Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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A pause. Freddie thinks fondly... FREDDIE
Yeah, I know what he’s like. He likes to take his fights onto the mud. Doesn’t like to stand and wait.
Ada turns to Freddie.
ADA You know what he’d do if he found out about us. FREDDIE (Calm, defiant) He could try. Ada turns back sharply (her black dress in her hand). ADA Sometimes it’s like you’re with me to show you can. Ada is about to pull on her black mourning dress but Freddie takes her arms. He addresses her in a broken mirror. FREDDIE One day me and Tommy will be on the same side again. Ada stares at his reflection. ADA Yeah. When you become a bookie. Freddie laughs and embraces her from behind. He reaches for a large black hat with a black veil, the kind worn by women in mourning and common on the streets after the war. We realize this is Ada’s disguise. He offers it to Ada... FREDDIE (CONT’D) There sister. Thanks for coming. Ada half smiles. ADA I must be the only girl ever who had to wear a black widow dress to get to wear a white one. She looks hopefully at Freddie. Freddie just smiles. EXT. CHARLIE STRONG’S YARD - NIGHT 4 - 21:30 1/49A We find Curly and Charlie hauling heavy crates onto a coal barge. They are in a hurry. We watch the work for a while and see the gun cases as they are being loaded.
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