The Saint Page #4

Templar stops cold. A RUG (an oriental runner) extends the length of the corridor.

Templar kneels, lifting an edge of the rug. Revealing ANTI -THEFT PRESSURE SENSORS. Templar produces a DARTGUN (the size of a flare gun, silenced, with a spool of steel cable attached to the top). He aims down the corridor and fires.

A STEEL DART explodes from the barrel, spooling out the cable, and imbeds above the door at corridor's end.

Templar yanks the other end of cable from the spool. He looks around for something to secure it.

TEMPLAR:

Sorry about this.

He ties the cable around Myaki's bronze neck. He hangs from the cable, testing it. It will hold. He pulls out an aluminum contraption with small wheels and two handle grips. It's A GLIDER for the cable. He attaches the glider to the cable, grips the handles, and glides the length of the corridor.

THE OTHER END OF THE CORRIDOR - OVER THE DOOR

Templar bumps up against the door. He pulls his knees up and over the handles of the glider, then flops over backwards, hanging upside down. HIS FACE is now right next to the door handle, over which is an ELECTRONIC LOCK (opened by punching a code).

Templar pulls out a BLACK BOX. It's a really small, really powerful computer and its job is to run through every possible number combination in about a minute and a half. Templar wires the computer to the lock with two needlelike ELECTRODE PROBES.

He activates the system. The little computer starts running through combinations of numbers. He waits, hanging upside down. Meanwhile--

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - MEZZANINE - ELEVATOR LOBBY

The Japanese guards are smoking by the elevator, joking, laughing. One of these guys is a riot... The elevator opens. The CHAMPAGNE SERVER comes out, tray in hand.

CHAMPAGNE SERVER

Compliments of Mr. Myaki.

JAPANESE GUARDS:

(delighted)

Ahh!

Beaming, they each take a glass. They clink and drink.

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - INTERIOR CORRIDOR

The computer BEEPS. It's finished. Templar turns the door handle; pushes open the door. He pulls himself up. Hangs from his hands again. He swings his legs back and forth, getting momentum up. He releases from the glider and lunges inside.

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - MYAKI CORPORATION OFFICES

A grand boardroom with Japanese furniture and art. At the end of a fifty-foot mahogany table is a PAINTING OF HIRO MYAKI. Templar walks over to it.

TEMPLAR:

Sorry again.

He RIPS the painting off the wall and heaves it aside. And here, where the painting was, is A SAFE. Templar unshoulders his backpack. He pulls out a 40-pound CARLSBAD & RINKER industrial diamond-tipped drill, as big as a jackhammer. No finesse here, people.

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