MI3 Part 3

INT.CAR
Ethan and Luther are in a car, escorting a police car carrying Davian.

LUTHER
Ethan, we got it. Lindsey's microdot. It's a video file.

Ethan plays the video file.

LINDSEY
Ethan, I don't know what they've told you. I don't know what you think. Just listen to me.
Brassel sent me to Germany to surveil an exchange, to ID a man named Owen Davian.I tagged his phone,and I intercepted a transmission. I traced the call through the IMFnetwork, and this is what came up. The call to Davian came from Brassel's office.It's Brassel. I think he's working with Davian. I think I'm being set up...

The car behind them explodes.

LUTHER
Ethan!

The car that Ethan took turns sideways.

EXT.BRIDGE

SOMEONE
You all right? Someone call for help! Does anyone have a cell phone?

Ethan creeps out of a car. and, the helicopter in the back is noticed.

ETHAN
Everybody, get down! Get down! Get down, get down! Everybody, get down!

Ethan and Luther hide in the shadow of the car. A woman is hit by a stray bullet.

ETHAN
There's a woman down.

LUTHER
I see her.

He runs toward the paddy wagon.

ETHAN
Get down! Get down! Stay down! Everybody, get down! Get down! Stay down! Get down! Open up!

ETHAN
Open up! I need the prisoner!

WOMAN
Oh, my God!It's really bleeding.Don't leave me, okay?


LUTHER
Don't worry. I'm right here.Ethan, there's a G36 in the truck!


ETHAN
I know! I know!


AN ENEMY
Turn the drone around. There's an IMF agent in the truck.

LUTHER
Ethan! Get out of the truck!Ethan, move!


INT.CAR
Ethan is driving his car while calling Julia's house.

RICK
Hello?

ETHAN
Rick, this is Ethan. Is Julia home?

RICK
Hey, man. Look, I hope you're not mad I'm here. It's just...

ETHAN
Rick, I'm not mad. Is Julia home? I tried her cell phone,and there was no answer.

RICK
No. Sorry.Hey, did your friend find you?

ETHAN
Which friend?

RICK
I don't know. Just some English guy.

ETHAN
Rick, what did you tell him?

RICK
Look, it's all good, man. I told him I didn't know where you were,and Julia might, and he should just try her at the hospital. Hello?

JULIA
All right, see you tomorrow, Sally.All right. Good night, honey.


JULIA'S CELLPHONE
Hi. It's Julia.Please leave me a message...

Ethan hangs up and calls the hospital.

SALLY
Sixth floor.

ETHAN
Sally, this is Ethan. I need to talk to Julia.

SALLY
Hey, honey. She just went downstairs. I'll transfer you.

Ethan hangs up. He runs into the hospital.

ETHAN
Damn it!Excuse me.

INT. HOSPITAL HALLWAY
A kidnapper approaches Julia.

KIDNAPPER
I was wondering if you knew
where I might find this patient.

JULIA
Probably not. But I'll know who can.

The kidnapper puts a patch on Julia's arm. Julia smiles.

JULIA
What's that?

She falls unconscious. The kidnapper puts her on a stretcher and covers her. Then he leaves the hospital with her.

INT. HOTEL RECEPTION
Ethan arrives at the hospital.

ETHAN
Sally. Where's Julia?

SALLY
Where's Julia?I think she left. Have you tried the east building?

ETHAN
Has Julia left yet?I haven't seen her.
Mike, Mike. Have you seen Julia?

MIKE
Hey, you okay?

ETHAN
Have you seen Julia?

MIKE
No.

EXT. HOSPITAL
Ethan runs outside the hospital.

MAN
Watch it, buddy!

Ethan's phone rings.

ETHAN
Jules?

DAVIAN
You hung me outside of an airplane.
You can always tell
someone's character
by the way they treat those
they don't need to treat well.

ETHAN
If you hurt her, I swear...

DAVIAN
Don't threaten me. Just don't. The briefcase I picked up in Rome,
the one you took from me, contains the location of the Rabbit's Foot.
You're going to get it and bring it to me. The Rabbit's Foot. Ethan,
you had a watch last time I saw you. You have 48 hours, starting on my mark.

ETHAN
Wait, wait, wait.

DAVIAN
Now, call me at this number when you have it.

ETHAN
Just wait.

DAVIAN
Julia's life for the Rabbit's Foot.
You have 48 hours, or she dies.

ETHAN
Wait! Wait. Wait.

PETE
Condition 1-116. All units on scene. We need you to come with us.

ETHAN
Just... Pete, what the hell is this?

PETE
Sorry about that, Mr. Hunt. We were told to bring you in.

ETHAN
Okay.

PETE
Get ready to transport.

ETHAN
Whoa. Hey. Just not right now. Just tell them you came and that...

PETE
Ethan. Get in. We don't want to use force here, and you know we will. Ethan, get in.

ETHAN
Tell them that you came here...

PETE
Ethan!

ETHAN
...and that I left already, okay?

Ethan runs.

PETE
Freeze! Ethan, stop! Stop, Ethan!

Ethan is hunted by Pete and caught.

