Is it just me, or is the current trend in Hollywood to remake or "reboot" films that were great (or even adequate) to begin with getting tiresome? In the last couple of years we've seen "updated" revisions of films that were fine as is (Footloose, for instance). Hell, Hollywood is set to soon release The Amazing Spider-Man, the first in a retooled franchise that isn't even a decade old (though, admittedly, Spider-Man 3 did completely suck. Boy, did that movie ever suck!)
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| RoboCop 2 (aka, RoboCain) |
Below is a 30-page (!) script outline I recently revamped from the original which I think would make for a much better Robocop 2 sequel. I've updated it slightly for these uncertain times we're living in and renamed "RoboCop Mk.2." In my dream scenario, I'd love to see Joss Wheadon or Ronald D. Moore at the helm of this film.
Give my retread a read-over and let me know what you think.
ROBOCOP MK.2 TITLE SEQUENCE
OMNI NEWS NETWORK (ONN) MEDIABREAK
A humorous commercial, followed by…
As Omni Consumer Products’ 24/7 media outlet, ONN
is favorable to OCP’s politics, economic interests and social values. (“We’re
Always ONN!”)
Two talking heads (a rugged and handsome man and a
beautiful, blonde woman) bring us up to speed on a Detroit in utter chaos. With
a police force on strike, whole sections of the city are in a constant state of
chaos and anarchy, without sanitation or public transportation. Crime runs
rampant.
Exacerbating an already bad situation is the NUKE
epidemic. NUKE, a new designer drug addictive from the first hit, has brought
dependency to nearly 30 percent of the city’s population. Designed and marketed
by a mysterious figure known on the streets only as Cain, Nuke threatens to
undo the basic fabric of society.
Next Up: In a roundtable discussion with
like-minded hyperbolic pundants, ‘Cross Hairs’’ host, Dutch Rove, explains
how the NUKE epidemic plaguing Detroit and threatening to go national is the
complete and total fault of the Mayor Marvin Kuzak’s feckless administration.
IN THE CITY
Rove and his cohorts appear on various television
screens in a store display. Suddenly, looters shatter the store’s display
window, and the pundant’s images are zapped from the screen as the televisions
are unplugged and carted away.
The streets of Old Detroit are dismal, lined with
homeless people—some of which have turned to NUKE to ease their misery, some
there because of their addiction. There is violence and desperation on
display—the scene is utter bedlam.
Four thieves sit in a station wagon. Three of them
NUKE-up, peer pressuring the fourth hesitant thief to do likewise. As they do
this, an explosion rocks a gun store across the street. They quickly drive up
to the gun shop and begin ransacking the place, as planned.
As the thieves load up their munitions, a squad car
approaches. The thieves blast it with anti tank weapons and automatic weapons
fire. The squad car lights up in a huge catapulting fireball and lands limply
on the street below. Satisfied with their work, the thieves continue loading
their station wagon.
The driver’s side door to the squad car opens, and
from it emerges a slightly charred RoboCop (aka, Murphy), dispatching all but
one of the thieves.
In a quick interrogation, RoboCop learns the
location of a nearby NUKE distribution center, and that Cain himself is
overseeing the operation. Grabbing the thief by the scruff of his neck, RoboCop
parades him down the street as the whimpering thug shows him the way. People on
the street pelt Robo and the thief with garabage, calling out “pig,” narc” and
“snitch” as they pass.
Gaining access to the Nuke distribution center,
RoboCop sees that it is basically a sweatshop. In a Dickensian setting, women
and children labor in a basement while Cain, his lieutenants and cadre of armed
muscle oversee their work.
RoboCop makes his presence known, and gunfire
breaks out. The workers dive for cover, as RoboCop takes-out one thug after the
next. During the melee, Cain and his crew manage to escape, but not before
RoboCop spots a 17 year-old boy in Cain’s ranks. RoboCop freezes and saves the
images of this kid in memory banks. Replaying this image repeatedly, RoboCop
soon realizes who this kid is.
Meanwhile, Lewis has arrived on the scene joining
RoboCop in the basement and quickly dispatches three gangsters. Rattled back
into the action by a crying infant, RoboCop sees Lewis with her gun trained on
a final thug attempting to use the infant as a human shield. Using his
targeting and vectoring program, RoboCop ricochets a bullet off a cooler door
and into the thug’s head. Lewis catches the infant and returns it to its
mother, who is promptly taken into custody by incoming police officers.
Lewis explains to RoboCop that she is concerned for
him, since he’s been in duty now for 60 straight hours. RoboCop tells Lewis
he’s seen something that has shaken him to his core: the teenager in Cain’s
gang is RoboCop’s/Murphy’s son, James.
STATION HOUSE
RoboCop and Lewis cross a picket line to enter
Metro West’s underground parking lot. Inside, the Station House is complete
chaos caused by the OCP-induced economic turmoil and the Nuke epidemic. RoboCop and
Lewis push through to RoboCop’s on-site maintenance bay, where techies soon
look him over and clean him up.
(RoboCop’s got some years on him, and it shows. His
armor isn’t as shiny as it used to be; scuffs and scratches give Robo an almost
classic, muscle car look.)
Elsewhere, Lieutenant Hedgecock struts past the
holding pen, sneering and swearing at the prisoners inside. Once past the
holding pen—and out of view of his fellow officers—Hedgecock takes a veil of
Nuke out of his vest pocket and injects it into his neck. “Re-energized,” he
resumes his day.
Meanwhile, RoboCop has patched into the OCP
criminal justice mainframe, searching for his son. RoboCop finds James Murphy’s
mug shot and rap sheet and sees that he’s been tried for a series of petty
crimes. One of James aliases is “Hob.” It’s obvious from the company Hob now
keeps that he is in way over his head.
RoboCop indicates to the computer terminal “seek
last known address.”
OCP HEADQUARTERS
An irritated Mayor Kuzak arrives, greeted by OCP’s
Vice-President, Donald Johnson. The Mayor and his Chief of Staff, Saul Poulos,
have been called into a meeting by The Young Man (heir apparent to The Old Man,
who passed away several years ago). The Young Man, unlike his Father, is a
spoiled and short-sighted blue-blooded brat, eager to realize his Father’s
dream of building Delta City on the ruins of Old Detroit at any cost (daddy
issues).
The Young Man and his Chief Lawyer, Holzgang,
outline that they are foreclosing on the outstanding, adjustable rate mortgage
OCP lent to the city of Detroit; the city has one week to pay it back in full.
