boston confidential - truth - boston marathon bombing
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POLICE SQUAD ROOM
VOICE: Sgt. Williams...Sgt. Williams...
Is anybody up there in homicide?
LT. ED EXLEY: Lt. Exley.
VOICE: Weve got a bombing, downtown
division, the Marathon.
EXLEY: I got it.
POLICE SQUAD ROOM
DUDLEY: The Marathon bombing hyperb
aside, this is a heinous crime that requires
swi resoluon: Eight vicms, 144 wound
Terrorism is the likely move. We do have
some hot leads, so listen well. First, the
bombs were pressure-cooker bombs carriin backpacks.
UDLEY: Second, two Chechen males were
en leaving their packs at the race. We are
king the public help to idenfy them, so
e are blitzing the media with their pictures.
o other pictures will be released because
at would lead to confusion. Third, a 9 mm
ndgun and pieces of a remote-controlledevice were recovered at the scene.
OMBING SCENE
XLEY: Sir, I took the call. It's my case.
APT. DUDLEY SMITH: Edmund, you don't
ant it and you can't have it.
XLEY: Yes, I do, sir.
UDLEY: It's mine. I'll make you my second in
mmand.
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POLICE CHIEF: Just go out and get them.
all necessary force. The people of Boston
demand it.
EXLEY: (to himself) Why not just put a bounty
on em?
EXLEY: Eight people are dead and 144
wonded. Ssomebody has to pay.
DZHOKHAAR TSANAEV: I DIDNT KILL
NOBODY! I DIDNT PLANT ANY BOMBS! T
KILLED MY BROTHER! IM BEING SET UP!
POLICE INTERROGATION ROOM
YNN: Do you like being a cop, Bud?
GT. BUD WHITE: I used to. What I do now is
trong-arm terrorism stuff... No, I don't like
. If I could work homicide like a real detec-
ve...
EDROOM OF LYNN BRACKEN
BUD: There's something wrong with the
Marathon bombing case. I know it. But I
can't prove it. I'm not a detecve. I'm no
smart enough. I'm just the guy they bring
to scare the other guy shitless.
LYNN: You're smart enough. Be a detecv
that's what you want.
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BUD: I got a few Marathon bombing que
ons.
FORENSICS CHIEF: I don't know if you re
the papers, but that case is closed.
BUD: I'm tying up loose ends.
FORENSICS CHIEF: What do you want to
know?
POLICE FORENSICS LAB
UD: Anything off. Anything that didn't
ake sense.
ORENSICS CHIEF: You mean besides the fact
at the bomb site was swarming with Cra
ternaonal private security goons, that
obody was told that a terrorism drill was
nderway, and that Israeli police barged in
ninvited to lend assistance? I cant think
f anything.
JACK: The Marathon bombing was solved
Lieutenant.
EXLEY: I want to do it right.
JACK: Okay, college boy, I'll help you, but
want half the collar.
EXLEY: A third. I don't think we can make
case without Bud White.
POLICE SQUAD ROOM
EXLEY: Do you make the two Chechens for
the Marathon bombing?
SGT. JACK VINCENNES: What?
EXLEY: It's a simple queson.
JACK: I'm trying to figure what angle you're
playing this me.
EXLEY: I've given up angles for awhile. I just
want to solve this thing.
EXLEY: The Marathon bombing. Anything
bothering you about the case?
FORENSICS CHIEF: Yeah. The fact that you
guys won't let it get filed away.
EXLEY: What are you talking about?
FORENSICS CHIEF: Bud White grilled me o
this morning. You know, he's not as dumb
thought.
POLICE FORENSICS LAB (a lile later)
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EXLEY: It wasn't the Chechens. Who first s
they it was?
BUD: The FBI.
EXLEY: The first responders when Jack and
got there was an FBI bomb squad, whose
leader was talking to one of the Cra Inte
naonal security contractors.
POLICE RECORDS ROOM (Exley and White
got into a fight because of Lynn Bracken)
UD: Yeah, Dudley's guys. You can tell by the
hahki pants and the skull logo on the cap.
XLEY: They werent looking for the bomb-
rs. They were the bombers.
UD: It all keeps coming back to Cra and
e FBI. Probably the Israelis, too.
XLEY: It's Cra Internaonal for the Mara-
on bombing.
BUD: Also, the FBI lied when they said the
Chechens were unknown. It had had a rela
onship with the Tsarnaev brothers for mo
than two years.
EXLEY: Whats more, the boys uncle was
Ruslan Tsarni, a one-me contractor with
Halliburton. He was married to the daught
of a former top CIA operaons director,Graham Fuller.
XLEY: How could the FBI nothave known
e bombing was going to happen?
UD: They were in on it, just as they were in
n the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing
nd who knows how many others that they
st happened to thwart at the last minute.
XLEY: The Israelis figure in this, too: The
octors, the police That's the angle Jackas working.
BUD: As long as Tel Aviv has the complian
ear of the American polical establishme
those who wish for peace and jusce in th
world should not rest easy. I've been tryin
to be smart, a detecve. But killing those
Cra Internaonal fuckersthat would be
jusce.
EXLEY: Stay smart, Bud. We build a case.We play by the rules.
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OFFICE OF DA ELLIS LOEW
DA ELLIS LOEW: Well, Lieutenant, what do
want? I am rather busy at the moment.
EXLEY: I want DA bureau men to tail
Dudley Smith twenty-four hours a day; I
want you to get a judge to authorize a wi
on his home phone; I want authorization
to check his bank records, and I want it
all in an hour.
LOEW: Don't try this good cop/bad cop
with me. I praccally invented it. And so
what if some Chechen or Arab or any oth
Allah-lover gets offed. Its not as if anyon
going to get too upset. It gives them pea
of mind to see their prejudices reinforce
Now, If you'll excuse me, I've got a Jack
Vincennes press conference to prepare f
BUD: Dudley Smithspill!
A ELLIS LOEW: Absolutely not. Dudley
mith is a highly decorated member of this
ty's police department and I won't
mear his name without any proof?
XLEY: The proof had his throat shot by the
BI and is being treated in a hospital by
raeli doctors. Quite the coincidence, dont
ou think?
EWS OFFICE BATHROOM
EW: Call him off, Exley!
LEY: I don't know how.
ud hits Loew with backhand aer back-
nd, holding him by the scruff of the neck.
marches him past Exley and praccally
rows Loew through the office window.)
EW: Okay! You're right! Cra did the
mbing, and the FBI knew all about it.
LOEWS INNER OFFICE
LOEW: Dudley's in with Cra Internaonal.
did the bombing because Israel needs to
ratchet up terrorism hysteria to stampede
the U.S. into bombing Syria and Iran. Dudley
handpicked copsll be allowed to run Boston
new an-terrorism protecon racket for
Cra. The Tsarnaevs were patsies and sup-
posed to be killed so they wouldnt talk.