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10DAN: It’s against everything -SOREN:DAN:RILEY:Us or him.We believe in.There is no other way.SOREN: He’s brought it –JENNA:On himself.RILEY: He’s endangered –SOREN:DAN:All of our lives.There has to be another way.JENNA, RILEY, SOREN: There isn’t.DAN:Please ! Don’t do this. It’s cold blooded murder. I got you up thismountain and I promise to get you down. All of you.BEAT. HE LOWERS THE ROPE DOWN OVER JETT.DAN:SOREN:DAN:JENNA:Thankfully Jett stopped flapping about. If he started flappingagain Jenna might’ve cut him loose – and I wouldn’t have beenable to stop her. Took me twenty minutes but finally I got him.Hogtied him like a calf. He wasn’t going anywhere. (CALLS)Okay, I got him. Soren, you got us.I’m good.Jenna, you may cut your rope.Thank Jesus for that.JENNA CUTS THE ROPE ATTACHED TO JETT.RILEY:JENNA:DAN:I’m pulling you up babe.Can’t wait for that.And I watched as Riley slowly winched the love of his life up themountain. Slowly making her way back to her husband. But justas she reached the top she stopped securing herself with theaxe. I went to call out to her but just as I opened my mouth tospeak – it happened. Riley let go of the rope to take her in hisarms but just at that moment the snow beneath him gave a littleand he skidded towards the edge. He reached out for his wife to
11DAN:(CONT) stop himself falling but she was no longer secured andthe force of him grabbing her ripped her hand away from therope.RILEY EMBRACES JENNA. LIGHTS SLOWLY FADE ON THEM.DAN:JETT:SOREN:DAN:Soren and I watched helplessly as they toppled over the edgeand fell silently 2000 feet to the glacier floor below.Woo hoo ! Woo hoo ! You see that. They went all the way down.Amazing. Beautiful. So beautiful.Cut his rope Dan. Cut his goddam rope or I will.(TO AUDIENCE) But I didn’t, And neither did Soren. And slowlytogether we got Jett back on to the Hogsback.LIGHTS CHANGE.DAN:SOREN:DAN:SOREN:Four hours later Soren and I managed to get Jett back down toTimberline Lodge. We had to carry him most of the way.It was the hardest descent of my life. I wanted to kill him withevery single step. He had murdered two of my best friends.But we got him there. And Soren never returned to Mount Hoodagain.I still climb I just could never go back to Mount Hood.SOREN LEAVES THE STAGE.DAN:JETT:DAN:JETT:(HOLDING UP CRAMPONS) In both cases the crampons werefound to be at fault. Jett had taken his off –I wanted to feel the snow under my feet.And Riley had kept his on. The softening the snow had balled upunder his feet, leading to the fatal slip. Jett went back to NewYork.Thanks for the climb man. Sorry about your friends.JETT HOLDS OUT HIS HAND. DAN DOESN’T SHAKE IT.DAN:JETT:He never even came back for the enquiry. His fancy lawyerfriends in NYC made sure of that.It wasn’t like I pushed them.
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