Infuriated, Kuzak blasts The Young Man for
overspending when acquiring a rival corporation: Tetratech. Now Detroit has to
pay for The Young Man’s naïve business miscalculation? The Mayor points out
that municipalities-such as the cops, for example-have not been paid in
months; people are dying in the streets. Where are the jobs OCP promised the
City in exchange for those generous tax breaks?
When Kuzak asks The Young Man how he expects the
city to pay back their debt in one week, The Young Man responds with a
pithy, “That’s your problem.” With that, the Mayor storms out of the office in
a flurry of expletives.
Meanwhile, Dr. Juliet Faxx, Security Concepts’
latest Marketing Director, presents a range of her division’s products to an
audience of high-powered Pentagon representatives and international corporate
and paramilitary representatives. On display are a host of revamped ED-209
units, outfitted for urban, jungle, desert, and even intergalactic
environments. In the audience is Cain and his young girlfriend, Angie. The Young Man and Johnson walk in and
oversee the event from the back row.
After her presentation, Johnson demands to see the
progress Dr. Faxx and her chief robotics engineer (Dr. McNamara) are making in
the Robocop Mk.2 project, which she has recently been attached to oversee.
Reexamining prior video presentations, the results of this project have proved
to be dismal.
Faxx explains that building cyborgs from dead
police officers may not be the best idea; despite having their “memories
wiped,” as soon as these candidates realize that they’ve been stripped of their
humanity, the cyborgs commit suicide. She explains that Murphy head wound somehow
altered the functioning of his limbic system (a process she assures Johnson and
The Young Man her team is close to cracking) coupled with Murphy’s strong sense
of duty is possibly what kept him going.
In a last ditch effort to rally the resources already
spent on this project Faxx suggests Murphy’s case is not an anomaly, and that
cyborg conversion may appeal to vain individuals seeking immortality. Besides, there
are far better ways to control cyborgs now.
Intrigued (and beguiled by Faxx’s feminine charms),
The Young Man grants her one more chance to make her project a success, despite
Johnson’s reservations.
SUBURBAN STREET – ELLEN MURPHY’S HOME
RoboCop and Lewis pull up to a house in an outlying
Detroit suburb. It’s the home listed as the last known address for James ‘Hob’
Murphy. Every other home on the block is empty and has a real estate sign in
front of it.
Lewis and RoboCop approach the door and ring the
bell. Ellen Murphy answers and is taken aback. Lewis explains to Ellen that her
partner has something to tell her. RoboCop asks Lewis to wait in the car.
Lewis watches through the living room window as
RoboCop reveals his true identity to Ellen, who bursts out crying and clings to
RoboCop desperately. RoboCop hugs her gently. Lewis lets out a sigh.
OCP HEADQUARTERS
Faxx enters her office to see Cain lounging on a
couch as Angie sifts through Faxx’s liquor cabinet. It
soon becomes apparent that Cain is Faxx’s older brother. He tells Faxx that he
enjoyed her presentation and requires some heavy-duty hardware to rid himself
of his “Robocop problem.” He also makes it clear that if he doesn’t get what he
wants from her, he’ll let it leak that he is Faxx’s blood relative, thus
costing Faxx her job and reputation. With no other choice, Faxx gives Cain the
access code to a warehouse where a recently acquired heavy duty Tetratech
military device is being stored.
As Cain and Angie leave, it becomes clear to Faxx
that her brother’s extortion will not end here, and she will have to put an end
to it soon, somehow.
ELLEN MURPHY’S HOME
RoboCop and Ellen get reacquainted. He asks about
James, and Ellen tells him that when Murphy died, she went into a deep
depression. Unable to cope with the anger over his Father’s loss and his Mother’s
despondence, James turned to a life of crime (gang as family). After seeking
counseling, Ellen attempted to reconnect with James, but it was too late. The
last place she saw him was at an old abandoned video game arcade downtown,
where she believes James now lives.
RoboCop promises Ellen that he will find James and
get him the help he needs.
THE OLD ARCADE
Lewis and RoboCop talk about Robo's reconnection with Ellen Murphy while on a stake out. They watch as
Cain’s Second In Command, Catzo, and Hob pull up in Catzo’s cherry 1965 Coup de
Ville. Catzo’s taken Hob under his wing, grooming the teenager as an
up-and-coming player in Cain’s gang.
Lewis uses sound-enhancement gear to listen to the
duo once inside, while Robo uses thermal imaging to track their movements,
spotting two other armed thugs monitoring the arcade’s entrance. Catzo and Hob
journey to the arcade’s second level were they are joined by another man. This man is
Lt. Hedgecock.
Hedgecock hands Catzo some top secret police
schematics. Catzo looks them over and then motions to Hob to give the Lt. a
thick roll of hundred dollar bills. Hob also produces a small supply of Nuke,
but Hedgecock declines. After some convincing by Catzo (and his own nagging addiction),
Hedgecock begrudgingly accepts the “gift.”
RoboCop storms the front doors of the arcade and a
firefight ensues. Catzo and Hob scramble to escape, while Hedgecock panics and
runs out the back—uncertain where he’s going. RoboCop takes out the two guards
and enters the arcade floor, where Catzo and Hob hide behind game machines with
their guns drawn.
Walking down a dark hallway, Hedgecock feels around
the wall and discovers a circuit breaker box. He opens it and flips the
switches. This lights the hallway revealing Lewis with her gun drawn. This
action also powers-on the video games in the arcade and a blaring sound system.
Startled, Hob emerges from hiding, firing wildly.
With RoboCop’s attention on Hob, Catzo makes a break for it through a side
door. RoboCop slaps Hobs rifle away and pins him to a game machine, trying to
reason with him by telling Hob that his Mother is very concerned about him.
Meanwhile, Lewis tells Hedgecock to get on the
ground and put his hands behind his head. Headgecock says he was following a
lead. Realizing his ploy isn’t going to work, he lunges at Lewis, disarming her
when she gets close—her gun goes flying. The two wrestle, punching and kicking
each other.
Back in the Arcade, Hob has calmed down. RoboCop
lets Hob go, giving him room to stop and listen—a sign of good faith on
RoboCop’s part. Hob is obviously volatile, and none of what RoboCop is saying
to him is getting through.
Outside the huge picture window directly behind
Hob, he hears Catzo get in his car, start it up and rev the engine. Hob grabs a chair and smashes-out the window, jumping through
pane and down onto a heap of trash bags next to Catzo’s car. Hob gets in and
looks back at RoboCop in defiance.
