Skyfall Page #4

we're trying to defend.

We can't keep working in the shadows.

There are no more shadows.

? You don't get this, do you.

Whoever's behind this, whoever's

doing it, he knows us.

He's one of us. He comes

from the same place as Bond.

The place you say

doesn't exist.

The shadows.

(CLICKS)

It's not too late. We

could turn back now.

(GUNS COCKING)

I wouldn't be so sure.

They abandoned it

almost overnight.

He made them think there was a

leak at the chemical plant.

It's amazing the panic you can

cause with a single computer.

He wanted the island,

so he took it.

Does he always get

what he wants?

More than you know.

(MAN SPEAKS NATIVE LANGUAGE)

I'm sorry.

(ELEVATOR CLANKING)

Hello, James. Welcome.

? Do you like the island

(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)

My grandmother had an island.

Nothing to boast of. You could

walk around it in an hour.

But still, it was, it

was a paradise for us.

T One summer, we went for a visi

and discovered the place had

been infeste d with rats!

They'd come on a fishing boat and

gorged themselves on coconut.

So how do you get rats

off an island? Hmm?

My grandmother showed me.

We buried an oil drum

and hinged the lid,

. then wired coconut

to the lid as bait.

. And the rats would come

for the coconut and..

(MAKES CLINKING NOISE)

they would fall into the drum.

And after a month, you

have trapped all the rats.

But what do you do then?

Throw the drum into the ocean?

Burn it? No.

You just leave it.

And they begin to get hungry.

And one by one...

(MAKES GNAWING NOISE)

they start eating each other

until there are only two left.

The two survivors.

And then what? Do you kill them?

No.

You take them and release

them into the trees.

But now they don't

eat coconut anymore.

Now they only eat rat.

You have changed their nature.

The two survivors,

this is what she made us.

I made my own choices.

(CHUCKLES) You think you did.

That's her genius.

Station H. Am I right?

Hong Kong.

Mm-hmm.

'86 to '97.

Back then, I was her favorite.

And you're not nearly the agent

I was, I can tell you that.

(CHUCKLES)

Just look at you, barely held together

by your pills and your drink.

Don't forget my pathetic

love of country.

(LAUGHS)

You're still clinging to your

faith in that old woman.

When all she does is lie to you.

She never lied to me.

No? No.

What did you score in your

marksmanship evaluation?

(LAUGHS)

Did she tell you the psychologist

cleared you for duty?

Yes. No. No.

(SIGHS)

Medical evaluation: Fail.

Physical evaluation: Failed.

Psychological

evaluation:
"Alcohol"

"and substance

addiction indicated."

"Pathological rejection

of authority"

"based on unresolved

childhood trauma."

"Subject is not approved

for field duty"

"and immediate suspension

from service advised."

What is this if not betrayal?

She sent you after me knowing you're

not ready, knowing you'll likely die.

Mommy was very bad!

Hmm?

Ooh.

? See what she's done to you.

Well, she never

tied me to a chair.

Her loss.

Are you sure this is about M?

. It's about her.

And you, and me.

You see, we are the

last two rats.

We can either eat

each other...

Hmm?

Or eat everyone else.

How you're trying to

remember your training now.

What's the regulation

to cover this?

Well, first time for everything.

Yes?

What makes you think

this is my first time?

Oh, Mr. Bond!

All that physical stuff...

So dull, so dull.

Chasing spies...

(LAUGHS) so old-fashioned!

Your knees must

be killing you.

England.

The Empire! MI6!

You're living in

a ruin as well,

. you just don't know it yet.

At least here there are no old ladies

giving orders and no little...

Bip!

Gadgets from those

fools in Q-Branch.

If you wanted, you could pick your

own secret missions. As I do.

Name it.

Name it.

Destabilize a multinational

by manipulating stocks...

Bip. Easy.

. Interrupt transmission s from

a spy satellite over Kabul..

(POPS) Done.

Hmm. Rig an election in Uganda.

All to the highest bidder.

Or a gas explosion in London.

Just point and click.

Well, everybody needs a hobby.

So what's yours?

Resurrection.

Let me show you something.

(DOOR CREAKS)

(MAN SINGING IN FRENCH,

PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)

Tells a story, doesn't it?

They left the

island so quickly,

they couldn't decide

what to take,

what to leave, what

was important.

And seeing this every day reminds

me to focus on the essentials.

There's nothing... nothing

superfluous in my life.

When a thing is redundant,

it is eliminated.

A particular favorite

of yours, I understand.

So, what's the toast?

"To the women we love"?

Hmm.

Darling.

Darling, your lovers are here.

No, no, no, no.

Stand up straight. Keep still.

And whatever you do,

don't lose your head.

Don't lose...

your head.

Don't lose your head.

Time to redeem your

marksmanship scores.

Let's see.

Who can be the first to knock

the glass from her head?

And just to be sporting,

I'll let you go first.

(C*CKS GUN)

Let's see who ends up on top.

. (SIGHS) Oh, I can't believe it

I can't believe it! Did

you really die that day?

Is there any, any of

the old 007 left?

My turn.

I win. What do

you say to that?

(SIGHS) It's a waste

of good Scotch.

What are you going to do now? Take

me back to her? All on your own?

? Who says I'm on my own

(HELICOPTERS APPROACHING)

It's the latest thing

from Q-Branch.

It's called a radio.

All right, time to say hello.

(KEYPAD BEEPS)

You're smaller

than I remember!

Whereas I barely

remember you at all.

Strange. For me, it feels

just like yesterday.

Are you surprised?

Not particularly. But then you

always were a slippery one.

Maybe that's why you

liked me so much.

You flatter yourself.

No remorse.

(SIGHS)

Just as I had imagined.

Regret is unprofessional.

(LAUGHS)

"Regret is unprofessional."

They kept me for five months in a

room with no air. They tortured me.

And I protected your secrets.

I protected you.

But they made me suffer.

And suffer.

And suffer.

Until I realized...

it was you who betrayed me.

You betrayed me.

So, I had only one thing left.

My cyanide capsule in

my back left molar.

You remember, right?

So I broke the tooth and...

bit into the capsule.

And it...

It burned all my insides.

But I didn't die.

Life clung to me

like a disease.

And then...

I understood why

I had survived.

I needed to look in your

eyes one last time.

Well, I hope it was worth it.

Mr. Silva, you're going to be

transferred to Belmarsh Prison

where you'll be

remanded in custody

until the Crown

Prosecution Service

deem you fit to

stand trial for...

Say my name. Say it.

My real name.

. I know you remember it.

Your name is on

the memorial wall

of the very building

you attacked.

I will have it struck off.

Soon your past will be as

nonexistent as your future.

I'll never see you again.

Do you know what

it does to you?

Hydrogen cyanide?

Look upon your work,

Mother.

(CHUCKLING SOFTLY)

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