Mission: Impossible II Page #7

Swanbeck stops the DVD.

SWANBECK:

Let me ask you something. You have any

idea what the hell he's talking about?

Ethan smiles.

ETHAN:

An idea, yeah.

SWANBECK:

Like?

ETHAN:

Like it's a good idea to pick him up in a

hurry. And a bad idea to fly him on a

commercial carrier. So let's get on with

it. He's still in Sydney?

SWANBECK:

Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich is dead. So is his

colleague, Gradski, but that happened

earlier. We had Nekhorvich on a flight

from Sydney that crashed in the Rockies..

Ethan sits back, heavily.

SWANBECK (cont'd)

- Hunt, are you listening?..

Slowly looking up:

ETHAN:

If he didn't want to go anywhere without

me, how did you get him on the flight?

SWANBECK:

You were there.

Swanbeck clears his throat. He turns back to the computer and

punches in:
MISSION DOUBLE IMAGE. File open to computer scans

of AMBROSE, SEAN, and HUNT, ETHAN, the computer scanning and

comparing their features, millimeter by millimeter, stat by stat,

as the computer then imposes, with the help of the physiognomy

scan, Ethan's face on Ambrose: hence, mission double image.

ETHAN:

slowly looks up at Swanbeck.

SWANBECK:

When I couldn't find you, I had to replace

you. Sean Ambrose was the obvious choice.

He double you, what? Two, three times?

ETHAN:

Twice.

SWANBECK:

What did you think of him?

ETHAN:

You know we had reservations about each

other. Isn't it a little late in the day

to be asking me that?

SWANBECK:

Not necessarily.

Swanbeck shows Ethan a photo of airline Captain.

SWANBECK:

Airline record list Captain Harold

Macintosh as the pilot for Flt 2207. as

far as the media and all governmental

agencies are concerned, Captain Macintosh

died on the flight, but in fact he missed

it. He did, however make the next flight -

in cargo, stuffed into a rather small

suitcase considering his size.

Another photo of an open suitcase, the body in it partially

obscured by a ring of police and customs officers.

SWANBECK (cont'd)

Someone on that flight planned an

operation designed to down the plane and

make it look like an accident. Someone

skillful enough to bring the whole thing

off without a hitch but - they don't

always get your luggage on the plane, even

when you fly first class.

ETHAN:

So there's one thing we know Ambrose

doesn't.

SWANBECK:

Then you do think it was Ambrose.

Ethan barely nods.

SWANBECK (cont'd)

And you're not surprised.

Ethan gives Swanbeck a look.

ETHAN:

Whatever Nekhorvich was carrying Sean

wanted and he wanted to conceal the fact

that he took it.

SWANBECK:

Enough to kill Nekhorvich and two hundred

innocent passengers?

Ethan smiles.

ETHAN:

Sean feels he hasn't done the job unless

he leaves a lot of hats on the ground.

SWANBECK:

The question is why? What was this

Chimera Nekhorvich was carrying?

Ethan rises and moves to the window.

ETHAN:

Right now only Ambrose knows that.

SWANBECK:

In any case, you've got to recover Chimera

and bring it to us.

ETHAN:

In order to do that, I've got to figure

out how he plans to make money with it.

SWANBECK:

- right. In fact since the plane went

down our banking sources have confirmed a

marked increase in the stock pilling of

cash in terrorists accounts.

ETHAN:

'Terrorists?'

SWANBECK:

Well you know Nekhorvich's history.

You're the one who got him out of the

Soviet Union was it still in bio-

weapon business.

ETHAN:

If that's what you're thinking Ambrose

would have set up a bidding situation with

any number of buyers before he got on the

plane. Locating him in time to stop

something like that -

SWANBECK:

- is where Miss Hall comes in.

ETHAN:

(blindsided)

Excuse me?

SWANBECK:

Miss Hall and Ambrose had a relationship

which he took very seriously. She walked

away and he's wanting her back ever

since. We believe she's our surest and

quickest way of location him.

ETHAN:

(acidly)

And then what?

SWANBECK:

Then makes sure she continues to see him.

Gets him confide in her and report to

you.

ETHAN:

You made it sound as if I was recruiting

her for her skills as a thief.

SWANBECK:

Well, then I mislead you. Or you made the

wrong assumption. Either way we're asking

her to resume a prior relationship, not do

anything she hasn't already done.

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