Into the Dark · A screenplay

The route

From the swamp to the tunnels

  1. 01 FORT BRAGG, NC

    Pulled from Selection

    An unmarked interview room, a man with no name tag, and a mission that doesn't come with paperwork. Wheels up in four.

  2. 02 CALI OUTSKIRTS

    The safehouse

    Burner phones, cover IDs, and satellite prints of the Tulua compound. Shane becomes Matthew Hall, art student.

  3. 03 TULUA COMPOUND

    The empty raid

    Guards, silence, a single gunshot, and a bloodied boy sprinting for the fence. The hostages were moved days ago.

  4. 04 BOGOTÁ

    The warehouse

    A tire-shop tip, a dead meat plant, and an ops cell built overnight in an empty shell. Then a militia patrol knocks on the wall.

  5. 05 MAGDALENA VALLEY

    Into the dark

    The team gets the women out. Shane takes the hatch under the bedroom floor and follows the tunnels to Montoya.

  6. 06 LANGLEY, VA

    Better coffee, worse questions

    Reunions, an after-action review, and an argument about whether one man's detour was reckless or the reason the mission worked.

Meet the people who make the trip, and the ones waiting at the end of it.

Meet the teamBack to the start