True Lies

T R U EL I E S WRITTEN BY JAMES CAMERON ----------------------- TITLE SEQUENCE 1EXT. MOUNTAINS, NEAR GENEVA, SWITZERLAND - NIGHT The snow covered Alps stand out clearly in the light of a full moon.A fortress-like CHATEAU is situated in a flat saddle of forest partway up the mountain, next to a frozen lake.The property is surrounded by high stone walls, and the stately grounds are bathed in floodlights and patrolled by armed guards with dogs. 2EXT. CHATEAU - NIGHT The driveway and motorcourt are filled with cars.A formal- dress party is in progress... a private reception for a middle- eastern dignitary.Tuxedoes men escort their diamond-encrusted ladies through the huge front doors, where they doff their overcoats and are politely scanned with hand-held metal detectors by white gloved security staffers. The walled perimeter of the house runs along the lake, forming a kind of rampart.There is an opening, to a kind of waterway or canal, which connects to the private docks inside the grounds.There is a steel grating across the opening.The bars disappear down into the thin ice of early winter. With the house visible BG, we CRANE DOWN below the parapet wall along which a guard is a white exposure-suit is walking... down along the dark wall to the grating... TILTING DOWN to see a glow pulsing under the ice. 3EXT. BENEATH THE ICE, UNDERWATER - NIGHT Camera moving toward:A FIGURE in diving gear working at the metal bars with an oxygen arc cutting torch.