The Avengers Page #15

Steed whips his rapier from his umbrella and duels with the butlers. To give Emma

time, he uses every trick and prop at his disposal, plus, brute force to --

Kick, chop, punch, and impale them into submission, as --

223 EXT. ELEVATOR (UPPER FLOORS) - CONTINUOUS ACTION

The posse of butlers fan out on to keep pace with Emma. They head upstairs, pressing

elevator "CALL" buttons on every floor, as --

224 INSIDE ELEVATOR

Emma waits inside. Until she reaches --

225 EXT. ELEVATOR (2ND FLOOR) - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Doors open. A HAIL of BULLETS hit the lift as Emma hides to one side until the

doors close.

226 INT. ELEVATOR - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Emma sighs with relief. COOL HUM as the ELEVATOR rises.

227 ON STAIRS - MEANWHILE

Steed gaining on the butlers, heading for the stairs, as --

228 INT. ELEVATOR - CONTINUOUS ACTION

At the next floor, the doors open --

Two butlers rush inside. BLAM -- ! Emma cuts one in the throat with an elbow

punch, then --

Punches -- kicks -- stabs the other butler, a more brutish type, who recovers enough to

grab Emma by the throat.

She chokes, breaks his stranglehold, swerves him round, gains a nelson hold on his

arms and throat --

And a knee in his back in time for --

PING! The BELL RINGS at --

3rd floor where --

Emma spins her captive butler round, in time to face --

Whooomph! a blast of fire from --

A flamethrower launched in the hall.

Aaargh -- ! The butler gets fried, but --

229 EXT. ELEVATOR (3RD FLOOR) - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Shields Emma from the worst of the blast. She hurls him clear of the doors, which --

230 INT. ELEVATORS - CONTINUOS ACTION

Slam shut. COOL HUM ...

231 EXT. PALACE MAIN FLOOR - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Steed continues his one-sided duel with the other butlers, skewering madly, trying to

get upstairs to help Emma...

232 INT. ELEVATOR - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Up Emma goes. Looks for an escape route. Bangs on the walls. No trap doors. No

secret panels. The "floor" light flickers between floors.

Waiting, until ...

233 EXT. ELEVATOR (4TH FLOOR) - CONTINUOUS ACTION

The doors open. A grenade is hurled inside the doors, it rolls to one corner, Emma

dives to the other side, then --

Scrambles for the grenade. Picks it up. It slips out of her hands. Scrambles more. It

slips out ...

Just beyond the elevator doors. Which start to shut. Emma leans out a foot, kicks the

grenade towards the butlers, and --

As her elevator doors close --

BOOM -- ! It EXPLODES among the butlers, one of whom --

Rushes to --

234 ELEVATOR (5TH FLOOR) - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Where he waits for the elevator. Removes pin. Grenade ready. The light PINGS.

Doors open. About to throw it inside, when --

235 BUTLER'S POV

No Emma.

236 BACK TO SCENE

The butler hesitates. Looks inside. Still no Emma? He wonders what to do, and --

The doors shut; he jams his foot. The doors open again. He moves in --

237 INT. ELEVATOR - CONTINUOUS ACTION

-- and looks round. Nobody there. Until, as we --

PULL BACK UP to reveal -- FROM ABOVE, spread-eagled like an X on the elevator

roof, limbs flexed against the walls is --

Emma, who -- drops down and --

Scissors the butler's head between her legs.

The grenade rolls free ...

Emma twists around, grabs his ears, and --

Sits on his face. Buries his head in her crotch. A muffled sound from the guy, until --

Emma scissor kicks, breaking his neck. She drags --

238 EXT. ELEVATOR (67H FLOOR) - CONTINUOUS ACTION

His head out. Leaving his neck between the doors. So as she leaps out, heads up for

the stairs, the elevators doors.

SLAM! And -- BOOM! His GRENADE rocks the elevator, which

239 INT. ELEVATOR SHAFT - ABOVE AND BELOW - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Breaks from its ropes, and --

Plummets down the elevator shaft, shaking the building as it crashes --

240 INT. PALACE STAIRS - CONTINUOUS ACTION

Everything shakes with the impact of the elevator as Steed battles his way up, step by

step, throwing gas-masked butlers over his shoulder as he struggles...

241 INT. PALACE ATTIC - NIGHT

Up the winding staircase, at the top, a skylight, which --

Flips open. The man leaps out, throwing back inside a smoke grenade, and locks the

skylight. As the grenade --

242 INT. NARROW STAIRCASE

BOOM! explodes in the narrow staircase, fills it with purple smoke. Emma rushes

thru smoke, choking. She gets to the skylight, tries to open it -- locked.

A moment's panic. Then Emma -- punches a hole in the glass, flicks the switch, flips

the skylight up, and --

Emerges into the night air. Snowflakes tumble around her.

243 EXT. ROOFTOP - HELIPAD - NIGHT

Blades whirling. Amid the blizzard, the man ready to escape in a super-fab streamlined

whirly chopper ...

Another assassin attacks Emma, pins her on her back, overlooking the city. Stands up

before her --

Emma held back over gargoyle, over now snow white city ... Knees assassin in balls.

Flicks him backwards ...

As his body hurtles down into the snow-covered streets, Emma rushes forward.

But too late:
sees --

The chopper -- about to take off.

244 FROM INSIDE CHOPPER

The gas-masked MAN in the white lab coat:

MAN:

Goodbye, Mrs. Peel!

245 EXT. ROOFTOP

The chopper rises slowly.

Emma looks. A fifteen foot leap ... Impossible.

246 FROM INSIDE CHOPPER

A farewell wave from the gas-masked man.

247 CLOSEUP - EMMA

contemplating the jump, beneath falling snowflakes, as the distance grows.

248 EMMA'S POV

The rope/chain ladder coils into the chopper's belly.

249 INT. CHOPPER - NIGHT

Above London rooftops, after dark --

The man (still wears gas mask) the Pilot, CO-PILOT and a Butler (ditto). From the

chopper, a giddy look down thru a glass command module. A fairy tale, snow white

city.

OVER the RADIO, interference. A changing of stations. Then a CRACKLY

broadcast of "The Merry Widow."

As the WALTZ serenades them high above the city --

a KNOCKING from outside on the door --

Surprised reactions. The Butler opens the door, sees --

Emma hanging onto the helicopter struts. The Butler is too dumbstruck to say

anything.

EMMA:

(shouts, re:
the

gas mask)

Anyone ever tell you you look

like a housefly?

Emma grabs his epauletted shoulder, yanks him up, flicks him out --

The Butler is jerked out -- flies into the open air. Emma watches him fall ...

EMMA:

Anyone else need a lift?

The white-coated Man moves forward, but Emma is out, slamming the door, still

clinging ...

MAN:

(to Pilot; intercom)

Can't you throw her off?

The Pilot nods, works controls, the chopper dips as --

Blam -- ! a kinky leather boot crashes --

Into the Pilot's face as Emma kicks in the GLASS from the front of the chopper,

SMASHES so the Pilots can't see -- a sudden rush of cold air --

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