Assassins Page #9

TELEPHONE TABLE:

A system like Rath's. Electra picks up a cellular, dials.

As a woman's voice answers, Electra clicks a stopwatch.

WOMAN (V.O.)

Room one-fifteen.

Slipping a filter over the mouthpiece, Electra responds

in a deep baritone.

ELECTRA:

I have the merchandise.

(or alternate)

I have the disc.

She picks up a computer disc, holds it at arm's length.

WOMAN (V.O.)

The buyers arrive at noon.

Flight 10-55.

Electra covers the receiver, thinks things through.

ELECTRA:

Off the plane. Customs.

They're Dutch... A half hour.

She twists the filter to the high pitch of a child.

ELECTRA:

I'll attempt contact at 12:30 and

every fifteen minutes after that.

WOMAN (V.O.)

You have the hard copy images?

Electra reviews photos of the Dutch, similar but not the

same as Rath's.

ELECTRA:

Affirmative. What do I call the

principal?

Electra checks the stopwatch. Forty-eight seconds...

WOMAN (V.O.)

Call him Remy. How will they

know --

Electra hangs up, sticks the disc in her pocket.

ELECTRA:

They'll know.

EXT. ELECTRA'S APARTMENT - DAY

Electra comes out carrying Pearl's porta pet and a

shoulder-slung duffel bag. She puts them in the back of

her Mustang convertible. Hopping in, Electra pulls out

of a parking spot identified with her apartment number.

EXT. THE HYATT - DAY

It has a big day ahead of it. Electra's car drives past

the main entrance and she turns into the parking garage

entrance.

INT. PARKING GARAGE

Electra pulls into a spot up front, hands the attendant

$20.

ELECTRA:

Keep it handy.

He nods. Sunglasses on, carrying her duffel bag and

porta pet, Electra heads for a bank of elevators. She

steps in.

INT. HYATT - ELEVATOR - LOBBY LEVEL - DAY

From inside, the doors open at the lobby level. A man

and a woman with a white fur coat step inside.

Backed in a corner, Electra stares at a veritable wall

of fur. She doesn't like it. Setting down the port-a-

pet, she reaches into her duffel for what looks like a

canister of breath spray.

INT. UPPER FLOOR - HALLWAY - DAY

The elevator doors open. None the wiser, the couple

step out. As they walk down the hallway away from us

we see a large circle with a slash through it on the

back of the fur coat. As the doors close we hear.

ELECTRA (V.O.)

You're welcome, Pearl.

INT. AIRPORT - INTERNATIONAL TERMINAL - DAY

We hear a SCREAMING JET OVERHEAD.

Four Dutch men exit the jetway. They look like lions

in leather jackets. They move predatorially, REMY

recognizable from Rath's computer info.

INT. THE HYATT - ROOM 718 - DAY

A laptop computer, a transmitter and a remote intercom

rest on the coffee table. On the computer, Electra

scrolls through airline flight information. She finds

KLM flight 1055. The screen flashes: Arrived.

INT. UNITED TERMINAL - ESCALATOR - DAY

Looking past a digital clock we see the Dutch ride

down the escalator, jumpy.

INTERCOM (V.O.)

Mr. Remy, to the white courtesy

phone. Mr. Remy.

Remy looks to his #2. Suddenly, the four of them pound

down the escalator steps, snaking between people, push-

ing others out of the way.

WHITE COURTESY PHONE

Remy picks up the receiver. His men fan out, ready for

trouble.

REMY:

Hello?

ELECTRA (V.O.)

Are you ready to go shopping on

the Home Information network?

The price is $40,000.

REMY:

Where are you?

ELECTRA (V.O.)

Are you ready? Yes or no?

REMY:

Yes.

INT. THE HYATT - ROOM 718 - DAY

Electra's on a cell phone.

ELECTRA:

There's a payphone bank in the

Hyatt Hotel by the elevators.

You got twenty minutes.

She hangs up, clicks her stopwatch.

INT. UNITED TERMINAL - DAY

Remy hangs up, motions to his men to follow. As the

Dutch move away, we RACK FOCUS back to a man in the

b.g.

It's Rath. Looking absolutely non-descript. He waits

till they're almost out of sight before following. Rath

scans faces as he moves. Someone else may be here as

well.

UNITED TERMINAL EXIT

The Dutch exit. Rath's about to follow when he spots a

young man turning away to a cash machine. Bain?

Drawing the .22, Rath closes the gap, spins him. The

young man, holding his cash, turns into the barrel.

It's not Bain and in an instant the gun is gone. Rath

is shaken, but nearly as much as the young man. Rath

moves on.

EXT. AIRPORT ROADWAY - DAY

Remy and his men get into a waiting limo. It pulls

away.

Rath exits, hops into a cab before it can even coast to

a stop. They pull away as well.

INT. CAB - DAY

CLOSEUP of the time on the meter.

INT. THE HYATT - ROOM 718 - DAY

Pearl watches as Electra unscrews an A/C panel. Popping

the screen to reveal a vertical duct, Electra tapes a

piece of cardboard at an angle inside it. The effect is

to redirect into the room anything traveling down.

INT. LIMO - ROLLING - DAY

The Dutch open waiting briefcases, check out the

silenced 9 MM's waiting inside.

INT. THE HYATT - ROOM 718 - DAY

Electra at the window, looking down through binoculars.

ELECTRA'S POV - BINOCULAR MATTE

The Dutch heading from their limo for the hotel.

ELECTRA:

One, two, three, four.

INT. HYATT LOBBY - DAY

Looking toward the entrance as the Dutch stride in. As

a PHONE begins to RING, Remy hurries to a...

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