Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit Page #3

(CHUCKLES)

EMBEE:
Good afternoon,

good afternoon.

(SECURITY SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

EMBEE:
Mmm-hmm.

WOMAN:
This way, Mr. Deng.

JACK:
Wow,

St. Basil's Cathedral. Beautiful.

EMBEE:
It looks like ice cream.

Ice cream top.

(CHUCKLES)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

The Kremlin.

Yes, yes.

(CHUCKLES)

you speak some Russian.

You go and register.

I'll help you upstairs with the bags.

No. That's okay. I can get it from here.

I'm supposed to check the room.

Okay.

- Welcome, Mr. Ryan.

- Hi.

- Just your signature, please.

- All right.

(VACUUM WHIRRING)

(DOOR OPENS)

Mr. Cherevin hopes

the room will be to your satisfaction.

(CHUCKLES)

Ah, yes. And the view is second to none.

Wow.

(GUN UNHOLSTERING)

It's magnificent!

(GUNSHOTS)

- (GRUNTS)

- (GUNSHOTS CONTINUE)

(PANTING)

(GUN CLICKING)

(PANTING)

(GUNSHOTS)

(WHIRRING STOPS)

(WHIRRING STARTS)

(YELLS)

(GRUNTING)

(GROANS)

(WHIRRING CONTINUES)

(STRAINING)

- (SOUNDS MUFFLED)

- (HIGH-PITCHED WHINING)

(CLICKS)

(GRUNTING)

(GROANS)

(SPUTTERING)

(GASPING)

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

(PANTING)

(SHOWER ACTIVATES)

(BEEPS)

(PANTING)

This is Cornerback. I have a situation.

WOMAN:
You have 85 seconds.

- I need help.

- Category?

Somebody tried to kill me.

There's a body.

Are you intact?

Close enough.

Location?

Cornerback?

Uh, the Grushnitsky Hotel, Moscow.

(PHONE RINGS)

(QUIETLY) Oh, no.

WOMAN:
15 to 20 minutes.

Maintain the room.

Wait for two rings, then exit.

Go quiet until 21:30 local

and surface at location Gamma.

I, uh...

Contact bench at the base of the stairs.

(STAMMERING)

I don't remember where that is.

Confirm.

I heard you, I just don't

remember the address, okay?

I'm just an analyst.

I only did three weeks at the Farm.

You are breaking protocol, Cornerback.

I'm out of my goddamn element

is what I am.

I just need the address.

Go back to your room and stay there

until the phone rings twice.

Then leave quickly and quietly.

Keep out of sight until 9:30 local time.

- Then, go to Staraya Square, the steps.

- Okay.

Your contact will be on the bench.

Cornerback?

Yeah.

You're a Marine.

It's the reason you're still alive right now.

Remember your tradecraft

and you'll be fine.

Thank you.

Time's up.

(LINE DISCONNECTS)

(BIRDS FLUTTERING)

(PHONE RINGS)

(PHONE RINGS AGAIN)

(SILENCE)

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

JACK:
Hey, I was just about to call you.

CATHY:
Hey.

Yeah, I only landed

a couple hours ago, so, uh...

Oh, good.

I'm not trying to hassle you, I just...

I just wanted to make sure

the trip was okay.

Yeah. Yeah, it was,

you know, uneventful.

(CHUCKLES) Well, that's the best kind.

So, what are you doing now?

I, uh, just left the hotel. Gonna...

Got to go meet a colleague.

Anybody interesting?

I don't think you know him.

What are you up to?

Well, I was just on call for a 48,

but Saidelman says

that he can cover me for the weekend.

So I thought,

if I got on a plane tonight,

I could be in Paris in the morning.

You think you could get away early?

Uh...

Hello?

Yeah, you know, I, um...

I don't think so, Cath.

I think I'm gonna be

tied up longer than I thought.

I'm not, uh...

