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 1.
OPEN ON:
Desert.
2 EXT. CURSED EARTH - DAY 2
Blasted rock and dust, as far as the eye can see.
VOICE OVER
America is an irradiated wasteland.
A Cursed Earth, in which a single
outpost of civilization remains.
Stretching from Boston to
Washington ...
3 EXT. CURSED EARTH/MEGA CITY ONE - CONTINUOUS 3
A vast walled city appears on the horizon.
VOICE OVER
... Mega City One.
4 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE - CONTINUOUS 4
We fly over the city.
On first glance, it looks comparable to its early Twenty
First Century counterpart. A sprawl of low-rise buildings,
with clusters of tall skyscrapers.
But as we get closer, we realize that what looked like low-
rise buildings are in fact skyscrapers, and what looked
like high rise buildings are in fact the MEGA BLOCKS.
Brutal concrete monoliths, jutting up out of pollution
haze. Each operates like self-contained town. The higher
levels are residential, housing tens of thousands. On the
lower levels, there are schools, med centers, shops,
restaurants, bars, and recreational facilities.
Over this view of MEGA CITY ONE...
FADE TO:
5 INT. HALL OF JUSTICE 5
2.
In a darkened room, with single light source, a man is
putting on a uniform.
In the darkness and artfully positioned lighting, his face
is always hidden in total shadow.
We see him -
- zipping up boots.
- clipping on utility belt.
- pulling on gloves.
- picking up his LAWGIVER GUN.
As DREDD'S fist closes around it, an LED light by a small
digital display flashes red.
Then, on the digital display, a message appears:
ID OK
The LED Turns green.
He holsters the weapon.
Finally, he pulls his helmet down over his head.
Now he moves in such a way that the light falls on his
face.
The top half of his features are hidden below a visor.
The lower half, his mouth and chin, look as if they have
been carved from rock.
Title:
DREDD
CUT TO:
6 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE/ROAD - NIGHT 6
- a ribbon of road, through a canyon of mega blocks.
DREDD rides down it, on a huge, fat-wheeled motorbike.
His fist twists the throttle.
3.
As he accelerates, we SWING AROUND to reveal -
- DREDD is in hot pursuit of a vehicle.
The pursuit takes place in the tunnels beneath and through
the megablocks, and the open stretches of road fly-overs
between.
DREDD
Dredd to Control. In pursuit of
vehicle, sector thirteen, moving
west up Wagner Drive. Driving
erratic. Suspect driver is under
influence of narcotics.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Copy, Dredd.
CUT TO:
7 INT. VEHICLE - CONTINUOUS 7
INSIDE THE VEHICLE -
- suddenly everything is in SLOW MOTION, and the colors are
unnaturally IRIDESCENT and BRIGHT.
Inside, are three men. The DRIVER, the PASSENGER beside
him, and a third man in the backseat -
- who is jamming a clip into a small MACHINE GUN.
The DRIVER turns in his seat, shouting something at the man
behind -
- but the words are too slow and slurred for us to
understand.
THEN the slow motion abruptly starts to speed up, and the
colours start to lose their sparkle - returning to normal.
We can now understand what the DRIVER is shouting.
DRIVER
- we've got a judge on our tail!
Take him out or we're dead fucking
meat!
The SHOOTER takes a long hit on a small device like an
asthma INHALER. On the side of the inhaler are the words
SLO-MO.
4.
As soon as the SHOOTER takes the hit from the inhaler -
- the slow motion and iridescent colours return.
CUT TO:
9 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE/ROAD - CONTINUOUS 9
- outside the VEHICLE, as the SHOOTER leans out of the
window of the vehicle ...
... and starts FIRING his machine-pistol at DREDD.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Do you require back up?
DREDD
(into radio)
No.
10 INT. VEHICLE - CONTINUOUS 10
Inside the venichle, seen through the psychedelic filter of
the narcotics, we see the driver swerve to avoid an
oncoming venichle.
In doing so, he mounts the pavement, and -
- a PEDESTRIAN slams against the front windscreen.
Then is sucked downwards, and dragged beneath the wheels.
CUT TO:
15 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE/ROAD - CONTINUOUS 15
DREDD.
DREDD
Control. The perps just wiped out
an innocent. I'm taking them out.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Copy.
FROM THE FRONT OF DREDD'S MOTORBIKE -
5.
- twin canons either side of the front wheel suddenly blaze
into life.
Bullets rip into the vehicle, blowing out its back tyres.
It is immediately thrown into a skid, slides sideways, then
starts to roll.
CUT TO -
20 INT. VEHICLE - CONTINUOUS 20
- inside the vehicle, in BRIGHT COLOURS and SLOW MOTION, as
it rolls.
CUT TO BLACK.
Then FADE UP TO -
- inside the wreckage of the vehicle. Normal speed. Normal
colours.
The vehicle is upside down.
The DRIVER is still strapped into his seat, impaled on the
broken steering column, twitching.
Blood runs down from the DRIVER onto the corpse of his
PASSENGER, who is crumpled up, limbs unnaturally folded
like child's doll.
The only living occupant is the SHOOTER.
He picks himself up and wipes blood from his eyes.
22 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE/ROAD - CONTINUOUS 22
DREDD approaches the wreckage of the vehicle, handgun
drawn.
He pulls open the side door, and sees, past the bodies of
the DRIVER and the PASSENGER, the opposite window.
Which has been kicked out.
And through the hole, DREDD spots the SHOOTER, sprinting
towards the pedestrian entrance of a habitation block.
CITIZENS are thronged around the entrance, and the SHOOTER
fires into them to clear a path.
6.
DREDD steps around the side of the wrecked vehicle, talking
into his radio:
DREDD
Paramedics to my GPS. We have
citizens down.
DREDD lifts his gun.
We see what DREDD is aiming at.
The figure of the SHOOTER appears in glimpses through the
crowd. Flashing in and out of view.
To pick him off from here, through the shifting layers of
innocent people, would be an incredible shot.
But DREDD is clearly going to take it.
DREDD
Armour piercing.
A setting on his firearm changes,
He holds the gun level, completely still, waiting for the
right moment.
Then fires - just a single round.
A muzzle flash.
Halfway between DREDD and the SHOOTER, a WOMAN drops, with
a puff of blood erupting from her shoulder.
And a split second later, the SHOOTER himself pitches
forwards, hit in the back.
At the noise of the gunshot, the crowds scream and scatter.
DREDD moves forwards, gun still raised.
He passes the WOMAN who was hit, who is lying on the ground
in a spreading pool of blood, flapping her arms weakly.
DREDD
Remain calm. The bullet missed all
major organs, and a paramedic team
will be with you shortly.
He keeps moving.
To the SHOOTER.
7.
23 EXT. OUTSIDE BLOCK - CONTINUOUS 23
The SHOOTER is alive, lying on his front, leaving a snail-
trail of blood as he pulls himself forwards, still
hopelessly trying to escape.
DREDD kicks the man's gun out of reach, then reaches down
and flips him over on to his back.
The SHOOTER tries to speak, but his mouth is filled with
blood, and no words come out.
DREDD uses his free hand to check the SHOOTER'S inside
pockets.
Then finds what he is looking for. An ID card.
DREDD checks it.
DREDD
Citizen Zwirner. Your crimes are
homicide, unauthorized use of a
firearm, attempted murder of a
judge. Do you have anything to say
in your defense?
More blood bubbles out of ZWIRNER'S mouth.
DREDD
Defense noted.
DREDD levels his gun at ZWIRNER'S head.
DREDD
Sentence: death.
ZWIRNER gazes up at DREDD, and the gun barrel aiming down
at him.
Then DREDD fires.
A single shot. Right between ZWIRNER'S eyes.
A beat. Then DREDD'S radio fuzzes back to life.
CONTROL
Control to Dredd. Come in.
DREDD
Dredd here.
CONTROL
8.
Is your pursuit resolved?
ZWIRNER lies dead at DREDD'S feet.
Behind him, the wounded WOMAN flaps around.
Behind her, the wrecked vehicle smoulders.
DREDD
Yes.
CONTROL
Report back to the Hall Of Justice.
The Chief Judge wants to see you.
CUT TO:
24 INT. HALL OF JUSTICE/OBSERVATION ROOM CONTINUOUS 24
- a girl in her early twenties, in judge's uniform, minus
helmet.
She is an immediate contrast with everything we have so far
seen of the grim world of Mega City One.
Beautiful, blonde, and slightly vulnerable. Biting her lip
as she sits on a chair in a featureless room.
Opposite her is a mirror.
26 INT. HALL OF JUSTICE/OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS 26
On the other side of the two-way mirror, DREDD and the
CHIEF JUDGE, a woman in her fifties, look back at the girl.
CHIEF JUDGE
Cassandra Anderson. Twenty one.
Born in a block one hundred metres
from the radiation boundary wall.
At seven years old, she lost both
parents to residual-fallout cancer.
As is standard with orphans, she
was given a judge aptitude test at
age nine. It classified her as
unsuitable, but she was entered
into the Academy on special
instruction. In the Academy, her
record was never better than
borderline. The final Academy score
put her three percentile points
below a pass.
9.
DREDD
So what's she doing in a uniform?
The CHIEF JUDGE doesn't answer.
Instead, she reaches out, and presses the INTERCOM button.
CHIEF JUDGE
Rookie Anderson.
ANDERSON
Sir.
CHIEF JUDGE
How many people are observing you?
28 INT. HALL OF JUSTICE/OBSERVATION ROOM CONTINUOUS 28
ANDERSON continues looking at her reflection, frowning
slightly. Biting her lip a little harder.
ANDERSON
Two.
30 INT. HALL OF JUSTICE/OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS 30
DREDD reacts.
CHIEF JUDGE
(into intercom)
What can you tell me about the
person I am with?
ANDERSON
(through intercom)
Male.
CHIEF JUDGE
(into intercom)
Good.
ANDERSON
(through intercom)
Another judge.
(concentrating harder)
I can feel anger. And control. But
there's something else. Behind the
control. Something almost ...
CHIEF JUDGE
(cuts in)
10.
Okay, Anderson. That'll do.
The CHIEF JUDGE switches the intercom off.
DREDD
A mutant.
CHIEF JUDGE
The most powerful psychic we've
ever come across - by a huge
margin. We believe she could be a
major asset.
Beat.
CHIEF JUDGE
As I said. Her final score was only
three points below a pass. It's
marginal.
DREDD
It's not marginal. She failed.
CHIEF JUDGE
The girl's getting one more chance.
I want you to take her out and give
her one day in the field.
Supervised. To see if she makes the
grade.
The CHIEF JUDGE turns to DREDD.
CHIEF JUDGE
Sink or swim. Chuck her in the deep
end.
On DREDD, unreadable:
DREDD
It's all the deep end.
THEN CUT TO:
32 INT. HALL OF JUSTICE/OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS 32
- ANDERSON.
She sits quietly.
Gazing at something in her hands.
11.
It's a photo. Slightly battered. It shows a little blonde
girl, seven years old, smiling, between both her parents.
All are smiling at the camera.
Abruptly, she folds the PHOTO and tucks it into her utility
belt.
Then turns to look at the door.
A second later, it opens, revealing DREDD.
ANDERSON stands immediately, and salutes.
DREDD enters, and closes the door behind him.
A beat.
Then:
DREDD
A rookie judge on assessment is
likely to be involved in armed
combat. They may be required to
carry out on the spot executions of
convicted felons.
ANDERSON
Yes, sir.
DREDD
Incorrect sentencing is an
automatic fail. Not obeying a
direct order from your assessment
officer is an automatic fail.
Losing your primary weapon or
having it taken from you is an
automatic fail.
ANDERSON
Yes, sir.
DREDD
You ready
for this.
ANDERSON
I am.
A beat.
Then DREDD nods.
DREDD
12.
Your assessment starts now.
36 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE - DAY 36
An airborne view of the city.
38 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK - CONTINUOUS 38
CLOSE UP on a SKATEPARK, concrete, surrounded by a high
wire mesh fence, half-pipes and rails, where six SKATERS
are pulling off some impressive arial moves.
As one of the SKATERS soars, and revolves a neat 720 spin -
- we reveal the vertiginous drop on the other side of the
wire fence.
The SKATE PARK is bolted on the side of a mega block,
hundreds of feet in the air.
This particular block is called PEACH TREES. Named in
luminous peach lettering, etched into the acid-rain and
fume-stained concrete flanks.
The scale of the construction is colossal. Leaving the park
behind, we start moving past windows, we glimpse the lives
inside. Cramped apartments. People watching television.
Sleeping. Eating. Having sex. Or simply absent.
The only common factor between the lives we see is squalor,
and poverty.
Peach Trees is a slum.
47 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/WINDOW - CONTINUOUS 47
We eventually settle on a single window, at the top level
of the block.
Looking out of the window is a woman. She could be in her
late fifties or early sixties, but a diagonal stripe scar
that disfigures her cheek and top lip, and heavy make-up,
make her precise age hard to place.
This is MA-MA.
51 INT. MA-MA'S BASE - CONTINUOUS 51
13.
52 BEHIND MA-MA ARE FIVE MEN. 52
Behind MA-MA are five men.
The first of these men is CALEB. Late thirties. Physically
powerful. Intelligent and violent. MA-MA's right hand man.
The next two are KAY and SY. Junior to CALEB. Soldiers.
Lieutenants.
And finally there are MA-MA'S two BODYGUARDS. They never
leave her side, and never speak.
All are inked with dense black tattoos - but share one
particular tattoo on the side of their necks: a pierced
heart and scroll - with the word Ma-Ma written inside.
CALEB
The only danger is we expand too
fast. In the last few days we've
added distribution to three new
blocks. Pretty soon we'll be
looking at making inroads into
sectors nine and fifteen.
MA-MA
Fifteen is still Red territory. Whe
make waves?
CALEB
I've been talking to my contacts
there. They want a sit-down, but
from what I hear, it's already
squared. Fact is, they want what
we've got. Just business.
MA-MA nods.
MA-MA
Good.
Then she turns, and gestures to the corner of the room.
MA-MA
And what about them?
REVEAL that throughout the previous conversation, there
were actually three other men in the room.
Sat in a row, on chairs. Beneath the chairs are plastic
sheets. Their arms are tied behind them. They are all
gagged. Wide-eyed. Bruised and blood-stained. Unable to do
anything but listen.
14.
KAY speaks up.
KAY
They were selling Sternhammer
product on my level. Warned them
off with a beating a couple of
weeks ago. Guess it didn't work.
MA-MA
And you can't deal with it
yourself?
KAY
I can deal with it.
CALEB
The question is whether you want to
make an example of them.
MA-MA thinks a couple of moments.
Then turns away.
MA-MA
Skin them and toss them over the
balcony.
On their seats, the GAGGEDMEN freak out, eyes bugging,
struggling against their restraints.
SY pulls a knife.
KAY
Hit 'em with a little slo-mo first?
MA-MA
Sure.
KAY walks up to the first GAGGEDMAN. He is also - with a
crude JUDGE DEATH TATTOO on his chest.
KAY yanks the MAN'S head back and pulls out the gag.
As the gag is released, the MAN starts to scream.
Which is stifled as KAY jams a SLO-MO inhaler into his
mouth, and depresses the button.
