB

The Baroness!

SNOW JOB

We've gotta warn the base!

BARONESS

Follow them!

COBRA COMMANDER

G. I. Joe! Stop them!

SNOW JOB

We're gonna make it!

SNOW JOB

We made it.

FLINT

More or less.

FLINT

We're down to two choices. Either we plow straight through them,...

SNOW JOB

Or we let 'em run over us. Some choice.

FLINT AND SNOW JOB

Yo Joe!

SNOW JOB

Here goes nothin'!

SNOW JOB

Now what?

FLINT

We lay low and hope Cobra doesn't find us, or the others.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - JOE CAMP

DR. JOHANNSEN

What happened out there? Do you think Flint and Snow Job...?

LADY JAYE

I don't know.

LADY JAYE

Hurry, take cover!

COBRA COMMANDER

Surrender! You are trapped in Cobra's fangs!

LADY JAYE

Now way! Pick your fangs with this!

COBRA COMMANDER

You are now Cobra's prisoner, and your friends will soon join you.

LADY JAYE

Aren't you the cock-eyed optimisssst!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE

COBRA OFFICER #1 [Bill Ratner]

Keep searching for those two miserable Joes!

COBRA OFFICER #2

Why those tranquilizer darts?

COBRA OFFICER #3 [Arthur Burghardt?]

Cobra Commander wants the Joes taken alive.

COBRA OFFICER #3

You in there, Joe?

COBRA OFFICER #3

Take him back to base. When he wakes, he'll make a fine pet for Cobra Commander.

FLINT

Grab that FANG! Tell them to send Hovercrafts!

SNOW JOB

What about you?

FLINT

I'm gonna try to radio Joe Headquarters from Cobra's own base!

SNOW JOB

Where'd you come from?

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

COBRA COMMANDER

Stop, if you value your life...and theirs!

LADY JAYE

I'm sorry, Flint.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE

SNOW JOB

Yeow!

SNOW JOB

You stinkin'...!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL CENTER

DESTRO

So Flint, you disapprove of our little project.

FLINT

We don't get our kicks from mass destruction, Destro.

DESTRO

Consider it a form of hygiene. We're giving the world a much-needed bath. The ion attractor generates forces strong enough to pull down the Aurora Borealis.

DESTRO (CONT.)

The ions melt the ice, eventually raising the water level eighty feet around the world. Every coastal city will be flooded. And then with the world in chaos, Cobra strikes!

LADY JAYE

Brilliant, Destro. I bet you'd take first prize at the science fair.

DESTRO

Beware, Lady Jaye. With so sharp a tongue you could cut your own throat. Take them away!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE

SNOW JOB

Gotta get up. Hovercraft. I gotta!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

COBRA COMMANDER

The polar troopers still haven't found the last G. I. Joe. Could he have survived?

BARONESS

Most unlikely.

COBRA COMMANDER

Is Firefly ready to create our little diversion?

BARONESS

He is.

COBRA COMMANDER

Then unleash him.

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - AIRFIELD

FIREFLY

The Joes are planning something big. Baroness was right. Aint' fueled up yet. A little acid will do the trick.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS

DUKE

It's okay, Entwhistle. Don't blame yourself. Nobody can fight Cobra alone. That's why there's a Joe Team.

CUTTER

Thanks to you, we know Cobra's involved in these disasters.

DR. ENTWHISTLE

Can you save my friend?

DUKE

You just watch us, ma'am.

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - AIRFIELD

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - FUEL STORAGE

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE

INT. INDIAN VILLAGE - SHELTER

SNOW JOB

Where am I?

INDIAN MAN [Michael Bell?]

Taganuk Indian village. What you doin' all alone out there?

SNOW JOB

Radio. Call...Joe seven niner.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - FUEL STORAGE

WILD BILL

Yeeow! You dad-blamed idiot! No wonder they call you Rip Cord!

CUTTER

Duke, look at this. Somebody put something in the fuel!

DUKE

We gotta warn the others, fast!

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - AIRFIELD

GUNG-HO

Holy ham! [?] We've been sabotaged!

DUKE

Hold it, Firefly. I wanna give you something!

FIREFLY

I have something for you, too, Duke!

DUKE

Oh, no!

RIP CORD

Firefly pumped acid into the main fuel lines!

DUKE

And we put the fuel into the jets and turned our own planes into fire bombs!

