It will take them five minutes! How long ago did they arrive?
MATHILDA:
I don't know... Five minutes.
LEON:
Good! Snipers can't be in position.
Leon gets close to the wall and gets rid of the tents, allowing light to explode.
Window explodes too:
they shoot like never before.
LEON:
...Ten minutes at least... Not five.
In the corridor, cops eventually catch the pressurized pipe and close the water. On all fours, Leon and Mathilda get in the kitchen. He gets the axe and the violin case by the way.
Mathilda is more and more nervous. Leon is more and more concentrated.
MATHILDA:
How shall we get out now, Leon?
LEON:
Let me work. We'll get out, I tell you!
He shoots at the dustbin duct and makes it explode. He enlarges the hole by axe. Leon throws in the duct his overcoat, his sack's content, and his violin (grenades, weapons, etc...). Mathilda then throws in her teddy bear and Polaroid.
In the corridor, sand bags are becoming a wall, armored shields and cops multiply. A cop gets in position with a rocket-launcher and shoots. The door explodes and smoke floods the interior.
Leon helps Mathilda to get into the duct. She's half in when she seems to realize something.
MATHILDA:
But... Leon? You'll never get in it!
It's nearly too small for me!?
LEON(smiling) I know, my love!
Mathilda starts crying.
MATHILDA:
No! I don't want to leave you!!
LEON:
Mathilda, listen!
MATHILDA:
No, no! I don't want to go! I don't want!
He rudely takes her face in his hands.
LEON:
Listen to me, sh*t! We've got no chance to get out together! Alone, I will get out! Trust me! I'm in perfect shape, Mathilda, now! I slept well! I love you!
I'm happy! And I thought! I'll get all the money Tony keeps for me and we'll leave, OK? Together! We'll leave tomorrow.