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Gordy screams out his agony --

Noooooo!!!

GORDY:

45 EXT. COLOMBIAN CONSULATE 45

The blast detonated here. Some men from the Navigatorsare dead. MIKE BRANDT is not. Rises from the

devastation, gun in hand, as SIRENS wail in the distance.

46 EXT. 68TH AND MADISON - LATER 46

Emergency personnel - EMS, NYPD, NYFD -- swarm the area.

Two white plastic sheets cover two bodies.

Across the street, PARAMEDICS work on Gordy's leg.

PARAMEDIC #1

We're gonna give you a shot.

Gordy's oblivious to the pain. Shoves him away.

GORDY:

I need to see them!

PARAMEDIC #1

We gotta help you right now.

PARAMEDIC #2

We've done all we can for 'em,

Gordy.

47 ANOTHER ANGLE 47

FBI agent JOE PHIPPS ducks under the police tape.

DRAY, a young agent, meets him. As they walk -REGGIE

DRAY:

Device functioned in front of the

Colombian Consulate just as amotorcade full of brass arrived.

PHIPPS:

Who were the brass, and why werethey here?

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DRAY:

No one's talking yet, but itsmells high-level. There were

Colombians and Americans in the

cars. Three of 'em ate it. Guyon the phone -He

indicates Brandt, talking on a cell phone.

DRAY:

-- is one of the survivors.

Name's Brandt. C.I.A.

That gets Phipps' interest momentarily. Then, as theycontinue toward the consulate, he notices securitycameras on the building.

PHIPPS:

Check the surveillance cameras?

DRAY:

We're pulling up the video now.

PHIPPS:

(stops; looks around)

Where's N.Y.P.D. on this?

DRAY:

They know it's ours. They'rehelping with shoe-leather.

Phipps' eyes go to the white sheets up the street.

DRAY:

We got two dead bystanders, amother and four-year-old son. The

father's over there with a legwound.

(indicates Gordy)

Guy's a lieutenant with the NewYork F.D.

PHIPPS:

Anybody talk to him yet?

DRAY:

We've been giving him room.

48 BACK TO GORDY 48

In b.g., Mike, the veteran firefighter in Gordy's enginecompany, looks under the sheets with a cop.

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Junior puts a gentle hand on Gordy's shoulder.

JUNIOR:

Gordy.

Gordy looks up him, meets his eyes.

JUNIOR:

Me and Mike are here.

GORDY:

... I was late... They shouldn'thave been there...

JUNIOR:

It's not your fault.

GORDY:

I need to see them.

Mike has walked up, lays a comforting hand on Gordy.

MIKE:

No. You don't need to see 'em

that way, Gordo.

Junior spots a news camera crew focusing on Gordy'sgrief, calls at a cop.

JUNIOR:

Get those goddamn people outtahere!

Phipps, approaching with Dray, addresses the same cop.

PHIPPS:

Put that tape out fifty morefeet.

The cop begins moving the camera crew back. Phippscontinues to Gordy.

A Paramedic looks up at Mike.

PARAMEDIC #1

He needs to go to the hospital.

We can't take that glass out.

MIKE:

If he's not bleeding to death,

leave him. He's not moving tillthey do.

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Phipps has heard and understands. To Dray, re:

bodies!-

PHIPPS:

Chalk 'em and move 'em.

Dray goes. Phipps turns to Gordy and the twofirefighters standing with him. Addresses Mike -

PHIPPS:

We gotta get on this quick. I

need to talk to him.

Beat. Mike nods. To Gordy -

PHIPPS:

Mr. Pitt, if you can you tellme... What'd you see?

GORDY:

(looks up; beat)

What'd I see? I saw my familydie.

Mike puts a restraining hand on Gordy.

MIKE:

This guy didn't do the bombing,

Gordo. He's just trying to getthe people who did.

Beat. Gordy eases up. Then, after a moment, defeated -

GORDY:

I didn't see anything except theexplosion.

Beat. Phipps sees that's all he's gonna get.

PHIPPS:

I know this is hard. I'm sorry Ihad to bother you.

Phipps goes. Gordy looks over as the bodies of Anne andMatt are placed on gurneys and rolled away. Chalk

outlines are all that remain of his family. Beat.

MIKE:

We're gonna roll you to thehospital now and get that glass

out.

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49 ANGLE - PHIPPS 49

Walking back to the consulate. He approaches Brandt.

PHIPPS:

Joe Phipps. F.B.I. Counterterrorism

task force.

Mike Brandt.

BRANDT:

PHIPPS:

What got this place blown up?

BRANDT:

We'll have this discussion

somewhere else more secure, after

I get your clearance.

PHIPPS:

Whatever it takes. But I got abomber in the wind. I need

everything you can give me, and Ineed it now.

50 INT. HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM - NIGHT 50

Gordy's on a gurney on an I.V., his thigh heavilybandaged. Junior and the rookie, Ronnie, are with him,

but there's no chatter -- Gordy's shut down, oblivious toeveryone around him.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

Mike is on a cell phone nearby as Sal, the other veteranfrom the engine company, enters and approaches him. Into

the phone -Hang

on.

MIKE:

Mike turns his attention to Sal, who's clearly blown awayby the bad news that brought him here --

Dammit...

SAL:

MIKE:

Tell me about it.

SAL:

How's he holding up?

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MIKE:

He's shut down... We were hopingthey'd keep him here, and hewouldn't have to go home rightaway, but they're cutting himloose.

SAL:

Want me to stay at home with him?

MIKE:

Rookie's taking the first shift.

I'm just getting the schedule atthe firehouse rearranged now.

Mike goes back to the phone, and Sal crosses to Gordy.

He puts a hand on Gordy's shoulder, grips it firmly.

SAL:

Hey. Got here as fast as I could.

Gordy sees him, but says nothing.

SAL:

I know it sucks... It reallysucks...

Gordy can't go there. Beat. Sal releases his grip.

SAL:

How's the leg?

RONNIE:

Cut's deep, but no major vesselswere severed. He's got a load 'osilk holding it all together.

Junior, who stepped off to talk to a cop, now comes back.

JUNIOR:

Just came over the police radio...

Consulate surveillance cameras

caught the bomber in the act. He

was disguised as a cop.

Gordy looks over. What Junior just said has triggeredsomething.

GORDY:

... I saw him... I saw a cop.

Gordy yanks out his I.V., and starts to get up.

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Christ.

SAL:

Gordy...

But Gordy's already on his feet, already moving.

GORDY:

I gotta help 'em get the bastard.

51 INT. UNDERGROUND GARAGE - FBI INCIDENT CENTER - NIGHT 51

A well-lit, sectioned-off area of the garage secured by achain-link fence.

Phipps enters. As he passes Dray, already there -PHIPPS

How long before we have a securecomputer network?

An hour.

DRAY:

They're building it now.

Phipps moves to a FORENSIC EXPERT hovering over a tableof small fragments.

PHIPPS:

What do you got?

FORENSIC EXPERT #1

Pieces of a pager oxidized withtrace elements of Semtex.

Probably the triggering device.

They dial it up, probably from acell phone, and boom...

He picks up a microchip.

FORENSIC EXPERT #1

... This is the memory chip. I

can build it into a working pagerand maybe get a number readout.

Do it.

PHIPPS:

Phipps moves to the next work area, where anotherFORENSIC EXPERT studies video from a consulate

surveillance camera.

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