Duster

FADE IN: EXT: BAGHDAD - MARKET PLACE - MORNING FOUR BLACK SUV’S move fast through the market place with a purpose. Get the CIA Chief to the GREEN ZONE ASAP. The intersection is packed with human traffic. Traffic lights are broken, the convoy comes to a dead stop. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT, early 40’s, stout, dashing, jumps out of the lead SUV. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT What the fuck is going on here men. Let’s clear the road. We’ve got a deadline here. First SUV DRIVER warns Colonel Barrett that a Toyota pickup truck with 6 men look very suspicious. SUV DRIVER Colonel their some activity at 3 o’clock. Watch out. Another SECURITY GUARD in the back seat, unbuckles and tries to move some of the crowd, for a better look at the 6 suspicious characters.

COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Sargent stay close. I don’t need the crowd sucking you up and creating an incident. A third SECURITY GUARD moves out of the first SUV and stands side by side forming a barrier to the SUV. The second third and fourth SUV’S are sitting ducks. Colonel Barrett signals the GUARDS to encircle the convoy. A tense situation. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Their getting restless (looking at the pickup truck) If they make a move do not fire unless I give the order. The CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS, a wimpy looking 45 year old, dressed in an uncomfortable bullet proof vest, exits. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS Barrett what’s going on here? COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Sir, get back into the SUV, we’ve got some people looking for trouble. Get back into the SUV Now!

CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS We’re late, we to move. Do whatever it takes. The six men are pulling weapons and RPG’S out of the truck bed. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Let’s get the hell out of here before anyone gets hurt. The SUV’S slowly pull out not before a rocket hits COLONEL BARRETT’S SUV. The back window is shattered. Colonel Barrett talks into his chest radio. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Don’t shoot unless you have a bead on the bad guys. We don’t want any civilian dead. CIA Chief Morton Davis grabs his Security Guard’s chest radio and shouts out to Colonel Barrett. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS I don’t give a shit about these civilians, Barrett do what you have to do and let’s get the hell out of here. That’s an order. First SUV driver is trying to wave the crowd that’s blocking his passage. Someone in the crowd is shooting at the convoy. A small child is hit and blocking the CIA Chiefs SUV. The second SUV’S passenger riding shotgun jumps out trying to rescue the small boy. He lifts the boy in his arms and takes heavy fire from the bad guys.

CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS Driver, why have you stopped? Let’s move it. The driver ignores DAVIS. The back seat security guard jumps out and helps the rescue. The boy is safe in the SUV. Bullets are flying. Other security guard are shooting into the air to force the crowd to take cover. The bad guys are shooting through the crowd indiscriminately. The convoy picks up speed. The crowd disperses as the SUV’s begin to pickup speed. The six men in the pickup truck load up. One of the insurgents begins to mount a stationary machine gun atop the truck. Another has a rocket launcher. The insurgents pick up is now 50 yards behind the last SUV. SECURITY GUARD FOURTH SUV The armor plated SUV’S take bullet fire, rockets are glancing off and exploding. The security guards shoot into air to force the crowd move and take cover. The crowd is picking up the dead and wounded. MORTON DAVIS grabs a radio and yells at Barrett.

CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS What the hell are you doing Barrett, we’re all going to die unless we get the hell out of here. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT We’re doing the best we can sir. The pickup truck is gaining on the convoy. DRIVER IN REAR SUV (looks in rear view mirror) They’re aiming rockets at the back of our SUV. Brace yourselves gang. The armor plated SUV’S can only endure medium to heavy gunfire. The vehicles are about to be tested. Rockets zoom by the last SUV. One rocket hit’s the rear bumper, explodes, the back of the SUV is on fire. The convoy is minutes away from the safe GREEN ZONE. The gates open, guards stand by to assure a safe entry. Fire Fighters and Medical Personnel are on the scene.

Barrett jumps out of his SUV and get’s in Barrett’s face. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS Barrett, you almost got me killed back there. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Four men and women are dead. Two children look critical. With all due respect your ass is safe. It was your idea to drive through the town square. One of my men almost got killed out there. You put us in harms way. Put that in your fucking report. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS You can’t talk to me like that, Barrett. Barrett’s guards are in earshot of the yelling match. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT I’m checking on my men, if one of the has anything that resembles an injury, I’m coming after you. INT: GREEN ZONE BARRACKS - AFTERNOON The phones are ringing off the hook inside headquarters. Markus is briefing a staff worker on what just happened. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS Barrett almost got us killed out there.

