Eye In The Sky Page #5

---

Despite the bravado there’s an edge of darkness to Sammy. As

if he has seen more in his 26 years than he’d ever let on.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 22.

STEVE blushes as SHELLEY lowers her long hair over his face.

45

INT. BAKERY - ALIA’S COMPOUND - MORNING 45

FATIMA looks in at the bread she’s baking in her wood-burning

oven and removes hot loaves with a paddle.

She sets the loaves on a table with others already baked.

FATIMA:

Alia!

46 INT. HOUSE - ALIA’S COMPOUND - SAME TIME 46

ALIA looks up from a travel book she is reading.

ALIA ALIA (CONT’D)

Yes, mama! Haa, Hooyo! (Haa Hoy-yo!)

FATIMA (O.S)FATIMA (CONT’D)

The bread is ready! Rootiga waa diyaar!

(Rooti-ka wad diyaar!)

She closes her book and hides it under the cushion.

47

EXT. AIRPORT - NAIROBI - MORNING 47

A commercial flight touches down in midday heat.

ON SCREEN:
NAIROBI AIRPORT, KENYA - 11h45

48

INT. AIRPORT - NAIROBI - MORNING 48

RASHEED HAMUD (20) is the clean-shaven British student we saw

in POWELL’S office. He carries a rucksack.

He comes out of Arrivals looking anxious. He has instructions

to act normally - not to look around him as if expecting

something - but he’s so focused on doing the right thing that

he looks anything but normal.

He’s relieved to see a driver (DRIVER TWO) holding up a

placard with ‘Kenyan Student Exchange Services’ on it.

He approaches DRIVER TWO and they shake hands.

RASHEED:

(a south London accent)

Hello.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 23.

DRIVER TWO:

How was the flight?

RASHEED:

It was okay, thank you.

DRIVER TWO:

Follow me.

RASHEED:

Yes. Thank you.

Across the hall, AGENT ATIENO, unseen, watches Rasheed

leaving with DRIVER TWO. Rasheed has his cell phone out and

it looks like he is typing A TEXT MESSAGE.

ATIENO talks quietly into his radio.

AGENT ATIENO:

Showman50, Bravo27: Condor has

landed... He’s texting...

A48 INT. OPERATIONS ROOM - COMPANY D BASE - MORNING A48

MAJOR OWITI:

Showman50, copy that. Proceed to

the Blue Zone.

OWITI leans forward and types a text message into his laptop.

(NOTE:
A surveillance image of the suburban house in

Parklands is visible in another window on his screen.)

B48 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - MORNING B48

A message from OWITI (Showman50) pops up on GLEESON’S SCREEN.

SERGEANT GLEESON

Ma’am, Condor is texting.

COLONEL POWELL:

Yes. And?

SERGEANT GLEESON

It reads... Uh... “Hi sis, arrived

safely. Give Mom a big hug for me.”

COLONEL POWELL:

(dry as hell)

How sweet...

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 24.

49 EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - NAIROBI - MORNING 49

ALIA, with a basket of her mother’s loaves, walks to a table

already set up on the sidewalk alongside a compound wall.

She puts down her basket of bread, takes out a cloth and

begins to carefully lay it on the rickety table.

SHE HEARS RAISED VOICES - and looks up to see a POOR WOMAN

being questioned by THREE MILITIA MEN about her attire, which

does not cover her wrists.

MILITIA LEADER MILITIA LEADER (CONT’D)

You need to cover yourself Waxaad u baahan tahay inaad

properly! si sax ah naftaada dabooli!

The MAN slaps at her exposed wrists with a short whip.

MILITIA MAN #2 MILITIA MAN #2 (CONT’D)

Go home! Now! Tag guriga, hadda!

Humiliated the WOMAN walks away.

The MEN look back and see ALIA glancing at them. TWO OTHER

MILITIA MEN guarding a nearby compound watch her too.

ALIA quickly lowers her gaze, afraid to be seen watching and

concentrates on laying out her bread on the table-cloth.

50 EXT/INT. STEVE’S CAR - ROAD OUT OF VEGAS - NIGHT 50

It’s a beautiful, starry night. Music on the radio.

STEVE drives a deserted road, headed into the desert.

51 INT. TOY SHOP - THE STRAND - LONDON - MORNING 51

BENSON stares nervously at rows of toy dolls. He looks for a

SHOP ASSISTANT - but she’s with another customer. He takes

out his phone. Punches a number. Leaves a message:

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

Darling it’s your dad here. I’m

looking at a whole shelf of these

Annabell dolls. You didn’t tell me

there are different types. I’ve no

idea what to buy her. Can you get

back to me asap? Otherwise...

He picks up one of the dolls. Squints at the packaging.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 25.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON (CONT’D)

I’m holding a... um... An Annabell

Time To Sleep Doll and it says here

‘you will hear her babbling when it

is beddy-byes’. Call me as soon as

you can.

He puts away his phone. Stressed, he stares at the doll.

52 EXT. KENYAN MARKET AREA - PARKLANDS - MIDDAY 52

A STALL OWNER slops stew from a pot into take-away cartons.

JAMA FARAH, a Kenyan of Somali origin, in his hat, jeans,

shirt, glances about while he waits for his food.

He eyes a PRETTY WOMAN in a tank-top and shorts crossing the

street. (This neighbourhood is not governed by Sharia law.)

We may also notice a STREET VENDOR selling plastic BUCKETS

amidst dozens of other vendors.

JAMA slaps hands with the STALL OWNER, pays him and heads off

down the street with three cartons of stew.

53 EXT. QUIET SIDE STREET - PARKLANDS - MIDDAY 53

JAMA rounds a corner and approaches a battered commercial van

marked “Ruaka Engineering Services” parked on a quiet street.

He pulls open the passenger side door.

54 INT. JAMA'S VAN - PARKLANDS - MIDDAY 54

JAMA enters the van with the food he has just bought. He

hands a carton of stew to a DRIVER in the front seat and

moves into the back of the van.

Seated in the darkened interior, DAMISI, an indigenous

Kikuyu Kenyan woman, also in jeans and T-shirt, sits in front

of a secure laptop.

DAMISI:

We’ve got Condor in the Blue Zone.

JAMA:

Who the f***’s Condor?

He looks over DAMISI’s shoulder at the computer screen.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 26.

DAMISI:

The second guy in from the airport.

ON HER SCREEN:
ANOTHER CAR is entering the compound. The

OWNER opens the car door and RASHEED gets out.

The image on DAMISI’S screen is from the micro-RPA bird we

saw filming the arrival of MUHAMMAD earlier at the same

house. DAMISI controls the filming using a mobile joystick

device.

JAMA:

I can’t keep up with these names.

55 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - MORNING 55

POWELL, seeing what DAMISI and JAMA are seeing displayed on

her screens, speaks into her headset:

COLONEL POWELL:

Showman50, North20, can we get a

view into the house?

56 INT. OPERATIONS ROOM - COMPANY D BASE - MIDDAY 56

MAJOR OWITI speaks into his headset.

MAJOR OWITI:

Yes, Ma’am. Peg90, Showman50, can

you try and look into the house?

57 INT. JAMA'S VAN - PARKLANDS - MIDDAY 57

DAMISI and JAMA watch on the secure laptop.

DAMISI:

Showman50, Peg90, moving now.

58 EXT. HOUSE - PARKLANDS - MIDDAY 58

We see, perched on the compound wall, the micro-RPA bird.

It takes off from its perch and flies around the house.

59 INT. JAMA'S VAN - PARKLANDS - MIDDAY 59

Rate this script:5.0 / 3 votes