PETE
Yeah. Get his hands.

INT. IMF HEAD OFFICE
Ethan, Brassel, and Musgrave are in the questioning room. Ethan is bound to a table.


BRASSEL
I reviewed the transcript of your Berlin operation. It's very interesting. It seems that Agent Farris had some information she wished to share with you but not with this agency. Something you failed to report. You ordered the Vatican operation without proper approvals. That mission resulted in a catastrophic attack. And then you fled the scene. Now, I am not a stranger to disrespect. You don't get to where I am without developing a thick skin. But what I won't stand for,
what I will lose sleep over, and I love my sleep, is the idea of an irresponsible rogue agent working in my office. So I'm going to slow things way down here. You can look at me with those judgmental, incriminating eyes all you want, but I bullshit you not. I will bleed on the flag to make sure the stripes stay red.

Brassel leaves the room.

MUSGRAVE
I don't know what to say to you. Brassel's right. You're out of control. Look at me. Ethan, at least show me the courtesy of looking at me when I'm talking to you.

Ethan looks at Musgrave and reads his lips.

MUSGRAVE (MOUTHING WORDS)
I intercepted Davian's call. I know hewants the Rabbit's Foot for Julia's life.

MUSGRAVE (SPEAKING NORMALLY)
It's just... This is so disappointing.

MUSGRAVE (MOUTHING WORDS)
Go to Shanghai. Feng Shan Apartments... 1406.

MUSGRAVE (SPEAKING NORMALLY)

I wish there was something I could do to help you, but...
Take him to the holding cell.

Brassel and IMF's office worker are talking by telephone.

BRASSEL
No, I'm on it.

IMF'S OFFICE WORKER
Yes, sir. There's no need to panic. I'll get him back.
Sir? Ethan Hunt...

BRASSEL
I know what happened. Give me the radio. This is Director Brassel. Ethan Hunt is attempting to escape the building.

MUSGRAVE
He's in the west cargo elevator.He must be stopped.

BRASSEL
I want Mendoza and Graham
in the situation room right away.

MUSGRAVE
I'm having the building surrounded, sir.

BRASSEL
I've got units posted at all the entrances. This is Brassel again. I'm ordering a code-six lockdown. I repeat.

EXT. BUILDING
IMF's people are running after Ethan.

MUSGRAVE
It's Hunt. I know it's Hunt. Hunt was flagged
on sub-basement nine.

BRASSEL
I want all security personnel down there now.


MUSGRAVE
Security channel's jammed. Hunt must be holding down the transmit button.

BRASSEL
You've got to be kidding me.


INT. AIRPORT

ANNOUNCEMENT
Last call for flight 1162 for Helsinki, now boarding at gate 46.
Final call for Mr. Bower. Please come to gate 4.

AIRLINE ATTENDANT
Mr. Pavel Sobo... Sobotka.

ETHAN
Sobotka.

AIRLINE ATTENDANT
Sobotka. Okay.
And you're flying to Shanghai?


ETHAN
I don't speak Czech. I'm sorry.

AIRLINE ATTENDANT
Let's see about your flight.

ETHAN
Okay.

LUTHER
Don't kill me. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Musgrave told us about Julia. We're here to help.To get your wife, you'll need the Rabbit's Foot. According to the plans from Davian's briefcase, it's in a laboratory on the 56th floor of the Hengshan Lu Building. Which is a nightmare for just about every reason. They're a Chinese military contractor.
We have no pull, no details. The good news is, whatever it is,　the Rabbit Foot's small, so we can steal it. The bad news, we got to steal it.


DECLAN
From a thief's point of view,　this is worst-case scenario.
The security guards　are all privately-contracted
former People's Liberation Army.


ZHEN
The only access to the lab　is by private elevator.
And that can only be activated　by persons inside the lab.

DECLAN
All of it surveilled by　security cameras within the building.

ETHAN
What about the roof?

ZHEN
Four guards full time. Two on each rooftop.

LUTHER
Langley was a cakewalk　compared to this.

ETHAN
That's the one. How tall is that building?

DECLAN
Why?

ZHEN
It's 162 meters at the highest point.

ETHAN
What about that, the building　on the left? How tall is that one?

ZHEN
Says 226 meters.

ETHAN
226. Distance between the buildings?

Ethan begins to draw the picture of the building in the window.

ZHEN
47.55 meters across.

LUTHER
Ethan?

ETHAN
That's good. I think it's tall enough.

INT.BUILDING
Declan, Zhen, Luther, and Ethan think
means that steal rabbit foot.

DECLAN
For what?

LUTHER
A fulcrum.

DECLAN
Oh, you're gonna swing...
No, no, no, no. Wait, wait.
You could bounce right off the roof.

ETHAN
Yes, I could.

ZHEN
Even if you made it to the rooftop, took out the guards,
and got the Rabbit's Foot, you can't just
walk out of the lobby. What's your exit?

ETHAN
Base-jump off the top. I need a chute.

DECLAN
Even at 162, you're pushing
minimum height for a jump.

ZHEN
Chute opens any lower than that
and you're dead.
What are you going to do?

