Eye In The Sky Page #8

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MAJOR OWITI (CONT’D)

North20, Showman50, I have my men

ready. Do we go in?

81

INT. PJHQ - LONDON - MIDDAY 81

POWELL hesitates, but only for a brief moment.

COLONEL POWELL:

No, hold your men. I want Danford

and I’m hoping they will lead us to

her.

She’s taking a calculated risk here and she feels it.

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82 INT. OPERATIONS ROOM - COMPANY D BASE - AFTERNOON 82

MAJOR OWITI watches the same live feed.

MAJOR OWITI:

Roger that.

A tense CAPTAIN waits for the order to deploy his troops.

MAJOR OWITI (CONT’D)

Tell them to hold.

Disappointed, the CAPTAIN reluctantly nods.

MAJOR OWITI (CONT'D)

(changing channels)

Bravo27, Showman50, follow if they

leave.

83 INT. AGENT ATIENO’S CAR - STREET - AFTERNOON 83

ATIENO, who we met at the airport taking covert photographs

of Muhammad and Rasheed, hears the message on his earpiece.

AGENT ATIENO:

Bravo27, ready to follow.

He starts up his engine.

84 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 84

STEVE and CARRIE watch the live Reaper as the OWNER of the

house hugs RASHEED with a long, affectionate embrace.

CARRIE:

Looks like they know they’re not

meeting again.

STEVE:

We don’t read into things.

CARRIE:

Haven’t we gotta think?

RASHEED and MUHAMMAD get into the SUV with the DRIVER ONE.

STEVE:

(over radio)

Movers, say intentions.

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85 INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - HAWAII - NIGHT 85

LUCY in front of the screens:

LUCY:

Stay on PAX.

STEVE (O.S)

Copy.

SUDDENLY:
A WOMAN in a long flowing dress, her head wrapped

in a hijab, exits the house and gets quickly into the SUV.

We see this from the high shot of the Reaper. The bird is too

slow to catch her.

86 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - EARLY AFTERNOON 86

POWELL is watching the image.

COLONEL POWELL:

Who is that? Is that Danford?!

I need a PID!

87 INT. OPERATIONS ROOM - COMPANY D BASE - AFTERNOON 87

MAJOR OWITI is frustrated as he speaks into his headset.

MAJOR OWITI:

Peg90 you missed her! Look in the

vehicle.

88 INT. JAMA'S VAN - PARKLANDS - AFTERNOON 88

DAMISI and JAMA watch the image from the bird that shows the

side of the SUV - windows dark; just a shadowed outline of

the woman in the back.

DAMISI:

Sorry, sir. Windows are tinted.

89 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - EARLY AFTERNOON 89

COLONEL POWELL:

Damn it, is that her, or does Ahmed

have a wife?!

SERGEANT GLEESON

I’m sorry, we don’t know, Ma’am.

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COLONEL POWELL:

Not good enough people! It has to

be her. Why didn’t we know she was

already in the house?!

There’s an embarrassed silence. The image from the bird shows

the SUV move as the gates to the compound are opened.

90 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 90

STEVE and CARRIE watch the Reaper feed as the SUV drives out

into the street.

91 INT. AGENT ATIENO’S CAR - PARKLANDS STREET - AFTERNOON 91

AGENT ATIENO sees the SUV turn into another street and pulls

into traffic to follow it.

AGENT ATIENO:

Showman50, Bravo27, they’re heading

east on route five... to Eastleigh.

From his expression we sense that is not good news.

MAJOR OWITI:

Damn it... Copy that.

92 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - EARLY AFTERNOON 92

POWELL watches the Reaper live feed of the SUV driving

towards the Eastleigh Market Area.

COLONEL POWELL:

Hawaii5, I want a PID on that woman

as soon as we get a visual.

93 OMITTED 93

94 OMITTED 94

95 INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 95

LUCY, tense, in front of the screens.

LUCY:

Yes, Ma’am.

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96 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 96

STEVE pilots the Reaper to follow the SUV as it turns right.

STEVE:

Zoom out.

CARRIE pulls back the image.

STEVE and CARRIE watch the Reaper image of AGENT ATIENO

following the SUV.

97 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - EARLY AFTERNOON 97

POWELL is alarmed as she watches the Reaper feed of the

vehicles turning again.

INTERCUT with OWITI checking a route on his secure laptop.

MAJOR OWITI:

North20, Showman50, it looks like

they’re heading toward Eastleigh.

COLONEL POWELL:

That’s a no go area.

MAJOR OWITI:

Yes, Ma’am...

COLONEL POWELL:

How do we launch a ground assault

if she’s going in there?

MAJOR OWITI:

We can’t... It would trigger a

massacre.

COLONEL POWELL:

(to herself)

Sh*t...

(to Owiti)

Alright, just stay with her.

She watches the SUV slow down, turn into a side road and then

stop at AN AL-SHABAAB MILITIA CHECKPOINT.

98 INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - EARLY AFTERNOON 98

BENSON and the others watch the screen nervously.

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99

INT. AGENT ATIENO’S CAR - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 99

AGENT ATIENO slows and stops at an intersection. A left turn

will take him right into the militia controlled neighborhood.

He can see the heavily guarded CHECKPOINT guarded by ARMED

MILITIA a short distance away.

AGENT ATIENO:

(tense)

Showman50, Bravo27... do you want

me to try and go in?

MAJOR OWITI (O.S.)

No. Return to base.

AGENT ATIENO, relieved, drives on.

100 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 100

STEVE:

Zoom in.

CARRIE does. She and STEVE watch as a MILITIA LEADER -

surrounded by a small posse - walks up to the SUV.

The posse try to get a look at the people in the SUV.

CARRIE and STEVE watch a respectful exchange between the

militia leader and the Woman in the back passenger seat. But

all they can see from their high angle is her covered arm as

it extends out of the window.

The arm waves as the SUV pulls away and drives into the

militia controlled neighbourhood.

STEVE and CARRIE follow the SUV as it turns into another

street.

The Militia seen driving around earlier with a machine gun

bolted to the back of their pickup have parked on a corner.

Another fifty yards up the road, two armed guards with AK47s

open the gates to a compound, and the SUV pulls in.

There is another SUV already in the compound.

The gates are immediately closed.

101

INT. PJHQ - LONDON - EARLY AFTERNOON 101

POWELL, watching the Reaper image.

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COLONEL POWELL:

Showman50, do we know this house?

102 INT. OPERATIONS ROOM - COMPANY D BASE - AFTERNOON 102

MAJOR OWITI has the same Reaper image.

MAJOR OWITI:

(into his headset)

It belongs to Amadu Mukhtar. He’s a

Somali trader but there is no other

intel on him.

103 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - EARLY AFTERNOON 103

POWELL watches the live feed as RASHEED, MUHAMMAD, the WOMAN

covered in the hijab and DRIVER ONE get out of the vehicle.

RASHEED, MUHAMMAD and the WOMAN walk into the house. The

DRIVER stays outside.

COLONEL POWELL:

Hawaii5, North20, did you see

anything there?

104 INT. ROOM - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE - NIGHT 104

LUCY analyses images frame grabbed from the Reaper video feed

as the WOMAN walked into the house. Her eyes scan them

rapidly. She zooms in. But the woman has kept her covered

head down and LUCY can’t see anything helpful.

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