As Lewis and Hedgecock fight in the hallway,
Hedgecock sucker punches her, gaining the upper hand. He retrieves Lewis’
sidearm and levels it at her, intent on firing. Suddenly RoboCop appears behind
him. Hedgecock turns around to see a Robo-sandwich coming his way. The punch
knocks Hedgecock down and out.
STATION HOUSE
Hedgecock’s handcuffed to a table in an
interrogation room of Metro West, head in a medical brace. RoboCop and Lewis
press him for information, while Sergeant Reed and a group of angry cops watch
through the one-way mirror. Hedgecock—muttering lame something about alimony payments and a fishing boat—is tight-lipped about
Cain until RoboCop threatens to kabob the turncoat cop on his fist-mounted
terminal spike. Hedgecock spills the beans on Cain’s real hideout—Ground Zero,
the laboratory where Nuke is developed and produced.
Cain is holed-up in a very dangerous part of town.
Reed and Lewis have a heated exchange. Lewis feels they need to strike while
Cain isn’t expecting it. Reed won’t authorize a strike team due to the force’s
diminished numbers. Overhearing this argument, RoboCop goes after Cain by himself.
CAIN’S LAIR
Ground Zero is an old, abandoned automobile
production plant. The chassis of half-built cars linger on the line, coated in
dust and spider webs.
RoboCop’s cruiser pulls up to the locked chain link
fence entrance. He gets out, rips the padlock off the gate and proceeds to
drive inside.
Halfway into the factory yard, an improvised
explosive device detonates, ripping the cruiser into thousands of pieces.
Catzo walks out towards the smoldering remains and
inspects it. He looks back towards the factory and signals to the dozen or so
heavily armed men with an index finger slash across his throat. Hob looks
slightly conflicted by RoboCop’s demise.
RoboCop hides behind the shed next to the entrance,
waiting for the gang to withdraw before making his way inside.
The coast clear, RoboCop proceeds. Monitored by
Cain, RoboCop is allowed access to his lair, even allowing the cyborg to view
his production facility.
Angie lures RoboCop to an arena-like clearing where Cain stands
waiting for him in front of a large red velvet curtain. Surrounded by
gun-toting goons lingering on nearby catwalks, Cain gives a messianic speech.
RoboCop lets Cain know that dead or alive, he is coming with him.
Cain pulls the gold rope on the curtain revealing a two-legged Tetretech mech-tank piloted by Catzo and another thug, Kinto.
The hulking mech is outfitted with all kinds of weaponry, such as two
earth-shattering side-mounted cannons.
Firing away at RoboCop, the firepower from the
mech-tank lays waste to the factory walls as it misses. A deafening
machine-on-machine battle ensues. RoboCop manages to evade the mech, which has
done considerable damage to RoboCop’s armor.
Cain’s minions fan out, guns drawn, searching the
factory for RoboCop, who is hiding in the chassis of a half-built car. Hob
approaches along side the car, and RoboCop pulls him inside. RoboCop tries
again to connect to the kid, and this time it seems like what he’s saying is
getting through. Hob reveals that he feels hopeless and trapped in this life.
Just then, the mech finds RoboCop and Hob in the
chassis and blasts the hell out of it. RoboCop manages to throw Hob clear.
Eventually, RoboCop incapacitates the
mech and kills Kinto, but not before it gets one good shot off, blasting RoboCop
through the air and out into the Michigan River.
Cain is enraged, ordering his troops to scour the
river until they find RoboCop’s carcass. Catzo sees to Hob.
STATION HOUSE
As cops walk the picket line, a heavily damaged and
waterlogged RoboCop stumbles up to them. He’s missing an arm, half of his
helmet is shattered away and there is a huge gaping hole in his chest plate.
Exhausted and stuttering, he falls at the feet of his fellow officers.
The officers drop their picket signs and carry Robo
into the Station House. The throngs of people inside go quite as Robo is
carried through towards the OCP maintenance bay, lake water and thick oil
slowly draining from him.
ACT 2
ONN MEDIABREAK
As ‘Not My Problem: The Next Generation’ goes to
commercial, a promo for ‘Cross Hairs’ follows, with Dutch Rove asking “Could
this be the end for Robocop?” over footage of the cyborg collapsing in front of
Metro West and picketing police officers.
CAIN’S LAIR
Cain and his minions watch the ONN report with
glee. “I’ll buy that for a dollar!” exclaims Catzo, gleefully. The bandits
party, hard. Hob retreats to privacy to make a heartfelt phone call his Mom.
In a video link to Faxx, Cain thanks her for giving
him the mech. True to his nature, Cain demands more technological goodies. If
he doesn’t get what he wants, he’ll make good on his promise to expose her.
Faxx appears to abide Cain's demands, but once she
hangs up, she starts to hatch a plan to rid herself of Cain.
STATION HOUSE
As RoboCop hangs on by a thread, word comes down
that OCP won’t accept him for repair. Making an appearance in the maintenance
bay, Holzgang informs the techies and anxious cops that RoboCop is “off
warranty” and leaves him to die out.
Lewis asks a tech what it will take to repair
RoboCop, and the costs are astronomical. Murphy’s in obvious traumatic shock,
but his vitals are stabilized with neuro-shocks to the brain.
Lewis stews, then realizes she must tell Ellen
what’s happened to Murphy.
ABANDONED HOSPITAL
A limo carrying Hob, Catzo and Hedgecock pulls into
the loading zone of an abandoned hospital. Thy get out and walk up to the entrance.
Hedgecock has got a mean drunk on. Still he’s
grateful that Cain paid his bail and is eager to please his new employer. Catzo
knocks him out cold with a blackjack.
When he wakes up, Hedgecock finds that he’s bound
to a gurney. He’s wheeled into an operating room and confronted by Cain. Cain
doesn’t speak, but Angie lets Hedgecock know how disappointed Cain is in
him—how his snitching almost got Cain killed.
Hedgecock is confused. Wasn’t luring Robocop to his
lair part of Cain’s back-up plan?
The gurney is shifted vertically and Hedgecock now
rests as if on a cross. Catzo, outfitted in a rubber smock, gloves and splatter
mask wheels in a small metal table with its contents under a white sheet. He
rips the sheet from the table revealing a shiny new surgical chainsaw.
The entire time, Hedgecock is blathering,
dismissively saying that this is just a test—Cain’s not going to really kill
him. Catzo picks up the chainsaw, and Cain tells him to hand it to Hob.
Perplexed, Catzo does as directed and storms out of the room in anger.
