Mission: Impossible III Page #6

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
5,384 Views


You're going to make it over there.

You're going to find the Rabbit's Foot,

get back to the roof,

radio me when you're ready to make

the jump,

and we're going to come get you.

Thank you for coming.

That's my job.

Batter up.

Oh, yeah. They're freaking out.

Hit them again.

Okay.

He made it.

He made it.

I knew he'd make it.

I'm going in. I'll be out in five minutes.

- It's been 12 minutes.

- He's got five minutes left.

If he doesn't call Davian in five minutes,

Julia's dead.

Anything?

Negative.

How about you? Any good news?

No, nothing.

Come on, Ethan.

What is that?

When I was little I had a cat,

and he used to run away all the time.

And it's just a prayer I'd say

to bring him home.

Teach it to me.

I've got the Rabbit's Foot,

but I can't make it to the roof.

What the hell do you mean you can't

make it to the roof? Where are you?

Look up! Look up, look up!

- Oh, sh*t.

- He's way too low.

- Ethan! Get in! They're coming!

- Who?

Building security, and they're pissed.

Okay. Go, go, go, go.

How much time you got left?

Less than two minutes.

You gotta get us out of here.

I lost the signal.

- You okay?

- Not yet.

Come on. Come on.

I don't have a signal.

I don't have a signal.

I'm on it. I'm on it. I'm on it!

Zhen!

Damn it. I'm sorry.

Put pressure on it.

- Tell me when you get a signal.

- What are you doing?

I got a signal!

Hit redial.

You only had five seconds left.

Do you realize that?

The Rabbit's Foot. I have it.

The train yard at Dunan Zhong Lu.

Wait for me there. Alone.

- Yeah?

- Go secure.

We are.

I have the Rabbit's Foot.

- You okay?

- I'm tagging it now.

You need to run a trace.

Make sure we have eyes on this thing.

- What's the tag?

- 6-3-9-6-4-1.

Got it.

I see you on Luang Tao Lu Road.

If you don't hear from me in eight hours,

you send an army after this thing.

- Good luck.

- You, too.

- Mr. Musgrave.

- Yeah.

It's come to my attention

that yesterday afternoon

you sent a team to the Far East.

We received intel that

Hadaam Saleen Bahar

was en route to Shanghai.

- Hadaam Saleen Bahar.

- That's right.

You know what I'd love?

I'd love to see that intel.

- I'll be in my office.

- Yes, sir.

Thanks again.

I'll see you back home.

Ethan.

You know they probably plan

to kill you both.

Then I won't see you back home.

Better get back.

Drink it. No questions.

Good morning.

Jules.

We've put an explosive charge

in your head.

Does that sound familiar?

The Rabbit's Foot. Where is it?

I gave it to you.

Now, I'm going to count to 10

and you're going to tell me

where the Rabbit's Foot is

or she dies.

Seems we have a lot to talk about.

Don't we?

- Do you think I'm playing?

- Son of a b*tch!

Do you think I'm playing?

You don't think I'll do it?

Where is it?

- Look at me.

- Where the hell is it?

- Look at me. Stay with me.

- Seven!

I am going to kill you.

I swear to God I'm going to...

- Eight!

- No, please.

Please. Don't do this. Just let her go.

I promise you. I promise you.

- I can figure out how to get whatever...

- Nine.

Listen to me. I want to help you get

whatever you want.

But you got to do what's right.

What you know is right.

No, please...

No.

No.

- Ten.

- Don't!

I pushed him as far as he can go.

I know he's not lying.

I understand.

I've got some questions

I want to ask him first.

It's complicated.

You can't just open the canister.

We had to make sure

you brought the real thing.

The Rabbit's Foot. Now we know.

Don't you touch her!

Don't you touch her!

Davian's translator,

his Head of Security.

Remember?

At the Vatican she failed him.

Ethan, Julia is still alive.

Davian wanted to kill you both,

but I convinced him otherwise.

Julia hasn't seen me.

She doesn't know anything. She's clean.

She can go on to have a life.

As long as you tell me,

what was in Lindsey's message?

I know she sent you a microdot

from Berlin.

Did Lindsey know

about me and Davian?

Is that why she sent the message

to you? Did you read it?

Did anyone else see it?

Did she know about the work

I was doing?

Could I be compromised at IMF?

Ethan. Ethan.

Did she buy that Brassel set her up?

Did she buy that?

You told him.

That's how Davian knew

Lindsey was coming.

You told him.

I thought you could get her back.

But I wasn't gonna let Brassel,

of all people, undo the work I'd done.

I took action, Ethan, on behalf

of the working families of our country.

The Armed Forces, the White House.

I'd had enough

of Brassel and his sanctimony.

IMF Executive Director.

He's an affirmative action poster boy.

You grab Davian like he wanted,

then what?

Davian's a weed.

You cut him out, two more spring up

just like him the next day.

Arrest him? Then what?

You use him.

Collaborate with him.

And it's Christmas.

In 18 hours,

the Rabbit's Foot will be delivered

to its Middle Eastern buyer,

and we'll have credible intel to prove it.

US Security Council will get a report

by this time tomorrow.

We're talking a military strike

within a week.

And when the sand settles,

our country will do what it does best.

Clean up. Infrastructure.

Democracy wins.

What was Lindsey's message?

You tell me, and Julia walks.

It's the only play you have left.

Not till I hear her voice,

know she's alive.

Of course.

Put her on.

- Jules?

- Ethan?

- Jules?

- Ethan?

When we met,

there was a lake near the mountain.

What was the lake called?

Wanaka.

Please, Ethan.

- Jules.

- Ethan, I don't understand...

Benjamin Dunne.

Benji, it's me.

- Ethan.

- What? No. Really?

Listen to me very carefully.

I need your help.

I need to trace the location

of the last call made from this phone.

Look, no. Ethan. Shush.

They're looking...

Everyone's looking for you.

Everyone I know. They're looking...

I just looked it up.

Okay, you're on

Interpol's most wanted list.

And that, by the way,

is a spectacular list to be on.

Whatever happened, I'm sorry,

but I'm hanging up now right now.

Benji, I don't have time for this.

What do you think happened?

I've been set up.

I think I like my job. Okay? A lot.

All right? And you know

they're gonna be taping this call.

And you know you can erase it.

I'm giving you the number right now.

- Are you ready?

- All right. Just hang on.

I'm gonna lose my citizenship

because of this, you know.

Okay. Wait. Okay. Hold the line, please.

- Are you there?

- Yeah.

Okay.

Maybe we can share a jail cell together,

you know?

If this all goes tits up, which it will.

The location of that number

is Shanghai.

There, I just told you. Shanghai.

I've just aided and abetted an enemy

of the state. Fantastic. Thank you.

Am I close?

Use this phone to track my location.

Oh, you're there. Well, you're close.

How close?

Is the signal in the building?

No, no, no. It isn't coming from there.

It's in a building

one mile to the northeast.

Benji, lead me to the signal.

There is one thing. What the hell

are you doing in Shanghai?

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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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