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AGENT GRUDEN:

Careful. You're stepping in a

Matisse. The explosion had a

vertical trajectory. Melted every

painting on the walls.

As Gruden talks we see images of the damage:

—Burnt picture frames that once held Kandinskys.

—A Calder mobile hangs twisted and broken from the ceiling.

AGENT GRUDEN (O.S.) (cont'd)

We're talking hundreds of million

in damages. This stuff's

irreplaceable.

MARLOW:

Any theories on the target?

AGENT GRUDEN:

I've got a hunch.

36.

He hands Marlow a bag. Inside, the burned remains of a

Guggenheim Program. TIGHT ON the Program heading: "The

Presidential Collection: Great Works from the Shears Family."

AGENT GRUDEN (cont'd)

Odd way to send a message to the

President.

EXT. WEST SIDE APARTMENT COMPLEX - DAY

HIGH ANGLE POV:
A cab pulls up to a building. KIMBERLY HAN

(27, Asian American, brains to match her beauty, of which

there's a lot) hops out. She tips the driver, heads inside.

INT. KIM HAN'S NEW YORK APARTMENT - DAY

Kim enters her cramped apartment. She squeezes past Pottery

Barn boxes and stops dead. The television is on...

NEWS ANCHOR:

Along with Burchell, police are

looking for this man, Taylor Fog.

A CLOSE UP of Taylor pulled off the Hotel security camera.

NEWS ANCHOR (cont'd)

The son of Carlton Fog, one of the

richest men in America, and if you

remember, a convicted player in the

Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s.

The TV shot switches to a two-shot of the Anchor and a GUEST.

NEWS ANCHOR (cont'd)

Joining us now is our anti-terror

analyst Bob Reiser, formerly of the

CIA. Bob, do you think this might

be in some way an act of

retribution for what happened to

these two young men's fathers?

ANTI-TERROR ANALYST

Well, we'll probably never know.

When, and I emphasize when, these

two are caught, they will be sent

to the GITMO facility in Cuba and

placed in the military justice

system—

Kim turns off the TV. A CREAK comes behind her. She turns as

a figure steps from the shadows. It's Jay.

37,

KIM:

Jay. What the hell is going on?

Jay hugs her close. The first person he can trust today.

JAY:

Don't listen to them, Kim. They're

setting us up. We're not terrorists

okay? You know that, right?

KIM:

Who's "they?" What are you talking

about?

Jay takes a breath. Does his best to explain.

JAY KIM:

Look, Will had a stupid idea

this morning. We were going

to start our trip by

rollerblading the Guggenheim.

Rollerblading?—

I know. Believe me, I knew it

was a dumb idea. It was just

supposed to be a prank. But

two minutes after we got out,

the place blew up.

KIM (cont'd)

Where are they now?

JAY:

Taylor's on his way out of New

York.

KIM:

Don't tell me you're going with

him.

JAY:

I'm not. Don't worry.

KIM:

And what does Will say about this?

JAY:

That's the thing. Will's vanished.

Look, I need a good picture of Will

to take to the police. You don't

have to believe me, just please

tell me you have your photo albums.

38.

INT. KIM HAN'S NEW YORK APARTMENT - MOMENTS LATER

Jay sits on the couch. Kim returns from her bedroom with a

large leather-bound album.

KIM:

You're lucky I knew where to look.

She hands the album to Jay.

JAY:

Did you get the pics printed from

grad week?

KIM:

They're in the back.

Jay leafs through and pulls out three pictures. He lays them

on the coffee table. Photos of Jay, Taylor, and Will in front

of the New Haven house the night of a send-off party.

FIRST PICTURE:
Will has his hand up, reaching for the camera,

obscuring his face.

IN THE SECOND:
he's turned his head just before the picture

so you can't see his face.

THE THIRD:
his back is turned. He's already walking away.

JAY:

We can't see his face. What about

my birthday at the Anchor?

KIM:

That's in the front.

Jay flips to the front. TIGHT ON: photos of grad students at

the famous New Haven dive. Again, there are pictures of Jay

and Taylor, but Will is either turning away from the camera

or ducking out of frame. You never see his face.

JAY:

Come on. There's gotta be one...

Jay flips through more of the pictures. We GO TIGHT ON random

shots. WILL'S HAND IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA. WILL HOLDING A

BOOK UP TO OBSCURE HIS FACE. WILL IN THE BACK OF A GROUP

PICTURE. HALF OF HIS FACE HIDING BEHIND JAY. Suddenly...

WHAM! In a flash. Jay throws the album off the coffee table.

For the first time, we see the latent anger Jay Burchell

holds inside. Kim is used to dealing with it.

39.

KIM:

It's okay, Jay—

JAY:

No... No, it's definitely not okay.

How do you live with someone for

two years and not have a single

picture of them?

Jay looks at the scattered pictures around him. A painful

realization washes over him. Will was indeed a part of this.

INT. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM - TOP FLOOR - DAY

Gruden, Marlow, and Borjes reach the museum's top floor. A

six foot hole has been blown into the concrete ramp.

AGENT GRUDEN:

Here's Ground Zero. Place is

totally contaminated by the paint.

But my team's found traces of

aluminum, napthalene, and

palmitate.

BORJES:

And that means?

MARLOW:

Napalm.

AGENT GRUDEN:

Very good. Highly compressed to get

this kind of dispersion.

Marlow kneels down and examines the crater.

MARLOW:

You think a law school grad could

build this?

AGENT GRUDEN:

He'd have to take some serious

chemical engineering classes.

MARLOW:

(to Borjes)

I want a copy of Burchell and Fog's

transcripts.

BORJES:

Sure thing.

He writes down the note, looks around at the blackened walls.

40.

BORJES (cont'd)

Just be glad everyone got out

before this thing went off.

AGENT GRUDEN:

Well, see, that's the thing. Not

everyone got out.

Gruden walks them to the elevator. Crouched in the corner,

the body of a man burned beyond all recognition. But we

recognize the charred Adidas track suit. IT'S WILL TRAVELER.

Borjes turns away. Marlow has seen worse. She uses a pen to

peel a piece of track suit off of broiled flesh.

MARLOW:

That look blue to you?

BORJES:

Urn, maybe.

MARLOW:

Burchell mentioned a friend in a

blue track suit,

(to Gruden)

Any chance this guy set off the

bomb?

AGENT GRUDEN:

Not likely.

MARLOW:

Why not?

Gruden pulls another plastic bag from his evidence kit.

Inside, a broken and charred piece of a cell phone.

AGENT GRUDEN:

Because we found a cell phone

detonator attached to the bomb.

Whoever did this, did it remotely.

EXT. UPPER EAST SIDE STREETS - DAY

Taylor keeps his head low as he passes COPS directing snarled

traffic on Park Ave. He spots the Bank of America on the

corner of 3rd and 59th. He heads into an alley just behind

the large glass building.

He peers through a window. Despite the exodus happening

outside, the bank is still open. There's no sign of a TV. He

pulls his hair into a ponytail and grabs a sport coat from

his backpack .

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