Circle of Treason Page #6

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INT. CIA - 2ND FLOOR - HATHAWAY’S OFFICE - CONTINUED - DAY

Jeanne returns the cable to Hathaway. She is expressionless.

27.

INT. LEFORTOVO PRISON - CELL - CONTINUED - DAY

Polyakov hears movement behind him, but doesn’t turn

around... as a KGB MAN steps from the shadows, raises a

pistol and shoots him in the head.

INT. CIA - 2ND FLOOR - JEANNE’S OFFICE - DAY

As Jeanne gathers up files from her desk, intending to return

them to the vault, a picture slips out. It’s a shot of

Polyakov. Jeanne tucks it back inside.

INT. CIA - 5TH FLOOR - S/E DIVISION VAULT - LATER - DAY

Returning the Polyakov file to the safe, Jeanne then slides

the heavy drawer shut - like a cadaver drawer in a morgue.

ANGLE ON JEANNE:

...lingering a moment, as one paying her last respects.

EXT. PULCINELLA’S ITALIAN KITCHEN - NIGHT

Traffic blows past the busy family restaurant in McLean,

Virginia.

INT. PULCINELLA’S ITALIAN KITCHEN - NIGHT

Inside, Jeanne is at her customary table with her customary

glass of wine. Her food untouched.

A waiter arrives, and, perhaps sensing her mood, offers to

refill her wine. Jeanne declines it with a hand over her

glass.

As she gazes out past her reflection in the window, something

burning in her eyes...

EXT. LANGLEY - DAY

From above, featuring the recently-completed NEW HEADQUARTERS

BUILDING, six stories of gleaming glass and steel set behind

the original building.

INT. CIA - 2ND FLOOR - HATHAWAY’S OFFICE - DAY

A copy of the Mister X. letter.

28.

JEANNE (O.S.)

This is the letter from the source

in Bonn, alerting us to a technical

penetration.

HATHAWAY (O.S.)

And this one?

In his office, Hathaway considers a second piece of

correspondence - one of the KGB letters Jeanne unearthed

earlier. On the wall behind him is a framed photo of

president George H.W. Bush.

JEANNE:

It’s part of a KGB communications

plan with the Navy spy John Walker.

HATHAWAY:

They match?

JEANNE:

There are similarities in the lower

case R’s and L’s. I believe Mister

X was a deliberate attempt to

mislead us. They’re protecting

something. Something we haven’t

considered yet.

(he waits to hear it)

A mole. Right here at Langley.

He studies her a moment, then returns the letters to her,

gathering paperwork into his briefcase.

HATHAWAY:

Walk with me.

INT. CIA - 2ND FLOOR - C & D CORRIDORS - DAY

Jeanne follows Hathaway out of his office, turning a corner

in the labyrinth of corridors.

JEANNE:

It’s been three years, we’re no

closer to an answer.

HATHAWAY:

Keep looking for connections.

JEANNE:

What do you want to know? I’ve

looked at how we paid each asset.

(MORE)

29.

JEANNE (CONT'D)

We have limited sources for Soviet

currency, maybe the KGB marked the

roubles. Or they found a way to

intercept our diplomatic pouches...

(shakes her head)

The only connection is, they all

worked for CIA.

They’ve stopped outside a particular office: 2C43.

JEANNE (CONT’D)

They got to Polyakov. Nobody’d

mentioned him in traffic since

1980. It had to be someone with

access to his files.

HATHAWAY:

Do you know whose office this was?

If he’d hoped to throw her with the remark, it didn’t work.

JEANNE:

I remember James Angleton.

HATHAWAY:

He paralyzed this agency for twenty

years. He falsely accused and

ruined the careers of dozens of

loyal officers.

JEANNE HATHAWAY (CONT'D)

You brought me back for an He never found a mole. And

answer. I’ve eliminated the last career he destroyed

every other (one) -was his own.

Jeanne stops, hearing the warning in it.

HATHAWAY (CONT’D)

You’re scheduled for mandatory

retirement in what, two, three

years?

JEANNE:

A little under three.

HATHAWAY:

Ask yourself how you want to be

remembered, Jeanne. A devoted and

respected senior intelligence

officer. The first female Chief of

Station in this agency’s history.

(a glance to room 2C43)

Or a paranoid who pulled down their

own house because of an obsession.

30.

She holds her look to him. Then, she commits.

JEANNE:

I’ll need another office, over in

the new CIC. And access to

Security’s files on our personnel.

Hathaway studies her a moment, nods and leaves her there,

standing outside room 2C43.

EXT. 2512 NORTH RANDOLPH STREET - ARLINGTON - DAY

A large, two-story home in the leafy, upscale neighborhood of

Country Club Hills.

Sandy and Gary pull up. As they climb out, dressed for

dinner, they take in the expensive real estate, the cars

parked in the double-width driveway - a Honda Accord and

RECENT-MODEL JAGUAR XJ6.

GARY:

(a dry smile)

We at the right place?

Sandy nods, smiling - but is clearly surprised and curious.

They ring the bell.

INT. AMES HOUSE - DAY

As MARIA DEL ROSARIO CASAS AMES, a Colombian knockout in her

late-30s, greets them at the door...

ROSARIO:

(flawless American English)

Come in, come in... welcome.

You’re Sandy, right? And you must

be Gary. I’m Rosario.

She kisses them both in the Latin manner and leads the way

inside, Gary admiring the view. Rosario speaks five

languages and went to Princeton, but that’s not why men

notice her.

Sandy gives him a look as they follow Rosario into the living

room, take in the open fireplace, the windows giving out onto

a yard surrounded by old growth trees that screen the hot tub

on the deck.

Latin MUSIC plays on a state of the art sound system.

31.

ROSARIO (CONT’D)

(to Sandy)

He’s in the den. Gary, what will

you drink?

INT. AMES HOUSE - STUDY - MOMENTS LATER

ON TV:
Tom Brokaw reports for NBC on the fall of the Berlin

wall, students bringing down a section. It’s November 1989.

RICK (O.S.)

Twenty years I’ve been saying it,

we’re not going win the Cold War -

they’re gonna lose it. Maybe now

somebody’ll listen.

Sandy finds Rick in his book-lined study a few steps down

from the living room. He turns - balanced on $600 Gucci

loafers, tailored slacks, a label Polo - and flashes her a

smile that cost more than her car.

RICK (CONT’D)

Ciao, Bella...!

SANDY:

Hey, Rick.

Sandy is only half successful in concealing her reaction to

him. This isn’t just a makeover. This is a whole new man.

INT. AMES HOUSE - NIGHT

Later, dinner over, empty plates and half-filled coffee cups,

Rosario and Gary chatting as Rick pours more liquor for Sandy

and holds forth

RICK:

Reagan made the Communists out to

be ten foot tall so he could look

tough when he pushed them around.

GARY SANDY:

(to Rosario)(to Rick)

How’d you guys meet? They haven’t given up yet.

ROSARIO RICK:

In Mexico. I worked at the (ignoring Sandy)

Colombian Embassy. That’s what you get, you

elect a f***ing actor to the

White House.

Rosario overhears, jumping in.

32.

ROSARIO:

You wanted to be an actor.

GARY RICK:

Oh yeah? I was never any good.

ROSARIO:

Don’t believe him - I didn’t even

know he was CIA until he proposed!

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