Sound of Metal Page #11

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SATOR:

You’re well informed. But that

doesn’t mean you have theplutonium.

PROTAGONIST:

I didn’t say I had it. I’m saying Iknow how to get it –

61.

KAT (O.S.)

COMING ABOUT!

Kat SWINGS the boat into the wind, SAIL FLAPPING FURIOUSLY as

the wind catches it on the other side, and Sator and the

Protagonist DUCK under the boom, RACING to the other side,

their harnesses SNAPPING TAUT as they lean out...

SATOR:

What do you propose?

PROTAGONIST:

Partnership.

SATOR:

I wouldn’t partner with you.

Kat works the wheel, tracking the other boat. Her look is oneof BOTTLED RAGE...

PROTAGONIST:

What’s wrong with me?

SATOR:

You know how to handle yourself,

you have no record.

PROTAGONIST:

Someone in the arms trade with

training who covers his tracks? Notthat shocking.

SATOR:

For an intelligence agent.

Sator holds the Protagonist’s gaze...

KAT:

Secure your jib line.

The Protagonist turns – Kat leans in to Sator –

KAT (CONT'D)

Burn in hell, Andrei –

– and YANKS HIS QUICK-RELEASE – he FLIES off the boat,

SMASHING HEAD-FIRST into the waves –

The Protagonist sees Sator FACE-DOWN, UNCONSCIOUS – heUNCLIPS, JUMPS to the wheel, SPINNING the boat OFF THE WIND –

KAT (CONT'D)

YOU CAN’T JIBE A BOAT LIKE THIS – !

The Protagonist STEERS the boat across the wind, SNAPPING THEBOOM ACROSS, ALMOST LOSING THE MAST –

62.

PROTAGONIST:

You can if you have to –

He RELEASES THE SHEETS, SPILLING WIND, LOSING SPEED – as theypass Sator he DIVES into the water – GRABS the oligarch –

PULLS his face out of the water... Sator starts COUGHING...

INT. STATEROOM, SATOR’S YACHT – DAY

The Protagonist dries himself – the door opens – Kat BURSTSin –

KAT:

WHY DIDN’T YOU LET HIM DROWN?!

She is on him, smashing her fists into his chest –

PROTAGONIST:

I need him.

KAT:

To sell guns?!

PROTAGONIST:

I’m not who you think I am.

KAT:

That, I know – he showed me the

drawing.

PROTAGONIST:

I’m sorry.

KAT:

Do you have any idea what you’vedone?

PROTAGONIST:

I had to get close to him. I don’tknow what you think your husband is

–

KAT:

We both know he’s an arms dealer.

PROTAGONIST:

He’s so much more.

KAT:

What, then?

PROTAGONIST:

Andrei Sator holds all our lives in

his hands. Not just yours.

She looks bemused. A KNOCK at the door – she hides behind it

–

63.

VOLKOV:

Mr Sator wants to see you.

The Protagonist nods – pushes the door – Volkov stops it –

VOLKOV (CONT'D)

Now.

PROTAGONIST:

He wants to see me without pants?

Volkov lets the door shut. The Protagonist turns to Kat –

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D)

Trust me.

KAT:

Save it. I’m not falling for ittwice.

The Protagonist looks at Kat. Sighs.

PROTAGONIST:

You have a better option?

She looks into the Protagonist’s eyes. Assessing.

KAT:

Whatever it takes to get what youwant. Just like him. Not a second’s

thought about me. My son. What doyou think he’s going to do to menow?

He pulls a gun from his bag. Offers it to her.

PROTAGONIST:

Try not to use this –

She takes it – lets it point at him.

PROTAGONIST (CONT'D)

On anyone.

INT. STUDY, SATOR’S YACHT – EVENING

The Protagonist is shown in. Sator is sitting behind hisdesk. A DOCTOR is taking his blood pressure.

SATOR:

Enough –

Sator RIPS the cuff off his arm, sending the doctor out –

checks a fitness tracker on his wrist.

64.

SATOR (CONT'D)

See? Pulse of a man half my age.

Drink with me.