STAFF WORKER We know of four men and three women that are dead, two children in critical condition. General Gillette wants an update ASAP. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS I’m still alive, that’s what counts! Tell Gillette I’m recovering from my injuries and can’t talk, I’ll call him later. The death of civilians in the market place has made world headlines. Blame is laid on the U.S. Security team that barrelled through the central market place. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH “Private Security Guards have killed dozens of Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s central market place.” Morton Davis get’s the latest news. Barks at his Staff Worker. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS Get Barrett on the line. Barrett answers. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS Barrett, you are in deep shit. You’re idea of taking a short cut through the Central Square was stupid. We could have all been killed. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Markus, it was your idea, my men will attest to that. You wanted to show American force ruled and during the attack you pulled a “chicken shit” move when you demanded we leave one of my men. That will be in my report and it better be in yours. Sir, by the way you can kiss my ass.

A MONTH LATER INT: VIRGINIA - LANGLEY CIA HEADQUARTERS Barrett is summoned to a top secret meeting. Senators from the select Foreign relations committee have called Barrett as a witness. The Senators and Military Officers are sitting at a long conference table. The head chair is awaiting Barrett appearance. SENATOR TOM PRIOR No need to swear you in, Barrett. Your service to this country is greatly appreciated. I have trust in you and your company but we have a problem with CIA Director Gillette, and Director Markus. His report shows negligence may have cost civilian lives. Director Markus claims you put his life in danger. Barrett senses no good is coming out of the hearing. Staff and military officials are silent’ SENATOR TOM PRIOR I have read your report. And I have no doubt your description of the events are accurate. We are severing relations with your company. We will no longer need your services. Barrett nervously moves in his chair. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Sir may I make a statement. SENATOR TOM PRIOR Go ahead, Colonel Barrett. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Senator, I have existing contracts with the CIA. I’ve got men working for me that need to feed their families. They are not going to like what’s coming down. SENATOR TOM PRIOR Mr. Barrett, since I have a lot of respect for you and your company, and how valiantly you’ve served our country, I intend to make this right. I’m handing you an envelop, this is what the U.S. Government is prepared to give you. I hope you and your men understand how you have helped us during this time of need. Thank you sir, this meeting is over. Barrett slowly rises, walks out of the hearing room. He opens the envelop, it’s a 50 million dollar check for his services. Barrett smiles but is disappointed. Taps the check against his chest. He walks to his waiting car.

TEN YEARS LATER EXT. ARIZONA - HIGHWAY 95 - AFTERNOON Between Bullhead City and Needles, a pick up truck is parked along the highway. Two men with binoculars are glued to a flying “crop duster.” The pilot is making tight circles covering crops with insecticide. OFFICER MONTGOMERY That “crop duster” is destined for fame. OFFICER GRIFFIN Man, that pilot knows how to fly that machine. Let’s have a face to face. They jump into the truck, turn into a dirt road, and track the pilot and his airplane to a makeshift airfield, close by. The pilot taxi’s the plane to a small hanger, cuts the engine, and jumps out of the cockpit, onto the wing and is face to face with Montgomery and Griffin. OFFICER MONTGOMERY Hey son, how old are you? JOHNNY HARTMAN Just turned 17, what’s it to ya? OFFICER GRIFFIN A kid with spunk, I like it. Who’s plane?

JOHNNY HARTMAN Belongs to my dad. We do this for a living. See those three hangers, we have engines, wings, you name it. We’re Fix’n on starting a crop dusting business with a few planes, again, what’s it to ya? OFFICER MONTGOMERY Well before you get to testy, were here to talk. Where’s your dad. Like the man said, We’re gonna make your dad an offer, he can’t refuse kid. JOHNNY HARTMAN What man are you talking about? EXT: BULGARIA - FORT RED BULL - MORNING A pilots head is bobbing inside a cockpit. His plane prepares to strafe a group of 10 Mannequins are dressed in ISIS black military outfits. The back of the pilots head is focused on instruments that pinpoint the target. The pilots punches in directions to an on board computer, it x-rays the life like targets are planted in the middle of a field. The bullets destroy the soft targets. One by one within seconds the targets are incinerated. The plane circles low over the target then points the plane into in a high speed ascent into the clouds. The plane lands and taxi’s to a row of heavy camouflaged warehouses. A CIA spy satellite makes a slow pass over central Bulgaria, Purpose is to get information the CIA suspects is a covert operation that may be a threat to U.N. Forces. INT: VIRGINIA - LANGLEY CIA HEADQUARTERS - NIGHT CIA Headquarters Special Agent MORTON DAVIS, 55, sits in a perch above intelligence analysts. The satellite is above a suspicious airfield. Satellite pictures and video show no evidence of an airfield, hangers, or vehicles. Markus, secretary JANIS CAMERSON, attractive, 32, sits next to Markus. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS (Pondering) What are they hiding? This has to be Barrett trying to skirt the law and give American intelligence a black eye. JANIS CAMERON What ever it is down there looks like a well thought out plan. Barrett’s not given up on his dream for a PRIVATE AIR FORCE. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS Do we have assets in the area. We need a closer look. JANIS CAMERON JAY FAULKNER and LYLE MILLER have a good relationship with the Bulgarian Secret Service. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS Get them on it, now!

