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7/30/2019 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.

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