Spartan Page #5

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- Yeah.

- Those new seeds come in?

No, John, they have not.

I beg your pardon.

I know that little plot is your baby.

I'm gonna call them up and make it right.

I want to plant them

in the dark of the moon.

- That's the old ways, isn't it?

- Is it? Yeah, I suppose it is.

- Expected to see you a few days ago.

- Yeah. Took the long way home.

How'd you find me?

Well, didn't I just draw down

on my luck.

- Bobby, I need to talk to you.

- My name ain't Bobby.

I need to talk to you.

What's the matter, you got

post-traumatic stress disorder?

I hear they say there might be

environmental causes.

- Are they going to Dubai?

- How would I know?

Because there's a slave trade

going on of American women.

- They sending you in?

- We'll leave that to our betters.

- Why don't you ask them?

- Why would I want to know?

I ain't a planner, I ain't a thinker.

I never wanted to be.

You got to set your motherf***er

to receive.

Listen to me.

They don't go through the door,

we don't ask why.

That's not a cost, it's benefit.

Because we get to travel light.

They tell me where to go.

- Tell me what to do when I get there.

- What about...?

You wanted to go

through the looking glass.

How was it?

Was it more fun than miniature golf?

- Who frisked the son of a b*tch?

- What son of a b*tch?

The secret service agent, shot himself?

Screwing his girlfriend.

Killed himself in shame.

- Shot himself with a hideout pistol?

- Yeah.

Who frisked the son of a b*tch?

You'll have to go half-speed, baby,

because I don't follow you.

- Is there an operation in Dubai, sir?

- Pal...

...the girl fell off a boat. She's dead.

I'm on leave.

I don't know nothing about Dubai.

I don't know what the hell

you want with me.

There's a Army depending on us

for the truth.

You can lie to anyone else.

Never lie to a Ranger.

Okay, so that's you calling me a liar.

Sir, I saw the sign!

- What sign is that?

- At the beach house. She was there.

She wasn't there. She died on a boat.

I saw the sign.

Sir.

You saw the sign?

You were up for a week.

You don't know what you saw

your first time out.

Sir, I know what I saw.

You didn't see no sign because she

wasn't there. The hardest thing?

You know what it is?

It isn't going in the door, it's coming out.

You ever come down off of drugs?

The most powerful drug

in the world is adrenaline.

- I told you everything I know. Stand down.

- Look in the bag.

- Stand down!

- Sir, under my mat!

This got caught in my mat

at the beach house.

Would you tell me what that is?

The girl is not dead, sir.

Would you show me

where you found the earring?

I laid the mat down right here.

What?

The house looked closer that night.

Barometer's falling.

Low pressure, objects appear farther.

Watch the weather, baby,

because it's going to change.

Yeah.

Will you show me

where you saw the sign?

Yeah, hold on.

Hey, it was over here!

Let me speak to the chinaman.

You tell him, "The only man

ever heard him call on Jesus."

Yeah.

Yoke me out.

New set of clothes from the skin out.

Full set of papers.

I don't care where, but now.

You gotta get me to the tall corn.

I'll get you the money.

All right.

Two hours.

No.

Wait.

Not two hours.

Something later.

I'll get back to you.

The original building,

of course, dates to 1928.

The center for the treatment of alcoholism,

later, of substance abuse...

...takes its current name, The clearings,

from the original Johnson farm.

Would you please follow me

to the right.

The farm and its 2ooo acres were

a gift from the Johnsons...

- what could be worse than losing a child?

- Yes.

You'd like to comfort them,

but you don't know how.

I always think it's best just to...

- what is it?

- Security breach. Probably a phone threat.

It's all right. They're moving her

down to transport now.

It's okay, I'm with secret service.

Guess again. I'm secret service. And you'll

follow my directions, or I'll shoot you dead.

- Yes.

- Step away from the door.

Yes. I have a message for her.

- I have something to tell her.

- Take two steps to your left.

Yes. I have a message for Mrs. Newton.

I'm sure you do. Spread your arms,

please, out to the sides.

Open your hands.

- Open the box.

- I...

I'm 1 o minutes from the bomb squad.

If it's happy birthday, let's do it now.

Open the box.

They took her protection.

Her father was in town.

They took the secret service detail off her

to take him tomcatting.

He didn't come to see her,

he came to get laid.

He's been doing it for years.

He took her protection.

She got snatched.

The girl on the boat,

how do you fake the DNA?

- Laura Newton's alive.

- I don't know if Laura Newton's alive.

I know they lied.

How do you fake the DNA?

You don't fake the DNA.

You issue a press release.

- Her father would let her die?

- Did you try to contact him?

- I did, yes.

- And you still don't get it, do you?

You don't get it.

These people are savages.

They don't know

how many children they have.

She was snatched

while he was cheating on his wife.

It comes out, they lose the election.

So they said, "Let her go."

- Who?

- His handlers.

- What does he know?

- What they tell him.

- What did they tell him?

- That she was dead.

- Why?

- So he'd stop looking for her.

Oh, baby.

Where are you going?

- I have to get a lot of running room.

- Wait. Who will get her back?

- What?

- Who will get her back?

- I did my part.

- What part was that?

- They gotta get her back.

- There is no "they."

- I'm just a worker bee...

- she'll die.

- Then go through the mother.

- I'm her mother!

She gave birth to her. I raised her.

I'm her mother.

She's just a little girl.

You have to get her back.

I have nobody.

Nobody ever loved her but me.

She's just a little girl.

It's been quite a long while

since my last confession.

We were getting shelled in the open.

And I confessed that I was frightened.

So I suppose I'm...

I suppose I'm frightened now.

There was a king...

...and he had a daughter...

...and she was abducted.

He vowed to protect her, you see, but...

...while he was indulging

himself, shamefully...

...she was abducted.

They tried to get her back and failed.

Now, his advisors realized

that if the girl returned...

...it would reveal the king's shame

to the country.

So they told him that she was dead.

Ain't nobody here

but two people in green.

It goes beyond that.

Nothing goes beyond that.

This girl, they told the king

that she was dead...

...and everybody grieved.

But she was alive.

Then you better go get her.

We know this house.

Maskala is a suburban villa in Dubai.

Some people operate

a halfway house there...

...for young women they have

coerced or drugged...

...into spending their short lives

as whores for Arabian tourists.

Of late, the girls have been, in the main,

from the former sov bloc.

Now and again, a North American girl,

if she is exceedingly lovely...

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