Mission: Impossible Page #24

CLAIRE:

Jim - lets just get the money and get out

of here.

CLAIRE goes to ETHAN.

CLAIRE (CONT'D)

The money Ethan.

ETHAN hands her the money.

ETHAN:

Youíve earned it.

CLAIRE goes to Jim with the money.

PHELPS:

Count it.

CLAIRE starts to count.

ETHAN:

Tell me something Claire, that night in

Prague, was it you or Jim that blew up

the car and scattered Hannah all over

town?

PHELPS:

Keep counting Claire.

CLAIRE:

It was me. I did it.

CLAIRE hands PHELPS the money.

PHELPS:

Satisfied?

CLAIRE:

All ten million.

PHELPS:

Fold it. Fold it tight.

ETHAN:

Arenít you going to thank me Jim. Ten

million is better than six.

PHELPS:

Donít flatter yourself - six was for

Eastern Europe. You made a lousy deal -

ten for the world? What is that? But I

needed you for the transfer with Max. I

got a little extra change; and you got a

little extra too.

PHELPíS watch alarm goes off.

PHELPS:

Sorry Ethan. Times up. Say goodbye.

ETHAN:

Youíre wrong about one thing. Iím not

the only one whoís seen you alive.

ETHAN throws JIM the Visco glasses.

KITTRIDGE:

Good morning, Mr Phelps.

PHELPS and CLAIRE are stunned.

PHELPS:

You son of a b*tch.

PHELPS points the gun at ETHAN.

CLAIRE:

Donít Jim.

PHELPS:

Now we donít have to eliminate him? You

like that, donít you Claire? Donít you?

CLAIRE:

Yes.

ETHAN:

Jim, itís over.

PHELPS:

Ethan - Iíve always taught you, nothing

can be more dangerous than the truth. It

can kill you.

PHELPS shoots CLAIRE. Struggle between PHELPS and ETHAN.

The gun is lost. PHELPS beats ETHAN to the ground. His

watch alarm beeps rapidly. He turns, goes up the stairs

and...

ETHAN goes to CLAIRE.

ETHAN:

Claire...Hey...

CLAIRE:

This stuff is so sticky.

ETHAN:

Claire.

CLAIRE:

Itís all right, Ethan..youíll bring me

back...wonít you...

ETHAN:

I always have, Claire..

CLAIRE dies. ETHAN looks to ladder hatch and climbs ladder.

INT. REAR CAR - ENGINEER'S SECTION - DAY

PHELPS climbs up a ladder past an inert engineer slumped over

the control panel -- an obvious earlier victim of PHELPS.

PHELPS puts on a pair of clear goggles, reaches a trap door

and climbs through it --

EXT. ROOF OF TRAIN - DAY

-- halfway out onto the roof of the train. He reaches into

his jacket pocket and pulls out a suction cup with a handle

on the end of it. He SMACKS the suction cup down on the roof

and pulls himself the rest of the way out.

He pulls out a second suction cup and SMACKS it down on the

smooth surface of the train.

Now for the tough part. Using the suction cups, PHELPS

slowly pulls himself forward, a foot at a time, pulling and

replanting the cups as he goes.

He drags himself over the length of the final car, to the

back of the train, where the rear engine slants off sharply,

a window for the ENGINEER.

Half kneeling on the roof, PHELPS pulls out the clip from his

belt.

He looks up, scanning the sky behind the train. From out

of the fog, a helicopter approaches.

PHELPS turns and looks ahead, in the direction the train is

going. In the distance, he can see the chunnel approaching

the tunnel under the English Channel. His eyes widen.

INT. HELICOPTER - DAY

KRIEGER is at the controls. He sees the approaching tunnel

as well.

EXT. ROOF OF TRAIN - DAY

PHELPS crawls like hell to get into position. Looking up, he

sees KRIEGER pointing frantically behind him. PHELPS turns.

ETHAN is climbing out the trap door.

A cable and hook swing down from the helicopter, almost

touching the roof of the train. PHELPS crawls closer to it.

ETHAN, behind him, is in a far more precarious position.

Without goggles or suction cups, he has to use his fingers to

grab small holes on the roof.

He is flipped over by the wind, ending up facing the other

way. Loses his grip and is blown backwards over the roof.

INT. HELICOPTER - DAY

KRIEGER sees the Chunnel entrance approaching. He gestures

to PHELPS and tries to move the cable closer to him, passing

over PHELPS and then back to him.

EXT. ROOF OF TRAIN - DAY

PHELPS grabs the cable and is about to hook the cable onto

his belt, ETHAN slides into him and they both crash onto the

roof.

ETHAN grabs the cable out of PHELPS hand and clips it onto

the roof.

PHELPS and ETHAN struggle, but they are hurtling dangerously

closer to the chunnel entrance.

They're now right on top of the chunnel entrance.

INT. HELICOPTER - DAY

KRIEGER sees the tunnel, only seconds away now. He paws at

the controls, jerking back desperately on a certain lever.

EXT. ROOF OF TRAIN - DAY

PHELPS kicks ETHAN and he falls off the far side of the

train. PHELPS falls off the near side and holding onto the

strap manages to pull himself back on.

-- The train ZOOMS into the tunnel --

-- AND THE HELICOPTER ROARS RIGHT IN BEHIND IT!

INT. BUSINESS CAR/TUNNEL - MOVING - DAY

As the train roars into the tunnel, the business car goes

nearly dark and the message on MAX'S computer screen changes

one last time. This time it says:

CONNECTION TERMINATED.

TRANSFER LOST.

MAX'S face falls.

MAX:

Damn!

INT. REAR CAR/ENGINEER'S SECTION - DAY

Another CONDUCTOR races into the power car, past his inert

companion, and is shocked to see the copter right behind the

train. He grabs a radio and SCREAMS into it.

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