Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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GRACE (CONT’D) ...with gold and silver, I will support you... She places the three spittoons back in place with a clatter, handles facing outward. She finishes her song with a flourish to an amazed Harry... GRACE (CONT’D) Grace bows elegantly then straightens. Harry stares at her. She smiles and glances at the freshly fixed glass pane. GRACE (CONT’D) In Ireland my singing made them cry and stopped them fighting. Harry takes a breath. He studies her again then looks around at his battered pub. HARRY I hope you know a lot of songs. INT. POLICE STATION - DAY 2 - 10:00 1/31 A large meeting room has been cleared and twenty uniformed police officers sit in rows of hard backed chairs. Smoke rises from them. Amongst them is one Sergeant MOSS, who we will meet again. There is a murmur of conversation until Chief Inspector Campbell walks purposefully onto the small stage at the front of the meeting room. The room falls silent. He studies his officers for a few moments, his face devoid of ‘...Ah but I’m sick now, and my days are over. So come all you young men, and carry me down.’ expression. He allows the silence to continue until it hurts. The officers begin to shift uneasily in their seats. Finally he speaks... CAMPBELL Babies. Discarded with the fish bones and egg shells. A puzzled pause. CAMPBELL (CONT’D) Girls. Eleven years old. Pierced and punctured by old men for threepence a time. Rutted upon like animals. Silence.
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