Bodyguard

THE BODYGUARD Written by LAWRENCE KASDAN Clean Shooting Draft February 1992 FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY SCREEN IS BLACK In the darkness we hear dripping water, the echoing approach of two sets of footsteps. There is the sound of a sudden, quick scuffle, a heavy fall of bodies. THREE BOOMING GUNSHOTS. Two from one gun, one from another. So fast and close, they're barely distinguish- able. The sound of the SHOTS ECHOES against concrete walls and dies away. Silence. SLOW, SLOW, FADE IN: 1INT. UNDERGROUND GARAGE (NEW YORK) - NIGHT1 FRANK FARMER'S FACE - mid to late 30s, peers intently over a smoking gun.He is The Bodyguard. ANGLE - HIT MAN dead on hisfeet, leans against a car. A gun drops heavily fromhis hand. His life ebbs as he slides slowly down the cardoor to his knees then falls forward, face down on thecement floor. A SLOW PULL BACK reveals that FRANK is lying on top of KLINGMAN. Protectively pressed body to body on the filthy cement floor of the garage. Klingman, a handsome, 50-year-old arbitrageur, gasps in barely controlled fear as his Armani suit soaks up a black pool of oil. There is no movement. The two men are lying near the right front fender of a black limousine. Blood spreads from the body of the hit man, a few yards away. Klingman starts to raise himself up but Farmer keeps him pressed to the floor, still alert for any further threat. MAIN TITLES BEGIN. A beat, and VOICES are heard O.S.Farmer wheels, snub- nosed .357 aimed at them. FRANK Freeze!