Eye In The Sky Movie Script

233 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 233 POWELL watches the Beetle feed: MUHAMMAD still making hisvideo but is suddenly interrupted by DANFORD saying somethingto ABADE and gesturing for him to come outside. ABADE, not happy, seems to tell AL-HADY to continue the recording.

On the Reaper screen, Alia is still trying to sell her bread, while in the yard of the compound behind her, ABADE appearsand begins an animated debate with ABDI.

* * * * * * * 234 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 234 STEVE and CARRIE watch as A WOMAN walks up to ALIA.

CARRIE:

Come on, just buy the bread.

They watch as the WOMAN puts one loaf into her bag. There arenow seven loaves on Alia’s table.

235 INT. PJHQ - LONDON - AFTERNOON 235 POWELL watches the Reaper feed as ALIA and the WOMAN talk.

The Woman walks away from ALIA.

On the Beetle feed, Muhammad finishes his suicide recordingand stands looking lost, waiting for ABADE to return.

* * * 236 INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - AFTERNOON 236 ALIA is on one screen. On the Beetle feed RASHEED and MUHAMMAD wait for ABADE... * *

GEORGE:

A sixty-five to seventy-five percent fatality assessment - itcould be argued - requires us todo whatever we can to enable her to be removed from the scene.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON We have done what we can for her in the time available to us.

GEORGE:

There is no law covering asituation quite like this.

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GEORGE (CONT'D) It is one thing to release a missile doing everything in one’s power to minimise collateral

damage:

In other words to release a missile whilst the street is clear, but in the hope that it will remain so... It is quite another thing to release a missile knowing that this girl will, at worst, be fatally injured and, at best, severely injured. So, I disagree with the assessment of your lawyer at Northwood.

ANGELA:

Agreed...

GEORGE:

I would be uneasy if we did not at least consider the option of delaying and giving her every chance to walk away.

237 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 237 STEVE stares at ALIA. She is haunting him.

238 INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - AFTERNOON 238 ALIA’S presence is haunting this room too, disturbing everyone, whatever their point of view.

WOODALE continues to sweat through his indecision.

COLONEL POWELL is on a screen.

COLONEL POWELL: Sir, if we wait and they leave, we will no longer have control of the situation. Nairobi is a busy, crowded city. We must strike now.

The room is silent for a moment. BENSON fills the silence.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON It is generally understood that it is sometimes necessary to sacrifice the one in order to save the many.

ANGELA:

If the one is not oneself.