Hob looks confused and scared, but Cain tells him
that it’s time to prove himself to the cause.
Hob hesitates, and Cain gets behind him, turning on
the saw. He grabs Hob’s by the wrists, guiding the saw into Hedgecock’s
stomach. Hedgecock lets out a stream of expletives before screaming bloody
murder. Angie, aghast, runs out of the room into the hallway and throws up.
The saw is still going as Cain steps out to lord
over Angie. She thought Cain was just going to scare Hedgecock. “Didn’t he look
scared?” Cain responds.
The chainsaw stops and a blood-splattered Hob ambles
out like a drunk, disoriented. Cain clutches him into his arms and tells Hob
how proud he is of him. Watching this from down the hall, Catzo seethes. He
knows Cain is either grooming Hob for his position or taking Hob away from him.
STATION HOUSE
Lewis sneaks Ellen in to see Murphy. Ellen starts
sobbing. Lewis comforts her and tells Ellen the Department is doing everything
it can to get Murphy back together again.
Ellen asks what OCP is doing to help Murphy. Lewis
is at a loss.
OCP HEADQUARTERS
Johnson presents a dilemma to The Young Man. Public
sympathy runs high for Robocop, and OCP’s reluctance to repair him is a public
relations nightmare. There is even an outcry from OCP stockholders.
Holzgang suggests keeping Robo offline to hurry the
collapse of Old Detroit. The Young Man concurs.
Dr. Faxx, however, claims to have a solution that
will workout favorably and cover all of OCP’s bases. She suggests rebuilding
Robocop to ease public tension, then “retire” the unit when Robocop Mk.2 comes
online.
Assuring The Young Man, Johnson and Holzgang that
her prototype will be ready by week’s end, Faxx is able to convince them to let
Dr. McNamara's team rebuild Robocop and get him back out onto the streets. RoboCop Mk.2
will only look better by comparison.
Later, Johnson tells Faxx that he has his doubts
about her project, and about scraping RoboCop entirely. Faxx dismisses him,
subtly implying that after her project is unveiled, Johnson might want to look
for a new job.
As Johnson steams, The Young Man walks up, greets
them both and extends an arm to Faxx. She takes The Young Man’s arm and gives
him a kiss on the cheek. Johnson now realizes why Faxx wields so much power and
confidence.
PREMONITION—DREAM SEQUENCE
RoboCop is in a graveyard at night. Walking
through, he sees a gravestone with “Alex Murphy” etched into it. Suddenly, the
real Alex Murphy stands beside him.
“What a shame, huh?” as he motions to the grave
stone, now etched with the name “Robocop.” The ground beneath the gravestone
gives way, forming a fresh grave. Wires shoot out from the hole in the ground,
wrapping around RoboCop’s legs, torso and head, pulling him in.
As RoboCop struggles, he sees Ellen and James join
Alex. They smile and wave goodbye to him. RoboCop screams out in agony.
STATION HOUSE
The monitors gauging Robo’s stats go haywire.
Ellen, sitting by Murphy’s side, calls out frantically for help.
Moments later, Holzgang and a team of OCP techs are
wheeling Robo’s carcass out of the Station House. Reed tells Holzgang he wants
his officer returned to him in one piece. Just to be a dick, Holzgang gives him
a “maybe we will, maybe we won’t” response.
As the OCP team wheels RoboCop out, Ellen and Lewis
emerge from a side office, and watch Murphy roll away from them. Ellen
struggles to follow, but Lewis, The Chief and two more cop hold her back,
knowing that if Holzgang realizes RoboCop and Ellen are in contact with one
another, RoboCop may never return again.
CAIN’S NEW LAIR
Cain addresses his troops, glorifying the
destruction of Robocop and his rapidly expanding Nuke empire. With talk of
breaking the “blue collar barrier,” he announces a newer, more pure brand of
Nuke for the burgeoning upper class.
Cain believes that he is on a mission from God,
delivering Nuke upon the world to ease its pain. He promises his troops that
high tech “weapons of persuasion” are on their way. It’s only a matter of time
before Cain and his army controls the streets of Detroit.
Breaking away from the rally, Catzo ducks into a
private office and phones the police telling them where to find Cain’s new
lair.
OCP HEADQUARTERS
Dr. Faxx drops in on Dr. McNamara as he and his
team put the finishing touches on a now-rebuilt Robocop who is sitting in a
diagnostic chair similar to the one at the Station House. Dr. McNamara notes
that Robo’s onboard computer systems are up and running perfectly, though
Murphy’s dominant personality overrides any chance of reprogramming the
humanity out of him; those nodes are damaged beyond repair.
Taking that bit of information into consideration,
Faxx asks everyone to clear the room so that she can have some one-on-one time
with the cyborg.
Now alone, Faxx makes her pitch to Murphy, who is alert and cogent. She wants Cain off the streets as much as RoboCop does.
She explains that she is the reason he is being reconstructed and outfitted
with spare parts and new amenities (ex. a right leg holster that hold up to ten
20-round magazines for his gun).
A lie of sorts, Faxx works Murphy’s sympathies with
a sob story about how Cain took the life of her brother. She wants revenge.
Murphy tells her he’ll bring Cain to justice, but in order to take him down,
he’s going to need major help beyond the meager resources of the police
department.
Faxx says that she doesn’t have the clearance (yet)
to rescind the hold on police pay and pensions, but she does have an idea that
will help Robocop out.
RoboCop get up from his chair and tells Faxx there
is something he must do something before pursuing Cain.
GRAVEYARD – MURPHY’S GRAVE STONE
As in his dream, RoboCop stands in front of his
gravestone. Ellen walks up and stands next to him, admitting that she hasn’t
been here since Murphy’s funeral (and now wondering who or what exactly it was
they buried).
After facing a near second death, Robo’s determined
now more than ever to get their son back. They talk about old times. Ellen
tells Murphy that she still loves him. He tells her the same and they kiss.
STATION HOUSE
RoboCop returns to the Station House to rally
whatever help he can get. It’s a meager batch (10-15 officers), but he assures
them that they will have significant backup and artillery in order to smoke
Cain’s gang out.
Reed saves RoboCop and Lewis the trouble of hunting and
pecking Detroit for Cain and his crew by relaying the info Catzo anonymously
called in. Reed suits-up and helps lead RoboCop’s strike force.
RAID ON CAIN
A smattering of police cars, SWAT vans and OCP
fleet trucks race down the streets of Detroit en route to Cain’s new lair.
