Out for a Kill Page #4

Synopsis: Archeology Professor Robert Burns is on location leading an important dig in the ancient ruins on the Far Eastern Chinese border. He accidentally discovers that the Chinese Mafia, the Tong, is using his newly discovered ancient Chinese artifacts to hide and smuggle narcotics across the border. Robert immediately tries to flee with his assistant and narrowly manages to escape the pursuing Tong but not without a heavy price. His loyal assistant is killed and he is framed with the evidence at the Chinese border by the Chinese military and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. He is locked up in a Chinese prison where he is guilty until proven innocent. His loving wife Maya vows to help get him out of jail. The DEA finally convinces the Chinese military that Robert may be of more help to them outside jail by leading them to the real smugglers. Once he leaves his Chinese prison cell Robert would rather enjoy his freedom back in the U.S. and keep his past behind him, but The Tong catches up to him a
Director(s): Michael Oblowitz
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
 
IMDB:
3.4
R
Year:
2003
90 min
143 Views


I suggest we utilize our resources...

quietly remove all obstacles...

before this critical juncture.

Or I myself will get involved.

7:
23 PM Friday - Paris

We have sources which have | passed on information linking them.

What kind of sauces? | Tomato, pasta, "vin rouge"?

- Sources, not... | - I know. I'm playing with you.

It's just a little something we've dug up. | You Lieutenant Breton?

Tommie, I thought you got lucky. I'm Grey.

You dress better than you sound. | I'll give you that.

Another comedian.

We found this manifest...

in the ashes of that torched warehouse | in Eastern Europe.

Maybe you can do us a favor.

We're looking for a truck. | A Chinese Chance truck.

There's a license plate | we got from the company manifest...

which also has Sai Lo's name on it.

We know that Sai Lo operates | out of this laundry.

And we don't think he's pressing shirts.

We think he's headed here.

I'll see what I can come up with.

In the meantime, you two take care. | We haven't located your professor yet...

and everyone in this town knows | where the D.E.A. Stay.

Thanks.

Same hotel?

I don't know. Maybe they tell them before.

I think they like staking us cops.

Sorry to wake you, but we need to talk.

Here's your robe.

Darling, we don't need to be like that. | You need me and I need you.

Let's work together | and put our differences aside.

I have something for you, | but I want something back.

- What do you have? | - This is a book of addresses in code.

It's an ancient Chinese system | used by messengers to the emperor.

On the arm of every Chinese tong member...

is tattooed a symbol | from the emperor's code.

Decode it and you'll get the boss's empire. | Wong Dai, the emperor himself.

- What is it you want? | - I'd like the location of Sai Lo...

the man who killed my wife.

We've been after this Wong Dai | for a long time.

But we need hard evidence to nail him.

He's using an old building, | Crane River Laundry, Rue de la Grue.

Thank you very much. I'll see you soon.

You come and go like a ghost.

RUE de la GRUE - 10: 19 AM Saturday - Paris

Where's Sai Lo?

Sai Lo's not here.

Really.

You can't go in there.

Sai Lo. I thought I might find you here.

A**hole.

They asked me to leave you alone. | Would have been my pleasure.

But you made one very big mistake.

You touched | the most sacred thing in my life.

You killed my wife.

Now you force me to dig two graves.

No mistake. Just some unfinished business.

I'm going to send you | to your wife, motherf***er!

"Danger below."

Wong Dai has betrayed your confidence...

and the lives of you and your brothers.

Know that if you tell me where he is, | he will be punished.

Where does the crane fly?

31 Rue de la Grue, Paris.

I will take care of this | cock sucker professor myself.

- What's going on? | - That frog cop called.

Who, Breton?

He spotted the truck.

I think we both know | where it's gonna wind up. Let's go.

Does it bother you that people | keep turning up dead around this guy?

It's not that simple.

If I don't bust somebody's ass soon, | I'm going to lose all my mystique.

All this dirty underground money | comes up clean...

in a Chinese laundry in Paris.

Chinese laundry with a Swiss bank account.

What's the story, partner?

You holding out on me?

Tommie, I might take you fishing. | Deep-sea fishing.

Tommie, I might take you fishing. | Deep-sea fishing.

We would get the bait...

Big fish bite, then know you're in for a fight. | They got to run...

You gotta give him the head, gentlemen.

The first thing you gotta do... | Tommie, you listening to me?

The first thing you gotta do | is strap yourself in...

because when the big fish hits | it can yank you right off that boat.

And when you're in the water... | Tommie, you listening to me?

A present from Wong Dai.

Clear the area as soon as you can. | Go and get help.

So nice to finally see you.

What a pleasant surprise. Please sit down.

"The crane flies above a river.

"Peaceful surface hides danger below."

I believe this is the riddle that I solved | by killing 10 of your men.

Very good.

Wasn't this the message I retrieved | from the tattoos on the bodies of your men?

You are truly a scholar | of Chinese history and philosophy...

to have figured this out.

"A river will be filled with red." | Is that also you?

Very good.

It seems to me that the 10 people | that probably sat at this very table...

all gave their life for you.

If I had one man | that would give his life for me...

I'd be very lucky. | And you wasted 10 of them.

You deliberately put 10 men | in the mouth of the tiger...

knowing that I would cut them down...

so that you'd have no one | to share your fortune.

You're a despicable man...

and you cost me the life of my wife.

So tell me, what's my next move?

It's time for you to die.

No, the moment of your death is dawning.

"The crane flies...

"above a river.

"Peaceful...

"surface...

"hides danger below."

2:
39 PM Sunday | D.E.A. Offices, New York City

His empire ends here. | This is about all you'll need.

10:
03 AM Monday - New Haven, Connecticut

"Our Father, who art in Heaven..."

Sorrow is just another part of life.

I don't claim to understand Robert Burns | any better now...

than I did when I followed his path.

But I never saw anyone like him before.

And I never expect to... again.

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