Mission: Impossible II Page #26

Ambrose standing before Hunt with a pair of fully loaded

Berettas. The sound of the helicopter grows.

AMBROSE:

- right. We don't have a lot of time,

Hunt. whatever you've got to say, say it

now.

Ethan indeed makes some considerable effort to speak but can only

manage a few guttural, progressively desperate sounds which

continue as:

AMBROSE (cont'd)

Sorry mate, I can't understand a bloody

word. How about giving us a big smile to

remember you by?

(hearing the helicopter)

No? Well, then. This is what's known as

getting your gun off.

With that Ambrose empties thirty four rounds from the two

Berettas into Ethan whose body jerks crazily on the floor.

McCloy nearly faints, and Ambrose laughs at his squeamishness

until something on Ethan's body catches his eye: the top of the

little finger on the right hand is bleeding. Ambrose grabs

Ethan's face, and rips off a latex mask: revealing Stamp, eyes

wide open and thoroughly lifeless. His jaw, under the mask had

been taped carefully close with the same heavy tape Ethan has

used to mount the drain-pipe shotgun on the tunnel wall.

AMBROSE (cont'd)

Bloody hell!

He looks around, but Stamp is gone. So is the cannister and

kevlar vest that had been on the table moments before.

EXT - BEAR ISLAND

Ethan's on the motorcycle, heading toward the gates, which a pair

of security guards are frantically trying to close.

Billy and Luther in the copter are over the island, and bank so

Luther can fire a grenade launcher and blow the back of Ambrose's

boat.

The guards close the gate, Ethan runs the motorcycle up the

hillock and jumps the gate, over onto the bridge. Ambrose follows

in the SUV, crashing thru the gate.

They race across the bridge and the road, onto the huge

greensward opposite to and similar in shape to Bare Island.

There, with the helicopter hovering, Ambrose manages to corner

Ethan and after they expend whatever ammunition their weapons

hold, they move into each other bare handed and engage in

ferocious, no-holds-barred combat, the helicopter hovering low

enough to keep away whatever's left of Ambrose's henchmen, the

chopper's downdraft hitting them and flattening the grass around

them. Ethan prevails.

A SPECTACULAR VIEW OF SYDNEY

on bluffs overlooking the city. Camera moves slowly to the top

of the bluff.

EXT/INT - IMF HELICOPTER (DAY)

With Billy flying and Luther at the door, machine gun in

hand, the copter nears the Bare Island gun pit and Ethan.

EXT - BEAR ISLAND GUN PIT - ETHAN

runs into the central 'hole' area, guns in both hands and

wearing the kevlar vest. He runs toward the walled edge of

the enclosure and jumps. As he pulls himself up the top of

the wall, he sees the IMF helicopter approaching.

A gunman appears from the tunnel entrance and opens fire, the

bullets exploding into the wall around Ethan, who jumps out

of the way to avoid them.

EXT/INT - IMF HELICOPTER

is under fire as well, bullets spraying the windshield,

driving Luther back inside and causing Billy to turn the

chopper around.

BILLY:

Man at your six.

EXT - BEAR ISLAND GUN PIT - ETHAN

who rolls and returns fire at the gunman. Ethan first hits

the gunman in the leg, and then shoots and explodes the

canisters behind the gunman, killing him.

ETHAN:

(to Billy)

The field of fire is too heavy. Back off

and pinpoint their positions.

BEAR ISLAND HILL - MOTORCYCLE

bearing down on him as he stands up. Ethan just manages to

dive out of its path before a second motorcycle comes up over

the hill. Ethan flips backwards and fires his pistol,

shooting the second cyclist off his bike.

The motorcycle flies over Ethan, who runs after it and jumps

on, revving the throttle and taking off.

BEAR ISLAND - PARKING AREA - AMBROSE

deploys some of his men via walkie-talkie while others

scramble into their cars.

AMBROSE:

(into walkie-talkie)

Hunt's heading for the bridge. Coming in

at twelve o'clock high.

BEAR ISLAND BRIDGE

A Gold Falcon with several of Ambrose's men inside enters the

bridge from the mainland and speeds toward the island.

EXT - BEAR ISLAND COMPLEX

Ambrose's men exit the complex and get into their cars.

BEAR ISLAND HILL - ETHAN

crests a hill aboard the cycle, the IMF chopper in b.g.

ETHAN:

Clear that bridge for me.

LUTHER' VOICE

Roger that.

BILLY'S VOICE

They're tracking you on the left, Ethan.

Prepare for some fire.

BEAR ISLAND ROADWAY

Michael's SUV and Wallis' sedan speed along as a gunman from the

SUV fires on Ethan up the hill, spraying bullets around him.

BEAR ISLAND BRIDGE - GOLD FALCON

approaches the island. Luther fires his grenade launcher. It

hits the Falcon's trunk, lifting its back wheel off the ground,

but the Falcon keeps coming, its trunk ablaze. Luther reloads as

a gunman leans out the window, firing up at Ethan on the hill.

BEAR ISLAND HILL - ETHAN

lays on the cycle's throttle, accelerates down the hill and

propels the bike into the air and off the island, just as

EXT - IMF HELICOPTER - LUTHER

again fires his grenade launcher, this time at the front of the

BEAR ISLAND BRIDGE - GOLD FALCON

on the bridge. The grenade explodes at the front of the car

and hurls the Falcon into the air and off the bridge.

BEAR ISLAND - HILL/BRIDGE - ETHAN

is in mid-air on the cycle, heading down toward the bridge. Just

as he lands, the Gold Falcon flies off the bridge, and Ethan

speeds through the flames and off onto the mainland.

BEAR ISLAND - BRIDGE

Michael's SUV arrives and tears through the gate and flames,

followed by Wallis' sedan and then Ambrose, riding a motorcycle.

ROAD LEADING FROM BRIDGE - ETHAN

races up the road to find a white Falcon approaching.

The IMF chopper arrives and gunfire's exchanged. Luther takes a

hit in the shoulder and drops his gun as the chopper banks away.

INT - HELICOPTER - LUTHER

Luther grips his shoulder in pain and falls back into his seat,

jarring the GPS computer. It responds by beeping and coming to

life. Nyah's yellow dot pops up on the screen.

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