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Damon Killian: You know how this works. The game zone is divided into four hundred square blocks, left over from the big quake of '97, and I don't think any of us will ever forget that. [audience laughs] Once inside the zone, the Runners have three hours, they've got to go through all four game quads, three hours or less, and they're gonna need every second, 'cause you know who's on their tail? Studio Audience: The Stalkers! Killian: Who?! Studio Audience: THE STALKERS!!! Killian: And you know what happens then!! Studio Audience: Anything goes! Killian: What?! Studio Audience: ANYTHING GOES!!! Killian: [goes back up the stage] Right! Without further ado, it's time to start... [faces audience with arms up high] RUNNING!! Killian: [to Richards] On your marks! Get set!... Ben Richards: Killian! I'll be back. Killian: [pauses; softly] Only in a rerun. [loudly] GO!! [Richards' sled launches] GO!! [Laughlin's sled launches] Laughlin: You son of a bitch! Killian: GO!! [Weiss's sled launches]

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Buzzsaw: Richards, I love this saw. The saw is a part of me and I am going to make it part of you!! Ben Richards: [moves chainsaw away from face and positions it between Buzzsaw's legs] That's all right, keep it! [shoves chainsaw up through Buzzsaw, who shrieks in pain before he dies] Amber Mendez: [rejoins Richards as they walk away] What happened to Buzzsaw? Richards: He had to split.

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Damon Killian: OK Agnes. Who do you think is going to make the next kill? Fireball or Dynamo? Agnes McArdle: Boy, that is a toughie. [thinks] Umm...I am going to go with...Ben Richards. [Audience boos] Killian: Agnes, Ben Richards is a Runner. You have to elect a Stalker. Agnes: I can vote for anyone I want and I endorse...Ben Richards. That boy is one mean motherfucker! Bettor: [at street bookie] Two hundred dollars for Richards!!!! [other bettors join the bidding; bookie shrugs shoulders and sets up the board at RICHARDS: 100-1]

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Amber Mendez: [checks dogtags] Whitman... Price. Fireball: [appears just as Amber looks at Haddad's corpse] Haddad. [enters room] Mendez: They're Running Men. Last season's winners. Fireball: No. Last season's losers.

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Captain Freedom: Forget it, Killian, I won't do it! Killian: It's not a request, moron, it's an order. Captain Freedom: I don't need this crap! [strips off gear] This stuff is garbage! I was killing guys like this ten years ago with my bare hands! I'm not going for any of these tricks! This is a sport of death and honor, Code of the Gladiators! Killian: Cap, will you spare me the combat Zen speech? What the hell's the matter with you? Can't you see what's going on out there? This isn't a game! They're betting on Richards up there! Captain Freedom: Bullshit! Killian: Get out of here! [to his bodyguard Sven] Get him out of here! [Sven stays still] What's the matter? Steroids make you deaf? Get him out of here NOW!!

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Audience member: Hey, what's going on?! Tony: Where's it coming from? Brenda: The network satellite. Stevie: [menacingly] Don't touch that dial! Killian: Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen, if you'll please bear with us, we're experiencing technical difficulties! Agnes McArdle: Bullshit!! Richards: It's showtime!