Eye In The Sky Page #3

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ADLER:

Thank you very much, Foreign

Secretary. We feel extremely

honoured that you have taken time

out of your hectic schedule to open

our stand this afternoon. Thank

you.

JAMES smiles bravely - but he is struggling with what turns

out to be food poisoning.

KATE:

(a whisper to Tom)

He’s going to throw up.

TOM:

I told him not to eat the prawns.

ADLER:

Today we are introducing three new

ranges:
the Adamant Assault Body

Armour System, the Personal

Camouflage System and our light,

fast-wicking underclothing range...

JAMES is struggling to keep his insides under control.

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19 EXT. POWELL HOME/COUNTRY LANE - SURREY - MORNING 19

A car drives away from a modest, secluded country home and

heads off down a quiet tree-lined road.

20 INT. CAR - COUNTRY LANE - SURREY - MORNING 20

POWELL, tense, drives. Now wearing the military uniform of an

Army Colonel, she is on her car-mounted cell phone.

COLONEL POWELL:

Simon, I will not have the boys

bringing friends back for the night

without asking me.

(a beat)

I’m not having it.

(a beat)

If they want to do all that, they

can do it away from home.

She’s still so angry about it, she can’t finish the call:

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

It’s not right - and I’m not having

it.

That hasn’t calmed her down either.

21 INT. LIVING ROOM / KITCHEN - STEVE’S HOUSE - NIGHT 21

(NOTE:
This scene was formerly scene 13.)

STEVE, showered and wrapped in a towel, enters an open-plan

living room / kitchen area from a hallway.

He crosses to a kitchen counter where A HOME COOKED MEAL on a

simple plate has been covered and set aside for him.

STEVE uncovers the food, looks at it for a moment, then

places it into a micro-wave and presses a RE-HEAT button.

22 EXT. PERMANENT JOINT HEADQUARTERS - LONDON - MORNING 22

We establish a low, modern building backlit by a pale sun.

SOLDIERS with ATTACK DOGS patrol a perimeter fence.

POWELL drives in and parks in an “OFFICERS ONLY” lot.

ON SCREEN:

“PERMANENT JOINT HEADQUARTERS, LONDON”

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23 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - MORNING 23

POWELL comes out of a lift, walks along a windowless corridor

to a steel door, punches in a code and walks through.

24 INT. ROOM - PJHQ - MORNING 24

POWELL enters a windowless bunker where several military

personnel work on computers. They come to attention as POWELL

enters the room.

Among them is SERGEANT MIKE GLEESON, 28, an OPS WATCHKEEPER

and SERGEANT MUSHTAQ SADDIQ, 27, a targeteer.

They hold permanent positions here and so have a few personal

mementoes beside their computers: baby photos, wives,

children’s drawings.

POWELL’S workspace is temporary - so there is nothing

personal here.

There are whiteboards with flip-charts and large TV screens

suspended from the ceiling.

On these screens are various high angled surveillance images

and graphics. We do not focus on any details yet.

SERGEANT MUSHTAQ hands POWELL a report.

MUSHTAQ:

Morning Ma’am. Version 3 on

Operation Egret is ready. Ahmed’s

house data is included on Slide 3.

COLONEL POWELL:

Thank you.

She looks at it.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

Only two Hellfires? Where are the

GBU-12’s?

MUSHTAQ:

Ma’am, given the mission brief we

thought we should decrease the

gross weight and increase the

loiter time...

COLONEL POWELL:

So, I have just the two Hellfires?

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MUSHTAQ:

Yes, ma’am.

COLONEL POWELL:

Sergeant, next time, you clear it

with me before you change the

loadout, understand?

MUSHTAQ:

Yes, ma’am.

POWELL drops the report back on Mushtaq’s desk.

25 EXT. AIRPORT - NAIROBI - MORNING 25

A commercial airliner touches down in early light.

ON SCREEN:
NAIROBI, KENYA - 09h30

26 INT. AIRPORT - MORNING 26

MUHAMMAD ABDISALAAM (20), the clean-shaven American student

whose image we saw on POWELL’S office wall, comes out of

Arrivals with a trekker’s rucksack.

He seems on edge but smiles when he sees a Man, DRIVER ONE,

holding a card with ‘Kenyan Student Exchange Services’ on it.

DRIVER ONE:

How was the flight?

MUHAMMAD:

(100% American accent)

Yeah, it was good. Thank you.

A CAMERA SHUTTER clicks and the IMAGE OF MUHAMMAD freezes as

a still frame on screen.

A REVERSE ANGLE reveals an athletic looking Kenyan man, AGENT

ATIENO, 35, casually shooting a long lens, covert

surveillance image of Muhammad from across the airport lobby.

ATIENO lowers his camera and watches as MUHAMMAD is escorted

towards the airport exit by the DRIVER. He speaks into a

small radio mike:

AGENT ATIENO:

Showman50, Bravo27: Sea Hawk has

arrived...

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A26

INT. PJHQ - LONDON - MORNING A26

A text pops up on SERGEANT GLEESON’S screen:

“Showman50:
Sea Hawk has left the airport.”

SERGEANT GLEESON

Ma’am... Sea Hawk is in and

traveling.

POWELL looks up from signing paperwork at her desk that

outlines Rules of Engagement etc. for the day’s mission.

COLONEL POWELL:

Is the Reaper following?

A WARRANT OFFICER at another desk responds:

WARRANT OFFICER:

Yes, Ma’am. Patching us in.

He works his keyboard and a A VIDEO IMAGE appears on a large

TV screen at one end of the bunker...

The image on screen is a HIGH ANGLED SHOT filmed by a REAPER

DRONE flying unseen at 20,000 feet of an old SUV driving down

a main road bustling with hawkers and Matatu taxis.

COLONEL POWELL:

Headed for Parklands?

A YOUNG FEMALE CORPORAL at another station watches a screen

that tracks the route of the SUV on a map of Nairobi.

YOUNG FEMALE CORPORAL

Looks that way, yes, Ma’am.

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EXT. BEACH - HAWAII - SUNSET 29

AIRMAN 1st CLASS LUCY GALVEZ, tall, fit, Latino American,

paddles a stand-up board toward towards a perfect beach.

Across the bay we see a LARGE NAVAL DOCKYARD with WARSHIPS

starkly silhouetted against the setting sun.

ON SCREEN:
HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, HAWAII 20h45

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As LUCY steps off her board and onto the beach, three young

American AIRMEN jog past her.

AIRMAN:

Hey, Lucy, you coming to Jimmy’s

tonight?

LUCY:

No. I’m on duty.

AIRMAN:

Too bad!

LUCY:

Yeah.

LUCY lifts her board as the sun dips into the ocean.

30 INT. ROOM - ALIA’S HOUSE - MORNING

30

ALIA is struggling with an equation. MUSA sits with her.

ALIA:

ALIA (CONT’D)

This is too difficult, Papa!

Xisaabta aad bay u adagtahay

Aabe.

(Hisaab-ta adbay oo adak ta

hay aah be.)

MUSA:

MUSA (CONT’D)

Just do your best.

Si fiican oo wanaagsan u

Samey. (Siffee un o wanaksan,

oo Samay.)

FATIMA calls from outside.

FATIMA FATIMA (CONT’D)

Customer! Macaamiisha! (Ma-a-mee-shaa!)

Immediately ALIA shuts her textbook - and HIDES IT under

the seat cushion of a chair.

Before he opens the door, MUSA looks back to make sure ALIA

is not seen with the book. Then he exits and greets a male

customer (OMAR) waiting in the yard with a damaged bicycle.

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