NO TIME TO DIE
Screenplay by
Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Story by
Neal Purvis & Robert Wade and Cary Joji Fukunaga
© 2019 Danjaq LLC and United Artists Corporation. All rights reserved.
1 007 Theme... 1
Wide on a peninsula between two large frozen lakes on a monochromatic vista.
CUT TO FOLLOWING a MAN hobbling through the snow weakly. He carries a gun.
He clears the trees, pauses, before descending a slope leading him out of frame, revealing...
A LONELY HOUSE
Wreathed in snow. Lights in the windows. Straddling the icy shore.
CLOSE on a cigarette in a woman’s propped up hand, an ember glows in its tip.
A CD plays French seventies electro-punk.
The WOMAN lies on a couch, half asleep, a drop of red wine in a glass on the coffee table, pain killers an anti-psychotics sprinkled around it.
She calls to her daughter: MADELEINE.
MADELEINE, twelve, plays with a handheld video game.
HEARS her mother, gets up.
FOLLOW BEHIND HER as she goes for the stairs.
2.2.
WE CONTINUE PUSHING towards a large triangular transom looking out at the snow where THE MAN trudges towards us.
Now we TILT DOWN to the KITCHEN below. Madeleine fills a glass from a box of wine.
Madeleine hands the wine to her mother, watching her flatly as the mother takes a long gulp, the cigarette teeters on the edge of the coffee table between the scattered pills.
The following dialogue is all in French.
Madeleine’s mother laughs.
3.3.
Madeleine looks at her mother. Her mother drops her wine glass.
Madeleine opens the cupboard under the kitchen sink, gets out a sponge and a jug of ammonia -- marked flammable.
Her eyes dwell briefly on a compact BERETTA 92 wedged behind the pipes.
On her knees, Madeleine blots out the stain on the carpet with rhythmic SQUASHES.
A shadow crosses her. She stops, senses something... carries on cleaning.
Then a second SQUASH joins in like FOOTSTEPS on snow, off tempo from her own actions.
More curious than frightened, she clambers over her mother onto the couch, looking out the window. Nothing, not even an animal.
Turns to her mother.
Turns back - a DARK FIGURE wearing a pale JAPANESE NOE mask stands JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WINDOW.
She screams, falling back.
But her mother just wants to sleep.
4.4.
Madeleine runs out.
Madeleine enters a code on a keypad. She pushes and bangs against the door but it won’t open.
We pan across a surveillance camera to reveal three CCTV screens showing the MAN trudging past.
Madeleine turns and calls out to her mother.
She hears the CRUNCHING OF SNOW - moving towards the kitchen.
She follows it with her head, her eyes. Then something SHATTERS behind her. The MAN in the mask stands at the end of the hallway.
She knocks a pocket door as she jumps to escape. It slowly closes in front of us.
We see the MAN through the reeded glass of the door, his image splintered.
He opens it.
The man walks towards Madeleine’s mother on the couch. She looks up.
5.5.
We see Madeleine hiding, listening.
We hear gunfire.
ON MADELEINE HIDING -- stifling her gasps.
The couch stuffing floats in the air. The man senses something, turns and makes his way to the stairs.
He climbs the stairs.
He enters Madeleine’s bedroom. We see her hiding under the bed. The man doesn’t see anything but as he’s turning to leave - the videogame beeps.
From her hiding place under the bed, Madeleine sees his feet. She holds her breath and waits.
The man turns back and raises his gun.
Madeleine rises, SHOOTS WILDLY, EYES CLOSED. Bullet after bullet hits the man.
Until CLICK CLICK CLICK. The clip is empty.
She opens her eyes, the dark figure falls like a tree to the floor below.
In shock, she walks to the edge of the balcony and looks down on his body.
Madeleine, tears in her eyes, looks down at her mother.
6.6.
Moments later...
ON THE MAN’S broken MASK, his face marked by pitted skin and discoloured with green and purple marbling.
We track with it across the living room floor -- dragged by Madeleine, wearing just her parka and slippers.
Madeleine struggles to get him out of her house. She lets him drop, exhausted by the effort.
She drops to the ground, when suddenly the man sits up.
Her mouth is open but she can’t scream - she just runs.
The man rises and follows, a limp, bleeding, unhurried, relentless.
Slipping and sliding, Madeleine struggles across the expanse.
She looks back as she runs when she suddenly feels the ice shift.
SHE FALLS THROUGH THE ICE, disappears from view.
THE MAN walks on, until -
HIS POV, Madeleine hauntingly trapped beneath the clear ice.
HER POV, looking back up at this distorted cruel figure. She’s running out of air, BANGS on the ice, GUN SHOTS ECHO.
BULLETS streak past her on either side. The ice fractures and turns to slush.
HIS HAND reaches down into the freezing water. He pulls her out.
SOUND OF OCEAN WAVES CRASHING.
Madeleine breaks the surface of the water as if Safin was pulling her out -
She gasps but is frozen -- opens her eyes, he’s gone. It was just a vision.
7.7.
BOND stands like Adonis on a lido overlooking the sea. She turns, feeling his eyes on her.
Madeleine smiles, burying the past trauma. She’s been dealing with this for years.
She swims towards him. He can sense she isn’t telling him everything.
Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 rounds a corner of a rugged precipitous road. Madeleine looks at Bond adoringly.
She rests her head on his shoulder as we lead them into a tunnel --
-- Following the DB5 now as we exit the tunnel and see an ANCIENT HILLTOP TOWN looming over a rugged valley.
Bond drives through the piazza and parks the DB5. He gets out.
8.8.
Bond opens the passenger door for Madeleine. She gets out and they both stand, taking in the view.
Bond and Madeleine are led up he stone walk by the PORTER. Bond looks over his shoulder, almost involuntarily scanning. She notices.
He smiles.
He looks up at the burning paper floating down from windows above --
Bond and Madeleine kiss passionately as they move through the heavenly room overlooking the town. She pulls his shirt off round his shoulders to the floor.
9.9.
The passion turns into intimacy.
A record spins on a RECORD PLAYER. They lie in bed. He strokes her hair. He is looking at her.
Madeleine rolls away from Bond, gets up and walks to the desk.
She sits down at the desk with a notepad on it.
10.10.
Madeleine jots something down on the notepad.
CLOSE ON the notepad:L’homme masqué (the masked man). Madeleine tears the page from the notepad, folds it over. She picks up a box of matches.
Bond watches her move to the balcony overlooking the town, shaking the box of matches playfully.
The hundreds of glowing fires spread across the town is breathtaking.
Madeleine lights the piece of paper. She watches it fall.
On Bond, he watches her.
The first rays of the sun stretch across the room.
Bond moves to the desk. He writes something on the notepad and tears it off.
He moves to the bed, kisses Madeleine.
11.11.
As Bond crosses the ancient bridge spanning a deep ravine, a small group of WIDOWED WOMEN veiled in black pass by.
Bond looks up to an acropolis silhouetted in the morning sun.
Bond approaches the kiosk.
An OLD MAN, the caretaker, steps out to meet Bond. He barks at a YOUNG BOY.
The boy waves to Bond to follow him.
The boy guides Bond to Vesper’s grave then hustles off leaving Bond alone to face:
CU on a portrait of a beautiful WOMAN, dark hair, pale skin, light eyes: VESPER LYND 1983-2006.
The image stings his eyes.
He takes a piece of paper out of his pocket and lights it on fire with a lighter. We see what he has written:Forgive Me. The embers fall to the ground.
Then...
12.12.
Something catches his eye, something that shouldn’t be there. He frowns, bends down to pick it up
A SPECTRE SEPTIPUS card lying at the base of the crypt.
He looks at it and frowns. Bond’s senses spike -- DEATH.
He dives to the side just as -
KABOOM
The paving stone at the front of the grave explodes violently in a horizontal plume of black smoke and sparks.
As the dust settles Bond comes to and works his jaw, his hearing is muffled and brain battered.
He pulls out a phone and speed dials -
Bond can’t hear, he is up and moving, looks at the phone, thinks he sees the call timer start -
He looks at the phone. He hangs up. He turns and runs towards town.
Bond runs towards the kiosk. The young boy and the old man are gone, a phone dangles from the receiver.
Bond is running, half way across the bridge, chasing after the young boy. The boy stops, turns and smiles at Bond.
Behind Bond, a black Maserati approaches. The boy sees it and takes off.
Bond turns and sees the Maserati screaming directly at him.
Too far to run to the other side, he dives for cover behind a stone buttress along the wall.
The Maserati rams into his section of the wall but the buttress forces the car’s tyres up the wall and over him.
Bond gets up and starts to run when a motorcyclist wearing shades, PRIMO, rides up from the other side of the bridge.
13.13.
The PASSENGER in the Maserati fires shots at Bond.
Bond is stuck in the middle of the bridge with the Maserati at one end and Primo at the other end.
Bond dives, grabbing hold of a cable as he soars over the edge.
The cable breaks loose and snaps taught as he reaches the limit of its length. He swings down to a lower tier.
Primo takes off his shades, revealing a bionic eye, and looks over the edge angrily. He revs the motorcycle and takes off in pursuit of Bond.
Bond breaks through a door leading to a tunnel.
Bond runs up a stone passageway.
Bond enters a terraced street. Hears Primo looking for him on the bike. Calculates.
Suddenly he dashes towards Primo into the alley below, tackling Primo to the ground.
They fight rapidly and roughly amongst clothes on lines in an enclosed patio. Bond gets the upper hand, wraps a clothes line around Primo’s neck and pulls it tight.
Bond about to finish him when -
Bond stops. What?
14.14.
