Three Kings Page #11

He pushes the man face down, cuffs his hands. Olivia Newton-

John's "I Wanna Get Physical" PLAYS.

TROY:

This is bad music, understand?

It's bad for you.

DOC (O.S.)

Hey --

WHIP PAN TO the resistant Iraqi struggles to break away and

Doc punches him in the head twice, the Iraqi starts crying.

ARCHIE GATES:

(to Iraqi Captain)

Where's the gold, Captain? Tell us

so we don't have to kill you.

TROY:

There's another room over here.

PAN TO Troy pointing to a narrow door in a corner of the

room. Archie kicks it open.

INT. INNER ROOM - DAY

A bound, naked SHIITE MAN IN GLASSES, clean shaven, sits on

the floor in a five foot square shallow metal box, four

inches deep, filled with water. There is an electric cable

going into the water. The naked Shiite in glasses shakes.

Troy watches Archie walk over and yank the cable out.

IRAQI SARGEANT:

I am just do my job, buddy.

Archie pauses, then gives the Sargeant a backhand that sends

him flying to the corner. Archie steps on the man's wrist,

takes the pistol out of his hand. Troy watches.

Archie turns and sees TEN SHIITES across the room: 3 MEN, 3

WOMEN, 4 CHILDREN. The men and women are bound and GAGGED.

Archie steps toward the Shiites, but the INTERROGATOR, 35,

also a captain, steps in his way.

INTERROGATOR:

These Shiite. Iraq problem. United

States is out now.

Archie stares at the INTERROGATOR with contempt.

INTERROGATOR:

We take them outside, so it don't

bother you, OK, sir? Kata fanam.

The disarmed Iraqi Sargeant NODS and opens a small rear door

and pushes the Shiites out. Archie walks back to the main

room and points his pistol in the Captain's face.

ARCHIE GATES:

Take us to the basement.

EXT. FRONT OF BUNKER TWO - DAY

Vig keeps the TWO CUFFED IRAQI GUARDS on the ground at gun

point as 15 SHIITES with crude clubs and sling shots encircle.

One of the Shiites shoots a rock from the slingshot and nails

a handcuffed Iraqi in the back of the head.

VIG:

Don't start this sh*t again.

The Shiites back away as Vig motions with his big pistol.

VIG:

I know ya'll Shiite gettin' yer

asses whipped -- Hey, what the

hell is going on here?

PAN TO the ten Shiites, and the naked Man with Glasses, who

is getting dressed, exiting the side of the bunker, ushered

by the unarmed Iraqi Sargeant.

VIG:

Git on the f***ing ground, Arab.

IRAQI SARGEANT:

Prisoner stay. Gabar matan.

VIG:

What the f*** are you talking

about?

Suddenly a SHIITE WOMAN runs up to the tortured Shiite Man

with Glasses and embraces him, sobbing. A LITTLE GIRL with

dirty casts on both broken arms runs up and hugs his legs.

The bound Shiite prisoners start to walk away from the

bunker, and the unarmed Sargeant has a fit.

IRAQI SARGEANT:

Kinam vanir! Vanir!

He chases the prisoners, pushes them back. The free Shiites

shoot rocks and club him.

VIG:

Goddamn it everybody calm down.

INT. BUNKER NUMBER TWO - DAY

Archie runs down several narrow sets of cement stairs,

followed by the Interrogator, the other Iraqi Captain, Troy,

and Doc. (SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH)

IRAQI CAPTAIN:

It's my ass, donkey dick, Saddam

will shoot me dead.

INTERROGATOR:

Saddam worries more about the

Shiite than the gold.

EXT. BUNKER - DAY

The Shiite crowd curses and spits on the Iraqi soldiers. The

Sargeant is beaten.

Suddenly an Iraqi armored truck with a mounted machine gun

races up and SEVEN IRAQI SOLDIERS pour out swinging clubs,

followed by an IRAQI MAJOR, about 45. The Iraqi soldiers

savagely beat the Shiites.

Vig looks horrified as he watches.

TWO SOLDIERS grab the Woman from the Man With Glasses, and

drag her into a circle with three other soldiers; the ten

year-old girl with dirty casts on both arms, screams and

punches at them.

The Man With Glasses is held down at knife point.

VIG:

(into the megaphone)

This is the United States Military.

The Iraqi Major glances over at Vig, but the soldiers do not

stop brutalizing the Shiites -- they round up eight more

Shiites and make them lay face down.

INT. BASEMENT

Troy and Doc disarm TWO GUARDS outside a door in the basement.

Archie goes through the door, followed by the Iraqi

Interrogator and Captain.

INT. ROOM OF BUNKER 2 - DAY

Bright white cement, many overhead lights and a high ceiling.

empty but for 15 brand new, jumbo-sized Louis Vuitton

suitcases standing neatly in a row in the center of the room.

Archie stands looking at the suitcases with Troy and Doc.

Several of the big Vuitton suitcases are laid on their sides

by Archie, Troy and Doc.

The Iraqi Captain paces frantically punching and kicking the

walls and talking (SUBTITLED in ENGLISH).

IRAQI CAPTAIN:

It's Saddam's gold.

INTERROGATOR:

Shut up, he signed the treaty.

The suitcases are quickly unzipped. One suitcase is full of

gleaming antique silverware. One suitcase is full of jewelry.

Archie opens one full of hundreds of gold Cartier watches.

Troy and Doc slip a handful of jewelry into their pockets.

The Iraqi Captain goes nuts, throwing himself on Doc's back,

choking Doc, who flails about. Troy punches the Iraqi in the

head and rips him off Doc.

Archie puts his pistol in the man's face.

ARCHIE GATES:

Listen to me:
we leave you alone

to kill your Shiites, but

everything you took from Kuwait,

that belongs to us now, understand?

He turns to Doc.

ARCHIE GATES:

Put it back.

DOC:

Why?

ARCHIE GATES:

Stick to the plan. The plan is for

gold.

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