Pre-Production: Opening Screenplay Draft

INT. CHARING CROSS UNDERGROUND STATION

Dark. Train lights slowly move down the tunnel and get brighter and closer. The train comes to a halt at the platform. DAVIDSON leaves the train. 

DAVIDSON

Just arrived, he’s getting out here.

He watches as JIM walks upstairs, and pursues him through a crowd of people leaving the train. SMITH is elsewhere.

CAPRIVI

Keep following him.

DAVIDSON follows JIM through the subway exit and arrives at Trafalgar Square.

EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE - DAY

JIM is out of sight.

DAVIDSON

I’ve lost him. He has just left the subway. Yung, can you get a visual?

YUNG is on the raised level in Trafalgar Square watching.

YUNG

Yeah. (Yawns) He’s just rounded the column.

 

DAVIDSON moves round near the road for a better look.

DAVIDSON

I’ve got him.

 YUNG
He’s got a case. Where did he get that?

DAVIDSON
I don’t know. He didn’t have that on the train.

JIM puts the case on the edge of the fountain and opens it.

YUNG
I’ve got to get in for a closer look.

DAVIDSON
Palmer, is it clear?

A dead man on the roof is dragged off.

DAVIDSON
Palmer? Young, hold off for now.

CAPRIVI
Don’t risk it, we haven’t enough men. Tell him to fall back.

YUNG
F*ck it!

Rips the earpiece from his ear and casts it into the Costa abyss.

DAVIDSON
He’s gone dark.

 CAPRIVI
You have to stop him.

DAVIDSON hangs up. ZUBASU appears behind an agitated CAPRIVI. As YUNG makes his way down the stairs DAVIDSON starts moving. YUNG reaches the fountain and DAVIDSON jumps over a wall into the square. YUNG and JIM exchange glances as DAVIDSON stops in the middle of the square. Pause. Everything is at a standstill. Bang. YUNG is down.

DAVIDSON
Yung is down.

Silence.

Hello? Dammit.

DAVIDSON hangs up. He starts moving towards JIM, but two men approach from across the square and take JIM away. One of them starts to follow DAVIDSON. DAVIDSON crosses the square and goes into the toilet lift. The man follows him in, and DAVIDSON takes him out. DAVIDSON leaves the lift, leaving a dead body behind him. Surprisingly, no one in the square, even the security guards have noticed the commotion, so DAVIDSON escapes unnoticed.