LUTHER
Land in the middle of Shanghai
and hope no one notices?

ETHAN
Central Park's two blocks away.

LUTHER
Wait, wait, Ethan, I'm not saying I have a better idea, but there's a point where bold becomes stupid. Now, we don't even know what this thing is, and you're talking about handing it over to a guy who provides terrorists with information.

ETHAN
Luther, of course I'm not suggesting that we just hand it over. We're going to tag the Rabbit's Foot so we can trace it and know where it is. Now, you know we can get that gear here. I just deliver it myself. We contact Musgrave, have the IMF trace a tag, order a raid, get the Rabbit's Foot back, grab Davian. Now, if I get out with Julia, we win. If I don't, then... Look, then she's dead anyway. And so am I. You know? Goddamn it, it's 8:11, it's 8:12. And we have two hours
before they kill my wife. Are you in or not?

LUTHER
Of course we're in.

EXT.BUILDING
Ethan tries to complete a mission.

LUTHER
You got 18 minutes.You're going to make it over there. You're going to find the Rabbit's Foot,
get back to the roof, radio me when you're ready to make the jump, and we're going to come get you.

ETHAN
Thank you for coming.

LUTHER
That's my job.

LUTHER
Batter up.

DECLAN
Oh, yeah. They're freaking out. Hit them again.

ETHAN
Okay.

LUTHER
He made it.

DECLAN
He made it.

LUTHER
I knew he'd make it.

EXT.BUILDING
Ethan is on the building's roof. They are talking on the radio.

ETHAN
I'm going in. I'll be out in five minutes.

DECLAN
It's been 12 minutes.He's got five minutes left.
If he doesn't call Davian in five minutes,Julia's dead.

LUTHER
Anything?

DECLAN
Negative.
How about you? Any good news?

LUTHER
No, nothing.

INT.CAR
Declan and Zehn are talking.

DECLAN
Come on, Ethan.
What is that?

ZHEN
When I was little I had a cat, and he used to run away all the time.

And it's just a prayer I'd say to bring him home.

DECLAN
Teach it to me.

They are talking on the radio again.
Ethan got rabbit's foot and is trying to escape.

ETHAN
I've got the Rabbit's Foot, but I can't make it to the roof.

DECLAN
What the hell do you mean you can't make it to the roof? Where are you?

ETHAN
Look up! Look up, look up!

DECLAN
Oh, shit.

ZHEN
He's way too low.

EXT.BUILDING
Ethan fortunately succeed taking on the ground. He gets in the car.

DECLAN
Ethan! Get in! They're coming!

ETHAN
Who?

DECLAN
Building security, and they're pissed.

ETHAN
Okay. Go, go, go, go.

DECLAN
How much time you got left?

Ethan tries to call Davian, but there is no signal.

ETHAN
Less than two minutes. You gotta get us out of here. I lost the signal.

DECLAN
You okay?

ETHAN
Not yet.

ETHAN
Come on. Come on. I don't have a signal. I don't have a signal.

DECLAN
I'm on it. I'm on it. I'm on it!

Zhen is shot.

DECLAN
Zhen!

ZHEN
Damn it. I'm sorry.

ETHAN
Put pressure on it.

DECLAN
Tell me when you get a signal.

ETHAN
What are you doing? I got a signal!

ETHAN
Hit redial.

Davian talks to Ethan on the phone.

DAVIAN
You only had five seconds left. Do you realize that?

ETHAN
The Rabbit's Foot. I have it.

DAVIAN
The train yard at Dunan Zhong Lu. Wait for me there. Alone.

Ethan calls Musgrave.

MUSGRAVE
Yeah?

ETHAN
Go secure.

MUSGRAVE
We are.

ETHAN
I have the Rabbit's Foot.

MUSGRAVE
You okay?

ETHAN
I'm tagging it now. You need to run a trace. Make sure we have eyes
on this thing.

MUSGRAVE
What's the tag?

ETHAN
6-3-9-6-4-1.

MUSGRAVE
Got it.

Ethan talks to Luther.

ETHAN
I see you on Luang Tao Lu Road. If you don't hear from me in eight hours, you send an army after this thing.

MUSGRAVE
Good luck.

ETHAN
You, too.

INT. IMF
BRASSEL
Mr. Musgrave.

MUSGRAVE
Yeah.

BRASSEL
It's come to my attention that yesterday afternoon
you sent a team to the Far East.

MUSGRAVE
We received intel that Hadaam Saleen Bahar was en route to Shanghai.

BRASSEL
Hadaam Saleen Bahar.

MUSGRAVE
That's right.

BRASSEL
You know what I'd love? I'd love to see that intel. I'll be in my office.

MUSGRAVE
Yes, sir.

INT.CAR
Ethan says goodbye to his friends.

ETHAN
Thanks again. I'll see you back home.

LUTHER
Ethan. You know they probably plan to kill you both.

ETHAN
Then I won't see you back home. Better get back.

Questions
1.  How does Davian escape?
2.  What happens to Julia?
3.  Why does Ethan go to Shanghai?