Creating 'The Kingdom' Page #4

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make the job.

Okay, tomorrow we will

start working.

I will come in the morning.

See you tomorrow.

Al Ghazi.

Yeah?

Exactly what time are you

coming tomorrow?

Sunrise.

Okay.

What time is sunrise?

Excuse me!

What time is sunrise?

When I open this door.

Good night.

(LOCKING DOOR)

That's against fire code.

MAYES:
They don't have

fire codes here, Sykes.

You're in the jungle now, baby.

Look sharp.

Axl, do you have any more lollipops?

Blood sugar's a little low.

Don't cross this pink line.

Stay back.

You're real butch

after a long flight.

YOUNG:
'Contrary to

the State Department policy,

'the F.B.I. Has sent

an investigative team

'to Saudi Arabia. In so doing,

I have come before this committee

'with a painful admission.

I've lost all confidence in the F.B.I.

'Especially its uppermost

echelon.'

That's you, baby.

'Entrenched and outmoded,

the leadership has shown itself fearful

'of the pioneering thoughts this committee

and I have tried to imbue.

'It is thus an agency at contretemps

hindering our every effort.'

And by 'committee,'

I mean the f***ing

Senate Select Committee on Terror.

So you're going before

the Senate Select Committee

and not to the President

who appointed you.

Why is that?

I bet the President wasn't

the audience you thought he'd be.

I'll bet the President realized

that you can't have voters asking

why the second longest-serving

F.B.I. Director got fired for doing his job.

For sending agents to Saudi Arabia just

seven months before mid-term elections.

So you want to bet?

Mister Attorney General,

I obviously already have.

I bet my job.

I'm gonna bury you.

You know, Westmoreland made all of us

officers write our own obituaries during Tet.

When we thought the Cong were

gonna end it all right there.

And once we clued in

to the fact that life is finite,

the thought of losing it

didn't scare us anymore.

The end comes no matter what.

The only thing that matters is

how do you want to go out?

On your feet or on your knees?

I bring that lesson to this job.

I act knowing that someday

this job will end, no matter what.

You should do the same.

(HELICOPTER WHIRRING)

Which one of you

is Ronald Fleury?

Damon Schmidt,

State Department.

I'm here to make sure

that you get out of here okay.

Is this your team right here?

Yes. All three of them.

Hey, everybody, you're gonna need these.

Electrolytes.

Good to see you.

Some electrolytes for you.

Take that.

You don't want to drop in this heat.

Do you have any idea

how much trouble you're in?

My boss hates you.

He's furious.

When you get back home,

you're done.

If you make it back home.

Now here comes the Prince.

You hold onto his hand and you make sure

you don't let go of it until he does, okay?

That's good.

We got to dial down the boobies.

We need to cover

these situations.

No verbal response.

All right, everybody,

here we go.

Your Excellency,

Special Agent Fleury

of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

and his colleagues.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

You will honor me with

your presence tomorrow at my home.

I'll tell you why this is a win.

You documented it and you're still alive.

I got a plane.

It's fueled up,

it's ready to go,

it's got your name on it.

You guys want to go,

let's do it.

You talk a lot.

A little too much.

You wearing a vest?

You got nothing.

You got nothing, big boy.

You want to tighten up the Kevlar. Okay?

All right. Offer still stands.

I'm always ready to go.

So what'd the Prince say?

That there are more rules

than just not working at night.

Rules? What rules?

It's a slow roll.

This whole trip's gonna be

like deep sea fishing in Florida.

We need more security here

before we go on.

Are you f***ing kidding me?

You got a f***ing army.

I'm not kidding you, okay?

And don't talk to me with this language.

You pay 700 bucks for a boat,

sit on your can out in the ocean.

Crew jumps around, screams, points,

throws out fish bait, you catch nothing.

Okay, let's go

inside now, please.

(SPEAKING ARABIC)

(MUEZZIN RECITING PRAYERS

O VER PA)

This is the kind of

radical circumstance

that could have seriously upped

Shaq's free throw percentages.

I mean, you take a man,

you ship him off to Riyadh.

Grant.

MAYES:
No cell phones,

no girls, no booze.

LEAVITT:
Look at this website.

Nothing but being

locked in a gym.

He could have been shooting,

what, 70, 80 percent?

Lakers would still be together.

Kobe and Shaq, lovers forever.

I don't know about that part.

Kobe's a hater.

LEAVITT:
Fleury, come here

and look at this.

It's a website that went up

about a half hour ago,

Al Saha dot something.

They so love

to flaunt their work.

Time to go.

You won't need your gear.

Not yet.

That's what I thought.

AL GHAZl:
The remaining rules.

You cannot touch evidence,

please leave it.

You cannot question

anyone without me present,

touch a dead Muslim,

or leave my sight at any time.

Your safety is

my primary concern.

I thought your primary concern

would be the investigation.

And you would be mistaken.

I think this is one of those

'something happens to us,

'his head comes off'

kind of deals.

You're our babysitter, right?

We call that a babysitter.

Yeah. Who's running

the investigation?

General Abdulmalik.

He has given us permission to

walk through the crime scene.

Walk through? Sh*t.

MAYES:
Walk through?

You kidding me?

Where are you going,

Mr. Fleury?

FLEURY:
You're not in charge.

I'm gonna go find somebody

that's in charge, so I can get

some clarification

on what's going on.

Okay, there is

nothing to clarify.

Yes, the hell there is!

You think I flew over here for 18 hours,

and you gonna tell us

we can walk through?

I don't know what kind of game you playing.

I'm not that guy!

Listen. This is not

a game show, Mr. Fleury.

And definitely there are

no deals made here.

There is me telling you

what you may or may not do.

And there is you doing it.

That's it.

You gonna tell me what to do.

You will be permitted to

walk through the crime scene

when we determine it is safe,

that's it.

Any questions?

By the way,

I don't like your jokes.

What about witnesses?

The witnesses?

So you haven't interviewed

the witnesses?

Not yet.

Can we do that?

We didn't really see anything.

It was so fast and so loud.

So nobody saw anything?

I hit the deck.

The place was going Rambo.

Guns, guns, guns.

We went into our safe room.

Safe room, what's that?

That room right there.

Earl got an allowance of about $15,000

when we moved here to build it.

We stayed in here,

till we heard the screams.

Yeah, those kids were screaming,

all right.

That's what got me out

of the house. Them kids.

FLEURY:
Which kids are those?

Tracy Jackson.

She lived next door.

She was murdered looking out

of her own window, in front of her children.

Jacksons didn't have

a safe room.

(KNOCKING)

Mr. Jackson?

(KNOCKING)

Mr. Jackson. Aaron Jackson?

Yeah.

You keep him away from me!

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