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SHADOW OF THE SWORD by Cathie Quigley-Soderman WGAw:1070008 [email protected] C:(720)454-0108 OPENING: INT. U.S. PENITENTIARY, EXECUTION GALLERY, 2011 - NIGHT Witnesses view the “Death Bed” through the window. Preparations for the execution of a pale, beautiful, Anglo woman, CATE TRAINER,(40). Restrained by shackles Cate looks gruffly through the crowd, her dragon green eyes lock onto a stern, conservative, business man, ED TRAINER (65). Trying to hide his fear Ed Trainer grips the hand of his distraught wife, DORA (63), who holds back brimming tears from her elegant eyes, she gasps-- DORA Our baby girl. It’s all your fault. INT. EXECUTION ROOM - CONTINUOUS The TEAM tightens her ankles and wrist straps. Cate looks at her mother. TRAINER Forgive me dear God, please forgive me. TITLE OVER: 2 Years Earlier EXT. AL-QUEDA SAFE HOUSE, WOODS - NIGHT METTA AL-HANJIA (40) a beautifully stoic, green-eyed Muslim woman grabs the hand of her sweet faced son Ameen (7) and drags him through the woods, not noticing that he is wearing his suicide bomber vest. FBI SWAT TEAMS have moved into place. She’s surrounded by the SWAT and throws her hands in the air. Ameen copies her. SWAT Down on the ground! They lie down. SWAT team moves in. She looks at Ameen and sees his vest. Bomb agents move in to disarm Ameen. Surrounded by Operatives with machine guns, she is captured and put under a black hood. SHADOW OF THE SWORD 2. EXT. SEMI TRUCK - VIRGINIA - NIGHT The bearded face of an alluring jihad warrior OAMR AL- HANJIA (42) drives a Semi Truck along the Wahhabi corridor. He is transporting a bomb. EXT. CIA HEADQUARTERS, LANGLEY, VA. - EVENING Exterior CIA building. INT. CIA HEADQUARTERS OBSERVATION ROOM - DAWN Metta sits alone. A mysterious voice, JOHN BROWN (40), an Emotional Intelligence Officer, comes out of the darkness. JOHN Who are you? METTA Uh, no, you first, who are you? A light blinds her vision. Metta is viewed through a two-way mirror. Trainer sees her for the first time. He gets on the microphone. TRAINER’S VOICE Cate? She doesn’t answer. TRAINER’S VOICE Cate, it’s your father. She adjusts. METTA/CATE Well, it’s about fucking time. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS JOHN (40) Emotional Intelligence Officer observes. JOHN I’ll need a minimum of 3 days to deprogram her. TRAINER (off microphone) You have one. SHADOW OF THE SWORD 3. EXT. INTERSTATE, DC - NIGHT Omar drives the Truck along the highway into Washington DC. The Capitol building radiates in the background. INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - LATER Hours later, deep into the night METTA/CATE is sleep deprived and weak from the lack of food and water. CATE I’m telling you the truth. I’ve been under cover, part of a terrorist network, a sleeper cell. Omar is the God damn cell * leader. JOHN Why should I believe you? CATE Look the whole time, Omar thought he was using me, but I was using him. JOHN For seven years? CATE Omar never succeeded, I did. I was never * brain washed. And I’m not lying now. * JOHN Can you prove it? CATE I don’t have to prove it, I am the God damn C.I.fucking-A! John is stumped. CATE What the hell time is it? Looks at his watch but doesn’t say. CATE There’s no time for this psychobabble. Get me my father Edwin Trainer now! The door opens, Cate’s father enters. He stays in CIA mode and avoids embracing her. CATE Jesus Dad, get me out of here, any minute Omar’s going to ignite Holy War. And when I say ignite I mean blow us all to hell! SHADOW OF THE SWORD 4. TRAINER When? CATE Now! 10,000 degrees in the fucking shade. INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS. * Trainer and John regroup. JOHN I think she’s trying to get back to Omar and help execute the jihad? TRAINER Use the needle. JOHN Narco. I don’t think we have to jump- TRAINER Use it now. EXT. WAREHOUSE, DC - DAWN Omar drives the Semi-Truck into the Zabiha Slaughtering House. INT. ZABIHA SLAUGHTERING HOUSE - CONTINUOUS Omar’s cousin AKMAD (45) opens the back of the truck. In the background of the warehouse, Omar sees an old Muslim butcher, flicking his sharpened knife, slicing the necks of goats. He cries out in the name of Allah, as the animals are killed. His Helper immediately hoists the animals by their feet on hooks to drain the blood. AKMAD Here’s the address to the Mosque. They synchronize their watches. OMAR If I’m not back by 10:45 tops, you must carry out the mission. AKMAD I know you showed