Eye In The Sky Movie Script

On the Beetle screen, ABADE, frustrated, re-enters the * bedroom. He moves RASHEED into a kneeling position on the * floor and pulls the suicide vest over his head. *

WOODALE:

(to James, with real empathy) James... My recommendation is that we do not delay in proceeding with this mission.

JAMES still hesitates.

COLONEL POWELL: Sir, if we do not act now we risk losing the lives of up to eighty people. Many will be children.

ANGELA:

With respect, you can only assume those deaths - but what is certain is that, if we do act now, this one girl will suffer.

JAMES:

And would you save her and risk killing eighty others?

ANGELA:

Yes. I would save her and take that risk. That is what I would do.

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JAMES:

Angela, is it you or me who will be invited on to the Today programme to explain why we knew of the attack on a mall that killed eighty people but chose to do nothing to stop it?

ANGELA:

(quietly, respectfully) You, James... But frankly... politically... I’d rather point to Al-Shabaab as murderers of eighty people shopping than have to defend a drone attack by our forces that kills an innocent child.

A beat. Everyone is wrestling with the dilemma. GEORGE shifts awkwardly, perhaps persuaded by Angela’s new argument.

GEORGE:

James, Angela makes a compelling point. If Al-Shabaab kill eighty people, we win the propaganda war.

If we kill one girl, they do.

JAMES:

So we don’t do it?

A beat. Unlike WOODALE and Angela, GEORGE, ever the lawyer, just won’t commit to a decision.

JACK:

She’s got another customer.

They all look at the screen and see that A WOMAN is buying two of the loaves. There are now five left.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON I suggest you keep your eye on the other screen.

The beetle sees that RASHEED’S vest is slowly and carefully * being wired with explosives by ABADE. * LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON (CONT’D) With respect, Foreign Secretary, are the lives of eighty people, including innocent children, really worth the price of winning the propaganda war?

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JAMES, caught in a terrible dilemma, stares at the screen, * watching as ABADE and AL-HADY wire RASHEED. The painstaking * process will take time, but it is chilling to watch. * 248 EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 248 ALIA sits by her bread stall, waiting. A mangy dog comes up to the stall and sniffs the bread.

ALIA talks to the dog - and the dog eventually wanders off.

249 INT. BEDROOM SUITE - SINGAPORE - NIGHT 249 JAMES is haunted by ALIA - and doesn’t know what to do.

JAMES:

General, if we go ahead... might footage of our attack be leaked?

250 INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - AFTERNOON 250 They stare at James on the screen.