Is there a code, a way to knock the door or something?
Yes from Mathilda.
She approaches her hand to the wall: two knocks, three knocks, two knocks. Wrong code.
The boss is satisfied anyway. He signs the group, they get in position. Mathilda in a corner, a man remains with her.
MAN:
Don't fear.
MATHILDA:
I have no fear.
The first three cops are in position. The leader is nervous.
Everyone is ready. He knocks the code on the door. Reply isn't late. Inside, a classical music starts. Cops get in, one by one, commando style. From the corridor, one clearly sees apartment's open door, and one clearly sees also the hand above the door, that sweetly closes.
In the corridor, the other cops have no time. They hear the
slaughter in progress:
shouts and shots, for twenty seconds.
Then door opens again. Three corpses in the apartment's corridor. The man with Mathilda uses his walkie-talkie.
MAN:
Sh*t! We need reinforcements! Maximum!
Come on!
Mathilda puts a hand in her parcel and pulls out a gun she keeps along her body. On door's side, a small reflex. It's Leon's periscope, checking the other three cops' progression.
Two of them progress behind armored shields. Suddenly, Leon's voice breaks the silence.
LEON(shouting) Mathilda?... Now.
Leon appears from nowhere and empties his kalashnikov in the corridor. The three cops don't shoot for a long. Mathilda lifts her arm, kills the cop at lower landing and aims at the cop who kept her.
LEON(loud) Mathilda?!
She appears in the corridor, her hostage before her, still her milk with her. Leon is relieved.
LEON:
Don't expose your back! Turn!
Mathilda obeys and walks backward.
She needs her hostage for protection and he remains in front of her. Leon covers her from the apartment.
A group of cops, a dozen, gets upstairs. Leon breaks the fire equipment niche's glass, unrolls the pipe in the corridor, throws the axe into the apartment and opens the water at full pressure. The pipe twists and beats all around the corridor.
Leon shoots. Reply is immediate. Fortunately, Mathilda is behind her hostage, his bullet-proof jacket is insufficient.
Leon and Mathilda get back in the apartment and close the door, leaving the hostage crucified on it.