5
The rain has the street outside quiet. A construction worker, exhausted from his shift walks up to the diner, hard hat, lunch bucket. A man wearing a doorman's uniform from a nearby luxury hotel is reading a newspaper as he finishes his piece of pie. The Construction Guy grabs the table near the window. He motions to a woman behind the counter with a name tag that says her name is Cheryse as he barks "Coffee."
Cheryse pours a cup and carries it out to the guy.
"Egg sandwich, a ham roll. With cheese." The man says without a please or thank you in sight. Cheryse nods and heads back into the kitchen.
Ianto reading. Doorman checks the scores. Quiet.
Construction guy stirs cream into his cup. The only sound is the clinking of the spoon. The crinkle of paper. Doorman folds his Daily News and leaves. Quiet. Construction guy sips his coffee. Yawns. Long day. Ianto pours more hot water over his tea bag. Looks around for something. Then across the room to Construction Guy's table and finds it. Bowl of sugar packets. Walks over.
"Can I grab a sugar?"
Construction guy slides the bowl towards Ianto. About to go back to his coffee when his eyes catch sight of Ianto's table. On it a bowl full of sugar packets. Looks up just as Ianto throws the steaming cup of coffee from the man's meal in his face.
Construction Guy's scream is cut off as Ianto's hand cracks the man's windpipe. Construction Guy drops off his chair – the Mac-10 Machine Pistol under his coat clatters to the floor. Ianto looks towards the street... Just as the windows explode in a hail of glass as automatic weapon fire strafing the interior.
Ianto bellies to the floor.
Arms pulling down tables as shields... Ianto opens his umbrella that had sat beside him while grabbing a table knife and jamming it into a wall outlet... A flash and the electricity shorts out. Everything plunged into darkness. Except for the laser tracers that dot the room followed by bullets that destroy everything...30 calibre shells shredding walls, furniture, glassware... every possible square inch of space.
At the rear of the diner Cheryse stumbles from the back confused... bullets dance across the counter ripping up the Formica... About to cut Cheryse to shreds when... Ianto tackles Cheryse to the floor while covering them both with the umbrella that seems bullet proof just as... The deadly fusillade of metal sprays over them. Ianto laying his body over Cheryse until... The shooting stops... Silence. Far off a car alarm blares. Somewhere a baby cries... The last piece of glass drops with a gentle ping.
Someone is running down a side street, away from the noise and past a black van that is idling a half a block down from the Diner... his breath short, his stride long and the immaculate suit not unlike Ianto's. The black frames on his face housing glass that glints in the streetlights, a hand slaps the comer if a building as he swings himself around the corner to head for a tram that is slowly pulling away from a stop.
Outside the diner five large men are dressed in black. Suppressed HK 416's with Holographic Scopes and Thermal-mounted Screens... Laser sights dancing across every surface. Team Leader looks to 3, 4 and 5 and gestures them to the back alley... Team Leader and his cohort step into the Diner like shadows.
Inside the van two armed killers sit in the front seat listening in on the coms. In the back we can see GPS satellite feeds, monitors with video images of the diner and the surrounding streets while in the corner of one screen a little red dot is blinking…changing … becoming … a dragon? the Boss and his Three Men watch intently. Boss leans into the radio mic "I'm waiting for the fucking confirmation!"
Leader and Cohort sweep the room. Nothing but the barely breathing Construction Guy. Moving around the counter towards the back...
Ianto drags Cheryse and shoves her under a counter. Hesitates then leaves the umbrella covering her.
Thug 3, 4 and 5 converge on the Diner's fire exit door.
Ianto steps around boxes of canned goods and reaches for Fire Door EXIT... 3, 4 and 5 on either side of the door. Guns raised... Eyes riveted to the handle... SOUND OF METAL ON BRICK... 5 looks up... Air Conditioning Unit falling out of the wall and crushing his skull... 3 and 4 distracted just enough for ... the back door the explode open - Ianto like the blade of a scythe. Grabs 3 before he can raise his weapon. Using his body as a shield as 4 fires... Bullets hitting 3 centre mass. 3's gun going off and blowing holes across 4's chest.
Team Leader and cohort stepping out to find the bodies and NO IANTO. Stares down the inky blackness of the Alley... Leader flicks the switch on his weapon-mounted screen. He starts weeping across the darkness... Electrical boxes on the sides of buildings, power lines above glowing red and orange... anything radiating heat above 72 degrees appears. Further down the Alley... heat is running along the brick and cement walls to dance across the screen like spider veins.
Green tinged Night Vision on the cohort's screen. Trash and rats... The alley narrowing. No place to hide... Movements precise and efficient. Screen showing a BLIP. Then... a heat image of a warm body on the other side of a dumpster.
Cohort stops walking, frowning as a small red dragon starts to dance across his screen … the information flickering away. Leader positions for a clear shot. Hears a hissing the second he pulls the trigger... Hollow Points blowing through the metal Dumpster. Hitting stone wall. Sparking and... Igniting the broken gas line... WHOOSH! Knife-like wall of flame pierces the dark alley... blinding them... they are Ripping off goggles... Ianto is coming out from behind the wall of fire ... WHAM! Throats, arms, tendons snapping. Bodies collapsing … Ianto not having broken stride as they fall... Keeps moving as the van doors slide open at last, the two assassins jumping out... Hitting the Alley on a dead run. Seeing Ianto disappear around the final corner... Getting to the... end of the alley. The street lights are out. They are walking Into complete darkness. Too inky to see anything except the glow of their laser sights ... They stop and listen for Ianto. Tasting blood... They hear the rumble a split second before the bright lights of the tram hits them!
It roars over them killing them instantly as it roars by… after it's gone... Ianto steps out from a recessed doorway in the street. He looks at the screws from the air conditioning unit that were tossed for the Tram window now at his feet and snorts.
"Nice one Eggsy" he mutters as he starts to walk calmly away. "Tosh? Clean up aisle three."