JANIS CAMERON Our satellite goes dark in a few seconds. FADE OUT EXT: BULGARIA - FORT RED BULL - AFTERNOON Barrett arrives in a briefing room next to the main hanger. He’s met by JACK MAHONEY, fit, GARY WEAVER, stocky, STAN REYNOLDS,43, tall, CHARLIE CUPPER, glasses, STEVE CAPPY, premature grey hair, all in their early 40’s, and KELLY O’DAY, former CIA analyst, striking mid 30’s. They all sit around a long conference table. Barrett turns on a a large monitor. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Ladies and gentlemen, as you all know the CIA is up there someplace looking down on us. These pompous assholes never cease to amaze. STAN REYNOLDS My GEEK SQUAD is baffling the hell out of those nosey bastards. One pass it’s a old abandoned airfield, the next pass it’s a blurry porno flick. Kind’a like playing games with our old nemesis. As you an see we’re playing a game of hide and seek. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Reynolds, you know how to make life interesting. Keep them guessing.

Mahoney what kind of action are we getting on the “Dusters.” JACK MAHONEY I’ve got contracts from small and big countries from Uganda to Yeman. They are ready to accept small shipments of our “Super Dusters.” COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Kelly when can we expect the robotics? We need to make this happen now. KELLY O’DAY Our multi-barrel 12 millimeter guns, the 28 pod rocket launchers, the hookups for hell fire missiles, DAGGER laser guided rockets are sitting in our warehouse ready to get fitted on the 12 Dusters we have in our inventory. With the robotics for assembling the assets on our planes we can complete assembly and have these “Super Dusters” in the air within 60 days. CHARLIE CUPPER Just an update, you all know we are a legitimate licensed manufacture to assembly and sell light aircraft to every country except the U.S. The armed “Super Dusters” are part of an exotic dance we have with the Bulgarian government. We sell them a few of our Dusters, they will look the other way. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Cappy we’ve designed a lethal flying machine that can take out small militias, insurgents, and agile enough to absorb small arms fire, an occasional hit from a rocket, recover, and land on a short airfield.

STEVE CAPPY Colonel our specs are right on target, our Dusters can take on a small army stay in the air up to 8 hours while spitting out hellfire missiles. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Do we have any questions? We’ll meet tomorrow for updates. I’m available for anyone in this room any time. CHARLIE CUPPER Colonel, if you want to test one of our baby’s tomorrow we’ll have one ready to take for a stroll. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Looking forward to that Charlie. Kelly O’Day get’s the Colonels attention. They talk after the meeting. KELLY O’DAY Colonel just got news from Italy, our pal DOMINIC FRASCATI is having shipping problems. We may have to go another route. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Kelly our test flight will have to wait. I’ll take off for Italy tomorrow. We can’t afford to lose any time. INT: VIRGINIA - LANGLEY CIA HEADQUARTERS MORTON DAVIS and Janis Cameron are sitting with members of the CIA BLACK OPS UNIT in a closed door conference room. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS Barrett’s at it again. Our military contractors have gotten wind of his new fighter and they’re screaming for action. Barrett is planning on a private airforce. I’ve got two assets headed to his location we’ll see what the hell he’s up to.

