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Black Mirror 'The National Anthem' - Pink Script - 1/8/2011 - 20.

PIKE (eating a biscuit) If it’s terrorists they’ll take her head off. BRIAN Fuck sake, man. PIKE Just saying.

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INT. NASH ARMS PUB - CONTINUOUS. DAY 1. 23A SONIA, a barmaid-landlady in her early thirties, is behind the bar, preparing pumps for the day’s trade and being distracted by a portable TV in the corner on which the news is being broadcast. Behind her, her faintly nerdy 13-year-old mixed race son has wandered downstairs and is half-watching the news, half-playing a handheld videogame. LUCINDA (ON SCREEN) * The video also depicts the Princess * reciting a statement containing a * bizarre ransom demand of a personal * nature involving the Prime * Minister. * SONIA (eyes on TV) They’ll be asking for a million quid or something. SON (gawping at game) They want him to do it with a pig. SONIA (annoyed by that) Go to school. The boy exits.

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INT. DOWNING STREET STAIRWELL - DAY 1 24 TOM BILCE bustles toward his office, Blackberry beeping every few seconds. Beside him, a young assistant called CAMILLA, referring to an iPad, updates him on coverage so far.

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