Circle of Treason Page #5

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INT. DULLES AIRPORT - DAY

The din of voices. A blur of color and motion as passengers

off the 1600 flight from Libreville, Gabon make their way

through the arrivals hall.

Passing unnoticed, a gray-haired woman with a single carry-on

bag approaches immigration. In her early fifties,

deliberately nondescript in a roll-neck sweater and thick-

lensed glasses, she might be a librarian or visiting

grandmother.

11.

But this is JEANNE VERTEFEUILLE (Ver-Teh-Fay).

Glancing at the heavily-stamped passport that identifies her

only as a State Department employee, an immigration officer

waves her through.

EXT. BALL PARK - RESTON - DAY

A Little League game underway. At the plate, a nine-year-old

batter squares up to a fastball... cracks it hard out past a

nine-year-old baseman.

The batter - Tracy Grimes - runs to steal third, turning to

scan the faces in the crowd until she sees Gary and Sandy

waving and cheering at the fence with all the other parents.

Sandy’s PAGER goes off. She checks it... looks up at Gary.

GARY:

You’re kidding... on a Sunday?

INT. JEANNE’S APARTMENT - DAY

Jeanne pushes open her apartment door against the pile of

mail that’s accumulated in the months she’s been away. She

eyes the mail as she sets down her case in the hall.

LATER:

The STACK OF MAIL, ordered in neat piles on the table in her

small kitchen. In the b.g. Jeanne is seen leaving the

apartment, having showered and changed.

EXT. DOLLEY MADISON BLVD. - DAY

Sandy’s car is among the traffic blowing past the grassy

verge... where a gray-haired woman in tennis shoes is walking

towards Langley.

INT. CIA - 5TH FLOOR - REDMOND’S OFFICE - DAY

An operational file, on the asset POLESHCHUK (GT/WEIGH), open

to the ID shot of him. It’s sitting on Redmond’s desk, Sandy

facing him from a sofa in his office.

REDMOND:

They arrested Weigh. A security

team picked him up the night of the

drop. We got a tip from a reliable

source.

12.

Sandy’s working hard not to betray her emotion - the loss,

the fear she made the mistake that cost a man his life.

SANDY:

How’d they make him?

REDMOND:

(unconvinced)

Casuals under the bridge, good

citizens doing their Soviet duty.

Or the KGB tailed our case officer

leaving the money. Truth is, we

don’t know.

(a beat)

Truth is... it’s not just Weigh.

(off Sandy’s look)

Back in May last year one of our

assets in Soviet Military

Intelligence got a cable from his

Rezident in Athens saying his son

had a problem, he had to fly home.

INT. SOVIET EMBASSY - ATHENS - DAY

Working at his desk surrounded by Soviet apparatchiks, a

Russian in his mid-40s - Bokhan - glances to where his GRU

(Soviet Military Intelligence) superiors are regarding him

from an office -

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