CUT TO:
53 INT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/ATRIUM - DAY 53
15.
- the interior of Peach Trees, which contains an atrium of
dizzying scale. It spans the entire height of the
construction. Effectively, the block is hollowed out, two
hundred stories high, ringed with balconies.
The lower levels are a shopping and recreation zone. Above
the shopping and recreation zone are medical centers and
educational facilities. Everything above is residential.
At the base of the atrium is an area like a massive, busy
Third-World train station, with people criss-crossing the
area, milling about, exiting out of tunnels and escalators.
We track a WOMAN with a CHILD in a pushchair as she makes
her way through.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, a body falls out of the sky, and
lands with a sickening impact.
THWACK. Right in front of the pushchair.
The WOMAN pulls back.
And a second body lands directly behind her.
THWACK.
She looks up, as the crowd around her starts to scatter ...
... and is stunned to see that another body is tumbling
down towards her.
She just manages to jam the pushchair forwards before the
body lands.
THWACK
56 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE - DAY 56
DDREDD and ANDERSON stand by their fat-wheeled motorbikes,
on a ribbon of flyover, in a canyon of Mega Blocks.
Vehicles flash past them.
Over the roar of the traffic, their radios fuzz into life.
We tap into the endless streams of radio calls that are
constantly being transmitted from CONTROL.
CONTROL
(over radio)
16.
Responders in vicinity of Peach
Tree block. We have a report of a
multiple homicide.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Responders in Sector 13 North, we
have armed robbery in progress.
Four suspects on foot. Gunshot
victims at scene of crime.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Responders on Highway Alpha Five.
We have ambulance crew under fire,
requesting assistance.
DREDD
(to Anderson)
Twelve serious crimes reported
every minute. Seventeen thousand
per day. We respond to around six
percent.
ANDERSON
Which six percent?
DREDD
Your assessment. You tell me.
ANDERSON glances down at her bike-nav screen. Waypoint
markers are flashing all across the sector map.
ANDERSON
Peach Trees, multiple homicide.
DREDD lifts his left hand - which has his radio integrated
into the glove.
DREDD
(into radio)
Dredd responding to Peach Tree
homicides. On our way.
57 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE/ROAD - DAY 57
DREDD and ANDERSON ride their bikes towards Peach Trees.
58 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK - DAY 58
17.
DREDD and ANDERSON walk into the south entrance of Peach
Trees.
Above them, against the background of grey and black
concrete slab, a bright hologram of a cartoonish peach tree
flickers like a neon strip-light with a bad connection.
Sat against one side of the entrance is a HOMELESS MAN.
In front of him is a handwritten sign on cardboard.
It reads:
HOMELESS JUNKIE.
WILL DEBASE SELF FOR CREDITS.
As DREDD and ANDERSON pass him:
DREDD
Anderson.
ANDERSON
Vagrancy, three weeks, iso cubes.
But prioritize murders.
DREDD
Correct.
(to the Homeless Man)
Don't be here when we come back.
59 INT. PEACH TREE ATRIUM - DAY 59
DREDD and ANDERSON enter the busy atrium.
DREDD
Tell me about Peach Trees.
ANDERSON
Sir. Houses seventy five thousand
registered citizens. Actual
population rate probably closer to
one hundred thousand. Highest crime
rate in Sector Thirteen.
Unemployment rate at ninety six
percent. More than half of the
residential levels are classed as
slums.
DREDD
Why do you want to be a judge,
Anderson?
18.
ANDERSON is thrown momentarily by the non-sequitur.
ANDERSON
... Sir. I want to serve the city.
Make a difference.
DREDD
Make a difference to a block like
this?
ANDERSON
I was born and raised in a block
like this. Until the Justice
Department took me. I know there
are good people inside. Good
families. Just trying to get by.
Beat.
ANDERSON
Yes. I think I can make a
difference.
DREDD glances upwards.
Above the bustle of the atrium floor, the ringed balconies
of the atrium stretch up into shade and darkness. At the
very top is a small circle of reddish sky.
It's like looking into a pit, with a pool of blood at the
bottom.
DREDD
(flat)
Admirable.
60 INT. PEACH TREE ATRIUM/CRIME SCENE - CONTINUOUS 60
DREDD and ANDERSON push past a taped cordon.
Behind the cordon, a PARAMEDIC is erecting a tent screen to
shield the sight of the bodies from the gathering crowd,
and the onlookers who are looking down from the ringed
balconies.
DREDD
(to Paramedic)
What have you got?
PARAMEDIC
Three stiffs in a somewhat fucked-
up condition.
19.
The PARAMEDIC pulls open the tent screen to allow DREDD and
ANDERSON through.
The bodies are the three men we saw with KAY.
They have fallen from a great enough height to crack the
tiles on which they landed.
From the neck down and waist up, they have been skinned.
DREDD
You're based in Peach Trees?
PARAMEDIC
Med center on level twenty five.
DREDD
Have you ID'd them?
PARAMEDIC
Mostly. That one is registered to
this block. And that one is
registered to Block Sternhammer.
DREDD
(gesturing to the last)
And him?
The PARAMEDIC shrugs.
CLOSE UP on the man's severely crushed head.
PARAMEDIC
I'll have to run his blood through
the DNA profiler. If I can figure
out which blood is his.
DREDD kneels down to take a closer look at the nearest
body.
Inside the man's open mouth is a white, dust-like marking.
DREDD
Anderson. What do you make of this?
ANDERSON
... I don't know, sir.
DREDD
It's a cold-burn from a slo-mo
inhaler.
20.
ANDERSON
Slo-mo?
PARAMEDIC
A new narcotic. Only just hit the
grid, but it's making big waves.
Makes the brain feel as if time is
passing at one percent its normal
speed.
ANDERSON looks up to the height from which the men dropped.
FLASH CUT TO -
- a image of one of the men falling, screaming, in extreme
slow motion, leaving a trail of suspended blood droplets
from his flayed torso.
CUT BACK TO:
- ANDERSON, shuddering.
The PARAMEDIC is also gazing upwards, obviously having much
the same thought.
PARAMEDIC
Must have felt like a long way
down.
63 INT. CONTROL - DAY 63
In CONTROL, where rows of men and women sit in front of
banks of monitors, operating the huge communication center
within the Hall Of Justice ...
... we find a screen, on which the faces of murdered men
are appearing.
The CONTROL OPERATOR manning this monitor speaks into his
mike.
CONTROL OPERATOR
Positive on your IDs. All show
convictions for possession of
narcotics.
CLOSE ON MONITOR SCREEN.
CONTROL OPERATOR
Transmitting data now,
21.
67 INT. PEACH TREE ATRIUM/CRIME SCENE - CONTINUOUS 67
PULL BACK from the image on the monitor screen, to reveal
we are now seeing it on DREDD'S FDA.
DREDD
Small-time perps. Junkies. No known
gang affiliation. What's your
assessment, Anderson?
ANDERSON
Drugged. Skinned. Dumped in the
most public place you could find.
It has to be a punishment killing.
A message.
Above them, the balconies of the atrium are ringed with
people looking down.
PARAMEDIC
Yeah. Don't fuck with the Ma-Ma
Clan.
ON DREDD. Turning.
DREDD
Who?
71 INT. MEDICAL CENTER - DAY 71
In the twenty fifth floor medical center, DREDD and
ANDERSON are looking at a holographic display, on which we
can see a rotating 3D MUGSHOT of MA-MA, and her medical
records.
In the background, the PARAMEDIC closes the medical
center's heavy security door, while he provides a brief bio
of MA-MA.
PARAMEDIC
We have her on record days. The
picture's pretty old, but - yeah.
That's her. Madeline Madrigal, AKA
Ma-Ma. Ex-hooker from the S-Nine
pleasure district. Quit working
after she got sliced up by a pimp.
But she got her own back. Block
legend says she feminized the guy
with her teeth. Then took over his
business interests, and never
looked back.
22.
The PARAMEDIC sucks his teeth.
PARAMEDIC
Anyone else, you'd say it was
bullshit. But not with Ma-Ma. Her
trademark is violence. Takes it
further and harder than anyone
else. I've been in Peach Trees
fifteen years. Used to be there
were nine or ten different gangs,
hustling for control. Now there's
just one.
ANDERSON
How did she get away with it?
PARAMEDIC
You know how often we get a Judge
in Peach Trees?
DREDD
You've got one now.
DREDD hits a console button, and the holographic display
changes to a map of Peach Trees.
DREDD
The victims were registered to
apartments on level thirty nine.
Likely killed over a turf issue, so
we'll find their killers in the
same vicinity.
(to Anderson)
Anderson. Next move.
ANDERSON
Locate where the Clan work out of
on this level, and hit it hard.
The PARAMEDIC lights up an area of the map.
PARAMEDIC
That would be here.
CUT TO:
74 INT. METAL DOOR - DAY 74
- a viewing hatch sliding open, in a metal door.
Crowded into the other side of the viewing hatch, we see
the faces of the two JUNKIES.
23.
One of them holds up credits.
The door is opened.
75 INT. SLO MO DEN - CONTINUOUS 75
The JUNKIES enter an apartment.
A squalid shit-hole. In our day and age, it would be a
crystal meth or crack-den, with piss-stained mattresses,
schizoid graffiti on the walls, and crushed glass pipes on
the floor.
But this is a slo-mo den. Much the same, but instead of
crushed crack pipes on the floor, it's empty inhalers.
The man by the door is SY, holding a shotgun.
Sat on an armchair, with a pistol on his lap, is KAY.
Our two JUNKIES score off KAY, swapping credits for
inhalers.
CUT TO:
76 INT. LEVEL THIRTY NINE - CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 76
- outside the apartment.
DREDD and ANDERSON, taking position either side of the
metal door.
Weapons drawn.
We can see ANDERSON'S nerves.
The door opposite them opens - and a KID peers out of the
crack. ANDERSON gestures for the kid to go back inside. The
door closes.
DREDD
Take it this is your first time in
non-simulator combat.
ANDERSON
Yes sir.
DREDD
Been wondering when you'd remember
you left your helmet at base.
24.
ANDERSON
Sir - a helmet interferes with my
psychic abilities.
DREDD
Think a bullet might interfere with
them more.
CUT BACK TO:
78 INT. SLO MO DEN - CONTINUOUS 78
- the JUNKIES.
They find a space in a corner of the room, beside two
people who are mechanically screwing on a filthy mattress.
Then put the inhalers in their mouths. Take a long hit.
CUT TO:
79 INT. LEVEL THIRTY NINE - CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 79
- DREDD, pulling a plasti-charge out of his utility belt.
He fixes the plasti-charge to the door.
DREDD
Ready?
ANDERSON nods.
DREDD notices -
- glitter of sweat on ANDERSON'S face. The slight tremble
in her hands.
DREDD
You don't look ready.
ANDERSON tightens her grip around her gun to stop the
shake.
ANDERSON
Just adrenaline, sir.
CUT BACK TO:
80 INT. SLO MO DEN - CONTINUOUS 80
25.
- our JUNKIES. In the grip of the drug.
And we're with it too.
Everything slow.
Not just slow - ultra slow.
All movements. Facial expressions. Blinking eyes.
And we discover why people take the SLO MO - as grim
reality is transformed into something lyrical.
From sordid to oddly beautiful. Fascinating and hypnotic.
Even the couple screwing on the floor.
Then -
- what was fascinating and hypnotic
- becomes slightly confusing.
Because the heavy door of the slo-mo den is very gradually
starting to expand.
To bulge.
And in front of the bulge, a shock wave of air is starting
to form.
And contacting the guard, SY, who stands just behind it.
Lifting him delicately off his feet.
And now around the edges of the door, we can see a white
and yellow brightness.
Which becomes a blossoming explosion of flame.
Until the door, and SY, are flying backwards across the
room.
SLOW CUTS BETWEEN -
JUNKIES hunching.
Faces morphing into expressions of fear and surprise.
Hands reaching for guns.
DREDD coming through the door.
26.
Followed by ANDERSON.
Now gunplay, gracefully erupting.
Bullets rifling through the air.
Punching through plaster work.
Drilling through chests, leaving trails of hanging blood.
Drilling into the head of a clan member, creating a spiral
of flesh as it enters.
Smoke and dust unfurls.
Until it blinds us.
81 INT. SLO-MO DEN - CONTINUOUS 81
As the smoke and dust clears, it allows us to return
seamlessly to normal speed.
DREDD and ANDERSON stand surrounded by the corpses of gang
members and those junkies who were foolish enough to reach
for their guns.
The survivors crouch or stand with arms raised, dazed with
narcotics and fear, with the guns of the two judges trained
on them.
ANDERSON is breathing fast. Still charged with adrenaline.
DREDD
Anderson. Judgement.
ANDERSON gathers her wits.
ANDERSON
Crime: possession and use of
controlled substances. Sentence:
two years in the iso-cubes.
DREDD
Don't tell me. Tell Control.
ANDERSON
Sir.
(into radio)
27.
Anderson to Control. Requesting
meat wagon to Peach Trees. We've
got six bodies for Resyk and seven
live for the iso-cubes.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Copy that. Meat Wagon inbound.
DREDD nods.
DREDD
Let's get them cuffed.
82 INT. SLO-MO DEN - CONTINUOUS 82
The perps are lined up and being cuffed.
One of them winces as DREDD pulls the plasti-cuffs
mercilessly tight around his wrists.
ANDERSON is cuffing another man -
- but hesitates as she sees the distinctive Ma-Ma tattoo on
the side of his neck.
ANDERSON
Sir, this one is a gang member. He
-
ANDERSON breaks off. Frowning.
Then she turns the man round, revealing -
- KAY.
They gaze at each other for a couple of beats.
Then:
ANDERSON
Sir. It's him.
DREDD
It's who?
ANDERSON
The man who murdered the people in
the atrium.
28.
KAY'S eyes narrow fractionally. Internally, he's wondering
how she could know this information, but he's far too
practiced with being on the wrong side of the law to give
anything away.
DREDD
You're sure.
ANDERSON
Ninety nine percent.
DREDD
Can't execute a perp on ninety nine
percent.
DREDD steps over to KAY. Stares him down.
DREDD
Save a lot of paperwork if you
confessed right now.
KAY says nothing. And clearly isn't going to.
DREDD nods.
DREDD
(to Anderson)
Finish securing him. We'll take him
in. See how he holds up after a few
hours of interrogation.
As ANDERSON turns to KAY again, KAY'S eyes look up to the
corner of the room.
We ZOOM ON the place where KAY is looking, and find -
- a PINHOLE.
And through the pinhole, the glint of a lens.
CUT TO:
This scene, viewed from the hidden CCTV camera in the
corner of the room.
PULL BACK TO REVEAL:
84 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM - CONTINUOUS 84
- a monitor, showing the image of KAY'S arrest by DREDD and
ANDERSON.
29.
Next to the monitor, a red alarm light is blinking.
PULL BACK to reveal more monitors, showing various views
around Peach Trees.
This is the CCTV ROOM: the technological hub of MA-MA'S
operation, at the heart of her base, overlooking the atrium
from the top floor.
Supervising the monitors is the CLAN TECHIE.
Twenty years old.
Hunted, undernourished, nervy: a dog who's been kicked too
many times. And he's got no eyes.
