
Truth
INT. DICK HIBEY'S OFFICE -- DAY
Richly appointed. A scotch and cigar feel. Attorney DICK
HIBEY (50's, bearded) rises as Mary enters.
HIBEY:
Ms. Mapes. I'm Dick Hibey. What
can I do for you?
MARY:
Oh, I think you know.
Hibey smiles, gestures for her to sit. Noticing:
HIBEY:
You knit?
MARY:
You don't expect a woman like me to
knit.
HIBEY:
No. But it's good. Helpful.
2.
MARY:
You mean it blunts my radical feminist
agenda?
HIBEY:
Do you have a radical feminist agenda?
MARY:
You meet a lot of radical knitters?
Hibey smiles politely at the joke. Then:
HIBEY:
Do you have a substance abuse problem?
MARY:
I'm working on developing one.
HIBEY:
I'm serious.
MARY:
So am I.
Hibey's not smiling anymore.
HIBEY:
You came to me, Ms. Mapes. If you're
not up for this-
MARY:
I've been in news for twenty years.
I've won two Emmys, I broke Abu
Ghraib, I've done jail time for not
revealing sources. I have neither a
substance abuse problem, although
right now I'm gonna take a xanax
because this is really freaking me
out - do you have any water?
A beat. Hibey rises and pours Mary a glass of water from a
pitcher on the side table. Handing it to her.
HIBEY:
You're going to have to be ready for
questions like that.
MARY:
I'm up for this.
3.
Hibey retakes his seat. Sizing her up.
HIBEY:
There's an interesting reoccurring
theme in the stories you cover.
MARY:
I don't like bullies.
HIBEY:
Tell me about your work.
She looks at him.
MARY:
You want to know if I'm responsible
for what happened.
HIBEY:
Aren't you?
MARY:
I did my job, believe me.
HIBEY:
I don't have to believe you. What
matters is that they believe you.
Now tell me about your work.
Mary takes a deep breath.
MARY:
I'm the producer. I find the story,
I put the team together, I write and
cut the piece. I work at 60 Minutes.
HIBEY:
And what's that like?
And as Mary smiles at the thought, we CUT TO -
INT. CBS NEWS -- EDITING -- EVENING
Cramped and dark. A large screen shows a photograph of NAKED
PRISONERS from ABU GHRAIB.
An EDITOR manipulates a computer program, and one man's crotch
is blurred out with a field of squares...
4.
New York City - April 2004 - Six Months Earlier
COLONEL CHARLES (O.S.)
They're really gonna run it this
time?
Mary sits behind the tech along with COLONEL ROGER CHARLES
(former military 50's crewcut) and a pregnant DANA ROBERSON.
MARY:
They're going to run it.
COLONEL CHARLES:
Because you said that last week-
MARY:
They're going to run it, Roger.
TECHNICIAN:
You want me to paint them out like
this?
Mary looks up to the screen to see what the tech is doing digitally
painting out men's penises image by image. One
man's crotch blurred out with a field of squares.
MARY:
Jesus, no, it looks like his genitals
were attacked by mad cubists. Maybe
you could just darken the area?
The Technician hits a few keys. A beat.
MARY (CONT'D)
Okay, now it just looks like there's
a black hole there.
DANA ROBERSON:
From which no light can escape.
COLONEL CHARLES:
They're really going to run it?
Because Sy Hersh has this and he's
going to write a story about how
we've sat on it for three weeks-
MARY:
Dana, tell Roger they're going to
run it, then hit him with a large
blunt object for me, will you?
(MORE)
5.
MARY (CONT'D)
(checking her watch)
I gotta go grab him, can you finish
this?
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