Rising Sun Page #9

We're like sitting ducks up here.

Time to be among them.

Don't let anyone in.

Put this on.

And don't try to go out.

(speaks Japanese)

Daddy.

Zelly.

Baby, not right now, OK? You and Grandma

want to stay in the room. Go.

(Ishihara speaks Japanese)

Don't do anything.

We'll take care of everything.

They want us to wait.

This Eddie guy's alive.

They want a shot at him.

I gotta figure this.

The first rule is to protect your ass.

Maybe we ought to get some backup.

What do you say?

(phone rings)

Hello.

(line goes dead)

(click)

(speaks Japanese)

Ugh!

(speaks Japanese)

(Japanese voice)

(Japanese voices outside door)

(men hitting door)

(phone rings and struggle outside door)

(Connor) Kohai, it's me.

Come on, let's go.

I've cleared the back staircase. Go.

Come, come, come, come, come.

I'll stay with Eddie.

- Daddy.

- Zelly.

(Eddie speaks Japanese)

Eddie!

- Eddie.

- (Eddie cries out)

Eddie!

Eddie?

(car engine starts)

Hey!

Web.

Kohai.

And that's all I remember.

Luckily, you were wearing the proper gear.

Yeah, luckily.

You've read this morning's paper.

You were caught

in the middle of gang warfare.

Man, I was caught

in the middle of a business negotiation.

No, Lieutenant. You can read.

You were the target

of a drive-by shooting by a street gang.

It was a grudge attack.

None of the suspects has been apprehended.

One gang member was found murdered

by ritual strangulation.

So Eddie's dead now. Officially.

(man) Officially, the case is closed.

Under the circumstances, we recommend

that you take a voluntary leave of absence.

And, Lieutenant, would you be able to tell us

the whereabouts of Captain Connor?

No.

I have no idea where he is.

They shut us down. Put a padlock

on the front door, just like that.

Know how it works? A phone call to the

university president from major endowers.

The f***ers can't stop us that easily.

They're still ahead of us.

Got here as fast as I could.

They're looking for you.

We've been piecing it together.

Earlier in the evening,

Eddie and Cheryl made love.

But at the party she met another man,

her secret lover, her back-door man.

Someone at Nakamoto must have suggested

that they use the executive bedroom

on the 46th floor.

But they never got

beyond the boardroom table.

Here comes your ghost.

Eddie. Before they erased him.

He's letting her get killed.

(Connor) He's seen her

go through this before.

(Smith) The gasper routine.

Funny old world, eh?

- (Smith) But Eddie was the jealous lover.

- Yes, but a stronger passion overtook Eddie.

His loyalty to his father's keiretsu.

They also wanted to purchase MicroCon.

Don't forget there's a keiretsu war going on.

(Smith) Who is that?

Who is it?

Senator Morton.

(Connor) Eddie probably offered her

to the senator as a form of hospitality.

- (Smith) So Senator Morton killed her?

- Wait till you see the rest of the disk.

We know that they used this situation

to blackmail Senator Morton.

They framed Eddie by doctoring the disk.

- (Smith) Why was Eddie protecting him?

- The senator was voting the way he wanted.

This is about who would control MicroCon.

Whoever controlled the senator

would control the fate of MicroCon.

This is the part of the disk

we never saw before.

- There. You see that?

- Yeah, the clock, it's moving.

No. The girl.

She's moving.

(Smith) Holy sh*t!

- She's alive.

- She was alive, until...

(Smith) Who the hell is this?

(Connor) Someone who's been observing

and knows the exact location

of the hidden cameras.

(Smith) He's gone.

What? That's it? That's all we got?

- We can't let 'em get away with this sh*t.

- Get away with this?

They won't get away with this.

I am very, very okotta.

- Pissed off.

- Yes. Pissed off.

Good. So what do we do know?

Yes. What do we do now?

- You're asking me?

- Yes.

We beat the grass to startle the snakes.

Exactly.

(Morton) Oh, my God.

(phone rings)

(speaks Japanese)

(Morton) We had an agreement.

You said nothing would happen.

- We had a deal.

- Yes, sir.

- Did you see what I just got by fax machine?

- I understand.

- Thank you very much for your call.

- You said the technology would protect me.

My God. Look at this.

(Morton) We will decide whether

the MicroCon sale goes through.

I will be basing my vote

on my country's needs.

(woman) You're somebody with aspirations

perhaps for the highest office in the land.

(Morton groans, distorted)

(gunshot)

Excuse me.

Hey, can I help you with something?

Hey, what's going on here?

You can't just barge in...

You, shut up.

Yoshida-san, forgive this interruption,

but there is something I must show you.

This is the original disk from your security

cameras that filmed this conference room,

and recorded the murder and the murderer.

We are grateful to you, Yoshida-san,

for insisting that Ishihara deliver this to us.

But instead, he replaced it

with this doctored version.

(speaks Japanese)

Please, show us the original disk.

Arigato.

- I will deal with this. Get out!

- (speaks Japanese)

(speaks Japanese)

(shouts in Japanese)

They are distancing themselves.

- Holy sh*t.

- Senator Morton.

At this moment, she's not dead.

And now we shall find out

who actually killed her.

(speaks Japanese)

(Yoshida-san) Why was I not told this?

What has been happening here?

(speaks Japanese)

I was protecting the situation, Yoshida-san.

(speaks Japanese)

He has been too long in America.

He has adopted many bad habits.

(speaks Japanese)

No. It was not me.

It was him.

(speaks Japanese)

Hey, there's no running...

Hey, slow down.

Wait a minute. Hold it.

Hey, there's no running here!

(man speaks Japanese)

Keep eye contact at all times.

And at all costs, don't lose your temper.

I don't lose my temper.

(Smith) How are you doin', guys?

How you doin'?

(Smith speaks Japanese brokenly)

It seems like nobody's listening.

Come on, come on.

It's me.

I could have taken 'em.

Their objective was not to win

but to delay us. And they've succeeded.

(man screams) Oh, no!

No!

(body lands)

(Smith) Eddie's friends.

(Connor) Looks like they've got their revenge.

Sh*t!

We gotta stop this. We gotta do something.

(Connor) Do what?

He's finished.

That cement dries fast, and there's no way

they're gonna rip open that foundation.

Everyone wants this case closed.

Besides, they put us on leave of absence.

So what will MicroCon do now?

- Struggle on.

- We'll find a way.

Or a way will find you.

I hope we can continue our friendship.

- Sure. Let's do lunch sometime.

- Let's do lunch.

What's going to happen to him?

- They are retiring him.

- Ishihara will be given a window seat.

That means he will spend his life in Japan,

staring out an office window.

- Too bad. He seemed like a heck of a guy.

- Personally, I got along great with him.

If you sit by the river long enough, you will

see the body of your enemy floating by.

Connor-san, I wanna thank you.

- I feel like I should repay you or something.

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