G. I. JOE: LASERS IN THE NIGHT

Written by

Marv Wolfman

 

EXT. LECTURE HALL - NIGHT

PROFESSOR (O.C.)

The ancient Greeks believed in heroism.

INT. LECTURE HALL

PROFESSOR (CONT.)

Their legendary heroes battled against incredible odds, never giving up their ideals.

SANDY

Amber, this night class is a twelve on the yawn scale.

AMBER

Sandy, shh! This is interesting.

PROFESSOR

Next week, chapters two to six.

EXT. LECTURE HALL - NIGHT

SANDY

Who cares about old Greeks when this campus is packed with young hunks?

AMBER

Sandy, remember what the professor said? History is made by people who do things. What do I do? Nothing.

SANDY

Nothing? You're a candy striper, you run charity fairs, you even teach karate to kids. Come on! The full moon's out--the lover's moon. Are you gonna waste....

AMBER

Sandy, look at this. "G. I. Joe Martial Arts Exhibition." Those guys really do make history. Let's go watch.

SANDY

Not me. I'm going hunk hunting.

INT. MARTIAL ARTS EXHIBITION

QUICK KICK

Martial arts isn't just chopping and socking. It's a discipline that teaches total concentration.

AMBER

Yay, Quick Kick! Yo Joe!

QUICK KICK

Now, how 'bout some audience participation? Kung fu, anyone?

AMBER

Me! Oh, let me do it!

QUICK KICK

Fine with me, gorgeous. Don't worry. I'll go easy.

AMBER

Whatever you say.

QUICK KICK

I said I'd go easy!

AMBER

Yeah, but I didn't.

QUICK KICK

Say, you're my kind of girl. Where'd you learn those moves?

AMBER

Oh, I've been studying for....

QUICK KICK

Give you a hand?

AMBER

Uh, no thanks.

QUICK KICK

Yeah, that's my kind of girl.

QUICK KICK

Well, as they say in the movies, bu-di-bu-di-bu-di-that's all folks!

EXT. EXHIBITION HALL - HALLWAY

QUICK KICK

Gorgeous! Hey, gorgeous, wait!

AMBER

The name's Amber.

QUICK KICK

Okay. Amber.

EXT. COLLEGE CAMPUS - NIGHT

AMBER

You're good. I'm not easily tricked.

QUICK KICK

Perfection is something I've learned to live with. So, how about something to eat, then maybe a movie?

AMBER

You want to take me out?

QUICK KICK (as Humphrey Bogart)

Fred C. Dobbs don't say nothin' he don't mean. Humphrey Bogart, Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

INT. DANCE FLOOR

INT. BALLET

AMBER

Oh, isn't it the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?

EXT. BASEBALL STADIUM

QUICK KICK

Go team!

INT. MARTIAL ARTS STUDIO

EXT. LAKE - NIGHT

AMBER

My roommate calls it a lover's moon.

QUICK KICK (as James Stewart)

W-w-what is it you want, Mary? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down.

AMBER

John Wayne?

QUICK KICK

Jimmy Stewart in It's a Wonderful Life. Amber, what am I going to do with you?

AMBER

Uh, help me join the Joe Team?

QUICK KICK

You can't be serious.

AMBER

You help people every day. You do things that are important. I want to do that. I wanna be a Joe, like you.

QUICK KICK

So some Cobra can bash in your pretty face? Uh-uh.

AMBER

I can take care of myself. Besides, if you can handle Cobra, how dangerous can they be?

QUICK KICK

Plenty dangerous, Amber. Plenty.

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

COBRA [Arthur Burghardt]

All right, just stand where you are. Take him back to Headquarters.

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

TELE-VIPER

The Joe spy has been identified as Gung-Ho, Commander.

COBRA COMMANDER

Excellent. Keep him alive, for the moment.

BARONESS

Your laser lash is an impressive weapon, Commander.

COBRA COMMANDER

A mere plaything, Baroness, but an amusing one. Come, I want to discuss something with you. I have need of a certain device which G. I. Joe has perfected, and which you must obtain for me.

EXT. ELECTRONICS LAB - NIGHT

DUKE

You see that big weenie roast down there? It used to be our electronics lab.

SCARLETT

What could've happened, Duke?

DUKE

That's what we're here to find out. Goin' down!

INT. ELECTRONICS LAB

VOICE (O.C.) [Mogan Lofting]

Lady Jaye! Lady Jaye! Help! Help!