Instead, attached and implanted to his face are large,
bulbous robotic eye implants. Like a chameleon lizard, each
eye implant can move independently of the other.
And what these robotic eyes are focused on is making him
worried.
CLAN TECHIE
Oh shit.
He reaches for a radio.
CLAN TECHIE
(into radio)
Uh, Caleb? I'm sorry to - no, I
know. Yes, but - I think there's a
problem on level thirty nine.
CUT TO:
88 INT. MA MA'S PENTHOUSE/ENTRANCE HALL - DAY 88
- an extreme CLOSE UP on MA-MA'S FACE.
Her cheeks are rippling weirdly, and slowly.
REVEAL -
- compressed gas from a SLO-MO INHALOR is jetting into her
mouth.
CUT TO:
- NORMAL TIME.
30.
CALEB enters the room.
Reveal MA-MA'S penthouse surroundings. It's a weird mix of
squalor and crass luxury. A Dolce and Gabbana crack den.
Gold fittings, rococo design, holes in walls, wires
trailing from empty light fittings. The artwork on the
walls is softcore porn, in florid frames, much of it
featuring MA-MA herself.
Sees MA-MA, sprawled on day-bed, inhalor in mouth.
Behind her, her two BODYGUARDS, like statues.
CALEB
Ma.
Long beat.
Vapour curling out of MA-MA'S mouth.
The beat continues.
MA-MA frozen.
Then the drug rush fades.
MA-MA focuses. Turns to CALEB.
MA-MA
What?
CALEB
We've got trouble.
90 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 90
MA-MA and CALEB walk and talk, en route to the CCTV room,
followed by the BODYGUARDS
CALEB
The judges hit the distribution
point on level thirty nine. Shot
the place up. Took out a few of the
boys.
MA-MA
(unfazed)
So what? We're overdue a bust. The
law's just showing their faces.
Reminding the citizens they exist.
31.
CALEB
No. Ma - they picked up Kay.
MA-MA reacts.
MA-MA
Executed?
CALEB
Interrogation.
This stops MA-MA in her tracks.
MA-MA
What?
CALEB
He's cuffed and they're taking him
in. Right now.
Beat.
MA-MA
Fuck.
CALEB
If Kay talks -
MA-MA
If they're taking him in, he'll
talk.
Beat.
CALEB
What are we going to do?
MA-MA glazes a moment.
Thinking.
CUT TO:
91 INT. LIFT - DAY 91
- DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY, riding the lift to the ground
floor in silence.
As the lift descends -
- KAY is looking straight ahead at the doors ...
32.
.. in which he can see himself, and DREDD and ANDERSON
reflected.
KAY shifts his position very slightly.
DREDD'S head tilts fractionally.
ANDERSON
Sir - he's thinking about making a
move for your gun.
DREDD
I know.
KAY shoots a glance back at ANDERSON.
ANDERSON
He just changed his mind.
DREDD
Yeah.
The lift continues descending in silence.
93 INT. PEACH TREE CONTROL ROOM - DAY 93
The control room of Peach Trees.
Banks of screens.
Many of them down, broadcasting static or blacked out.
Others showing water and electricity levels.
Power levels.
Refuse collection times.
Engineering schematics.
Manning the control room, four TECHNICIANS, playing cards.
Looking round in surprise as the door to the control room
is kicked open -
- and CALEB, plus four other clan members pile in.
A vicious burst of gunfire, and the TECHNICIANS in the
control room are cut down.
CALEB lifts a two-way.
33.
CALEB
(into two-way)
Control room is secure.
CALEB walks over to the central console, and pulls out a
small router, and plugs it in.
CALEB
(into two-way)
Router's in. You're good to go.
CUT TO:
94 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM - CONTINUOUS 94
- the CLAN TECHIE, sitting in front of the bank of monitors
and assorted hardware.
MA-MA and her BODYGUARDS stand behind him.
MA-MA leans down to the CLAN TECHIE. Puts a slab hand on
his shoulder. Makes him hunch instinctively.
MA-MA
What am I going to do to you if you
don't pull this off?
The TECHIE swallows.
CLAN TECHIE
Don't know.
(beat)
Shoot me?
MA-MA
Worse.
CLAN TECHIE
(small voice)
Probably cut out my insides or
something.
MA-MA
Yeah. That.
The CLAN TECHIE takes a moment.
Then starts tapping commands into his keyboard.
We hear a phone ring over speaker phone.
34.
Then a voice picks up.
SECTOR CONTROL
(over speaker)
Sector Control.
The CLAN TECHIE forces his voice to sound casual.
CLAN TECHIE
Sector Control, this is Peach Trees
Control. Just want to check you
were notified about the def-con
systems test today.
SECTOR CONTROL
(over speaker)
Copy that. Uh ...
(beat)
Peach Trees, we don't have you down
for a def-con test.
CLAN TECHIE
We must be. Check the
SECTOR CONTROL
(over speaker)
Nope. I've got nothing.
The CLAN TECHIE injects heat into his voice.
CLAN TECHIE
God-fucking-dammit, Sector! I put
in the notification myself, three
fucking times! We're set to go
right now! I've got my supervisor
breathing down my neck and -
SECTOR CONTROL
(cuts in, over speaker)
Hold fire, Peach Trees. Let me get
this.
ON
(beat)
Okay. I put you on the system. Hall
of Justice and all emergency
services are notified to ignore
your status. Run the test anytime
you like.
The CLAN TECHIE'S relief is genuine.
CLAN TECHIE
35.
Appreciate that, Sector. You're
saved my ass over here.
SECTOR CONTROL
(over speaker)
You're welcome, Peach Trees.
MA-MA nods her approval.
On his console, the CLAN TECHIE hits the RETURN KEY.
CUT TO:
95 INT. PEACH TREE CONTROL ROOM - CONTINUOUS 95
a blood-sprayed monitor in the control room, with the body
of a TECHNICIAN sprawled in front of it.
CALEB hauls the body of the man off.
On the bloody monitor, a command screen appears, headed:
DEF CON EMERGENCY PROTOCOLS
The command prompt moves down the screen.
Highlighting, in turn -
FIRE
BOMB
RIOT
CHEMICAL
And finally ending on -
NUCLEAR WAR
On NUCLEAR WAR, the command prompt stops.
Off camera, we hear a tap.
And a moment later, a message box appears on the screen.
PROTOCOL INITIATED
101 INT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS 101
36.
DREDD and ANDERSON walk KAY towards the South entrance.
The HOMELESS MAN is still there, sat in the doorway.
DREDD
Warned you. Get up. You're headed
for the cubes.
DREDD is interrupted by a SIREN, which abruptly starts
sounding.
AS DREDD LOOKS ROUND, CUT TO:
102 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK - CONTINUOUS 102
- the outside of the block.
Moving down as, over every window we pass ...
.. A LEAD-LINED SHUTTER suddenly slams down.
104 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/SKATEPARK - CONTINUOUS 104
In the SKATEPARK bolted on to the side of Peach Trees, the
shutter comes down, trapping the SKATERS outside.
SKATER 1
What the fuck?
SKATER 2 pointlessly bangs his fist against the slab of
metal.
SKATER 2
Hey! What's going on? Open up!
105 INT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS 105
At the south entrance, just ahead of where DREDD, ANDERSON
and KAY are standing, a two-metre thick blast door slams
down with incredible speed.
The HOMELESS MAN, unlucky enough to be directly beneath it,
is crushed as it drops.
One half of his bisected body remains on the inside.
106 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/ATRIUM ROOF - CONTINUOUS 106
37.
At the top of the atrium, two massive metal shutters are
closing, blocking out the light from the sky above.
107 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM - CONTINUOUS 107
The CLAN TECHIE hands MA-MA a handset.
CLAN TECHIE
You're patched in.
107A INT. PEACH TREE ATRIUM - CONTINUOUS 107A
DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY have returned to the atrium.
Across the atrium floor, as the roof shutters close, twin
shadows are moving across the floor.
DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY stand in the middle of the
narrowing band of light.
All around them, people react with confusion and panic.
ANDERSON
What's going on?
DREDD
I don't know.
But KAY seems to have an idea.
He says nothing, but the barest smile appears on the corner
of his lips ...
... as the roof shutters finally connect, and slam shut.
And the narrowing band of light winks out.
And the siren suddenly stops.
A moment of silence.
The whole building is now in a twilight of emergency
lighting.
Then a sudden FEEDBACK WHINE comes over the block-wide
TANOY.
Piercing. Rising fast to a deafening level, which echoes
around the atrium, making people jam their hands over their
ears ...
38.
... until it abruptly cuts out.
And MA-MA'S voice comes in.
MA-MA
Peach Trees. This is Ma-Ma.
The statement hangs a moment. Everywhere, everyone is
frozen.
MA-MA
Somewhere in this block are two
judges. I want them dead. And until
I get what I want, the block is
locked down.
As she talks, we move around the atrium. Seeing the
confusion and fear on people faces.
MA-MA
All Clan, every level, hunt the
judges down. Everyone else, clear
the corridors and stay the fuck out
of our way until the shooting
stops. If I hear about anyone
helping the judges, I'll kill them
and the next generation of their
family.
She pauses a moment, to make sure the point is rammed home.
Then:
MA-MA
As for the judges, sit tight, or
run. Makes no difference. You're
mine.
The Tanoy cuts out.
Now, all across the balconies, above and below, and from
the atrium floor, everyone single person is looking at
DREDD and ANDERSON.
A beat.
Then:
DREDD
... We'd better move.
108 INT. CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 108
39.
DREDD and ANDERSON move down a corridor, dragging KAY
behind.
DREDD is talking into his radio.
DREDD
Control, we have a situation
developing in Peach Trees. Request
immediate back-up.
He gets only static back.
DREDD
Control. Do you copy?
Static.
ANDERSON
(nervous)
My comms are down too.
DREDD
The shielding transmissions must be
blocking our transmissions.
As he says this, they turn a corner.
Directly ahead is a posse of four CLAN, all armed.
CLAN MEMBER
(shouts)
THEY'RE HERE!
As DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY duck back behind the corridor,
the CLAN open fire.
As the plasterwork around the corner erupts -
DREDD
Anderson. Call it.
ANDERSON
... Sir?
DREDD
You forgotten you're on assessment?
A volley of shots almost destroys the corner they are
hiding behind.
ANDERSON
(flustered)
40.
Sir - multiple armed targets.
Minimal risk of collateral. Rapid
fire.
DREDD
Rapid fire.
On Dredd's command, a setting on DREDD'S gun changes.
He spins back around the corner, and opens up.
Rapid fire rounds rip through the air and punch into the
CLAN, mowing them down.
DREDD
We'll head back for the med center.
This way.
They take a side door into a stairwell.
109 INT. STAIRWELL - CONTINUOUS 109
In the stairwell, DREDD looks up.
CLAN are coming from above.
DREDD looks down.
CLAN are coming from below.
DREDD
Respirators.
DREDD and ANDERSON pull respirators from their belts.
DREDD
(to Kay)
Advise you hold your breath.
From his utility belt, DREDD pulls out two grenades.
He primes them and throws them. One up. One down.
Gas plumes behind them as they arc through the air.
110 INT. STAIRWELL - CONTINUOUS 110
As DREDD and ANDERSON fight their way through the gas
cloud, and the choking, vomiting CLAN ...
41.
... CUT TO -
111 INT. JAPHET'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 111
A man, JAPHET, with CLAN tattoos, is pulling apart his
kitchen.
He has a BERETTA 9mm stuffed into the back of his trousers.
JAPHET
Shit, shit, shit.
He finds a box of bullets in the back of a drawer.
Checks it. There are three rounds inside.
JAPHET
Three fucking rounds! Is that all
we've got?
JJAPHET takes out the clip and starts sliding in the
rounds.
His fingers are shaking.
His WIFE, watching from the kitchen doorway, holding a
horrified young baby, is watching,
JAPHET'S WIFE
You're going to take on two judges
with an antique gun and three
bullets?
JAPHET
They probably aren't even on your
level.
JAPHET'S WIFE
Then just stay in here! Let the
others get them!
JAPHET slides the clip home.
JAPHET'S WIFE
Please, Japhet!
JAPHET
What the fuck do you want me to do?
Call Ma-Ma and ask if I can sit
this one out? I'd be better off
fighting the judges.
42.
JAPHET pushes past his wife.
Then turns.
Looks at her.
JAPHET
Lock the door. Don't open it,
whatever happens.
He's gone.
JAPHET'S WIFE
(quiet)
Oh God.
113 EXT. CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 113
We track JAPHET as he runs down the corridor.
As he runs, other CLAN are exiting from apartments,
carrying firearms of various types.
MAN
(exiting apartment)
Japhet!
JAPHET
Where we headed?
MAN
Big Joe said the med center!
114 INT. OUTSIDE MEDICAL CENTER - CONTINUOUS 114
JAPHET and the others join up with the crowd gathering
outside the closed security doors of the MED CENTER.
In the middle of the crowd is BIG JOE.
BIG JOE is huge. He has a SAW machine gun in one hand and
an ammo box in the other.
BIG JOE
I want the North and East corridors
totally covered! Sal is covering
West and South! Spread out the
hardware!
BIG JOE lifts his SAW, and fires a burst into the ceiling.
43.
BIG JOE
We're going to shoot these judges
into hamburger and hand them to Ma-
ma on a plate.
CUT TO:
115 INT. DOORWAY- CONTINUOUS 115
On the other side of the area outside the MED CENTER, there
is a door.
Slightly ajar.
Through it, a sliver of JUDGE'S helmet.
DREDD, observing the scene.
116 INT. ACCESS CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 116
DREDD and ANDERSON are hidden in an access corridor.
Low lit.
Utility pipework and wiring.
KAY is behind them. Gagged and cuffed to a pipe.
DREDD
We're going to have to go through
them.
DREDD pulls back from the slightly open doorway.
Checks his utility belt.
DREDD
No gas grenades. Got any
flashbangs?
ANDERSON
One.
He looks back through the doorway.
DREDD
Let's give them the bad news.
117 INT. OUTSIDE MEDICAL CENTER - CONTINUOUS 117
44.
TRACKING a small cylindrical object.
Rolling along the floor.
Under the legs of the citizen vigilantes.
Until it comes to a stop -
- under JAPHET.
He doesn't see it, because his attention - and the
attention of all the vigilantes, is distracted by the sound
of DREDD'S voice.
This words are amplified, as if through a loud hailer.
DREDD'S VOICE
Citizens of Peach Trees. This is
the law.
The vigilantes look around, trying to see where the noise
is coming from.
DREDD'S VOICE
Disperse immediately, or we will
use lethal force to clear the area.
CITIZEN
Where's that coming from?
CITIZEN
Over there!
ALL WEAPONS swing to the doorway behind which DREDD and
ANDERSON are hidden.
118 INT. ACCESS CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 118
DREDD and ANDERSON are pressed to the wall either side of
the doorway.
DREDD is speaking into a mike, swung out of the inside
curve of his helmet.
DREDD
You have been warned. You now have
twenty seconds to comply.
119 INT. OUTSIDE MEDICAL CENTER - CONTINUOUS 119
45.
BIG JOE, SAW trained on the doorway, shouts back.
BIG JOE
It's you doing the complying,
judge. Twenty of us, two of you.
Come out from that doorway, or
we're blowing the shit out of you.
