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BOND 18ScreenplaybyBruce Feirstein(for educational purposes only)FADE IN ON:EXT. DESOLATE MOUNTAIN RANGE - HIGH ANGLE - DAWNSuper: THE KHYBER PASS, AFGHANISTANWe're looking down at what used to be called "The End of the KnownWorld." A landscape that is both beautiful, and forbidding.In the center of this vista, there is a deep ravine.Pushing in on the ravine, there appears to be a giant icicle hangingover a cliff:AN ICE FALL. A 600 foot waterfall whose face is frozen solid.Pushing in still closer, there is a tiny black dot inching its way upthe ice. A human figure. This is:JAMES BOND, BRITISH SECRET SERVICE AGENT, 007.Bond is sweating and straining, four hundred feet in the air. He hasan ice-pick tethered to each hand, ice-cleats on his boots. A blackbackpack. As he climbs, spider-like, pulling himself up, he goes toJAM A CLEAT into the ice, but -CRACK! A 50 foot stiletto of ice breaks off, CRASHING onto the rocksbelow. Regaining his foothold, Bond looks down: Certain death. Helooks up: So very, very, far to go. Bond shakes his head:BONDThere has to be an easier way to earna living.Still, Bond climbs. Huffing, sweating, he goes up, and up, until -ANOTHER ANGLE -He's 25 feet from the top. He drives a first ice pick in. Gets atoehold. But when he slams the second pick in -THE ICE WALL SHATTERS, FALLING AWAY IN FRONT OF HIM. IN THE SHOCK -BOND LOSES HIS GRIP ON THE FIRST ICE PICK -And 007 is now dangling, 575 feet in the air, staring at a torrent ofwater - hanging only by the leather thread around his wrist, attached
 
to the first ice-pick, still embedded in the wall.Bond pauses. Thinks. And coolly begins to swing himself back andforth, in widening arcs, like a clock's pendulum.At the high point of his swing, Bond reaches back to smash his otherpick into the ice - BUT MISSES. He looks up at:THE FIRST ICE PICK, STILL EMBEDDED IN THE WALL -Beginning to work its way out. The tether, fraying.RETURN ON BOND -Cautiously, 007 begins to swing a second time. Once. Twice. And onthe third arc, he swings the ice-pick viciously - but MISSES AGAIN.ANGLE ON THE FIRST ICE PICK, STILL EMBEDDED IN THE WALL -Now jutting downward, barely holding. The tether is almost totallyfrayed through.RETURN ON BOND -One last chance. Bond swings. Once. Twice. He reaches back, hurlshimself at the wall, lunging - AND SMASHES THE SECOND PICK INTO THEICE... Just as the tether finally snaps on the first one. Still,he's all but home: He reaches over, grabs the first pick (barelyholding in the ice,) jabs it in, and continues upward.EXT. THE TOP OF THE WATER FALL -Exhausted, Bond reaches up, over the edge. He drives a pick down -through the ice, into the hard, flat, ground beneath the waterbed.As he pulls himself up, (his full weight on the first ice-pick,) hesmashes a second pick through the ice, into the waterbed, and -THE ENTIRE ICE FALL GIVES WAY -Breaking off with a groan, tumbling onto the rocks below.IN THE WATERBED -A torrent of water crashes over 007. Fighting the oncoming deluge,he crawls - on his belly - through the water - 25 feet inland.NEW ANGLE - (TOP OF THE WATER FALL, INLAND)Bond stands, walks out of the riverbed. He looks back at the cliff:BOND'S POV - THE WATER FALL -On either side of the water, there are two small RADAR DISHES, angleddown, scanning every inch of the area, save for the waterfall itself.In other words: This was the only way in.RETURN ON BOND -
 
007 shrugs. From his backpack, he takes out TWO CIGAR-SIZED BLACKCANISTERS, and an ELONGATED BLACK BOX. He presses a button on theside of the box, and - fwap, fwap, fwap - SNOW SKIS unfold.He presses buttons on the canisters: TELESCOPIC SKI POLES. Bondslaps on the skis, and takes off, through the snow.EXT. SNOW-COVERED FOREST - BOND SKIS THROUGH THE PINES -EXT. MOUNTAIN CLIFF -Bond hurtles over the side, going airborne, landing 100 feet below,amidst boulders. In perfect Olympic form, he skis out, and down.EXT. MOUNTAINSIDE -Bond slaloms down, in and out of trees, to avoid detection. At thebottom, where the snow thins, he comes to:A ROCK OUTCROPPING.Hiding behind the rock, Bond takes off his skis, knapsack. Heunpacks (and unfolds) a HIGH TECH AUTOMATIC RIFLE. Puts on aHEADSET. He creeps up on the rock, and looks out on:A SECRET MILITARY BASE/AIR STRIP (BOND'S POV)50 feet down, 200 yards away: 50 MEN are unloading CARGO from a dozenMILITARY TRANSPORT TRUCKS; there are TWO NORTH KOREAN MiG-29s on theground (one partially obscured by a truck,) plus FLATBEDS carryingHELICOPTERS and SCUD MISSILES.Near a QUONSET HUT, a TRUCK-MOUNTED RADAR DISH scans the area, withINFRARED GATLING GUNS mounted on either side.BOND - AT THE ROCK OUTCROPPING -Props his rife on the boulder, and peers through the GUN SIGHT.THROUGH THE TELESCOPIC SIGHT -He sees a closer (but still wide) telescopic view of men bargainingover weapons, and forklifts loading/unloading crates of munitions.THE SAME SCENE ON A VIDEO WALL - MI-6 SITUATION ROOM, LONDON.BOND'S VOICE(over a speaker)Seven, in position.TANNER'S VOICERoger, Seven.Watching this display is M, TANNER, and a handful of MILITARY BRASS,including a RUSSIAN GENERAL, BUKHARIN, and BRITISH ADMIRAL ROEBUCK,an aging sea-lion with no love for M, or MI-6.
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