The Walk Page #5

That's cool, man. I like that.

What do I gotta do?

Find more accomplices.

I got just the guys.

I can help you rig a wire.

I'm unbelievable at tying knots.

Used to work on a shrimp boat.

Yeah, man, yeah. I mean, count me in, too.

Especially if that wire is really...

Really high.

You get it?

You get it, man, really high!

Why the World Trade Towers?

Everybody I know hates those ugly boxes.

They look like two big filing cabinets.

Hey, right on.

You know what? Why don't we climb

the Chrysler building, man, huh?

That'd be a trip, right?

This is bad.

I don't trust these two.

J.P.

Can we count on these guys?

I had short notice.

It's them...

or two bums off the street.

Tomorrow! Tomorrow!

The coup is on for tomorrow!

Tomorrow is the big day!

You all know the plan.

The workers start to arrive at 7:00 a.m.,

so I must be on the wire at 6:00 a.m.

You're not listening.

Why is nobody listening to me when I talk?

Are you paying attention?

Philippe, you should eat.

Eat?

How can I eat?

We have to go over the plan!

We've gone over the plan 20 times already.

Well, here comes number 21.

At 2:
00 p.m., we load the van. J.P. drives.

We drop Jean-Louis, Annie

and Albert at the North Tower.

You rendezvous with Barry.

He hides you on his floor

until he can sneak you up

in the stairwell to the roof.

The rest of us, that's you, J.P.,

you, Jeff, you, David,

in our workers disguises,

we bring the walk cable

and the rigging equipment

up in the construction elevator.

According to my spy work,

we should be able to

get up to the 82nd floor.

Then when the coast is clear,

and as fast as we can,

we bring everything up to the roof

and we start rigging.

By midnight, we are finished!

Do you hear me? At midnight!

This gives me the time to sneak over

to the North Tower and check the rigging.

Because I must have time

to check the rigging on both towers.

Then at dawn, 6:
00 a.m.,

I take my first step.

- Philippe.

- Yes.

- I think we should wait.

- No!

To find more competent associates.

It is now or never.

Hmm?

The carrots are cooked.

Cooked carrots?

- What the hell is that about?

- The French.

They love their culinary metaphors.

This is a country with

365 different types of cheese,

one for every day of the year,

for Christ's sake.

So, of course they use

the vegetable metaphor.

Carrots are cooked.

Die is cast. There's no going back now.

Guys, what are we doing here?

Listen, I think what we're doing is cool

but I do not want to go to jail.

Especially not because of some French guy

who's obsessed with vegetables.

Jail. Man, that's a buzzkill, man.

The man...

The man is obviously crazy. So, what?

Are we just here to watch him die, huh?

Does he even know how to walk a tightrope?

He knows how to walk on a wire.

That's not the problem.

The problem is he's losing his mind.

He's maybe losing his mind,

but he won't give up.

He never gives up.

He just needs our help.

I think he can do this.

It will be very... Beau?

- Beautiful.

- Yeah.

It will be very beautiful.

It was the night before the coup

and, of course, I couldn't sleep.

I had forgotten something very important.

I'd forgotten to nail shut the coffin.

Actually, there was no coffin.

It was the crate holding the walk cable.

But, in my mind,

I had changed this crate into a coffin.

Philippe!

What are you doing? You're waking up

the whole neighborhood.

Well, I forgot to nail shut the coffin.

Stop calling it that!

A coffin is what this may be.

That's not funny. What's wrong with you?

Do you have a death wish or something?

Don't say this word! I never say this word.

Come on! Death, coffin, die.

- It's all the same thing.

- Why are you doing this?

Why are you suddenly against me?

Against you?

No one is more supportive.

Then why do you say this word?

Why do you put this thought in my head

on the night before

my most dangerous walk?

- Why are you so uncaring?

- Uncaring?

- You're the most selfish, arrogant...

- Yes, I'm arrogant! I have to be.

To walk on the wire, to command the wire!

And what about your partners?

Your accomplices?

You don't offer them a simple thank you

to let them know they're appreciated!

- They know I appreciate them!

- Do they?

Yes! What do you want me to do?

Go in there right now

and tell them thank you?

I can wake them up and say

"Thank you, everybody! Merci!"

- Just come to bed. You're exhausted.

- Annie.

My head is full of doubts.

I don't know if...

When I confront the void,

when it's time to step on the wire,

I don't know if I'll be able to

take my first step.

Your heart will tell you what to do.

Annie.

You're the only one that truly knows me.

It's because of you that

I can do this walk.

You give me the strength and the ability.

Without you, I couldn't do it.

You'll be fine.

Everybody, wake up!

Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!

There's something I have to tell you

that I have not said before.

It's important.

Thank you. Merci.

Now get some rest.

We have a big day tomorrow.

You see?

He's lost his mind.

What?

Now as soon as we are all

loaded into the van,

I think to myself, "Okay, now it starts."

The coup has begun.

My life is no longer in my command.

North Tower Plaza!

Come on, make it snappy. I'm in a red zone.

With the help of Barry,

our inside man,

we unload Albert and Jean-Louis

at the North Tower.

The plan was for Barry to hide them

in his office until nightfall.

Red zone.

Goodbye.

Red zone.

See you soon.

I love you.

I love you, too.

Albert and Jean-Louis

both dress like impeccable architects.

They carry attach cases that are heavy

because they're carrying equipment.

And they carry a blueprint tube

that contains the bow and arrow.

I feel the incline of the ramp

as we drive down

into the loading dock of the South Tower

and I knew,

I knew we would be caught right there!

Hold it right there, cowboy.

You guys keep quiet back there.

What's your business?

Just another delivery.

Fisher Fence Company.

Fisher Fence Company?

What the hell's the Fisher Fence Company?

Uh, we put in the perimeter fence

months ago.

Now they want us to come back in,

tear it down and redo it.

All right. Down the ramp.

Medium freight loading area.

That cop seemed really suspicious.

I almost crapped my pants.

You can get more in there.

- Hey! Hey! No way! No way!

- No. No. No.

We got a delivery to the 82nd floor,

Fisher Fence Company.

It's all right here...

No, No. Only Met deliveries are going up.

They've got all the elevators leased today.

Come back next week.

- Whoa, next week?

- Yeah. Next week.

All right, come on. Go home.

Did you hear?

The elevators are rented.

It's impossible today.

We're not moving.

Change his mind.

We take a pause.

Worker's pause.

Hey, excuse me, sir. Before I get

outta your hair, can I get your name?

Frank Cielani.

- Is that Sicilian?

- It's Calabrese.

Ah. Good.

'Cause I got these Sicilian neighbors.

They live two floors below me.

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