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Special Correspondents Page #5
- I'm not sure about this.
- We can't stay in the apartment all day.
We need some fresh air,
some exercise.
I know, but what if we're spotted?
Game over, isn't it?
Oh, wow. Look. Oh.
[gasps]
Amazing Spider-Man 14.
I collect comics,
so I know that's a good one.
Yeah, we really should get back.
Come on.
[cell phone buzzing]
- It's Mallard.
- Sh*t. Don't answer it.
It's Finch. He's in the toilet. Yeah.
I don't know where we are, exactly.
It's all written in Spanish, obviously.
- So... That's the subway.
- [subway rumbling]
That's what we call the trucks
that drive the tanks.
Yeah, because it sounds like the subway.
Okay, yeah, I'll let him know.
[groans]
- He wants you to do a report at 1:00.
- Sh*t.
- He's onto us, man.
- He's...
[cell phone buzzes]
Hi. Yeah, he's out. Okay, hold on.
- Hello?
- I just need a 60-second update, Frank,
and then, uh,
- Here?
- What do you mean, "Here"?
- I mean, now?
- Yes, yes. We're transferring you.
[man] Now we go live
to Frank Bonneville in Ecuador.
A cloud of dust rises into the horizon.
caterpillar tracks of two rogue tanks...
[mimicking tank engines]
...whose tracks are biting
into the dust on the remote road.
A helicopter hovers overhead.
[mimicking helicopter whirring]
- Is this Dr. Schmalzstein's office?
- No. Shh.
In the bombed-out remains
of what was once his home,
a young boy watches television.
- [man] Blow it out your ass!
- [horn honking]
American television.
Shells are incoming.
[whistling, mimicking explosion]
My technician is hit by shrapnel.
Oh, no, he's fine.
But we gotta get out of here. Fast.
[grunting over phone]
- [mimicking explosions and gunfire]
- [siren wails in distance]
- [mock gunfire continues]
- [footsteps]
It's quiet. Too quiet, if anything.
[soundscape begins]
In the sky, a combat helicopter stops.
My own technician
has another near miss.
A bullet flies inches above his head.
Luckily for him, he's so short,
or he'd most certainly be dead by now.
This is Frank Bonneville, Q365 News.
[man]Coming up at 7:00,
we will have another exclusive
from Frank Bonneville.
That was too close for comfort.
We can't get caught out like this again.
We've gotta plan this, be in control.
And we need something new.
When Mallard first asked you to go
to Ecuador, what did he say, exactly?
Just that the rebel forces
were amassing arms, weapons.
- What else?
- Conjecture, rumors.
[sighs] That's enough for you, though,
isn't it? Anything that sells news.
- Well, if people weren't so gullible...
- That's it.
- What?
- We start a rumor.
One that can't be proved wrong. We invent
someone, someone behind all this.
And when people say,
"Oh, we can't find this guy, who is he?"
"Well, no, of course you can't find him.
He's elusive. He's an evil genius.
He's protected by a loyal army.
He can work for anyone.
Be funded by anyone."
They'll just deny it, though, won't they?
"So-and-so denies funding terrorists."
- Great.
- That's unethical, though.
Yeah, but it's news.
What's a popular Spanish name?
Alvarez. Santiago. Emilio.
[Frank]
The man is Emilio Santiago Alvarez,
the instigator of the attacks against
government forces in Ecuador.
A small man, with no profile,
no international presence.
But here, in the jungles and towns
of southern Ecuador,
he's become a folk hero...
and be counted.
But on the street, rumors persist
that Alvarez may not be working alone.
His rebel forces are too well equipped,
too well trained, too well fed.
It's said, and I must stress at this
point, these rumors are uncorroborated...
that maybe Alvarez
has friends in high places.
Perhaps a little too close to home.
Jesus, is he saying that the rebel forces
[Frank]
This is Frank Bonneville, Q365 News.
[Mallard] That's huge.
Good one.
Couldn't have done better myself.
- We can keep this going for ages.
- Yeah, let's see if they buy it first.
- They will.
- [gunfire on video game]
They will.
[Secretary of State] Does Bonneville
realize the mess he's made
by allowing speculation that this Alvarez
is working for the Americans?
Most probably, Madam Secretary.
Goddamn it. Why have we not heard of this
man before? Where's your intelligence?
Our agents in Ecuador are tracing him now.
It's a good chance they know him
by another name. A nickname.
And if they don't find him,
government forces will.
They're now looking for Bonneville
to make him confess his sources.
And Alvarez's men are after him
because he revealed too much.
He and his technician
are in serious danger.
I do not wanna end up with two dead
citizens nor the wrath of their families.
You are going to tell Finch and Bonneville
to get to the American embassy in Quito
as soon as possible.
We need to know they're safe.
Once they're safe, we will extract them.
That is something we know how to do.
Little is known about the mastermind
behind the uprising,
The charismatic leader
of the Ecuadorian Liberation Front
is believed to come
from humble beginnings.
The son of an unemployed,
left-wing atheist father and an unmarried
mother with Communist sympathies.
So, in your view, Alvarez has been quietly
amassing a force for some time now.
What I'm hearing from my sources
is that Alvarez has risen
to a position of power in the Ecuadorian
Liberation Front for some years.
I always knew he made up
most of the sh*t he reported.
So, why haven't we heard of him before?
- Well, it makes perfect sense.
- How is he keeping a straight face?
...less chance for the opposition
of targeting you.
Successful revolution is all about
protecting your leaders.
So, Frank Bonneville has gone where
no other news reporter has gone before
in bringing this man
to the public's attention.
- I wouldn't say that.
- [cackling]
I've known about Alvarez myself
for a while now.
I just didn't think it was appropriate
to unmask him yet.
[Finch] Oh, come on.
- Oh.
- [glasses clink]
[Finch chuckles]
[cell phone rings]
Hello? Yeah.
Right.
Uh-huh.
[Finch] What?
Okay. Yeah, sure.
Yeah, I'll call you
as soon as we get to Quito.
Okay, thanks.
- We're screwed.
- Why?
- Everyone's looking for us, apparently.
- They won't find us.
Of course they won't,
that's not the point.
- What is?
the U.S. embassy in Quito immediately.
For our own safety.
The ambassador's waiting for us, okay?
It's probably a few hours' drive
from Machala to Quito.
I promised I'd call him
as soon as we got there.
- As in, a few hours from now.
- Right.
- What are you gonna do?
- Nothing.
- Because I'm not gonna call him.
- Why not?
Because if I call him, he'll call the
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