Cain’s new sprawling headquarters is the ornate
industrial complex. Cain and his closest henchmen inspect the new strains of
Nuke being developed in state-of-the-art laboratories by white-coated
scientists—Cain’s operation looks very legitimate and professional (“We’re
going to make ‘Made In America’ mean something again.”)
After disabling the security system, the cops and
vans pull in through a back access gate (to avoid detection) and dismount.
Lewis asks RoboCop about the back up they were promised. RoboCop motions to Dr.
McNamara, who flicks a switch on a remote.
The back of the fleet vans open and 10 ED-209 units
trundle out. McNamara gives each cop a transponder so that the ED-209’s can
differentiate friends from foes. Techies hand out Cobra Assault Cannons to a
lucky few.
RoboCop requests his fellow officers to "...spare the boy.". Cain,
though, is fair game.
Not having expected the return of a new and
improved RoboCop and a heavily armed police force, Cain’s forces panic.
Firefights break out, alerting Cain and his minions.
The cops and ED-209’s chip away successfully at
Cain’s gang. The ED-209’s performances range from deadly accurate to comically
inane.
In the loading bay just outside the lab, Angie
holds off the encroaching police force with tear gas and automatic weapons
fire. Catzo, under orders from Cain, is busy loading up one of the two Pattison
armored bomb disposal trucks with as much cash, gold, Nuke, and Nuke formula
notebooks as he can. He violently grabs the now aloof Hob, orders him to wait
in the truck’s cab, and heads into the lab.
Cain has executed all of the Nuke techs and is
setting charges in the lab. Catzo walks in and confronts Cain, telling him that
he’s taking over Cain’s Nuke empire. Catzo shoots Cain in the stomach, leaving
him to bleed out as the timers on the bombs count down.
Catzo orders Angie into the truck, telling her that
it’s an order from Cain, who will follow close behind in the second truck.
Angie takes the wheel, and the truck breaks out of the loading bay doors,
busting through the police line, and escaping through the back entrance.
Bloody and weak, Cain manages to crawl out of the
lab and up into the second truck. The timers on the detonators are counting
down to zero as Cain starts the truck and guns it out of the bay. As he reaches
the door, the bombs in the lab go off, propelling Cain’s truck violently out.
Clutching at his wound, Cain attempts to drive out
of the compound. With his way blocked by an ED-209, Cain smashes right through
it, shattering the window. The debris slashes the truck’s tires, slowing it
down. Through the smoke, RoboCop emerges; he is too tempting a target for Cain
to let go.
RoboCop shoots at Cain, causing Cain to duck to one
side. As the truck approaches, RoboCop jumps onto the front of it, smashing a
hole in the shattered glass. As the truck reaches the heavy front gates of the
compound, Cain increases speed, intending to flatten RoboCop. RoboCop reaches
in, grabs the steering wheel and turns it violently, causing the truck to jerk
right, plow its nose into the ground and flip several times, end-over-end.
RoboCop is thrown clear.
The tumbling truck crashes through the front gates
and into traffic where it struck by a passing semi. When it finally comes to
rest, Cain’s truck’s back door is wrenched open, cash and gold bars splayed out
on the ground.
RoboCop walks over to the truck’s cab to see,
miraculously, Cain clinging to life. Robo begins to read Cain his rights.
ACT 3
ONN MEDIABREAK
Rove celebrates OCP’s victory over Cain and his
impending death. There is elation for RoboCop, as reporters clamor around him.
Rove relishes in reporting that the State's Attorney General won’t let The
Mayor’s office touch the nearly $500 million dollars in seized Nuke assets from
Cain’s truck.
OCP HEADQUARTERS
Faxx storms into Dr. McNamara’s lab, RoboCop Mk.2
schematics in hand. She’s irate; she wants the unit to be bigger, more
menacing. (“I want it to give YOU nightmares, doctor.”)
Inquiring about the brain that they’re going to use
for the unit, Faxx assures Dr. McNamara that she’ll be retrieving it shortly.
ON THE STREET
Angie brings the truck to a violent stop. She’s
frenzied and crying over the news of Cain. She wants to break him out of the
hospital, but Catzo dismisses her, saying the news reports made it seem that
Cain was dead already.
Catzo berates Angie and Hob, laying down the law
and asserting himself as the gang’s new leader. Reluctantly, Angie capitulates,
but not before warning Catzo and Hob that if Cain lives, he’ll kill all of
them.
HOSPITAL
Faxx enters Cain’s hospital room and looks over his
mangled body—his eyes relay his misery. The tables have turned in their
relationship. Faxx seems almost chipper as she admonishes Cain for trying to
extort her.
She phones in an order for an organ harvest team,
as she claims that Cain has just expired. With sadistic glee, she shuts down
the medical equipment keeping Cain alive, looking into his eyes and smiling as
he fades away.
Brain surgeons extract Cain’s brain and place it in
a suspension pod. Cut to…
OCP HEADQUARTERS
Where Cain’s brain pod is now connected to a bank
of computer terminals. Lines of code read out his brain waves, which are now
being fused with complex algorithms. Cain’s brain is trying to fight the memory
wiped and new forced data, but Dr. McNamara assures Faxx that Cain’s brain will
be successfully wiped and reformatted in a matter of hours. The code should
graft with Cain’s base immortality instinct and messianic nature. Tapping into
Cain’s limbic system should not be difficult.
In one last bit of delicious irony, Faxx orders
McNamara to include a stimulant port into Cain’s brain pod. In order to wield
more control over Robocop Mk2, his brain will be stimulated with short
controlled doses of Nuke—in effect, addicted Cain to the very narcotic he used
to peddle. McNamara resists, but capitulates when Faxx, who is romantically
linked to the Young Man, reminds him who’s in charge.
MAYOR’S TELETHON
Kuzak, in a last-ditch effort to raise funds, has
resorted to a telethon featuring a gaggle of performing freaks and phone
operators looking around bored. The tote board reads a meager $4,213.21.
A call comes in requesting to speak to the Mayor
directly. It’s Angie, seductively telling Mayor Kuzak that the money to bail
out the city—and more—is available. The Mayor is dubious, but desperate. He
agrees to meet with her.
STATION HOUSE
A motorcade of paneled vans and town cars pull to
Metro West, barging through the picket line. From this motorcade, OCP
executives, directors and lab techs pile out. Headed by Faxx and Dr. McNamara,
they storm the station, clearing the riff-raff out of their way. Sergeant Reed
is indignant, but Faxx assured him that help has arrived. Robo, Lewis and the
rest of the cops on duty look perplexed.
