The Manchurian Candidate Page #3

8/18/03 8.

FLASH FORWARD:
MAJOR MARCO

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Behind the podium, repeating himself:

MARCO:

-- of the enemy -EXT.

KUWAITI TWO-LANE - NIGHT 32

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The Hummer weaves through the wreckage, one of its tires

WHIRLING IN FLAMES -- Raymond has the machine gun SPITTING

BULLETS recklessly at the helicopters like a cartoon hero --

RESUME:
MARCO 33

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MARCO:

(rote)

Sgt. Shaw repeatedly attacked from a

mobile position, confounding the enemy --

EXT. KUWAITI TWO-LANE - NIGHT 34

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One of the helicopters EXPLODES, the other spins away,

trailing smoke and flames.

MARCO (V.O.)

-- neutralizing his aerial support --

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MARCO 35

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Behind the podium.

MARCO:

-- and finally dividing and defeating an

overwhelmingly superior force.

INT. HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM - CONTINUOUS 36

A Boy Scout luncheon banquet.

WASHINGTON D.C., NOW

A full chicken buffet table, banners, flags, and over one

hundred SCOUTS, LEADERS and DADS, all looking somewhat

attentively up at the guest speaker, U.S. Army Major Ben

Marco.

MARCO:

Like Edmonds in Korea, Holderman in Viet

Nam, Raymond Shaw was awarded the

Congressional Medal of Honor. I signed

the recommendation myself.

A hand shoots up. Marco nods toward it.

8/18/03 9.

ANOTHER SCOUT:

Were you wounded?

MARCO:

I was --

FB36 FLASH:
MARCO ON THE KUWAITI TWO-LANE FB36

Turning away from the overturned Humvee, and right into a

head-high rifle-butt swung by the hands and arms of a gas

mask-wearing figure.

RESUME - AUDITORIUM - MARCO

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