Circle of Treason Page #4

Synopsis: A pair of CIA agents help bring down one of the agency's biggest moles, Aldrich Ames, in the 1990s.
Year:
2017
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INT. CIA - COMMUNICATIONS ROOM - EVENING

Tech guys and analysts are grabbing their coats, chatting,

leaving for the day, others arriving to take over the shift.

Sandy’s guy is packing a briefcase. Sandy approaches him.

CIA TECH:

(not looking up)

Don’t you have a home to go to?

EXT. IZMAYLOVKSY PARK - FOOTPATH - NIGHT

Poleshchuk walks along the footpath. The night amplifies

every sound - the crunch of gravel, his breath in his ears,

the hum of power cables overhead.

As he approaches a footbridge, he scans the surrounding

darkness for possible surveillance: a jogger running in the

opposite direction... a drunk sleeping on a bench... lovers

sharing a blanket under a tree.

He walks beneath the bridge... and is swallowed in darkness.

EXT. IZMAYLOVSKY PARK - FOOTPATH / BRIDGE - NIGHT

Poleshchuk slows as he comes to the deepest part of the

bridge, the only light from the sodium lamps either end of

the tunnel.

Kneeling just long enough to locate by feel a particular

brick, he fumbles with it and gets it open. It’s an artfully

constructed fake. Inside, he finds a plastic-wrapped deck of

Russian currency.

Poleshchuk pockets the cash, replaces the brick, and then

continues on, out of the tunnel, toward the light at the end.

It has taken seconds.

INT. CIA - COMMUNICATIONS ROOM - NIGHT

It’s late. A few analysts around. Sandy sits, sipping

coffee, near to the telex machines, waiting for word from

Moscow.

INT. CAR - NIGHT

Poleshchuk gets in, takes a moment to look at the money in

his lap. Then, stowing it under his seat, he tries to start

the car. Nothing.

10.

POLESHCHUK:

(Russian)

Come on...

He tries again. Still nothing.

POLESHCHUK (CONT’D)

(Russian)

Goddamnit...!

He freezes... as, through the windshield, he sees shadows

moving in the treeline at the edge of the parking area.

Poleshchuk tries the engine a third time. Then, with a bad

feeling now, he reaches suddenly for the money under the seat

and climbs out of the car.

EXT. IZMAYLOVSKY PARK - NIGHT

As Poleshchuk moves away from the car, trying to keep calm,

trying not to run, he hears a squealing of brakes to his

right - a VAN pulling up in a spray of gravel.

Poleshchuk keeps walking, still fighting the impulse to run,

as behind him, the van door bangs open and a KGB SECURITY

TEAM explode from inside, weapons drawn.

More shouting in Russian from in front of him, a second

SECURITY TEAM, these with dogs snarling on leashes, cutting

off his egress...

INT. CIA - COMMUNICATIONS ROOM - NIGHT

Later. Sandy is alone in the communications room. The telex

machines silent. It’s too soon to know anything, but still -

she is concerned.

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Joe Shrapnel & Anna Waterhouse

Joe Shrapnel was born in 1976 as Joe Sebastian Shrapnel. He is known for his work on Race (2016), Frankie & Alice (2010) and The Tonto Woman (2008). Anna Waterhouse works primarily as a script consultant. more…

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