Clomping, thunderous footsteps approach, getting
louder as they near. Everyone falls silent. Outside the dual paned frosted glass front doors appears a giant mechanical behemoth. OCP techs open the
door revealing Robocop Mk.2.
The cyborg crouches down and walks through the
entryway as Faxx introduces him. Everyone crowds around the new prototype
cyborg, marveling at its size and ferocious appearance.
Faxx announces that the Robocop Mk.2 prototype is
here for an on-the-streets field test, but it’s obvious she’s basking it her
creation’s glory. Lewis wonders sarcastically to Murphy if this prototype is
RoboCop’s replacement. Now he can retire.
Reed offers the cyborg a car, but Faxx assures him
that Robocop Mk.2 won’t require one. She presses a button on a remote and orders
Robocop Mk.2 to “go to work.” A view inside RoboCop Mk.2 reveals a Nuke-drip feeding into Cain's brain accelerating. He powers up, turns and walks out the door and
into the night.
RoboCop takes note of Faxx's remote, and notices the "intake feed" dial. Intake of what? RoboCop approaches Faxx, but she is cold to him now, subtly intimating that RoboCop Mk.2 will soon replace him.
RoboCop takes note of Faxx's remote, and notices the "intake feed" dial. Intake of what? RoboCop approaches Faxx, but she is cold to him now, subtly intimating that RoboCop Mk.2 will soon replace him.
ON THE STREET-MONTAGE
RoboCop Mk.2 cleans up the street, but in a more
brutal, violent and sadistic manner than his predecessor (crime fighting montage).
ONN MEDIA BREAK
There’s a new sheriff in town, and his name is
Robocop Mk.2. Faxx is being interviewed by Rove, who is towing the company line
about the virtues of OCP’s wonderful new cyborg.
On-the-street interviewees paint a slightly less than rosy picture of the new crime fighter, however; citizens are glad to see the streets of Detroit being patrolled by a powerful new cop, but have concerns over the menacing and violent shadow he casts. These interviews are sloppily edited to skew positive, but aren’t very convincing.
On-the-street interviewees paint a slightly less than rosy picture of the new crime fighter, however; citizens are glad to see the streets of Detroit being patrolled by a powerful new cop, but have concerns over the menacing and violent shadow he casts. These interviews are sloppily edited to skew positive, but aren’t very convincing.
OCP HEADQUARTERS
The Young Man, Johnson, Holzgang and Faxx are in a
meeting with Mayor Kuzak’s Chief Of Staff, Poulos, who is alerting the
executives about the Mayor’s impending bailout. As he leaves, Poulos asks The
Young Man to remember this favor once OCP has taken over. The Young Man tells
Poulos he will be “taken care of.”
If The Mayor can secure this bailout, OCP will be a
laughing stock. Furthermore, as Holzgang points out, OCP will be financially vulnerable
to a hostile takeover, as it has shifted almost all of it’s remaining liquid
assets to the Delta City project.
Faxx chimes in that OCP certainly has the means to
follow the Mayor with surveillance, but stopping the transaction is a different
matter entirely. They can’t be sure who the Mayor’s new benefactor could be.
For all they know, it could be former Tetratech
board members using their buy-out capital to hostilely take over a crippled
OCP—a turnabout that seems plausible to Johnson.
It’s all a matter of how far they’re willing to go,
posits Faxx on how to handle this situation. The Young Man tells her in a vague
tone that there must be no witnesses.
MAYOR MEETS GANGSTERS
The Mayor brings Poulos and an attorney, Robert Steiner,
to the meeting with the gangsters in an old abandoned mill. They are greeted by
Catzo, Angie, Hob, and an assortment of hired muscle, all decked out in
business suits (save for Angie, who wears a form-fitting catsuit).
Catzo outlines his terms. In exchange for the
bailout, he wants abandoned riverfront property to construct a hotel and casino
playland—a Delta City for the Sin City set. While Nuke money will refinance the
city and his new resort, Catzo wants to be recognized as a legitimate
businessman—not a Nuke Lord. If he can get the city to look the other way while
his resort is under construction, Catzo will eventually hand-off his Nuke
empire to some poor schmuck who the Mayor’s Office and Detroit Police can
easily take down. Kuzak will be “The Mayor That Saved Detroit!” It’s win-win
all around.
Steiner has reservations about doing business with
criminals, and Mayor Kuzak and Poulos quickly shoot him down.
The deal seems set. But, right as Catzo and Kuzak
shake hands, Robocop Mk.2 bursts in, using all of its weapons systems to
slaughter nearly everyone.
Poulos escapes out a side door, but is quickly
cut-down in a hail of bullets and thermal imaging. Hob climbs into the back of
the armored truck and locks the doors. Catzo, outside, starts beating on the
doors, demanding Hob to open them.
Robocop Mk.2 seizes on Catzo, using his minigun-arm
hand to nail him to the truck’s door by the neck. Catzo is face-to-minigun with
Robocop Mk.2 as the cyborg’s helmet splits open revealing a plasma screen. Code
flashes onto the screen until Cain’s digitized face finally appears.
Catzo is in shock. “RoboCain” studies Catzo’s face,
instantly engaging/overriding RoboCain’s onboard memory function. Angie appears out of the
shadows, elated to see Cain again. RoboCain’s memories of her come back in a
rush. As his computer-generated face smiles in relief, he extends his robotic
right hand to her. Hob watches all of this from the shutters of the truck’s
doors.
Angie caresses the robotic hand, telling RoboCain
it will take some getting used to. His face goes from pleasure to confusion.
RoboCain raises his right hand to his face and snaps it open and closed a few
times, then rubbing his "fingers" against each other; he can’t feel anything.
Enraged, RoboCain’s face screen recedes back into
his helmet. He grabs Angie by the head and snaps her neck, tossing her limp
body away. RoboCain then turns his attention to Catzo, obliterating his head
with the minigun. Bullets ricochet throughout the inside of the armored truck,
slicing through Hob. RoboCain releases Catzo headless corpse, and it slides
limply down the truck and onto the ground.
Leaving in anger, RoboCain spots Mayor Kuzak
lifting a sewer grate. As Cain fires, the Mayor falls down the drain
unscathed, and into the sewers below.
Noticing some cylinders of Nuke on a nearby table,
RoboCain picks them up, studies them and inserts one into his front-loading
"supplement" intake port. As the Nuke takes effect, RoboCain’s chassis shutters, then calms.
