GA General Al Kramer
[In the Pentagon situation room, General Kramer and other military and civilian staff receive a call]
Frank, it's Al Kramer.
BF BG Francis Hummel
[chomps a cigar]
Hi, Al, how you doin'?
K Kramer
I don't know, Frank. Ah, why don't you tell me. Got a lot of very, very worried people here, Frank.
I'll come straight to the point. Eighty-three Force Reconnaissance Marines have died under my various commands. Forty-seven in northern Laos and southern China.
WH White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair
Southern China? We never admitted we sent troops into China.
Who is this? Identify yourself.
S Sinclair
White House Chief of Staff Hayden Sinclair, General.
[stands up]
How old are you, Chief of Staff Sinclair?
Well, Mr. Sinclair, you've probably got no **** idea what I'm talking about. By your ninth birthday, I was running black ops into China. My men were responsible for over 200 enemy kills. Now put some rigging tape over Mr. Sinclair's mouth, he's wasting my time!
K Kramer
Ah you want to continue, Frank?
Remember Operation Desert Storm? Those surgical hits made by our smart bombs, covered so well on CNN? It was my men on the ground that made those hits possible by lasing the targets. Twenty of them were left to rot outside Baghdad after the conflict ended. No benefits were paid to their families. No medals conferred. These men died for their country and they weren't even given a goddamn military burial. This situation is unacceptable. You will transfer 100 million dollars from the Grand Cayman Red Sea Trading Company account to an account I designate. From these funds, reparations of $1 million will be paid to each of the 83 Marines' families. The rest of the funds, I will disperse at my discretion. Do I make myself clear?
FBI Director James Womack Except for the Red Sea Trading Company. What is that?
Womack This is FBI Director Womack, General.
It's a slush fund where the Pentagon keeps proceeds from illegal arms sales-
K Kramer
Jesus, Frank! This is classified information!
You alert the media, I launch the gas. You refuse payment, I launch the gas. You've got 40 hours, till noon day after tomorrow to arrange transfer of the money. I am aware of your countermeasure. You know, and I know, it doesn't stand a chance. Hummel from Alcatraz. Out. [disconnects video call]
[Mason just had his haircut at the Fairmont Hotel balcony]
So what do you have in store for me, Womack, when this is over?
FBI Director James Womack You'll get your life back, Mason.
But you could have given my life back years ago. [walks away, but turns back to Womack] Why should I trust you now?
Womack You've got my word.
Will you shake on it? [Womack nods. Both men shake hands but Mason attaches a rope on Womack's hand and throws him off the balcony.]
FA FBI Agent Paxton
[to Womack discreetly]
I need to talk to you, right now, alone.
Agent Paxton [Both Paxton and Womack are outside]
Now you told me I'm on a need-to-know basis. And I'm tellin' you right now, I need to know who the **** John Mason is right now, sir?
FBI Director James Womack All right, you wanna know? 1962, J. Edgar Hoover is head of the FBl, some say the country. It's no secret he kept microfilm files on prominent Americans and Europeans: de Gaulle, British members of Parliament, even the prime minister. I mean, this guy had dirt on everybody in the world.
Paxton Yeah, I know all the cloak-and-dagger stories. Where does Mason fit in?
Womack Mason was the British operative who stole the files. But our Bureau agents caught him at the Canadian border. Of course, the British claimed, 'They'd never heard of him.' And we held him without trial until he gave up the microfilm... but he never did.
Paxton Well, I'm surprised Hoover didn't use his daughter as leverage.
Womack Hoover was dead in '72. She wasn't born yet. Today... well, it's a different Bureau.
Paxton So you held this guy without trial his whole life. No wonder he's pissed.
Womack This man knows our most intimate secrets from the last half century: The alien landing at Roswell, the truth about the J.F.K. assassination. Mason's angry, he's lethal, he's a trained killer. And he... is the only hope that we have got.