Bond knocks him out. Primo’s fake eye pops out, CLINKS down a couple of steps.
Bond looks at it, then at the bike.
Bond takes off on the bike.
Bond rides the bike up the piazza steps.
Bond gets airborne. He lands and rides through a church procession. He motors towards the hotel.
Bond enters. The porter from the night before looks at him like he’s a ghost.
Bond looks at him. She asked for this?
Madeleine approaches the mirror to put on some lipstick.
She sees Bond in the reflection.
Madeleine turns to face him.
Bond is standing there covered in dust, blood dripping down his face, clothes ripped from the chase and the fight.
She walks towards him.
15.15.
She looks panicked. The phone rings. Bond grabs Madeleine’s handbag.
He grabs Madeleine and they rush out of the room.
They head down the path to the DB5. He pushes her in.
Bond gets in the car and starts the engine.
He revs the car, cold with rage, speeds off just as TWO PURSUIT cars nearly run into them.
The cars weave around the DB5 and handbrake turn to pursue as Bond gets to high speed on the ring road.
Suddenly Madeleine’s phone starts ringing.
16.16.
The phone continues to ring.
Shaking, Madeleine takes the phone out of her handbag. We see the Spectre septipus appear on the phone’s screen. Bond grabs the phone from her, answers the call, pushes the speaker so they can both hear.
VOICE (German accent) It’s Blofeld my love. Your father would be so proud of you. Your sacrifice will be our glory.
Bond looks at Madeleine. His blood runs cold.
Bond drives. The pursuit cars follow.
A KID sits amongst a flock of SHEEP. His phone rings.
The following dialogue is all in Italian.
Bond is driving fast down the ring road.
17.17.
A Kid ushers a flock of sheep into the street.
Bond drives. In his rearview mirror black cars accelerate to follow.
Bond manoeuvres the DB5 as ANOTHER PURSUIT vehicle heading towards them blocks their way.
Bond hits a switch, the DB5 drops MINI-BALL GRENADES as he turns hard right onto a street filled with sheep.
The grenades unleash carnage on the pursuing vehicles. Bond 180s, THEN speeds through the cars he just took out.
The DB5 grinds against stone walls as it slides back onto another street.
WHAM --
The DB5 is t-boned hard by a black SUV.
The DB5 is violently SPUN sideways by the impact.
BRIEF SILENCE.
We see the car come to a stop as we pull back, revealing the bells of a church starting to TOLL. ALL AROUND THE BELLS RING.
The pursuit vehicles pull up. Suddenly everyone OPENS FIRE on the DB5. It’s protected but the SOUND INSIDE is deafening. They stop.
Primo steps from his car and advances towards them.
18.18.
Primo steps up to the car and fires shot after shot into the windows with his assault rifle
Madeleine panics as she watches Primo firing.
Primo continues firing into the windows. Bond barely reacts.
Bond turns to her.
He flicks another switch on the centre console. Front headlights drop down and gun muzzles reveal themselves.
Primo sees the muzzles and runs for cover.
Bond yanks hard down on the steering wheel. He stamps on the accelerator and the car spins into a 360 degree doughnut whilst the front guns open fire.
MEN dive for cover as bullets shred walls and buildings. Bond flicks another switch.
Smoke commences to belch from the exhaust pipes as the car spins creating a foggy wall.
The men rise and fire into the smoke as the DB5 disappears in a dense white smoke screen.
Bond steps on the gas.
Bond speeds on. He takes another wide turn. Pedestrians jump out of the way.
Bond whips the DB5 into a sliding stop in front of the train station.
19.19.
Bond is energised --
-- dragging Madeleine’s arm, leading her across the tracks to the opposite platform. A train waits.
He pulls her close, so close they can’t see each other’s faces. But we see his profound grief.
Bond pushes her towards the train. Madeleine boards. She turns.
The doors close and train starts to leave.
Madeleine moves down the car to keep him in sight but he disappears into the crowd.
CREDIT SEQUENCE
SUPERIMPOSE: FIVE YEARS LATER...
We TRACK DOWN the face of a glass cladded skyscraper. The reflection of the street below is mirrored in the panes.
The camera stops and tilts in towards a long darkened hall -- we are upside down.
THE CAMERA ROTATES to normal view as A SQUAD OF ARMED MEN in black stream from outside the broken window into the hall.
20.20.
They are heavily armed and armoured wearing helmets that look like welder’s visors - standard issue Russian SPETZNAZ and night vision.
They unleash themselves from the rope that had guided them down the face of the building and quickly start making their way down the hall, weapons up and ready.
1ST VOICE (O.S.) We are in.
2ND VOICE (O.C.) Proceed.
VALDO OBRUCHEV, Russian, forties, squeamish, opens up the shared office fridge.
Pan to TWO SCIENTISTS, DOCTOR HARDY and DOCTOR SYMES. Symes is searching for something.
Valdo takes a Tupperware container from the fridge. The two doctors turn to him.
Valdo looks at the Tupperware container. We see: VALDO’S FOOD NO TOUCH!!! in bold red print. Underneath is a printed sticker labelled: SMALLPOX.
Valdo throws the container down.
Symes and Hardy contain their laughter.
21.21.
Valdo’s desk phone rings. He picks it up, angry.
A calm and soft spoken voice is on the other end.
VOICE (O.S.) They are coming.
VOICE (O.S.) Spectre.
Valdo’s expression immediately shifts from anger to fear. He turns away from the watching office mates, listening as his heart races.
His voice lowers to a whisper.
VOICE (O.S.) Do not try to stop them. This is what we have been waiting for.
Valdo inserts a USB dongle into his computer.
22.22.
VOICE (O.S.) (CONT'D) They will ask you to enter Bio- Security Level 4 fridge and remove the weapon.
The ARMED MEN make their way through the building.
VOICE (O.S.) (CONT'D) No one must see what you are doing. They will not kill you. They think they need you.
The armed men shoot a SECURITY GUARD.
Valdo starts to transfer files from his computer to the USB dongle.
VOICE (O.S.) Swallow it. Goodbye.
Valdo pretends to his colleagues that he’s talking with someone on the phone.
He hangs up, stuffs the USB dongle in his mouth and swallows.
The room goes dark as the power is CUT.
Reserve power automatically powers dim emergency lighting.
BOOM.
An explosion rips through the building.
THEN gunfire vibrates through the building.
The armed men storm in. Shooting everyone except the THREE DOCTORS.
23.23.
One of the armed men, PRIMO removes his visor.
The three doctors are rounded up by the armed men.
Valdo looks around.
Valdo raises his hand.
Primo approaches Valdo, grabs him by the shoulder.
Valdo indicates Doctor Hardy.
Two armed men grab Hardy.
24.24.
Valdo and Hardy are lead away as Doctor Symes and some COLLEAGUES are shot by armed men.
Valdo and Hardy are in BL4 level containment suits.
Hardy opens the fridge and Valdo pulls out a cylinder filled with vials of a charcoal like substance that moves like a school of fish within the vial. He shows it to Primo who nods his approval.
Hardy holds up the cylinder from which Valdo carefully removes a vial. He hands it to Primo.
Valdo and Hardy place the vials into a briefcase.
Primo uses a special UV light instrument on the vial to confirm this is what he’s looking for. Satisfied, he pulls out his gun and shoots Hardy.
Explosives are placed around the lab as Valdo, Primo and the armed men stream out, leaving the lab.
Primo’s men pry open the elevator shaft. He looks up and sees the elevators are parked at the top of the building, leaving the shafts open and clear.
We look down at what seems like an endless drop.
Primo’s men force Valdo into a special vest, the same kind they are also wearing.
Another pair of men haul a heavy cylinder apparatus to the elevator shaft.
25.25.
The men toss the cylinder into the void. As it falls, it sprays out a myriad of small magnetic spheres which attach to the metallic surfaces of the shaft. A red LED on each flickers to life. When the empty cylinder crashes to the bottom an explosive charge concealed within blasts a hole in the concrete, revealing an underground passageway.
Primo and his men activate their vests and a light on each turns from red to green. Simultaneously, the lights on the magnetic spheres in the shaft also turn green.
Primo signals to his men and one by one they leap into the void. Valdo is led to the precipice and he looks down the empty shaft with fear.
Suddenly he’s pushed from behind and he screams with terror as he falls down the shaft.
As he falls past the magnets the LEDs change colour as they flip polarity. Slowly, his speed is reduced until Valdo comes to rest several feet above the exposed hole.
He hovers for a brief moment until the light on his vest changes and he drops through the hole.
The remaining men drop. Primo checks his watch and presses a button. He leaps into the shaft just as the corridor behind him explodes in a giant BALL of FLAMES.
A floor high up in the building glows as the fireball consumes the upper level of the building.
Establisher the London skyline.
CLOSE on a memo marked: URGENT. Pan up to MONEYPENNY walking through the main office.
26.26.
Moneypenny bursts into M’s office. M is lying on the couch.
M sits up quickly.
M I’ve seen it.
He picks up a remote, turns on an array of monitors that stream live footage of the damaged lab.
M (CONT'D) Jesus Christ!
He swallows. It’s a nightmare, whatever it is.
M No it’s not.
Not what she expected.
M It was a gas leak.
She turns to leave.
M (stern) It was a gas leak. I’ll handle it.
She is taken aback. M isn’t acting according to protocol.
M (CONT'D) Moneypenny (beat) Where’s 007?
27.27.
Bond, larger than life, bathed in sunshine, kicking back on his boat HAPPENSTANCE.
There’s a spear gun to his side, a couple of fish in the hold, his hand on the tiller.
To starboard, the green lush Jamaican coast, to port a dark brewing storm.
