Mission: Impossible Page #13

CLAIRE:

We've got seventy-five rounds for your

Glock 9, but only twenty for the Sig

Sauer, one pair of Visco glasses with

monitor, plenty of passports. You said

it yourself -- if I'm not dead, I'm with

you.

ETHAN:

You're sure about this?

CLAIRE:

Jim was my husband. I want to know who

killed him. ( ALT ) I want to get the son

of a b*tch who did this.

ETHAN:

We need help, and we don't have time.

They have to be local.

CLAIRE:

What kind of help?

INT. SAFE HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER - DAY

The KY57 crypto phone, a black box with an ordinary phone

receiver in the top, THUNKS down on the table.

ETHAN plugs the phone cable from his laptop into the back.

The green display on top of the KY57 dials a number and makes

a computer connection.

On the computer, the screen says:

I.M.F. PERSONNEL DATABASE

ENTER PASSWORD NOW

ETHAN types a password and the screen asks him for the

CATEGORY?

He types in a single word.

DISAVOWED:

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. TRAIN - STATEROOM - NIGHT

The word "disavowed" dissolves slowly over the stateroom of a

high speed train, where the newly assembled IM force has

gathered around a table -- KRIEGER, a dangerous-looking

Frenchman of forty or so, LUTHER STICKELL, a muscular, soft-

spoken American in his mid-thirties. ETHAN, and CLAIRE.

LUTHER regards the others warily.

ETHAN:

Simple game. Four players.

(points to Krieger)

Exfil opens the pocket --

(and to Luther)

-- cyber ops lifts the wallet.

KRIEGER:

Bank?

ETHAN:

IMF mainframe.

KRIEGER:

(after a moment)

Where exactly is it?

ETHAN:

In Langley.

LUTHER:

In Langley? The one in Virginia, Langley?

KRIEGER:

Inside CIA headquarters at Langley.

ETHAN nods. KRIEGER turns to CLAIRE.

KRIEGER (CONT'D)

Is he serious?

CLAIRE:

Always.

KRIEGER:

If we're going to Virginia, why don't we

drop by Fort Knox? I can fly a

helicopter right in through the lobby and

set it down inside the vault and it will

be a hell of a lot easier than breaking

into the God damn CIA.

LUTHER:

What are we downloading?

ETHAN:

Information.

LUTHER:

What kind?

ETHAN:

Profitable.

CLAIRE:

Payment on delivery.

LUTHER:

I don't know. This I don't know.

ETHAN:

This doesn't sound like the Luther

Stickell I've heard of. What'd they used

to call you? The Net Ranger? Phineas

Phreak? The only man alive who actually

hacked NATO Ghostcom.

LUTHER:

There was never any physical evidence

that I had anything to do with that..

that..

(correcting himself)

With that exceptional piece of work.

ETHAN:

You don't know what you're missing. This

is the Mt. Everest of hacks.

LUTHER:

You're all kidding yourselves. Even with

top of the line crypto. Cray access.

STU 3's --

CLAIRE:

Krieger can get it.

(to Krieger)

Right?

KRIEGER:

May take a little time.

ETHAN:

May take a little time. That's not what

Claire tells me about you.

LUTHER:

Thinking Machine laptops, I'm talking

about the 686 prototypes -- with the

artificial intelligence Risk chip --

ETHAN looks at KRIEGER.

KRIEGER:

Twenty-four hours.

ETHAN looks back at LUTHER. LUTHER thinks.

LUTHER:

And I get to keep the equipment when

we're done.

ETHAN:

Luther, I guess you're all out of

excuses.

LUTHER:

I can't just hack my way inside. There's

no modem access to the mainframe, it's in

a stand-alone. I'd have to be physically

at the terminal.

ETHAN:

Luther, relax, it's worse than you think.

The terminal's in black vault lock-down.

INT. CIA CORRIDOR/GUARD STATION - DAY

While ETHAN talks, we see what he's referring to:

A CIA ANALYST carrying a glass of iced tea and several file

folders walks down a long corridor in the headquarters

building. He comes to an impressive guard station and rests

his chin on a strange-looking optometric device.

ETHAN (V.O.)

They missed nothing in that room. Even

the vents have laser nets over them.

Apparently the device approves and the ANALYST is buzzed into

a "RESTRICTED" area of the building.

INT. CIA COMPUTER ANTEROOM - DAY

The ANALYST reaches a curtained area. He shoves the curtain

aside and comes to a large, vaulted door. He slides a card-

key into a slot, leaves it there and slides a second card-key

into the slot beneath it.

ETHAN (V.O.)

Inside, there are three countermeasure

systems that can only be deactivated by

authorized entry. Which we won't have.

A panel next to the ANALYST says "INTRUSION COUNTERMEASURES

OFF." The ANALYST next spins a three digit combination code,

CHUNKS the door open and steps into --

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