DREDD
Ten seconds to comply.
BIG JOE flips the safety.
BIG JOE
You got five.
120 INT. ACCESS CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 120
DREDD
Thanks for the heads-up.
In his hand, he depresses a small button on a hand held
device.
121 INT. OUTSIDE MEDICAL CENTER - CONTINUOUS 121
At JAPHET'S feet -
- t~e FLASHBANG detonates.
A blinding flash of light fills the space.
As our vision returns, bleaching back from white-out
brightness, deafening tinnitus ringing in our ears...
...we can see DREDD and ANDERSON are already out of the
doorway.
Guns blazing.
And the CLAM MEMBERS are being shredded by the rain of
rapid fire.
Before the effects of the flashbang have cleared, the CLAN
have been shot to the ground.
CUT TO:
ANDERSON.
46.
She seems dazed by the sight of the carnage.
The shattered bodies. The sprays of blood and bullet holes.
She's looking at the one vigilante who is still alive.
JAPHET.
Blood pouring from the wounds in his stomach. Doubled up on
the floor. Kneeling. Still dazed.
Seeing his BERETTA beside him.
With slow, drunken coordination, reaching for it.
Trying to bring it to bear on ANDERSON.
ANDERSON keeps her gun levelled at JAPHET.
But she doesn't fire.
Instead, frozen, watches as JAPHET'S arm fails him.
The gun remains only half-raised, Swaying. As if it is
heavy for him to lift.
DREDD'S voice cuts in to ANDERSON'S reverie.
DREDD
Anderson - what are you waiting
for?
ANDERSON doesn't answer.
DREDD
His crime is attempted murder of a
judge. His sentence is death.
Beat.
ANDERSON
(distant)
Sir.
ANDERSON fires.
JAPHET is hit in the head.
He drops forward, and lands face down.
47.
HOLD on DREDD a moment. Watching ANDERSON. His face is
expressionless, but we can tell: as far as ANDERSON'S
assessment goes, the balance just tipped against her.
122 INT. MEDICAL CENTER - CONTINUOUS 122
The PARAMEDIC is watching a monitor from behind his
security doors.
On the monitor:
ANDERSON is pulling KAY out of the access corridor.
DREDD is walking over the bodies of the dead vigilantes, to
the video intercom.
DREDD
Open up.
In front of the PARAMEDIC is the door release mechanism.
But he makes no move for it.
DREDD
(leaning into the camera)
Open up!
PARAMEDIC
Negative, judge.
DREDD
You know what's going on. We need a
place we can defend.
PARAMEDIC
Then you'd better find somewhere
else. This is a medical facility.
Neutral ground.
DREDD
You're not neutral. You're choosing
sides.
PARAMEDIC
Peach Trees has been sealed by
blast doors designed to withstand
nuclear attack. No one is getting
out. No one is getting in. And you
have every Clan affiliate in the
block after your blood.
(shrugs)
You're already dead. There are no
sides.
48.
123 INT. OUTSIDE MEDICAL CENTER - CONTINUOUS 123
DREDD walks to ANDERSON.
KAY kneels a few feet away.
DREDD
We're going to keep moving.
They are out of KAY'S earshot, but he seems to know what's
happening.
He smiles.
ANDERSON
What about the perp? Are we keeping
him with us?
DREDD
Explain.
ANDERSON
... Just that under the
circumstances, he's a liability.
DREDD
Also a prime suspect in five
homicides. What do you say, rookie?
Want to cut him loose?
ANDERSON
(chastened)
No, sir.
124 INT. LEVEL TWENTY FIVE/CORRIDOR - 124
KAY, with DREDD and ANDERSON either side of him, move down
a corridor.
Echoing down the corridors, we can hear the voices and
shouts of CLAN, searching for the judges.
DREDD
(quiet)
Switch weapon to silencer mode.
Minimum profile. Conserve
ammunition. Don't shoot unless
you're going to hit.
They hit a button on their handguns, and a suppressor
slides out over the barrel.
49.
Almost as soon as they have done so, at the far end of the
corridor, at a T-junction, we see three armed CLAN appear.
They are not facing the judges. They appear to be talking
to someone out of sight around the junction corner.
ANDERSON'S gun raises immediately -
- but DREDD pushes her hand down.
He pulls her into the recess of one of the apartment
doorways.
DOWN THE CORRIDOR -
- the three CLAN start to walk towards us.
IN THE RECESS -
DDREDD pushes himself flat, gun raised, waiting for the men
to draw parallel.
We can hear their footsteps.
Getting closer.
But ANDERSON is doing something else.
Her head suddenly tilts to the side -
- as if she is listening. Hearing something through the
apartment doorway.
Then stays motionless like that for a moment.
Then - surprisingly, ANDERSON pushes the intercom buzzer.
DREDD
(whispers)
What are you -
She motions for him to be silent.
Then whispers into the intercom.
ANDERSON
Cathy?
Beat. Then:
WOMAN'S VOICE
(through intercom)
50.
Who's that?
The ARMED CITIZENS are now only a few feet away.
ANDERSON
Cathy, open the door.
Another beat.
Then the door unlatches.
Immediately, ANDERSON jams it open.
127 INT. JAPHET'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 127
DREDD and ANDERSON push inside with KAY, throwing CATHY
back, and close the door behind them.
As soon as we see CATHY, we recognize her as JAPHET'S wife.
ANDERSON stops CATHY from screaming with her hand.
ANDERSON
(quiet)
It's okay. We aren't going to hurt
you.
DREDD watches through the spyhole as the ARMED CITIZENS
pass.
A silent beat.
DREDD
They're gone.
He turns, looking at ANDERSON. She obviously just went up
in his esteem.
DREDD
Secure the woman, somewhere where
she can't raise any alarms, and
we'll move on.
ANDERSON
Sir - I don't think we can. She has
a baby. Joey. Asleep next door.
He's three weeks old.
CATHY, wide-eyed with confusion and fear, nods.
ANDERSON
51.
We can't secure her if we don't
know when she'll get freed.
DREDD
Where's her husband?
ANDERSON gazes into CATHY'S eyes. Not looking into them.
Through them.
ANDERSON
Out there. Looking for us.
CATHY'S eyes open even wider. Awed and bewildered by
ANDERSON'S abilities.
ANDERSON
She has something to say.
ANDERSON removes her hand from CATHY'S mouth.
ANDERSON
Go ahead, Cathy.
CATHY keeps looking at ANDERSON, hyperventilating.
CATHY
You. You're - How did you -
ANDERSON
(cuts in)
Calm down. Just tell him what you
were thinking.
CATHY takes a deep breath. Tries to control the tremor in
her voice.
CATHY
I'm not raising any alarms. If the
men out there don't know where you
are, you won't be killing them.
DREDD
Go on.
CATHY
There's a service elevator near
here. The sign says it's broken,
but it works as long as you're
hitting a button above level forty.
DREDD nods.
DREDD
52.
You've done the right thing,
citizen.
CATHY
I just want you off my level. Away
from my family.
128 INT. LEVEL TWENTY FIVE/DOORWAY - CONTINUOUS 128
DREDD eases the door open.
Checks each way down the corridor.
DREDD
It's clear. Let's move.
129 INT. JAPHET'S APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 129
DREDD leads KAY through the door into the corridor.
ANDERSON is about to follow -
- then stops dead.
She's seen something.
On the wall - a framed photo.
CATHY, the BABY, and JAPHET.
A terrible, frozen beat, as ANDERSON realizes that the man
she executed was CATHY'S husband.
From the other room, the baby wakes, and starts to cry.
ANDERSON looks back to CATHY.
A moment between them.
ANDERSON
Cathy, I -
CATHY
(cuts in)
Don't thank me. It's not for you. I
just don't want to see you again.
ANDERSON
(quiet)
You won't.
53.
130 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/LOBBY - DAY 130
An armed CLAN MEMBER stands guard in a lobby.
The glowing wall stencil reads LEVEL 50.
Behind him is the service elevator. A sign in front of it
reads: out of order.
But - PING.
The elevator just arrived.
The CLAN MEMBER turns as the doors open.
And sees DREDD pointing a gun right at his head.
The next moment, the CLAN MEMBER drops, shot silently,
right between the eyes.
CUT TO:
132 INT. CCTV IMAGES - CONTINUOUS 132
- a CCTV image of the dead CLAN MEMBER, crumpled on the
floor by the service elevator.
CLAN TECHIE
(O.S.)
We've got one here.
CUT TO:
- the strewn bodies outside the med center.
CLAN TECHIE (O.S.)
Maybe twenty outside the med
center.
CUT TO:
- the bodies in the stairwell.
CLAN TECHIE (O.S.)
Eight in the stairwell.
CUT TO:
- the bodies in the corridor.
CLAN TECHIE (V.O.)
54.
And another five on level eighteen.
CUT TO:
133 INT. MA MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM - CONTINUOUS 133
- the bank of monitors on which these images are being
shown.
Watching these images, over the shoulder of the CLAN
TECHIE, is MA-MA and her BODYGUARDS.
CLAN TECHIE
They've downed thirty plus, and
haven't even taken a scratch.
MA-MA
Where are they now?
The CLAN TECHIE points to the monitors.
CLAN TECHIE
These bodies are from level forty
six and forty eight, but -
The CLAN TECHIE breaks off.
CLAN TECHIE
Wait - I just picked them up. Level
Fifty, West Quadrant.
He points them out on the monitor. Zooms in the image.
CLAN TECHIE
Do you want me to hook you up to
the Tanoy? We could get level forty
through sixty converging on them.
MA-MA processes. Quickly.
MA-MA
No. Can you seal them in there?
CLAN TECHIE
Nuke override gives me full control
of the building.
The CLAN TECHIE starts tapping in commands to his console.
CLAN TECHIE
55.
There. I just triggered the fire
protocols. All doorways to
stairwells, elevator shafts, and
access corridors are all sealed.
Full lockdown. They're going
nowhere.
MA-MA nods.
MA-MA
They're in the West quadrant, so I
want three miniguns set up on the
East.
Tight on MA-MA. The ice in her eyes.
MA-MA
I tried to do this clean. But they
wouldn't let me. So now we do it
messy.
CUT TO:
134 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/LOBBY - CONTINUOUS 134
DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY stop in their tracks, as all around
them, in a strange ripple of sound, all the doorways are
locking.
The noise starts from down the corridor, then passes over
them like a wave, and continues away from them.
Then a computerized voice comes over the Tanoy.
TANOY
Warning. Warning. Fire containment
protocol initiated. All citizens
remain in your apartments until
further notice.
DREDD
This isn't good.
DREDD'S gaze flicks to the CCTV camera in the corner of the
lobby.
He knows the Clan are watching.
He lifts his gun and -
CUT BACK TO:
56.
135 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM - CONTINUOUS 135
- fires.
The monitor image goes dead.
MA-MA
Too late, Judge.
MA-MA lifts her handset.
MA-MA
Caleb, come in.
136 INT. PEACH TREE CONTROL ROOM - CONTINUOUS 136
CALEB lifts his radio.
CALEB
Here, Ma.
MA-MA
We've got them cornered. We're
taking them down, right now.
137 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/CORRIDOR - DAY 137
A blast door covers the entrance to a stairwell.
DREDD is checking it out.
DREDD
We'll need oxyacetylene to even
make a dent.
ANDERSON looks around.
They are in a long corridor, with further corridors leading
off. There is no cover, except the shallow recesses of the
doorways.
ANDERSON
Why aren't they coming? They know
where we are.
DREDD
Not sure.
57.
He lifts his gun and shoots out the ceiling lights of the
section of corridor they are in, leaving this section of
the corridor in darkness.
DREDD
(to Anderson)
You'll see anyone coming before
they see you. It'll give you a
chance.
ANDERSON
Where are you going?
DREDD
To find out what they're up to.
He starts to walk away.
Then stops and looks back.
DREDD
If I don't come back, and you get
cornered, you might not want to be
taken alive.
(beat)
Your call.
ANDERSON
... Sir.
DREDD turns and goes. Leaving ANDERSON alone with KAY, in
the darkness.
139 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 139
DREDD moves cautiously down a corridor.
The corridor is empty.
As he walks down, we cut to the interiors of the apartments
...
141 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/APARTMENTS - CONTINUOUS 141
... and see the lives inside.
The people. The families.
This is the reality of the world inside Peach Trees. Normal
people, managing as best they can.
58.
And right now, they are silent. Frightened. Huddled.
Fathers with a hand on the shoulder of teenage daughters.
Mothers trying to keep babies from crying.
Because on their security monitors, and through the fish-
eye lenses of the spyholes on their doors, they can see the
JUDGE passing by outside.
They know trouble is coming.
142 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 142
DRE0D turns a corner.
Ahead, he can see where the next section of corridor ends
...
.. . at the ringed balcony around the atrium.
143 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/DARK CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 143
ANDERSON waits with KAY.
KAY is sat on the floor, hands still cuffed behind his
back.
ANDERSON'S gaze is flicking between the two lit ends of the
corridor.
KAY'S gaze is on only ANDERSON.
His tongue wets his lips.
Then, after a few moments -
KAY
He's right, you know.
ANDERSON reacts. Partly because KAY has broken his silence.
Partly because of what he's said.
KAY
About not wanting to be taken
alive.
(beat)
The stuff the Clan would do to a
girl like you ...
(shakes his head)
Nasty.
59.
Beat.
KAY
I mean, there was this one time, we
got a girl about your age and -
(he breaks off)
Well anyway. I'm just saying. Save
the last bullet for yourself.
ANDERSON
If I do, I'll save the second from
last bullet for you.
KAY smiles to himself.
She's made a mistake. By attempting to show that she isn't
getting rattled, she has in fact shown that she is.
KAY
Sure.
Beat.
KAY
So - you're a mutant. I've heard
about your kind. Psychics, right?
Beat.
KAY
Kind of hard to believe it's real.
Like - what am I thinking about
right now?
ANDERSON turns and gazes at him evenly, determined to show
he can't get to her.
ANDERSON
You're picturing a violent sexual
liaison between the two of us in an
pointless attempt to shock me.
KAY raises his eyebrows.
KAY
You're good.
(beat)
But I wasn't trying to shock you.
If I'd been trying to shock you,
I'd have thought of this.
ANDERSON suddenly winces at the image he had dropped on
her.
60.
Then - snaps.
She lashes out with her fist.
Catches KAY full in the face, and drops him.
ANDERSON
What are you thinking about now?
Through bloody and busted lips, KAY looks up at her and
smiles.
He might be bleeding and cuffed, but the victory in this
encounter is his.
144 INT. ATRIUM - CONTINUOUS 144
We are spiraling up through the levels, to level fifty.
At level fifty, we find DREDD pressed to the wall of a
corridor, as it exits on to the West quadrant of the
interior balcony.
The camera continues its spiral motion, but remains at
level fifty, to reveal to the East quadrant.
Directly opposite the West.
As three MINGUNS appear over the balcony rail.
Each with six rotating barrels, electric driven, air-
cooled, firing six thousand rounds a minute.
Behind the machine guns are MA-MA, her BODYGUARDS, CALEB,
and his men.
CUT TO:
DREDD.
DREDD
... Damn.
CUT TO:
MA-MA.
MA-MA
Fire.
CUT TO:
61.