Bond walks up the dock to his breathtaking water-side house, the fish dangle in one hand, the speargun in the other.
He is visibly relaxed, walking at an island pace. A Bond we’ve never seen before.
He reaches his porch. Stops. Suddenly alert.
He sees discarded CIGAR ASH on the floor. This is not normal.
He slowly places the fish on the deck.
Bond crosses the deck leading to a detached bungalow, a pistol in his hand.
He goes inside. Scans. Nothing.
Then he sees the CIGAR BUTT on the ground. Kneels down, picks it up. Looks at the label.
Bond showers and cleans his teeth. He finishes and turns the water off.
In fresh clothes, Bond walks back to the house, gun in hand.
Bond puts the gun into a drawer at his desk. A WEATHERED NEWSPAPER PAGE of Blofeld’s conviction is visible from inside the drawer.
28.28.
Bond heads out in an old Land Rover.
He passes a WOMAN on the side of the road talking to a Rastafarian collecting stalks of Birds of Paradise.
She catches Bond’s eye.
Bond drives past a local cricket match next to Port Antonio Harbour.
As the camera dollies across the game we land on the bumper of a RENTAL CAR (Ford Mondeo).
Its brake lights illuminate as the engine revs to follow Bond.
Bond pulls into the square from West Street.
BUT, instead of parking, he ACCELERATES AROUND THE SQUARE -- SCREECHING out onto West street and nearly colliding with the FORD MONDEO -- it swerves and dips to a STOP.
FELIX looks up. Caught.
ASH smiles eagerly.
Bond walks them past SCHOOL KIDS playing video games on TVs on a long table - like an outdoor home arcade.
29.29.
A couple of MEN bump into Ash calling “babylon” and “police bwoy” as they pass.
Bond, Felix and Ash drink Heineken beers and shots in a packed dance club playing a coin game called SPOOK.
Bond and Felix hold out their fists --
Felix wins. They laugh.
30.30.
Bond and Felix laugh. Ash doesn’t know why.
Ash places a CIA playing card on the table, on it a photograph and bio of Obruchev.
Bond knows the name.
They throw fists again.
Felix wins.
31.31.
They throw a third time.
Felix’s fist is empty.
Bond looks at both of them.
He stands.
Bond walks to the bar where a WOMAN is picking up her drink order and turns to him. She looks him up, smiles.
He recognises her. The WOMAN (NOMI) from in front of his house.
She slides past him, looking him up and down.
Bond approaches the BARTENDER.
Felix joins him. Bond gestures to Ash.
32.32.
Bond and Felix look back at Ash, on his own. He smiles at them.
Bond drinks.
Bond goes to leave.
33.33.
Bond exits.
WE PAN AWAY as Felix leaves the bar. Primo (who we met in Matera) appears in frame.
Bond finishes the last morsel of chicken. He’s at ease again.
He walks to his parked car and gets in. It doesn’t start. He tries again. Frowns.
He gets out, opens the bonnet. Sees something which makes him realise it’s never going to start. He hears the buzz of a scooter behind him.
It gets louder as it approaches. Then stops next to him.
The WOMAN from the bar (NOMI) is smiling at him.
He looks at her scooter. Considers.
He gets on the scooter.
They drive off.
They zip along the quiet road.
34.34.
She smiles. He smiles.
Bond and Nomi pull up on the scooter.
Bond picks up a bottle of rum.
Bond pours two large rums with ice, turns to Nomi. She’s already walking down the breezeway to his bedroom.
He leans to see her disappearing. Follows.
It’s dark.
35.35.
She turns, faces him flirtatiously, then, coming as a surprise, takes off a wig.
She sits on the bed. Smiles. But frank now. Not flirty-
36.36.
She throws him her phone.
This stings.
She wants a reaction from him -
Got him -
The DB003 is visible in the wind tunnel.
37.37.
M and Tanner watch as Q analyses the hard drive from Obruchev’s computer which is plugged into Q’s laptop.
M How’s it going Q?
M Can you retrieve the files?
M Get me everything you can, then destroy the drive.
Q is taken aback.
M Thank you Q. That’s all.
Q looks a bit put out.
Tanner interrupts holding up his phone. M’s phone rings too.
M 007. Tell them something, anything.
M picks up the call, expecting Nomi’s voice.
M (CONT'D)
M is shocked. Covers his mouth as he steps away from Q and Tanner.
M Bond.
38.38.
Bond on the phone, pacing.
M Stay out of it. This has nothing to do with you.
M doesn’t say anything. He hangs up. Stares at the phone. Tanner looks up.
M The CIA have the advantage. Get me Blofeld.
M (stern, to Q) I know. The live feed is what I want.
Q nods. Loads up a live feed to Blofeld’s cell. It’s close enough to make out his passive face, rambling unpunctuated and apparently incoherent paragraphs to himself.
M Good.
M is satisfied. It can’t be Blofeld behind all of this.
39.39.
Tanner looks to Q obviously it’s something.
M It’s nothing.
M walks off. Tanner follows him.
Bond stands looking out to sea. He takes out his phone and makes a call.
MEDIUM ON BOND, sails towards Cuba. Determination in his eyes, a bit of a thrill perhaps...beats fishing.
WIDE AERIAL ON Happenstance approaching the mouth of the bay. The imposing Castillo del Morro looms over it.
Suddenly A SEAPLANE drops into frame.
Bond looks back and sees the plane roar over head, he knows it’s Nomi.
Happenstance is tied to the dock as MILITARY PORT AUTHORITY PERSONNEL check the boat for contraband.
A MILITARY POLICE OFFICER hands Bond’s documents back to him as Bond clocks the seaplane moored to the next wharf.
Nomi emerges from the seaplane. She gives Bond a little wave.
40.40.
MUSIC echoes from store fronts. PEOPLE hustle.
Bond appears, spots something, an open air corner bar.
Bond sees a woman in an elegant BLUE DRESS leaning against the counter sipping a drink: PALOMA.
Bond approaches, ready for flirtatious banter. She looks up --
She motions for Bond to follow.
Bond looks at her, unsure of the tone of her humour.
Paloma stops at a wine cellar. She takes out a key, nerves still have her shaking as she unlocks the door.
She starts undoing his shirt.
41.41.
She steps back, unrolls a suit bag she had stowed. It’s a tuxedo. He smiles.
She turns her back. Bond starts to undress.
Bond and Paloma cross the street.
Bond and Paloma enter, dressed to kill, cross to a bar. He notices AN ENTRANCE flanked by DOORMEN under a grand stairway.
They walk to the bar.
42.42.
Paloma takes a lipstick from her handbag, opens it and shakes out some objects into her hand. She flirtatiously inserts an earpiece in Bond’s ear.
She place an earpiece in her own ear. The drinks land. Perfectly iced and breathing.
They drink.
They leave the bar.
Valdo sweats nervously as he works on the briefcase computer we saw him bring from C-Minus-Two. PRIMO (wearing dark shades) watches him.
A transparent specimen bag with Bond’s TOOTH BRUSH lies next to a portable DNA sequencer attached to the computer with a swab plate inserted.
A graphic on screen readsSEQUENCING COMPLETE as a new GENE CODE file named JBis created.
43.43.
He then inserts a vial of Heracles in a slot in the briefcase, it is sucked in and we see a prompt for:SINGLE PROFILE or MULTIPLE PROFILES. Valdo drops a USB on the floor.
He bends down but doesn’t pick it up. Instead he puts his foot over it and slips out from his sock the USB he swallowed in the lab.
Valdo SECRETLY TRANSFERS MULTIPLE RECORDS into theTARGET GENE CODE prompt. He presses enter.
The case beeps: GENE ENCODING COMPLETE. WEAPONIZED.
He hands Primo the vial of Heracles. Primo places the vial inside a protective cover and leaves.
UPSTAIRS, Primo opens a cupboard, places the vial inside and turns a lever.
DOWNSTAIRS, Paloma and Bond enter. A BRASS BAND, driven by an energetic CONDUCTOR, pumps music into the room. This party is huge.
Paloma and Bond part. (THEY’LL SPEAK ON COMMS UNTIL THEY RECONNECT).
Bond surveys. He’s in the thick of dwarfs, pregnant women, wild cats and revellers dancing with religious fervour.
44.44.
Then Bond hones in on the BIGWIGS of the party. OLDER MEN with lots of YOUNGER WOMEN shoulder shimmying.
People turn an look at Bond, smiling with creepy and uncanny consistency.
Bond spots Primo on the stairs with a BODYBUARD.
Bond notices something -
Paloma adjusts her hidden earpiece, dialling through frequencies.
GUARDS with the BLOFELD EYEBALL enter, heading towards the centre stage.
Paloma finishes scanning.
As we tune into a familiar VOICE:
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Bond and Paloma walk the perimeter of the room.
Bond looks around, how can Blofeld be “seeing”?
Bond approaches the eyeball -- then --
-- Bond looks at it. DOES HE SEE ME?
Paloma looks up, sees Valdo Obruchev watching the party from its edges lustily.
She tracks back to the edge of the room to watch Valdo Obruchev approach the dance hall from upstairs.
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Primo looks at Bond, almost as if he knew he’d be there. Smiles.
Suddenly the room goes DARK. THREE SPOTLIGHTS shine onto Bond.
As if on cue the BAND’S MUSIC becomes a DRUM ROLL.
Primo and EVERY SPECTRE AGENT in the room step away from Bond, forming a circle around him.
A mist cascades down onto him. The crowd watches eagerly.
Bond looks at the mist falling around him, expecting it to mean death. But nothing happens. At first there is some confusion.
A WOMAN screams.
