Beirut Page #7

Synopsis: Caught in the crossfires of civil war, CIA operatives must send a former U.S. diplomat to negotiate for the life of a friend he left behind.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Brad Anderson
Production: Bleecker Street
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
R
Year:
2018
109 min
Website
2,847 Views


What?

Jumblatt near the Druze cemetery!

Pharmacy Jumblatt!

You leave now. Alone.

-You understand? You need to go now!

-Yes! Yes!

I need Crowder on the line now.

Crowder's in a van outside.

Pick it up. Line two.

Sandy? What happened? Where's Skiles?

I have no idea. Unknown.

Where the hell's my beacon?

I can't get a fix. We have to move.

Hey, where is he?

He's gone. He's gone.

- He disappeared.

- We're going to leave.

We're on the move.

Do not lose him!

Sh*t! Skiles is MIA.

-Missing or taken?

-I don't know, but he's got the belt.

- I want that signal relayed in here!

- Yes, sir. I'm on it.

-Let's get a flag up for the Ops team.

-Got it.

Ethan, get me a line

to the SEALs Ops team.

It's not safe here, friend.

Thank you.

Stop where you are.

Don't move.

Put this on.

Okay, 300 yards.

Straight ahead. Signal's good.

Three hundred yards. Clear signal.

Signal's locking in.

They're moving southwest 200 yards.

Go left

on Rue de l'Arme!

Heading off the left now.

Stabilizing.

Stabilizing?

Signal's still stabilizing.

It's stationary.

Search him!

Let's go, search him.

Get me an address.

-Can we get an address right away?

-Gaines, come here.

-We're sending them in?

-Mmm-hmm.

Tell Crowder to get out of there now

before this gets loud.

Come on, hurry!

Don't f***ing move!

Hands where I can see 'em!

Keep your hands up!

Don't f***ing move! Not a move!

Motherf***er!

You have one minute.

Hey, Cal.

You're not hallucinating. It's Mason.

Are you okay? You look okay.

I'm here to help you,

but we don't have a lot of time.

We gotta work quick.

-Mason, how did you get here?

-Stop. Listen to me. All right?

Now, Rafid Abu Rajal is missing.

And we're trying to make a trade for you.

-The brother?

-Yes.

They asked me to come and make a deal.

Now I want you to listen to me

very carefully.

They sent me to Israel to try to find him.

You know how wild it can get there,

and you have to goose things

along sometimes

and chase things you don't wanna chase.

Israel? No, no, that's not who--

Karim has been very patient.

Karim's been very patient.

But your friends...

Your friends at the Embassy...

They like this idea.

Yeah.

I don't have many friends as I used to.

Okay, you can see everything's okay.

I think we all need friends.

Cal, I know I could use a friend.

I could use someone to trust.

Right? Don't you think that's true?

People can trust people

based on whether or not

they have something to gain?

Right? What do you think about that, Cal?

What do you think about those gains?

Do you think those gains can be trusted?

No.

No, I wouldn't trust those gains.

I'd feel a lot safer in a crowd.

In a crowd?

-More of a crowd.

-That's enough.

On a sandy beach.

- That's enough.

- Sandy.

It's enough.

-Have you talked to Alice?

-Mm-hmm.

Get her to show you

the picture in my apartment.

-Time is over.

-You need Abu Rajal?

That's all they want.

Tell Alice I pray she loves me only.

-What?

-Stop.

Tell her I pray she loves me only!

-I pray she loves me only!

-Stop!

I pray she loves me only!

-What was that?

-You told me I could talk to him.

You have seven hours.

-How do I contact--

-No. Talking is finished.

You come to Fadya Crossing

at 2:
30 a.m. with my brother.

Karim, that's not possible.

Okay. So I sell Riley to the Iranians.

Good luck with them.

Fadya Crossing, 2:30.

Stop!

Put the bottle down.

-Think the gun is really necessary?

-I wish I knew.

Come up, come up. He's here.

You might want

to wait a second.

What the f*** are you doing here?

I'm here looking for something

that Cal told me was important.

Turn around.

-When was this?

-About an hour ago.

Tell me something I can believe.

-Cal told me I could trust you.

-Sorry.

And that Gaines was not on our side.

-Who are you working for?

-My friend.

Yeah? Cal or Karim?

He told me to look for a photo album,

that there was something important in it.

Where is he?

-He's okay.

-Where?

I don't know. We drove around.

-I was blindfolded.

-You took off the belt.

Yes. Are you kidding?

You think I want Ruzak dialing in

a rocket strike on my last known location?

There's nothing in that photo album.

There's nothing here, Sandy.

What is going on?

Don Gaines has been skimming money

from the station budget.

There's a bank in Cyprus

and all this sh*t.

Cal found out and wrote a grievance.

That's what you've been looking for.

Cal wrote it up, but he wanted to wait

through the cease-fire

before he blew the whistle.

And I took it out of the photo album.

I didn't want Alice to find it

and light the fuse.

Gaines is a thief and Cal knows about it.

You don't find that problematic?

-Don doesn't know any of this.

-Would you bet Cal's life on that?

Wouldn't matter. Cal's too valuable.

No, Sandy. Now, Cal is expendable.

He's a threat to Gaines

and a speed bump to Ruzak.

They're just gonna burn him.

Now they don't have to wait.

What do you mean?

Karim has given us six hours

to deliver the brother.

You're wrong. We've got a deadline.

They'll get the White House involved.

Israel has to budge.

Israel never had Abu Rajal.

They never said they did.

It cost them nothing to toy with Ruzak.

Sandy?

Yes, I'm here.

Listen. Listen to me.

Listen to me. Listen to me.

Cal called it, okay? He kept saying,

"Pray. Love. Only.

Pray. Love. Only."

I think he's right.

I think the PLO have Abu Rajal.

What are we doing?

Get the car.

Come on,

think about it.

You're the PLO. You're Arafat.

You're desperately trying

to hold this cease-fire together.

The last thing you want

is the Israelis crossing the border.

One more incident, one more bomb,

another assassination,

and they'll stop asking for permission.

They're gonna roll up

and push you right into the sea.

Rafid Abu Rajal

and his little splinter group?

That's a problem. He's uncontrollable.

What do you do if you're Arafat?

I think I would take him off the table.

I would put Abu Rajal on ice.

Because Abu Rajal wants this to f*** up.

He'd rather put a match

to this whole thing.

Ruzak wants the same thing as Abu Rajal.

He said it. We heard him.

"Two birds, one stone."

He wants this to go sideways.

He wants to tip it over

and give Israel all the reason it needs

to come on in here.

Come on. This is Cal talking.

This is him telling us what's going on.

If you let Gaines and Ruzak

and the White House and Tel Aviv,

if you let them run their game,

Cal's gone.

Waiting only increases the risk.

-You understand that, right?

-We blew our chance today.

I need a master list

of Cal's assets and code keys.

We'll start prioritizing

his people quickly,

so we can get the relocation budgets

in place for the folks who qualify.

-You're hearing me, right?

-It's a death sentence.

Jesus, Sandy.

Nobody's quitting on Cal, okay?

But we get paid to be ready.

There's a hell of a lot

of unprotected pieces in the field.

You think I don't know how you feel?

That could be any of us out there.

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Tony Gilroy

Anthony Joseph "Tony" Gilroy is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He wrote the screenplays for the Bourne series starring Matt Damon, among other successful films, and directed the fourth film of the franchise. more…

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