Deep Impact Page #2

Is she around?

My mom's sick.

She's not here.

Gosh, I love boats.

Are you going on a trip?

Yeah.

That's exciting. Looks like a long trip, huh?

So, listen, do you know where you're going?

She's going back to the house.

Hey, you want to stop that?

Lily, please.

Lily, that's a pretty name.

Lily.

Do as I say. Go on.

If we could just get a minute of your time.

What do you want from me?

We'd like to talk about your resignation.

My wife is sick.

She's in the hospital.

That's why I resigned.

Everybody knows this.

We could talk about your wife,

or we could just talk about Ellie.

Turn the camera off.

If you want to talk to me, turn it off.

We know everything.

Nobody knows everything.

Well, we know about

the secret phone lines

and the whispered calls to the president

and about a secretary of the Treasury

who's kept his entire

department in the dark

about what he's really doing--

about a cover story about his resignation

that just fell through.

I mean, sir, You want me to go on?

And you're just gonna break it?

Well, that's what we do for a living.

Well, congratulations.

You now have

the biggest story in history.

Good luck to you.

Personally...

I think it's a mistake to run the story,

but hey, what the hell?

Why not?

What difference does anything make any more?

Look.

I know you're just a reporter,

but you used to be a person, right?

I wanted to be with my family.

Can you understand that?

OK, Secretary of the Treasury

Alan Rittenhouse

resigns because of a mistress named "Ellie".

"The biggest story in history"?

What an ego.

Now, if it was the president--

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

The president has a mistress named Ellie,

and Rittenhouse pretends

that he's having the affair

and takes the fall and resigns,

and the president buys him a yacht?

Son of a b*tch.

Oh, sh*t.

Oh, sh*t.

Right! OK, OK!

Oh, God. Oh, God.

FBI. If you would, please, ma'am.

What do I do with my car?

We'll take care of your car.

Just step back to my car.

- Get her car here.

- Got it

Let's go.

Would you come this way please?

Morton Entrekin, Ms Lerner.

I'm expected back at MSNBC at 6:00.

I think I should be there.

People knew about the Manhattan

Project, you know,

and they kept it a secret.

That was just the creation

of the atom bomb.

Hmm.

Ms Lerner, Tom Beck.

I understand you've come

into some information.

Ms Lerner was just expressing

her lack of enthusiasm

for matters of national security where

journalistic competitiveness is at stake.

Mr President, I'm not interested

in using Ellie to further my career.

What do you know about E.L.E.?

I know you should have picked a

better cover story than a sick wife.

See?

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