DREDD.
Sprinting back down the corridor.
Back to ANDERSON.
As the miniguns open up.
CUT TO:
148 INT. LEVEL FIFTY MASSACRE - CONTINUOUS 148
- a staggering shooting sequence.
The tracer rounds from the miniguns create an effect like a
continuous streak of light.
Their effect on the Western quadrant is like a band-saw
cutting through the building.
Shredding and ripping through walls and doors. Through
apartments. Annihilating everything inside.
Objects. Pets. People. All destroyed. All vaporized in
clouds of blood and glass and dust.
MA-MA is sacrificing the entire Western community of level
fifty in order to be sure of killing the judges and KAY. A
micro-genocide.
And sprinting just ahead of the wave of destruction, DREDD.
Shouting to ANDERSON.
DREDD
Get down!
149 INT. ATRIUM/LEVEL FIFTY/EASTERN BALCONY - CONTINUOUS 149
Behind the miniguns, MA-MA and her men are electrified by
the level of destruction they are causing.
Jaws open. Laughing. Howling. Inaudible over the roar of
the gunfire.
151 INT. LEVEL FIFTY MASSACRE - CONTINUOUS 151
Deafening noise. Smoke and dust. Sparks Streaks of tracer.
Darkness.
62.
DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY are crawling on their bellies.
Bodies flash past them. Civilians running.
Some are cut down, or cut in half, by the gunfire.
DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY scramble to shelter behind a thick
upright concrete pillar -
- which immediately starts to erode under the hail of
bullets.
The pillar isn't going to last long, and there is nowhere
left to run.
Then - on the wall opposite them, taking the full force of
the rounds - a single point of BRIGHT LIGHT appears through
the smoke and dust.
DREDD sees it.
Lifts his gun.
DREDD
Hi-Ex!
The setting on DREDD'S gun changes.
DREOD fires at the single point of light.
And the high explosive round blows a massive hole in the
wall, through which BRIGHT LIGHT floods through.
DREDD
GO!
DREDD rises, driving KAY ahead of him, running into the
light.
ANDERSON follows.
And as she goes through, CUT TO -
152 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/LEVEL FIFTY - CONTINUOUS 152
- the exterior of Peach Trees.
ANDERSON has exited into thin air.
The brightness is revealed as daylight. DREDD has blown a
hole in the side of the building.
63.
ANDERSON starts to fall -
- but not fifty stories to ground.
Only a couple of metres - to the SKATEPARK.
Where the SKATERS stand, awestruck, as just above them,
tracers fire rips through the hole in the side of Peach
Trees.
CUT BACK TO:
152A INT. ATRIUM/LEVEL FIFTY/EASTERN BALCONY - CONTINUOUS 152A
- the three miniguns.
Which, one by one, run out of ammunition.
The roar of gunfire is replaced by ratchet clicks as the
smoking barrels keep rotating for a few moments.
Then come to a stop.
Leaving silence.
MA-MA and CALEB stare across the atrium at the destruction
opposite.
CALEB
I think we got 'em.
CUT BACK TO:
153 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK - CONTINUOUS 153
- wind clearing the smoke on the outside of the building.
Revealing DREDD, ANDERSON, KAY and the SKATERS in the
skatepark.
DREDD'S radio suddenly fuzzes into life.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Responders in vicinity of block Tom
Frame. Small arms fire reported in
shopping zone.
DREDD and ANDERSON react.
64.
ANDERSON
The radios
are working!
DREDD lifts his glove to speak into his radio.
DREDD
Control. Do you read me?
CONTROL
(over radio)
Affirmative.
DREDD
10-24 on my GPS. We are under fire
and need immediate assistance.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Copy, 10-24. Your location is
showing as Peach Trees, Sector
Thirteen. Confirm.
DREDD
Confirm. Be advised, nuke defenses
have been triggered in order to
seal the building.
CONTROL
Can you hold your current GPS?
DREDD glances over the ledge at the precipitous drop.
DREDD
Negative. If they come for us,
we've got nowhere to go. Have to
keep moving.
CONTROL
(over radio)
Copy that. Just stay alive. Back up
is on its way.
154 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/CORRIDOR - DAY 154
A blast door raises -
- revealing CALEB and five heavies on the other side.
156 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/REMAINS OF WEST QUADRANT- CONTINUOUS 156
65.
CALEB and his men step into the rubble of what was the West
Quadrant of level fifty.
In the hanging dust, they can't see more than ten metres
ahead of them.
Ahead of them, a glowing band of light shows where the
exterior wall once was.
Half poking through the rubble at their feet are the
mangled remains of the people and families who have been
slaughtered.
HEAVY 2
No way they survived.
CALEB
They're not dead until we find them
dead.
At CALEB'S feet, an extremely badly damaged body is
resting.
CALEB
Or part of them anyway.
They fan out, keeping their guns raised.
158 INT. LEVEL FIFTY/REMAINS OF WEST QUADRANT- CONTINUOUS 158
We are looking back at CALEB and his men as they cautiously
move forwards.
So we see what CALEB and his men don't.
Barely visible through the dust, a dark shape appears
fleetingly behind them.
Then -
- one of the five HEAVIES suddenly jerks backwards, out of
sight, as if yanked by an invisible wire.
A couple of beats later, a second HEAVY vanishes exactly
the same way.
CALEB now has only three men with him, and he doesn't even
realize it yet.
But one of his surviving HEAVIES does.
66.
HEAVY 3
(looking round)
Hey - where's the others?
CALEB and the others all turn.
They see the missing space where the men had been.
But don't see -
- what's happening to HEAVY 3.
HEAVY 3 would shout out in alarm, if DREDD'S right hand
wasn't closed around his mouth.
The man's head is snapped sideways. Neck broken.
And HEAVY 3 is pulled from view ...
... a beat before CALEB looks round, and sees that another
of his men has gone.
Immediately, the remaining three men panic.
They open up with their weapons, aiming wildly all around
them. But in the heavy dust, they're firing blind. They're
shooting at a ghost.
They keep the fire sustained, emptying their clips.
After the gunfire, a silent beat as they hurriedly reload.
HEAVY 5
(panicky)
This is fucked up. How did he do
that? There's only three of us
left!
But there isn't.
There's two.
Somehow, during the firing, HEAVY 4 was spirited away.
It's all happened so fast.
Only CALEB and HEAVY 5 are left.
And as if in answer, a red bullet hole from a silenced
round punches in the middle of HEAVY S's forehead.
Then his knees give way, and he drops.
67.
CALEB
(quiet)
Ma.
160 INT. ATRIUM/LEVEL FIFTY/EASTERN BALCONY - CONTINUOUS 160
The dust cloud is slowly drifting into the atrium from the
wreckage of the level fifty Western quadrant.
Out of the dust cloud, into the thin air of the atrium, a
body is ejected.
It's CALEB.
Screaming, as he starts the fifty storey fall down to the
ground level.
Reveal -
- MA-MA watching, as CALEB drops out of sight.
Silence.
Then, out of MA-MA'S mouth, a howl of rage.
164 INT. ATRIUM - CONTINUOUS 164
MA-MA'S howl seems to echo down the atrium, reverberating
through the entire building.
165 INT. CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 165
The sound of MA-MA'S howl is becoming mingled with another
noise.
Not a howl of rage. A scream of pain.
We close in on the source of the scream.
Which turns out to be KAY'S mouth.
And he's screaming, because DREDD is propelling him down
the corridor, with his wrist twisted behind him in a nasty
looking pressure hold.
ANDERSON follows behind.
68.
Something in DREDD'S manner feels different. In his body
language, the speed he's moving, his total lack of
concession for KAY'S pain - he's not fucking around.
They pass an apartment with the door broken off its hinges.
Inside, it is a burned-out shell, long abandoned.
DREDD stops.
DREDD
This'll do.
166 INT. ABANDONED APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 166
KAY is thrown inside.
Landing hard, face first. Unable to break his fall because
his hands are cuffed behind his back.
DREDD jams the door to the apartment closed.
Then turns to KAY.
DREDD
Homicide investigation, busting a
narcotics den, bringing in a
suspect for interrogation. Any
other block in Mega city One, it's
routine. In Peach Trees, it's war.
KAY says nothing. Just spits blood, and gazes back at
DREDD.
DREDD
Your gang locks down the whole
block. Massacres an entire quadrant
of men, women, children. Just to
take out two judges. Sound like
overkill to you?
DREDD upholsters his weapon. Checks the clip.
DREDD
Tell you what I think. If we'd
executed you in the bust, Ma-Ma
would have let us walk out of here.
KAY reacts slightly. DREDD'S on the money.
DREDD
69.
What she doesn't want is you taken
back to the sector house and
interrogated. Because she's afraid
of what you might say.
(beat)
That's got me curious.
DREDD steps over to KAY, yanks his hair back, and puts the
muzzle against KAY'S head.
DREDD
Start talking.
KAY
Fuck you.
ANDERSON
Sir.
DREDD hesitates.
ANDERSON
If you leave it to me, he doesn't
have to talk.
CUT TO:
167 INT. ABANDONED APARTMENT - DAY 167
KKAY is kneeling on the floor, with his hands plastic-
cuffed behind his back.
ANDERSON is standing opposite him, looking down.
DREDD is watching.
KAY
What are you up to, bitch?
ANDERSON doesn't respond, except to close her eyes.
And as she does so -
- DREDD and surrounding walls of the abandoned apartment
melt away.
Leaving just her and KAY alone, in a dark, undefined space.
168 INT. UNDEFINED SPACE - CONTINUOUS 168
70.
ANDERSON opens her eyes again.
KAY looks around.
The walls and substance of the space are constantly
shifting, never quite resolved.
KAY
What the -
ANDERSON
Welcome to the inside of your head.
She glances around.
ANDERSON
Kind of empty.
KAY looks a little weirded out.
KAY
I don't know what fucked up mutant
shit this is, but if I wasn't
cuffed I'd -
ANDERSON
(cuts in)
You aren't cuffed. Do what you
like.
KAY frowns.
CUT TO his plastic-cuffed hands.
Exploratory, he pulls his wrists apart ...
... and the cuffs fall away, as if they were never there.
A beat.
Then KAY stands.
Puts his hands in front of him.
KAY
Huh.
He smiles nastily.
KAY
My head. Do what I like.
71.
ANDERSON
Sure.
KAY reaches out with his hand -
- and ANDERSON'S weapons suddenly springs out her holster,
into his waiting palm.
Immediately, without any delay or ceremony, he lifts the
gun, and fires a volley of shots at point blank range into
ANDERSON'S face.
And when the last muzzle flash has faded, and the smoke has
cleared, ANDERSON stands before him, just as before,
unscathed.
ANDERSON
Thinking about hurting me doesn't
actually hurt me.
KAY
Oh. Yeah. Point to you.
He tosses the gun.
KAY
Except - there is that thing. That
thing we already established.
ANDERSON
What thing was that?
KAY
That I know how to freak you the
fuck out.
When we cut back to ANDERSON, her uniform has vanished -
leaving her completely naked.
KAY
See, if we're talking about my
fucked-up head versus your fucked-
up head ...
As he's talking, an invisible force compels ANDERSON to a
kneeling position in front of him.
KAY
... your fucked-up head is going to
lose.
KAY unzips himself.
72.
KAY
Speaking of head.
WE CLOSE ON KAY'S UPPER BODY.
He laughs.
KAY
Figured that would shut you up.
Gives me a moment to think up
something really -
ANDERSON (O.S.)
Hey.
KAY jumps.
ANDERSON'S voice came from over his shoulder.
His head turns, and he sees her. She's back in uniform, and
standing directly behind him.
ANDERSON
Guess what?
(into Kay's ear)
I can play mind games too.
KAY
What the -
KAY'S head turns again, to see who is felating him -
- and SHOUTS with alarm.
KAY
Fuck!
The naked woman felating him is MA-MA.
KAY pulls back like a scalded cat.
KAY
Aaaagh! Fuck! Jesus! FUCK! You sick
bitch!
ANDERSON spins him round.
ANDERSON
Sick? We haven't even started.
CUT TO:
73.
170 INT. ABANDONED APARTMENT - CONTINUOUS 170
- stillness and quiet in the abandoned apartment.
From what DREDD can see, there is no indication of the
strange battle of wits between ANDERSON and KAY.
They are both in the same positions they were in
previously.
KAY kneeling with his hands cuffed.
ANDERSON standing in front of him.
Both with their eyes closed.
The calm moment is sustained.
Then, abruptly, KAY pisses himself.
As the dark stain spreads across his trousers, ANDERSON
opens her eyes and looks at DREDD
ANDERSON
Peach Trees is the manufacturing
base for all the slo-mo in Mega
City One. Ma-Ma is controlling the
production and distribution across
the whole city.
KAY'S looks down at the puddle on the floor, then up at
ANDERSON.
In KAY'S eyes, it's pure hatred.
DREDD
Interesting.
CUT TO:
171 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CONTROL ROOM - DAY 171
The CLAN TECHIE looks under even more pressure than usual.
He's shaking with fear.
MA-MA is leaned over behind him, with her head
uncomfortable close to his, and her right arm around his
torso.
On the monitor in front of him, we can see the exterior of
the South Entrance.
74.
And standing by the closed blast-door are three judges.
CLAN TECHIE
But Ma, please - they're Judges! I
can't refuse them entry! They can
go where ever they like!
REVEAL that MA-MA is holding a knife across the CLAN
TECHIE'S stomach. Ready to cut.
MA-MA
If you want to keep your insides
in, you better keep the Judges out.
So I guess you'd better think of
something fast.
The CLAN TECHIE takes a steadying breath.
Then flicks a switch on the console and speaks into his
headset.
CLAN TECHIE
Peach Trees. Can I help you?
On the MONITOR, one of the judges speaks into the intercom.
JUDGE
(over intercom)
We're responding to a report of
judges under fire from within this
block.
CLAN TECHIE
Judges under fire? I'm not aware of
any such activity. We're actually
under a scheduled nuke defense test
...
JUDGE
(over intercom)
Not any more you're not. Open the
blast door right now.
Sweat rolls down the TECHIE'S face. But he keeps his voice
under control.
CLAN TECHIE
Yes, sir. The problem is, we have a
software malfunction and we've lost
control over the system. We've had
a fire on level forty ...
75.
The JUDGE glances upwards, to the hole DREDD blasted in the
side of the building.
JUDGE
(over intercom)
You'd better get control. Fast. Or
I'm slapping you with an
obstruction of justice charge. Five
years in the cubes, mandatory.
CLAN TECHIE
Will do, sir. On it right now.
The CLAN TECHIE hits the disconnect button and pulls his
headset off.
Wipes his hand over his mouth.
Then glances round at MA-MA nervously.
Beat.
MA-MA
Good.
CUT TO:
172 INT. CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 172
- a ten year-old boy, standing in the corridor on which the
abandoned apartment is situated.
The KID points with his index finger.
KID
They went that way. All the way
down. Then went in to three-four-
nine.
Behind the KID are two CLAN. They are AMOS and FREEL.
AMOS
You sure it was them?
KID
They walked right past my door. Two
judges and one of the clan. He was
screaming. I think one of the
judges was breaking his arm.
FREEL
76.
Shit. Why'd have to be us that
found them?
