Mission: Impossible II Page #27

GPS COMPUTER:

The target is located.

LUTHER:

Ethan, the computer's up. I've got Nyah.

She's moved out of the city.

ETHAN:

Luther, say again.

LUTHER:

She's on the North Head Bluff -

approaching the cliffs. One klick away.

EXT - ROADWAY - ETHAN

ETHAN:

(over increasing static)

Copy. She's only got twenty-eight minutes

left. Track ahead and pick her up.

INT - IMF HELICOPTER

Luther bands his shoulder wound and monitors his GPS laptop.

LUTHER:

We won't be able to cover you.

EXT - ROADWAY - ETHAN

slightly slows the bike to concentrate over the static.

ETHAN:

You're breaking up. Track ahead and pick her

up. You've got me on GPS. Bring her to me.

Ethan pulls out and throws away the earpiece.

INT - IMF HELICOPTER

LUTHER:

Billy, North Head. Haul ass.

EXT - ROADWAY

Ethan heads downhill as the SUV approaches on an adjacent road.

He pulls out in front of it, immediately drawing fire. Without

slowing, Ethan drops to the side his cycle for cover.

INT - IMF HELICOPTER - LUTHER

watches the GPS laptop as the chopper speeds over Sydney.

EXT - ROADWAY - ETHAN AND WALLIS' SEDAN

Wallis' sedan appears from an adjoining road and pulls in behind

Ethan, who climbs back aboard his cycle. Cut off, the SUV turns

onto a side road to intercept Ethan.

WALLIS:

Get him.

ULRICH:

I can't get a good shot.

Before an intersection, Ethan both revs and brakes, spinning the

bike and creating a smoke screen. Wallis' car enters the smoke.

ULRICH (cont'd)

I can't see him, mate. Slow down!

WALLIS:

Shut up. I know what I'm doing.

Wallis breaks hard, but not hard enough: he stops just in the

path of an oncoming 18-wheeler. His car's demolished.

EXT - ROADWAY - ETHAN AND SUV

Ethan pulls out of the smoke as the SUV bursts out of the scrub

behind him, striking the rear of the cycle. Ethan puts his bike

into a spin and pulls his gun, ending up alongside the SUV

passenger window. He fires through the window, shooting both

Michael and the bodyguard.

The SUV veers off, crashing into a line of parked cars. It hits

the first car and flips up and over, landing upside down on

several more parked cars. Ethan speeds off on his smoking cycle.

Ambrose arrives and then takes a side road.

INT - IMF HELICOPTER - LUTHER

working on his GPS laptop. The range -- ie, the distance from

the moving copter to the yellow dot, Nyah, on the edge of the

screen -- is reduced to about two kilometers.

LUTHER:

(to Billy)

Range is two kay.

BILLY:

I hope there's a place to land.

Luther looks up from the screen to see the bluff of North Head at

the entrance to Sydney's harbor.

EXT - THREE-LINED ROADWAY - ETHAN

tearing down the road, when suddenly from a side trail Ambrose

pulls out behind him and begins firing. Ethan weaves to avoid

Ambrose's fire and passes a car, pulling in front of it for

cover. The car skids, forcing Ambrose to veer around it.

FROM COPTER TO GROUND (MOVING)

rapidly approaching the North Head bluff.

BILLY:

There she is. I got visual.

LUTHER:

We're down to seven minutes 23 seconds..

HIGH ANGLE - NORTH HEAD

moving up behind Nyah who is walking purposefully to the edge of

the bluff and a precipitous drop to rocks and surf a hundred and

fifty feet below.

Camera drops to Nyah's shoulder level and moves with her to the

bluff's edge. As she's just a few steps away from stepping

off, there's a roar and the helicopter rises into the shot,

before her wild-eyed Billy gesturing, 'Stop! Stop!' to Nyah.

EXT - ROADWAY

Ethan passes narrowly between a car and oncoming truck. Ambrose

follows as soon as the truck clears. Ethan fires backward using

his side-view mirror to aim, exploding Ambrose's windscreen.

Ambrose skids until his wheel clips a rock, knocking him upright.

Ethan turns into a side road and speeds through open scrub. Back

on the main road, Ambrose roars off to intercept Ethan.

EXT - CLIFFTOP - ROCK LEDGE

On a clifftop clearing, Ethan races along as Ambrose moves to cut

him off. They head toward one another.

LUTHER'S VOICE

Ethan, we've got her. Tracking to you now.

We're reading 5 minutes 19 seconds.

EXT - CLIFFTOP - CLEARING

Ethan and Ambrose round a bend and face one another. Without

hesitating, they charge towards each other. As they near one

another, each leaps forward and off his bike, and they collide

hard in mid-air. They fall to the ground fighting as their bikes

skid and Ethan's explodes, raining debris upon them.

Ethan and Ambrose rush towards one another. Ethan flips Ambrose

to the ground. Ambrose pulls a gun from his ankle holster. As

Ethan knocks it away, he loses his own gun and they both fall off

a 30-foot cliff.

INT - IMF HELICOPTER

at top speed over Sydney. Nyah appears weak and shivers.

LUTHER:

(to Billy)

Bearing two one zero. About 3 klicks.

(into microphone)

Ethan, we're moments away..

EXT - CLIFFTOP - CLEARING - FIGHT

Ethan and Ambrose rise from the fall. Ethan jumps up and sweeps

Ambrose, dropping him to the ground. Ethan begins strangling

Ambrose but gets knocked off, and when they both stand, Ambrose

gets Ethan in a choke hold.

Ambrose hits him and grabs a rock and hits Ethan in the

midsection and the face. Ethan kicks it out of his hand and

connects with several punches, knocking Ambrose to the ground.

Kneeling, Ambrose pulls a knife from a boot holster and cuts

Ethan across the back and face. Ambrose dives on Ethan and the

knife is poised above Ethan's eye before Ethan grabs the knife

and clears, holding it out toward Ambrose.

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