Mission: Impossible II Page #24

ETHAN:

Risky.

He's over the top and moves swiftly to cover.

Ethan surprises and kills a perimeter guard, then runs to a

length of grating and lifts one of the panels.

Ethan climbs down through the grating in the roof of the tunnel.

Using a bar to swing down, he breaks a second guard's neck and

drops to the floor.

EXT - BEAR ISLAND - ENTRANCE (DAY)

Ambrose and team drive through the entry gate -- passing its

BIOCYTE PHARMACEUTICALS sign and various no-nonsense warnings of

'No Trespassing,' etc. -- before Biocyte security guards close it

behind them.

INT - TUNNEL - NEAR THE GRATING

ETHAN:

Breached the structure at the ten o'clock

grating. In the tunnel moving toward the

target.

Ethan begins heading down the tunnel.

INT - SLABHOUSE BUILDING

Ambrose and team enter, where McCloy and his CHEMIST and

ACCOUNTANT are waiting. As Stamp stands back, observing, and

Wallis sets up a laptop, Ambrose walks up to a refectory-like

table and stands opposite McCloy. Ambrose reaches into his coat

and puts two cannisters on the table in front of McCloy. McCloy's

chemist picks up the cannisters and inserts them into two

chambers connected to his microscope.

CHEMIST:

It's a DNA match. The blood's loaded with

Chimera.

An insert of the microscope plate shows the two samples, as

Bellerophen destroys Chimera.

The chemist presses a button on the chamber and there's a heat

flash. The chamber red light moves to green, and there's a

mechanical voice: 'Substance destroyed.'

CHEMIST (cont'd)

And they certainly have Bellerophen.

The Kev cannister is out on the table.

MCCLOY:

Well, then. You've got both the virus and

the anti-virus, Chimera and Bellerophen.

Which means I've thirty million for

you

Ambrose doesn't respond.

MCCLOY (cont'd)

That's all the cash I can come up with

AMBROSE:

Not exactly. Wallis?

WALLIS:

(off Biocyte figures on laptop)

More like two-two point two million.

AMBROSE:

In any case we don't want your cash.

MCCLOY:

Then what do you want?

Ambrose picks up a mobile phone and dials.

AMBROSE:

Stock, Mr. McCloy. Stock options, to be a

little more precise..

(into the phone)

- cut her loose..right in the center of

town..the more crowded the better..

(punching off, to McCloy)

How quickly can you manufacture more of

the antivirus.

INT - TUNNEL - CAVITY IN THE WALL

As he moves along the tunnel, Ethan suddenly flattens himself

against a wall as he receives a transmission from Luther.

LUTHER'S VOICE

Ethan, just picked up an Ambrose call -

Nyah's been dropped off. I think she's

alive.

ETHAN:

Where is she?

EXT - HELICOPTER - BLUFF

LUTHER:

Somewhere in Sydney.

INT - TUNNEL - CAVITY IN THE WALL

Ethan hears something and ducks into a nearby cavity in the

tunnel wall. As a guard approaches, Ethan steps out of the

cavity and knocks the guard out, then throws him into the

opposite wall.

LUTHER'S VOICE

Ethan? Do you copy?

ETHAN'S VOICE

'Somewhere in Sydney?' Care to harden the

target?

LUTHER'S VOICE

Can't. Until I can get the GPS up on our

computer..it's still down..

ETHAN:

The clock is ticking..

Back to the matter at hand, Ethan completes the move on the

guard and knocks him out.

INT - SLABHOUSE

MCCLOY:

Bellerophen? No time at all once I've got it.

AMBROSE:

Good. Biocyte stock is just a week or two

away from going through the roof.

MCCLOY:

(alarmed)

What are you talking about?

AMBROSE:

An outbreak of Chimera.

MCCLOY:

Where?

AMBROSE:

In downtown Sydney for a start.

McCloy is stunned.

AMBROSE (cont'd)

You create the supply, Mr. McCloy, we've

just created the demand. Three million

people in Sydney and 17 million people in

Australia are going to need Bellerophen

within a matter of days..not to mention

the rest of the world..

INT - TUNNEL - OPEN AREA - ETHAN'S FEET

stealthily approach a couple dozen jittery pigeons, cooing

and pecking. The intensity of their noise-making increases

as Ethan reaches them.

INT - TUNNEL - OUTSIDE OF THE SLABHOUSE ROOM DOORS

Hearing the disruption of the pigeons, one of Ambrose's

guards leaves his post at the double doors and head the

tunnel toward the birds to investigate.

INT - TUNNEL - OPEN AREA

Ambrose's guard draws his gun and continues approaching the

pigeons. Before the guard can see him, Ethan runs forward, and

sends the pigeons into scattered flight, blinding the guard.

Ethan jumps into a back flip and double kicks -- first knocking

away the guard's gun and then knocking him out and flat on his

back. Ethan continues his flip and lands right back on his feet.

INT - SLABHOUSE

AMBROSE:

-- now here's the way it's going to

work..Wallis, the shares outstanding are..

WALLIS:

Ninety-three point four million.

AMBROSE:

Which means, Mr. McCloy, we have to get

our hands on four hundred and eighty

thousand options. We'll borrow your

thirty million to buy those options. Your

stock's never sold above thirty-one

dollars a share. We'll agree to buy at

fifty.

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