He "spits-out" the spent cylinder, loads another and grabs a few more on his way out.
AFTERMATH
RoboCop and Lewis arrive on the scene of the
massacre sometime later. RoboCop discovers Hob’s near-lifeless body in the
armored truck. Robo takes Hob’s hand. He tells Robo that it was Cain who
attacked them. He asks Robo for forgiveness, which Robo grants, addressing him
as “James.” Hob succumbs to his wounds.
RoboCop is in a rage—Cain killed his son. And OCP made it happen. Lewis
eventually calms him down, and they both notice the spent Nuke canisters on the floor. Realizing that Cain’s Nuke-addicted brain is now inside the body
of an armored and heavily-armed machine, RoboCop and Lewis race to…
DELTA TOWER—ONN MEDIABREAK
Donald Rove and a beautiful co-anchor are reporting
live from a festive scene. They play tape of the Nuke money massacre and of
Mayor Kuzak making lame excuses for why the bodies of two of his key staffers
where found there. Making flippant remarks about The Mayor, they turn their
attention back to the festivities.
OCP HEADQUARTERS
The Young Man and Faxx exit OCP Headquarters and
get into a limousine, discussing spinning the story of Robocop Mk2’s Nuke
massacre as a police raid, should The Mayor divulge his part in the entire
affair. The limo drives directly next door OCP’s brand new Delta Tower, where
The Young Man and Faxx get out and walk the red carpet.
Delta Tower is draped in long red tapestries with
the white-dot OCP insignias in the middle. OCP guards are decked out in black
patent leather field marshal gear, complete with commandant-esc hats with OCP
logo affixed to the front.
Reporters clamor to get The Young Man’s attention
as he enters Delta Tower, but he only answers Rove’s question pertaining to why
he’s not going to the mayors office: Delta Tower represents a fresh start.
PRESS BRIEFING
As The Young Man starts his speech, Faxx harangues
McNamara about RoboCop Mk.2 twitchiness. As Faxx glances over at the unit, she
gets a strange sense that it’s intently looking directly at her.
Addressing RoboCop Mk.2 directly, she presents a
canister of Nuke, which the cyborg’s intake unit desires (grabby claw
mechanism). RoboCain advances slightly towards Faxx, and she presents him with
the remote. On the remote, she dials back his Nuke feed, causing him a great
deal of pain—or so she thinks (an internal view of RoboCain's Nuke feed tubes appear to be gone, as if RoboCain somehow ripped them out himself). RoboCain plays possum, behaving for now.
She tells McNamara to get his act together. If this
presentation goes badly, Faxx promises the doctor that he’ll be out on his ass.
She leaves to join the press briefing.
The Young Man, in mid-speech, presses a button on
his podium, presenting a scale model representation of Delta City, which rises
up from the floor.
Meanwhile, the Mayor and a staffer walk into the
auditorium. The Young Man (cocky) welcomes the “out going administration.” The
two debate the merits of private enterprise versus civil liberties and The
Young Man’s obvious shell game—Delta City was The Young Man’s plan all along.
Eventually, The Mayor is bullied by The Young Man into taking his seat.
Continuing his speech, The Young Man recalls that
several years ago his Father gave the city of Detroit Robocop. Times have
gotten tougher; it’s time to take it up a notch.
Pressing another button on his podium, the Delta
City model splits down the middle and RoboCop Mk2 rises up onto stage. Upon the
sight of it, Mayor Kuzak gets anxious, barely holding it together. Faxx
relishes watching The Mayor squirm in his seat.
The Young Man removes a canister of Nuke from below
the podium, promising RoboCop Mk.2 will seek and destroy every last drop.
RoboCain cannot resist the lure of the Nuke and grabs at it, as the press core
laughs. The Young Man tosses the cylinder off stage. Faxx, nervous at the idea
of getting caught using narcotics to control her cyborg, rushes onstage, trying
to control RoboCain with the remote.
RoboCop arrives, Cobra Assault Rifle in hand. He
calls Cain by name, taunting him to step outside. This causes the reporters to
look at one another (“Does he mean the Nuke dealer and murderer Cain?!?”)
Faxx yells at RoboCop, telling him he’s obsolete.
RoboCain tries firing at RoboCop, but his weapons systems aren’t active. Mayor
Kuzak jumps up, accusing RoboCop Mk.2 of being a killer, having witnessed the
Nuke massacre firsthand. Faxx, pointing at her remote, screams that RoboCop Mk.2
isn’t even armed. RoboCain snatches the remote, arms himself and starts firing
away at RoboCop.
RoboCop fires the Cobra Assault Rifle at RoboCain,
knocking him into the Delta City model. RoboCain springs up from the wreckage
and fires two shots from his high-caliber shoulder-mounted shotgun at RoboCop.
The first shot shatters Robo’s rifle in half. The second shot knocks RoboCop on
his ass.
The Young Man has had enough, and demands that the
two cyborgs behave themselves. RoboCain turns to The Young Man, and sees Faxx
standing behind him. Slapping The Young Man out of the way, RoboCain lurches
toward his sister, minigun ramping up. Before firing at her, however, RoboCop
fires off a couple of rounds from his sidearm, hitting RoboCain’s head.
RoboCain is torn. Who does he want to kill first:
his sister or RoboCop? Opting for the more annoying (and armed) of the two, he
turns toward RoboCop.
As he advances on RoboCop, RoboCain again uses his
shoulder-mounted gun. RoboCop evades the shots and manages to use his targeting
system to shoot the gun right off of its mounting. By this time, however,
RoboCain has ascended the stairs to RoboCop, and uses his arm-mounted battering
ram to knock Robocop clear through the wall and into the Plaza’s main atrium.
RoboCain pursues RoboCop’s falling body where more violence and mayhem ensues.
OUTSIDE DELTA PLAZA
By this point, Lewis and a small force of cops
descend on Delta Plaza. Lewis orders bystanders and reporters to get back. Only
Rove gives her grief, behaving like the petulant pre-Madonna that he is.
RoboCop’s body comes flying through a plate glass window, landing in the
street.
RoboCain walks out after him, only to be greeted by
armed Cops and OCP guards. Despite being ordered not to by Lewis, the
untrained, unseasoned OCP guards start firing upon RoboCain. Their gunfire does
nothing but anger the cyborg, who returns fire. People get mowed down. In the
cross fire, Rove is riddled with bullets.
The Young Man, groggy but awake, tells Johnson to
scramble the best spin team he can.
