Truth Page #3
MARY:
General? This is Dan Rather.
Dan sits opposite him, pulling the NOTEPAD from his pocket...
DAN:
General, thank you for doing this.
Let's start from the beginning...
...And now we see it's FULL OF QUESTIONS for the interview.
INT. BROADCAST BOOTH -- EVENING
A SERIES OF QUICK SHOTS - Anonymous hands turning knobs,
balancing color bars. Slotting video tapes into machines.
We see a MACRO of tapeheads sliding the magnetic tape into
place, spooling it through the machine...
9.
INT. 60 MINUTES OFFICES -- BULLPEN -- NIGHT
The clock on the wall reads 8:00. We hear the familiar 60
MINUTES STOPWATCH. Colonel Charles, Dana, and others sit
watching
ON TV - THE 60 MINUTES BROADCAST
The image of an IRAQI MAN standing on a box WEARING A HOOD.
Electrodes run to his body. OVER THIS:
DAN (V.O.)
Americans did this to an Iraqi
prisoner. According to the US Army,
the man was told to stand on a box
with his head covered with wires
attached to his hands. He was told
that if he fell off the box, he would
be electrocuted.
CUT TO Dan, addressing the camera:
DAN (V.O.) (CONT'D)
It was this picture and dozens of
others that prompted an investigation
by the U.S. Army. Yesterday, we
asked General Mark Kimmitt, deputy
director of Coalition Operations in
Iraq, what went wrong.
INT. 60 MINUTES -- MARY'S OFFICE-- NIGHT
And finally to Mary, watching her story come out...
GENERAL KIMMITT:
Frankly, I think all of us are
disappointed at the actions of the
few. You know, every day we love
our soldiers, but frankly, some days
soldiers.
DAN (V.O.)
Abu Ghraib under Saddam Hussein was
infamous. For decades, many who
were taken here never came out...
INT. PIERRE HOTEL BAR -- NIGHT
Ice cubes crackle. A piano plays softly. TV over the bar:
10.
NEWCASTER (O.S.)
...CBS's bombshell allegations this
evening that prisoner abuse occurred
at the Abu Ghraib facility...
A few feet away, Mary, Colonel Charles, Dana and Dan sit a
table celebrating. Happily drunk.
DANA ROBERSON:
I remember when you used to say
"Courage" at the end of every
broadcast. You remember that?
(off Dan's nod)
Why'd you stop?
MARY:
They made fun of him.
DANA ROBERSON:
No!
DAN:
(mock wounded)
They did. Me. Can you believe it?
COLONEL CHARLES:
Apparently they thought times back
then weren't grave enough to warrant
such a sign off.
MARY:
Give us a "Courage", Dan.
DAN:
I don't think-
MARY:
Come on, just one. For me?
A beat. Dan leans forward. In his best newscaster baritone:
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