Truth Page #5

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Josh strides down the hall with MARY MURPHY, (30's, brunette)

his right hand.

JOSH:

What's she like?

MURPHY:

Good. Fast. She's Rather's gal.

(pause)

Makes twice as much as either of us.

JOSH (O.S.)

Thanks for coming in, Mary...

INT. JOSH HOWARD'S OFFICE -- DAY

Mary smiles as she enters Josh's office and shakes his hand.

MARY:

Not at all, I'm excited to get going.

14.

SUPERIMPOSE -June 2004

Josh smiles back and nods to Murphy next to him.

JOSH:

As are we. You know Mary Murphy.

MURPHY:

Great to see you again. Abu Ghraib

was phenomenal.

As they all take a seat.

JOSH:

So no big preamble, we love you, we

love what you've done here - let's

talk about the new season. What are

you thinking?

Mary flips open her notebook.

MARY:

I got something maybe for the

election. Houston businessman named

Bill White claims he has documents

that the Bin Laden family were

investors in Arbusto.

JOSH:

Bush's oil company?

MARY:

Could just be lots of sound and fury,

but Vanity Fair's into it too. That

whole time period for Bush is funky.

JOSH:

Funky how?

MARY:

I did some work on it in 2000. You

know Ben Barnes?

JOSH:

No.

MARY:

Old Texas Pol.

(MORE)

15.

MARY (CONT'D)

Barnes says when he was Speaker of

the Texas House in '68, Sid Adger,

this big oilman, comes into his office

and asks for help getting young George

Bush into the National Guard as a

pilot. Poppy Bush at this point is

a Congressman and Barnes figures he

can use all the connections he can

get, so he says he called General

Rose, who runs the Texas Air National

Guard, and gets Bush a slot.

JOSH:

Barnes told you this?

MARY:

Completely off the record, but he's

been dining out on the story for

years. Then I talk to Buck Staudt,

who was Bush's squadron commander.

He starts screaming at me about how

Barnes is full of sh*t, because

everybody knows that he's the one

who pulled the strings to get Bush

into the Guard, not Barnes.

Josh laughs.

MARY (CONT'D)

Politics in Texas. It's the

intergalactic capital of sh*t happens.

Anyway while Bush is in the Guard,

he meets a guy named James Bath and

they become running buddies. After

they get out, Bath, with no resume

to speak of, becomes chief financial

representative for the Bin Laden

Family's interests in Texas. Bush

starts up Arbusto and Bath writes

him a $50,000 check.

JOSH:

Which your guy White claims is Bin

Laden money.

(off her nod)

Okay, run it down. But if we go

with it, we have to go early; we

can't October surprise them.

16.

MARY:

If you're into this, I'd like to

bring in some other people.

MURPHY:

Who?

Mary reaches into her bag and hands them a list...

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