Bond turns. It’s hard to see in the swinging and panning light of the spotlights, but we see horrific glimpses.
A SPECTRE AGENT collapses to the ground, writhing.
Then ANOTHER.
THEN GROUPS OF THEM.
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Their skin turns BLOTCHY RED and their lips and eyelids BLISTER as they fall to the floor, blood trickling from their eyes, ears and noses.
THEN ALL SPECTRE AGENTS fall, experiencing the gruesome effects.
PRIMO AND THE BODYGUARDS ARE NOT AFFECTED. They see their masters dying and are at first frozen. Some try to resuscitate them.
Valdo Obruchev, watching it all, is rapt with excitement --
Valdo looks at Paloma. Realises she wasnot sent by Safin.
He tries to run. Bond spots him and yells to Paloma.
Bond jumps over the dead bodies. Grabs a drink off a tray, throwing the tray like a weapon, knocking Valdo in the back of the head. Bond downs the drink, tosses away the glass and goes after Valdo.
Valdo hits the ground, reaches for his USB dongle, tries to swallow it. He goes to stand up.
Paloma kicks him back down. Valdo drops the dongle.
Bond grabs the USB dongle.
BODYGUARDS open fire on Bond, Paloma and Valdo. Bond and Paloma fire back.
ON PRIMO recovering in the DANCE HALL. He finds the Blofeld eye, puts it back in.
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By the exit, Bond and Paloma grab Valdo and shoot their way out of the party.
Valdo, gripping his briefcase, alternates between elation at the success of the experiment and terror as bullets ricochet around him.
Bond watches their rear while Paloma guides Valdo with a gun to his back.
They move through the doors of the party to the El Nido bar, B-lining it to the entrance.
A car skids in front of their exit. Opens fire. Paloma returns fire and pushes Valdo down for cover. Bond takes down the driver of the car.
SUDDENLY NOMI comes crashing through the glass domed roof on a cable.
Bond, Paloma and Valdo shelter from the glass.
Nomi lands in between them, grabs Valdo, clips a belt around him. She looks at Bond.
Nomi and Valdo fly up through the ceiling as Bond dodges more Spectre gunfire.
Bond shoots one down, rushing at him. His submachine gun slides towards him.
Bond throws the submachine gun to Paloma. She smiles.
Bond runs up the stairs, jumping from the landing to the mezzanine, while Paloma engages the bodyguards below.
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Bond sees Nomi and Valdo through the skylight as she fires one bolt from her harpoon device into the masonry of the El Nido building and then another into the theatre across the street.
WE TRACK behind Nomi as she jumps and zips across the street and end up on a CU of the first BOLT she fired into the masonry.
Suddenly it starts to be hit by bullets, by BOND --
-- Below Bond fires at it, the anchor breaks loose and -
From the roof across the street we see Nomi drop onto a balcony below, slamming with Valdo into a wall of bricks,
Bond skids onto the mezzanine balcony of El Nido. Sees Nomi stand, brain battered.
IN THE STAIRWELL, WE SEE PALOMA, out of ammo, hiding from more SPECTRE entering the bar. Some head up the stairs towards BOND.
ON THE THEATRE BALCONY, Nomi holds Valdo down as they duck for cover. The balcony balustrade is annihilated by bullet fire.
ON THE GROUND FLOOR of the El Nido, Paloma engages in hand to hand combat with SPECTRE.
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ON THE EL NIDO MEZZANINE Bond takes down two BODYGUARDS. They smash through the shutters and crush the mezzanine handrail, falling to the bar area below just as Paloma finishes off her BODYGUARDS.
Nomi returns fire from Spectre Guards.
Paloma looks for Bond. He’s covered in broken bottles. Finds an unbroken one, stands up with it, dazed.
She goes to the bar. They are both adrenalised; look a sexy mess. Bond pours them drinks.
They clink glasses and knock back their drinks. Paloma takes a breath and splits. Bond heads back to the street.
Bond takes out BODYGUARDS shooting at Nomi as he runs across the road towards her.
While Nomi is taking fire Valdo sneaks onto the scaffolding.
Paloma, in a car now, sees her opportunity.
She guns it, heading straight for the scaffolding, past Bond, and crashes into it.
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Valdo crashes down onto the car. Bond approaches.
Paloma looks up. Success. She sees a cigar rolling on the seat. She grabs it.
Nomi, stuck above, can’t do anything but watch as Bond drags Valdo away with Paloma leading their way.
Paloma unlocks the door and turns to Valdo and Bond.
Bond drags Valdo inside.
THREE POLICE CARS appear. They see Nomi on the balcony and draw their weapons.
Nomi shoots at an electric pole. It falls, dragging down a nest of wires causing a chain reaction.
She disappears in a shower of sparks cascading around the vehicles.
Paloma opens a door leading to an alleyway.
Bond shakes her hand.
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She hands him a cigar in a metal tube. Smiles.
Bond and Valdo disappear into the alleyway.
Bond and Valdo run towards the plane docked at the deserted quay. The sea plane is straining at the ropes.
Bond throws Valdo’s briefcase onboard.
Bond pushes Valdo onto the plane.
Valdo is white knuckled as Bond pilots the plane.
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Bond starts the engines, throttling forward.
Bond clears a cloud. A dark shape looms on the crest of a swell, the silhouette of a FISH TRAWLER.
Bond circles as he looks for confirmation from deck.
As the plane nears the rear of the trawler, BOND cuts the engine, letting the current drift them into the bow.
Valdo boards, then Bond. Felix and Ash exit the cabin onto the deck.
Bond pushes Valdo past Felix and Ash towards the cabin.
Felix’s smile drops. This isn’t what he expected either.
Bond pushes Valdo in. Felix and Ash follow.
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Valdo sits, terrified. Bond throws the case onto the table. He opens it.
Ash comes over.
Ash and Felix look at each other.
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Valdo looks over Bond’s shoulder. Bond turns round.
Ash pulls his gun, Felix sees it and intercepts it. Ash fires into Felix’s chest. Felix looks down at the wound. It’s bad. He collapses down into the engine room below.
Valdo shuts the briefcase.
Bond turns to Ash. They break into a brutal fight.
-- A terrified Valdo in the middle of the mayhem. He sees Ash’s gun on the floor, kicks it towards Ash.
-- Ash retrieve his gun and fires at Bond who has no choice but to take cover by diving down into the engine room.
Bond hits the floor hard as Ash barricades the door above.
Ash turns to Valdo.
Bond watches the door slam shut. Felix holds his wound.
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Bond takes off his jacket, uses it to stem Felix’s wound.
Ash sets charges against the hull of the trawler.
Bond tries to stem the blood from Felix’s wound.
Bond gets up and goes towards the stairs.
Bond turns back to Felix.
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And suddenly -- BOOM --
A shock blasts through the hold so strongly the steel walls RIPPLE.
Felix is rocked by the explosion and submerged in the water. Bond is sent crashing to the ground.
The sea plan lifts into the air as a giant fireball illuminates the night sky.
The trawler starts to roll over on its side as the stern has been completely blown off.
Ash pilots the plane with Valdo in the back.
Bond is knocked out on the ground. Blood drips from his ears.
He sits up groggy, brain battered. Can’t see Felix.
Bond dives into the deeper water in the engine room. Finds Felix, pulls him out. Felix coughs, looks around.
Bond is holding him up as the water floods in.
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Felix smiles. A life lived lying.
Bond starts pulling him towards the front of the trawler.
The trawler is on fire and sinking fast.
Bond is dragging Felix through the water as the trawler sinks.
Felix has a moment of delirium.
The room pivots further, turning over almost upside down as it starts to sink stern down.
Felix grabs him tight --
Bond nods.
Felix smiles as he fades.
Beat. Bond looks at his fellow agent. Dying in action.
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Felix is gone.
Bond lets him sink into the room.
The trawler GROANS. It’s going to sink fast.
Bond has to dive towards a forward hold.
Underwater, he sees a hatch. He tries to open it, using his legs for leverage. It’s stuck tight.
He rises up for the last bit of air left in the hold. Dives back down. Grabs the circular handle, using all his force...
The trawler is vertical now and slipping below the surface.
Bond swims to the surface.
Bond emerges and gasps for breath.
Among the floating debris he sees something bobbing in the water. He swims towards it.
It’s an emergency raft.
Hours later. Bond sits with Felix’s cigar, still intact in its metal tube. A reminder of what needs to be done.
A large CMA CGM container ship spots Bond’s raft in the water and approaches.
Bond (in windbreaker) lifts a sliding garage door to his lock up.
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Bond enters and pulls off a dust sheet, revealing the V8 Vantage.
The Vantage squeals out of his lockup. He’s back.
Establishing shot of the London skyline.
Bond steps out of the Vantage dressed in a sharp suit. He walks up to the front of the Ministry of Defence’s art deco facade.
Bond goes to the security desk.
Guard looks at him confused. Who?
BOND walks down the centre of the room wearing a visitor’s pass with Moneypenny. Other agents and analysts notice him.
Nomi happens to be in the main office. She is surprised to see him. She pivots and joins them as they walk.
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Bond just looks at her: who?
They walk together.
A WOMAN approaches, hands Nomi a document.
A WOMAN walks past, sees the two of them.
They arrive outside M’s office.
Moneypenny talks into the phone.
BOND NOMI
Thank you. Thank you.
Bond and Nomi share a brief look as Bond enters. Nomi goes to join him.
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Bond shuts the door in Nomi’s face. Nomi and Moneypenny look at each other, alone in the reception.
Bond sits in M’s office. M stands at his desk. They stare at each other. Bond cocks his head curiously.