AMOS
(to the kid)
All right, Joey. Run back home. And
stay there.
The KID legs it.
AMOS
Okay. Let's do it.
AMOS and FREEL raise their guns, and start making their way
down the corridor.
ON THEIR FACES -
- we can see how nervous they are. Bright beads of sweat on
the top lips. Eyes darting.
Then, from ahead down the corridor, from the doorway of the
abandoned apartment, a CLICK of a door opening.
CUT TO:
174 INT. CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 174
- DREDD exiting from the abandoned apartment, into the
corridor.
He looks left and right ...
... and the corridor is empty.
DREDD
Clear.
ANDERSON, leading KAY ahead of her, follow.
CUT TO:
175 INT. CORRIDOR/DOORWAYS - CONTINUOUS 175
In the recess of two doorways, opposite each other in the
corridor, AMOS and FREEL are hiding.
They whisper to each other:
AMOS
77.
Why didn't you shoot them?
FREEL
Why didn't you?
AMOS peeks around the recess - and sees the judges and
their prisoner, walking away from them.
AMOS
We could do it now.
FREEL
Go on then.
AMOS looks back around the recess -
- and the corridor is empty.
The judges have gone.
AMOS
Shit.
AMOS wipes the sweat off his face with the back of his
sleeve.
AMOS
Come on.
176 INT. CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 176
DREDD, ANDERSON and KAY move down the corridor away from
the abandoned apartment.
DREDD
We have new intel about Ma-Ma, and
we've managed to get a 10-24 call
to Control. Parameters are
shifting. What are our options,
rookie?
ANDERSON
Find a position to defend, or keep
moving and attempt to avoid further
detection. Sarne as before. Except
now at least we know back-up is
inbound.
DREDD
Two options.
ANDERSON
78.
Yes, sir.
DREDD
What about we head straight for Ma-
Ma.
ANDERSON
... Is that an option?
DREDD
She's guilty. We're judges.
ANDERSON
Sir - if back-up is inbound we
should wait until the odds have
shifted in our favor.
Beat.
ANDERSON
... Wrong answer?
DREDD
You're the psychic.
ANDERSON glances at DREDD.
Beat.
Then looks away.
177 INT. SHOPPING ZONE - CONTINUOUS 177
Ahead of them, the corridor widens into a lobby area.
It's a mini-shopping zone - like the clusters of shops at
the bases of large estate tower blocks. Metal grills over
the windows. Everything covered in the ubiquitous graffiti.
The shops are all abandoned or closed.
Set into the wall is a machine that looks like a large cash
dispenser. It is in fact a BLOCK INFO POINT.
There is also an elevator door.
DREDD
Wait. Map point. Let's get
bearings.
DREDD approaches the INFO POINT.
79.
Taps the console.
Surprisingly, it works.
He taps the screen.
Brings up a map of the block, similar to the map we saw in
the med center.
He rotates the map.
A flashing marker reads: YOU ARE HERE.
They are about half up the block.
AT THAT MOMENT -
- AMOS and FREEL make their move.
AMOS
FREEZE!
DREDD looks round.
By the entrance to the lobby, AMOS and FREEL are standing
with their guns aimed respectively at DREDD and ANDERSON.
A beat.
DREDD sees - the fear in their eyes. The sweat. The shake
in their hands.
CUT TO:
- KAY, who is standing beside ANDERSON with his hands
cuffed behind him. Next to the elevator control panel.
CUT BACK TO:
- DREDD.
DREDD
Why?
AMOS
Why what?
DREDD
Why should I freeze?
AMOS is momentarily thrown.
80.
AMOS
... Because otherwise I'll shoot
you.
DREDD
With the safety catch on.
AMOS'S eyes flick to the safety catch of his gun.
Which is, in fact, off.
AMOS
It isn't -
The words dry up.
In the brief instant that AMOS and FREEL glanced at their
weapons, DREDD and ANDERSON have drawn their own guns, and
are pointing them back at AMOS and FREEL.
DREDD
Drop the weapons.
AMOS gulps.
DREDD
You aren't killers. If you were,
you'd have shot us already. Put the
guns down, and you get to live.
CUT TO:
- KAY.
Who can see the way this is about to go.
And now makes his move.
The following
action is fast and fluid. A surprise.
KAY'S hands are cuffed behind him.
In a contortionist's move, KAY DISLOCATES HIS LEFT
SHOULDER, then sweeps his looped arms over his head.
Now, like magic, his cuffed hands are in front of his body.
It's an amazing trick,
for the right moment
81.
and he's obviously been waiting
to do it.
ANDERSON is reacting
to KAY'S move -
- but she's too slow. KAY has grabbed her gun, forced his
finger over her trigger finger, and jammed the aim in
DREDD'S direction.
The following action is fast and fluid. A surprise.
KAY'S hands are cuffed behind him.
In a contortionist's move, KAY DISLOCATES HIS LEFT
SHOULDER, then sweeps his looped arms over his head.
Now, like magic, his cuffed hands are in front of his body.
It's an amazing trick, and he's obviously been waiting for
the right moment to do it.
ANDERSON is reacting to KAY'S move -
- but she's too slow. KAY has grabbed her gun, forced his
finger over her trigger finger, and jammed the aim in
DREDD'S direction.
And now ANDERSON'S gun is firing.
DREDD dives for cover.
Almost simultaneously, panicked by the sudden explosion of
action, AMOS and FREEL open fire.
DREDD rolls to upright position and returns fire.
AMOS and FREEL are dropped by rapid rounds that stitch
across them and the wall behind.
And when DREDD brings his gun to bear on where ANDERSON and
KAY should be -
- he sees KAY has twisted ANDERSON'S gun back against her
head, and is backing into the now open elevator doors.
A glimpse between DREDD and ANDERSON.
Then the elevator doors close.
82.
182 INT. ELEVATOR - CONTINUOUS 182
The elevator is rising.
Still gripping ANDERSON, KAY slams his shoulder against the
side of the lift, popping it back in to place.
Looks unbelievably painful, but KAY deals with it.
KAY
Wow.
KAY pushes the gun harder against ANDERSON'S head.
KAY
You are so fucked.
183 INT. SHOPPING ZONE/LIFT SHAFT - CONTINUOUS 183
DREDD forces open the outer doors to the elevator, and
looks up the lift shaft.
Far above, he can see the lift car, rapidly ascending.
185 INT. SHOPPING ZONE - CONTINUOUS 185
Outside, in the lobby, we can see the digital display show
the position of the lift.
The numbers rise - all the way up to 200.
Then stop.
A beat.
186 INT. SHOPPING ZONE/LIFT SHAFT - CONTINUOUS 186
High above, a noise floats down the lift shaft.
It sounds at first like a scream.
As if it might be ANDERSON.
But there's something weird about the noise.
It takes us a moment to realize, it is in fact the sound of
metal, rending and tearing.
83.
187 INT. SHOPPING ZONE - CONTINUOUS 187
The numbers on the digital display start descending again,
at an accelerating rate, much faster than before.
188 INT. SHOPPING ZONE/LIFT SHAFT - CONTINUOUS 188
DREDD pulls back just in time to avoid being struck by the
plummeting lift car.
It continues down, severed cabled whipping through the air,
all the way to the bottom.
CUT TO:
189 INT. MA MA'S BASE - CONTINUOUS 189
- KAY. Back on home turf - and a hero. Dragging ANDERSON
through a group of CLAN, who are cheering the capture of
one of the judges, and slapping KAY on the back.
KAY throws ANDERSON to the floor.
KAY
Now then. What am I going to do
with you?
MA-MA
You're going to do nothing.
KAY turns.
Sees, coming through the CLAN, MA-MA and her BODYGUARDS.
MA-MA
All this trouble is your doing.
When you got busted, you should
have killed the judges or been
killed yourself. But instead, you
let yourself get taken. Like the
dumb fuck you are.
KAY
But -
MA-MA silences him with a vicious blow from the back of her
hand.
MA-MA
84.
Shut the fuck up. I'd kill you
myself, but I already lost plenty
today, and I can't afford to lose
more.
MA-MA turns to ANDERSON. Looks her up and down.
MA-MA
Sooner or later, the justice
department is going to come through
the blast doors, looking for their
judges. And they'll find their
bodies, all shot up. One on level
fifty five, and one in the slo-mo
den they took down. Just a bust
that went wrong.
MA-MA'S hand reaches back, and closes around KAY'S hair,
allowing her to yank his head close to hers.
MA-MA
That means no torture. No raping.
No skinning. Just a bunch of
bullets in the head and chest. You
understand me?
KAY hesitates.
MA-MA'S fist tightens so hard we can see the hairs getting
pulled out of KAY'S head.
MA-MA
Do you fucking understand me?
KAY
Yes.
MA-MA
Good.
AT THAT MOMENT-
- a CLAN MEMBER arrives.
CLAN MEMBER
Ma,
MA-MA turns. Wipes stray hairs from her hand.
The guy looks worried.
CLAN MEMBER
You'd better come quick.
85.
191 INT. MA MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM - CONTINUOUS 191
MA-MA, followed by KAY, enters the CCTV room.
The CLAN TECHIE is hurriedly working his console.
MA-MA
Now what?
CLAN TECHIE
It's the other judge. He's patched
himself in to one of the terminals.
I think he's trying to access the
Tanoy.
MA-MA
Can't you stop him?
CLAN TECHIE
I can shut down the whole system.
But if we let him talk, I can trace
which terminal he's using. We'll
know exactly where he is.
On cue, over the Tanoy, DREDD'S VOICE cuts in.
DREDD'S VOICE
Inhabitants of Peach Trees. This is
Judge Dredd speaking.
The CLAN TECHIE looks back to MA-MA.
MA-MA
Let him talk.
192 INT. ATRIUM - CONTINUOUS 192
DREDD'S VOICE echoes down the whole atrium.
All around the balconies and apartments, the citizens, many
of them armed, listen.
DREDD'S VOICE
In case you people have forgotten:
this block operates under the same
rules as the rest of the city. Ma-
Ma is not the law. I am the law.
CUT TO:
- MA-MA and KAY walk out on to the top level balcony.
86.
DREDD'S VOICE
Ma-Ma is a common criminal.
On MA-MA'S FACE:
DREDD'S VOICE
Guilty of murder. Guilty of the
manufacture and distribution of the
narcotic known as slo-mo.
MA-MA'S head snaps round to KAY.
The look in her eyes silences him.
DREDD'S VOICE
And as of now, under sentence of
death.
CUT TO:
- groups of armed citizens.
DREDD'S VOICE
Any who obstruct me in carrying out
my duty will be treated as an
accessory to her crimes. You have
been warned.
The armed citizens exchange glances.
CUT TO:
MA-MA.
DREDD'S VOICE
As for you, Ma-Ma ...
CUT TO:
CLOSE UP ON DREDD'S MOUTH.
DREDD'S VOICE
Judgement time.
195 INT. ATRIUM/TOP BALCONY - CONTINUOUS 195
As the Tanoy cuts out, we find MA-MA, standing by the rail,
gripping it hard in her huge fists.
Beside her, KAY, ashen-faced.
87.
Behind her, the CLAN-TECHIE, appearing.
CLAN TECHIE
I've got him. He's only ten levels
below us. South Quad balcony.
Terminal five.
CUT TO:
196 INT. LEVEL 190/CORRIDORS - DAY 196
Two groups of CLAN, automatic weapons in hand, run down
corridors, exiting onto the -
198 INT. LEVEL 190/BALCONY - CONTINUOUS 198
- balcony, where they converge on Terminal Five: one of the
information access booths dotted around the block.
Through the frosted glass of the booth, we can just make
out the shape of a tall man.
CLAN MEMBER
He's still in there!
The two converging groups of Clan open fire as one.
Hundreds of rounds simultaneously smash into the frosted
glass.
Blood and glittering shards cloud our vision.
And when they clear -
- we find the body of a CLAN member.
Dead. Shot to pieces. But still held upright by the
plasticuffs that secure him to the terminal console.
PULL BACK FAST TO:
199 INT. LEVEL 191/BALCONY - CONTINUOUS 199
- the opposite balcony of the next level up.
Where DREDD is standing.
Looking down.
88.
DREDD
Incendiary.
The setting on DREDD'S gun changes.
Then he opens up.
As the incendiary rounds make contact, they erupt into
fireballs, engulfing the balcony of level 190.
DREDD walks, calmly shooting. Spreading the flame.
Until it is a ring of fire.
Out of which, blazing Clan, blinded by fire and pain, throw
themselves into the void of the atrium.
A PARTICULARLY LARGE FIREBALL erupts.
200 INT. ATRIUM - CONTINUOUS 200
We FOLLOW the FIREBALL upwards, as it rolls through the
atrium ...
... until it hits and dissipates on the roof ...
Sending MA-MA, KAY, and the CLAN TECHIE recoiling back from
the edge of the balcony, and diving for the floor.
When the CLAN TECHIE and MA-MA look up, they see the KAY
tearing at his head, screaming.
He didn't pull back from the balcony quickly enough, and
the fireball has caught his hair on fi
KAY
Aaah! AAAAH!
KAY beats the flames on his head out.
When he's done, half his hair is burned to the scalp.
KAY
Fuck!
MA-MA goes back to the balcony.
Looks down at the devastation.
KAY watches her, smoke curling up from his head.
89.
KAY
Ma, this is going to shit! You've
got to fucking stop this guy! What
are we going to do?
Fire reflecting in MA-MA'S eyes.
MA-MA
Got no choice. Dial 911.
CUT TO:
201 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE - NIGHT 201
SIRENS in Mega City One.
Blue lights strobing the night.
Four judges, straight-line formation, on bikes.
We see them each in turn.
They are judges ELMUNDO, THOZ, MUGGERS, and LEX.
Each more hard-bitten than the last.
Riding up the ramps, down the walkways, scattering
pedestrians ...
... then pulling up at the SOUTH ENTRANCE of Peach Trees.
As they get off their bike, we see ELMUNDO is armed
differently to the other three. Instead of a handgun, he
carries a bulky MACHINE GUN
202 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/SOUTH ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS 202
LEX approaches the three JUDGES who are already on the
scene.
LEX is very like DREDD. Same build. Same granite face.
Speaks with total economy in a low growl.
LEX
Got a 10-24 from this block. Two
judges under fire, requesting
urgent assistance. And you're
standing outside.
JUDGE
90.
Block's under lock-down.
Malfunction with their nuke defense
system.
LEX glances at the blast doors.
ELMUNDO, the HEAVY WEAPONS JUDGE, walks over to the
intercom. Speaks into it.
ELMUNDO
Open up. Now.
A beat.
Then ...
the heavy door starts to rise.
LEX looks back at the judges.
LEX
You're relieved.
203 INT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/SOUTH ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS 203
Seen from a CCTV POV, LEX, ELMUNDO, MUGGERS THOZ and enter
the darkened entrance.
The three judges on the outside watch them.
Until the blast door suddenly slams shut again.
REVEAL -
205 INT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/MEDICAL CENTER - CONTINUOUS 205
- that the CCTV image is being watched by the PARAMEDIC.
He jumps up, runs to his security, and punches in the code
to unlock it.
206 INT. ATRIUM - CONTINUOUS 206
LEX, THOZ, ELMUNDO and MUGGERS stand at the base of the
atrium.