LADY JAYE

Duke? Scarlett? Is that you?

BAZOOKA

Who's there? Duke! Scarlett!

BAZOOKA

Lady Jaye!

BAZOOKA

She's hurt!

EXT. ELECTRONICS LAB - NIGHT

DUKE

Everybody out, on the double!

SCARLETT

Look, a Rattler!

DUKE

Maybe Cobra was behind this. They're after our new guidance system. They didn't know we moved it to Joe Headquarters.

SCARLETT

They'll be back, you know.

DUKE

Yeah, and we'll be ready.

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - INFIRMARY

"LADY JAYE"

I'll be fine, Duke. Honestly. I'm okay.

QUICK KICK

Get well, huh?

"LADY JAYE"

I am well. Really.

SCARLETT

Hope your new girlfriend does'nt hear about the flowers, Quick Kick.

QUICK KICK

The only flowers she'd be interested in would be those wrapped in enlistment papers.

SCARLETT

Huh?

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

SCARLETT

Duke wants us right away.

"LADY JAYE"

Something must be wrong.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - TUNNEL 13

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

BREAKER

Duke, intruder in Tunnel Thirteen, headin' for the map room.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - MAP ROOM

DUKE

Looking for something, friend? Let's see who Cobra sent after us this time.

QUICK KICK

Amber!

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - INTERROGATION ROOM

AMBER

Really, I just wanted to join the Joes!

"LADY JAYE"

So you thought you'd break in?

AMBER

Quick Kick, tell them!

QUICK KICK (as John Wayne)

Well, if you're askin' me, pilgrim, I think we oughta string her up.

DUKE

Next time you want to join the Joe Team, see your local recruiter, huh? End of crisis. Quick Kick, give her the nickel tour.

QUICK KICK

Okay, boss.

GUNG-HO

The hurry back. We've got trouble. Gung-Ho missed his last two check-ins.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - MAIN HANGAR

QUICK KICK

We're changing the security code on our SkyStrikers. No one, especially Cobra, can get past our defenses unless they know the code.

ALICE

And we change the security code every day. And that code is ten six nine.

QUICK KICK

That should cut down on uninvited guests.

AMBER

Like me, Quick Kick?

QUICK KICK

Amber, wait!

ALICE

How you feelin', Lady Jaye? I heard you had an accident.

"LADY JAYE"

Oh, I'm fine. How's my SkyStriker coming?

AMBER

Should be ready in an hour.

"LADY JAYE"

Perfect, Alice, just perfect.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - HALLWAY

QUICK KICK

Amber, please stop! You'll land us both in the guardhouse!

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - MAP ROOM

Gung-Ho's last signal came from somewhere on Snake Island. We think he found the Cobra base he was looking for. Then Cobra found him.

DUKE

Amber, what are you doing here?

AMBER

I, um...

QUICK KICK

Sorry. Let's go Amber. You're down to the penny tour, now.

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

DESTRO

Destro to Cobra Commander.

COBRA COMMANDER

You're just in time, Destro, to witness my latest stroke of brilliance.

DESTRO

You planned an attack without informing me?

COBRA COMMANDER

Not an attack. Something more interesting.

DESTRO

What is that madman up to now?

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - LAB

DOC

The long-range laser guidance system tested out, Duke.

DUKE

That's great, Doc. With this baby controlling a high-powered laser, you could shoot a gnat off the rings of Saturn.

QUICK KICK

Sorry, uh, thought you were still in the map room. Didn't know you were here.

"LADY JAYE"

I don't trust that girl.

QUICK KICK

Come on, Amber. I'll take you back to your sorority now.

DUKE

Your throat still bothering you, Lady Jaye?

"LADY JAYE"

Just a bit. Nothing to worry about.

DUKE

Have Doc check you out. I don't like the sound of it.

"LADY JAYE"

If you insist, Duke. Tomorrow?

DOC

Okay.

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

Yes. Our spy has transmitted the Joes' security code. My Rattlers will now penetrate the Joe defenses with ease. The laser guidance system will soon be mine!

DESTRO

Cobra Commander, I demand to know your plan! Our agreement specifies that I supply all your weaponry.

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

COBRA COMMANDER (V.O.)

I did not violate our agreement, Destro. And as for my plan, you will see it when the whole world does, tomorrow!

