Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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Thomas disappears through the velvet curtain. Arthur seethes as he stares out. John studies him reacting to Thomas’s defiance (which comes as no shock to John). Arthur goes back into the office and slams the door. Through the glass partition we see his silhouette as he takes a swig of rum. EXT. CANAL - DAY 1 - 18:25 1/11 On the oil-slicked surface of the canal a beer bottle floats, neck up. We watch it float past the open doors of a forging and pressing factory, which has its main entrance and delivery bay facing the canal. Through the open door we briefly glimpse the hell inside the factory. A white hot furnace is smelting metal and a five hundred pound steam hammer slams from the roof onto burning steel, setting off a huge explosion of sparks. Bare chested men are silhouettes against the burning white heat and some of them swig beer from iron buckets. The beer bottle floats on past the doorway and the pounding of the hammer is now just a sound. We follow the bottle for a few more moments and see Finn standing on the bank, staring at the bottle as it passes. He has something in his hands. Then a bullet splashes in the water beside the bottle. Then another. We come around to see Finn holding a Webley revolver and aiming it with both hands at the passing bottle. He cocks the trigger with both thumbs with some difficulty and fires again. This time, the bottle smashes. Then we hear an anxious voice. VOICE Finn? Finn turns and sees a woman in her mid-twenties, pretty and prettily dressed in sleek Twenties (Faux Flapper) style, standing on the tow path, her expensive white shoes oozing in the mud. She wears a white hat at a jaunty angle and she has a jazz-age figure. Finn smiles at her. FINN Hello Ada. The woman is ADA Shelby, Thomas’s younger sister. She will almost always be dressed to kill. Her fancy clothes will often contrast the mud and grime of her surroundings. When Finn turns, he turns with the gun, so that it is unintentionally aimed at Ada. Ada stares down the barrel of the gun but she is brave and smiles. ADA Finn, my pigeon, do you want to put the gun down?
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