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Agent #1: working late tonight lieutenant?
Kaffee: [before entering Markinson's motel room] oh yeah
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Kaffee: [angrily to Markinson as he enters his motel room, before slamming the log book onto the table] there was no flight out at eleven o'clock, what the fuck are you trying to pull?
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: [as he sits down to look inside the log book] first flight stateside left Guantanamo Bay at twenty three hundred, it arrived at Andrews Air Force base in Maryland a few minutes past two
Kaffee: then why isn't it listed in the tower's chief log?
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: [shaking his head] Jessup
Kaffee: what're telling me? He fixed the log book?
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: [scoffs]
Kaffee: maybe he can make it that one didn't take off but I can sure as hell prove one landed. I'm going to get the log book from Andrews
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: you're not going to find anything in the Andrews log book either
Kaffee: he can make an entire flight disappear?
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: Nathan Jessup was about to be appointed Director of Operations for the National Security Council. You don't get to that position without knowing how to "sidestep a few landmines"
Kaffee: his not going to be able to "sidestep" you
Lt. Col. Matthew Andrew Markinson: you don't still intend to put me on the stand?
Kaffee: [pointing the log book at Markinson, before leaving his motel room] Thursday morning ten o'clock
Christopher Coffel
Extended Reading