me but I forgot. SHADOW OF THE SWORD 5. OMAR What? AKMAD How to activate the bomb. I’m nervous. Looking shocked at his watch. OMAR It’s late, I need to purify. AKMAD What about the bomb? OMAR Reconnect the wires. Akmad is overwhelmed. Omar hustles off. AKMAD Which ones? OMAR Don’t cross the primer wire with the reactor wire. AKMAD Which one? OMAR The red one, with the green! AKMAD What if you don’t make it back cousin? OMAR The fate of Islam is in your hands. EXT. ZABIHA SLAUGHTERING HOUSE - CONTINUOUS Jogging across the parking lot, Omar notices a sign with picture of The White House. It reads; A Taste For Halal Meats? So good Even The White House Orders Halal for Its Dignitaries! --Washington Post INT. TOP SECRET LOCATION, WASHINGTON,D.C. - LATER John brings in DR. RAJA AL-FAYED, African American * woman,(55). * Cate is like a bull ready to be released into the ring. SHADOW OF THE SWORD 6. JOHN Cate, this is the CIA’s Psychological Warfare Specialist, Raja al-Fayed. Cate stops. RAJA I have spent 15 years with the Army serving Prisoners of War-- CATE Oh excellent. Then you know. Get me out of here. It’s the only way to stop the bomb. INT. C.I.A. HEADQUARTERS, OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS Trainer and STAFF watch the session. DAVID GOODMAN, (32), athletic All American male, Federal Defender for the U.S., has joined the observation team. * TRAINER Yep. That’s my daughter. GOODMAN Surprising to see such a beautiful terrorist hunter living under a veil of Islam. INT. C.I.A OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS Cate is progressively angered. * CATE Look Dr. Raja, I know I am exhibiting Stockholm Syndrome on every count, but I have been faking it all along. RAJA Cate, I grew up in an abusive foster care home. You don’t have to let that happen to Ameen. CATE Sorry, no time for that chat, Ameen is out of that God damn country and safe here in America. Raja injects Cate with sodium pentothal then chants. RAJA (Chanting) Allaabu Akbar. Yes Cate, I’m Muslim. CATE With a name like al-Fayed, I figured... SHADOW OF THE SWORD 7. She fights to stay awake. RAJA Allabuh Akbar-- CATE Oh screw that! Praying won’t help. Cate falls under a trance. RAJA Cate, where’s the bomb? CATE I don’t know. RAJA Where’s Omar? CATE With the bomb. RAJA Cate, what happened to you before you came here? CATE I was kidnapped. RAJA Then what. CATE Omar raped me, tortured, isolated, and almost starved me to death. RAJA What information did he get from you? CATE I never gave in. RAJA Why didn’t he kill you? CATE I became pregnant with his child. INT. C.I.A. HEADQUARTERS, OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS TRAINER Oh that’s just great. GOODMAN Surprise number two, you’re a Grandpa. SHADOW OF THE SWORD 8. TRAINER Not now. GOODMAN I’m not judging I’m just saying... TRAINER Counselor, wasn’t there a case where a Scientologist claimed to be under the mind control of the church as a defense for stealing? GOODMAN Yes, but the American Psychological Association does not endorse views of Thought Reform as rationale for committing a crime. TRAINER She said she never told him anything. GOODMAN So she’s looking at the least at aiding and abetting. INT. INTEROGATION ROOM - LATER Hours pass, Cate hasn’t moved. RAJA So your saying you were never in captivity, until the CIA kidnapped you and brought you here. CATE Yes. RAJA Who’s side are you on? CATE Your side. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM - CONTINUOUS Trainer and Goodman observe. TRAINER I don’t think she knows. INT. TOP SECRET LOCATION, WASHINGTON,D.C. - CONTINUOUS Raja continues with Cate. SHADOW OF THE SWORD 9. RAJA How did you survive captivity in Afghanistan? CATE I used the most basic law of nature. RAJA What was that? CATE Self preservation. RAJA So once Omar let you live and the baby was born how did you preserve yourself? CATE I worked on his basic needs. RAJA What was that sex? CATE No, his self esteem. I became his backbone. I made him who he is today. RAJA Who is he today exactly? CATE He’s Omar al-Hanjia, Osama bin Laden’s Chosen One. RAJA Chosen for what? CATE Leader of the Jihad, sent here to ignite Holy War. RAJA How did you manage living with a womanizing Muslim? CATE Made myself indispensable to him. RAJA In what ways? CATE I like to call it love bombing. RAJA Love bombing? SHADOW OF THE SWORD 10. CATE I showered him with praise, made him think I’d converted, and that he was my Romeo- She laughs to herself. CATE Romeo & Jihad.