The Manchurian Candidate Page #24

PUSH PAST her, TIGHTEN IN on the image of the lone gunman

and the image explodes into pixels accompanied by --

--the rising SOUND of the BLADES OF A HELICOPTER, under:

MEDIA ICON:

... President-elect Arthur has vowed to

bring to justice whatever nation -- or

nations -- are responsible. Still

reeling from the recent tragic loss of

Senator Thomas Jordan, Congress has

already announced a fresh investigation

into Jordan’s death, in an effort to

learn if it is in any way related to ...

251 EXT. OCEAN - DAY 251

WE ARE JETTING LOW and impossibly fast across whitecapped

azure water, toward crumbled ruins of a long-abandoned

village on an empty beach -- we remember it vividly from

Marco’s memory -- arriving to slowly SPIN and hover over the

remnants of an ancient caravansary:

252 EXT. DESERT ISLAND BEACHFRONT - ARABIAN SEA - DAY 252

HIGH ANGLE, DOWN on Marco, moving across the intricate, sunbleached

tile work we remember from Noyle’s lab.

8/18/03 120.

Dissipated trace of a scaffolding superstructure inside

crumbling ruins ...

MARCO:

You don’t develop a technology like that

and waste it on two guys.

He looks to Rosie, who stands in an archway. There are

SOLDIERS here, with weapons -- could be here to guard Marco.

Could be here to protect him.

ROSIE:

We know that.

Marco looks past her, to the water, which stretches out from

here, as if to forever.

MARCO:

I remember running.

His arm is in a simple sling. He moves like a man who’s

been shot, and not quite recovered -- moves past Rosie, out

of the broken-down ruins ...

MARCO:

I had to get out where the sky was.

... Rosie motions the soldiers to stay back, follows him by

herself ...

MARCO:

I had to get to the water.

PULL BACK as they walk down the beach to the sea. A few

tumble-down buildings are all that remains of an ancient

seaside town.

MARCO:

I thought:
if I can just get to the

water, everything will be okay.

Marco approaches the water’s edge, staring out at the

uncertain horizon.

Nothing but water as far as the eye can see.

PULL BACK. And back. And back ...

FADE OUT.

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