RoboCain is now on the hunt for RoboCop, plowing
his way through cops, guards and civilians. By this time, Faxx has stepped
outside to watch in horror as her creation goes berserk.
BACK INSIDE
RoboCop has gone back into the auditorium to retrieve the Nuke canister. There he is met by Dr. McNamara, who tells RoboCop that there is "...gallons of that stuff..." in his office at OCP Tower, if that's any help.
BACK INSIDE
RoboCop has gone back into the auditorium to retrieve the Nuke canister. There he is met by Dr. McNamara, who tells RoboCop that there is "...gallons of that stuff..." in his office at OCP Tower, if that's any help.
BACK OUTSIDE
Spotting an OCP armored military vehicle, Lewis gets in and pilots the heavily armored rig right at RoboCain, nailing him against a wall. This reprieve allows everyone to take a breather, assess the damage and take in the carnage.
RoboCop rejoins Lewis.
The armored truck begins to rock back and forth.
Cops begin to scramble, taking up defensive postures and readying their aim.
RoboCop tells Lewis to get the car—they have to get Cain away from these
people. Lewis asks where they’re going. “I’ll tell you on the way.”
RoboCain shoves the truck over and emerges only
slight scathed. Surveying the scene, he spots RoboCop and draws a target lock
on him. RoboCop holds up the Nuke canister for RoboCain to see. RoboCop slowly
advances toward RoboCain, as RoboCain softens his posture, reaching out for the
cylinder. Suddenly, Lewis pulls up in a cruiser and RoboCop dives in the back
seat. RoboCain gives chase.
RoboCop tells Lewis to head to the express freight elevator
in the OCP Headquarters building—he has a plan. As they drive, RoboCain chases
them, clawing and shooting at the cruiser wildly.
OCP HEADQUARTERS
They enter the building’s parking garage, as
RoboCain weaves in and out of the garage’s columns in hot pursuit. Lewis and
RoboCop drive into the freight elevator, and close the doors behind them.
RoboCain beats on the doors. When he finally breaks through, he sees the
freight elevator has already begun its quick ascent and follows by climbing up the
shaft.
RoboCop and Lewis make it to the floor housing
McNamara’s lab and drive backwards down the hall until they get to it. RoboCain
shoots through the freight elevator’ floorboards, splintering them into pieces
as he busts through. He walks down the hall, following the tire marks on the gleaming white floor.
Once RoboCain reaches the cruiser, he finds it
busted through the front door/wall to McNamara's off, empty. As he looks around, Robocop sucker punches him. RoboCain reacts,
throwing RoboCop across the room, dropping the Nuke cylinder. RoboCain reaches
down, picks up the cylinder and opens his access port.
RoboCop jumps up, and jams a
hose connected to the giant vat of Nuke into RoboCain’s open access port. With the
dial set to “maximum,” RoboCop yeals "Now, Lewis!" and she flips a switch on the vat's control terminal, filling RoboCain up with an overdose of Nuke.
Disoriented, RoboCain scrambles to rip the hose
out of his access port, but it’s too late. He’s literally leaking Nuke (in some
places, violently, like projectile vomit), stumbling like a drunk. Cain’s
helmet opens to reveal his digital face in anguish and pain.
RoboCop gets up and starts hammering away at the
beast with every ounce of anger over the loss of his son his fists can muster.
RoboCop manages to make several dents in RoboCain’s once impervious armor
(which is now bursting at the seems with Nuke juice). RoboCain tries to fight
back, but overcome with Nuke sickness, he’s helpless. He drops to his "hands" and "knees."
RoboCop hauls back, slams RoboCain square through
his plasma screen, and unwittingly grabbing the brain pod behind it. As RoboCop
pulls the brain pod out, he shoves RoboCain back, hard, sending him reeling
out a window. As the giant cycborg falls 110 stories, RoboCop riddles RoboCain’s
brain pod with bullets. RoboCain’s cracked-glass video image screams in agony
as it surges with static, dying out like a cathode ray television mili-seconds
before his body slams to the ground below in a twisted mass of metal, power
surges and Nuke spray.
RoboCop and Lewis look down from the smashed-out window and watch as a pool of Nuke forms under
RoboCain’s lifeless, mangled body.
DELTA TOWER.
Dead bodies are scattered everywhere. The wounded are
being carried out on stretchers. The cops regroup and take stock, while Mayor
Kuzak is being grilled by the media.
The Young Man, Johnson and Holzgang mull their
options as medics attend to The Young Man’s injuries. There will be class
action lawsuits and prison time. Johnson proposes that all of this mayhem,
death and destruction could be the work of one individual—someone who wasn’t a
team player; the one who picked the brain for RoboCop Mk.2. Holzgang assures The
Young Man that the evidence of Faxx’s deceit is there for the finding, if it
exists or not. The Young Man seems reluctant.
As they discuss this, Faxx approaches and embraces
The Young Man, crocodile tears in her eyes. She claims to have worried about
The Young Man’s safety. Cain’s brain in RoboCop Mk.2 and the use of Nuke to
control him? It was all McNamara’s idea. The Young Man assures her everything
will be okay.
As The Young Man turns to leave, he tells Johnson
and Holzgang to get going on what they were just discussing, immediately. Faxx
shoots Johnson a shit-eating grin, completely unaware of what awaits her.
As The Young Man and Faxx fend-off reporters to get
to their limo, RoboCop asks Lewis to take him "home."
ELLEN MURPHY’S HOUSE
RoboCop and Ellen sit on the porch. Ellen is
silent, taking in the news of her son’s death. RoboCop offers an apology, but
it’s of little comfort. With a single tear running down her cheek, Ellen numbly
tells him that she can’t do this. As much as she was relieved to find out that
her husband is still alive, the events that surround Murphy’s life as it is
now—topped with losing her only son-are too much for her to bear. As much as it
pains her to do so, Ellen must say goodbye to Murphy/RoboCop.
This time they get to say goodbye to one another,
face-to-face. They embrace and RoboCop walks away from the woman he loves.
IN THE CRUISER
Lewis is at the wheel, thinking of something to say
to comfort Murphy. Before she can get anything out, a call comes over the
radio: an armed disturbance downtown.
Murphy asks Lewis if she’s ready to get back to work. It’s a shared moment. The cruiser, now on the freeway, races back with sirens ablaze to a Detroit that needs them.
Murphy asks Lewis if she’s ready to get back to work. It’s a shared moment. The cruiser, now on the freeway, races back with sirens ablaze to a Detroit that needs them.
