Mission: Impossible II Page #15

ETHAN:

Nyah, you've done more than enough. Even

the best of snake charmers get bit.

NYAH:

Ethan, tell me -

BILLY'S VOICE

Twenty, nineteen..

Ethan's been talking to someone he's been urging to walk, not run

to the nearest exit. Now he drops all pretence:

ETHAN:

I want you out of Australia!

(more quickly)

..I don't know how much more plainly I can

put it.

NYAH:

How do you suggest I go about it?

ETHAN:

He's touched your heart. You're

overwhelmed. You need to think it over.

You'll meet him somewhere in a month. If

You're not out in 48 hours I'm coming in

and getting you out. Give me the ear

piece.

She just gets it out of her hear and gives it to Ethan when she

reaches the bookie who warns her to get down her bet. She gives

him her money and gets the tickets just as the buzzer goes off -

no more bets. Flustered by it she picks up her tickets but drops

the envelope. She quickly kneels and scrambles to recover it,

tucking it away and looking up - to see Stamp standing over her.

almost exactly where Ethan had stood when she looked away.

NYAH:

tries not to register alarm while she gauges how much Stamp had

seen.

STAMP:

Get your bet down?

NYAH:

Just..

She rises. Stamp waits only a moment then follows.

AT THE PRIVATE BLEACHERS (DAY)

everyone's on their feet, the horses are in the backstretch.

Ambrose is watching the race through binoculars. Nyah comes up

behind and puts her arms around him. With her left hand she puts

the envelope into his right jacket pocket.

AMBROSE:

Your nag is making a run for it on the

outside!

(lowering binoculars)

Bloody hell, Nyah!

She's momentarily startled. Then:

AMBROSE (CONT'D)

You picked another winner!

NYAH:

Well, that's good, isn't?

A BLOW UP (INT. SHEEP FARM IMF SAFEHOUSE - DAY)

of a shot from a digital camera card.

ETHAN'S VOICE

Dr. Segi Gradski, Nekhorvich's

colleague and lifelong friend..

The photos is coded with the data in the lower left hand corner,

01.27.99, the time in the right, 10:02:56 A.M. Burned into the

photo is '20 hours, 03 minutes after exposure.'

Ethan paunches in.

ETHAN'S VOICE (cont'd)

Twenty hours and three minutes after

exposure.

(sotto voce)

Twenty hours.

Ethan doesn't say anything for a moment, then goes on to the next

photo on the card: '25 hours, 40 minutes after exposure.' It's

Gradski again. Gradski's eyes are darkly circled, his skull look

mottled.

ETHAN:

Six hours later.

Another photo:
'31 hours, 30 minutes after exposure.' Gradski's

bleeding from nose, mouth and ears, the skin eruptions are

pervasive, his body an open wound.

ETHAN ( cont'd)

Six more hours.

The next photo. '34 hours, 25 minutes after exposure.' Gradski's

body at rest.

ETHAN (cont'd)

Three hours after that, Gradski was dead..

LUTHER:

Here's a victim from the Bruny Island

outbreak.

The victim's face shows a devastation undeniably like Gradski's.

A long, long moment as Ethan, Luther, and Billy sit in silence.

BILLY:

Oh, happy day.

Ethan looks again at the first photo of Gradski.

ETHAN:

Nekhorvich said 'However we travel, I

must arrive at my destination within 20 hours

hours of departure.'

CLOSE - NYAH (EXT. AMBROSE VERANDA - LATE AFTERNOON)

Nyah is on the balcony. Ambrose enters with two glasses of

champagne.

AMBROSE:

To Australia. It's made so many convicts

feel at home. Here's hoping it does the

same for you..

He laughs. She doesn't.

NYAH:

Sean, there's something I've been meaning

to talk to you about... Isn't going to be

easy for me to say.

AMBROSE:

(jocular)

Then don't say it.

NYAH:

I don't know what to do about you, Sean.

I'm more than a bit muddled. I need time.

AMBROSE:

To do what?

NYAH:

Sort it all out.

AMBROSE:

And you're going to have time. There's

been a change of plans.

NYAH:

A change of plans?

AMBROSE:

Yes. We won't be able to have dinner

tonight. Something's come up. I hope you

don't mind.

NYAH:

Oh, no, not at all. Maybe just a bit.

AMBROSE:

Ulrich will be about. He'll look after

you.

NYAH:

Lovely.

INT - AMBROSE STUDY (LATE AFTERNOON)

Ambrose enters, slips off his jacket and hangs it over a chair.

He walks to a desk and brings up a computer the Biocyte website

and McCloy infomercial. Stamp notes that Ambrose is

on the computer and moves to the desk.

STAMP:

I thought you were going to dinner.

AMBROSE:

(pulling up something on the

computer)

Hugh, take care of the Nekhorvich memory

card.

STAMP:

Where is it?

AMBROSE:

In the envelope in my pocket. My

right.. jacket..pocket..

Stamp leans over and pulls out the envelope. As he does he sees

Ambrose has pulled up and started to play McCloy's informercial.

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