Eye In The Sky Movie Script

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COLONEL POWELL: Secretary, this is an ethical argument we cannot get into at this moment.

ANGELA:

Colonel, perhaps you should address that comment to the little girl selling her bread! The ethical argument is precisely what we must “get into.”

BENSON:

Ma’am, I hope the fact that she is a sweet “little girl” is not clouding your judgement. Dozens of other “little girls” lives are at stake if these men leave.

Before Angela can respond, JACK’S laptop bleeps.

JACK:

(to the room) I’m sorry, a Ms. Jillian Goldman from the White House is asking to be patched through.

BENSON:

Who?!

JACK:

Jillian Goldman...

GEORGE:

She’s the senior legal adviser on the US National Security Council.

JACK:

She’s been briefed by the Secretary of State.

WOODALE:

(without enthusiasm) Put her on.

GOLDMAN’s face comes up on the VTC screen. Her image is on the screen next to the image of ALIA and her bread stall.

GOLDMAN:

Good afternoon and thank you for allowing me to comment.

WOODALE:

Thank you for joining us.

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GOLDMAN:

Our point of view here at the White House is that we should attack this target immediately.

As the military members of your committee know, we have a points system that takes into account collateral damage to deduce what is, and what is not, a legal strike. And let me tell you, categorically, that the existence of this new circumstance does not push us beyond a legitimate military action. We are way off what we would consider a dispute in this matter.

GEORGE:

Ms. Goldman, we have a somewhat different approach to the question of collateral damage...

GOLDMAN:

(interrupting) Sir, you must act NOW. You have two men about to embark on a suicide mission; you have number two, four and five on the President’s East Africa kill list in your sights - and you are putting the whole operation at risk because of one collateral damage issue?! I realize this mission is your call, but there will be some mighty angry people here in the White House, and at the Pentagon, and out there in the world, if you allow these people to leave and blow a shopping mall to kingdom come.

JACK:

I’m sorry, we have the Foreign Secretary wanting to join.

WOODALE:

Right... We appreciate your thoughts, Ms. Goldman. Thank you.

GOLDMAN:

Thank you.

GOLDMAN is cut from the screen.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 103.

239 EXT. STREET - EASTLEIGH - AFTERNOON 239 ALIA stands beside her bread stall waiting. * 240 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 240 STEVE and CARRIE anxiously watch ALIA on the live feed.