Tommy Lee Jones is behind the door. He's on the top of a brownstone and could get cover from the water tower or jump from roof to roof. Tommy knows that our one route to him is through the attic steps.
He also knows we know he's waiting for us. The only way to break the deadlock is to create a diversion which will give Jamie Lee the few seconds she needs to take the advantage. Tommy Lee knows that Jamie Lee only has two bullets left but he doesn't know I have the whale harpoon (with the big hook on it ) that I picked up after the skirmish in the Maritime Museum. All Tommy's accomplices are spoken for. Three of them went up with the helicopter when the diplomatic bag exploded. The fat one got locked in the freezer in the meat warehouse. The bald one was crushed by one of my magnetic sculptures. The thin one, with the Zappata moustache, was impaled with a stuffed swordfish by Jamie Lee in the Maritime Museum.
I send the harpoon through the sky light and it snags around the base of the water tower. Tommy knows that Jamie could either climb up the rope and through the sky light or come through the door. I start to climb the rope up toward the sky light. Tommy takes a chance and moves to unhook the line from the water tower - breaking his cover. Jamie Lee, with her ear to the door, hears the hook scraping on the concrete roof and bursts out releasing one shot. It passes through Tommy Lee's shoulder and severs the cord which had been keeping me suspended. I fall, but manage to grab hold of the balustrade on my way down. I'm hanging there, looking five stories down
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