Haywire Page #3

Synopsis: Freelance covert operative Mallory Kane is hired out by her handler to various global entities to perform jobs which governments can't authorize and heads of state would rather not know about. After a mission to rescue a hostage in Barcelona, Mallory is quickly dispatched on another mission to Dublin. When the operation goes awry and Mallory finds she has been double crossed, she needs to use all of her skills, tricks and abilities to escape an international manhunt, make it back to the United States, protect her family, and exact revenge on those that have betrayed her.
Director(s): Steven Soderbergh
Production: Relativity Media
  7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
67
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
R
Year:
2011
93 min
$18,934,858
Website
1,090 Views


- Good?

- Yeah. Thanks.

What's going on here?

Random road check?

All right. Hold on.

Yep.

Jesus!

Jeez!

I just got this car, like, a week ago.

Yeah, well...

Whoops, more LEOs.

What's a LEO?

Law enforcement officers.

Sh*t!

Sh*t! Watch the car!

That was nice. That was nice.

That was really bad.

I thought

that was gonna be really bad for a second.

I thought I was gonna have a heart attack.

Oh, my God.

Jesus Christ! You are a great driver!

- Are you okay?

- Yeah, are you?

Yeah. Oh, my God! There's a deer in the car.

- Jesus...

- Yeah, I know.

- Should we run?

- No. Don't.

We've done enough.

Show me your hands.

- Freeze! Don't move!

- You, behind the car, step forward!

Hands in the air! Turn around!

Turn around, punk!

Unit three.

Unit three.

Proceed with suspects to 2345 Clearview.

Repeat, 2345 Clearview, and hold.

Federal agents en route.

U nit three, copy.

You must have stepped in something.

Y eah.

Excuse me, Deputy Cross?

Deputy Cross? Hi.

You were in the Corps, right?

I was a devil dog.

Listen, this might sound a little funny.

I'm a private contractor

on a 10-24 operation,

and these guys you're about to meet

are not federal agents.

I mean, follow your protocol and all,

but you should really keep your distance.

Use your radio and your loudspeakers

in order to confirm who these guys aren't.

Really, I'm not joking.

You can look me up,

a New Mexico license for Mallory Kane.

I'll confirm the number.

You need to sit back.

Look, an innocent civilian will be killed

if you do not listen to me.

Hey, Wonder Woman, you said your piece.

Now sit back and shut up.

- Jesus, are you...

- Get down!

Just keep your head down

a few more minutes and you're out of this.

Great, great. How are you gonna

get out of this, may I ask?

I'll just dump the car.

I'll find another ride. I'll catch a bus.

Great, good luck with that.

I can't wait till Coblenz hears about this.

- What is that?

- Listen, when we split,

I'm gonna give you a number to call.

I was supposed to be sleeping in late today,

not getting carjacked.

Scott, you still with me?

- Yeah, yeah. Yeah, a number.

- Just tell them everything.

Tell the police, too,

tell them everything I've told you, okay?

- Yeah, okay.

- You did great.

- You're gonna be fine.

- Yeah. Okay.

This is the trouble

with the private sector, Kenneth.

You got that macho takedown,

but where's the due diligence?

Where's the follow-through?

Now, we got ourselves a real twizzler here.

And for eight figures,

I don't accept excuses,

explanations or rationales.

Now I don't even know

why the hell you're standing here.

You should be in her father's living room,

explaining to him,

telling him that his daughter

is a fugitive with ties to terrorists.

That she killed a man in cold blood

in Dublin and killed four cops.

You tell him.

Show him.

He'll come at you like he's government,

make me seem like a monster.

Play like you're shocked.

The guy with the broken arm, Aaron,

get in his head.

Keep bringing up Barcelona.

Get him arguing with Kenneth.

Kenneth.

My fault. I should've seen that one coming.

You did.

Hold up a sec, Mal.

Let's analyze your options.

We could leave right now, disappear.

We could be in Buenos Aires

this time tomorrow.

I'm not gonna run anymore.

Mr. Kane, these were taken by the police.

They're pretty graphic.

Her prints are all over the room.

The security video shows them

coming in together and her leaving alone.

The guest downstairs

complained about the noise.

Paul fought back,

but she obviously had

the element of surprise in her favor.

She choked him out

and she shot him in the head.

Add that to the four police,

and that is five dead in three days.

- Where was she last seen?

- Upstate New York, 36 hours ago.

- Was she alone?

- No, she was with a boy, 19.

She grabbed him at gunpoint.

Used him as a ride and a shield,

so we can add aggravated kidnapping

to the murder charges.

No, I'm sorry.

This doesn't sound like my daughter.

She ever mention the name Kenneth?

No.

Really?

He runs the company she worked for.

They were in a relationship for over a year,

and yet she never mentioned him to you?

What do you know about her?

Really, at the end of the day?

I raised her.

And denial is a very effective parenting tool.

She was a Marine. She does something,

there must be a reason for it.

Mr. Kane, she is no longer a Marine.

She is a murderer.

She is a public threat.

She's on a killing spree.

Now, you are the on ly person

that she can trust.

You're gonna help bring her in

before she kills again.

Without you, she won't survive this.

I heard from her.

Ten days ago.

She texted me,

said she was going to Barcelona.

What did she say exactly?

"Going to Barcelona. Call you after."

Six words, that's it?

Well, it was enough for me.

And she didn't mention Dublin?

She didn't say anything about this?

No.

Who was he?

He was an agent with British Intelligence.

Now, whether this was a murder-for-hire

or a crime of passion, we don't know.

Well, she would never kill someone

for money.

There must be an explanation.

Didn't this all start after Barcelona?

Maybe that has something to do

with why she's a fugitive.

Something must have happened there.

- Aaron.

- I'm on it.

It's overseas. Prepaid phone.

Yeah, that's gotta be her.

Wait for the track.

Go.

Talk to her.

Mallory.

Dad, don't say anything.

Give Kenneth the phone.

Just be careful.

Mallory, I hope you've decided

to turn yourself in.

You can tell me right now

why you sold me out

and what you're into with Studer,

or you can tell me in ten minutes,

when I have my hands around your throat.

You need to think for a minute, Mallory.

You need to stop pretending

you can achieve a desirable outcome

in this situation,

and turn yourself in.

Do it for the sake of your father.

Surrender now if you wanna live.

I'm sorry, Mallory, that's not possible.

All right, Kenneth. We'll do it your way.

She's...

She's here.

Here? Where?

In the house. Track says she's in the house.

Go, now. You sit down.

You knew about this?

You knew she was here?

No. I told you, I haven't heard from her

since she texted me.

Kenny.

Do we need to have a conversation

about Barcelona?

Aaron, you were in Barcelona.

You know what happened.

We rescued a man.

- Did we?

- Aaron, you need to focus right now.

You were in Barcelona?

I'm confused.

She works for a private company.

Breaker box. Get on it. Lock the doors.

- What if she's inside?

- Then we'll pressure-cook her.

We'll find her.

I don't mean to tell you your job,

but isn't there someone

you should be calling, Agent Milgrom?

Other officers of the law, to bring help?

We can handle this.

- Go.

- I got this. Watch him.

- Did you hear that?

- Yeah.

Get on it.

Tom's down. IED in the breaker box.

- We need to get to the car.

- I'm not sure if that'll help.

But she can't outrun a car.

She can if it's not running.

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Lem Dobbs

Lem Dobbs was born on December 24, 1958 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England as Anton Lemuel Kitaj. He is a writer and producer, known for Dark City (1998), The Limey (1999) and Haywire (2011). He has been married to Dana Kraft since 1991. more…

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