CIA OPERATIVE ONE How does this guy do it? If it’s his goal to embarrass the CIA he’s on the right track. He has no respect for our values. CIA OPERATIVE TWO Senators on the hill want answers now. Their big campaign donors do not want competition for their military for their military contracts. They’re shitting their pants as we speak. They’ll lose millions if Barratt get’s these planes in the air. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS We’re getting scrambled images from the site where we think he’s assembling the aircraft. My goal is to kill this operation. EXT: BULGARIA - NEAR FORT RED BULL - LATE MORNING Three miles from Fort Red Bull’s airfield two men with high powered binoculars are sending satellite images of what they see. Their signals are picked up by Stan Reynolds. He pinpoints their location. THREE RED BULL SECURITY guards speed off in their motor bikes headed for the two intruders. The Guards drop their bikes 100 yards from the intruders. Moving slowly through the brush unnoticed JAY FAULKNER I can’t get this stupid computer to work. Everything seems to be blocked, I can’t get any type of signal. KYLE MILLER Let me check it out, the images on these binoculars are blurred, their’s something wrong. The Guards are, guns drawn, nail apprehend Faulkner and Miller. They’re blindfolded and a van pulls up to haul Faulkner and Miller back to FORT RED BULL. EXT: VIRGINIA - CIA HEADQUARTERS - LATE AFTEROON The monitors go blank. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS What just happened? JANIS CAMERON We lost our signal. Trying to track their location. Their signal is coming from somewhere in the UKRAINE. CIA CHIEF MORTON DAVIS That’s Bullshit. Cameron stay on it. Morton Davis leaves in a huff. INT: BULGARIA - FORT RED BULL - LATE AFTERNOON Two blindfolded intruders are led into a closed room looks like a racket ball court. Faulkner and Miller are tied and blindfolded in their chairs in the middle of the court. Sounds of racket balls are hitting the wall while they sit alone. Reynolds has created a virtual racket ball game with balls whizzing by Faulkner and Miller’s heads. They are ducking and squirming in their chairs dodging the sound of balls headed for their bodies. The sounds end. Kelly O’Day enters the room.

KELLY O’DAY No one is getting hurt today. I want you to go back to where ever you came from and forget you were ever involved in any way with this ill thought of plan. You’ll be photographed and processed, make sure we never see your sorry asses again. That’s all. JAY FAULKNER You can’t treat us like this, we’re journalists, we have to report something. KELLY O’DAY Tell your boss you’re staring in a romantic Bulgarian movie. KYLE MILLER C’mon that’s bullshit. KELLY O’DAY This movie will be seen by millions and make you both big stars. Guards take them away. Reynolds meets O’Day they chat outside of the closed room. STAN REYNOLDS Are you two ready for that block buster movie? Another room in the same building. STAN REYNOLDS Try these hoods on for size. Two guards slip hoods on Faulkner and Miller. They are butt naked and led to the middle of the room. A small mini sheltie enters the room, a guard opens the side door and 20 sheep stampede into the room. The sheltie is casing the sheep, the sheep are chasing Faulkner and Miller around the room. Reynolds sits in a control room taping the epic movie. Barrett’s close friend Dominic Frascati owner of Frascati Racing has been using robotics in his assembly plants for years. He’s designed a prototype for Barrett for quick assembly of his “Super Dusters.” Barrett and Kelly O’Day spend a quiet moment outside the hanger having coffee. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Kelly, we need to get inside the head of Markus, he’s corrupt, and is trying to mess things up here. I have a contact on the Select Intelligent Committee that can get you a analyst slot. You can get close to Markus.

KELLY O’DAY We have to get these Duster’s moving, I’m sure Reynold can make things happen while I’m gone. When do we make this happen. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Yesterday. I’ve got you booked on a flight to New York, Langley is your target. The Senator says you can start in a few days, if you’re up to it. KELLY O’DAY Colonel, I’m on it. Gonna miss this place. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT We can bust Markus’ operation wide open. Counting on your expertise. When you get there, I want you to meet a gal that I’ve been working with the last ten years at the CIA. Janis Cameron. I trust her, she’s on our side. KELLY O’DAY You’re leaving for Rome in a few days, can I catch a ride? COLONEL BRAD BARRETT You bet, I can brief you on what I’ve got on Markus on our flight. EXT: BULGARIA - FORT RED BULL - AFTEROON A G-4 is getting ready for take off. The jet makes a pass over Fort Red Bull and heads for Modena, Italy. INT: ROMANIA - AIRFIELD - G-4 - AFTERNOON Barrett and O’Day are sitting across from each other. Paperwork and files are spread out on a table separating them. They’re in deep conversation as the plane cruises above the clouds. INT: VIRGINIA - LANGLEY CIA HEADQUARTERS - MORNING Janis Cameron is walking back to her desk, sees a satellite visual of Brad Barrett arriving in Modena. Cameron order to the analyst to zoom in on the G-4 and recognizes Barrett. Cameron phone’s Markus. JANIS CAMERON Get all of the airport camera’s online. Follow Barrett. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS Cameron what do you have? JANIS CAMERON Sir, we have Barrett in Modena, Italy. Do we have any assets in the area. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS I’ll take a few hours for our people to get there. Stay on Barrett. Barrett disappears from the cameras for a minute. Reappears. EXT: MODENA, ITALY - AIRPORT - LATE AFTERNOON A black SUV pulls up in front of the departure area. Barrett get’s in, satellite cameras outside the airport track Barrett leaving in the SUV. The Satellite picture kicks in. The SUV is now in the seedy part of Modena. The SUV stops in front of a house of prostitution. Barrett exits and walks in.

