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Special Correspondents Page #4
- [Domingo] Right this way.
Must be great,
living right above the restaurant.
- Never late for work.
- [Brigida] Oh, we are.
- Really?
- Oh, yeah, all the time.
- Sure.
- [Brigida] Come in, up the stairs.
More stairs.
Excellent.
Okay.
Give me half an hour.
Cheers, guys. All right.
[Finch mutters indistinctly]
[Frank]
We meant to go to Ecuador.
We got as far as an apartment
on top of a restaurant
across the road from the radio station.
- You don't like it?
- Oh, no, it's lovely.
[stammers]
That's not what I meant. I...
[sighs]
No, it's fine. It's just... you know.
You know Kim and Kanye?
No. No, I don't.
Beyonc? Jay Z? They are your friends?
Friends? No. Not friends.
[Brigida & Domingo speaking in Spanish]
- The Jonas Brothers?
- Jonas Brothers.
I don't know the Jonas Brothers.
You want to read about
Honey Boo Boo child?
- I don't know what he wants.
- Okay, come on up, guys.
- [door opens]
- [approaching footsteps]
Okay, close your eyes. Ready?
[insects chirping over speakers]
[birds chirping]
Beautiful rain forest.
Birds.
[bird sounds increase]
- There's monkeys. Parrots.
- [animal noises]
- Hold on. Here comes a tank.
- [tracks rumbling]
Oh. Machine-gun fire.
[gunfire]
Airplanes.
A helicopter hovers overhead.
Oh. Explosions.
[gunfire and explosions]
Hand grenades.
- [explosions continue]
- [aircraft whirring]
[sounds cease]
Welcome to Ecuador.
[indistinct chattering]
The government's just closed the borders.
The information just came from
the Secretary of State's office.
There may have been
a sarin gas warning.
[Virginia]
Yeah, the dispatch just came in.
Okay. I'm gonna call in,
if you're ready.
So, guys, shout out some stuff
in the background, add to the atmosphere.
- What should we say?
- Anything. Spanish.
- [phone rings]
- It's Frank.
- Frank, where are you now?
- I'm in Quito.
- You managed to get through?
- Yeah. Why?
They've closed the borders.
There was a sarin gas warning.
You know what? Stay on the line.
Let me put you through to the studio.
I want you to sell Bonneville
as an exclusive. Hold on.
- [announcer] Q365.
Our reporter, Frank Bonneville,
who managed to get into Ecuador
before the borders were closed,
has an exclusive for Q365 News.
Live from Ecuador, he will now give us the
first account of this latest development.
- Frank.
- [Frank] In Quito,
the man on the street doesn't know
that tomorrow, in addition to the gunfire
- and indiscriminate attacks...
- [gunfire]
looms over the city.
However,
the sudden closure of the border
confirms the seriousness
of the situation.
Real Madrid!
- [Domingo shouts indistinctly]
- [war sounds continue]
And this is a new threat the government
could really have done without, Frank?
[Frank] My thoughts exactly.
For the last three days,
they've been fighting an enemy
that no bomb can possibly destroy.
- Sand.
- Julio Iglesias!
- [gasps]
- [muffled noise]
Raised in squalls by the shrieking,
violent wind,
the desert sand
has brought the city to a standstill.
The men and their targeting
instruments are blind.
The air force is grounded.
The sky has changed color.
The temperature has dropped.
The sun has all but disappeared,
leaving the locals,
the innocent victims
in this bloody infighting, to wonder:
what has happened
to the world they once knew?
This is Frank Bonneville,
live from Quito.
Okay, good.
But I think we need more information.
Because I'm pretty sure sand
isn't a big problem in Ecuador.
and rain-foresty and...
- Okay.
And also, guys,
imagine you're in your village.
Aah! What might you shout?
[speaks in Spanish]
- What does that mean?
- Uncle Miguel!
- Why would you shout "Uncle Miguel"?
Be scared.
Shout something about your children.
[speaking in Spanish]
- What does that mean?
- My baby is getting fat!
- What's that got to do with anything?
- Because you say:
"Say something about children,"
and I love fat babies
- because it means they're eating well.
- [Finch] Yeah.
- It's true.
- I know, I like fat babies.
Mm.
What happened to the TV?
The fact of the matter is that the face
of poverty, no matter where you are,
- is always the same.
- Look at this guy, Baker.
There's a guy that can fake something.
He's got a bulletproof vest on,
- he's 50 feet from the hotel.
- How do you know where he is?
Because of that fountain. I saw it
from my room last time I was there.
No one knows. I think we're so much better
off here... Thank you... than Ecuador.
We've got wine, snacks.
We're not being shot at.
You two make a good team.
First time
we've worked together, officially.
On something big, like this. Yeah.
- His forte is sports.
- Yeah.
- How many Tours de France have you done?
- Twenty-five.
- In France?
- Nah, didn't go there.
I sort of ran it from here,
to make sure it all went smoothly.
And the Olympics?
You've done a few of those, too, right?
Just four. But they are
only every four years, so, not bad.
- Where did you go? Beijing?
- I didn't get to Beijing, no.
- No, you did those from here, too, right?
- Yes. Yeah.
- So, have you actually been anywhere?
- Yeah.
- England.
- No, you're from England.
- That doesn't count.
- Yeah. Okay.
- Here, then.
- England.
- Wow.
[Finch] Yeah.
Every two-bit hack in New York got into
Ecuador before they closed the border.
- I need something special.
- We got some great stuff.
- We got some exclusive stuff.
- You still in Quito?
Are we still in Quito? No, we're in...
We're in the south,
we're in a place called... Machala.
We thought it'd be good to get in
amongst the people.
Good. Yeah, yeah,
give them something personal.
That always gets them.
All right, you're on in five.
And now, we go live to our special
correspondent in Quito, Frank Bonneville.
The villagers could've left
Sergeant Miguel to die.
But they chose to save the man.
A man, who, minutes earlier
with his fellow troops,
had been showering the area
with fire and steel.
This place might be a rebel stronghold,
but these are kind people.
It's simply not in their nature
to let a man die on their land.
- Whoever they are.
- Oh, sh*t! Ooh. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Earlier today, I watched
as a woman from the village
desperately tried to save her own child,
feverishly wiping the blood
off the pavement
as if that would somehow bring him back.
A peasant, a fat, sweaty peasant,
looked on,
useless, hopeless, worthless even,
knowing that nothing he ever did
could possibly do any good.
This is Frank Bonneville,
live from Machala.
[sounds cease]
- Good work.
- You're on again at 7:00, call back.
- That's why he's the best.
- I hope they're being careful.
[Finch]
Well, we got away with it again.
Looks like we made quite an impact.
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