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MENDEZ:
Can.’t be right all the time.
NICHOLLS:
Mr. Harkins.
MENDEZ:
When.’d you get back?
CUT TO:
*165A INT. HAGIA SOPHIA - LOWER LEVEL - DAY 165A
FIND Mendez and Nicholls.
MENDEZ:
Were you metal detecting? *
NICHOLLS:
None left to find. Shah escaped
with a 747 so laden with gold bars
it nearly didn.’t make it off the
runway.
MENDEZ:
But you kept busy.
NICHOLLS:
Ferrying out the torture apparatus
of our friend.’s fallen
dictatorship.
Both these men do this work and share an unspoken
understanding. They stop and look up at a MOSAIC on the
wall. An ancient rendition of Christ, fashioned before
the Muslims took the city and converted this church to a
mosque. *
Nicholls has WHITE AND YELLOW SLIPS OF PAPER with Farsi
writing on them in hand. He gives them to Tony.
NICHOLLS:
It.’s getting worse. Everybody who *
lands at Mehrabad now fills out
one of these.
(a WHITE one)
That slip makes a copy to this one
underneath.
(a YELLOW one)
Passenger keeps Yellow, Airport
keeps White.
ARGO - Final 62.
165 CONTINUED:
165(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
When you leave the country, they
match them up to verify you came
into the country when you said you
did.
MENDEZ:
So if they look, they.’ll know six
people didn.’t come in with me.
NICHOLLS:
If they look.
Nicholls and Tony turn away from the mosaic,
surreptitious work now done, and meander toward the
middle of the great room.
166 INT. HAGIA SOPHIA - CONTINUOUS ACTION 166
Nicholls and Tony walk towards the inner courtyard.
NICHOLLS:
When you land, you should go
straight to the Ministry of
Culture and Islamic Guidance to
kiss the ring. Get on record as
having applied for a film permit.
If they catch you later, at least
they.’ll be confused while they.’re
torturing you... Your biggest
problem may be convincing the six
of them to go with you. They.’re
foreign service. They.’re willful.
Nicholls takes a picture.
MENDEZ:
How.’s June?
NICHOLLS:
Left.
MENDEZ:
I.’m sorry.
NICHOLLS:
She picked out a ring and gave me
a choice. She.’s a Chinese
national. If I married her, I.’d
have to resign, so. You and *
Christine?
MENDEZ:
Good. Yeah.
ARGO - Final 63.
165A CONTINUED:
165ANICHOLLS (CONT'D)
(CONTINUED)
He said that without hesitation. Maybe here we realize
that Mendez is a very good liar.
166A EXT./INT. PRODUCERS.’ BUILDING - NIGHT 166A *
Lester is BOUNCING A RUBBER BALL. The PRODUCER from later *
PRODUCER *
You.’re working late. *
SIEGEL *
.‘Til the dawn.’s early light. *
PRODUCER *
You got stamina, Lester. I wanna *
be you. *
SIEGEL *
You wouldn.’t be me for long. I.’m *
80. *
Producer walks away and Lester looks into the .‘Argo.’ *
office as he squeezes the ball. *
FROM INSIDE THE OFFICE -- In the foreground, we see what *
Lester is looking at: a phone. Stubbornly silent. *
167 OMITTED 167 *
168 OMITTED 168 *
169 OMITTED 169 *
170 INT. BRITISH AIRWAYS DC-10 - MORNING 170
Mendez sits in a window seat. A FLIGHT ATTENDANT speaks
with a pleasant British accent.
FLIGHT ATTENDANT (V.O.)
The Captain has informed us that
we have entered Iranian airspace.
Members of our cabin crew will be
remaining alcoholic beverages at
this time.
ARGO - Final 64.
166 CONTINUED:
166171 INT. MEHRABAD AIRPORT TERMINAL - DAY 171
Mendez walks through the terminal of a crowded 1960s-era
airport. Newly-hung portraits of the Ayatollah Khomeini
watch over the duty-free shops.
