The World is Not Enough Page #3

INT. LOWER CORRIDORS/SECURITY AREA, MI-6 - CONTINUOUS

MAYHEM. FIRE blasts out of the open doorway just as Bond

reaches it. The STEEL DOOR flies toward him. He dives --

EXT. MI-6/RIVER - CONTINUOUS

The building rocks. SMOKE is pouring from a HOLE that?s

appeared in a lower tier. A wall and a section of roof gone.

EXT. MI-6/RIVER - CONTINUOUS

A figure staggers out, shaken. Catching his breath. BOND.

CUT TO:

ECU CIGAR GIRL:

Lining up Bond with her infra-red telescopic sight.

ANGLE ON BOND:

In the swirling dust and smoke, he suddenly sees a wand of

red light, pointing at his chest.

All instinct, he dives for cover. Powerful, high velocity

bullet hits blanket the area. Bond prepares to return fire,

scanning around for the source. Through the debris he spots

an unusual, hi-tech BOAT on the river -- long and narrow and

low. A figure on board. THE CIGAR GIRL.

ANGLE ON CIGAR GIRL

She FIRES OFF A ROUND OF SHOTS, forcing Bond back into cover.

Then she guns the engines and SPEEDS OFF down the Thames.

EXT. MI-6 - CONTINUOUS

Determined, Bond races back into the wreckage...

INT. MI-6 - CONTINUOUS

Bond races through the chaos that is MI-6 and into...

Q DIVISION:

Where he leaps into the prototype BOAT. Q protests...

Q:

It?s not finished!

Bond looks at the mystifying number of buttons and gadgets

...presses something red and...THE BOAT LEAPS OUT, ENGINE

ROARING...

EXT. SLIPWAY - RIVER - DAY

THE 007 THEME KICKS IN AS:

JAMES BOND, in the Q boat, SHOOTS OUT of the MI-6 rubble and

onto the Thames.

EXT. RIVER THAMES - DAY

Bond can see the Cigar Girl up ahead...he is closing the

distance. She catches sight of him in pursuit...

EXT. CIGAR GIRL - BOAT - DAY

She pushes the boat to its limit, it roars to a new level of

speed...the chase is on.

EXT. THAMES - DAY

Police speedboats, alerted by the commotion, trail Bond.

ON THE EMBANKMENT

Police cars scream alongside, sirens wailing.

ON THE THAMES:

Bond is losing ground as he and the Cigar Girl weave through

traffic on the Thames. In a gutsy bid to keep pace, he

corrals the Q boat into a hair-raising SHORT-CUT, shooting

off...

UNDERNEATH A PIER

He maneuvers the boat under the low pier and emerges EVEN

CLOSER to his prey...

EXT. CIGAR GIRL - BOAT - DAY

The Cigar Girl stops her boat, moving to the back, manning

her large, rear-mountain MACHINE GUN and taking aim at

Bond...

EXT. RIVER THAMES - DAY

Bond continues at full speed, fearless in the hail of bullets

ricocheting off the vessel.

THE CIGAR GIRL Remains calm and cool, shooting with

precision.

BOND closes in...

CIGAR GIRL?S eyes widen as...

BOND STEERS HIS BOAT RIGHT OVER THE MACHINE GUN AND TURRET...

Cigar Girl dives out of the way, as her boat becomes a RAMP,

LAUNCHING the Q boat INTO THE AIR before it dives, nose-

first, into the Thames.

EXT. - CIGAR GIRL BOAT - CONTINUOUS

CIGAR GIRL gets up from the deck and sees BOND, turning his

boat to close in for the kill...

She scrambles to the helm and SPEEDS OFF, seeing ahead of

her...

TOWER BRIDGE:

Just beginning to open, to allow for passage of a small

tanker.

EXT. CIGAR GIRL BOAT

She streaks toward the bridge, Bond lagging behind...

ON BOND:

As he looses her boat in the distance, he makes a DESPERATE

MOVE...he cranks the wheel of his boat and veers off, UP A

SLIPWAY and into...

EXT. FISH MARKET

Where the boat hydroplanes on masses of surface water and

propels him into

EXT. LONDON STREET

The hurtling boat causes mayhem and panic as he wrestles with

the controls, jetting off the street and straight toward...

EXT. RIVERSIDE RESTAURANT

Bond?s boat crashes right through it, sending diners LEAPING

in every direction. The Q boat SHOOTS OUT over the balcony

and splashes down once more into...

EXT. THAMES - DAY

Cigar Girl is now clearly in his sights. She is amazed to

see that Bond has managed to overtake her.

The racing boats dice through an armada of lazy, over-loaded

BARGES, nearly crashing into the much larger vessels.

AT EVEN PACE NOW...Cigar Girl attempts to force her way past

him, but Bond, punching buttons on the console of the Q-boat,

releases a set of catapulting FLAME CANNISTERS which create a

massive WALL OF FIRE ahead of them...

CIGAR GIRL is forced toward the very edge of the river...the

jig is almost up, and then...

HER P.O.V. She spots the launching of a HOT AIR BALLOON from

the base of the massive MILLENNIUM DOME.

She skids her vessel to a stop at a nearby pier and quickly

scrambles out of her boat.

EXT. MILLENNIUM DOME - DAY

...A crowd around a RICHARD BRANSON-like figure about to

climb into his HOT AIR BALLOON.

The Cigar Girl, brandishing her gun, forces her way through

the crowd and LEAPS INTO THE BALLOON CARRIAGE, just ready to

lift off. She cranks open the gas nozzles and the balloon

rises with surprising speed.

EXT. BOND?S BOAT - DAY

Bond steers his craft toward a slipway adjacent to the pier

and SHOOTS UP INTO THE AIR...

EXT. MILLENNIUM DOME

An amazing sight...Bond?s boat sailing through the air just

beneath the balloon. With split second precision he reaches

up and GRABS ONE OF THE ROPES dangling down from the balloon.

Bond finds himself being CARRIED THROUGH THE AIR as his boat

falls away from him, hitting the ground and ERUPTING into a

ball of flame.

EXT. HOT AIR BALLOON - CONTINUOUS

As Bond is carried higher and higher, the Cigar Girl begins

FIRING AT HIM over the edge of the carriage.

Bond, with ONE HAND, returns fire.

CIGAR GIRL then leans over the edge of the carriage and

begins to SLICE THE ROPE that Bond is hanging from.

The fibers split and fray away from each other as...

BOND FALLS, heading straight toward...

THE MILLENNIUM DOME, which the balloon has drifted over.

AS HE PLUMMETS DOWNWARD...Bond, never surrendering, still

FIRES HIS WEAPON up at the balloon. A bullet hits the gas

tank...

EXT. BALLOON - DAY

The BALLOON EXPLODES IN A MASSIVE FIREBALL taking the Cigar

Girl with it...

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