JANIS CAMERON What in the hell is he doing? Barrett’s look alike has eluded the CIA. A sleek red sports car pulls up at the rear door of the airport kitchen. Barrett jumps in the Ferrari. Barrett and Dominic shake hands, close friends meet again. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Dominic I could not have planned it better. Now we have to talk about how to get your robots to Fort Red Bull. DOMINIC FRASCATI I Have a safe house we can go to and talk over some great wine. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT How fast can this baby go? Dominic punches the accelerator in 4 seconds he hits 140 miles per hour. Barrett holds on. The safe house is a villa 20 miles outside of Modena. DOMINIC FRASCATI The equipment is ready for shipment. I have a transport that we can load tonight. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT The sooner the better. I’ve got to get these planes ready for action. There’s conspiracy at the CIA to ruin the production of my planes. DOMINIC FRASCATI It’s about the money. They won’t quit until they either have you in jail or eliminate you completely. They pour some wine and talk about the old days. INT: VIRGINIA - LANGLEY CIA HEADQUARTERS Markus and his operations staff are working all angles to find Barrett. He’s moving from one analyst to the other cajoling them to find a way to get Barrett’s whereabouts. Senator James Madden, Select Intelligence Committee and new hire Kelly O’Day meet Markus. Madden was one of Colonel Barrett’s head planners during their days as government contractors. O’Day comes as a covert operator requested by Senator Madden to investigate Markus. She has a level 3 high security clearance, courtesy of Senator James Madden.

KELLY O’DAY Glad to meet you Chief Markus, I’ve heard a lot about you. I’m ready to work on any project you have in mind. Markus introduces Kelly O’Day to Janis Cameron. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS Janis, Miss O’Day comes with great qualifications, I want her to be your right hand operations officer. You can brief her on what we’re working on. JANIS CAMERON I’m sure we’ll work together fine. I’ll give her the cooks tour. INT: MILAN - CIA FIELD OFFICE- AFTERNOON Eric Medrano, CIA Milan’s field counter intelligence officer, sits in a small office in downtown Milan, takes a call from Langley. Janis Cameron get’s Markus attention, JANIS CAMERON Got Eric Medrano, CIA Milan office. Kelly O’Day is sitting analyzing data on a Satellite monitor. Scrambled images of Fort Red Bull are blurred and occasionally interrupted by porn. Janis Cameron stands behind Kelly O’Day and watches the images fade in and out of the monitor screen. Cameron comments JANIS CAMERON What in the hell did I just see? KELLY O’DAY If it’s what I think it is, I wonder of Agent Markus should examine this transmission. JANIS CAMERON No, I don’t think so, just store it for another time. O’Day and Cameron nod their heads acting in disbelief. Markus on a secure line with CIA Field Agent Eric Medrano in Milan.

CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS Medrano, I need everything you have on Dominic Frascati? AGENT MEDRANO Frascati is a very popular man about town. Frascati, he designs robotics and produces cars at lightning speed. Janis Cameron is tracks the conversation. Anticipates Markus next move. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS Medrano how fast can you track Frascati, Barrett is with him we have to find Barrett. AGENT MEDRANO On it. Get back to you later. Markus nods to Janis Cameron, follow me. They move to a corner of the room, monitors behind them. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS Where did we come up with this Kelly O’Day analyst? Kind’a of spunky don’t you think? JANIS CAMERON She comes with great credentials, Senator James Madden recommends her highly. She has a class 3 security clearance. We want to cooperate with Senator Madden. He holds the purse strings on this operation with Barrett. CIA SPECIAL AGENT MORTON DAVIS I’ll trust your judgement, but I think I’ll do a little more checking. Meeting over. Janis Cameron moves back to her station. Cameron types into Kelly O’Day’s secure computer, encrypts a message that Markus has her under surveillance. Kelly O’Day’s residence is a two bedroom, 5th floor, water view in Virginia Beach. One of the many properties Colonel Brad Barrett owns in the US and Europe. Private security, parking and furnished. The residence is Kelly’s new address. Ownership records are under an alias. Kelly O’Day parks her car in the parking structure below her building. She walks to the elevator, enters the condo. Elegantly decorated. Does a walk through. She unpacks her luggage on a king size bed, an item dear to her is her Glock 26, round snub nose revolver with a 10 round magazine. She loads the Glock and lays it on bed. The door man in the lobby calls her number. DOORMAN Miss O’Day were you expecting anyone tonight? KELLY O’DAY No, ah what was your name? DOORMAN Floyd Bryant mam. Just checking want to make sure you have a pleasant time here.

