The East Page #6

Synopsis: A successful operative for an elite private intelligence firm is tasked with infiltrating an anarchist group known for executing covert attacks upon major corporations.
Director(s): Zal Batmanglij
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  1 win & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.8
Metacritic:
68
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG-13
Year:
2013
116 min
$1,600,000
Website
1,044 Views


Thank you.

We have to sew that up.

(BOTH BREATHING HEAVILY)

Why did you come here?

BENJI:
Sometimes people

die before they're ready.

Perfect relationships

end in ruin.

Adventures peter out.

Izzy always said

she wasn't scared.

She was scared shitless.

But she didn't flee.

That's what made

her braver than me.

LUCA:
Benji!

Stop it! Stop it!

(OBJECTS CLATTERING)

Benji!

Where are you going to go?

What did you expect, that it would be easy?

That it would be painless?

No.

A revolution is never easy.

But that doesn't make it

any less important.

You can't just

walk away from it.

Yes, I can!

I would trade the revolution

for Izzy any day.

That's it.

That's the difference

between you and me.

SARAH:

That was a Hawkstone jam.

It obviously has

not been released.

The group has unraveled without

executing their last jam.

(CLAPPING)

Her name was Kate Cannon.

Her cover identity was Isabella Duncan.

They called her Izzy.

She dropped out of Brown

her junior year...

...when she met William.

I'm subletting a basement

apartment in Georgetown.

(SIGHS) I don't

want to lie to you.

You can still spend

Christmas with my family.

You're still family.

But it's just been

a long time since

I knew what you were thinking.

I haven't been to Dubai.

I've been in an anarchist

collective not that far from here.

Why does someone

do a job like this'?

Tonight

You just close your eyes

And I just watch you

Slip a Way

(SOBBING)

How close am I

To losing you

JIM:
It looks like they're regrouping.

You have to go back.

Sharon wants more intel. The

FBI's looking to make arrests.

Hey, are you awake

Yeah, I'm right here

Well, can I ask you

About today

How close am I

To losing you

Come sit.

I'm a pretty terrible cook,

I should warn you.

Remember when I said

you could just disappear?

I think it's time.

Izzy's dad was all over the news.

I think me and you...

I mean, Doc, everyone.

I think we should go.

I think we have to

leave this place.

No. We can't do that.

Why?

I have something

planned for us.

A jam?

Could you just forget that for a moment?

For a month?

Leave with me.

This is going to be

our last jam here.

Then we'll take off.

But this has to happen now.

I need you.

I took a bullet out

of lzzy's stomach.

She's in a hole in the ground.

I don't want to keep going like this.

I can't.

No one will get hurt this time.

You can't promise me that.

Okay.

But I'll do this,

with or without you.

What's the jam?

I won't go in there blind.

You don't have to.

I'll take you there.

Tonight.

Are we almost there?

Yep.

So you can tell me

where we're going.

I think you know.

Since when?

The early companies we jammed

were clients of Hiller Brood.

I've been waiting for you

for a long time.

SARAH:

Did everyone know?

No.

Just me and Luca.

What do you want?

A list of every Hiller Brood

operative all over the world.

Their identities...

...locations,

assignments.

You're going to recruit them.

No. I'm going to

watch them.

Spy on us and we'll spy on you.

To even get into the building,

you need clearance.

What makes you so certain

I'll get you that list?

I'm not.

I'm not certain of anything.

I'm going to wait.

Here.

For whatever you decide to do.

Pigs!

I need to see Sharon.

She's in video

conference upstairs.

It's urgent. Please let

her know I'm here.

(MAN TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

It's urgent as in "Will you go

upstairs and get her?" Right now.

(TAPPING KEYS)

(CAMERA CLICKING)

(CAMERA CONTINUES CLICKING)

(ELEVATOR DINGS)

What is so important it

couldn't wait fifteen minutes?

The final jam.

It's Lyra.

They're going to

hack the satellite.

Turn all the cameras

in the sky against

the CEO, the CFO, the COO.

Spy on them.

They can do that?

Yeah.

Ooh.

And broadcast it online.

That's clever.

Safe.

(ELEVATOR DINGS)

Oh, the Bureau raided

The East house today.

I thought you'd want to know.

Another cell will

probably pick up the jam.

I was sharing some of your

report with the Bureau...

...and they reminded me of

something I wondered about.

Why all the dumpster diving?

Why not just

grow your own food?

He's got money. Why not

buy an organic farm?

They eat garbage on principle.

It's not rotten food.

It's good food that has to

be thrown away legally.

The system is broken.

And the evidence is the trash.

It has value.

I know... I've been eating three

square meals a day from it.

(BEEPING)

Step aside for

additional screening.

Oh, I'm grabbing something

for Sharon from her car.

Please spread

your arms and legs.

Greg?

(CELL PHONE CHIMES)

(CAR ENGINE STARTS)

We'll send your BlackBerry

upstairs when we're done.

Thank you.

(TIRES SQUEALING)

Wait!

(PANTING)

They raided the house.

Did you get it?

The FBI raided The East house.

Doc is probably

on his way to jail.

Not in vain if you wipe out

the agents on that list.

Did you get it?

No, I didn't.

(THUMPING REPEATEDLY)

They took my BlackBerry.

I know a lot of the people on that list.

We could go to them.

If some of them saw the

things that I've seen...

...they would turn.

They would turn.

Sarah, this was

supposed to be a jam.

We'd destroy Hiller Brood by posting

their agents' real identities online.

Those people work undercover.

You can't expose them.

You could get them killed.

You told me you

wanted to watch them.

I want them to feel the

consequences of their actions.

Then you should start with me.

I'm on that list, too.

You're burned there.

They'll be coming after us.

We have to get

across the border.

(TIRES SQUEALING)

I can't get on the truck.

We have to go. It's not

safe for you here.

I can't go.

Can't or won't?

I won't.

Jane.

Come with me.

We don't have that list.

But if we did...

...I think that you and I would want

to do different things with it.

(RETCHING)

Please give me

the strength to do well.

To not be arrogant.

But to not be weak.

Amen.

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Zal Batmanglij

Zal Batmanglij (born 1981) is an American film director and screenwriter. He directed and co-wrote the 2011 film Sound of My Voice and the 2013 film The East, both of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as the Netflix series The OA, which debuted in 2016. more…

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