The Italian Job Page #2

It is filled with tomatoes. He takes a bite out of one.

Nods. Everything seems to be order. The Captain looks

relieved. The inspector closes the cardboard box but...

Watch carefully now, because as he does this, he hits a power

button on a small HOMING DEVICE and stuffs it in with the

tomatoes...

INT. HOTEL ROOM -SAME TIME

On Lyle's computer screen, a pulsating dot appears, BEEPING,

sending out precise longitude and latitude.

LYLE:

For those about to rock, we salute you.

Charlie dials his cell phone.

INT. HUMVEE (MOVING) -INTERCUT

Handsome Rob answers.

HANDSOME ROB:

Yeah.

CHARLIE:

Let's get rich.

Handsome Rob pulls over. They're at the port. They can see

the mysterious crate being lowered into the ship's hold.

Half-Ear climbs out, taking a large duffel bag with him.

CUT TO:

EXT. SHIP (DOCKED) -LATER, NIGHT

The Captain is doing his final checks before launch. OUR

CAMERA DROPS to —

BENEATH THE WATER

where we FIND Half-Ear, in scuba gear, applying Nitramon

explosive primer to the hull of the ship.

INT. HUMVEE (MOVING) -NIGHT

Plowing through thick brush that breaks out onto a secluded

beach. Handsome Rob is still behind the wheel but now Steve

is in the passenger seat. Lyle, in the back, is still on the

laptop, legs fidgeting like a drummer on meth. POP goes his

bubble gum.

HANDSOME ROB:

Can you chill out back there? You'd make

a hummingbird nervous.

EXT. UNDERNEATH THE SHIP -NIGHT

Half-Ear finishes up. Speaks into the headset inside his

gear.

HALF-EAR

I'm done. Over.

LYLE (V.O.)

Copy that. Enjoy the ride, cowboy.

Half-Ear grabs onto the bottom rung of a ladder that is

bolted tothesidfeof the shipasit launchesoffthedock

boltedto the sidfe oftheship as itlaunches off the dock

and into deeper water.

CUT TO:

TWO BRIGHT CIRCLES IN A SEA OF DARKNESS

Coming closer...becoming clearer... It's Charlie and John

Bridger, in scuba gear, riding torpedo-shaped Dive Propulsion

Vehicles (DPVs) that pull them through the deep blue sea at a

good 5 m.p.h. Both DPVs drag equipment bags.

A Global Satellite Positioning Device is mounted on the

handlebar of Charlie's DPV, being fed information via Lyle's

laptop. A circle pulsates on the monitor, a beacon to the

crate in the ship.

EXT. UNDER THE BOAT -NIGHT

Half-Ear still clings to the ladder. It's a wild ride.

Through the headset inside his gear, he HEARS:

LYLE (V.O.)

Get ready. 3. 2. 1. Drop.

Half-Ear lets go of the ladder. The ship's propellers speed

by just above his head. WHOOSH.

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