(PEOPLE LAUGHING AND CHATTING)

I'm not sure

I'm gonna be able to make it there at all.

(LAUGHING CONTINUES)

Well, it sounds like you're having fun.

Look, sweetheart, I'm, uh...

I'm late and I'm tired.

I'm pretty jetlagged.

Can I give you a call

in the morning, my time?

Okay.

I love you desperately.

You know that, don't you?

Yep.

Don't lose faith in me.

Okay.

(DISCONNECTS)

You okay?

Sit down.

You got to pick somebody to trust, Jack.

Now, sit down.

You brought your dog?

Q.P. dog. (CHUCKLES)

Quasi-Personal.

Why else am I out for a walk?

Grabbed it out of somebody's yard.

They'll be thrilled when

he turns up in the morning.

It's better they're shaking

afterwards than during.

First person I ever killed,

Jack, was innocent.

- What did he do?

- She.

She didn't do anything.

She was a bystander.

Somebody who just...

Just came up behind me too quick.

Jesus.

How do you get over something like that?

If you're lucky, you get past it.

- That's not the same thing.

- No, it isn't.

Now talk me through

your very scary memo,

but keep in mind I don't have your Ph.D.

Two weeks ago,

I noticed a series of accounts

in our Russian partner's records

to which our company's

computers are denied access.

Massive currency accounts,

all in U.S. Treasuries.

(PEOPLE SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)

Cherevin's made a total

commitment to U.S. dollars

when there's been

a hurricane in the Gulf

and a string of negative

economic reports.

What does it mean?

It's external sterilized intervention.

Like I'm an idiot, please?

The dollar should be going down,

but it's up.

A few cents every day, the past week.

I think they're propping us up.

Why?

I think there's a coordinated plot

within Russia

to collapse the dollar

and crash the U.S. economy.

And it's going to happen soon.

It'll be timed to follow a terrorist attack

on U.S. soil.

No, that'd be crazy.

The Russians would lose

- as much as anybody in a collapse.

- No. No, no, no,

the Chinese will lose more.

And once the Russians start to sell,

the rest of the world is gonna

dump every dollar they have.

All right, let's say it's happened.

Let's say you're right.

What's the aftermath?

They'll recover.

We won't.

We don't have their oil reserves.

We're looking at the Panic of 1837,

the Panic of 1893,

the Soviet Famine of 1932.

Hyperinflation.

Bread lines. Rioting.

I know, I get it.

And at first, though,

they'll call it the American crisis,

but within about six weeks,

they're gonna start calling it what it is.

The Second Great Depression.

The attack and the sell-off have

to be timed to each other.

A massive series of transactions like that

have to be programmed in advance

and stored in Cherevin's system.

Once I start the audit, I can get the date

and time of the attack

down to the minute.

You stick to

the scheduled audit tomorrow.

Everything official, everything in public.

You'll be fine.

I need for you to be fine.

Your room should be clean by now.

We'll put a watch on it.

I drowned him.

In about that much water.

You know, you sold this as an office job.

You're not just an analyst anymore.

You're operational now.

(ENGINE STARTS)

(CAR DOOR CLOSES)

(DOG WHIMPERS)

(UPBEAT GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING)

(MUSIC STOPS)

(CHIMES)

(CHIMES)

(SINGING REVERENTLY)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

We will avenge our mother Russia.

You will avenge our family.

America will bleed.

Good luck, Aleksandr.

(SINGING INTENSIFIES)

(CELL PHONE RINGING)

(MAN SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

Everyone is in place, sir,

in America and in Moscow.

Let it begin.

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

Hi. Jack Ryan to see Mr. Cherevin.

MALE RECEPTIONIST:

One moment, please.

Dr. Ryan? I'm Katya,

Mr. Cherevin's assistant.

He's expecting you.

(MALE RECEPTIONIS SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

(BEEPS)

(BEEPS)

(SPEAKING RUSSIAN)

I may be here a few days.

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