Mission: Impossible Page #7

PHELPS (CONT'D)

Boy, you really are grim. Come here,

take a look.

He leads ETHAN to the window, which overlooks the city.

EXT. PRAGUE - DAY

ETHAN's POV of Embassy.

INT. SAFE HOUSE - DAY

ETHAN nods.

PHELPS (CONT'D)

Beyond Charles Bridge there is our

Embassy. See it? Tomorrow night, if

anything goes wrong, this guy will steal

the names of our agents in every country

all over Eastern Europe. Up for grabs to

the highest bidders -- third world

terrorists, arms dealers, drug lords --

any and everybody who'd love to get rid

of long term coverts like us, and some

very dear friends among them. If they're

exposed, they'll be executed. Come over

here. Take a lock at this.

CLAIRE, who is working at a computer, has pulled up a

quicktime video image in a box on her screen. In it, an old

edition of the McLaughlin Report, the PBS news show, is

playing.

ETHAN is distracted by it.

INSERT - TELEVISION

SENATOR WALTZER, a bearded, bespectacled man in his forties,

is holding forth:

SENATOR WALTZER:

I'll go you one further. I say the CIA

and all its shadow organizations have

become irrelevant at best and

unconstitutional at worst. It's time we

throw a little light on the whole concept

of the Pentagon's "black budget." These

covert agency subgroups have confidential

funding, they report to no one -- who are

these people?! We were living in a

democracy the last time I checked.

BACK TO SCENE:

ETHAN looks back at JIM.

ETHAN:

You're going to use Walter?

PHELPS:

He's our guy.

ETHAN:

Isn't he chairing the Armed Services hearing?

PHELPS:

Not this week. This week he's flyfishing

at the Oughterard Slough in County

Kildare, with one of our best Irish guides.

ETHAN:

He won't be back in a hurry?

PHELPS:

No, not in a hurry. What do you think?

You think the plot'll work?

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