Wag the Dog Page #3

AMES:

It won't hold.

BREAN:

All I need is the one day.

AMES:

It won't even hold the one day, Ronnie --

BREAN:

Yes -- It will... Now: why is the President in China?

LEVY:

Trade Re1ations.

BREAN:

You're goddamn right. And it's got nothing to do with

the B-2 Bomber.

(PAUSE)

LEVY:

There is no B-2 Bomber,

BREAN:

That's what I'm telling you.

(PAUSE. HE GLANCES AT HIS WATCH.)

The two things:
the two things: Rare strain of flu,

No Cause to Be Alarmed. And the B-2 Bomber...

(TO AIDES)

Clear me a space. Get me a copy, go rob one, get it

off the computer, Wash Post, N.Y. TIMES,

AIDE:

You want some research, flu? Side-effects of medi....

BREAN:

Naw, we can't play this one catch-up. That's how long

since you stopped beating the wife. We have to...

AMES:

We're going to have to explain away the...

BREAN:

They caught him in the closet with a Girlscout. Side-

effects of a pill ain't gone trump that. You have to

keep'em guessing for

(HE GLANCES AT THE CALENDAR)

Two weeks. You don't have to Cure Cancer, Pal, you

just have to give them something more interesting

than...

CAIN:

What's more interesting than boffing the girlscout?

BREAN:

Well, that's what we're doing here...

BREAN IS SUNK IN THOUGHT. AN AIDE STARTS TO SPEAK. AMES SILENCES HIM, BREAN

BECKONS AMES OVER.

BREAN:

(SOTTO)

Gemme twenty thousand dollars....

AMES NODS, AND WAVES AN AIDE OVER AND WHISPERS TO HER.

BREAN:

(CONT.)

And gemme a car.

AMES:

Car and a driver, Mr. Brean, the Westgate, Now,

please...

BREAN:

Okay, look, who's takin' the press conference today?

CAIN:

Is there a press conference today?

BREAN:

What do you think? What I need from you: I need a

base of operations. Some place in the District. I

need some clean money ...

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