Eye In The Sky Page #17

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A213

INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON A213

A text from BENSON appears on SERGEANT GLEESON’S screen.

BENSON:
“What’s going on?”

SERGEANT GLEESON

Colonel, General Benson is asking

for an update.

POWELL looks at her own screen. Sees the text:

COLONEL POWELL:

Tell him we’re on weapons hold.

SERGEANT GLEESON

Yes, Ma’am.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 214

A text appears on JAMA’s mobile screen:

Text:
Can you buy her bread?

JAMA replies:
Very risky for me.

Text:
Buy it. She will leave. Then get out.

JAMA replies:
What about beetle?

Text:
Leave it there.

JAMA, tense... then he texts: Going now.

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INT. BEDROOM - AMADU’S HOUSE - AFTERNOON 215

The beetle settles on a high roof beam, with a wide angle

view of the bathroom, corridor and main bedroom.

216 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 216

POWELL watches the image from the Beetle and the Reaper.

MAJOR OWITI (O.S.)

He’s going in.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 91.

COLONEL POWELL:

Thank you, Major.

POWELL watches the Reaper screen as JAMA approaches ALIA.

217 EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 217

JAMA walks along the street with his few remaining bucketstowards ALIA. He is anxious but tries not to show it.

The ARMED GUARDS are suspicious of everyone and everythingand so the way they are eyeing up JAMA is not unusual.

JAMA approaches ALIA.

How much?

JAMA JAMA (CONT’D)

Meeko waaye?

(Meek-oh why-yay?)

Fifty.

ALIA ALIA (CONT’D)

Konton. (Konton.)

JAMA:

Give me all of them.

JAMA (CONT’D)

Isii ayaga dhamaantooda.

(Iss-see ay-yay-gah dum-maantoo-

dah.)

ALIA:

All of them?

ALIA (CONT’D)

Kuliggoodaa?

(Koo-lee-goo-dah?)

Yes. All.

JAMA JAMA (CONT’D)

Haa. Dhamaan keen.

(Hah. Dum-maan ken.)

As JAMA gets out the money, another armed guard - ABDI -

comes out of the compound.

JAMA gives the money to ALIA and scoops up the bread.

Hey?

ABDI:

*

JAMA flinches, but doesn’t look up. *

ABDI (CONT’D)

Hey! I know you.

Jama backs up slightly.

ABDI (CONT’D)

Waryaa waan ku garanayaa! *

*

*

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT

JAMA:

Yes, I used to live here.

ABDI (CONT’D)

What are you doing here now?

JAMA:

I am a trader now. Selling

buckets.

12 September 2014 92.

JAMA (CONT’D)

Haa, Waan ku noolaan jiray

inta. *

ABDI (CONT’D)

Halkaan Maxaad Ka

*

Sameyneysaa?

JAMA (CONT’D)

Waxaan Ahay hadda ganacsade

*

iib geeya baakadaha.

ALIA, slightly nervous, starts to put away her tablecloth. *

ABDI (CONT’D)

Where have you been?

JAMA:

I have come back my friend!

ABDI (CONT’D)

I asked where you have been!

JAMA:

I went back to Somalia. My

mother was ill...

ABDI (CONT’D)

Xaggeed Ku Maqneed? *

JAMA (CONT’D)

Waxaan usoo laabtay

*

saaxibadeyda.

ABDI (CONT’D)

Waxaan ku weediyay xagee baad

*

ku maqneed!

JAMA (CONT’D)

Waxaan dib ugu laabtay

somaliya hooyadeyda ayaa

*

xanuun-saneed...

*

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 93.

ABDI (CONT’D)

No, no, I remember, you tried

to dance with my sister...

You took her into the city. I

remember... You have no

honor!

JAMA:

I don’t dance anymore...

ABDI (CONT’D)

We chased you out!

(to his friends)

Hey, this guy likes the

Kenyans!

