Mission: Impossible Page #6

PHELPS:

(tension rising)

He's in the box, Ethan, he's in the box!

INT. EMBASSY WORK ROOM - NIGHT

ETHAN and SARAH are waiting in front of the elevator, the one

GOLITSYN is about to step off of! ETHAN looks around, for a

place to hide.

ETHAN:

OK. Taking Golitsyn's exit. Jack, open

the doors.

SARAH:

What about my coat? I'll freeze.

JACK (O.S.)

I don't have it.

INT. SAFE HOUSE - NIGHT

PHELPS whips over to a laptop and starts typing.

PHELPS:

Opening the doors. Go under.

He jabs ENTER on his keyboard.

INT. EMBASSY WORK ROOM - NIGHT

The elevator doors WHISK open, revealing the empty shaft

beyond. ETHAN and SARAH jump into the shaft.

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT - NIGHT

ETHAN and SARAH jump down into the five foot empty space

below the work room floor. Above them, the elevator

continues its descent, with them hiding below. The elevator

drops to just over their heads and stops.

INT. EMBASSY WORK ROOM - NIGHT

GOLITSYN steps off the elevator, crosses the room and slides

a 3.5 computer disk into the computer in the work room.

Through the Visco glasses, we can clearly see him at work,

downloading the vital information.

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (BELOW ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

Waiting below the elevator, ETHAN takes off his jacket,

starting to reverse it. He checks his Visco wrist monitor as

GOLITSYN perpetrates the theft. He smiles and speaks into a

microphone.

ETHAN:

He's got it. Saved your ass again Jack.

JACK (O.S.)

Give me a break, Pops.

SARAH:

Such a nice ass.

JACK (O.S.)

And a lonely ass.

ETHAN:

Sarah's reconsidering. Claire, transport

in five minutes.

CLAIRE (O.S.)

Roger that.

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (BELOW ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

Back inside, ETHAN strips off his mask and wearing his now

reversed jacket, he and SARAH exit the small door at the base

of the elevator shaft.

EXT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (ABOVE ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

JACK rapidly disconnects his equipment. But as he pulls the

final electrical clip from the elevator's wiring, it flashes

and SPARKS.

EXT. EMBASSY - NIGHT

ETHAN and SARAH exit an Embassy service area by the

waterfront and blend into the Embassy crowd, as an amorous

couple.

ETHAN:

In position. Jack open the door, let the

package roll.

JACK (O.S.)

Roger that. Opening doors now.

ETHAN:

Stairway, youíre wrapped, go to

transport.

ETHANíS voice comes over HANNAHíS earpiece.

HANNAH:

En route.

HANNAH breaks off and goes up the stairs.

INT. ELEVATOR - NIGHT

The button marked "ROOF" lights up, seemingly all by itself.

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (ABOVE ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

The car engages with a sharp jolt --

JACK:

Hey.

--and starts to rise. JACK looks down, into the elevator

car, through the grate. Thereís no one in it.

INT. SAFE HOUSE - NIGHT

On one of his monitors, PHELPS sees the elevator moving in

the shaft.

PHELPS:

Jack, what are you doing?!

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (ABOVE ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

JACK:

Iím not doing anything! (I donít have it

either).

INT. SAFE HOUSE - NIGHT

PHELPS is typing at his keyboard and jamming the enter button

but gets no response.

PHELPS:

I donít have it -- I donít have

control!

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (ABOVE ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

JACKíS face pales. He looks up, above him, at the

approaching ceiling.

JACK:

Uh -- then I have a problem.

INT. EMBASSY WORK ROOM - NIGHT

GOLITSYN pulls out the now-programmed disk from the computer,

slips it in his jacket pocket and heads for the door.

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (ABOVE ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

JACK looks up through his Visco glasses at the approaching

roof, covered with spikes.

EXT. EMBASSY - NIGHT

Through the monitor, ETHAN sees JACKíS P.O.V. of the roof of

the building approaching. Fast.

ETHAN:

Cut the power. Cut the power Jack. Do

you hear me.

INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT (ABOVE ELEVATOR) - NIGHT

On top of the elevator, JACK has ripped open the control

panel again and is frantically trying to adjust wires to get

the thing to stop.

He swears, his fingers fumble, he works faster and faster.

He looks up. The roof of the building is nearly upon him.

ETHAN (O.S.)

Come on, Jack, come on.

JACK looks up again, he cringes, he covers his head with his

hands, he SCREAMS --

--and heís crushed to death against the roof.

EXT. EMBASSY - NIGHT

ETHAN is staring at the static on the monitor that once was

JACKíS signal.

ETHAN:

Jack. Jack.

He closes his eyes, knowing what that means.

INT. SAFE HOUSE - NIGHT

PHELPS also sees the static.

PHELPS:

Man down. Stay where you are. Iím on my

way.

He gets up and races out of the apartment.

INT. EMBASSY WORK ROOM - NIGHT

GOLITSYN, who now has the disk, jabs again and again at the

elevator button but it wonít even light up. He studies the

elevator doors and jumps into the shaft, just as ETHAN and

SARAH did moments before.

He hits the floor of the elevator shaft and exits the small

door at the shaftís base.

EXT. PRAGUE SAFE HOUSE - NIGHT

PHELPS hurries towards the bridge.

PHELPS:

En route.

EXT. CHARLES BRIDGE - NIGHT

PHELPS dashes onto the Charles Bridge and heads across the

river, toward the Embassy. He throws a look back, over his

shoulder. Paranoiaís setting in.

EXT. EMBASSY (AS SEEN FROM CHARLES BRIDGE) - NIGHT

Outside the Embassy, GOLITSYN escapes, pushing through the

service area door and racing past a DRUNKEN COUPLE who are in

the midst of a loverís quarrel, in Russian.

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