KELLY O’DAY Can you message me a picture or video of the man who was asking for me? DOORMAN Be glad to. Seconds later Kelly looks at her I phone and a video of a burly man dressed in a sport coat approaches the Doorman. The video show’s the passenger loading area where a another man is waiting in a car. Kelly, calls Janis Cameron. KELLY O’DAY Janis, this phone may be tapped, do you know of anyone that may be following me? JANIS CAMERON Markus, doesn’t trust anyone. I’ll be he sent a private detail to check out your apartment. KELLY O’DAY Bet you’re right. Surprise, surprise, this Markus guy has got a lot to learn. JANIS CAMERON Be careful, he takes no prisoners. Be safe. Kelly O’Day turns on her laptop. She finds the link to the hotel security cameras. The fifth floor camera’s scan the hallways. Two men exit the elevator begin approaching her room. Time for action. She picks the lock to the door in the adjoining apartment which is vacant. Takes a position at the front door of the apartment, waiting for the two men to enter her apartment. They bust through the door of her apartment, and see her laptop and a picture of their images on the laptop camera. O’Day enters through the busted door. KELLY O’DAY Freeze, on your knees, lay face down the floor. What do we have here. The gunmen look at each other on the floor surprised about the predicament they have gotten into. The picture on the laptop of the break in is beamed to Colonel Barrett in his office in Bulgaria. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Kelly, we need some bargaining chips, I’ll have two of my men pick them up and bring them back to our home base. KELLY O’DAY Copy that sir. Looking down at the two men. KELLY O’DAY Hope you gentlemen have your passports, on second thought you won’t need them.

Mechanics, technicians are designing and reconstructing the wings, fuselage, cockpits of 20 “crop 140 crop dusters.” Armor plates are tested, cockpit enclosures undergo bullet proof refurbishing. The planes can be dismantled quickly for quick shipping by C-130’s anywhere in the world. Colonel Brad Barrett makes his rounds. WORKER ONE Hey Colonel, this “Duster” should be ready anytime. Barrett nods approval. COLONEL BARRETT I want you and your staff to attend our meeting at 0200 this afternoon in my conference room. WORKER ONE Copy that Colonel Colonel Barrett’s office is filled with his top advisors and techies. Barrett approaches a projector. COLONEL BARRETT I want to congratulate everyone for making this project a success. This presentation will give you an idea of what we are all working toward. The goal here is to design a fast moving private air force that will be on call at a moments notice. Watch and you will see what we’re planning. The short video shows a digital movie of how the “Crop Dusters” will become lethal weapons. Armor plates, bullet proof cockpits, lasers, high powered canons, and split wings. Four retooled “Crop Dusters” are loaded onto the hi tech remodeled C-130. The video reel shows pilotless dusters sitting in the belly of the C-130. Wings folded, two men check out the weapons on each plane. When the signal is given by the C 130 copilot the planes are released and rolled out of the tail of the giant transport. The dusters glide away, the wings unfold, the engines become operational, they move into formation. Two land based drone operators take control. Each duster is programmed. The “Crop Dusters” separate into a mile wide formation. Each armed to the teeth with hi-tech weaponry. Their first digital mission is over the south east coast of Africa. A hypothetical shipping line has hired the private airforce to protect their container ships passing from India sailing by the Somali coastline. SIMULATE SOS We have five fast boats coming up fast about three miles out. Looks like trouble.

HEADQUARTERS Can you identify the intruders. SIMULATE SOS They have all the earmarks of Somali pirates. Mother ship and fast boats. The fast boats have disengaged and are five miles north of a U.S. freighter. The order is given by Head Command to eradicate the problem. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT They’re is new technology that we’re contracting that will include making our “dusters” equipped with artificial intelligence. Our “dusters” will be pilotless, stealth and computers aboard will use sensors programmed in time. Colonel Barrett leaves the meeting and enters his office. It’s the middle of the night in the US and Kelly O’Day is on a secure line calling. KELLY O’DAY Colonel, I think Markus may be onto us. My contact says no but I have a funny feeling about this character. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT If there is any sign that Markus has learned about your true identity, we go to plan B. KELLY O’DAY Copy that. Colonel Barrett ends the call. Dominic Frascati is on a video conference call with Barrett.

