At the end, he said, "All right, I think we've got it: a from-behind quartering shot of Osama in a bare room, maybe a computer screen to one side. He's watching a video composite of news items put together by his team. It should show President Obama, a few current events around the Middle East -- the Arab Spring and so on. Can you put that together?" he asked the CIA man.
"I guess," he said skeptically. "But hell, it's going to look pretty damn convenient, isn't it? A video of him taken from behind so that you don't see his face very much? And what's on the screen just happen to be events that prove the vid's recent? Little obvious if you ask me."
The Rainmaker conceded this with a shrug.
"Besides, if you take video, what do you shoot?" the CIA man went on. "The guy playing with his grandchildren or -- well, this is Islam -- the guy praying on his rug. Whatever -- the guy doing something."
"Yes, yes, of course -- point taken," The Rainmaker huffed. "But you're giving your fellow citizens far too much credit. All of these objections will pop up on leftist websites, but only among people who think outside of the TV box, which is very few." He was wringing his hands again. "Ah, may I ask a favor at this point?"
The CIA man flapped his elbows piously. "Have I ever told you no?"
"When you shoot the scene, would you use a skinny little hard-to-use remote control and tell the model to hold it in his right hand?"
"Bin Laden is left-handed," said the CIA man impressively.
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