Mission: Impossible II Page #23

Ethan glances at his chronometer. Swanbeck sees it.

SWANBECK (CONT'D)

You noted the time of exposure?

Ethan nods.

SWANBECK (CONT'D)

- good. Then if you manage to get hold of

Ambrose, and obtain what he's got, you've

got -

(glancing at the chronometer)

- 8 hours 57 minutes and twenty-three

seconds to destroy the largest remaining

source of Chimera on earth.

ETHAN:

She sacrificed herself..

SWANBECK:

Brave girl. If you can get hold of

Bellerophon with the time limit, you may

spare her the ultimate sacrifice. But in

either case you've got less than nine

hours to kill her or cure her. After that

it's out of our hands and a matter of

worldwide material law. And Hunt. However

you obtain it, we want you to preserve a

sample of Chimera. Bring it back alive.

Ethan's staring at Swanbeck.

SWANBECK (CONT'D)

Something else?

ETHAN:

Aren't you even curious? About why she

did it?

SWANBECK:

No. I can't afford to be curious. And

neither can you, Hunt..

As the eerie wail of the didgeridoo seems to mount in volume and

intensity, the overcast sky filtering into the loft seems

particularly oppressive. Ethan's up against it and he knows it.

A VIEW OF SYDNEY

from harbors to skyline in all its sunlight splendor.

Nyah sits for a moment, looking steadily at Ambrose. Ambrose pats

the cannister he's carrying.

AMBROSE:

Feel like pleading for your life?

NYAH:

(with an edge)

Not as much as you feel like hearing it.

Ambrose slaps her. With scarcely a flicker of hesitation she

slaps him back.

AMBROSE:

God damn it, Nyah! Why did you do it? Why

did you save that bastard?

NYAH:

If it'll make you feel any better I won't

do it again.

It doesn't. Full of pain and rage, he gets out of the car.

AMBROSE:

If it'll make you feel any better, you're

going to take a lot of Aussies with you

and make me a lot of money.

NYAH:

What are you talking about?

AMBROSE:

In just a few hours you can be assured of

going down in history as the typhoid Mary

of Oz. G'day.

A nameless guard from Michael's car idling nearby gets into the

back seat with Nyah. Ambrose shuts the car door in Nyah's face,

gets in Michael's car takes off.

EXT/INT - IMF HELICOPTER - BLUFF

ETHAN:

Luther?..Luther.

Luther drops a tiny part into his computer board and, as he tries

to fish it out with the aid of a magnifying glass:

LUTHER:

Ethan, I keep telling you there's not a

chance of locating Nyah til I access the

satellite and there's not a chance of

doing that til I get this thing booted up

and running! How much time does she have left?

ETHAN:

Ninety-seven minutes, twenty-seven

seconds.

BILLY:

Before we kill her or cure her..

LUTHER:

Right.

ETHAN:

Wrong. All we've got to worry about is

Ambrose. Nyah will take care of Nyah.

BILLY:

What are you talking about?

ETHAN:

Unless we dose her with Bellerophon on the

next ninety-seven minutes, Nyah will kill

herself. So, first things, first.

Swanbeck said there's no cash movement

from any monitored terrorist accounts.

EXT - BEAR ISLAND CAR PARK

McCloy's black limousine is in the car park.

ETHAN'S VOICE

Confirms what Ambrose is gonna do -

INT - TUNNEL - BEAR ISLAND

Barrels of toxic materials line the walls, as an armed guard

patrols the corridor, leading into the main chamber, where we

follow McCloy into

INT - SLABHOUSE

McCloy enters and begins pacing.

ETHAN'S VOICE (CONT'D)

- who he's doing it with, and where he's

gonna do it.

EXT - MOTORCYCLE AND LINE OF VEHICLES (DAY)

speed along an isolated road in close formation before turning

onto a side road, revealed as leading to a bridge across a small

strip of water to a small island.

EXT - BEAR ISLAND - LANDWARD SIDE (DAY)

As the cycles and vehicles cross the bridge and approach the

front gate, the camera swings around the side of the island

establishing the geography and the six cannon emplacements

before coming to a stop on

EXT - BEAR ISLAND - SEAWARD CLIFF - ETHAN

scaling the seaward side of the island with minimal gear

EXT/INT - IMF HELICOPTER - BLUFF

resting like a giant locust, half hidden by a cluster of trees on

the bluff overlooking Bear Island.

Billy's at the controls, with binoculars, maintaining

surveillance of the island and environs.

In the back, Luther is at Work on his GPS computer.

BILLY'S VOICE

Ethan's out from under the bridge and on

the south-east face..

EXT - CLIFF/VIEW OF TUNNEL

Ethan climbs the side of the cliff.

BILLY'S VOICE

Ethan, Ambrose and his tem have

over the bridge -

ETHAN:

Copy that.

Ethan reaches the clifftop and sees armed guards patrolling.

BILLY'S VOICE

You all right, mate? From here it looks

like very security. What's it look like

like from there?

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