It's the bottom of a pit of Hell.
Dark, apart from the glow of emergency lighting.
91.
A hundred and ninety stories up, fire burns.
The base of the atrium is littered with smouldering bodies,
crumpled and half exploded from the impact of their fall.
LEX
So what we got here?
THOZ
Two judges trigger a turf war.
Judges die in pursuit of duty.
LEX
And the perps who killed the
judges?
THOZ gestures at the bodies.
THOZ
Laid out here.
LEX
Sounds right.
PARAMEDIC
Excuse me.
The four judges turn.
See the PARAMEDIC, who has approached them from the
shadows.
PARAMEDIC
That's not what's happened. I've
been here right from the start.
This killing is all because of one
gang - the Ma-Ma Clan. And from
that fire up there, I'd say at
least one of your two judges is
still alive.
LEX gazes at the man a beat.
LEX
You prepared to testify to that?
PARAMEDIC
Sure.
THOZ shoots the PARAMEDIC in the head.
207 INT. LEVEL 199/CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 207
92.
DREDD exits a stairwell into a corridor of level 199.
One level down from MA-MA'S penthouse base.
One end of the corridor opens into the atrium, where we
can see the glow of flames from the fire he has
started.
Smoke hangs in the air. Gives everything a strange,
heavy atmosphere.
Ahead of DREDD is an elevator lobby.
The digital display by the call button shows the
elevator moving between floors, upwards through the
building.
The elevator gets closer and closer to level 199.
As the countdown is about to reach his floor, DREDD
takes aim, to catch whoever is inside as the doors
open ...
... but the elevator continues to the floor above.
NO SOONER HAS IT PASSED -
- than there is a sound behind DREDD.
He turns, fast, firing.
Corning out of a doorway, a CLAN MEMBER is almost shot in
half by the volley.
ON DREDD'S GUN -
- a WARNING LIGHT flicks on.
DREDD glances down.
On the DIGITAL DISPLAY it reads: AMMUNITION LOW
CUT TO:
93.
209 INT. MA MA'S BASE - CONTINUOUS 209
Elevator doors open, revealing the four judges.
The four judges exit.
Waiting for them are MA-MA and KAY.
LEX
One million credits.
MA-MA
A million?
LEX
You got a problem with a judge.
Know who he is?
MA-MA
No.
LEX
I do. One million.
Beat.
MA-MA
Fine.
LEX
Muggers, protection detail on
client. Thoz and El, we're flushing
him out,
ELMUNDO
Got it.
LEX turns back to MA-MA.
LEX
Where's the other one? The rookie.
MA-MA
We've got her here.
LEX
Dead or alive?
MA-MA
Alive.
LEX
94.
Make her dead.
210 INT. LEVEL 199/SMOKE FILLED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 210
Smoke hangs in a corridor.
Bright sparks swirl in the air, floating up from the fire.
And the sparks, through the smoke, are changing their
movement ...
... as DREDD appears through them, gun raised.
211 INT. LEVEL 199/SMOKE FILLED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 211
LEX, THOZ and ELMUNDO appear out of a stairwell.
LEX silently gestures to the other two judges - telling
them to fan out.
They nod, and move, each taking a different direction.
212 INT. LEVEL 199/SMOKE FILLED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 212
DREDD moves forwards.
Reacts to a movement in the smoke.
Brings his gun to bear, as the smoke momentarily clears.
Revealing nothing.
Just a shadow.
213 INT. MA MA'S BASE/CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 213
MUGGERS leads MA-MA and KAY down a corridor, towards MA-
MA'S penthouse.
KAY
I'll do the girl.
MA-MA gives KAY the nod.
KAY peels off.
214 INT. LEVEL 199/SMOKE-FILLED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 214
95.
Back to the sparks.
DREDD seeing something ahead.
Through the haze and pinprick points of brightness ...
.... the shape of another judge.
The shoulder pads. The curve of the helmet.
CUT TO:
- the REVERSE VIEW.
THOZ pulling back into an alcove, drawing his weapon.
THOZ lifts his glove and speaks into his mike.
THOZ
(quiet)
Just eyeballed him.
CUT TO:
- LEX, elsewhere in the smoke filled corridors, lifting his
glove.
LEX
Don't take him one on one. Stick
with the plan.
CUT TO:
THOZ.
THOZ
(quiet)
Copy that.
THOZ lowers is glove.
Then calls out.
THOZ
You there. Identify yourself.
CUT TO:
DREDD. Also ducked into an alcove, weapon drawn.
DREDD
Dredd. Sector Thirteen.
96.
Ahead of him, THOZ steps out of cover.
THOZ
Thoz. Sector Nine. Responding to
your 10-24.
THOZ walks towards DREDD.
THOZ
Good to see you, Dredd.
DREDD
Likewise. You alone?
THOZ
Negative. Three man squad. Closing
on my vector right now.
THOZ smiles.
THOZ
So relax. Cavalry's here.
Beat. On DREDD. His sixth sense, catching bullshit. It's
THOZ'S smile.
Then:
DREDD
There were two of us.
THOZ
Two.
DREDD
Two of us called in the 10-24.
Wondering why you haven't asked
about the other one.
Beat.
Then THOZ lifts his left glove ...
THOZ
Lex - move it -
THOZ is cut off.
DREDD'S hand catches his gun-arm around the wrist -
- and with equal speed, THOZ has done the same to DREDD,
holding DREDD'S gun by the barrel.
97.
For a moment, the TWO judges face each other, each
neutralising the other's handgun.
Then -
- the fight kicks off.
DREDD pushes forwards, jamming THOZ'S wrist back, forcing
his gun to drop.
THOZ twists, turning DREDD one eighty, pulling DREDD'S gun
up so that the weapon is jammed against DREDD'S throat.
To prevent being choked, DREDD must release the gun.
Immediately, DREDD snaps his helmet back into THOZ with a
reverse headbutt.
And now it's just silent HAND TO HAND COMBAT.
Incredibly fast and vicious.
Pure fight to the death between two hard-as-nails street
judges.
Carried out in the hanging smoke and whirling sparks.
CUT TO:
216 INT. LEVEL 199/SMOKE FILLED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 216
- LEX hooking up with ELMUNDO.
Joining to move fast down the corridor.
CUT TO:
DREDD and THOZ in HAND TO HAND COMBAT.
Ending on a fast jab. An open hand. DREDD'S fingers
slamming into THOZ'S neck.
It stops THOZ in his tracks.
When DREDD'S hand pulls back, there is a weird concave dip,
several inches deep, in THOZ'S throat.
His windpipe has been crushed.
He can't breathe.
98.
As THOZ'S hands move up to his neck, as if trying to push
it back into shape -
- DREDD steps away.
And calmly picks up his handgun.
BACK TO -
LEX and ELMUNDO.
Turning a corner.
Seeing, ahead of them, the silhouette shape of a judge.
Their guns immediately snap to him.
But don't shoot, as the figure takes a hesitant, drunken
step towards them.
Revealing himself as THOZ.
A final strangled noise comes out of THOZ'S blood-filled
mouth.
Then he drops to his knees. Hard.
Then falls face down and lies still.
LEX and ELMUNDO exchange a glance.
CUT TO:
217 INT. LEVEL 199/SMOKE-FILLED CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 217
- DREDD, who backs through a doorway.
As the door closes behind him, pulled shut by a hydraulic
mechanism that slows the door on its final inches ...
LEX and ELMUNDO appear, guns drawn.
LEX gestures at the door.
ELMUNDO nods.
219 INT. SLO MO MANUFACTURINGBASE - CONTINUOUS 219
DREDD looks around at the space he has just entered into.
99.
Apartment walls have been knocked out, as have sections of
ceiling and floor. All to accommodate pipes, tanks,
heaters, condensers ...
.. . and racks of large COMPRESSED GAS CANISTERS, the size
of a scuba-diver's air tank.
The machinery for the large-scale manufacture and refining
of the slo-mo narcotic.
This is MA-MA'S MANUFACTURING BASE.
As the WORKERS see DREDD, and scatter.
CUT TO:
220 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/ROOM - CONTINUOUS 220
- KAY. Half his hair burned off.
Looking at a variety of objects, laid out on a table.
Objects taken from ANDERSON.
There are ammunition clips. Lock knife. Med kits. Plasti
cuffs ...
... and the PHOTO of ANDERSON and her parents.
KAY'S gaze hesitates on it.
Then -
- turns to ANDERSON, who is kneeling in front of him.
Head down, not meeting KAY'S gaze. No hope left for her.
Defeated, it seems.
KAY glances at the weapon in his hand.
It's ANDERSON'S LAWGIVER.
KAY
Bet you thought you were going to
make your parents proud. Not much
chance of that now.
KAY shakers his head.
KAY
You were shit out of luck when you
ran into the Ma-Ma Clan.
100.
KAY turns over ANDERSON'S gun in his hand, appraising it.
ANDERSON'S eyes stay down.
KAY
But don't feel too bad. I've seen a
lot of Judges in my time, and you
just weren't cut out for it. If it
wasn't today you got killed, it
would have been tomorrow. At best
the day after.
Beat.
KAY
Anyway. Today it is.
He looks back at ANDERSON.
KAY
Any last words, bitch?
Beat.
Then -
ANDERSON
That's funny.
ANDERSON raises her head.
And in her eyes, there's no fear. She's totally calm,
staring death right in the face. Not even blinking.
She may be a failed rookie, but she looks like a judge.
ANDERSON
I was going to ask you the exact
thing.
SAME
(beat)
Bitch.
KAY'S wrong-footed. It's fleeting, but just for a moment,
it's almost like he's scared of her.
Then his fingers close around ANDERSON'S gun.
He lifts it, aiming right at her head.
And squeezes the trigger.
101.
Nothing happens.
KAY frowns.
Sees on the side of the gun -
- a small LED light. Strobing red.
Next to the light, the digital display. Which reads: ID
FAIL.
Just as he has time to take this in -
- the gun EXPLODES.
A bright flash, a detonation.
And when it has passed, KAY'S arm is a stump, spraying
blood everywhere. And he's screaming.
Cut short as ANDERSON rises ...
and delivers a single roundhouse kick.
It contacts KAY'S jaw perfectly, snapping his head
sideways.
Breaking his neck.
CUT BACK TO:
221 INT. SLO MO MANUFACTURINGBASE - CONTINUOUS 221
- DREDD.
Moving through the manufacturing base.
Keeping low, from cover to cover.
Peering out across the lab.
Seeing the door he came through
Tucking himself behind a counter, he calls out:
DREDD
What's the price of a judge these
days?
CUT TO:
102.
LEX and ELMUNDO.
On the other side of the room, doing the same as DREDD.
LEX silently gestures to ELMUNDO. Flat palm, held vertical
to the ground, curving round.
ELMUNDO nods. Starts moving.
Then LEX calls back:
LEX
Million. Split four ways.
BACK TO -
- DREDD.
Both DREDD and LEX are trying to keep the other talking.
DREDD to get a fix on LEX, and LEX to allow ELLMUNDO to
work his way around.
DREDD
Three ways now.
LEX
Suits me.
DREDD starts to move again.
DREDD
Doesn't sound like much. To betray
the law.
DREDD steals a look across the room towards where he thinks
he has made LEX'S location.
DREDD
Betray the city.
LEX
Save that shit for the rookies.
Twenty years I've been on the
streets.
DREDD now thinks he has a clear fix on LEX.
He's zeroed in on one spot - a long steel workbench.
Which is in fact exactly where LEX is hiding.
LEX
103.
You know what Mega City One is,
Dredd? It's a meat grinder.
REVEAL -
- BEHIND DREDD, while DREDD has been closing in on LEX,
ELMUNDO has been flanking.
LEX
People go in one end.
DREDD doesn't seem to have seen.
He's easing forwards, his gun trained on the workbench.
LEX
Meat comes out the other.
DREDD hesitates.
MAYBE having heard something. Maybe sensing the trap.
LEX
All we do is turn the handle.
A fraction of a beat.
Then DREDD throws himself sideways, just in time, as rounds
from ELMUNDO'S HEAVY MACHINE GUN trace into the space he
occupied only a split second before.
INTENSE GUNPLAY immediately erupts.
GUNPLAY version of the HAND TO HAND.
DREDD starts returning fire in the direction of ELMUNDO.
ELMUNDO does the same in reverse.
As does LEX, breaking cover.
The manufacturing base starts disintegrating.
Amidst the glass vaporizing, wood splintering, and metal
puncturing -
- we find DREDD and ELMUNDO.
Finding a clear line of sight to each other.
Each bringing their guns to bear.
104.
ELMUNDO fires first.
And nothing happens. The display on his HEAVY MACHINE GUN
reads EMPTY.
ELMUNDO
Shit -
DREDD fires.
CLICK.
DREDD'S weapon also just found an empty chamber.
Both judges realize what's happening.
ELMUNDO reaches for his UTILITY BELT -
DREDD
Incendiary.
The gun setting changes. DREDD pulls the trigger again.
Click. Still empty.
ELMUNDO pulls out a fresh CLIP.
DREDD
Rapid fire.
Click.
ELMUNDO jams the CLIP home.
DREDD
Armour piercing.
Click.
ELMUNDO lifts the gun.
DREDD
High Ex.
BANG.
As DREDD'S LAST BULLET flies out of his gun, the DIGITAL
DISPLAY reads:
EMPTY
THEN -
105.
- ELMUNDO'S head is blown off.
It fragments.
The pieces fly apart.
CUT TO:
- LEX.
In cover, as blood patters around him like rain.
LEX
(under his breath)
Motherfucker.
DREDD calls out.
DREDD
Two-way split.
In LEX, there's fury behind the steel.
He calls back:
LEX
Yeah. I'd be breaking a sweat. If
you hadn't just run out of bullets.
LEX rises, and starts strafing the room.
AS DREDD SCRAMBLES for cover,
CUT TO:
228 INT. MA-MA'S BASE - CONTINUOUS 228
- ANDERSON.
Moving through MA-MA'S base.
She's unarmed.
But only for a moment.
Ahead of her are two CLAN.
She moves up behind them.
She doubles up the first with an extremely vicious kidney
punch.
106.
As the first folds over, the second is lifting his MACHINE
PISTOL gun.
Only to have his wrist folded back on itself, so the barrel
is aiming between his eyes.
ANDERSON forced the trigger down. The muzzle flash of the
MACHINE PISTOL engulfs his whole face.
ANDERSON empties the clip.
When the muzzle stops flashing, the man's face is
completely gone.
He remains standing, because ANDERSON is holding him
upright, as she pulls another ammo clip from his belt.
Then she lets him go.
As he's falling, she's sliding in the new clip.
Then she turns, and shoots the man she dropped with the
kidney punch.
CUT TO:
230 INT. MA-MA'S BASE - CONTINUOUS 230
MA-MA and MUGGERS react to the burst of gunfire.
In the silence that follows:
MA-MA
Kay's dead.
MUGGERS
Get a gun. Find somewhere to hide.
MA-MA
Where are you going?
MUGGERS
I've got the girl cold. I see her
first, I shoot her. She sees me
first, she hesitates, then I shoot
her.
CUT TO:
231 INT. MA MA'S BASE/CORRIDOR - CONTINUOUS 231
107.
