Mission: Impossible III Page #3

Synopsis: A man named Owen Davian kills an IMF agent that was sent undercover by the legendary Ethan Hunt, who has retired from combat missions. Hunt now has a fiancé, Julia, who believes that he works for the traffic department when he really trains younger IMF agents to go into combat. He is assigned to his last mission. His mission, should he choose to accept it is to capture Davian, who is selling a toxic weapon called the rabbits foot. But Davian is reckless, cruel, and deathly. He promises Hunt that he will find Julia, hurt her, and Ethan will be too dead to help her. The mission is no more different to others, its dangerous, smart, and impossible; but now it's personal.
Director(s): J.J. Abrams
Production: Paramount Pictures
  7 wins & 14 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
66
Rotten Tomatoes:
70%
PG-13
Year:
2006
126 min
$133,400,000
Website
5,415 Views


Keep your eyes dead on the target...

Attack me. Come on.

Don't ever release the firing pin

unless the extractor's...

Good. There you go. Good.

Identify the target. Point and shoot.

It's very simple. You point and shoot.

Stay focused.

Miss Farris, you know

how many recruits I've trained.

I'm proud to say that

you are the first

that I've recommended

for active field duty.

Congratulations.

Am I ready?

Yes?

Is this Mr. Kelvin?

Yes. Who is this?

I'm calling from Norfolk Mail Service.

Lindsey Farris

rents a post office box here.

She sent you a piece of mail from Berlin

and asked us to call you

when it arrived.

It came this morning.

Thank you.

- This right here.

- Thanks.

It's a microdot.

A microdot with nothing on it.

This is unusual.

Lindsey wouldn't send me

a blank microdot.

I'm telling you, man, there's no image.

Then you're not looking

in the right place.

Where the hell am I supposed to look?

There's not much square footage

to this thing.

Why would Lindsey send me

a blank microdot?

I don't know.

Why would Lindsey send you anything?

You were her instructor,

not her handler.

Listen, man.

I don't mean to cross the line,

but was there something going on

between you two?

You and Lindsey.

Lindsey was like my little sister.

And you never

slept with your little sister, right?

Hey, brother, if I don't ask you, who will?

Maybe it's magnetic. The microdot.

Well, that's old school.

If she was in a hurry and only had

access to black-market gear, maybe.

- Could you get the tools to read it?

- I might know a guy.

- Magnetic means encrypted.

- Yeah, I know that.

Yeah. Be right there.

The thing about Lindsey is

she was brand-new.

She was sweet.

Remember when you were sweet?

- Can you remember that far back?

- Yeah, well, barely.

In Germany,

you asked me what it is I see in Julia.

What I see in Julia is life before all this.

And it's good.

Benji, what have you got?

Well, these hard drive platters

are just fried.

- Yeah.

- You know, they made a mess of them.

It's just like...

There's holes in them and stuff.

And it's got scorched

all the way through. And then...

Look, this one's got

a hole in it and stuff.

I can't believe. I can't even look at it.

- Benji. Did you recover anything?

- Yes. Yes.

Despite the aforementioned conditions

of the hard drive you brought back,

I managed to recover

portions of two dozen e-mail files.

Also made what I believe to be

a thoroughly

promotion-worthy breakthrough.

Your Mr. Davian is going

to arrive in Rome the day after tomorrow

and attend a function

at one Vatican City.

What the hell is Davian

doing at the Vatican?

It's all got to do with the "Rabbit's Foot."

Rabbit's Foot?

Yeah, well,

I'm assuming it's like a code word

for something he's about to sell

to an unspecified buyer,

for $850 million, by the way.

Or maybe it's not a code word.

Maybe it's just a really,

really expensive bunny appendage.

You have no idea what it is?

It's interesting. I used to have

this professor at Oxford, okay?

Dr. Wickham, his name was,

and he was like this massive, fat guy.

You know, huge, big guy.

We used to call him...

