Eye In The Sky Page #7

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COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

It belongs to a man named Shahid

Ahmed, an Al-Shabaab facilitator.

She puts up the image of Ahmed with Al-Shabaab leaders:

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

Due to visit the house is this man,

Abdullah Al-Hady, a Somali...

She puts up an image of Al-Hady.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

... and his wife Ayesha Al-Hady,

formerly Susan Helen Danford.

She flips through images of Danford, some as a troubled teen

in the UK, the rest, intelligence pics of her as a jihadist.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

British national. Troubled

childhood. Converted at fifteen.

Radicalized in a west London mosque

where she met and married Al-Hady.

Intelligence has them connected to

the most recent suicide bombing in

Kenya.

We see SHOCKING IMAGES of the carnage caused by a SUICIDE

BOMBING in Kenya.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

We’ve been tracking them for six

years. Last seen in Addis Ababa two

months ago.

We see images of DANFORD and AL-HADY in Addis Ababa.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

They’re numbers four and five on

our East Africa Most Wanted List.

We have information that they will

be in Nairobi today, using the

Parklands house as a transit point

for two new recruits:

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POWELL puts up an image of an American dressed boy: MUHAMMAD

ABDISALAAM, taken in a mall somewhere in the USA.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

Muhammad Abdisalaam, American - the

CIA have him connected to

extremists in Minnesota.

She puts up another image: RASHEED HAMUD at a protest in

London with a charismatic ISLAMIC SPEAKER.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

And Rasheed Hamud, British.

She puts up the image of the house again.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

Once all suspects are in the house,

Kenyan special forces will launch a

cordon and search. This is an

operation to capture, not kill. You

are tasked to be their eye in the

sky.

70 EXT. CREECH AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 70

STEVE and CARRIE, relaxed, walk out into the night and head

for what looks like one of a dozen beige shipping containers:

These are the Ground Control Stations (GCS) for RPA crews.

CARRIE:

So, Sir, how long have you been

stationed here?

STEVE:

About six months now. You?

CARRIE:

I just got here.

STEVE:

Wow. Okay. How do you like Vegas?

CARRIE:

It can get a little wild.

CARRIE and STEVE walk into the Ground Control Station.

71 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 71

STEVE and CARRIE enter the narrow, windowless world. The

previous shift are at their stations.

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STEVE:

Hey, guys. Seen any giraffes?

FIRST CREWMAN:

Matter of fact, yeah...

CARRIE:

Oh wow.

SECOND CREWMAN:

A whole bunch of them ‘bout thirty

miles east of the city.

FIRST CREWMAN:

The LR crew saw a whole herd of

elephant on take off.

CARRIE:

No kidding?

STEVE:

Makes a change from staring at

goats.

The guys laugh. On one of the screens, we see the Parklands

house and its neighbourhood. This image is fed from the MQ-9

Reaper UAV flying 20,000 feet above Nairobi.

FIRST CREWMAN:

The aircraft is established in the

orbit at Flight Level two zero

zero, running covert. Aircraft and

GCS are in the green with no write

ups.

He gets up and STEVE settles into the seat.

SECOND CREWMAN:

(to Carrie)

All cameras checked good. Here is

the target... Ground forces are two

streets away, in an old factory,

over here.

He pulls back on the throttle that controls the camera zoom

and the image snaps out to a wider area. He points out the

location of the fifty soldiers of D Company concealed in

their compound.

CARRIE:

Okay, thanks.

CARRIE settles into her seat.

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FIRST CREWMAN:

Weapons all spun up good. Ten hours

time on station remaining. You

still have two Hellfire missiles.

Secure radio checked good.

STEVE and CARRIE, now seated, look so young to be in control.

STEVE:

(into radio)

You guys strapped in?

72 INT. SQUADRON OPERATIONS ROOM - NIGHT 72

MATT and COLONEL WALSH wear headphones and watch the same

images.

COLONEL WALSH:

We’re here.

MATT:

Comms good.

73 EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - EARLY AFTERNOON 73

ALIA is still selling her bread. She only has a few loaves

left. A woman in a hijab approaches.

WOMAN WOMAN (CONT’D)

How much? Meeqa waaye? (Meh-ko why ye?)

ALIA ALIA (CONT’D)

Fifty shillings. Konton shilling.

(Konton shill-ling.)

WOMAN WOMAN (CONT’D)

Forty? Afartan? (Affar-tan?)

ALIA ALIA (CONT’D)

Forty-five? Afartan iyo shan?

(Affar-ton eeyo-shun?)

The deal is done.

74 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 74

STEVE and CARRIE sit at the controls. On the screen in

front of them, they watch A MAN COME OUT OF THE HOUSE.

CARRIE:

We have movement.

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STEVE:

Zoom in.

CARRIE zooms in as A SECOND MAN comes out of the house -

but they are limited to an ‘above head’ shot and

identification is not clear.

75 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - MORNING 75

We see in detail the big bank of screens. On one is the

Reaper live feed. On another is the bird live feed.

POWELL watches the live image from the bird of the two men

exiting the house. It’s a wide shot, but the two look like

RASHEED and MUHAMMAD.

COLONEL POWELL:

(into headset)

Hawaii5, North20, confirm PID.

76 INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - HAWAII - NIGHT 76

LUCY:

Roger North20. I’d like to be

closer.

Lucy, speaking into a headset, is now settled in front of her

screens. Her colleague waves good-night from the door.

COLONEL POWELL:

Peg90, go closer for PID.

77 INT. JAMA'S VAN - PARKLANDS - AFTERNOON 77

JAMA watches DAMISI zoom the bird closer in. On their screen:

The two young men look tense. They are clearly Rasheed and

MUHAMMAD. They turn as the Owner of the house comes out.

78 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - MIDDAY 78

POWELL watches her screens like a predator: Rasheed and

MUHAMMAD are talking to THE OWNER. He seems very grateful to

them for something - and to be wishing them well.

LUCY (O.S.)

North20, Hawaii5 confirms positive

ID’s on Muhammad Abdisalaam and

Rasheed Hamud.

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COLONEL POWELL:

Roger that.

She hasn’t taken her eyes off her suspects. Then she sees:

A DRIVER open the rear doors of the SUV.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D)

Damn it, they’re leaving. Where are

Danford and Al-Hady?

SERGEANT GLEESON

Ma’am, our intelligence only has

them arriving in another half hour.

COLONEL POWELL:

(not happy)

Well then our intelligence is bad!

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INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - MIDDAY 79

BENSON looks at the screen, alarmed.

The others, eating sandwiches and drinking tea and coffee,

see his reaction, uncertain what to think.

80

EXT. COMPANY D BASE - AFTERNOON 80

MAJOR OWITI watches the live feed. He calls to his men:

MAJOR OWITI:

Load up!

His men respond, hurrying to their trucks. Tension is high.

OWITI talks to POWELL on his mike:

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