X-Men
By
Ed Solomon
Revisions:
Chris McQuarrie
Tom DeSanto
Bryan Singer
February 24, 1999
BLACK
Sounds of a train rolling to a halt, a shrill whistle.
EXT. CAMP - DAY
UP ON the door of a weathered cattle car as a German
soldier steps into frame wearing that familiar gray of
the all-too familiar era.
He throws the door to reveal a mass of huddled and
frightened people inside.
The words are not nec
training camps, espionage activities, boats,
cases of weapons, Robert Kennedy ... John Roselli, Sam Giancana, Santos
Trafficante, Richard Helms (the new CIA chief), Bill Harvey, Head of
ZR/RIFLE, Howard Hunt ...
VOICE 4
The CIA, however, continues its secret war on
Castro with dozens of sabotage and assassination
attempts under its ZR/RIFLE and MONGOOSE
programs - The Agency collaborates wi
face of my wife, Esther.
And I remember how she clung to me
on the train...
... as we pulled into the station at Riga.
We had been three days and three nights
in that cattle truck from Berlin...
... without food or water.
The dead, and there were many of them,
were crowded in among us.
It was there I first saw him.
Captain Eduard Roschmann,
the SS Commandant of the camp.
The "butcher."
Every da
training
that Napoleon would receive for the
next three years would give him a
working knowledge of all arms, and
expose him to the advanced military
ideas of du Teil, Bourcet and
Guibert.
EXT. DRILL FIELD - DAY
A calm, winter day, snow on the ground. Napoleon and
group go through the ordered drill of loading and firing a
musket. Their targets are painted figures of soldiers.
EXT. FIELD - DAY
The
trained to lead men.
This is infinitely harder.
Dear William, you take too much responsibility on yourself.
Our sons can find their own paths. They are willful, certainly, -
- but who are we to complain of willfulness.
l have news of Samuel. At a Harvard tea -
- he met Miss Susannah Finncannon.
l know it will surprise you greatly, but they are engaged.
This summer he will bring her to Montana to