Sator pours them both tumblers of vodka.

SATOR (CONT'D)

It seems I now owe you my life.

PROTAGONIST:

It’s nothing.

Sator fixes his black gaze on the Protagonist.

SATOR:

My life is not nothing. And I don’tlike to be in debt.

PROTAGONIST:

Then pay me. No retribution againstyour wife.

A dangerous beat. Then Sator GRINS –

SATOR:

You think she released my harness?

(laughs)

It was my own mistake.

PROTAGONIST:

Then help me steal the 241. I needresources. It’s weapons-gradeplutonium – that means specialhandling, containment facilities –

SATOR:

I know what it means. You lecture

me about radiation. Andrei Sator,

digging plutonium from the rubbleof my city as a teenager?

PROTAGONIST:

Where?

SATOR:

Stalsk-12. My home.

Sator sips his drink. Looks the Protagonist in the eye.

SATOR (CONT'D)

One pod of a warhead exploded atground level, scattering theothers. They needed people to findthe plutonium...

65.

INSERT CUT:
IN A DESOLATE STREET, SNOW FALLS ON A HAZMATSUITED

SCAVENGER – A YOUNG SATOR WALKING IN FRONT OF A

MASSIVE MINING MACHINE, CARRYING A GIANT CROWBAR AND A GEIGER

COUNTER...

SATOR (CONT'D)

It became my first contract –

nobody else even bid. They thoughtit was a death sentence.

INSERT CUT:
YOUNG SATOR SPOTS THE MACHINE UNEARTHING A LARGE

METAL CAPSULE. A FELLOW WORKER SEES THE SAME THING...

SATOR (CONT'D)

But one man’s probability of deathis another man’s possibility for alife...

INSERT CUT:
YOUNG SATOR OPENS THE CAPSULE. HE LIFTS OUT SOME

PAPERS, WHICH HAVE HIS NAME ON THEM, REVEALING GOLD BARS

UNDERNEATH. THE FELLOW WORKER LEANS IN, STUDYING THE GOLD.

THEY MAKE EYE CONTACT... SATOR STRIKES THE FELLOW WORKER WITH

HIS CROWBAR, KILLING HIM...

SATOR (CONT'D)

I staked my claim in the newRussia. Even now, my company is theonly one to operate in the ruins.

PROTAGONIST:

The 241’s being transported throughNorthern Europe on its way to thelong-term nuclear storage depot atTrieste. I’m told you haveresources in Tallinn.

Sator downs his vodka.

SATOR:

Stay with us tonight. I insist.

INT. KAT’S STATEROOM, SATOR’S YACHT – NIGHT

Kat slips the gun under her mattress, feels the lump – pullsit out – moves to the desk, puts it in her jewellery case –

hearing a noise she jumps onto the bed, picks up a book. Thedoor opens. Sator. He locks the door.

KAT:

What do you want, Andrei?

SATOR:

We’re going to talk about today.

KAT:

No, we’re not.

66.

He removes a DIAMOND CUFFLINK...

SATOR:

No?

Kat starts to get off the bed –

KAT:

Don’t think for a minute you cantreat me the way you treat yourother women.

Sator shifts to lean on the desk, cutting her off from thejewellery box. She sits back down. He removes his belt...

SATOR:

And how do you imagine I treatthese other women?

Sator slips the cufflink through a belt hole...

SATOR (CONT'D)

You think I force them into

conversation?

Sator tests the diamond studded belt against his palm.

SATOR (CONT'D)

You want to be quiet? Fine...

He tosses her a pillow.

SATOR (CONT'D)

Bite down on that...

Sator moves towards her – she looks at the jewellery box on

the desk – no way around him – Sator looks down at her. Shelooks up at his cold eyes...

KAT:

Even a soul as blank and brittle as

yours needs a response. Is fear andpain enough? Because that’s all Ihave to offer.

SATOR:

Then it’ll have to do.

KAT:

Why didn’t you just throw me out?

SATOR:

If I can’t have you, no one can.

KAT:

At what point do you give up andkill me?

67.

Sator shrugs, wraps the belt a turn around his fist...

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