Collateral Damage Page #4

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52 ON SCREEN 52

in super slow-mo, we see a cop -- the one who laterbumped into Gordy -- in front of the consulate. His hat

is pulled down over his eyes, almost concealing histinted glasses. As the cop faces more toward the camera,

the expert freeze-frames. To Phipps -53

FORENSIC EXPERT #2 53

FORENSIC EXPERT #2

That's as much face as we get. He

was careful to duck the camera.

PHIPPS:

Run a total analysis. I want to

know if this a**hole's right orleft-handed. I want everythingyou can get outta this film.

Phipps keeps moving, enters an eerie recreation of theblast site. Streets, buildings, etc. are marked out onthe garage floor. Pieces of the Navigators rest in frontof the area marked "consulate;" parts of an NYPD trafficscooter rest in front of the Navigators; "X's" mark whereAnne and Matt were standing.

Phipps crosses to another AGENT.

PHIPPS:

Any helpful information comingoutta Colombia?

AGENT:

Not yet. Sat-Intel hasn't pickedup any related data-traffic,

either.

Dray walks up.

DRAY:

Gordon Pitt's here. He says hesaw a cop at the scene.

54 SAME SCENE - LATER 54

Gordy, accompanied by Mike and Ronnie, sits in front of avideo monitor. Phipps and Dray look on.

55 ON SCREEN 55

a police cart pulls up outside the consulate.

(CONTINUED)

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PHIPPS:

The cart was stolen from the

Central Park Precinct yesterday.

The cop gets out of the scooter.

GORDY:

That's him. That's the son of a

b*tch I bumped into.

The cop tickets a vehicle, then walks west out of frame.

PHIPPS:

The bomb's in the cart.

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reverses the video, freeze-frames on the cop.

PHIPPS:

We think the bomb was triggered bya cell phone. The guy doesn'thave one in his hands here. Did

you see a cell phone when you raninto him?

... No.

GORDY:

PHIPPS:

How much time passed between thenand the explosion?

GORDY:

... Seconds... Five, ten...

PHIPPS:

We think maybe he got into thebrown Ford. You see him then?

GORDY:

All I cared about was getting tomy wife and boy.

DRAY:

(to Phipps)

Guy still had enough time to getout a phone and dial it in.

(CONTINUED)

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Beat.

PHIPPS:

(beat, then, by wayof ending it)

We might need to call you in againto look at some photos.

Gordy looks back at the grainy image of the cop.

GORDY:

... I touched him...

57 EXT. CEMETERY - DAY 57

A bagpiper plays "Amazing Grace."

REVEAL Gordy holding Matt's small coffin as Anne's islowered into the ground. Gordy's men are around him,

along with many other NYFD personnel, family and friends.

A second bagpiper farther away in the cemetery, picks upthe song, begins playing it in a round with the first.

Matt's coffin is taken from Gordy. As it is lowered...

A third bagpiper, farther away still, begins playing thesong with the other two. One by one the first and secondbagpipers finish their rounds, until there is just thethird -- a haunting, mournful wail off into the distance.

And then...

There's only silence.

58 INT. GORDY'S APARTMENT - MATT'S BEDROOM - NIGHT 58

Gordy stands at an open closet door. He leans in, buries

his face in Matt's clothes and smells them. Smells his

son.

59 INT. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 59

The TV is ON LOW, tuned to the NEWS.

slumped in a chair.

Gordy is alone,

60 NEWS ANCHOR 60

NEWS ANCHOR (V.O.)

... The bombing that left a motherand son dead and New York Citynumb took on a new dimension todaywhen a notorious Latin American

terrorist took credit for the

attack.

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61 GORDY 61

has roused from his despondency, TURNS UP the VOLUME asthe report (containing visuals) continues -62

NEWS ANCHOR 62

NEWS ANCHOR (V.O.)

In an e-mail to the New York

Times, a Marxist extremist known

only as 'The Wolf,' states thatthe bombing was, quote, 'not anact of terror but an act of war,

aimed at stopping your C.I.A.

murderers and their fascist puppetsfrom committing further acts ofrepression against the people ofColombia,' unquote... TwoColombian officials and an

American military officer diedin last Thursday's blast. Also

killed were Anne Pitt, wife of a

New York City firefighter, andtheir only child, four-year-oldMatt... The President has vowed

that the United States will avengewhat he called 'this monstrous act

of barbarism and cowardice'...

Intelligence sources say theidentity and whereabouts of TheWolf remain a mystery. Theybelieve he has worked closely withradical elements in Latin America

for more than twenty years andhave linked him to numerous

terrorist bombings, including the1983 downing of a Peruvianairliner, which killed forty-twopeople, eleven of themAmericans... The head of the Latin

America Indigenous People'sCommittee, a group known to besympathetic to the radicals inColombia, talked to News Six in

Queens.

63 GORDY 63

watches as Ephraim Ortiz-Dominguez a Latin man in hisforties, comes on the screen.

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64 ORTIZ-DOMINGUEZ 64

ORTIZ-DOMINGUEZ (V.O.)

I cannot speak for The Wolf or his

actions. I would only repeat that

the leftist guerrillas in Colombia

are not terrorists but freedom

fighters in a war being waged

against them by the U.S. and

Colombian governments.

Governments who wish only to

protect a system that lines the

pockets of corrupt politicians and

multi-national profiteers.

(jump cut)

The deaths of the woman and little

boy are regrettable, but your

government inflicts them all the

time. Yugoslavia, Iraq... You

call it 'collateral damage'...

65 INT. VACANT SECOND-FLOOR OFFICE (QUEENS) - NIGHT 65

An FBI SURVEILLANCE TEAM has taken over the office.

Three agents work video and audio recording devices.

A camera points out the window to a line of storefrontsacross the street. The lights are on in one buildingwith a sign reading "IPC" (Indigenous People's Committee).

The FBI agents listen to live audio from the IPC office.

ORTIZ-DOMINGUEZ (V.O.)

Rosetta, I said mustard on the

side. You'll have to go back.

FBI SURVEILLANCE AGENT

Know what cracks me up about

commies? They're all 'equality

this, equality that,' and they're

all chauvinists. Listen to that

f***ing guy.

What they hear, however, is ROSETTA SCREAM as a DOORCRASHES open.

ORTIZ-DOMINGUEZ (V.O.)

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