DEATHLOK #25
"Protect and Defend"

Dwayne McDuffie
Script for Pages 28-32
First Draft, 4/17/93

McDuffie • DEATHLOK # 25"Protect and Defend"

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Page 28

1. SOLDIER
Give it up Soldier, or you're a dead
man.

2. DEATHLOK

Do tell?

3. SOLDIER
It's Deathlok! Retreat!

Page 29

1. CAPTION
Cannan. The War Room...

2. MAGNUM
It's impossible! My forces are being
beaten back. The Panther is winning! But
how?!?

3. COMPUTER
Target Acquired.

4. DEATHLOK
Give it up, Magnum. Now.

5. MAGNUM
Deathlok! How dareyou!--

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1. MAGNUM
--How dare you destroy this opportunity
for your people.

2. DEATHLOK
Opportuity? You ain't hardlyMarcus
Garvey, my Brother. Seems to me, for all
your talk you're just trying to get
yours.

3. DEATHLOK
And I'm inclined to see that you do.

4. COMPUTER.
Loading hand-to-hand routines...

5. MAGNUM
You are a traitor to your race!!

McDuffie • DEATHLOK # 25"Protect and Defend"

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1. DEATHLOK
You know what reallymakes me mad?

2. DEATHLOK
It's not your approach, though I do
disagree with it.--

3. DEATHLOK
-- Who knows? Maybe you're right--

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1. DEATHLOK.
--Maybe I am. That's beside the point.

2. DEATHLOK
No. What makes me mad is black people
who think that the only way for themto
succeed--

3. DEATHLOK
--Is at the expense of otherblack
people.

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