Mission: Impossible Page #15

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EXT. VIRGINIA TWO LANE HIGHWAY - DAY

SIRENS BLARING, three fire trucks race past an inconspicuous

gray van parked on the shoulder of a two lane highway.

INT. CIA LANGLEY LOBBY - DAY

Three FIREMEN stomp into the main lobby of the CIA

headquarters building. ETHAN and KRIEGER are among them, in

firemen's jumpsuits, carrying packs of equipment.

ETHAN takes a breath as they cross to the GUARD's desk. He

looks up, above him.

Etched into the top of one wall are the words "AND YE SHALL

KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE."

They reach the GUARD. ETHAN, who wears Visco glasses, elbows

to the front of the group and takes charge.

ETHAN:

(to the Guard)

We picked up alarms in sectors three,

seven, and twelve.

The GUARD checks a screen in front of him.

GUARD RICHARD:

Yeah. That's what I've got too.

The FIREMEN look at each other. Who is this guy? But he

seems to know what he's talking about, so --

ETHAN:

(to the Guard)

What sector's the air conditioning?

GUARD RANDALL:

Uh -- twenty-one, but there's no alarm in

sector twenty-one.

ETHAN:

I gotta go in there and shut it down!

GUARD RANDALL:

Nobody goes into any sector where the

alarm didn't go off.

ETHAN:

Do you want to blow the fire through the

whole building?

GUARD RICHARD:

(reciting policy)

Nobody goes into any sector where the

alarm did not go off --

EXT. CIA LANGLEY - PARKING AREA - DAY

One fire truck is parked slightly behind the others in the

parking area of the headquarters building. Second truck

roars past. LUTHER watches it go.

INT. FIRE TRUCK - DAY

LUTHER is in the belly of the fire truck with a ton of

equipment -- three laptops, a bundle of phone cable, a mini-

dish antenna, a cellular phone, several thick phone company

manuals with names like "COSMOS" and "SWITCHED ACCESS

SERVICE."

One laptop serves as a Visco monitor, showing a video image

in which LUTHER watches ETHAN'S point of view of the stubborn

GUARD, who's finishing his sentence.

GUARD:

(on screen)

--and it did not go off in twenty-one!

LUTHER turns to a screen on another computer and searches

through a complex facilities menu.

LUTHER:

(mouths)

Twenty-one, twenty-one --

He finds what he's looking for and double clicks on it. A

red box on his screen lights up --

INT. CIA LANGLEY - LOBBY - DAY

-- and the same red box lights up on the GUARD'S screen.

From in the distance, a new ALARM begins to wail.

GUARD RANDALL:

Wait! Hold it - it's on. Let's go.

ETHAN:

Let's move!

ETHAN turns and looks at one of the FIREMEN behind them --

it's CLAIRE. CLAIRE and KRIEGER follow ETHAN/GUARD to

corridor.

INT. CIA STORAGE ROOM - DAY

CLAIRE quickly slips out of her fireman's jumpsuit, revealing

a business suit underneath. She clips an ID tag to her

breast pocket.

She pulls a piece of paper from her pocket, a computer

printout of a man's ID photo. She stares at the face,

studying it.

INT. CIA CAFETERIA - DAY

CLAIRE, carrying a cup of coffee and a muffin, looks for a

spot among the tables in the cafeteria of the headquarters

building.

She sees a MAN sitting alone, reading a newspaper. It's the

man whose picture she looked at in the storage room. She

sits next to him.

He looks up and gives her an acknowledging half smile, then

goes back to his paper.

He turns to pick up the paper and in the moment he is facing

the other way, CLAIRE pulls out a small vial resembling a

perfume sampler. She dumps the clear liquid contents into

his coffee. He turns back and hands her part of the paper.

CLAIRE smiles.

COFFEE MAN drinks up. CLAIRE stares at his shoulder

strangely. He notices.

She reaches out and flicks something off his shoulder blade.

He smiles. But she hasn't flicked something off his shoulder

blade, she's flicked something onto it -- a little piece of

shiny gray metallic tape. CLAIRE leaves the table. COFFEE

MAN drinks up and leaves the table.

INT. FIRE TRUCK - DAY

LUTHER stares at another one of his laptops, this one with a

blueprint of the inside of the building. A cursor begins to

flash in one of the rooms. LUTHER smiles.

LUTHER:

Hi there.

INT. CIA CORRIDOR/GUARD STATION - DAY

A GUARD carrying an MP5, a handheld machine gun, leads ETHAN

and KRIEGER to a heavy metal door marked SERVICE.

GUARD:

Air conditioning's through here!

They turn a corner, walking directly past --

-- COFFEE MAN, who's coming the other way. We stay with

COFFEE MAN.

INT. CIA LANGLEY - CORRIDORS - DAY

COFFEE MAN comes out of the cafeteria, walks down the

corridor. he goes to the restricted access door, taps the

control panel.

CIA ANALYST:

William Donloe.

COFFEE MAN (ANALYST) walks past a GUARD desk and peers into

an optometric scanner and we suddenly remember where we've

seen COFFEE MAN before. He's the TECHNICIAN who works at the

secured computer terminal.

INT. CIA - SERVICE AREA - DAY

ETHAN and KRIEGER in the service area - preparing. ETHAN

putting the mask in a bag.

The GUARD returns.

GUARD:

Where's the other guy?

The GUARD moves towards ETHAN, who kicks back at him, pushing

him back to KRIEGER, who zaps the GUARD on the back of the

neck. He twitches and slumps to the ground, unconscious.

KRIEGER quickly grabs him around the neck.

ETHAN turns. Holding the GUARD'S head with one hand, KRIEGER

pulls a stiletto from the sheath in the back of his belt with

the other. He jabs it toward the base of the GUARD'S skull -

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