Mission: Impossible II Page #20

LUTHER:

It looks like Nyah's headed toward an

elevator.

ETHAN:

working meticulously an a computer monitor.

DOWN ANGLE - ELEVATOR DOORS

and a security guard's body lying in the corridor. A pair of

trousered legs step over the body and into the elevator joining

Nyah's legs and feet, and other pairs of trousered legs. The

elevator doors close.

AMBROSE'S VOICE

If Hunt actually manages to squeak thru

the atrium he's liable to make it to

Chimera before we will..

CLOSE LUTHER:

On his computer screen the yellow dot continues its ascent, the

two dots growing ever closer.

LUTHER:

She's in the elevator heading toward Ethan.

BILLY'S VOICE

How much longer before you can reach him?

LUTHER:

Five and a half minutes.

(looking at his chronometer)

He's breached the hot zone..

AMBROSE'S VOICE

On the other hand we know where Hunt will

be and he doesn't know we're coming..

INT - INCUBATION ZONE

In front of each of three large television monitors is a vial

shaped roughly like a sealed beaker somewhere between one and two

liters in size. Each one is contained behind Plexiglas and each

one pale yellow, one sunset red. Behind them are monitors marked,

respectively:
WORKING SEED STOCK, MASTER SEED STOCK, IN VITRO

VIRUS. Behind these is a monitor screen with a blow-up of the

contents of the vials & the magnitude of the blow-up - 950,000x.

These are X-Ray microscope blow-ups, i.e., allowing the viewer to

see the motility of the virus and its metabolism, not dissimilar

to an MRI this of Chimera in its three different cultures..

Ethan's on the computer controls, racing thru to WORKING SEED

STOCK, which calls for optimal levels of 6.9 pH and 11

degrees Celsius. He drops the pH to zero and punches up the

temperature to a hundred. The effect on the greenish hue in

the bottle is subtle but immediate - not so subtle is the

effect on the virus seeds viewed microscopically - they

immediately appear agitated, their microscopic DNA innards

contracting and expanding.

Ethan moves on to the Master Seed Stock and the In Vitro Virus

panels on the computer. The changes he makes are reflected on

the digital monitoring panels before each viral container.

THE WORKING SEED

vial has begun to change colors from sea green to a paler pea-

green. The liquid itself begins to thicken:

COMPUTER VOICE:

(female)

Alert. Chimera-working-seed-stock-pH-and-

temperature-level-outside-optimal range.

As the liquid grows more viscous the X-Ray have a progressively

more difficult time penetrating the individual cells, resulting

in a low humming sound which grows as the liquid gels.

ETHAN:

at the control panels for maintaining the virus.

ANOTHER COMPUTER VOICE

Alert. Chimera-master-seed-stock-pH-and-

temperature-level-outside-optimal range.

FIRST COMPUTER VOICE

Alert. Chimera-working-seed-stock-pH-at-

unacceptable-level..

THIRD COMPUTER VOICE

Alert. Chimera-in-vitro-pH-and-

temperature-level-outside-optimal range..

FIRST COMPUTER VOICE

Alert. Chimera-working-seed-stock-pH-at-

critical-level. Alert. Stock-life

threatened. Alert.

The X-Ray microscope shows the individual seed-cells sticking

together, some exploding, then all movement ceasing. The Liquid

itself is suddenly shod thru fluorescent sparks before it

congeals to an opaque mush.

FIRST COMPUTER VOICE (cont'd)

Alert. Chimera stock life..terminated..

Simultaneously with the seed stock, Ethan's damaging both the

working seed in-vitro virus.

WIDE ANGLE - HOT ZONE

Ethan places a little plastique on a timer and runs up a ramp to

the decontaminant air lock at the back entrance to the hot zone.

BILLY'S VOICE

How're we doin', then?

LUTHER:

He should've have killed the virus in the

incubation area..Nyah's exited the

elevator on the same level as the lab.

BILLY'S VOICE

What can we do' mate?

LUTHER:

(staring at them)

Hope he kills all the bugs before the

yellow dot gets to the red one.

CLOSE - LUTHER'S SCREEN

The read and yellow blips are now on the same plane. The yellow

dot moves toward the red one as if drawn by a slow motion magnet.

DOWN ANGLE - ETHAN

looking up as his entire body is hit with air like he's a wind

tunnel. When the air flow ceases, a green light goes on.

COMPUTER VOICE:

Subject is contaminate free. Zero contaminate

factor. Subject contaminate free.

ETHAN - GLASS OBSERVATION ROOM

heads up a ramp to the three injection guns. Hands in gloves he

reaches into the chamber for one of the injection guns.

LUTHER'S VOICE

He's still got three injection guns in the

test lab..They're loaded with doses of

Chimera which he'll destroy by firing

into a hyper-thermal chamber.

He places the barrel of the gun, seals the chamber, and fires.

There's a tiny flash of light. Ethan withdraws the gun.

INT - CONSTRUCTION VAN

Luther's sweating it as the clock counts down: :30, :29, :28..

LUTHER:

- twenty-seven, twenty-six, twenty-five,

come on, Ethan we're almost there! I-I'm

off sensitive for this..

In a spasm of anxiety Luther bolts to his feet, wipes his brow.

LUTHER (cont'd)

- eighteen seconds, the generators'll be

off and Ethan's back on line..

Luther glances thru the van window only to see reflected in the

van side mirror:

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