Eye In The Sky Page #6

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JAMA and DAMISI look at the image from the bird flying around

the house on their screen.

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They can’t get a view inside. All the shutters are shut.

DAMISI:

Showman50 do you want us to bring

in Ringo?

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INT. OPERATIONS ROOM - COMPANY D BASE - MIDDAY 60

MAJOR OWITI, continuing...

MAJOR OWITI:

Negative, not worth the risk yet.

Wait for number 3 to arrive.

61

EXT. WHITEHALL - WESTMINSTER - LONDON - MORNING 61

An aerial view of London and the Cabinet Office building.

ON SCREEN:
BRITISH CABINET OFFICES, WHITEHALL - 11h15

62

INT. RECEPTION - CABINET OFFICES - MORNING 62

BENSON, carrying the doll he bought peeking out of a too-

small plastic bag, speaks to a RECEPTIONIST.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

General Benson. Here for COBRA.

A young civil servant in a suit, JACK CLEARY, 30's approaches

from across the lobby, offering an outstretched hand.

JACK:

General Benson... Jack Cleary. I’m

coordinating today.

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INT. HALLWAY - CABINET OFFICES - MORNING 63

A hallway off which we can see numerous rooms. A calm

atmosphere as a few politicians chat.

JACK is asking people to go into the Briefing Room.

BENSON is on his cell phone.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

Hold on a minute. Hold on a minute.

He takes the doll from its bag.

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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON (CONT’D)

Annabell Care for Me? What have I

got?

He sees that he has the Time To Sleep doll.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON (CONT’D)

Does it matter? I mean...

We watch him as he listens: it plainly does matter.

His AIDE-DE-CAMP appears by his side.

AIDE-DE-CAMP

General, they are asking for you.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

(sighing)

All right, darling, I’ll try. Yes.

Bye-bye.

He shuts down his phone and looks at his AIDE-DE-CAMP

anxiously.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON (CONT’D)

I bought a Time To Sleep doll when

I should have bought a Care For Me.

Apparently there is an important

difference.

He hands his AIDE-DE-CAMP the doll in her bag.

AIDE-DE-CAMP

I’ll see what I can do, sir.

BENSON walks into the room.

64 INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - MORNING 64

COBR(A) -Cabinet Office Briefing Room A - is the Government

committee that meets in response to crises at home and

elsewhere in the world that have implications at home.

Eight VTC screens are at one end of the low-ceilinged room

and there are two more screens, one along each side.

One of the screens has images from BBC News 24. Another has

the live stream from the Reaper RPA, a third has images from

the bird.

There is a large conference table in the middle of the room,

around which are leather chairs - but this is an ‘informal’

meeting to watch the attack on the house in Nairobi.

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(Remind yourself of the image in the White House Situation

Room as they watched the attack on Bin Laden’s house.)

A small group of politicians are gathered in the room along

with JACK CLEARY, the coordinating civil servant.

BENSON shakes hands with GEORGE MATHERSON, Attorney General.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

Good morning, Attorney General.

GEORGE:

Morning, Frank.

ON SCREEN - “GEORGE MATHERSON MP - UK Attorney General.”

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

Minister.

WOODALE:

General.

ON SCREEN - “BRIAN WOODALE MP - Minister of State for Foreign

and Commonwealth Affairs.”

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

Ma’am. Congratulations on your new

appointment.

ANGELA:

Thank you.

ON SCREEN - “ANGELA NORTHMAN MP - Parliamentary Under-

Secretary of State responsible for Africa.”

BENSON is at the head of the table. Already open in front of

him is a secure laptop computer from which he will be able to

hold a text messaging conversation with POWELL. Beside that

there is also a secure telephone.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON

I am going to talk you through the

capture of Susan Danford aka Ayesha

Al-Hady...

65 INT. CORRIDOR - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 65

LUCY GALVEZ, now in uniform and carrying a large takeout

coffee, strides down a busy corridor of uniformed personnel.

ON SCREEN:
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, HAWAII - 00h15

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66 INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - CONTINUOUS 66

LUCY enters a cramped room with her coffee.

An IMAGE ANALYST, bleary-eyed, sits in front of five screens.

On one is the live feed from the Reaper above the Parklands

house. On another is the live feed from the bird.

IMAGE ANALYST:

Hi. Did you go to the party?

LUCY:

I was busy. You might still makeit. What have we got here?

IMAGE ANALYST:

We’re tracking some extremists in

Nairobi. One of them is from myhome town.

LUCY:

You’re kidding, really?

Her colleague brings up an image of MUHAMMAD ABDISALAAM onthe screen as Lucy prepares to take over the shift.

LUCY (CONT'D)

Is that him?

IMAGE ANALYST:

Yeah. Muhammad Abdisalaam. Somali.

We’ve got a lot of them there.

LUCY:

Well, let’s hope he’s not coming

back.

67 EXT. CREECH AIR FORCE BASE - NEVADA DESERT - NIGHT 67

Steve’s car crosses a desert runway, passing open hangars

with fighter jets and Reaper drones visible within.

He pulls up outside a small collection of low buildings.

ON SCREEN:
CREECH AIR FORCE BASE, NEVADA - 02h30 *

68 INT. CHANGING ROOM - CREECH - NIGHT 68

STEVE zips into his flight suit in front of a locker.

There are several RPA crews here, dressing for a new shift.

Most are so young it looks like a military training school.

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COLONEL WALSH (O.S)

Alright, listen up.

69 INT. SQUADRON OPERATIONS ROOM - CREECH - NIGHT 69

STEVE, MATT (24) and CARRIE (22) listen to LT. COLONEL ED

WALSH, a senior operations supervisor at Creech.

COLONEL WALSH:

I‘m going to introduce you to

Colonel Powell in London.

He presses a button on his desk console and COLONEL POWELL

appears on a wall mounted Video Conference Screen.

COLONEL WALSH (CONT’D)

Good morning, Ma’am. Are we coming

through clear?

COLONEL POWELL:

Loud and clear, Colonel, thank you.

It’s good to see you again.

COLONEL WALSH:

And you, Ma’am. I have your crew

ready. Introduce yourselves please.

STEVE:

Morning, Ma’am. Aircraft Commander

Steve Watts. Pilot.

CARRIE:

Airman First Class Carrie Gershon.

Sensor Operator.

MATT:

Senior Airman Matt Levery, Mission

Intel Co-ordinator.

COLONEL POWELL:

Thank you. Today you will be flying

a joint operation over Nairobi,

Kenya. Code name: Operation Egret.

As POWELL proceeds with the brief she clicks on relevant

images that appear on a second screen in the room.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

(showing a map)

Horn of Africa. Somalia. Kenya.

Nairobi.

(MORE)

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COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

We have intelligence of a meeting

of key members of Al-Shabaab in the

suburb of Parklands - in this house

here.

Over a Reaper image of a house in the suburb of Parklands:

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