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Bond: I don't smoke
Man: You do now
(the man leaves the cigarette and lighter on the table and leaves, Bond lights it and holds it away from his mouth still looking at it. The cigarette immediately burns away to reveal a capsule, Bond snaps the capsule to reveal a note, it reads....
YOU MUST KILL HER
(Bond is visibly confused. He stand up, throws a few Euros on the table, turns around and...
Man: "This isn't the first time MI6 has been nipping at my heels Mr. Bond"
Bond: "Call me James....Romero is it?" *Romero is identified and the gun is pressed harder into Bond's back*
Romero: "So, it is true. It seems my reputation is better known that I once believed. Shame... Needn't worry though, you'll be out of my hair in moments. I suppose you came for the girl, but I must tell you she is no longer in the game. I hope she wasn't of importance...."
Bond takes a chance and risks a counter on Romero. He turns on his heel and reaches for the gun....
After an extended pause, a title card fades in:
36 HOURS AGO
MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
Bond: "Business or pleasure Mathis." The frenchman saw he had been caught and dropped his act.
Mathis:"James, you know well enough that when I am on the French government's time, pleasure is only had when business is finished." He laughed heartily, slapped Bond on the right shoulder in a playful manner and sat at that very side of the bar next to him.
Bond spotted a manila folder in Mathis's left hand and took a final lurch of Martini before continuing his questioning.
Bond:"Well, I hope you know why I'm here Mathis, because all M gave me was a passport and your escort." Mathis grew serious at this and began his reasoning.
Mathis:"It's Bradley. 6 found him dead on the street in Paris this morning. Two shots in the head. Overkill by French standards."
Bond was shocked if anything, and explained his dissinvolvment with the affair. "I heard about his extended trip in Paris, but the operation was above my level. M said 6 was working Bradley as a mole. That's all I know." At this Mathis tossed forth a photograph from the file. Bond saw a chizled face with stark black hair parted to the right side, and oily skin. He had never seen the man before.
Mathis:"His name is Romero. A man of Spanish blood raised in Italy by poor parents. He grew up selling papers across Florence and beginning adulthood as a merchant to save money for a higher education. You can see that went nowhere as he is on MI6's most wanted. I'll skip personal matters. I have the file here if you want to read up. You are not here to write his biography after all. The Deuxième fear there is danger in this man. He has recently popped up on the grid in Miami and was on a list of guests to a private auction at one of Florida's finest accommodating spending houses. He gave one bid in the 17th series, a fine painting held by Napoleon at Saint Helena."
Bond:"So 6 is on his tail for bidding on an old French antiquity?"
Mathis:"The painting was not what he was after. It was what is in the painting. Romero was bidding with a combined group of fifty. All prominent men, and thirteen of the fifty were Quantum members. The thirteen men were in place to outnumber the other rich members of the auction house in the hopes that one of Quantum would obtain the piece. We expect a connection between Quantum and this Romero. He won the painting in the end, and as he hasn't turned up dead, we suspect ties between him and Quantum, and that he secured the painting in clear lineage to the group. He is indeed good friends with the owner of the house, a Mr. John Barriston Harris. He may very well have secured Harris to do the drop and get in with the deal to endorse Quantum's purchase of the art piece. Our suspicions of Romero's lineage were soon seen to be true. He left Miami with the members on a private jet after the festivities."
Bond:"So we've got a secret dead drop in a painting, and a man inside the spending house who has ties to Romero, who is in bed with Quantum. How do we know if the drop is legitimate and where does Bradley enter the picture?"
Mathis:" We had your Bradley inserted into play six months ago and began working a friendship with Romero. He was at the bidding and was flying on the jet with the rest of the Quantum members with the cover of a powerful oil baron. He planted a bug and found chatter about a drop as you said inside the painting in former possession of my country's dear Napoleon. He was originally to get Romero in place for interrogation, but plans soon changed with Quantum's physical presence. His mission was updated and he was to now secure information on the contents of the painting and why said object would interest Quantum. Only three short days ago he called in to 6 from his mobile with news of what the painting held. You'll never guess what it is."
Bond:"What?"
*SORRY FOR THE LENGTH! I had to finish off the idea I had and underestimated how long it would turn out to be. In the future I will greatly lessen my length of posts as to allow maximum creativity to others.
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From This Point on if the 10 line limit is broken all lines after the 11 will be "backspaced"
Also this is a pre-titles WHERE'S THE ACTION!!!!
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The implication of this is obvious: everyone else to this Romero case keeps getting shot.
He pulls out his trusty ppk and waits
the sniper is firing blind, as the sofa is part of a very large set.
But... the sniper hits an conveniently placed gas powered chandelier.
a bullet hits the chain and crashes down to the lobby floor starting a fire....
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Re-reading that massive entry, 0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, I think you're kind of missing the aim here. This is shaping up as a script, not a novel. Lines like "Bond was shocked if anything, and explained his dissinvolvment with the affair" are out of place in a script. The idea is to quickly, specifically and neatly describe actions. Leave emotional cues out of it; actors hate it when writers try to tell them exactly what they should do. So the line "Bond was shocked if anything, and explained his dissinvolvment with the affair" should read as "Bond is shocked by this". The "if anything" is too ambiguous, while his dialogue will explain why he has nothing to do with it, so there's no need to state that he is explaining himself.
I know I'm being critical, but it's intended as constructive criticism.
(going good guys!)
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He takes a deep breath and prepares to hurl himself at the window. As he goes to move he is grabbed violently by the sniper who has made his way to Bond. A violent hands on fight ensues, clothing is starting to burn and the ferocity of the fight matches that of the fire. Eventually Bond has the edge and leads both of them to the window. Bond uses the butt of the snipers gun to smash the glass of the grand window..backdraft..Bond and sniper are sent hurtling through the air by the huge surge of hot energy....
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Bond turns back just in time to see one of the men unleash a blistering wave of gunfire. There is nowhere for Mathis to go, and he is almost torn apart by the hail of bullets. There is absolutely no way the Frenchman could survive being shot this time. Mathis is absolutely, unequivocably dead.
Bond's eye catchs a glimmer in the moon light hanging from a low laying branch of a blooming moch orange. The flames leap up from the windows as Lieter drops a "special cocktail" upon the tow on the landing, two "men" burst into flames and shoot each other. Bond reaches threw the broken landing window and pulls back a cheap silver chain latched to an expensive Sienna Italain leather wallet and platinum Patek Philippe pocket watch...
Lieter calls from above Bond "...Heelo James....Its hot in the old town tonight!"