From Act Three: EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT A helicopter prepares to land. INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT Carlo is looking into the night with binoculars, trying to see what is going on. He looks troubled by this new helicopter. EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT The helicopter lands and the President gets off. He is met by the Colonel. COL. MCLAUGHLIN This way, Mr. President. The Colonel leads the President off. INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT (1) With his binoculars, Carlo sees that the President himself has arrived. He looks at the First Lady, who is sleeping on the sofa. [ADD] He moves past her to the rear of the house, where Andres is taking watch. (2) Andres turns to meet him. (3) ANDRES What is it? CARLO The President just landed. INT. TRAILER - NIGHT The President is meeting with the Colonel and some aides in a trailer serving as the operation's command post. They are huddled over a small table, speaking in low tones. INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT (4) Carlo comes into the living room and gently wakes the First Lady. (5) CARLO Your husband is here. The First Lady is not quite awake. FIRST LADY He's here? What's he want? She sits up and looks around, as if expecting to find him in the room. CARLO He landed and went into the trailer. We have a plan. It depends on you. (6) INT. TRAILER - NIGHT The meeting continues. COL. MCLAUGHLIN There's a larger context here. We don't want to encourage this sort of thing. If we're too soft, we do. PRESIDENT My feeling exactly. AIDE But the issue is the First Lady, isn't it? Her presence limits our options. [ADD] (7) The door opens and a SOLDIER pokes his head in. SOLDIER Colonel, she's come outside. (8) EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT The President, Colonel and aides come out of the trailer. The First Lady slowly walks away from the farmhouse, a white handkerchief waving at the end of a fireplace poker. (9) PRESIDENT Gwen, are you all right? FIRST LADY I need to talk to you! COL. MCLAUGHLIN We have her covered, Mr. President. The First Lady continues walking toward them. [ADD] (10) INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT Carlo and Andres watch carefully from the window, guns at the ready. ANDRES She was our only hope. Now nothing is here to stop them. CARLO She won't abandon us. EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT The First Lady reaches the others. She and her husband face one another silently. Finally: FIRST LADY Can we talk alone? The President gestures for her to follow him. INT. TRAILER - NIGHT They come into the trailer. PRESIDENT I hope you're here to tell me what the hell is going on. FIRST LADY I want to help them. PRESIDENT Why? FIRST LADY Because I believe in their cause to make the Basques a free people. PRESIDENT Are you that gullible to their rhetoric? I thought you were more tough-minded than that. Or is something more personal at stake here? FIRST LADY You are in no position to bring up our personal lives. PRESIDENT Look, we gave them what they wanted, and they refused to let you go. Doesn't that tell you something? FIRST LADY They let me go. I refused to. PRESIDENT You stayed voluntarily? FIRST LADY I told them they were asking for too little. That there's much more the President can do to help them. PRESIDENT So when the hell did you get the idea that you're making foreign policy? Jesus Christ, what is going on with you? You're sleeping with one of them, aren't you? The First Lady suddenly slaps him. Hard. (11) FIRST LADY God, that felt good. The President stares at her. Then he turns to go. FIRST LADY What are you doing? PRESIDENT I'm giving the order to get those assholes out of there. He exits and the First Lady quickly follows. EXT. TRAILER/FARM HOUSE - NIGHT The President comes out, with the First Lady right behind him. PRESIDENT Colonel McLaughlin! FIRST LADY You can't do this! PRESIDENT Watch me. [ADD] (12) The Colonel arrives. COL. MCLAUGHLIN Mr. President? PRESIDENT I want them out of there. Do whatever it takes. Hearing this, the First Lady suddenly starts running back to the farmhouse. (13) The Colonel looks at the President, as if waiting for instructions. PRESIDENT Gwen! Goddamn her. Stop her, Colonel. (14) COL. MCLAUGHLIN Sir? PRESIDENT Stop her! Shoot her! The Colonel looks at the President in shock. PRESIDENT In the leg or something. INT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT Carlo and Andres see the First Lady running toward them and don't know what is happening. Carlo moves (15) quickly to the door. ANDRES Carlo, it's a trap! EXT. FARMHOUSE - NIGHT As the First Lady runs toward the farmhouse, several warning shots fire in the ground around her. She is terrified. Carlo hears the shots and panics. He starts sprinting toward the First Lady. The President is red in the face. PRESIDENT Kill the sonofabitch! The First Lady and Carlo rush into an embrace. CARLO Go back to them. They won't hurt you. FIRST LADY I'm staying with you. Carlo nods, aware that she won't change her mind. More warning shots land around them. (16) He takes her hand and starts back to the farmhouse. Just as they reach the door, Carlo is shot in the back. He falls to the ground. The First Lady screams. She hurries to his side. Carlo tries to speak but can't. The First Lady is fighting back tears. Carlo dies. [ADD] (17) The First Lady stands up in a rage, facing her husband, facing the Army. She starts walking quickly toward them. COL. MCLAUGHLIN Hold fire! The First Lady is blinded by tears and she moves with determination toward her husband. Behind her, in the doorway, Andres appears with his hands raised high above his head. PRESIDENT Shoot him. COL. MCLAUGHLIN He's surrendering, sir. The President hurries to a nearby soldier and grabs his rifle. (18) He takes aim. The First Lady sees what is happening, turns and sees Andres behind her, approaching in surrender. (19) She quickly positions herself between her husband and Andres, shielding him. The President has the First Lady in his sights. The Colonel arrives beside him. COL. MCLAUGHLIN Give me the weapon, Mr. President. The President looks at the Colonel. [ADD] Then he lowers the rifle and hands it over. The President turns and walks quickly toward a helicopter. The First Lady sees this and starts running toward him. The President now breaks into a trot. He climbs aboard the helicopter. The helicopter zooms up into the air just as the First Lady arrives. She stares up at her husband. The President stares down at his wife. [ADD] (20) INT. WASHINGTON D.C. - OFFICE - DAY Media people and their equipment crowd a large office prior to a news conference.
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