Eye In The Sky Page #23

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INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 307

The dust cloud clears. STEVE can see ALIA. He can see that

she is moving. He stares, horrified.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 308

POWELL grimly watches the same image.

COLONEL POWELL:

Sky45, North20. Zoom in for BDA

when able. We need to know that we

have hit our targets.

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309 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT

309

STEVE and CARRIE look at the image from their live feed.

CARRIE:

Going in.

The camera pushes in on the ruins of the house and ALIA goes

out of frame.

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INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 310

LUCY is already analysing the Reaper imaging of the strike.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 311

POWELL and MUSHTAQ see what looks like a woman in another

part of the house, crawling away.

COLONEL POWELL:

Is that a body?

MUSHTAQ:

It’s moving...

COLONEL POWELL:

Sky45, close in.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 312

ALIA still tries to move herself away - but the strength is

draining from her.

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INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 313

STEVE and CARRIE look at the image from their live feed as it

closes in on the remains of AL-HADY, ABADE and AMADU.

RASHEED and MUHAMMAD, who were wearing the vests, have been

blown to bits and are not identifiable.

It tightens in on DANFORD, who is in another part of the

building crawling away, unable to walk.

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INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 314

LUCY works fast, watching the live image of DANFORD from the

Reaper and matching it to a pattern-of-life image of her.

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LUCY:

Suspect crawling away identified

with high probability as Susan

Helen Danford.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 315

POWELL, HAROLD and MUSHTAQ watch the image from the Reaper.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 316

ALIA has stopped trying to crawl to safety. She is running

out of strength.

A316 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON A316

POWELL, HAROLD, MUSHTAQ, their eyes still fixed on the image.

COLONEL POWELL:

Re-engage target.

HAROLD flashes her a look...

HAROLD:

Colonel...

COLONEL POWELL:

(ignoring him)

We’re going again.

317 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 317

STEVE briefly looks at ALIA on the screen.

COLONEL POWELL (O.S.)

Target the moving body.

STEVE and CARRIE take a deep breath. They have fallen into

their own hell.

STEVE:

Re-engaging target.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 318

ALIA is alone. Fading away.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 319

JAMA hobbles round a corner and looks down the street to

where the explosion took place. He can see the dying ALIA.

He stares in horror as people push past him to see what has

happened in their neighbourhood - curious, afraid, shocked...

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INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 320

STEVE and CARRIE go through the same routine as they prepare

to fire again.

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INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 321

LUCY takes a moment off analysing the pictures to try and

recover from having to watch ALIA fighting for her life.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 322

POWELL, grim, as she looks at the image of ALIA.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 323

ALIA alone.

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INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - AFTERNOON 324

Everyone watches ALIA, a small helpless figure on the screen.

She moves slightly.

No one is capable of taking their eyes off the screen.

325 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 325

STEVE pulls the trigger and releases the second missile.

STEVE:

Rifle! Weapon away. Fifty seconds.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 326

ALIA alone. Several long seconds.

Then we hear an anguished cry.

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MUSA:

ALIA!!!!

ALIA strains to turn and sees:

Her mother and father running towards her.

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INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 327

STEVE and CARRIE are shocked as they see MUSA and FATIMA

coming into view.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 328

POWELL watches the scene play out on the screen.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 329

ALIA lies in the street.

MUSA and FATIMA run towards her.

Boom!

The second missile explodes in the compound.

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INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 330

The same dust cloud obscures the view of the compound - and

again STEVE and CARRIE have to wait to see anything.

As the dust clears, they see Musa and Fatima lying flat on

the ground in the street.

Musa struggles up, covered in blood. Fatima rises too. Her

one arm hangs limply, bloodily by her side.

STEVE watches ALIA: she is not moving.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 331

POWELL watches. MUSHTAQ and HAROLD watch. No-one in the room

moves.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 332

ALIA lies on the ground. Now we see that she is still alive.

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She looks up - and sees MUSA and FATIMA stumbling toward her.

MUSA comes to ALIA. He picks her up. No one else is coming

near the scene.

MUSA and FATIMA stagger away from the bombed house with ALIA.

It’s a terrible image as they stagger down the street.

Someone reverses a pickup truck towards them. It’s the one we

saw earlier with the YOUNG MILITIA MEN and the machine gun

bolted onto the back.

The MILITIA MEN jump down to help MUSA and FATIMA put ALIA

into the back.

They rapidly dismount the machine gun and toss it to another

man on the street to make room in the back.

The DRIVER gets back into his cabin and drives off.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 333

POWELL watches as the pickup truck drives out of the image.

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INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 334

STEVE and CARRIE watch the screen in horror.

335

INT. BEDROOM SUITE - SINGAPORE - NIGHT 335

JAMES, doubled over with stomach ache, and in shock - with

KATE and TOM watching from behind him - stares at the Reaper

image on his laptop.

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EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 336

JAMA watches helplessly as the pickup truck roars past him.

He looks around him. No-one is paying attention to him now.

Everyone is focused on the site of the missile attack.

Devastated, he stares blankly back at the destroyed house as

shocked neighbours begin to gather in the street.

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EXT. PICKUP TRUCK - EASTLEIGH STREET - AFTERNOON 337

We are with MUSA and FATIMA cradling ALIA as they are driven

fast down the road. They race towards the checkpoint. Shocked

Militia move aside as the vehicle speeds through.

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INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - AFTERNOON 338

They are all still staring at the screen.

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INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 339

POWELL looks at the live feed. She’s grimly realistic that

she has done what had to be done. She picks up the phone.

COLONEL POWELL:

Lieutenant, are you okay?

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