Here's my entry for the interrogation scene with Bond, Leiter, Goodnight, and "Blanc". I tried doing an entire scene with dialogue and all of that, but in the end wasn't particularly happy with it (and I'm still not totally happy with this version either) as a lot of the dialogue felt a bit too much like "Law & Order" and less like something we'd see in a Bond film. Instead, keeping in mind that this is still more of a treatment than a script, I'll submit the basic rundown of what happens in the sequence.
Bond and Leiter begin questioning the man that they had taken into custody after the successful attempt to destroy the duplicate LEGION computer. They believe the man to be Damien Blanc, the world's foremost cyber-criminal who is on every "Most Wanted" list around the globe.
It becomes apparent after speaking with the man for several minutes that he is not actually Damien Blanc. He is unfamiliar with most of the specifics of the scheme that had been set into motion, details which the real Damien Blanc would know, as he was assumed to be the mind behind it all.
After reaching the realization that they don't actually have Blanc in custody, Leiter calls Bond out into the hallway, where they begin to discuss their options. While talking, they are approached by Mary Goodnight, Agent 008. She says that she caught the first charter plane to the US when she was informed by M that Damien Blanc had been taken into custody in Chicago. When pressed by Bond regarding her interest in Blanc, she tells him about the mission she had been on during the last few days, investigating a cyber-attack that had severely damaged certain pillars of the European economy. She had narrowed the investigation down to Switzerland, where the evidence pointed ot a man named Damien Blanc. Upon further investigation in Switzerland, she detained a man she believed to be Blanc. It turned out that he wasn't, for very much the same reasons that the man Bond and Leiter had in custody turned out not to be him. She had then sent inquiries to many of the European intelligence agencies regarding Damien Blanc. Three agencies confirmed that they had Damien Blanc in custody. Within days of these confirmations, however, the prisoners thought to be Damien Blanc turned up dead.
The three continue talking, eventually reaching the decision that they did not have the actual Damien Blanc in custody. Bond suggests that they go back in and try to get some information out of the man they have detained, inviting Goodnight along for the questioning.
The man eventually admits to them that he is not actually Damien Blanc. His real name is Sebastian, a former gangster who used to have a significant amount of pull in Chicago. When he's pressed as to why he was posing as Damien Blanc, he tells them about the couple who had hired him to recruit muscle for some operations and to help coordinate those same operations on the ground in Chicago. Bond shows him a surveillance photo from the Oak Ridge facility. Sebastian confirms that the woman Bond had encountered at Oak Ridge is the same woman who hired him. He says that, while she never introduced herself to him by name, that he had overheard the man she was with referring to her as "Quinn" during their meetings. Sebastian also recounts for them the story that she had told him when they were in the process of recruiting him for the job, about how she had been in the military and had been captured in Afghanistan and left for dead by her superiors. She had said that part of her reasons for going after the LEGION computer was to eventually get revenge on her former country. Sebastian tells them that the story didn't make much sense to him, as he was mainly focused on the amount he would be paid and the actual particulars of the assignment.
The one solid piece of information that Sebastian did give to Bond was: "With all due respect, this Quinn woman is not someone you want to mess with." Bond replies: "Yes, I've already gotten that impression."
As Bond, Leiter, and Goodnight are wrapping up the interrogation and are getting ready to leave Sebastian in the care of the CIA, the power in the building goes out, leaving them in the pitch-black. Bond knows what is about to happen, having already experienced it in the Oak Ridge facility. "We've got to get him out of here, NOW!" Bond says to Leiter. Leiter helps them navigate some secret tunnels out of the building out to the city streets. He gets them into a car and begins driving. As they're getting away, the back window of the car shatters and Sebastian slumps forward.
[CUT TO AN EXTERIOR SHOT OF THE ROOF OF A HIGH-RISE BUILDING]
Quinn stares through the scope of the sniper's rifle, confirming that she had eliminated the target. She takes the weapon apart and puts it back into its case, which she had had designed to look much like a regular suitcase. She exits the building, phoning Marcus while walking to inform him that Damien Blanc had outlived his usefulness.
Edited by tdalton, 18 October 2010 - 04:26 AM.
