The Bourne Identity Page #7

DEPUTY DCM:

-- what're you talking about? --

SECURITY CHIEF:

-- we're evacuating the building --

DEPUTY DCM:

-- we're in the middle of a trade

meeting! --

SECURITY CHIEF:

-- call the code! -- I want

everyone out! --

DEPUTY DCM:

-- you gotta give me more to go on --

SECURITY CHIEF:

-- he's running from the cops, he's

got a bag filled with God knows

what, he's in the building and I

don't know where! --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE BACK STAIRWAY -- DAY

BOURNE climbing fast -- two -- three -- stairs at a time --

racing up as a SECURITY ALARM STARTS SCREAMING -- bleet --

bleet -- bleet --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE FIFTH-FLOOR GRAND HALLWAY -- DAY

THE ALARM ringing everywhere -- TRADE CONFERENCEES -- sixty

confused and frightened people -- spilling out into the

corridor --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE FIFTH FLOOR KITCHENETTE -- DAY

A NEW DOOR flying open -- it's BOURNE -- ready for anything,

but there's nothing -- he's in a butler's prep area off the

main conference room -- momentum stalled for a moment --

nothing in here but tableclothes and silverware and coffee

cups and --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE BACK STAIRWAY -- DAY

THREE MARINES -- armed and stoked -- staring up the

stairs -- leapfrogging -- point-to-point assault procedure --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE MAIN STAIRS -- DAY

Carpeted and grand -- SECURITY CHIEF with FIVE MARINES

NOW -- charging up -- pushing past THE PEOPLE trying to come

down and --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE FIFTH FLOOR GRAND HALLWAY -- DAY

Completely clogged now -- PANICKED TRADE PEOPLE all over --

EMBASSY TYPES -- trying to herd them toward the main

stairs -- everyone talking at once -- THAT ALARM STILL

BLARING and --

VOICE (OS)

-- no! -- the other way! -- take

the backstairs! -- the backstairs! --

he's on the other side -- there's a

bomb! --

And as the crowd reacts -- as they mob back away from the

main stairway -- we see -- holy sh*t, the guy yelling was

BOURNE --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE BACK STAIRWELL -- DAY

THE ASSAULT MARINES -- still climbing -- weapons out --

clean and fast -- one more flight to go -- ready for

anything -- completely freaking out as the door above them

on the fifth floor flies open and --

LEAD MARINE:

-- HALT! -- STOP WHERE YOU ARE! --

MARINE GUNS swinging up -- trigger fingers tense and --

IT'S TRADE PEOPLE! and now THEY'RE SCREAMING and this

combined with THE ALARM and THE MARINES YELLING FOR THEM TO

GET DOWN and ALL OF IT ECHOING THROUGH THE STAIRWELL and --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE MAIN CONFERENCE ROOM -- DAY

BOURNE -- he's CLOSING A DOOR behind him -- he's jamming A

CHAIR -- wedging it in tight so the door won't open and --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE FIFTH FLOOR GRAND HALLWAY -- DAY

THE SECURITY CHIEF -- HIS MARINES -- coming from the main

stairs -- weapons drawn -- fighting their way through the

pandemonium and --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE MAIN CONFERENCE ROOM -- DAY

BOURNE scanning for options -- the room is huge -- empty

now -- the massive conference table covered with the meeting

papers left behind -- windows along one wall and --

BOURNE rushes to the window staring down and --

BOURNE'S WINDOW POV

Fifty feet below there's a courtyard -- it's a sheer drop --

completely f***ed and --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE FIFTH FLOOR GRAND HALLWAY -- DAY

SECURITY CHIEF -- TWO MARINES -- just outside THE CONFERENCE

ROOM DOOR -- trying it -- it won't budge and --

SECURITY CHIEF:

-- blow it -- shoot it open! --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE MAIN CONFERENCE ROOM -- DAY

THE DOOR -- shattering -- eaten up by GUNFIRE! -- TAT-TAT-

TAT-TATTAT-TAT-TAT-TAT! and --

WHAM! HERE THEY COME -- through the door -- guns -- eyes --

adrenaline -- everything ready and --

THE ROOM IS EMPTY!

EXT. U.S. CONSULATE BUILDING WALL -- DAY

BOURNE -- dangling fifty-feet above the stone courtyard! --

he's gone out the window! -- hanging there -- hanging with

one hand -- one hand clutching the corner of a ledge and --

INT. U.S. CONSULATE MAIN CONFERENCE ROOM -- DAY

Utter confusion -- SECURITY CHIEF -- FIVE -- SIX -- SEVEN

ARMED MARINES all piling in -- ready to rock but there's no

one to shoot -- no target --

SECURITY CHIEF:

-- check the closets! -- get those

back doors covered -- there's a

kitchen back there -- go! -- go! -- go!

TWO MARINES -- scanning the windows -- looking down and --

MARINE POV -- all clear -- no way he went down there and --

EXT. U.S. CONSULATE BUILDING WALL -- DAY

BOURNE still hanging there -- looking down -- up -- there's

no choice -- he has to go down --

BOURNE finding a toehold below him -- reaching -- touching

down -- it gives way -- crumbling and --

BOURNE hesitates. Does he know how to do this or not?

Stalled for a moment, then...

BOURNE starts climbing down. And this is all one shot. No

cutaway. No cheating.

We are watching a master at work...

Handhold to a drain pipe. Swinging to a better ledge.

Dropping to an air-conditioner. Grabbing a window frame

just before the air-conditioner gives way. Teetering there.

Now he's on the fourth floor.

Below, there's an open window on the third floor. Struggling

to keep his balance, he reaches behind him to shift the

weight of the bag, and as he does --

THE RED BAG falls. Thump. Into the courtyard. Forget the

open window. Now he's got to go all the way.

Timing his next move and --

He's pushing off -- reaching -- there's another drainpipe

and he's snagged it -- he's got a dragline now -- starting

to fall -- straining to hold the pipe -- slowing his

descent -- the drainpipe pulling away from it's housing and --

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