Circle of Treason Page #6

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REDMOND (V.O.)

When he checked with the airline,

he found out they booked his ticket

a week before the cable was

supposed to have come in.

EXT. STREET - ATHENS - DAY

Crossing a narrow street of eucalyptus trees, Bokhan climbs

into a nondescript sedan beside a CIA case officer. The car

pulls away.

REDMOND (V.O.)

We got him out. He was lucky.

EXT. RURAL HIGHWAY - MOSCOW - DAY

Soviet traffic cops by a van pulled over on the grass verge

wave down a distinctive yellow Zhiguli - the same one seen on

the night of Stombaugh’s arrest.

13.

REDMOND (V.O.)

We think they rolled Vanquish up

some time in June.

A Russian engineer in his fifties - Tolkachev - climbs out to

see what the cops want, leaving his wife and son in the

car... who then watch in horror as he’s seized by KGB

officers, brutally restrained and lifted into the van.

EXT. WOODS - MOSCOW - NIGHT

A CIA operations officer in fatigues lifts a manhole cover

deep in the woods outside Moscow, descending a ladder inside.

REDMOND (V.O.)

Around then our wiretap on their

comms line between a nuclear R&D

station and the Soviet Ministry of

Defense went dark

INT. HOTEL ROOM - MOSCOW - MORNING

In bed with a beautiful Russian woman, SERGEI MOTORIN sits up

as the door is kicked off its hinges and KGB agents swarm in.

REDMOND (V.O.)

In the Fall, Moscow recalled Sergei

Motorin and Valery Martynov, two

KGB agents we shared with the

Bureau...

EXT. DULLES AIRPORT - DAY

Boarding an AEROFLOT JET with a re-defecting Soviet Colonel,

VALERY MARTYNOV glances back to the FBI AGENTS on the tarmac.

REDMOND (V.O.)

Martynov was told he was part of a

security detail. He had no idea

what he was headed home to.

INT. SHEREMETYEVO AIRPORT - DAY

As Martynov walks through the Moscow terminal he sees two KGB

officers approaching and obviously recognizes them. They

greet him warmly, steer him to a side room and shut the door.

Inside, the officers strike Martynov in the legs, pinning his

arms and forcing a rope between his teeth to prevent him from

biting down on any concealed cyanide pill.

14.

INT. LEFORTOVO PRISON - HALLWAY TO CELL - DAY

Soviet guards lead Poleshchuk (GT/WEIGH) down a dank hallway.

They reach the door to a cell, have him step inside - and the

moment he does, one of the guards draws a pistol and shoots

him in the back of the head.

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

Redmond looks at her with concern.

REDMOND:

I’m sorry.

(a beat)

The truth is, we’re hemorrhaging.

There’s a silence as Sandy tries to take it all in. Redmond

reads a question forming in her eyes, and answers her before

she can ask it.

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