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to give you the gas mileage for it.

You mind if I take a picture?

This is beautiful.

Someone will be at this number

night or day.

You see what he did?

He didn't need a photo of the engine.

No, he doesn't give a rat's ass

about the engine.

He's trained in counterintel.

Backed up far enough

to take a picture of the plates.

This is our guy.

I thought he turned you down.

He said yes. He just doesn't know it yet.

It's a far piece, Sam.

Think the President ought to worry?

Yeah, I think he better worry.

Yeah, he'll be fine.

Just feed him once a day. Read him

a few ballistics tables if he looks lonely.

Yep. I'm out.

Come here, buddy.

Okay.

Think you'll be able to tough it out

without me for a couple days?

Yeah.

This is Command Post.

What's your status? Over.

Yeah, we're finishing up here on 6th.

Roger that. We copy.

Checkpoint down, over.

Before you stands Independence Hall,

the birthplace of the United States

and one of the most important buildings

in American history.

Built in 1732...

Keep a visual eye on 72nd...

...both the Declaration of Independence

and the U.S. Constitution

were debated and signed here.

Out of the three cities,

there's only one with

a reasonably high chance of success.

There was no room in Baltimore.

Street isn't wide enough to correct

for the windage,

buildings are in the way.

D.C.'s a pure suicide mission.

I mean, unless you're sure

your shooter's interested in 70 virgins

waiting for him in the afterlife,

I'd rule that out.

Shot's got to be taken from Philly.

From beyond 1,800 yards, though.

It's one of six possible locations,

approximately five stories

above the President's location.

Flight time of the bullet that distance

is five to six seconds.

They'll have to wait

till he takes the podium,

several lines into his speech.

That way he'd be completely static,

obviously at his most exposed.

Shot requires a large-caliber weapon.

Expect the bullet to be handmade,

bronzed alloy turned on a lathe.

Slightly lower ballistics coefficient,

touch more slippery.

Least that's what I'd do.

You can kill him from that far away?

Mile and a half, the bullet's

going to strike with more energy

than a .44 Magnum point blank.

Yeah, I think you can kill him.

The challenge is the wind.

Lightest breeze uncorrected

at that distance

is enough to ruin the shot.

He's gonna need indicators between

the podium and the shooting position.

Velocity corrections are easy,

but an angle change,

that becomes a trig problem.

He's gotta do that in his head on the fly.

Without something to gauge, your shot's

just too tough to make cold bore.

Impressive recon and report, son.

Move too soon, we lose him.

We want to take him alive.

If we don't know who hired him,

it could just happen again.

We'll have six

three-man teams standing by.

Gunnery Sergeant Swagger?

A moment?

You've done your country

a great service, son.

- On the day...

- Look...

Listen.

You're one of the few people

who knows what to look for.

I could use a spotter.

Thank you, Philadelphia.

The President speaks in 20 minutes.

...before you on this stage...

Notify our teams. Check their positions.

...patriots met in Independence Hall

and created a document,

the Declaration of Independence...

Sir?

...and a country,

the United States of America,

that changed the world.

Philadelphia is our home. We are...

Stand by, all teams.

This is Listening Post.

Flashlight's current location

is approaching Checkpoint Jason.

All sniper teams

send update on your sitrep.

- Stand by.

- Yes, I have a clear line of sight.

Copy that.

Post 18 clear, over.

Post 19, please report.

What's your status?

All clear.

There's really nothing going on here.

The Archbishop of Ethiopia...

The President will be awarding

the Philadelphia Brotherhood Medal

to His Grace Desmond Mutumbo,

the Archbishop of Ethiopia.

There's been some controversy

surrounding the Archbishop

as he's been speaking out

regarding the atrocities in his country.

He plans to meet with the President

right after the ceremony

to discuss these matters.

These are great times.

These are historic times.

And these are troubled times, as well.

This medal that your country...

Yellow ribbons.

Yeah, people put those up

to remember the troops.

No, they tie those low around trees.

These are windage flags.

Roughly the location

I'd have put them in

for a shot from the steeple.

Yeah. Maybe.

No, definitely.

He knows what he's doing.

You guys got a team in place

to take out the church?

They'll move right before the shot

is taken, when his focus is elsewhere.

...raises its head

and confronts freedom,

but slyly, subtly,

chokes it off at the root.

And it is our responsibility

to find these dark weeds.

Flashlight has arrived.

I say again, Flashlight has arrived.

- If you just joined us...

- Hi.

Officer Timmons, our local resource.

Bob Lee Swagger.

It is a real honor to meet you.

You're unsnapped, officer.

Sh*t. Oh, f***.

Don't want to lose that now, do I?

Again, it's an honor.

...of our stewardship of this great...

- That our guy in the collar?

- The Archbishop of Ethiopia.

He's getting a medal. Know it?

HOA. Horn of Africa. Yeah.

You know I worked there?

You know what they say

about the first thing that you feel

when you shoot a civilian, right?

- Recoil of your rifle?

- Right.

That's very original.

Thank you, Archbishop,

for those inspiring words.

The President speaks next.

All teams stand by.

Agent Gibson, we read your fly-by.

Situation all clear, over.

Agent James, all clear.

Now it gives me enormous pleasure...

- Got wind at three, full value.

- ...to introduce to you

the President of the United States.

Make it four-and-a-half minutes

of angle.

Three-mil hold, in case the wind dies.

He's loaded.

Altitude, humidity,

temperature accounted for.

In the city that was the capital of...

We got to take him.

Ten seconds.

Wind matches his setup.

Take him! Take him now!

Send in the ERT team. Take out the...

Shots fired! Shots fired!

Flashlight is down, Flashlight is down.

- What? Flashlight down?

- I say again. Flashlight is down.

- The President has been shot.

- There's mass confusion...

Has the President been shot?

Right at the church steeple.

How could you miss?

How could you f***ing miss?

Thirty seconds, clear out.

Chase him down.

He's bleeding. Kill him.

Command Post to Condor Two,

load up, over.

Condor Two loading up.

Go, go, go, go, go!

Hurry up, guys. Come on.

Condor Two, this is Command Post.

Stand by for update, over.

Standing by, over.

Command Post!

Command Post!

Command Post, this is Post 19.

You guys read me?

- Should I hold post?

- Please.

Please help me. Please. They shot me.

- FBI. Put your hands up!

- Please. Hey.

Save me.

What?

Give me the keys.

I didn't shoot the President.

Timmons was a setup.

Help!

FBI! Took my weapon and my car.

Don't worry, I already shot him twice.

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