Pause.
M looks at him.
M I can’t pretend there weren’t some sorry faces when you left us, Bond. But you fell so far off the grid that we thought you must be dead.
M pours himself a drink. Bond registers this. Unusual.
M (CONT'D) Now learning that you were in fact alive and well, working for the CIA, well that really was a blow.
M It’s a shame that you haven’t lost your touch. We wouldn’t be in this mess.
M looks at him sharply.
Beat.
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M is steely.
M We’re looking into it.
M And what do you want in return, Bond?
Beat.
M frowns.
M Impossible. He’s in Belmarsh.
M How? How?
Pause.
M (CONT'D) No-one has access. No-one.
M I answer to the interests of my country. Not you.
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M I certainly don’t answer to Felix Leiter.
Beat. M feels the impact. He drinks. He can see Bond is moved.
M (regretfully) I’m sorry. I had a lot of respect for Leiter.
Bond just looks at him.
M (CONT'D) Look, if you have information, I’d be happy to receive it.
M No. Blofeld’s the only member of Spectre still breathing, I can’t risk that.
M pours another drink
M There was nothing to suggest that Obruchev was working for anyone else. I had him...
M flips suddenly. Interrupting. It should be shocking. He’s not in a good place! Bond stays calm.
M YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO SPEAK TO ME THAT WAY. (MORE)(MORE)
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M (CONT'D)M (CONT'D) YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO MAKE INSINUATIONS ABOUT MY JUDGMENT. IF YOU HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO GIVE, YOU ARE IRRELEVANT. YOU’VE DONE YOUR BIT AND WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. AGAIN. GOODBYE.
He buzzes his intercom.
M (CONT'D) Moneypenny, send 007 in please. You can go Bond.
Bond stands. He looks at M. Then at the desk.
Bond exits past Nomi, who is entering.
The door closes behind him. As Bond passes Moneypenny, he throws his visitor’s pass in the bin.
They are alone. She can sense M’s frustration.
M Go to Belmarsh. I want everything that Blofeld listens to, looks at and touches scanned. Scan every corner of that cell. Scan the whole prison, in fact scan the whole damn man.
Bond storms down the corridor to the elevators.
He turns. Moneypenny has followed him. She looks serious. Then...
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He frowns.
Q is happily, but nervously preparing dinner in his flat. He has lit a couple of candles. The table looks romantic. His door bell goes - he looks at the clock. Bit early. He dusts himself off and goes to the door.
Q, excited, looks at the CCTV screen and immediately deflates. Bond stands with Moneypenny at the door. Q presses the entry button.
Q opens the door. Bond and Moneypenny stand there.
Bond walks in.
Followed by Moneypenny.
Bond sees the table, picks up a bottle of wine.
Bond, Moneypenny and Q enter the kitchen.
He holds up the USB.
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Q removes a hairless cat from the table.
Beat. Q pays attention. They have clearly talked about this.
Q checks his watch, lets out a breath.
He takes the dongle.
Q is about to insert the USB into his laptop when he stops himself.
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Q is at a different (more secure) computer. The USB plugged in.
Bond pours some wine for Moneypenny who is looking at Q’s stuff.
The decryption of several files begins.
On the computer screen: HIDDEN FILES DETECTED.
He brings up the information he’d been working on. It links with what is on the USB.
The DNA records on the USB begin to auto-match with DNA records from MI6 databases.
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Q clicks. A series of names from MI6 records come up. Each of them marked ‘Deceased’.
Bond points at the screen.
Reveal of the screen. There is a single record not marked ‘Deceased’ accompanied by a picture of BLOFELD.
Beat. They register what this means.
The decryption of Obruchev’s other files has completed. Q clicks on the screen. Suddenly reams and reams of names appear and keep appearing. The volume is frightening.
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They both look instantly awkward.
The oven timer rings.
Q looks at Moneypenny.
Madeleine walking across the Mall in a bright and beautiful London.
Madeleine enters the reception.
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Madeleine enters the simple understated space.
She looks at the new patient. Well dressed, with intelligent eyes and damaged facial skin.
She sits. She is confident and direct, but warm.
He looks at a bunch of foxgloves in a vase on her desk.
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Beat.
Uncomfortable pause as he looks at her. Especially her eyes.
Madeleine is sensing something is off.
Safin pushes a box towards her. She opens it as she talks...
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She looks inside. It’s the mask Safin was wearing from the opening sequence. Her breathing changes. She looks up at him.
He pulls out a bottle of perfume and places it on her desk.
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Her eyes flicker with fear. What does he know?
ON BOND, walking into a park on a perfect English summer morning. Far behind him the silhouette of Hammersmith Bridge and the morning rowers on the Thames.
WE PAN to find Mallory reading a newspaper. Bond joins him.
M Well yes, we took your information seriously, but that was five years ago. Nothing came up.
M She’s a useful asset. She’s the only psychiatrist he agreed to speak to. I had to exercise my judgment.
M can’t deny it.
M That weapon was designed to save lives and to eradicate collateral damage for our agents. A clean, accurate shot, every time. But it had to be off the books. There are enough holes in our national security. If the world knows what this can do -
M Look, if it’s an error, it’s on my shoulders. Fair and square. I’ve dedicated my life to defending this country. I believe in defending the principles of this... (indicates his surroundings) Of this. (MORE)(MORE)
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M (CONT'D)M (CONT'D) But we used to be able to get into a room with the enemy. We could look him in the eye and now the enemy is just floating in the ether. We don’t even know what they’re after.
M looks at him.
M “We?”
Bond gives a little smile. M side-eyes him. He knows.
M (CONT'D) Oh for fuck’s sake! I see. And after Blofeld? What do they want?
M Oh good! Just the usual.
M can’t help but laugh a little. Bond does too.
M Blofeld was communicating with his agents in Cuba through a bionic eye which we have now retrieved.
M gives him a look.
M Spectre’s destruction is going to have huge consequences. (MORE)(MORE)
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M (CONT'D)M (CONT'D) Whoever did this is going to be very dangerous and very powerful. We need all the information that we can gather.
Tanner arrives and interrupts.
Bond turns.
WIDE ON MI6 building.
Nomi and Q walk down the corridor.
They arrive at the door to M’s office. Moneypenny steps in front of them.
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Moneypenny opens the door.
Q, Nomi and Moneypenny walk in. Tanner, Bond and M are there. Moneypenny and Q look at each other. Q tries to act like he’s never seen him.
M Shut up Q. I know he’s staying with you. (to Moneypenny) And you’re not in the clear either.
M (to Nomi) What have you got?
Q loads a video he took of the DNA weapon under microscope.
M And what are we looking at?
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M Good work Nomi.
On the screen we see swarms of creepy nanobots up close.
M Programmed with DNA to target specific individuals. Heracles was designed to be the most efficient weapon in our arsenal. Passing through people harmlessly before reaching its intended target.
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M It was never intended to be a weapon of mass destruction. It was a... I need to call the Prime Minister. (to Tanner) Tanner, quarantine the families from the funeral.
Tanner leaves the room.
M And Q, hack into Blofeld’s bionic eye. See what you can find. (to Nomi and Bond) You’ve got your wish. Go to Blofeld and see what you can get out of him. And find that cockroach Obruchev.
Nomi and Bond leave.
OUTSIDE M’S OFFICE, Nomi turns to Bond.
He leaves.
Aerial shot approaching the prison.
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Madeleine stands alone at the sink. She is just applying perfume to her wrist when Nomi exits a cubicle and walks to the sink to wash her hands.
Madeleine looks at her.
Nomi sees her applying the perfume and thinks it’s ‘for’ Bond. She raises her eyebrows.
Nomi walks to the door.
Nomi leaves.
Madeleine is shaking. She steels over.
Q inspects Blofeld’s eyeball. On a screen in front of him, surveillance footage searching for Logan Ash.
A sudden beep makes Q look up.
Bond and Tanner walk down the corridor.
Madeleine walking, escorted by Nomi.
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They are approaching a corner.
Bond and Tanner continue to walk. Bond is focused.
Madeleine turns the corner.
There she is. She sees him. He sees her.
He holds his emotions in check. Calm.
So does she. They continue towards each other.
They meet. Bond holds his hand out to shake hers.
She does not shake his hand.
Everyone notices the apparent rejection. But she is just avoiding touching him.
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Nomi turns down the corridor. The others follow her.
Bond and Madeleine are lead into a security area. Tanner and Nomi stop in front of the door.
Bond nods.
Bond and Madeleine walk through the secure door.
Bond and Madeleine stand next to each other. The door behind them closes. A red light and a buzzer indicates it’s locked.
Tanner and Nomi enter the room.
Bond and Madeleine wait. He looks at her, notices her hands. She is holding them together, nervously touching her wrists. She is shaking. He frowns.
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She clasps her hands. She turns to him. Caught off guard.
Blofeld’s cage appears in the distance, heads towards them. The security door opens.
Madeleine’s breathing is quickening. She sees Blofeld appear in his man-sized cage, wheeling towards them. The sight of him strikes her deeper than she anticipated.
Bond steps towards her and grabs her wrist. She pulls away quickly.
He sees she is genuinely distressed.
The door opens. She leaves, turning back for one last look of him.
The message hits him. The door closes. She’s gone. Why the message?
Tanner and Nomi watch.
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They see Blofeld’s cage arrive in the interrogation room.
Blofeld, head lolled slightly forward, watches Bond with satisfaction.
He smiles. He wasn’t in a good mood but given what he just witnessed, he’s in a happier mood. He still won’t speak --
Bond knows he won’t talk in principle, but attempts to appeal to him frankly.
