by: Anson Fehross | October 23, 2001
INT. THE LOBBY- DAY
The MUSIC FADES, as the doors open to a guard who stares into the elevator-
It is empty.
The guard walks in and presses a button, totally ignorant of the preceding occurrences.
INT. THE ELEVATOR SHAFT- DAY
The elevator moves up the shaft as we can make out the body of Simms lying near the cable.
The Hitman is not in sight.
INT. INSIDE THE ELEVATOR- DAY
BULLS ON PARADE fades back in as the CAMERA PANS UP to see the Hitman splayed across the roof of the elevator, his arms and legs outstretched to hold himself up.
The guard senses something...
The guard looks around... his eyes travel slowly up the walls of the elevator...
The Hitman's and the guards' eyes meet...
The pair launch into action: the guard desperately gropes for his 9mm while the Hitman drops to his feet.
Finally withdrawing his pistol, the guard manages:
GUARD
Police! Hands-
-before a Pentagon knife is swiped across his adam's apple cutting off his words. With a GASP of the air escaping from the guards' windpipe, he staggers back against the wall of the elevator.
A WORMS EYE VIEW of the Glock hitting the ground is seen, as blood quickly follows it, trickling down his arm. The body slumps to the ground, his eyes open but unseeing in death. We hear the DING of the doors opening. FOOTSTEPS slowly fade away as the Hitman walks away.
CAMERA SLOW ZOOMS to a pool of blood that lies near the guard. We hear HEART BEATS as the CAMERA zooms.
CREDITS ROLL:
Red fills the screen as the HEART BEATS continue. The screen changes into a flowing blood stream where the HEART BEATS cause the screen to go black before fading back in. With each HEART BEAT, we briefly see part of the credits. Finally, the screen FADES TO BLACK.
FADE IN:
INT. THE CONTROL ROOM- DAY
Using the same bloodstream effect, we can only just make out a TV screen where the body of the guard in the elevator is seen, obviously from a security camera. The CAMERA PANS BACK.
The LOW ROAR returns.
The CAMERA CUTS away to show an OPERATOR sitting by the monitor near an AGENT, who stands behind the Operator's chair.
AGENT
Most impressive.
OPERATOR
He was quite single-minded. We've never seen such dedication to duty before.
AGENT
Perhaps. One test remains.
OPERATOR
Hasn't he proved himself sufficiently?
AGENT
No. Ort-Meyer lies dead at the hands of 47. We will proceed with the test. To please our creditors, you see.
OPERATOR
Should I patch it through?
AGENT
Wait until he gets home first.
The CAMERA CUTS TO another TV screen where we can just see the Hitman enter his hotel room.
CUT TO:
INT. THE HOTEL ROOM- DAY
The Hitman enters, obviously drained of energy. He wonders over to his bed and collapses on the soft linen.
Scant seconds later, a green glow shakes him from his rest and he looks to the source: his laptop.
