The Manchurian Candidate Page #3
8/18/03 8.
FLASH FORWARD:
MAJOR MARCO32
Behind the podium, repeating himself:
MARCO:
-- of the enemy -EXT.
KUWAITI TWO-LANE - NIGHT 32
33
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 3334
MARCO:
(rote)
Sgt. Shaw repeatedly attacked from a
mobile position, confounding the enemy --
EXT. KUWAITI TWO-LANE - NIGHT 34
35
One of the helicopters EXPLODES, the other spins away,
trailing smoke and flames.
MARCO (V.O.)
-- neutralizing his aerial support --
RESUME:
MARCO 3536
Behind the podium.
MARCO:
-- and finally dividing and defeating an
overwhelmingly superior force.
INT. HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM - CONTINUOUS 36
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 FB36Turning 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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