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Q is scrubbing through surveillance, looking for Ash. There is footage from all over the world, entry points, offices, car parks etc. Bond’s face appears on the screen.
Q turns to grab a sweet from a drawer when there is a beep. He looks up. Suddenly the screen in front of him stops scrubbing. It focuses on one face. It zooms in and identifies someone... LOGAN ASH. He looks down and sees it’s the screen connected to Blofeld’s eyeball.
Q bolts upright in his chair. He grabs his phone to send a text.
Tanner and Nomi watch Bond and Blofeld.
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Nomi receives a text on her phone.
She goes.
Back with Bond and Blofeld.
Blofeld grows weary of the subject. Decides to salt a wound instead.
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Bond seems to give up.
He motions for Bond to approach. As if no one should hear what he is about to say...
Tanner watches Bond approach Blofeld cautiously.
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Bond stands directly in front of Blofeld’s cage.
Bond turns to the observation window.
Bond does care. Won’t show it to him.
Tanner leans in as if that would allow him to hear too, but he can’t.
Blofeld expands on his observations...
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Bond fills with fury. Blofeld looks up at him smiling.
Bond leans in calmly, whispers audibly.
Bond raises his hand around Blofeld’s neck. Throttles him.
Tanner watches closely. He sees Blofeld, predominantly masked by Bond, start to shudder. He jumps to attention.
Bond standing over Blofeld, his hands throttling him. It’s intense and focused. We see the killer he is.
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Bond sees himself in the reflection of the observation window. Suddenly stops. This is exactly what Blofeld wanted him to do.
Tanner appears at the window in the door.
Bond releases Blofeld and steps backwards.
Tanner storms into the room.
Tanner’s face drops down to Blofeld. Bond turns now.
They see Blofeld, passed out, veins bursting in his neck, blisters breaking out on his face.
A high-tech glider is visible in the windtunnel.
Bond looks at his hands. Q approaches.
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Bond supplies Bond with his thumb print for a swab. He is somewhere else in his mind. There’s a weight to this scene.
Q puts the swab under the microscope.
Tanner and Moneypenny enter. Bond looks up.
Bond nods.
Bond looks at his hands again. Nothing on them.
Bond looks at him, surprised.
It doesn’t land. No-one laughs. Moneypenny gives him a look.
Q and Tanner look up at the nanobots which are animating on the screen.
Bond turns to Moneypenny.
Just as he leaves.
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Bond gives her a look.
He walks out, tired, dejected, as if he’s given up.
Bond driving the Vantage across the countryside. He crosses a bridge and turns down a track. He drives beside a fjord. He parks, gets out.
Pan over tops of trees, mirroring the very opening image.
Bond walks towards the house.
Bond approaches through the woods. Gun drawn.
We see what would have been Safin’s POV of the house before he killed Madeleine’s mother.
We see Bond inside the house, gun in his hand. He checks in the kitchen.
Bond turns, looks up to the landing. Madeleine stares back at him. She is emotional, but contained. Almost unreadable.
He puts the gun away.
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Beat. Madeleine walks own the stairs.
Beat.
Beat.
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She shakes her head, she is conflicted.
Beat. They look at each other. The chemistry is palpable.
He has already reached her, taken her in his arms and kissed her.
Suddenly there is a noise from the top of the stairs!
They both pull apart and look up.
Sitting on the top step is a five year old girl, MATHILDE.
He stares at her. She stares back.
Blue eyes looking at blue eyes.
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He is lost for words.
Below her a slinky continues its way down the stairs.
M sits on the sofa, looking up at a portrait of his predecessor. Tanner approaches holding his phone.
M takes the phone. INTERCUT WITH NOMI DRIVING in the Aston Martin DBS.
M Well done 007.
M (to Tanner) Have we cleared this with the Americans? (Tanner nods) Granted. And thank you for asking.
M Your predecessor was less deferential.
M Glad to see you two are getting along.
M smiles and ends the call.
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M (to Tanner) Have We located Dr Swann.
M Thank you.
M leaves.
Bond watches as Madeleine tucks Mathilde in.
Madeleine kisses her.
Mathilde and Bond stare at each other.
Madeleine closes the blinds
Mathilde closes her eyes. Bond continues to look at her. Madeleine approaches.
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Beat.
Bond looks back at Mathilde.
He follows her down the stairs.
They enter the room.
Bond sees the files she has opened.
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The man’s obsession with her landing on both of them. He will never go away.
Bond sees photos of Mr White, Safin’s father and more Spectre agents.
He takes pictures of what he needs with his phone.
Madeleine looks at him.
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Establisher of the sun rising over the house on the lake.
Bond is asleep in bed next to Madeleine. He wakes. Mathilde is staring at him. She wants breakfast.
Mathilde watches Bond prepare breakfast.
He watches her. Blue eyes looking at blue eyes.
Madeleine and Bond smile.
Bond’s phone rings. He picks it up.
He takes the call in another part of the room.
INTERCUT with M, Tanner and Moneypenny in M’s office and Q in his lab.
M Bond.
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Tanner bursts into M’s office.
M Then Heracles is there too.
Bond receives the text from Moneypenny.
Registers its proximity to where they are. It’s 20 miles from him. He looks up.
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He looks over at Madeleine and Mathilde.
Madeleine and Bond leave the house with urgency.
Bond is carrying Mathilde.
He takes her to Madeleine’s Land Cruiser and puts her in the car seat directly behind the driver’s seat.
Bond and Madeleine get in the car. She looks at him in fear.
Bond starts the car. They pull away from the house.
They drive along a track besides a fjord.
They drive at speed. Bond is on the phone to Q.
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Madeleine and James look ahead of them and see something.
In the distance 2 Range Rover SVRs appear head of them. They approach from the other direction at high speed.
They speed past the car, back towards the house. Bond and Madeleine look at each other. Panic in her eyes.
Bond checks the rear view mirror. Nothing.
They keep driving. They check again. Still nothing.
Just an empty horizon behind them.
Then... there they are. Two SVRs speeding back towards them.
Madeleine and Bond look at each other. It’s a chase.
The SVRs gain on them. Bond swerves right. Into an off road track.
The land cruiser races along a gravel road adjacent to a fjord.
The SVRs are gaining ground behind them.
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Madeleine undoes her seat belt and climbs into the back seat to be with Mathilde. She clips herself into the middle seat and comforts her.
A wide view of the Land Cruiser and pursuing SVRs.
The SVRs reach Bond’s vehicle.
The SVRs jockey for position around Bond’s vehicle, attempting to stop him with aggressive manoeuvres.
One SVR slams against Bond’s left-hand side, pushing him towards a hill on his right.
Bond responds with a swerve that forces the SVR off the road. It rolls down the bank towards the water, out of commission.
The second SVR accelerates on the right-and side as Bond moves to his left.
Bond spots a curve of road ahead with a rocky outcropping. He pushes the SVR right. The SVR rides up the rock face like a ramp and flips into the air, sailing over the front of the Land Cruiser.
The immediate threat is gone. Bond veers off-road into a wooded area.
The Land Cruiser exits the woods into an expansive landscape. There’s a sweeping vista of rugged hills with a river in the distance.
Bond hears something. Chopper blades. Can’t see where they’re coming from and steps on it.
On a distant hillside ahead of them several PLUMES OF DUST are forming. He drives down into the valley.
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A wide view of the valley reveals the helicopter is still tracking the Land Cruiser. They head towards the hillside with the growing cloud of dust.
A treeline separates the Land Cruiser from the hillside so we see the source of the dust before Bond does: 3 DEFENDERS AND 3 MOTORCYCLES barreling down the steep slope.
Bond passes through the valley with the river to his left and a steep hill topped with trees to his right.
A sudden flurry of activity draws his attention to the treeline.
The 3 Defenders and 3 Motorcycles BURST through the trees at speed. Like charging cavalry they storm down the steep slope, churning up the landscape as they race towards Bond’s flank.
Bond drives with the river on his left. The vehicles fan out as they crest the brow of the hill above Bond.
Mathilde has a direct view of the approaching onslaught through her window.
Bond attempts to speed ahead but can’t make it. With a sharp left-hand turn he diverts towards the river.
The water is only a few inches deep and no trouble for the Land Cruiser. Bond drives along the riverbed as the pursuing vehicles fall in line behind him.
Taking advantage of the new terrain Bond shifts gears and kicks up a huge spray with his tyres. A sheet of water appears behind Madeleine and Mathilde.
The Defenders and bikes have to fall back or swerve from side to side to maintain visibility.
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The river snakes back and forth but Bond drives in a straight line. Madeleine and Mathilde have a hard bounce each time the Land Cruiser transitions between land and water.
One Defender races ahead to try and cut Bond off further down the river.
A motorcycle chases then pulls alongside the Land Cruiser. Bond forces it to jump a high bank sending the rider flying.
One of the Defenders appears next to Bond and slams against him aggressively. The Land Cruiser is outmatched in power but Bond surprises the Defender with a manoeuvre that spins it out of control towards a steep bank. The Defender rolls upside down, causing an obstacle that slows down the pursuing vehicles.
The impassive helicopter changes tactics and soars overhead. It drops low over the riverbed. Ominously the helicopter turns to face Bond as he approaches.
Bond eyes a nearby forest which appears to hold a misty fog within. He re-directs the Land Cruiser and drives into the woods in an attempt to hide from the helicopter and remaining vehicles.
Bond weaves through trees, narrowly avoiding head-on collisions. As the fog grows thicker Bond is forced to slow.
With the reduced visibility Bond can’t tell where his pursuers may be. He cuts the engine and coasts the Land Cruiser silently through the forest.