ABDI (CONT’D)

Maya, maya , waan xusuusta,

waxaad isku deyi jirtay inaad

la ciyaarto walaasheyda

waxaad u kaxeen jirtay

magaalada waan xasuustaa ma

*

lihid wax wanaag ah oo aad

isku dayday!

JAMA (CONT’D)

Hadda Ma Ciyaari Wax Badan

*

...

ABDI (CONT’D)

Waan ku daba socday !

(to his friends)

Waryaada qofkaan wuu ka helaa

kenyaanka !

*

Alia listens, confused and a little tense. *

ABDI (CONT’D)

(to the others)

Search him.

Jama starts to back up.

ABDI (CONT’D)

Do it now!

ABDI’s weapon is raised.

ABDI (CONT’D)

(Gah-mah-hah kor oo tag.)

*

Qabta ninka. (Cub tah ninka.)

*

*

ABDI (CONT’D)

Hadda sameeey ! *

*

Two militia GUARDS approach to search him.

JAMA THROWS the bread and buckets at them and RUNS. *

He dashes for an alley between houses.

ABDI and the two other GUARDS give chase.

ALIA pulls back, frightened for a moment.

*

218 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 218

CARRIE and STEVE watch JAMA as he runs away.

STEVE:

F***!

Instinctively CARRIE pans the Reaper’s Camera with JAMA.

219 EXT. EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 219

JAMA runs. ABDI, in pursuit, fires a round after him.

A BULLET barely misses JAMA as he clears a wall.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 94.

He lands in a yard where A BARKING DOG lunges at him - but it

comes up short on a chain that tethers him.

220

INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 220

POWELL watches with despair as JAMA runs for his life.

221

EXT. EASTLEIGH BACK STREET - AFTERNOON 221

JAMA scrambles over a fence and dashes through A COMPOUND.

An OWNER yells at JAMA as he scrambles over a car and

disappears round a corner.

OWNNER OWNER:

Hey! What the hell are you Hey! Maxaa ka cadaabta u

doing?! samaynaysaan?!

ABDI drops into the yard and points his gun at the OWNER.

ABDI:

ABDI (CONT’D)

Where did he go?!!! Xagee buu qaaday?!!!

Frightened, the OWNER waves vaguely in the direction JAMA

took.

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EXT. EASTLEIGH STREET NEAR MOSQUE - AFTERNOON A221

Head down, JAMA walks quickly across a street near a Mosque,

trying to look like he belongs in the area.

He ducks into an alley behind the Mosque.

He runs down the alley, rounds A CORNER, vaults another wall,

and LANDS

BADLY on a pile of building rubble:

His leg buckles as his ankle twists horribly.

In real pain he sees nowhere to hide.

He pushes through clothes lines, hobbles to another fence and

drags himself over into AN

ABANDONED LOT Across

the lot, he sees a place he can hide beneath A PILE OF

RUSTED METAL SHEETING - and he crawls under it.

He lies still, breathing heavily, eyes wide.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 95.

Not far away, out in the alley, he can still hear ABDI

shouting and asking people where he went.

222 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 222

POWELL, watching the Reaper feed, sees ABDI and two other

MILITIA MEN arguing on a street not far from where JAMA has

hidden. But for now Jama is safe.

COLONEL POWELL:

Get me back to the house.

223 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 223

CARRIE seems momentarily frozen at her controls, frightened,

as she and STEVE watch the armed militia shout and point in

different directions close to where JAMA is hiding.

224 INT. SQUADRON OPERATIONS ROOM - NIGHT 224

MATT:

Carrie, forget him. Get back to the

target.

225 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 225

STEVE:

Carrie...

CARRIE snaps out of her reverie. She leaves the injured JAMA

and brings the image back to the outside of Amadu’s house:

ALIA is picking up the loaves JAMA dropped in the street.

She dusts them off and takes them back to her stall.

CARRIE:

Jesus, she’s going to sell them

again...

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