A STUDY IN PINK SHOOTING SCRIPT - GREEN AMENDED 18/04/10
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INT. PRESS ROOM - DAY 7 A television news report. We’re close on the telly, all lines and blurs. Margaret Patterson is reading a prepared statement to a press conference. (This all in a press room.) MARGARET He loved his family, and his work, and that he should have taken his own life in this way, is a mystery and a shock to all who knew him... She’s breaking up now. A man who could be her brother is hugging and comforting her. We cut closer on the screen. Helen, the PA, is standing in the background. Silently containing her grief, a single tear... CUT TO:
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INT. SUBURBAN LONDON STREET - DAY Terrible rain thrashing down. Words type across the screen. APRIL 26th.
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Two young guys, in their late teens, coming towards us through the streaming rain. Gary and Jimmy. Gary has an umbrella, but Jimmy just has his coat pulled over his head. A taxi heads past them. Jimmy tries to hail it, but it doesn’t even slow down. Jimmy now hesitating to a halt, looking around the downpour. JIMMY I’ll be two minutes. GARY What? JIMMY Just going back - my Mum’s got an umbrella. GARY You can share mine. JIMMY (Already heading back) Two minutes! GARY (Yelling after him) It’s not gay, sharing. CUT TO:
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