The landscape is different here. A thriving population of ferns dominate the forest floor, some so tall they form a second canopy beneath the trees.
Bond directs the Land Cruiser into a sheltered depression and stops. Bond, Madeleine and Mathilde listen intently. It’s just the sound of their breathing and the warm engine ticking over. Then a barely discernible noise of a vehicle in the distance.
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Bond, Madeleine and Mathilde sit in the car. Eerie silence at first, and then the sound of an engine. Two. Getting louder. They catch a glimpse of a motorcycle strobing through the trees. Bond hands Madeleine his gun.
Bond carries Mathilde in his arms. Madeleine follows as they walk deeper into the forest where the mist thickens. Then Madeleine gets left behind.
Bond does his best to tread silently as he jogs with Mathilde clinging to his neck. He turns to Madeleine - but she’s not there. He spins. No sign of her.
Bond hears a rustling sound and moves to take a look. Instead of Madeleine he sees a motorcyclist 20 yards away looking straight at him. The engine bursts to life and the motorcycle races straight towards him. With Mathilde in his arms Bond is unsure how to keep her safe. As the motorcycle drives forward Madeleine suddenly appears from behind a tree and SHOOTS the driver with the gun Bond gave her, flipping him off the bike.
Bond leads Madeleine and Mathilde to an old hunting hide, forming a natural hiding place.
Bond runs off to lure the assailants away from his family.
Bond takes the dead motorcyclist’s weapons and moves through the forest.
Bond has found a section of the forest where the ferns are particularly tall and dense.
He fires several rounds into the air and waits as the Defender tries to locate his position. Soon the fog near Bond is illuminated by a beam of headlights as the Defender appears through the trees.
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Bond shoots directly at it with the grenade launcher. The vehicle flips on its side and slides forward. Bond notices a winch on the front, gets an idea, draws the cable around some nearby trees.
Bond waits for the remaining vehicles to find him. The motorcycle is the first to appear. Bond lures him to his position with gunfire. The rider is suddenly yanked from his vehicle when he hits the winch cable drawn between two trees.
The remaining Defender is close behind and diverts course to avoid the cable. Bond runs to a new position, drawing the vehicle on a specific course. Ash is in the passenger seat of the approaching vehicle and he shoots at Bond. The driver doesn’t know what Bond does - the bracken near him obscures a massive felled tree. The Defender hits the tree at speed. Bond steps aside as the Defender flips end over end, crashing on its roof and sliding down an embankment.
Bond walks towards the upturned vehicle.
Bond approaches the upturned Defender, weapon at the ready. He rounds it. Ash is crawling towards a tree stump, bleeding, badly injured. Ash sees Bond just as Bond dry fires. Nothing. Mag empty.
Ash smiles like a fox eating shit from a wire brush.
Bond sees that the Defender is precariously balanced.
Bond turns and slams the Defender down, squashing Ash.
He hears gunfire in the distance and races back towards his family.
A body hits the ground. Madeleine stands over it, gun drawn. Mathilde hides, her hands covering her ears.
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Madeleine and Mathilde hear a sound and look up to see SAFIN standing there, smiling.
Bond arrives. They’re gone. Bond hears the sound of a helicopter and runs towards it.
Bond arrives in the clearing just in time to see the helicopter rising into the sky and fly away.
Bond walks alone down the road. Nomi arrives and pulls to a stop by Bond.
Bond walks to the passenger side of her car.
Nomi and Bond speed towards a NATO base on the coast. She can see he’s upset. He doesn’t speak. Tension heavy in the air.
Nomi looks at Bond.
Nomi realises.
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Bond and Nomi drive onto an NATO airstrip. The car speeds ahead towards a waiting C-17A Globemaster.
They park.
Bond gets out and walks towards the plane.
Q is waiting for them, looking bleary, a pyjama shirt under his jacket.
Q follows Nomi inside the plane.
Bond loads a gun.
M (O.S.) The objectives of this mission are threefold.
He joins Q and Nomi at a screen.
M (CONT'D) Confirm the presence of Heracles. Kill Obruchev and Safin. Get Dr Swann and her daughter off the island (then) And Bond?
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Bond turns to the screen where M is conferencing from MI6.
M (CONT'D) I hope they’re there.
M Very well. Agreed. Good luck.
The screen goes dead.
Q calls Bond over to a mobile lab set-up.
Bond hands Q his Omega watch. Q affixes a gadget to its back. Hands it back.
Q gives Nomi a cylindrical device.
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Nomi taps the top of the device.
He opens a drawer, brings out an injector tracking device.
Q injects Bond with the tracking device.
Q injects Nomi with the device.
Bond laughs. He moves towards the glider.
Safin walks Madeleine and Mathilde through a long concrete hallway followed by two henchmen. Primo hovers nearby.
The facility is abuzz with activity. Workers are restoring the building and its garden to their former glory. We see a pallet of shipping crates with Cyrillic lettering go by.
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A plain room, concrete walls, natural light flowing in from an unknown source above the ceiling.
On each wall is a window which looks out upon a garden that has become overgrown. Safin’s men, in hazmat suits, are weeding and manicuring an overgrown corner of the zen garden.
Valdo approaches.
Valdo hands Safin a small red vial.
Valdo leaves.
He looks at Mathilde.
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Safin walks across the games room to a stairway opening on a garden.
Madeleine follows with Mathilde.
Safin walks down the steps.
Madeleine is reluctant to hand Mathilde over.
Primo steps forward, points his gun at Madeleine.
She hands Mathilde to Safin. He walks to the garden.
He speaks close to Mathilde, too close and quiet for Madeleine to hear. She watches like a hawk.
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He shows her one close up. Mathilde reaches out for it.
Safin looks at Madeleine. Then back to Mathilde.
Madeleine and Mathilde exchange a look.
She shakes her head.
Primo grabs Madeleine.
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She glares at Safin, full of rage, as Primo pulls her away.
Safin walks back through the garden with Mathilde.
The glider is set for take-off.
Q gives the signal for take off.
Bond and Nomi are inside, strapped in.
BANG - glider SUDDENLY drops and shoots out of the C-17A
It opens in air and beautifully soars towards the island.
They’re off. Silent and focused. Soldiers.
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They soar down in the glider. It lands in the ocean and submerges. Glides underwater toward the island.
The glider surfaces in an old Japanese submarine pen and docks next to a fallen gantry.
Bond climbs out. Nomi behind him.
It appears to be abandoned. There are old Soviet RIBs stacked between the two sub bays - but other than that no activity.
INTERCUT WITH Q IN THE C-17A GLOBEMASTER
Bond uses his watch to short circuit an electronically sealed door.
Behind it, a wet corridor leading to a stairwell.
The guards react as several CCTV images turn to static. A red light on a panel reveals a power-outage in one sector of the facility.
The corridor leads to a set of very tall stairs.
Nomi activates her QDAR device, which starts to PING. They start ascending.
Q’s still on the plane. And still wobbly. Hears a ping on his computer and looks up.
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The QDAR uses reflected sound waves to make 3-D map of the island’s interior. A picture is slowly rendered of the interior works of the island.
M, Tanner and Moneypenny watching the same image. It can only map as far as the rooms they’ve entered.
M Yes, we have it.
Q looks at the images.
Bond and Nomi are climbing the stairs.
Bond and Nomi move in silence through the corridor. It’s dark. We only see glimpses of them in the shadows.
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A CAMERA shorts out. A GUARD’s face turns, hearing a noise - then his body gets sucked into the darkness. Nomi and Bond don’t make a sound as they take out their targets.
They ascend a stairway.
Q watches the icons. Sees the signal strength plummet.
Nomi and Bond enter the large underground cavern. It’s a dark, swampy room with incredibly high ceilings that seems to be some kind of underground farm.
Nomi’s comms device squawks. She takes it out.
The workers stand in rows, dressed in pink hazmat suits, working in rhythm, stirring the water with long rods. Electric pod vehicles transport workers across the space. It’s all very strange and mysterious.
M, Tanner and Moneypenny watch the map. It ceases to render, like a frozen signal. Bond and Nomi’s icons not moving.
M We’ve lost them.
M Just get them back.
Nomi and Bond sneak around the perimeter. Reach a ladder and climb up to a gantry. Bond looks up and sees three large circular metal doors.
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They head for the glowing windows of a lab in the distance.
Valdo’s lab: a huge cabinet of vials, monitors stream DNA data, refinery type systems, a bank of windows looks down at the bacterial acid farm below.
Bond and Nomi enter the lab with guns raised. Bond fires a round.
Valdo looks up.
He makes a break for it. Nomi leaps onto a table and runs him down. Floors him with a roundhouse kick.
Bond places charges throughout the lab.
Nomi looks at the lab windows at the enormous pond outside after placing her last explosive.
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Bond stands before several VATS brewing.
Bond gets to the cabinet now. Rows and rows of DNA vials. The screen displays a map with a looping animation like a simulation of spreading disease.
Nomi walks over to Bond at the screen.
Nomi hits him with the butt of her gun.
Bond heads towards the windows overlooking the bacteria pond. Nomi joins him --
Then, SAFIN’S VOICE echoes around the room.
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Nomi silences him.
Out the window, Nomi and Bond see GUARDS coming down the gantry towards the lab. Bond points his gun at Valdo.
Valdo points up.
Bond hands Nomi a detonator.
Bond exits.
A GUARD pours tea in a cup and leaves.
A dull purple flower (ATROPA BELLADONNA) slips into the tea - the ones from the poison garden that make you compliant.
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She shows him the flower floating in the cup.
She looks at his one eye.
She looks at him closer now.
