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expensive.

Torvalds is wary of time. After several moments his bags

are being repacked when another passport is found.

The customs official holds up two passports. ANOTHER

CUSTOMS OFFICIAL takes them and walks over to Torvalds.

ANOTHER CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

Mr. Torvalds. Could you step

over here, please.

Torvalds glances at his watch. 1:45 PM.

TORVALDS:

How long am I going to be delayed?

ANOTHER CUSTOMS OFFICIAL

It'll be just a moment.

Torvalds stands to the side, while two customs officials

compare his passports. They step over to a computer

terminal and punch in some data. It's 1:50 PM.

Torvalds notices a customs department employee wheeling a

cart of confiscated items out of a nearby service

elevator. He pushes the cart out of the oversized

elevator.

Torvalds shoots a glance back to the two officials

discussing his situation.

Torvalds casually picks up his computer case and coolly

walks over to the elevator.

(CONTINUED)

11.

23 CONTINUED:
(2)

Torvalds walks in just as the doors close.

The customs officials conferring look around. Torvalds

is gone. One of them looks up and sees the numberschanging above the elevator.

The customs officials race up to the escalator to the -23

24 INT. MEZZANINE LEVEL 24

Torvalds exits the elevator -- and coolly makes his wayto the pedestrian walkway. He's halfway across it, when-- multiple security teams appear and converge on himfrom both ends.

He's finally wrestled to the ground.

DARK SUIT #2

(flipping a badgein Torvalds' face)

Axl Torvalds. You are under

arrest.

CUT TO:

25 INT. BOARDROOM (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - DAY

SENATOR JAMES REISMAN -- R. (Georgia) strides confidentlyinto a small, windowless boardroom.

25

SENATOR REISMAN:

This better be important, youpulled me out of session.

DARWIN KAPLAN, the President's aide and one of the four

men in the room, definitely the most intense, smilesthinly.

KAPLAN:

Senator, I wouldn't have asked youto come here if it wasn't.

The Senator starts to sit down.

Senator.

Kaplan turns toward the

KAPLAN:

Senator, we just received acommunication that Axl Torvalds

was intercepted entering thecontinental U.S.

(CONTINUED)

CONTINUED:

SENATOR REISMAN:

When?

KAPLAN:

Within the last two hours.

According to our source inside the

F.B.I., he was nabbed coming

through customs at L.A.X.

Alone...

SENATOR REISMAN:

Do they know who they are dealing

with?

KAPLAN:

It is unlikely, sir. It was a

routine check and Torvalds freaked

out. They just got lucky.

SENATOR REISMAN:

This ain't good, boys. The Vortex

has used Torvalds before. What do

the feds know?

KAPLAN:

Nothing as of yet. He's refusing

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