- ANDERSON, moving fast in classic sweep, gun raised in two
handed grip.
Rounding a corner.
Finding the corridor is clear.
Tense beats, as she moves towards the next blind spot.
A T-JUNCTION.
She swings around it, and -
- finds MUGGERS.
He's side on to her.
His head turns.
MUGGERS
Lower the gun, rookie. I'm your
back up.
A beat on ANDERSON'S face.
ONLY JUST LONG ENOUGH -
- for us to realize she's reading him.
Then she unloads into MUGGERS'S chest.
CUT TO:
232 INT. SLO MO MANUFACTURINGBASE - CONTINUOUS 232
- bullets punching the cover around DREDD.
DREDD moves for another place to hide.
But as soon as he reaches fresh cover, he is driven out by
further volleys of bullets.
Finally, he finds himself behind a short section of wall. A
remainder of the apartment walls that once stood. Five foot
long.
Nothing to hide behind where he just came from, because
everything is shot to pieces.
Not:1ing ahead but clear air.
108.
DREDD'S options just ran out.
He knows it.
And on the other side of the wall, LEX knows it too.
CUT TO:
- LEX.
Unhurried.
LEX
Armour piercing.
The setting on his gun changes.
He takes aim at a mid-way point on the wall.
A final beat.
Then LEX fires.
CUT TO:
- a bullet rifling out of DREDD'S stomach.
We've seen a lot of bullets hit people up to now. This one
is different. Almost understated.
The visual impact is not what in what the bullet has done,
but in who it has hit.
In the wall opposite DREDD, a single hole is drilled.
DREDD looks at the hole a moment.
Then down to the hole in his lower torso, from which blood
is running.
Down onto his utility belt. Down his leg.
Starting to pool on the tread under his boot.
DREDD
Damn.
A beat.
Then DREDD starts to slide down the wall.
Landing in a seated position.
109.
And when he looks up, LEX is standing over him.
Gun trained on DREDD'S head.
A beat between the two judges.
Then:
DREDD
Wait.
Beat.
LEX
'Wait'?
LEX hesitates.
LEX
Are you kidding me? Did you just
say: 'wait'? Judge Dredd. The Judge
Dredd. Finally gets on the wrong
end of a gun. And what he says is
'wait'.
LEX shakes his head, incredulous.
LEX
You know what? I expected more of
you.
(hitting his stride)
I mean, wait for what? Wait for me
to change my mind? Wait for another
two or three seconds of life,
because you're so fucking weak you
can't stand to see it end?
DREDD
No.
Abruptly, shockingly, LEX gets drilled with bullets.
They smash through his chest and helmet. Through his mouth
and teeth.
As he drops, REVEAL ANDERSON, standing behind.
DREDD
Wait for her to shoot you.
CUT TO:
110.
- DREDD'S gloved and bloody fingers popping a pouch on his
utility belt.
Pulling out a med-kit.
CUT TO:
- DREDD taking a compressed antiseptic foam canister from
the med-kit.
CUT TO:
- DREDD sticking the nozzle into his bullet wound, and
depressing the spray.
The wound fills with a foam, which solidifies instantly.
CUT TO:
- DREDD pulling another instrument from his utility belt. A
weird little device which looks like a stapler. And pretty
much is a stapler.
He holds the device up to the entry wound, and depresses
it.
A small clamp punctures the flesh either side of the bullet
hole, then contracts, stapling the wound shut.
CUT TO:
- DREDD taking LEX'S GUN from his dead hand.
Ejecting the clip.
Slotting the clip home into his own gun.
Then straightening.
And turning to ANDERSON.
DREDD
Ready?
ANDERSON
Yes, sir.
A shared beat between then.
DREDD nods.
DREDD
111.
You look ready.
CUT TO:
234 INT. MA-MA'S PENTHOUSE/ENTRANCE HALL - DAY 234
- MA-MA'S penthouse.
In the entrance hall, eight CLAN are crouched behind cover,
Guns trained at the front double doors ...
... which, a moment later, are blown open by an explosive
charge.
Dust and smoke clear. And -
- nothing happens.
For a beat.
The CLAN exchange glances.
Then -
- one of the air-tank sized COMPRESSED GAS CANNISTERS is
thrown into the room.
It bounces as it hits the ground.
Spinning up.
Then, in mid air, DREDD appears framed in the blown open
doors, gas mask pulled down over his face...
DREDD
Overdose.
... and fires once.
As the bullet hits the GAS CANNISTER, it explodes. And a
micro second after it explodes, we go to -
- EXTREME SLOW MOTION.
Watching the metal expand. Like a kid's balloon. Rip open.
Releasing an expanding cloud of shimmering iridescent gas.
Then -
- cutting between NORMAL SPEED and SLO MO as the GAS
envelopes each of the CLAN in turn.
112.
Becoming -
- cuts between DREDD'S unaffected POV, and the CLAN'S
MASSIVELY OVERDOSED POV, where SLO MO is almost STATIC,
almost FREEZE FRAMES ...
... as DREDD and ANDERSON simply walk into the middle of
the room. Side by side.
And shoot each of them in turn.
240 INT. MA MA'S PENTHOUSE - CONTINUOUS 240
DREDD and ANDERSON are moving through the penthouse.
Cat and mouse through the space. Around corners. Through
doorways.
Silence between DREDD and ANDERSON.
All hand gestures. Tension building. As they close in on a
shut metal door at the end of a corridor. Beside which is a
numbered keypad.
But before they reach it -
- ANDERSON suddenly turns, kicks open a side door.
Revealing the CCTV room.
244 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM 244
The room looks empty.
But ANDERSON enters, followed by DREDD. Weapons drawn.
ANDERSON straight to the bank of monitors, then reaches to
the cavity underneath the console ...
... and hauls out the CLAN TECHIE.
CLAN TECHIE
Please, don't shoot, don't shoot!
I'm not armed! And -
His gaze flicks between the two judges, and the guns
trained on him. Sensing imminent death. Looking for the
out.
CLAN TECHIE
113.
- and I can help you!
DREDD
How?
The TECHIE gestures back to the corridor outside.
CLAN TECHIE
Ma-Ma's in her private quarters -
but it's behind ten inches of
steel. There's no way inside
without the keypad combination! And
I can give it to you! I installed
it myself!
ANDERSON
I don't need your cooperation the
combination from you.
She puts her hand on the TECHIE'S shoulder to hold him
steady. Then closes her eyes. Reads him.
Then -
- opens her eyes.
Frowning slightly.
But doesn't release the TECHIE.
Instead, closes her eyes, and reads him again.
CUT TO:
245 INT. UNDEFINED SPACE - CONTINUOUS 245
- inside the CLAN TECHIE'S head.
Similar to the UNDEFINED SPACE that existed inside KAY'S
head.
The CLAN TECHIE and ANDERSON in the same positions relative
to each other as they are in the real world, as -
- ANDERSON'S hand reaches out to touch the CLAN TECHIE'S
cheek.
FLASH CUTS TO:
- the CLAN TECHIE'S memories. Key moments in his life,
PLAYED BACKWARDS. Glimpsed.
114.
IN REVERSE -
- KAY laughing as he throws acid in the TECHIE'S face.
- The TECHIE (without eye implants) in an ELECTRONICS
REPAIR SHOP, cowering beside the body of his FATHER, as
pooled blood runs back into him, who then springs up to his
feet, bullets popping back out of his chests and head, and
back into the guns of the CALEB and two CLAN, who are
sticking up the shop.
- the TECHIE sitting with his parents at home, as he
watches his FATHER soldering a circuit board. smoke curling
back to the board.
His FATHER turns and smiles at the TECHIE.
HOLD ON THIS a fraction longer than the other flashed
images.
THEN CUT BACK TO:
- the UNDEFINED SPACE.
ANDERSON with her hand cupping the face of the TECHIE.
Except the cheek she touches is that of the BOY.
Nine. Skinny. Anxious-looking.
Gazing back at ANDERSON uncertainly.
CUT TO:
255 INT. MA-MA'S BASE/CCTV ROOM - CONTINUOUS 255
- ANDERSON removing her hand.
Beat.
Then:
ANDERSON
Go.
The CLAN TECHIE doesn't understand.
ANDERSON
You're free. Leave the block when
you can and don't come back.
115.
The CLAN TECHIE doesn't need to be told again.
He starts running, out the CCTV room, and is gone.
DREDD turns to ANDERSON.
DREDD
You mind explaining what you just
did? Abetting a felon is not just a
fail offense. It's a crime.
ANDERSON
I already picked up the fail when I
lost my primary weapon. I'll never
be a Judge, and I don't need to be
a mind reader to know it.
She turns to DREDD. Stares him down.
ANDERSON
But you haven't yet told me that.
And until the assessment is
formally over, I'm still entitled
to dispense justice. And that's
what I did: by letting him go.
(to herself)
Maybe that will be the one
difference I do make.
She walks past DREDD.
ANDERSON
The combination to Ma-Ma's quarters
is four nine four three six. Let's
finish this.
257 INT. MA MA'S PENTHOUSE/MASTER BEDROOM - CONTINUOUS 257
The door to MA-MA'S bedroom bursts open.
Revealing DREDD and ANDERSON.
Opening fire on the two BODYGUARDS, who are riddled, and
drop.
And when the smoke clears, we can see:
- a four poster with black silk sheets.
- a huge window, which doesn't look out over Mega City One,
but the ATRIUM. The world over which MA-MA was queen.
116.
- beside the window, a plush daybed and coffee table, on
which are piled SLO-MO inhalers.
- and on the ceiling, above the bed, a large mirror.
But no MA-MA.
Then room is empty.
DREDD and ANDERSON exchange a glance.
Enter the room, guns raised.
Sweeping.
DREDD
Escape route?
ANDERSON
No. She's near. But -
ANDERSON breaks off.
Then -
- looks up at the mirror.
At her own reflection.
Which suddenly -
- is drilled with two BULLET HOLES in quick succession.
ANDERSON is hit in the shoulder. As she falls backwards -
- the glass around the two bullet holes starts to splinter
-
- and MA-MA drops down from above, directly in front of
them.
She tries to bring her gun to bear on DREDD.
But she has no hope.
DREDD catches the barrel, twists it round, snapping MAMA'S
fingers, which are caught in the trigger guard.
Then he wrenches the gun free.
MA-MA screams, clutching her mangled hand.
117.
DREDD tosses the shotgun.
MA-MA tries to take a swing with her unmangled fist.
DREDD dodges, neatly moving sideways.
Then sends his own fist smashing into her face.
She staggers backwards. Towards the massive window to the
ATRIUM.
He punches her again. Same blow, right hand, full in
the face.
She staggers back more.
Stops against the glass.
DREDD looks at her a beat.
Then leans down. Picks up a SLO-MO inhaler from the coffee
table.
And JAMS IT in her mouth.
As he depresses the button:
DREDD
Citizen Ma-Ma. Your crimes are
multiple homicide, and manufacture
and distribution of narcotics. How
do you plead?
MA-MA can't answer. So much gas is being pumped into her
that we can see it escaping through the sides of her mouth
and nose.
DREDD
Defense noted.
He tosses the inhaler.
He tosses the inhaler.
Then punches her one last time.
And she flies backwards, smashing though the window in a
shower of glass.
118.
Then she's in FREE-FALL. With nothing but two hundred
stories of thin air between her and the concrete atrium
floor.
And as she's falling, the SLO-MO DRUG is taking hold.
258 INT. ATRIUM - CONTINUOUS 258
BEAUTIFUL WEIRD FREE-FALL SEQUENCE.
Looking up at the fire blazing around level 190.
Through the smoke and flames, MA-MA'S drops, punching a
hole in the smoke with the turbulence from her massive
body.
All seen in the grip of the drug.
Watching the balconies drift past.
The surprised faces of the block citizens watching.
FLASH CUT TO:
- REAL-TIME, from the POV of the people on the balconies,
as MA-MA zooms past.
FLASH CUT TO:
DREDD leaning over ANDERSON'S bloody body in the penthouse
bedroom.
Her skin is pale. The blood is scarlet.
Her eyes are closed.
DREDD leans closer.
Their lips touch.
He is giving her the KISS OF LIFE.
CUT BACK TO:
- SLO MO of MA-MA'S continuing fall.
The fat woman screaming.
More faces of citizens on the balconies.
Watching MA-MA'S literal fall from grace.
119.
CUT TO:
DREDD pulling back.
ANDERSON'S eyes opening.
CUT TO:
MA-MA.
Alone.
Looking down, just as she -
- hits the ATRIUM floor.
Head first. Very slowly.
Hypnotic to watch ...
... Her skull crushes, flattening.
And the rest of her massive body follows.
As the body is slowly pulped, GO TO -
263 EXT. MEGA CITY ONE - SUNRISE 263
- the sun rising over the city.
264 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/SOUTH ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS 264
The CHIEF JUDGE stands with a team of men with oxyacetylene
torches, who are trying to cut through the massive blast
doors.
Behind are MEDICS and an AMBULANCE.
Then ABRUPTLY the blast doors start to rise.
265 INT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/SOUTH ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS 265
DREDD and ANDERSON stand side by side as the doors rise.
Both bloodied, both wounded, both standing independently.
In silence.
Then DREDD turns to ANDERSON.
120.
DREDD
Your assessment is now over.
A beat.
Then ANDERSON unclips her ROOKIE badge, and hands it to
DREDD.
DREDD looks at it.
But says nothing.
CLUNK.
The doors are fully open.
ANDERSON starts walking away from DREDD.
267 EXT. PEACH TREE BLOCK/SOUTH ENTRANCE - CONTINUOUS 267
DREDD follows ANDERSON out, into the throng of medics and
Judges.
The CHIEF JUDGE approaches DREDD.
CHIEF JUDGE
When I heard you'd called a 10-24,
thought I'd better check it out.
Seeing as I forced the rookie on
you.
She looks up at the MEGA BLOCK.
CHIEF JUDGE
What happened in there?
DREDD
Drugs bust.
CHIEF JUDGE
You look like you've been through
it.
DREDD
Perps were uncooperative.
CHIEF JUDGE
Aren't they always?
The CHIEF JUDGE nods to where ANDERSON is being treated by
the MEDICS.
121.
CHIEF JUDGE
So how did she do? Is she a pass or
a fail.
On DREDD.
Looking towards ANDERSON.
As DREDD watches, two MEDICS approach her -
- and she brushes them away.
Then, underplayed:
DREDD
A pass.
The CHIEF JUDGE nods.
CHIEF JUDGE
Knew she would be.
PULL BACK from the scene.
ANDERSON entering an ambulance.
JUDGES entering PEACH TREES, where sunlight is punching
back into the darkness as the roof shields reopen.
The CHIEF JUDGE looking up at the monolithic mega block,
where a holographic peach tree flicker.
And DREDD walking back to his bike alone.
FADE IN:
CONTROL
(over radio)
All responders in vicinity of
sector five leisure complex, we
have weapons fired in astro-dome.
Four suspects on foot ...
CONTROL
(over radio)
Suspect wanted in connection with
three judge slayings seen leaving
in dark coloured vehicle, heading
for North boundary road ...
CONTROL
(over radio)
122.
Responders needed in sub-sector
twenty, flyover five. Block riot
has spread East. Judges on the
ground requesting immediate support
...
THE END