[1981] [Escape from New York] English Transcripts

(1) The Crime Rate in the United States Rises Four Hundred Percent.
(2) The once-great city of New York
(3) becomes the one maximum-security prison for the entire country.
(4) A fifty-foot containment wall is erected along the New Jersey shoreline,...
(5) across the Harlem river, and down along the Brooklyn shoreline.
(6) It completely surrounds Manhattan Island.
(7) All bridges and waterways are mined.
(8) The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island.
(9) There are no guards inside the prison:
(10) only prisoners and the worlds they have made.
(11) The rules are simple. Once you go in, you don't come out.
(12) This is Gotham 4, North Bay, Station 17.
(13) I have an escape in progress.
(14) An object in mid-bay moving toward the wall.
(15) You have 10 seconds.  Turn around. Start back to the island.
(16) Gotham 4, confirm the kill.
(17) Circled the base.  Over.
(18) Security, this is Rehme. We have confirmation from Gotham 4.
(19) We have a kill in midharbor. South of the battery. Two in the water dead.
(20) Two confirmed.
(21) Very well.
(22) Air traffic, this is Rehme ...
(23) "No talking.  No smoking. Follow the ORANGE line."
(24) Attention.  You are now entering the debarkation area.
(25) No talking.  No smoking.
(26) Follow the orange line to the processes area.
(27) The next scheduled departure to the prison is in two hours.
(28) You now have the option to terminate and be cremated on the premises
(29) If you elect this option, notify the duty sergeant in your processing area.
(30) Hold on!
(31) We've got a small jet in trouble, over restricted air space.
(32) Where is it? Seven miles out and closing.
(33) We've been on the board for the last 20 minutes. We haven't been able to reach them.
(34) There was a transmission 10 minutes ago.
(35) He identified as "David 14." Then all of a sudden he was cut off.
(36) David 14, acknowledge.
(37) David 14, we are sending Air Rescue.
(38) Squawk 7700,
(39) contact on 121.5.
(40) There's still no reply.
(41) Bayonne.  I have a mayday in restricted space.
(42) Who is it? I don't know.
(43) You have the code? There's no David 14 on the computer.
(44) Unlisted? Unregistered code.
(45) We telexed Washington. Still waiting for a reply.
(46) I think I've got him, sir.
(47) It's too late, assholes.
(48) All your imperialist weapons and lies can't save him now.
(49) We're going down. We're going to crash.
(50) David 14, acknowledge!
(51) The code's coming in, sir.
(52) "Aircraft Identified.
(53) Code: David14.
(54) Decode: AIR FORCE ONE."
(55) Tell this to the workers when they ask where your leader went ...
(56) We, the soldiers of the national liberation front of America,
(57) in the name of the workers
(58) and all the oppressed of this imperialist country
(59) have struck a fatal blow to the racist police stick!
(60) What better revolutionary example than to let the president perish
(61) in the inhuman dungeon of his own imperialist prison?
(62) Unlock the pod! She's bolted the door.
(63) Can't you shoot off the lock? No, sir, she's pressurized the cabin.
(64) How about lifting the door off of the hinges?
(65) No, sir.
(66) Get me to the pod.
(67) Sir, this is a locating device to trace you if you become separated from the pod.
(68) I'm activating it now.
(69) God save me and watch over you all.
(70) Computer simulation tracking Air Force One.
(71) The plane goes down.
(72) It's the escape pod.
(73) 40 degrees,
(74) 50 yards from impact.
(75) I'm going in.
(76) 1-W-Larry.  Over the battery.
(77) We're moving down.
(78) Direct sight ahead.
(79) You touch me... he dies.
(80) If you're not in the air in thirty seconds...he dies.
(81) You come back in... he dies.
(82) Twenty seconds. I'm ready to talk.
(83) 19...18...
(84) What do you want? 17...16...
(85) Let's go.  Let's go!
(86) Yes, he's right here, Mr. Vice President.
(87) This is Bob Hauk.
(88) We can't.  If we move in with choppers, they'll kill him.
(89) We're lucky if he's not dead already...
(90) They don't want anything yet. By the time they figure out what they want,it'll be too late.
(91) Tell him we have to go with your plan now.
(92) We can't wait until tomorrow. If we have to move in and take the island, it's a last resort.
(93) It's 8:45. I want permission to try a rescue.
(94) Thank you.
(95) All right.
(96) He's dangerous sir. I know. I'll be ok.
(97) I'm not a fool, Plissken.
(98) Call me Snake.
(99) S.D. Plissken.  American Lieutenant.
(100) Special Forces Unit, Black Flight.