Mission: Impossible II Page #19

INT - ATRIUM FLOOR

Ethan swings himself up to the ledge above the guard's window,

putting himself out of the puzzled guard's sight.

LUTHER'S VOICE

Gotta get that cable out.

Ethan unhooks the cord and flips to the atrium floor. An alarm

goes off.

LUTHER'S VOICE (cont'd)

There it goes..

Still confused and concerned, the guard doesn't immediately react

to the alarm or the ringing phone. He finally answers the phone.

GUARD #2'S VOICE

(on phone)

AY! what's the matter with you? Can't you

hear the alarm's gone off in cosmetics?

The first guard gives up what's confused him.

GUARD:

(sarcastic)

Right. Then I guess I'll have to trot off

to see who's pinching eyeliner, won't I.

(exits, grumbling)

I'll even check the stairwell on the way.

UP ANGLE - CABLE

being swiftly retracted toward the atrium's opening as it closes.

BILLY:

Retracting cable.

LUTHER'S VOICE

(low)

Three..two..one..

UP ANGLE - ATRIUM

The cable just makes it thru the atrium as the louvers close.

BILLY'S VOICE

Cable's clear.

INT - ATRIUM FLOOR - ETHAN

reaches down and presses a silent beeper.

WITH LUTHER (INT. VAN)

sees a little red diamond-shaped light pop on his screen

LUTHER:

Transponder activated..Reading package and

Cable is clean.

(exhaling, relieved)

He's on his way.

Staring at the buildings control panels.

ETHAN (INT. ATRIUM)

hugs the floor just out of sight of the befuddled security guard.

AMBROSE'S VOICE

He'll make the attempt at the only possible time

for both of us, 11 P.M. - when the guards rotate

and the buildings air-filtration generators go

active, covering the sound of his break-in..

WITH LUTHER:

LUTHER:

Ethan, the generators are about to go active.

We'll be out of contact for eleven minutes.

CLOSE - GENERATORS

dark and silent.

GENERATORS:

turn over and roar to life.

ETHAN AT BOTTOM OF ATRIUM

cuts into the glass floor, pops it out, and drops thru the

opening. None of it's heard under the generators..

Ethan drops onto the lab floor and heads across the lab and up

the ramp to the hot zone.

AMBROSE'S VOICE

The frequency of the generators operate to

our advantage - cutting radio

communication from his team for the next

eleven minutes..

INT - BIOCYTE LOBBY (NIGHT)

Stamp, flanked by several of his team in Biocyte security guard

uniform, crosses the lobby toward a pair of actual Biocyte

security guards who appear more puzzled than alarmed at this

unexpected influx.

ONE OF THE GUARDS

What's this, then? Reinforcements?

STAMP:

Not exactly, mate.

WITH LUTHER (INT. CONSTRUCTION VAN - NIGHT)

His attention in drawn to a spot on the grid where Nyah's

transponder blip, a circular yellow one in contrast to Ethan's,

is moving. Troubled:

LUTHER:

Billy. I think we got a problem. Nyah's

on the wing. Up early. Billy, do you

copy?

INT - CHOPPER

BILLY:

Exactly where is she?

LUTHER:

..in the building...

BILLY'S VOICE

Say again. Sounds like you're saying

'she's in the building.'

LUTHER:

I am. She is.

AMBROSE'S VOICE

Ethan does it the hard way to avoid

confrontation. Neutralizing security

guards is simply too distasteful to him..

INT - BIOCYTE LOBBY

The two guards who had greeted Stamp and his arriving team lie

inert on the lobby floor.

AMBROSE'S VOICE

I've never found that a problem...

WITH BILLY (INT. HELICOPTER - NIGHT)

Billy's so surprised he momentarily gets loose with the copter

and it banks off. As it and he recover:

BILLY:

Right. Well, then. She's not likely to

be alone. is she?

LUTHER'S VOICE

The question Is 'how many of 'em?' I

can't get thru to Ethan. Not 'til the

generators go off.

BILLY:

When's that?

LUTHER'S VOICE

Not for another eight and a half minutes.

WITH LUTHER:

staring at the red and yellow blips in vertical alignment, the

Yellow one, Nyah, considerably below the red one, Ethan.

INT - HOT ZONE ENTRANCE (NIGHT)

The door reads. DANGER: LIVE VIRUS: INCUBATION ZONE. EXPOSURE IS

FATAL. Ethan pulls on a protective mask from his pack and puts a

miniaturized recorder up to the voice print activator:

MCCLOY'S VOICE

John C. McCloy..

Ethan's buzzed into the hot zone. He steps into the air locks.

INT - SHEEP FARM IMF SAFEHOUSE

A small bomb is placed by the dark gloves of someone unseen.

EXT - CONSTRUCTION VAN - NIGHT

a shadow falls across the dirt in front of the bumper.

A SMALL OBJECT:

with a digital clock face, its red LED illuminating descending

numbers, is carefully placed inside the bumper. The magnet on it

doesn't quite catch. It's then placed more carefully.

INT - CONSTRUCTION VAN

Luther doesn't pick up on the faint metallic sound just outside.

He's concentrating on the flashes on the screen showing the

transponder rising in the building. Increasingly desperate:

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