SUPERIMPOSE:
TEHRAN - JANUARY 26The MOBS OF PEOPLE WITH BOXES OF THEIR WORLDLY BELONGINGS
puts in high relief that Tony is going into a place that
everyone else is desperately fleeing.
172 INT. MEHRABAD AIRPORT IMMIGRATION - DAY 172
Tony fills out a white form. It makes an impression on a
YELLOW form.
Tony presents his passport to a REVOLUTIONARY GUARD
IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL. Official looks at it, Tony hears
the sound of a woman screaming in Farsi.
Three lanes away, at the outgoing immigration station, a
Revolutionary Guard is dragging away the woman.’s HUSBAND.
The Immigration Official stamps Tony.’s passport -- takes
the white form, gives Tony the yellow one -- and waves
him through.
Archive footage may be mixed with new footage. Normal
city life mixed with men with automatic weapons. The
contradictions of Tehran at this moment.
A Massive HELICOPTER SHOT OF TEHRAN. We TILT DOWN to see
a traffic jam SPRAWLS AROUND THE AZADI MONUMENT. Bikes,
mopeds, pedestrians, peddlers and old, patched together
cars compete for space. No one gets anywhere.
Mendez sits in the back of a taxi in the Tehran traffic,
some of the worst traffic in the world. We see the AZADI
MONUMENT out his window.
The Ayatollah looks down from everywhere.
ARGO - Final 65.
(CONTINUED)
A MAN IS HANGING FROM A CRANE. People mill underneath.
Women in chadors at Kentucky Fried Chicken.
An ARMED GANG in the back of pickup truck pulls up near
his taxi.
We see PROPAGANDA painted on a wall/window.
175 INT. TAXI/EXT. MINISTRY - DAY 175
The taxi pulls up to a FORMAL, PINK BUILDING.
The Driver stops. They.’ve arrived. *
176 INT. MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND ISLAMIC GUIDANCE - DAY 176
MEHDI BEHROUZ, 33, is the newly appointed Deputy Minister
of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Like many of the stars
of the Revolution, he was educated in the U.S. Right now
he.’s looking at the ARGO script.
BEHROUZ:
This film crew is just yourself?
MENDEZ:
Six more are joining me today.
They.’re coming from Canada.
BEHROUZ:
You.’d like to film at the bazaar?
MENDEZ:
The bazaar, maybe the palace.
BEHROUZ:
(not particularly
friendly)
I see. The exotic Orient. Snake
charmers and flying carpets.
(a beat)
You come to us at a complicated
time. Before the Revolution, 40
percent of the movie theaters in
Tehran were showing pornography.
Our function is purification as
well as promotion of the arts.
(takes script)
I.’ll review for the Minister.
ARGO - Final 66.
174 CONTINUED:
174177 EXT. CANADIAN EMBASSY - DAY 177
Mendez, carrying his luggage, stands at a wrought iron
gate with MAPLE LEAVES worked into the iron. Ken Taylor
comes out of the building, opens the gate himself.
MENDEZ:
Mr. Ambassador.
TAYLOR:
Ken Taylor.
He shakes Tony.’s hand and they start to walk to Taylor.’s
car.
TAYLOR:
I was expecting more of a G-Man
look.
MENDEZ:
You.’re thinking of FBI, sir.
They get into the car.
178 INT. TAYLOR.’S CAR - OUTSIDE EMBASSY - CONTINUOUS ACTION 178
Taylor gives Tony SIX BLANK CANADIAN PASSPORTS.
TAYLOR:
These are blank, y.’know. The
stamps?
MENDEZ:
I.’ll take care of that.
TAYLOR:
How long?
MENDEZ:
A day to prep them with their
cover stories. Two if they need
it.
TAYLOR:
And you.’ll fly out with them?
Tony nods. A distant sound of a crowd outside.
ARGO - Final 67.
(CONTINUED)
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