The Saint Page #5

No, there's no time for high-tech. He's going to drill right through the b*tch, right through four inches of tungsten steel. He starts setting up the drill.

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - MEZZANINE LOBBY

Two CHAMPAGNE GLASSES lie shattered on the floor, and next to that mess lie the JAPANESE GUARDS, now unconscious. The champagne server's gone...

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - MEZZANINE

...because he's here, moving quickly toward the Myaki Corporation's office, and he's not a champagne server, but a thief and a killer, a blonde Russian named ILYA. Ilya stops just outside the interior corridor. With the GUARD'S KEYRING, he shuts off the anti-theft mats and moves around the corner into the corridor.

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - INTERIOR CORRIDOR

Ilya stops short. His eyes spark. He sees Templar's cable and glider.

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - MYAKI CORPORATION OFFICES

Templar, wearing goggles, leans into the drill as THE BIT CHEWS into the tungsten lock. This is a violent exercise. SINEWS OF METAL spit out like shrapnel.

He's through the lock in seconds. Templar heaves the drill aside; it lands with a THUD on the beautiful mahogany table. He opens the safe. INSIDE THE SAFE is one object: A SMALL BOX, the size of a cufflink keeper. Templar grabs it and opens it.

INSIDE THE LITTLE BOX is a tiny MICRO-CHIP. Templar closes the box and pockets it.

ILYA (v.o.)

Don't move.

Templar freezes. His eyes twitch. This wasn't in the plan...

ILYA (v.o.)

Turn around. Slowly.

Templar faces Ilya. Ilya has a silenced handgun.

ILYA:

On your knees.

(Templar sinks to his knees)

Give me the box. Slowly.

Templar pulls out the box. Tosses it to Ilya. Ilya raises the handgun at Templar's head. Smiles. Try something: throw an extension cord on the ground. I guarantee it will land coiled in several places.

Ilya happens to be standing inside one of the coils of the drill's extension cord. And this is not lost on Templar. Templar, on his knees, grabs the cord and yanks it; the coil tightens around Ilya's ankles. His legs fly from under him and he goes down, the gun clattering across the floor. Ilya tries to get to his feet. Templar floors him with a right cross. Templar grabs the box and his backpack and sprints across the room. Ilya gains his feet and grabs his gun; sprints after Templar.

INT. NIKKO HOTEL - MEZZANINE

Templar runs to the balustrade and climbs atop it.

He jumps, clutching the ceiling girder above. He's going out the way he came in. Suddenly ILYA'S HANDS are around his ankles. Templar falls. He's going 12 stories to his death. No. His fingers clutch the outside of the balustrade. Templar dangles there, looking up at the sadistic face of Ilya. And suddenly below --

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