Eye In The Sky Page #2

Synopsis: A lieutenant general (Alan Rickman) and a colonel (Helen Mirren) face political opposition after ordering a drone missile strike to take out a group of suicide bombers in Nairobi, Kenya.
Year:
2016
2 min
1,809 Views


One photograph in particular stands out from the rest:

A WHITE WOMAN wearing a deep blue head scarf (a hijab) which

covers her hair. The name SUSAN HELEN DANFORD appears beneath

the picture, as well as the name “AYESHA AL-HADY.”

Another picture shows Danford without her hijab. She’s an

attractive woman in her early thirties.

In yet another she is with a man named ABDULLAH AL-HADY - who

we will learn is her husband.

Still other pictures of her show her in various foreign

locations. A few copies of different PASSPORTS show her image

with different names: ALLISON WEST, REBECCA SUTTON.

Below the images of Danford and Al-Hady are dozens of other

YOUNG FACES - some Western dressed, some local Somali

fighters with weapons.

Some have been inked out in red.

POWELL stares at the image of Danford for a moment.

Then her computer BLEEPS and she turns to check her in-box.

An email message comes up with A PICTURE OF A YOUNG ARMY

CORPORAL in a wheelchair wearing PROSTHETIC LEGS. We read:

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 5.

Dear Colonel Powell

The new legs are good. I can walk to the shops, but I don’t

see the point in doing that, or in doing anything.

Captain Kirby has suggested...

She scrolls to the end:

... to be honest, I wish I had died.

Corporal Shane Allen.

Powell sits staring blankly at the picture of the crippled

soldier. She is, for a moment, lost. Then she begins to type

a reply.

Dear Corporal Allen

Do not lose hope. Once you recover, I promise to assist in

reassigning you...

As she types, an INCOMING EMAIL ALERT pops up on her screen.

Subject:
“More news on Ben.”

Powell stops writing her reply to the first email.

She hesitates, then opens the new one.

We READ:

This was posted an hour ago.

http:
//www.al-news.org/watch_now/

Still can’t believe we lost him.

Good luck this morning.

Talk later.

Frank

POWELL steels herself. Then reluctantly clicks on the link in

the email.

A NEWS VIDEO CLIP opens.

It shows HAND HELD FOOTAGE of A YOUNG, DEAD, AFRICAN MAN in

plain clothes lying in filth in an alley. He has been shot in

the back of the head. Blood pools around his shoulders.

YELLOW SHOOTING SCRIPT 12 September 2014 6.

The VOICE of a REPORTER plays over the footage, which cuts to

various images of Al-Shabaab Militants chanting with weapons

raised, and graphics of the geographical area described.

REPORTER’S VOICE

Somali Al-Shabaab militants have

posted this picture of an unnamed

man they say they have executed in

Nairobi. The group claims he was

working for British military

intelligence attempting to

infiltrate their international

recruitment networks. Al-Shabaab

want to impose their strict version

of Sharia law across the horn of

Africa. They bitterly resent the

role of Britain and the Kenyan

military in propping up the UN

backed Somali government in

Mogadishu. The Ministry of Defense

has declined to comment, but

denounced the execution as

“sickening.”

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Guy Hibbert

Guy Hibbert is an award-winning British screenwriter. He has won 4 Bafta awards. He wrote the 2009 film Five Minutes of Heaven. This film was premiered at the 25th Sundance Film Festival, where Hibbert won the World Cinema Screenwriting Award. more…

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