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - OBSERVATION POST

GREENSHIRT [Michael Bell]

Breaker, Rattlers coming in fast!

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - OBSERVATION POST

GREENSHIRT

How'd they get by our early warning system?

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

BREAKER

A Cobra spy must've gotten our new code!

DUKE

Mobilize air defense. Scramble the SkyStrikers!

"LADY JAYE"

Roger!

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - HALLWAY

QUICK KICK

Hey! Well excu-u-use me!

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

BREAKER (V.O.)

Lady Jaye's on their tail.

DUKE (V.O.)

What about the other SkyStrikers?

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - COMMAND CENTER

BREAKER

Out of commission. Lady Jaye's our only hope.

"LADY JAYE" (COMM.)

Duke, I have them in my...oh, no.

DUKE

What is it? What's wrong.

"LADY JAYE" (COMM.)

Two Rattlers behind me, Duke! I can't shake 'em!... I'm hit...engines on fire! Controls locked! I'm falling into the sea!

DUKE

Pull up, Lady Jaye! Pull up! Lady Jaye!

BREAKER

She...she's gone.

DUKE

Get every available Joe to the briefing room on the double! Especially Quick Kick!

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - MAP ROOM

DUKE

Lady Jaye's SkyStriker went down. We may have lost her. Deep Six is heading the search operation. Cobra got our new security code. Our laser guidance system has also been stolen. We had a visitor tonight who overheard our defense codes and saw where the guidance system was kept. Quick Kick, the spy is Amber. I want her here now.

QUICK KICK

Like Mae West said, when women go wrong, men go right after them.

SCARLETT

I thought those two has something going. Doesn't he care that....

DUKE

Yeah, but he's not the type to show it. All right, the SkyStrikers'll be airworthy by dawn. That's when we hit Cobra.

EXT. SORORITY - NIGHT

INT. SORORITY

SANDY

Say, you're Amber's guy. You wouldn't have a brother with shoulders like yours, would you?

QUICK KICK

No. A sister. Where's Amber?

SANDY

In her room, I guess.

INT. SORORITY - AMBER'S ROOM

SANDY

Amber's would be the only neat bed. How embarrassing.

QUICK KICK

Hey, her telephone answering machine light is on.

SANDY

Sometimes she leaves us messages when she goes out.

QUICK KICK

Play it for me, will you?

SANDY

Sure.

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

AMBER (ANSWERING MACHINE, V.O.)

Sandy, this is Amber. I'm heading for Snake Island. When Quick Kick shows up, don't let him know where I've gone. I'm afraid the Joes think I'm a Cobra spy. I have to prove I'm not. The only way I can think of to eliminate any doubt is to get inside the Cobra base and smash it by myself.

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

AMBER (CONT., ANSWERING MACHINE, V.O.)

Wish me luck.

INT. SORORITY - AMBER'S ROOM

AMBER (CONT., ANSWERING MACHINE)

I'm gonna need it.

QUICK KICK

Amber!

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

There, Destro. The ultimate laser. With the Joe laser guidance system fitted inside, I am ready to proceed.

DESTRO

Proceed with what?

COBRA COMMANDER

Watch and see for yourself.

COBRA SCIENTIST

Cobra Commander, an intruder.

DESTRO

Sieze her!

"LADY JAYE"

You.

AMBER

Me? What are you doing here?

"LADY JAYE"

I belong here, Amber. I work for Cobra.

AMBER

Lady Jaye? You're a Cobra agent?

"LADY JAYE"

I am, but I'm not Lady Jaye. You may call me...

BARONESS

...the Baroness. And call yourself a fool. Because the Joes thought you were the spy, they never saw me steal their laser guidance system.

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

QUICK KICK

Snake Island. Where's Amber? There it is, I found her boat.

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CELL

LADY JAYE

Looks like we have a new guest.

AMBER

Lady Jaye!

LADY JAYE

Do you know this young lady, Gung-Ho?

GUNG-HO

I've never seen her before.

AMBER

I'm Amber, a friend of Quick Kick. Cobra Commander's about to do something terrible with a laser machine.

GUNG-HO

Well then, we gotta get outta here fast.

GUNG-HO

It's no use.

LADY JAYE

You wouldn't happen to have a hacksaw on you.

AMBER

No, but if Quick Kick can do it, so can I.

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

DESTRO

Baroness, what is this plan of the Commander's?