She looks at him. Threatening? He grabs her by her hair.
She flings the cup of tea in his face.
He turns away instinctively, falling to the floor.
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She rushes him, grabs his lanyard key and rips it off. She uses it to open the door and rushes out, locking Primo inside.
Bond enters the games room from an underground staircase. His rifle at the ready, sees Safin holding Mathilde.
Safin’s GUARD stands behind him, TWO more GUARDS have their weapons trained on Bond from behind the staircase.
Bond puts his rifle on the floor. As he comes up he shows his empty hands.
Bond hesitates. Safin references Mathilde --
Safin tosses a cushion. It flies in the air and then explodes in a barrage of SILENCED GUNFIRE from the GUARD behind SAFIN.
Mathilde covers her ears. Point taken. Bond takes out his sidearm and lays it on the floor.
Bond sits opposite Safin.
Safin leans back. Appreciating his cards.
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He smiles at Mathilde.
Beat.
Beat. Safin says nothing.
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Beat.
Pause.
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Safin grips Mathilde, as if we were going to throw her like the cushion --
Safin hesitates --
Bond bows, thinking quickly --
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Bond bows lower. All the way down to his face. Safin is enjoying this.
Safin’s hands drift off of Mathilde’s shoulders.
Bond’s hidden PPK is out in a flash.
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG --First the GUARD behind SAFIN, then the TWO GUARDS behind him.
As they fall Bond spins his gun to Safin. But Safin’s disappeared through a trapdoor in the floor, and Mathilde with him.
Bond runs, his gun pointed down at the place they disappeared just as the sliding doors close.
Madeleine runs into the room.
Bond still has his gun pointed at the trapdoor. He looks up. FUCK.
His face says it all.
Safin races down a corridor, carrying Mathilde. She looks around for her toy.
Mathilde bites down on Safin’s hand. Hard.
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He lets go of her and puts her down.
Mathilde turns and runs down the corridor. Safin shrugs and continues in the opposite direction. He calls to his Guards.
Vessels on the horizon approaching the island.
Q is looking at his radar.
M, Tanner and Moneypenny are watching the screen.
M Come on Bond. Where the hell are you.
Nomi leads Valdo away from the lab. A group of guards chase them down the gantry.
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STATIC. Nomi’s surrounded. She has the detonator ready. But she doesn’t know if Bond is clear...
Nomi trades shots with the guards.
Nomi shoots a guard standing near the edge of the pool. He falls into the liquid and we hear his agonised screams as the acid dissolves his flesh.
Nomi lifts her knee and shoves Valdo off the gantry into the acid below.
She trades more shots with the Guards.
Bond and Madeleine search for Mathilde.
They hear something and turn back.
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Mathilde is just standing there, feeling none of the fear her parents are. Madeleine grabs her, hugs her. Bond watches them.
They go.
Q is still trying to reestablish contact with the island.
He sees on the radar two fast-approaching unidentified objects. Suddenly the C-17 vibrates with the roar of jet engines as outside two MIGs buzz the C-17.
Tanner is on the phone.
Tanner puts down the phone.
M is stressed. He stares at the screen.
Tanner comes over.
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Beat. M shakes his head, staring at the screen, hoping for the little Bond dot to appear. Moneypenny looks on.
M Don’t tell them anything just yet.
Bond, Madeleine and Mathilde move down the corridor.
Suddenly Nomi appears besides them. Bond lowers his rifle.
Bond gets on the radio to Q. Intercut with C-17A.
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Q’s side. M and Tanner listening into what’s happening.
M shakes his head.
M Q. Patch me through. 007?
M Our operation is attracting a lot of international attention. We’re seeing what we can do.
Madeleine passes Mathilde to Bond already on a RIB as Nomi preps the motor.
Bond hands Mathilde his sweater.
Bond turns to Madeleine.
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He kisses her.
Bond turns to Nomi.
Nomi starts the motor.
Bond watches them go.
Mathilde and Madeleine look back at Bond.
Bond uses heavy fire-power to battle guards on his way back.
Bond takes cover as guards fire at him. Gunfire throughout rest of scene as he pushes forward. He takes out ONE.
M (O.S.) Bond. M here. The situation is diplomatically complex.
M (O.S.) If we launch, the Russians, the Japanese and even the Americans will want answers.
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M (O.S.) (struggles with the decision) Rational minds, Bond. I’m trying to save this from escalating to all- out war -
Bond kills TWO MORE GUARDS, relieved to hear.
Bond reaches the end of the corridor. Starts up the stairs.
Bond eyes the blast doors as he passes alongside the bacteria farm taking out guards along the way.
He sees a new wave of guards arriving near the lab. Bond takes out his detonator and activates the switch. The lab EXPLODES, forcing the guards to take cover. Bond goes through a door.
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Bond makes his way up the stairs, he FIGHTS GUARDS all the way up, it’s a brutal slog, he gets winged, stabbed and knocked by grenades along the way.
Near the top of the stairs Bond is confronted by Primo, the last man in his way.
Bond lunges at Primo, gets his watch near Primo’s eye. Bond activates his EMP watch. Primo’s head EXPLODES.
Bond reaches a door. It has the Russian words for ‘Control Room’ written on it in Cyrillic script.
Bond passes through and seals the door permanently shut. He’s on a landing with stairs leading down to the Zen Garden and stairs leading up to the control room. Bond heads up.
Bond enters an old control room. He’s beat up. Takes a second to gather himself. Breathing heavily, he finds a console.
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Bond starts pushing a bunch of buttons and levers.
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Bond presses buttons on the console.
Bond pulls a bar. A flywheel spins. The gears come to life.
Bond’s POV: the blast doors underneath the pond in the Zen Garden slowly open. Water and rocks fall into the bacteria farm below.
When the doors open Q’s 3-D map updates to reveal the space.
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Q looks at his screen.
Tanner turns to M.
M Admiral?
M M here.
M You have permission to launch.
A massive barrage of missiles fire from the deck, bursts of light arcing into the sky and disappearing over the horizon.
The blast doors are fully open. Bond’s on his way out, moving along the gantry, the destroyed lab behind him.
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He spots Mathilde’s doll on the ground. He tucks it into his belt and continues towards the exit.
Suddenly there is a screeching noise and Bond looks up. The blast doors have started to shut again.
Bond runs through the zen garden towards the stairway up to the control room. The blast doors have closed again. Water rushes back into the pond.
Suddenly there’s a burst of gunfire. Bond takes multiple hits. He tumbles into the pond. Safin appears.
Safin wades into the pond with his gun raised, getting as close as he can for the kill shot.
Bond grabs his arm. Twists it. As they struggle Safin strikes something against Bond’s cheek but he hardly notices. We hear a crack as Bond breaks Safin’s arm and his gun falls into the water.
Bond lies exhausted in the water, Safin opposite. Both soaked with each other’s blood.
On Bond’s cheek are small strange scratches oozing blood. Bond stares at the water in a daze like a wounded bull. We see their blood swirling in the water, mixing.
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Safin opens his bleeding palm. There are shards of broken glass in his skin. Pieces from the RED VIAL.
Bond gets up. He retrieves Safin’s gun from the water and shoots Safin. KILLS HIM.
Bond stands. Turns away from Safin’s body. He is emotional. We hold on him. The emotions boiling.
Bond makes his way up the stairs. There’s no one left to fight. He’s alone.
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Bond gets to the top of the stairs.
Bond pulls the lever, reopening the blast doors, and staggers back from the control panel.
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INTERCUT WITH Q IN C-17A
Bond releases a ladder and starts climbing up to the roof.
Madeleine and Mathilde are with Nomi.
Nomi tunes into her comms.
Nomi passes the radio to Madeleine. INTERCUT with Bond climbing the ladder.
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Bond arrives at the roof. He has a view to the water and Madeleine’s island in the distance. INTERCUT with Madeleine.
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We see the missiles fly through the air.
Madeleine, Mathilde and Nomi watch them. They are strangely beautiful.
Bond looks up and sees the missiles headed straight for him.
Long contrails of smoke streak from the distance to dozens of white points of light, moving faster and faster towards him.
The missiles break into clusters as they spread for maximum effect. Bond knows he only has milliseconds. He seems to find peace. Breathes in deeply, finding some quiet before --
A massive wave of explosions ripple towards Bond in a strobing and flashing cloud of light.
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From afar, the island is turned to dust.
Q reacts.
M, Moneypenny and Tanner are quiet. They stare at Bond’s flatlined vitals.
Madeleine sees the island bathed in smoke.
FADE TO WHITE:
A few days later. Establisher of the MI6 building against the London skyline.
M (O.S.) It’s very hard to know what to say but I thought we should gather --
A lone glass of whiskey is placed on the table.
M (O.S.) -- And remember
M, Moneypenny, Tanner, Nomi, Q are all gathered in M’s office. They each hold a glass of whiskey.
M (CONT'D) And I thought this was appropriate.
M reads from a book of poetry.
M (CONT'D) The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
The each take their glass. Solemn. Raise them.
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They drink. Put their glasses down. Hiding their emotion.
M Right. Back to work.
Tanner clinks his glass against the lone glass on the table.
It’s summertime. Madeleine drives the V8 Vantage down a winding Italian road. Mathilde is sitting next to her.
Mathilde looks at her.
Madeleine drives. Thinking. She smiles.
Mathilde smiles.
We follow the Vantage from above as it winds up into the mountains. The noise of the world fades away.
Louis Armstrong’s “We have All The Time in the World” starts to play. Credits roll over the driving car.
The car enters a tunnel. The camera leads.
The tunnel forms an iris of darkness that slowly closes in, bringing us into black.
END.