CUTTER

Yes, nice of us to oblige him, wasn't it? Now if we want to fly to the Arctic, we have to fly stand-by.

DUKE

Don't bet on it.

EXT. INDIAN VILLAGE - SHELTER

INT. INDIAN VILLAGE - SHELTER

SNOW JOB

J...O...E...

INDIAN GIRL

He's delirious.

SNOW JOB

Seven, nine...niner. Call.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

INT. COBRA BASE - CELL

LADY JAYE

So how do we get outta here? Any bright ideas?

FLINT

Push the button on my watch.

FLINT AND LADY JAYE

From the halls of Montezuma....

INT. COBRA BASE - OUTSIDE CELL

FLINT AND LADY JAYE (CONT., O.C.)

to the shores of Tripoli, we will fight our country's battles on the land and on the sea....

INT. COBRA BASE - CELL

COBRA OFFICER

Are you gonna clam up, or do we have to....

FLINT AND LADY JAYE

Yo Joe!

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL CENTER

LADY JAYE

Can you figure out how it works?

FLINT

I think so. Destro always uses the same basic design layouts.

DESTRO (O.C.)

I'll remember that in the future.

COBRA COMMANDER

Destro, hold your fire. Surely two such formidable foes deserve a sporting chance.

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

BREAKER (V.O.)

This is J-O-E Seven Niner. Repeat, message unclear!

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

INT. INDIAN VILLAGE - SHELTER

INDIAN MAN

Your man in bad shape. Got a big dose of some tranquilizer. Keeps mumbling something about snakes and the Aurora.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

CUTTER

That cinches it. Cobra's behind the disasters.

DUKE

Yeah, and Snow Job's a goner if we don't get him some help, but fast.

CUTTER

Which presents a small problem with all our SkyStrikers in flames.

DUKE

All but one. Lady Jaye's plane never got a taste of Firefly's hot sauce.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE

RIP CORD

Duke, there oughta be just enough clean fuel in the tanks for a one-way flight to the great, white north.

RIP CORD

I'm all out of gas. End of the line. Wish me happy landings! Yo Joe!

INT. INDIAN VILLAGE - SHELTER

RIP CORD

Snow Job!

RIP CORD

Hang on, pal. You're gonna pull through.

SNOW JOB

Rip Cord. Never thought your ugly puss would look so good. Holy cow! Cobra! They're meltin' the polar ice!

RIP CORD

We figured. They've got a large surprise comin' their way.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

INT. COBRA BASE - ARENA OF SPORT

COBRA COMMANDER (O.C.)

Send in the gladiators!

FLINT

Terrific! He remembers us, and not fondly!

FLINT

That's another one I owe you.

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

DUKE

Yo Joe!

JOES

Yo Joe!

ROADBLOCK

Yahoo! Let's fricasee those snakes!

GUNG-HO

Fire cannons!

GUNG-HO

We can't dent their armor!

INT. COBRA BASE - ARENA OF SPORT

DESTRO

What's that?

LADY JAYE

Sounds like...

FLINT

...the cavalry's arrived!

COBRA COMMANDER

They must not reach the ion attractor. Destroy them!

FLINT

Let's get outta here!

INT. COBRA BASE - CORRIDOR

FLINT

That way! The ion attractor!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL ROOM

DESTRO

I see you have never learned the difference between courage and stupidity, but I would be pleased to teach you.

LADY JAYE

It's not shutting off.

FLINT

I know. I'm setting it to full power.

LADY JAYE

You're what?

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

DUKE

What the blazes...the ice is melting! Their whole base is going under!

DUKE

Adios, chumps. Hovercraft don't sink!

INT. COBRA BASE - CONTROL ROOM

FLINT

I'm outta here.

LADY JAYE

Me too!

EXT. ARCTIC CIRCLE - COBRA BASE

LADY JAYE

Those creeps are getting away!

FLINT

Duke and Cutter will take care of them!

DUKE

Launch depth charges!

DUKE

That oughtta ring their chimes.

LADY JAYE

It is beautiful, isn't it. From a distance.

FLINT

He's better looking from a distance, too.

LADY JAYE

You're not just gonna let him nap there, are you, Duke?

DUKE

I have a policy about ten-foot bears. Lady, as far as I'm concerned, they can sleep anywhere they want.

 

 

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