BARONESS

I don't know. He would tell me nothing.

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

Watch, everyone! Today is V-Day, V for victory! Very soon, the whole world will see the power of Cobra!

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

DESTRO

Commander, I demand to know the meaning of this at once!

COBRA COMMANDER

See for yourself, Destro.

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

COBRA OFFICER

Over there! Look, an intruder!

QUICK KICK

Uh-oh.

QUICK KICK

Have a nice trip! Be sure to write!

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

QUICK KICK

Amber, are you in here?

QUICK KICK

Where is she?

COBRA COMMANDER

Stop him before he ruins my plan!

BARONESS

He's here for the girl we captured.

QUICK KICK

Amber's here! She's still alive! Nothing can stop me now, you snakes!

QUICK KICK

I love it when a plan comes together!

QUICK KICK

How do you turn this fool thing on?

QUICK KICK (as James Cagney)

All right, all right. You got me. You dirty rats!

COBRA COMMANDER

I wouldn't make jokes if I were you. Take a look at that screen! No longer will people see the Man in the Moon each night. Instead, they'll see my face and know that Cobra is undefeatable!

QUICK KICK

Oh, no.

DESTRO

This is your brilliant scheme, Commander? You wasted millions on this...this cosmic graffiti?

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CELL

COBRA OFFICER

Hey, where are the other prisoners?

AMBER

Oh, they got bored and left.

COBRA OFFICER

What do you mean left? Where the devil are they?

LADY JAYE

This should come in handy. Shall we be going?

INT. SNAKE ISLAND BASE - CONTROL ROOM

COBRA COMMANDER

Observe! Each night the face of terror will shine upon every nation on the globe!

LADY JAYE

Hold it! Nobody moves and nobody gets hurt!

QUICK KICK

Amber, you're alive!

AMBER

You came for me?

QUICK KICK

Well, I had nothin' else to do. There were no good movies playin', so I....

COBRA COMMANDER

Stop them! Destroy them!

QUICK KICK

Better hang onto this. I might need it.

COBRA COMMANDER

Destro, wait for me! Don't leave me here!

QUICK KICK

They're getting away! Follow them!

EXT. SNAKE ISLAND - NIGHT

DESTRO

You're a fool, Commander. If not for your mad scheme, we would still control Snake Island.

COBRA COMMANDER

Everyone is against me!

QUICK KICK

Don't worry, we'll head 'em off!

GUNG-HO

Go get 'em, Quick Kick!

DESTRO

The fool's following us! Split up!

QUICK KICK

You should've stayed with the others.

AMBER

And miss all the action?

QUICK KICK

What am I gonna do with you, Amber?

AMBER

Quick Kick, watch out!

DESTRO

Say your prayers, love birds.

QUICK KICK

My Dragonfly's hit!

QUICK KICK

Oh, this must be heaven. I'm in the arms of an angel.

AMBER

You soon will be if we don't run like the devil!

AMBER

Quick Kick, snakes!

QUICK KICK

That's what you gotta face when you're a G. I. Joe. Don't move. I'll be with you in a second. I think I've finally got this thing figured out.

AMBER

Oh, Quick Kick!

QUICK KICK

Not yet, Amber! Look!

QUICK KICK

Hey, SkyStrikers!

DUKE

It looks like we showed up just in time.

EXT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT

DUKE (V.O.)

Cobra Commander, Destro, and Baroness flew the coop.

INT. JOE HEADQUARTERS - MAP ROOM

DUKE (CONT.)

But we got their weapons and their men. Sorry we pegged you for a spy, Amber.

AMBER

I certainly gave you reason enough. I did everything wrong.

DUKE

Well, Amber, if you still wanna be a Joe, we'd be proud to have you.

AMBER

Oh, I do, more than anything! But I think I've had enough excitement for a while. Maybe after I finish school?

DUKE

Any time, Amber. Any time.

JOES

Yo Joe!

EXT. LAKE - NIGHT

QUICK KICK

I did a little fix-up work on the moon with Cobra's laser machine. What do you think?

AMBER (as Bette Davis)

Oh, Jerry, don't ask for the moon. We have the stars.

QUICK KICK

Jerry? Who's Jerry?

AMBER

I'm doing Bette Davis from the movie Now, Voyager.

QUICK KICK

Huh?

AMBER

Oh, Quick Kick, what am I gonna do with you?

 

 

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