Mission: Impossible II
- PG-13
- Year:
- 2000
- 123 min
- 1,011 Views
FADE IN:
is being carried by a world weary middle European wearing a black
armband. VLADIMIR NEKHORVICH exits a gleaming building, pausing
for a moment, under a motto clearly visible above his head,
'Where the future is now'. He checks the time.
INSERT - WATCH
set in Countdown Mode. It's at 19 hours forty-seven minutes and
sixteen seconds and dropping, 19:37.15, :14, :13, :12 etc.
O.S. children are singing:
Ring a ring a rosy/a pocketful of posy/
a tissue a tissue/we all fall down.
Nekhorvich looks to see children at play outside the adjacent
Natural History Museum. They are moving in and around an odd
freeform sculpture.
a blur where the sculpture seems to be distorting the children,
almost like mirrors in a fun house.
NEKHORVICH:
wipes his eyes, a horn honks. He looks toward the sound.
MOVING SHOT - SATCHEL (INT. AIRPORT SECURITY - DAY)
on the belt that takes it thru X-Ray. On the other side a guard
opens the satchel and pokes thru a few toilet articles, personal
items, books, a battleship gray digital camera and - in a small
plastic container marked 'S.G.' - a small, square shiny object,
hi-tech and at odds with the other items. She pulls out an urn-
shaped vessel.
GUARD:
What's this, then?
NEKHORVICH:
(handing her documents)
The ashes of a colleague, I'm taking them
to his family. If you wish to open it,
please be careful.
COMPUTERIZED SCREEN DISPLAY (INT. PLANE - MOVING - DAY)
on the cabin wall displays a colorful map showing the flight
point of departure in Sydney, continuously updating distance,
direction and time to its ultimate destination, Atlanta, Georgia.
CAPTAIN'S VOICE
- folks, we're a little over two and a
half hours from touchdown in Atlanta, but
if you look out your windows on either
side of the aircraft, we'll soon be
crossing the southern section of the Rocky
Mountains, a range which includes more
than 50 peaks rising above 14,000 feet.
The chain's loftiest point, Mount Elbert,
at 14, 433 feet should be coming into view
as we pass over central Colorado shortly..
NEKHORVICH (INT. CABIN - DAY)
seems intent on the map, its changing times and distance. He
checks his watch - the countdown has gone from 20 to three hours
and 32 minutes as Nekhorvich is mesmerized by the descending
seconds whipping by.
ETHAN HUNT sits into shot on the vacant first class aisle seat
beside Nekhorvich.
ETHAN:
You keep staring at that watch as if your
life depended on it, Doctor..
NEKHORVICH:
Well, yes. I suppose I am a bit anxious.
ETHAN:
They're ready and waiting. You'll soon be
with old friends.
NEKHORVICH:
(meaning Ethan)
I'm with an old friend now, Dmitri.
ETHAN:
Sorry it couldn't be under happier
circumstances.
NEKHORVICH:
Yes, I'm sorry too.. 'You're sorry and I'm
sorry..'
(bemused laughter, then looks at Ethan)
- you do know Gradski thought the world of you.
Nekhorvich is overcome. Ethan puts a comforting hand on his
shoulder:
ETHAN:
He was quite a man. Did he know before
the end you two had succeeded?
NEKHORVICH:
Yes, he knew. Just..
ETHAN:
..not in time to save him.
NEKHORVICH:
No. After you've lived with Chimera for
twenty hours, nothing can save you. Not
even...Bellerophon.
Nekhorvich pats the satchel.
ETHAN:
You carry them together? Safely?
With an almost impish grin and a wink:
NEKHORVICH:
Yes, and you'll get us to a safe place
with them, thank god!..left to my own
devices, I'm an old fart too inept to read
a railroad timetable!..
Good-natured laughter. Cut off by a flight steward who passes
by, giving a sidelong silence in Ethan and Nekhorvich's direction.
Oxygen masks suddenly deploy from the ceiling. Passengers are
puzzled and alarmed.
CAPTAIN'S VOICE
You Captain again. We've experienced a
slight but abrupt drop in cabin pressure..
A passenger struggling with his mask. As Nekhorvich fumbles with
the strap on his mask he notes that the display screen shows
their altitude is below 30,000 feet and dropping. He checks the
countdown time on his watch again. Nekhorvich looks around him.
The flight attendants are conspicuously absent and all the
passengers who have on oxygen masks are passed out.
INT - COCKPIT
The flight crew now wearing their oxygen masks.
CAPTAIN:
(into radio)
Pan, pan, pan, Denver Center. This is
Trans Pac Flight two-two-zero-seven, 747
heavy. We are not reading you. We're
unable to maintain cabin pressurization.
We have initiated a descent to one six
thousand.
The Co-pilot is working on the plane's altitude when his hands
slip off the controls. His eyes flutter, then:
CO-PILOT
Captain, I don't..can't..
He passes out. The Captain, HUGH STAMP, turns to verify that the
relief pilot is also unconscious at the controls.
He then removes his oxygen mask, sets the auto pilot, inputting
numbers to slow the plane and descend. As the craft titles
downward...
INT - GALLERY
The flight attendants are pulling on jump suits. Stamp emerges
from the cockpit.
INT - CABIN
Ethan returns. Nekhorvich beckons to him. Ethan sits. Grinning
around, Nekhorvich conspiratorially:
NEKHORVICH:
..it seems we have a problem, Dmitri.
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