Creating 'The Kingdom' Page #3

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Tonight?

Come on. Exclusive.

I know you like exclusives.

I'll see what I can do.

Your Excellency,

Special Agent Ronald Fleury.

Listen, can we talk inside?

Sure.

There's too many people in there

that know both me and you.

I would like to keep this

as discreet as possible.

I know you have a busy schedule.

It's just, so many people in there.

Why don't we

pull up here and talk?

I had an interesting conversation

with a reporter from the Post.

She exaggerates a lot of things.

Me, I consider myself a friend.

A friend of Saudi Arabia.

I just need a little cooperation,

that's all.

What kind of cooperation?

Like clearance to land

on the Prince Sultan's

airport tomorrow.

One month would be

as soon as we could.

One month. This is gonna go

down one of two ways.

One, the F.B.I. Has evidence that

two Royal Family wives donated

$10 million to three

Arab-American cultural centers

right outside of Boston,

and that some of that money

got to Jakarta

and these mosques, and they have

training camps right next to them.

It's just weird to see

little kids playing

and then not-so-little kids

playing with guns right next door.

It's just odd.

Don't you think?

You have no proof of this.

How do you know?

It's gonna be big.

It's gonna be a big story.

I mean, it's not just gonna be

in the metro papers.

It's gonna be in the Omaha Herald,

places like the Terrell Tribune.

You, you ever been

to Terrell, Texas?

Good chili.

What is your point?

I want in immediately.

Define immediately.

Right the f*** now immediately.

So, what was

Fran Manner to her?

He taught her how to shoot.

She introduced him

to his wife.

And he got her

into the Bureau.

They celebrated her graduation

at the IHOP

until some townie called

Janet something.

I don't know,

something not very nice.

So the townie didn't see Fran

coming out of the head,

but he definitely felt

Fran's uppercut shatter his jaw.

Really? And he didn't get

bounced for that?

No. No, Fleury took care of it.

Yeah, I do know the post in Riyadh was part

of the deal Fleury cut to save Fran's career.

Thank you. Janet, what did Fleury whisper

to you this morning?

Grant's age is a liability.

(EXCLAIMS)

FLEURY:
Hey.

LEAVITT:
Hello, sir.

Thanks for volunteering.

Yeah, actually I didn't.

Well, thank you, anyway.

LEAVITT:
We're going to Riyadh?

Is that right?

SYKES:
State Department said yes?

FLEURY:
Nope.

LEAVITT:
White House?

FLEURY:
Nope.

We bringing security?

No.

This is really gonna suck,

I think.

LEAVITT:
All right, well

that's very questionable.

MAYES:
Dog giving birth.

'Whelp.'

W-H-E-L-P-S? Whelps?

Yeah.

B*tch giving birth.

Whelp. Next word.

A dog giving birth.

SYKES:
Right on.

Is that what you thought

it meant?

I know what it means.

That's why I played it.

And you didn't think it was

a hit and a scream.

Like a 'welt' and a 'yelp'?

Yeah.

I don't have much here,

don't worry about it.

Hey, what are four people

supposed to do

over there in five days,

anyway?

Aren't you the one that practically

demanded we go this morning?

I didn't say 'I.'

I said 'F.B.I.'

Let's go.

LEAVITT:
I got it, I got it!

Here it comes.

False alarm.

What's it like over there

on the ground?

It's a bit like Mars.

Mars?

Yeah.

Sounds like

I didn't pack right.

Well, I will be looked at with disdain

for pretty much the entire time

we're on the ground.

Kind of like South Virginia.

Hey. Go easy on my kin.

(CHUCKLES)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

Man, it feels like you got

a beast in there, Fleury.

What is it?

You don't think I'm okay?

I think you're not

entirely clear right now.

(SIGHS)

Look, you want to go?

We go. I got you.

But you got to check yourself.

I'm checked.

Okay. I'm just checking

that you're checked.

You know, I got 15 ties

in my closet from Fran.

Every Christmas,

he'd give me these ties.

My God.

Fran sent you ties?

He sent me ties, too.

Ties, yeah. Really?

At least 12, 13 of them.

Some of the ugliest ties

I've ever seen in...

Hey, good-looking ties.

What?

Very colorful.

I go fishing with those ties.

I'll take you shopping with me sometime.

I'll show you style.

You'll show me style?

You gotta get

your L.L. Bean on.

You got to? You probably buy your car

batteries and your shirts in the same place.

(CHUCKLES)

That's good. That's good.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(MEN SPEAKING ARABIC)

Colonel Al Ghazi.

Special Agent Ronald Fleury.

Special Agent Mayes. Special Agent Sykes.

Special Agent Leavitt.

You have your vests?

Excuse me?

Vests. You know, stop bullets.

The vests.

Bullet-proof vests.

Yeah, we, we brought them.

We're good, thanks.

Good. I will ask for

your passports and weapons.

Sykes.

What?

F***.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

There is an Israeli stamp in here.

Is that a problem?

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

LEAVITT:
I've been to Israel

three times.

Got a grandma there.

Is that all right?

It's okay.

I'm very sorry for your loss.

Your two fallen comrades.

If you please go

to the second vehicle.

It's like 150 miles an hour.

You, like, doing

like a breathing thing?

Like a yoga technique

or something?

Do you have a problem with this?

Take the iPod.

Yeah, I have a problem.

I wish that I was as calm as you are.

I like it.

If somebody was tailing us,

they'd stick out.

Standard operation speed.

Hey, explain to the driver

I get carsick.

You've got to shut up.

You ever been

to the U.S., Colonel?

Yeah, I have been there once.

I spent four days in Quantico.

I also saw Michael Jordan play

for the Washington Wizards.

Hey, Colonel, your people got

portable lights on the scene?

AL GHAZl:
Portable lights?

SYKES:
So we can

work at night.

See what we're doing.

Lights, yes.

We have portable lights.

But your team cannot work at night.

Why? We only got seven days.

We work around the clock.

Five, Mister. You have five days,

and you're not safe at night.

We're safe

during the day, huh?

Listen, were the uniformed bombers

brother soldiers?

AL GHAZl:
I don't know.

Driver, are we late or something?

Is there a...

Abu Hamza.

You think he was responsible

for these attacks?

I don't know.

You don't know

the source of the blast.

You don't know

if there was uniformed officers.

Listen, Mister,

Special Agent Fleury.

Forty-seven of my men were

blown into hundreds of pieces.

That will take months

to collect them.

Eighty thousands of officers

across all the country.

Thousands of people

that can forge identity.

I apologize. I'm very sorry

I don't have definitive answers.

(TIRES SCREECHING)

LEAVITT:
Hey, driver, driver, driver!

(AL GHAZI SPEAKING ARABIC)

AL GHAZl:
It's a camel.

That's, well,

it's good practice, huh?

Maybe slower,

next time we'll recognize livestock.

Okay. The bathroom

through that door.

We tried to give you

some privacy.

Actually, I want to put you

in the bathroom,

but if it's okay

with you this. So...

And we try to find

something pink

but I wish it will

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