DOMINIC FRASCATI Colonel, my team has come up with something you may think is very “spooky.” To confidential to talk about on this line. I’ll be there tomorrow morning with my team. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT You got it. Looking forward to it. Markus is in the “war room.” Analysts are scanning monitors still trying to find Barrett’s whereabouts. MORTON DAVIS He’ out there someplace. Looking at Janis Cameron. MORTON DAVIS Have we gotten anything from Medrano in Italy? Kelly O’Day has entered the “war room.” Markus tries to ignore her presence. JANIS CAMERON Medrano is still gathering information. He’s piecing info on a subject that we’ve been watching for years. Not sure if it’s a good lead or not. Kelly O’Day is checking on a monitor for any indication that analysts have gotten a bead on the Bulgarian airfield. MORTON DAVIS We need to send out drones over the Romanian and Bulgarian countryside. I have a feeling we’re missing something that’s obvious. Colonel Barrett has a visitor from the Bulgarian Secret Service. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Come into my office. ANDREI BORISLAV I would like you, Colonel, to meet my partner Alexsandra Darina.

ALEXSANDRA DARIA My pleasure, Colonel. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Andrei, what are we up to these days? ANDREI BORISLAV Give the Colonel an update on our situation with the North Koreans. ALEXSANDRA DARIA As you know Colonel, we have luke warm relations with the North Koreans. But we’ve learned that they are planning a mock raid on the DMZ and are trying to provoke an international confrontation that may cause the Americans to react in a negative way. ANDREI BORISLAV This is in the planning stage but we have a feeling that in the next 8 months their plan could become a reality. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT What do you want from us, Andrei? ANDREI BORISLAV We want to keep the US out of this confrontation and we need to get delivery on 20 of your stealth aircraft. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Steve Cappy will give you a tour of our facility. We will make things happen. Dominic Frascati arrives in a private jet. One of Barrett’s men escorts him through the plant and they arrive in Barrett’s office. DOMINIC FRASCATI Colonel, I’ve got some great news. We’ve been working on stealth technology, you’ll like what we’ve created.

COLONEL BRAD BARRETT This better be good. DOMINIC FRASCATI Not only will your aircraft have our special armor plating, the engines and props will be hidden so any radar used by the enemy cannot see or hear your aircraft coming. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT What about the “Dirty Harry” project? DOMINIC FRASCATI Harry is almost ready for testing. When Harry becomes a reality, and works with out any problems, your idea of a stealth covert army of robots will be the envy of every country in the world. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT No leaks, this project is top secret. I want the pods to make their initial drop within 90 days. The pods are small bomb looking equipment which is parachuted into enemy territory. Each chute disintegrates, the pods open like cocoons, dwarf robots with artificial emotional intelligence using sensors and programing in real time will spread out form a small stealth army waiting for orders. After their assignment is completed the robots will reconnoitre to a predetermined location and picked up by stealth choppers for recycling and programmed for future missions. DOMINIC FRASCATI Your idea will revolutionize warfare as we know it. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Dominic we need to make this work. We have a mission that’s priority and you have to make this happen. DOMINIC FRASCATI I have my crew, robotics engineers, that I trust will make the deadlines. CIA headquarter, Langley, Virginia. MORTON DAVIS is behind his desk pondering. Pages Janis Cameron. She enters his office. MORTON DAVIS What’s the latest on Barrett?

JANIS CAMERON Every bureau in Europe is searching for his whereabouts. Our satellites have not discovered any unusual activity. MORTON DAVIS We have to stay on this. I’m getting a lot of pressure from upstairs. The Senate Intel Agency is hounding me. I haven’t told them about Barrett, but they sense something unusual is happening. I do not want any leaks coming our of this department. Any “leakers,” I will deal with them personally. JANIS CAMERON I’m on top of that. MORTON DAVIS The new girl, I want to see her credentials. JANIS CAMERON I’ve checked her out, she has no hidden baggage. Janis leaves Markus office. Markus turns to his computer and Googles Kelly O’Day. Her picture pops up. He searches for information. Nothing of value. Kelly O’Day is in the “war room.” Checking out satellite movements over eastern Europe. Looking over the shoulder of one of the analysts. KELLY O’DAY You see that fuzzy blip over the Romanian countryside. That could be what Markus is looking for. ANALYST I’ll get a closer look. Satellite camera’s zoom in on an airfield. Lot’s of activity. KELLY O’DAY Check that out and give me a report as soon as you get intel on what they’re doing down there. On close look, TV screens focus in on a small airfield with private planes practicing takeoffs and landings. No appearance of nefarious activity. ANALYST Markus will not be a happy camper. '

