This is a scene taken from Joel Redmond's Unit 101, WGA # 1372097. The scene is a direct adaptation of the actual interchange between Colonel Mishael Shaham and 25-year-old Ariel Scheinerman.
HEBREW UNIVERSITY - MOUNT SCOPUS - DAY
Hot sunny afternoon. A neatly dressed, handsome young student taking an exam taps his pen against his mouth.
TEACHER
Stop.
The student walks up to the teacher and hands in the paper, smiling. He is stopped by an ADJUTANT as he gets out of the door.
DOV
Major, Colonel Shaham needs to see you. ASAP, sir. (seeing him nod and salute, seeing him off)
The STUDENT walks down a narrow corridor, down a flight of stairs, and crosses over to an older-looking annex of the building he just left. All around him is the beauty of Jerusalem at the height of summer. He stops for a moment and closes his eyes, listening to the birds, smelling the flowers. Then he sighs, adjusts his backpack strap, and goes into the annex and up to the lecture hall door.
INT. LECTURE HALL
The door is open. At the foot of the lecture hall stairs is a wiry, silent man in his late thirties in full military dress. Before him spread out on the table are an assortment of wrinkled military maps and diagrams.
STUDENT
You wanted to see me, Colonel?
SHAHAM
Have you heard of Mustafa Samueli?
STUDENT
Yes. (seeing SHAHAM look at him) Lost his brother in 48. Swore to kill a hundred Jews for revenge.
SHAHAM
He's already killed four. One of them was a friend of mine, from Ramat Gan.
STUDENT
(sensing an assignment he doesn't really want)
You want me to retaliate.
SHAHAM
I need a deterrent. We have permission from Dayan himself. We have to get across the border and blow up his house, and I want you to do the job.
STUDENT
I still have two more finals -
SHAHAM
(waving his words off) A man has to choose between two options: studying the deeds of others, or leaving it to others to study his own deeds.
The STUDENT is silent.
Choose anyone you want for this. No more than a dozen men. Report back at 0800.
STUDENT
Yes sir.
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