TomKat: Double Impact Page #10

KAT:

See you in the morning, Tom.

INT. TOM'S BEDROOM - MORNING

Tom wakes up and looks at the clock. It reads 9:10 A.M. He changes into a pair of Levis, a medium weight L.L. Bean flannel shirt, and a pair of lightweight Timberland hiking boots.

KITCHEN:

Kat is busy at the stove cooking breakfast. Tom walks in.

KAT:

(pretending anger)

At seven I walked out to the deck and heard no power tools. No Tom Ford working. At eight never would I have imagined that you were still asleep. I watched the birds for a while and tried a few birdcalls, but no Tom. Mr. Up at Seven should change his name to Mr. Up at Nine.

TOM:

(laughing)

You won't believe me, but this is the latest I've slept in years.

KAT:

I don't believe it. You suffered a

severe credibility crisis this morning. It would take days of pravda before I can trust you again. Well, maybe those scotches you had with your father and the guests had some effect.

(a beat)

How do you like your eggs?

TOM Over easy, please.

Tom and Kat are having breakfast when the phone rings. Tom picks up the phone.

DR. FORD

Let's meet at the 100-yard range

at noon.

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Tom hangs

up the phone and looks at Kat.

TOM (CONT'D) We shoot at noon.

KAT:

(smiling)

Just in time. I wouldn't want to lose my touch.

PROPERTY - HUNDRED YARD RANGE - NOON

EXT. FORD

Tom, Kat and Dr. Ford are seen shooting at various targets on the course. They stop shooting.

DR. FORD

Kat, Tom had a trick of shooting

the cork off a champagne bottle at 100 yards without breaking the bottle. Let's see if he lost the touch.

TOM:

I love that confidence you have in

me.

Dr. Ford takes the Polaris to set up the bottles with the corks.

Tom picks up the old Marlin. He takes careful aim at the first target and hits the cork off the bottle without breaking glass. He hits the other four corks in rapid succession, followed by five shots breaking the bottles. Kat approaches Tom.

Tom looks

KAT:

(smiling)

Good shooting but a hundred yards is far too easy for a man of your talent. Let's see if you can knock a cork off a bottle at 500 yards.

at her, turning serious.

TOM:

I can't do it with the .22 Marlin

with its worn barrel and iron sights, but I'll try with the scoped Remington.

KAT That's fair.

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They walk up the hill to the five hundred yard range. Dr. Ford takes the Polaris to place the targets. He returns and looks back.

Dr. Ford pulls out a pair of binoculars.

DR. FORD

I can barely see the bottle. Tom,

this would be a helluva shot.

TOM:

I strive not to disappoint.

Tom assumes the prone position and places the gun on one of the sandbags strewn around the ground. He adjusts the scope, checks the wind by the telltales around the target and sights the cork. Tom pulls the trigger. In slightly less than a second the cork flies off the bottle. No glass breaks. Dr. Ford, looking through binoculars yells,

DR. FORD (excited)

Bullseye! All cork!

KAT:

God! Not even my father could

make such a shot. Unbelievable!

Tom takes aim and shoots again, easily blasting the bottle. Kat and Dr. Ford look at Tom in awe as if he was a god who performed an unexplainable miracle.

DR. FORD

Let's go back to the 100-yard

range to give us mere mortals a little practice.

EXT. TOM'S DECK - EARLY EVENING

KAT:

Tom, how did you learn to shoot so

well?

TOM:

Living on this large remote

property gave me all the opportunities to shoot -- especially long distance.

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A beat

TOM (CONT'D)

There is a simple secret to good

long distance shooting - anyone can place the gun's sight on the target, but it takes considerable practice to keep it on target when you pull the trigger. A hundredth of an inch movement of the barrel will result in a foot or greater miss at five hundred feet. Besides all that, I have twenty/ten vision, just like Ted Williams had.

TOM (CONT'D)

You're no slouch yourself with a

gun. I imagine your father taught you?

KAT:

He sure did. Daddy wanted a boy

but ended up with me. So he did his best to treat me like a son. He taught me how to shoot, scuba dive, hit a golf ball, hunt, you name it. He even dressed me like a boy. One day, I was ten, I walked into his office and demanded that he take me to Worth Avenue to buy some dresses. I told him my days as a tomboy were over and demanded we go shopping.

TOM:

What did he do?

KAT:

He took me shopping! I realized at

that point there was a difference between boys and girls and that I was a girl. My father was great to me after my mother died, but he needed a little guidance on raising a girl and I had to give it to him.

Kat another glass of Sangria.

TOM:

Let's go into the hot tub.

Tom pours

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KAT:

OK. So we're not waiting until

tonight, are we.

TOM:

I only mentioned the hot tub so I

can politely remove your clothes.

She kisses him lightly on his cheek and walks around the table toward her bedroom.

KAT:

I can't resist it when a man sweet

talks me. I'll be right back.

Kat strides upstairs to her room. A minute later she returns and walks across the deck towards the hot tub where Tom stretches out against the jets. Her nudity displays a spectacular body, toned by a lifetime of work, sports and workouts. As she approaches, Tom can hardly contain his excitement. She slowly slides into the heated water. Tom hands Kat a glass of sangria.

She drinks deeply.

KAT:

Oh, this tastes so good!

Kat finds

reason to

eyes, she

encloses her with his arms, embracing her for a long passionate kiss. Tom sweeps Kat off her feet and carries her to his room.

it harder to catch her breath. She knows of no restrain herself any longer. Looking into his leans forward, wrapping her arms around him. Tom

INT. DOOR TO TOM'S CO-OP APARTMENT - DAY

Tom returns to his apartment to find a message slipped under his door: Contact Jackie.

Once inside he calls Jackie on the burner phone.

JACKIE:

Tom, we have a new target:

Mohammed Elison. Mohammed Elison is a decidedly evil human being.

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JACKIE (CONT'D)

He led the recent bloody bombing

campaign against the Coptic Christian Churches in Cairo and was the ringleader of a nefarious group called the Army of Islam. ISIS posted a YouTube video showing Elison decapitating a dozen Christians on a Libyan beach. Ironically, he's a Brit, born in London to a Christian father and a Muslim mother. Apparently, the Muslim half won out to rule his psyche.

TOM:

Elison appears to be a good choice

for Martel justice.

JACKIE:

This shoot will differ from the

others. First, it would take place in a Muslim country – Egypt. Second, whereas your other assignments were in urban settings, this shooting will take place in the desert, about a hundred miles south of Cairo. Third, you will work directly with me on this assignment -- I'll be your spotter.

TOM:

Well I look forward to it. We'll

have a great time together.

JACKIE:

As usual we have arranged a

business cover for you. You will work with JBM Construction, one of Morgan's companies, and the Egyptian government. They need a seven hundred fifty million dollar loan for the project. I am sure you can arrange it.

TOM:

No problem. SBT is now used to

working with Jay Bailey Morgan's companies.

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