You know... Well, I won't tell you

what we used to call him.

He taught biomolecular kinetics

and cellular dynamics,

and he used to sort of

scare the underclassmen

with this story about how the world

would eventually be eviscerated

by technology.

You see, it was inevitable

that a compound would be created,

which he referred to as the "Anti-God."

It was like an accelerated mutator,

a sort of, you know,

like an unstoppable force

of destructive power

that would just lay waste to everything.

To buildings and parks

and streets and children

and ice cream parlors, you know?

So whenever I see, like,

a rogue organization,

willing to spend this amount of money

on a mystery tech,

I always assume it's the Anti-God.

End-of-the-world kind of stuff,

you know?

But, no, I don't have any idea what it is.

I was just speculating.

- Did you brief Musgrave on this?

- Who, me? No, not yet.

- Good. Don't.

- What?

- Don't tell anyone about this.

- This took me ages.

If something goes wrong

with the operation,

I want Musgrave to have deniability.

- That's great work, Benji.

- What operation?

That look in your eye

is a pain in my ass.

You know that, right?

Any available resident to Pediatrics.

Any available resident to Pediatrics.

Rehabilitative Care, call the pharmacy.

Rehabilitative Care, call the...

I have to go away again.

On business. Two days.

Two days?

Yeah.

Ethan, what's going on?

I keep thinking you just need time

to tell me whatever it is that it's...

But nothing in my mind makes sense.

Yeah.

What's wrong?

What are you not telling me?

I need to ask you for something.

And it's the most...

I need you to trust me.

Of course I trust you.

Am I ever going to be able

to understand what this is?

I need you to trust me.

Yes.

I trust you.

Is it...

Tell me it's real.

I mean us.

Tell me it's real.

Follow me.

The vows you're about to take

are not to be taken

without careful thought and prayer.

This love is not to be diminished

by difficult circumstances

and it is only to be dissolved by death.

Do you have the rings?

Yeah.

Repeat after me.

I, Julia Anne Meade...

"I, Julia Anne Meade..."

...hereby take Ethan Matthew Hunt...

"...hereby take Ethan Matthew Hunt..."

...to be my lawfully wedded husband.

"...to be my lawfully wedded husband."

Tomorrow may be the only time

we can predict

where Owen Davian is going to be.

Charity event. Vatican City.

Our mission is to get in

and kidnap Davian.

I don't know why he's so happy.

I did remind him

that the Vatican is the Vatican.

A 109-acre sovereign state

in the middle of Rome,

surrounded by a 60-foot wall,

which is monitored 24/7,

with over 200 CCTV cameras.

That's not even

what makes it a challenge.

Getting Davian is good.

But getting his buyers is even better.

If they realize he's been grabbed,

they'll disappear.

I'm sorry, what are you saying?

No matter how we grab Davian,

his clients are gonna know

he's been taken.

No, they won't. Access point is here.

It's a one-way street

adjacent to the Vatican wall.

I'll need 30 seconds.

And we'll need a truck.

Now we've pissed off

every Italian in Rome,

go do what you got to do.

- Don't forget the smoke.

- Yeah.

"Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall."

Alpha team, this is Bravo.

Right on schedule.

We should have breach in 60.

Roger that. Charlie team, report.

Well, I don't have anything

to report, really.

Except I think I should be right on time.

We'll be waiting for you.

- ETA two minutes.

- Roger that.

Charlie team, did you fire the tracer yet?

Stand by.

Firing the tracer. Now.

Alpha, I'm in. T minus two minutes.

Roger that.

Charlie team, I see you.

I'm looping the security feed.

Stand by to move.

Roger that.

Video is looped. Go.

Alpha team,

catacomb video taken care of?

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Alex Kurtzman

Alex Kurtzman (born September 7, 1973) is an American film and television writer, producer, and director. He is best known for co-writing the scripts to Transformers, Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 with his writing and producing partner Roberto Orci, and directing and co-writing The Mummy. more…

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