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We see the store from across the road in the park beyond the alleyway. It's deadly still and the Evening fog is just drifting in.
Silence.
They wait. Willaby is standing at a window, tense. Peering out. Can't see much. Jack sits across the room, head down. Gun dangling from his hand. It's been a long time since he's been in a pinch like this. Feels… exciting.
Ianto watches him for a beat. He sees him. They exchange a look.
"Are you ready?" Ianto whispers as he feels the air change.
"I was ready before you were born, son." Willaby croaks from across the room as he excitedly shifts from foot to foot.
Ianto moves into first position.
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Something's moving out there... Dark silhouettes approach.
Cars parked at the gateway to Bute Park. Figures emerge. Heavily armed. Mercenaries. They approach the store slowly, creeping through the fog like wraiths. The only sound is their feet crunching on the cobbles.
They communicate through silent hand signals. They're professionals.
Two men split off. They disappear around the side of the building. The others pass the parked DB-5. And finally make it to the heavy front door. More silent hand signals and two men attach explosives to the door - getting ready to blow it. They raise weapons, crouching. Ready to invade the store when the door is blown.
But then... There's movement... From the parked DB-5 ... two machine guns emerge from ports at the front of the car and lock into place and... BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! BLAM! Ianto's in the Aston blasting away with the front mounted machine guns! Blinding flashes through the darkness. The attackers are caught totally unaware.
Five are shredded.
The charges on the front door blow! BLAM! And five others rush into the store where they run straight into the mirror Ianto and Willaby put there earlier. In panic they open fire at the reflection of Jack SHATTERING and BLASTING the mirror. Willaby suddenly appears from where he is actually standing beside Jack and opens fire with his shotgun: both barrels.
BOOM! BOOM!
Two men go down as Willaby snarls "Welcome to the Kingsmen!"
Willaby takes off around the staircase as Jack retreats toward the dressing room. Ianto takes cover in the DB-5 as two of the men barrage the vehicle with bullets from the corner of the house. If you didn't know better you would think Ianto was laughing in there… maybe he is.
One of the other men turns and moves towards the door Jack disappeared behind BLAM! The hand grendade Ianto placed under the floorboards blasts him off his feet.
Now the remaining two men inside scatter.
The two men are moving into the main store, guns raised, sweeping through the room. Now we see that Jack is just around the corner, in the dressing room. He peeks in and sees them. Then he leans back and flips the light switch on the wall next to him and… BLAM! The improvised light bulb bombs he rigged before explode! Bolts and scrap metal fly like shrapnel. The room is blasted and the two go down.
He can't help the grin as he loves every minute of this shit.
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Ianto reloads and is instantly out of the car and firing with the hunting rifle BLAM! BLAM! One of men at the corner of the store goes down. Ianto ejects, reloads and marches toward the store as he fires again … BLAM! BLAM! … taking down the other man.
Inside Willaby reloads, takes cover by an archway leading into the kitchen.
Ianto enters. He tosses the rifle aside and grabs an automatic weapon from one of the dead men.
Meanwhile, the two remaining that broke off earlier move around the rear of the store. They arrive at the storeroom door. WHAM! They kick the door open.
Willaby breaks cover as the two men push through the back door of the kitchen - BOOM! BOOM! Willaby fires - He misses! The two men back off and separate - one man continues into the kitchen towards Willaby, the second heads into the dressing room. Willaby ducks behind a wall and prepares to reload. He drops the shotgun shells, they clatter across the floor. He curses, fumbles for more shells... the Man moves closer... raises his gun - Just as Ianto enters! Killing the man- Willaby stares wide-eyed at the younger man.
Ianto looks down at the shotgun shell rolling towards his boot.
"You drop something old man?"
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Jack has ventured out to see the aftermath of the light-bulb bomb. The two men lie dead. He has also heard Willaby's gunshots, and is alert ... he senses movement. The other man who came through the back door is in the Dressing Room. He tucks behind a cabinet, and prepares the Webley ... he peeks around the cabinet through the dusty shambles of the room - sees the man - fires - BLAM! - misses- He gets off a shot- The bullet shatters the cabinet by Jack's side - wood and debris fly - he's injured- Just as Ianto comes into the room - firing - blowing the man off his feet.
"You hurt?" Ianto asks as he looks Jack up and down in the half light.
"Only my pride."