KELLY O’DAY Maybe our target is somewhere in the middle east, Africa, who knows what Markus is looking for? ANALYST I’ll update our coordinates. KELLY O’DAY If you find anything buzz me, I’ll be in my office. INT: BULGARIA - FORT RED BULL - MORNING Colonel Barrett is in a flight simulator with his new copilot Joey, soon to be the brains behind his lethal cropdusters. Designed by his friend Dominic Frascati, Barrett plugs Joey, a computer tablet, into the cockpit dashboard. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Joey how are we doing today? JOEY (Female voice) We’re doing fine sir. I’m reporting for duty. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Very well, Joey. We’re headed toward a terrorist camp in Yemen. JOEY Copy that sir. Our platform is ready to rumble. The computer tablet screen has a picture of Joey’s calculations and route to a predetermined mission. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Are you ready Cappy? Steve Cappy is in a storage container refurbished like the inside of the cropdusters cockpit. Two seats, the pilot and the copilot will maneuver the “duster” from runway to mission back to runway in Bulgaria. The crop duster is equipped with more than 9 hours of fuel and almost 1800 LBS. Of lethal weapons. STEVE CAPPY Is Joey ready. JOEY I’m as ready as I’ll ever be. Let’s do it. (Joey’s picture is on the tablet screen)

INT: VIRGINIA - LANGLEY CIA HEADQUARTERS-AFTERNOON Kelly O’Day is looking our her fourth floor window. Morton Davis approaches his car a black van slows down and stops behind Davis’s car. The driver hands Davis a large envelop and drives off. Davis opens his car door and throws the package in the passenger seat. Davis sits in his car and appears to open the large envelop and begins reading. KELLY O’DAY (Walks out of her office and walks by her assistant) Jamie I’m done for the day, I’ll see you tomorrow. I’ll be next to my phone if you need me. Kelly O’Day walks to the elevator. Seems the elevator is stuck on the top floor. O’Day enters the stair exit and moves quick down four flights to the back exit. Her car is in a far area but she can see Davis putting down his paperwork and starts backing out of his space. O’Day follows Davis out of the parking lot and follows him to a share house outside of Langley. It’s drive time, traffic is heavy, O’Day parks out of site and tracks Davis walking into a small warehouse. O’Day snaps pictures of the location on her cell phone. Punches in the description and address of the warehouse in her phone and “Digital Shadows” a company known for raw intelligence is posted as the owner of the building. KELLY O’DAY (Talking to herself out loud) Umm, wonder what little Mr. Davis is up to? O’Day searches out Digital Shadows and learns that the company is not on the approved list of government contractors. Digital Shadows focus is on insider threat monitoring. And one of the CIA’s covert drone program is on the CIA’s secret list of purveyors. KELLY O’DAY (Talking to herself aloud) I have to get into that building. Morton Davis leaves the premises and drives away. O’Day makes contact with Jay Faulkner in Bulgaria, message reads. KELLY O’DAY Need a secure line with info on a warehouse outside of Langley. Can you connect with a satellite that can detect in warm bodies? JAY FAULKNER (Message back) I’m on it. May take a few minutes. KELLY O’DAY Copy that. JAY FAULKNER Lots of computer signals coming from that address, no warm bodies.

KELLY O’DAY Kelly parks her car closer to the warehouse. It’s dark now. She walks quietly to the side door, it’s locked. Walks around the building and a small window is ajar. She shimmies through the window and walks into the computer lit room with dozens of monitors displaying and collecting information. A motion security camera hanging on the ceiling is moving in her direction. Heat from her body is activating the video. Kelly beams her cell phone at the camera with a one minute loop of the video the camera is about to take. She has one minute to act before the loop is over. She approaches one of the computers and the envelop Davis had is sitting on a desk. She opens the envelop and snaps pictures of the material with her cell phone. She hears some noise coming from the front door. Kelly makes a quick exit out of the room and exits out of the back window.

JAY FAULKNER (Sitting in Col. Barrett’s office) Kelly is on something. Looks like our friend Morton Davis is involved with a Cyber Security Company that produces malware and may be connected with an airplane manufacturer that wants to kill our project. COLONEL BRAD BARRETT Kelly is a pro at strategic intelligence. Davis may be in for a surprise. If she nails him on covert actions using government property she’ll put his Dick in a ringer. JAY FAULKNER Joey did a great job today, it’s time for a dry run, I’m working with the Bulgarians, they have some insurgents crossing the border harassing small villages. We have a prototype ready to roll off the assembly line. She needs a test flight and we’ll be ready to rumble. Kelly O’Day returns to her apartment. She’s downloads the pictures on her camera. Looking at her monitor she reads e-mails from Davis to U.S. Office of Personnel Management requesting a quality review of Kelly O’Day. The reviews had not been completed. Davis was inputting fraudulent information in a U.S. Intelligence Office site. Phony information about Kelly O’Day. Davis’s goal was to place bogus information in this covert website to besmirch and discredit her and others in in the CIA. KELLY O’DAY