Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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John is horrified and slowly gets to his feet. He reaches out * for the gun but Polly pulls it away. * POLLY He found it on the sideboard in the * betting shop. * JOHN It must have dropped out of my * pocket... * POLLY When you were drunk. * JOHN * Aunt Pol. I’m sorry. * Polly peers at him and softens a little. * POLLY (CONT’D) John, I know bringing up kids * without a woman is hard. I’ll keep * this among the women if you swear * not to leave guns laying around. * John takes a moment and nods agreement. * INT. SHELBY HOME - DAY 1 - 20:03 1/15 * Finn is eavesdropping at a closed door. We hear the rumble of Arthur’s voice from the other side. Finn is smoking a cigarette and listening intently. We pass through the door to join the family council... INT. BETTING SHOP - DAY 1 - 20:03 1/16 The family are gathered and Arthur is addressing them. In the room we find John, Ada, Aunt Polly, Scud-boat (a cousin), a weasel-like runner called FRED FARR (an uncle), two twins in their twenties with hard, dark faces (NIPPER AND HENRY) and a Gypsy cousin in his fifties called JOHNNY LOVELOCK. Johnny wears a bowler hat and is accompanied by his three sons, aged eleven to twenty, all dark with golden earrings. Thomas stands near to the crackling fire. Everyone is drinking beer. The air is thick with smoke. Arthur is speaking and also taking swigs from a silver flask. We might see that he is already drunk but as an habitual drunk he holds it well.
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