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THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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[Narrator] In some countries, they change presidents.
In some countries, the president stays the same.
President Assad of Syria. Still runs the Bekaa, is still paymaster to Ahmed Jibril, still protects and uses Hizbollah.
Another memorial, another president. The Chief Constable from Scotland. Some of the American Pan Am families.
A monument in Arlington National Cemetery where war heroes are buried.
[Memorial Announcer] "Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's ceremony. Please remain seated until the official party has departed. Thank you for your attendance, and enjoy your day."
[Oliver "Buck Revell," FBI Head of Lockerbie Investigation] My son was in the army stationed in Germany and was due to come back to the United States on that particular flight. I can't say what that would have done, but it gave me an opportunity, I think, to even more personally identify with the parents and relatives of the victims and to empathize with what they must be going through and what they must have felt.
[Narrator] FBI Chief Investigator into the Lockerbie crash, Buck Revell's son, was not the last lucky passenger to miss flying on Pan Am 103. Steven Green, Acting Administrator of the DEA, also had a reservation on the flight.
Green has described being on the Heathrow tarmac, watching the doomed plane take off.
[Dr. Jim Swire] There seems to be somewhere in the world, some organization which classifies people as either very important or unimportant. And Flora was important. Flora was a superb person, a lovely girl, one who made so much contribution to the welfare and happiness of the human race through her [inaudible]. And she is just as important as any diplomat or politician or anybody else you care to name. I can give a thousand reasons why [inaudible]. My family has been deeply attached to this ground for generations. You can see the names on the stones. And Flora herself liked the [inaudible] very much.
When she was a little girl, this is where we always came for holidays, therefore it was a natural place for her to come. The natural beauty of the place, it certainly affects me very much, and it affected her very much too, I think.
She loves the sound of the sea and the wildness of the place. [Inaudible] of course means "flower," but to us it's a name that's run in our family for generations and through my mother's side, we're actually descended from [inaudible] who rescued Bonnie Prince Charlie from the Red Coats in 1745.
And so it's a name that to us doesn't just mean "flower," but it does of course also mean flower, and she was very very very fond of flowers and that also is appropriate here because in the peat here there are no animals and I forgot that the flowers we planted around her grave here were left in peace to grow and flower and nature [inaudible].
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