Black Mirror 'The National Anthem' - Pink Script - 1/8/2011 -
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SUSANNAH Yes... all right. From that screen? There is a slight pause: we hear brief typing. ELECTRONIC VOICE That is correct.
Susannah looks down the lens, and starts to read, like an amateur presenter having to read an autocue at gunpoint. At times hesitant... at times stuttering on her own terror. SUSANNAH I am Susannah, Duchess of
Beaumont... popularly known as Princess Susannah. I am somewhere you cannot find, held by someone you will not trace.
She pauses, peers at the next bit.
SUSANNAH (CONT’D) Prime Minister Michael Callow... We see Michael blanche at the direct mention of his name. SUSANNAH (CONT’D) Prime Minister Michael Callow... My life... my life depends on you. If you do not do precisely as instructed by 4pm this afternoon, I will be... (she sobs) I will be executed. Oh God I c-- Abruptly, Julian taps the spacebar on the laptop -- the video * pauses. * MICHAEL What are you doing? Keep it going. JULIAN Her car was intercepted shortly after midnight. Returning from the wedding of one of her student friends. MICHAEL opens his mouth -- Alex Cairns speaks for the first * time. She’s looking down though, at the table. * ALEX * She’d insisted on going. MICHAEL (to JULIAN) But you had security on her, I mean- Prime Minister, at this point it’s important to say we are 100 percent certain this is indeed Princess Susannah.
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