Eye In The Sky Movie Script

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 111.

She stares hopelessly at the dead screen. And then at the Reaper image of the exterior of the house: Nothing is happening outside.

Her phone rings.

262 INT. BRIEFING ROOM A -WHITEHALL -AFTERNOON 262 Irritation is replacing tension in the room.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON What happened?!

COLONEL POWELL: Battery... LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON For God’s sake, now we have no idea when they might leave the house.

POWELL talks discreetly, away from the room.

COLONEL POWELL: I might have a solution. If my targeteer can calculate us coming in under fifty per cent for the collateral damage on the girl then do you think we will get approval at your end?

A beat. BENSON can only speak with others listening.

LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BENSON Yes. I do. Thank you.

263 INT. PJHQ -LONDON - AFTERNOON 263 POWELL puts down the phone. She looks at ALIA on the screen.

She feels a sickening personal relationship with her now - because she is in a position to manipulate her fate.

A beat, then she walks over to MUSHTAQ who is at his station.

She bends down to have a quiet word with him.

COLONEL POWELL: We are looking to present the collateral damage in the street, in this area here, as forty-five to fifty per cent fatality.

MUSHTAQ tenses up.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 112.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D) Is that possible?

MUSHTAQ:

I’ve calculated a sixty-five to seventy-five... COLONEL POWELL: If we can put the payload here or here, if we can still guarantee target fatality but reduce the collateral... A tense pause.

COLONEL POWELL (CONT’D) Perhaps we can target the missile here... or here...

MUSHTAQ:

Yes, Ma’am.

COLONEL POWELL: Do whatever you can to save this girl’s life.

MUSHTAQ:

... Yes, Ma’am.

264 INT. GROUND CONTROL STATION - NIGHT 264 STEVE and CARRIE anxiously watch the image from the Reaper.

265 INT. BRIEFING ROOM A - WHITEHALL - AFTERNOON 265 The meeting continues.