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INT. COMMAN CABIN, ROYAL TALON FIGHTER - DAY

[Okoye is at the helm with Nakia standing next to her. Neither can believe Ross is on board.]

[Further back in the aircraft, we find Ross' unconscious body. T'Challa looms nearby, lost in thought.]

OKOYE: Our mission was to bring back Klaue. We failed. This man is a foreign intelligence operative. How do we justify bringing him into our borders?

NAKIA: He took a bullet for me.

OKOYE: That was his choice.

[T'Challa stiffens. Okoye has gone a little too far.]

[Torn, Nakia stares off, thinking about the Nigerian women they didn't bring back to Wakanda and her culpability in Ross' injury.]

NAKIA: So now we are just supposed to let him die?

OKOYE: Let us consider that we heal him. It is his duty to report back to his country. And as King, it is your duty to protect ours.

T'CHALLA: I am well aware of my duties, General. I cannot just let him die knowing we can save him.

OKOYE: (chagrined) Where exactly are we taking him?

INT. WAKANDAN DESIGN GROUP, HALLWAY, MT. BASHENGA - LATE AFTERNOON

[Shuri and Gabrielle covertly lead T'Challa, Okoye, and Nakia inside, carrying Ross's body on a Maglev stretcher. She turns to T'Challa.]

SHURI: Great, another colonizer for us to fix. This is going to be fun.

"Colonizers?" Bucky asks tiredly.

"Yes," Gabrielle says.

[Gabrielle looks extremely offended and T'Challa cuts Shuri a look.]

INT. SHURI'S LAB, WAKANDAN DESIGN GROUP - LATE AFTERNOON

[Ross is placed on a table surrounded by futuristic medical equipment. As Shuri works on him.]

SHURI: He will live.

[The security alarm on Shuri's Kimoyo bead GOES OFF.]

SHURI (CONT'D): W'Kabi is here.

[Shuri, Gabrielle, Nakia, and Okoye quickly hide. T'Challa hurries up the ramp. Hoping for good news, W'Kabi approaches T'Challa.]

W'KABI: What's going on, brother? Where is Klaue?

T'CHALLA: He's not here.

[T'Challa's eyes lower regretfully.]

T'CHALLA (CONT'D): He slipped through our hands.

W'KABI: Slipped? For 30 years your father was in power and did nothing. With you I thought it would be different. But it's more of the same.

[Deeply disappointed, W'Kabi can't muster words. He looks at T'Challa and walks out.]

I/E. ABANDONED AIRFIELD/GARAGE, SOUTH KOREA - EVENING

[An airplane graveyard. The paint truck pulls to a stop on the airstrip. Killmonger, Klaue, Limbani, and Linda hop out, and hump their gear to a FOUR-SEATER ESCAPE PLANE parked on the airstrip.]

LIMBANI: Let's get going, boss.

KILLMONGER: You always sell to the CIA?

KLAUE: I sell to the highest bidder. Don't you worry when I get back to Jo-burg and lay low for a bit, I'll make sure both you guys get paid.

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