Episode One - BLUE AMENDS - 17/10/12
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CHARLIE I told him the whole thing was a dream so that’s what he believes. Charlie drops his cigarette into the flames... CHARLIE (CONT’D) (Softly) Bloody nightmare more like. THOMAS (FIRMLY) I’m dealing with it.
A pause. Charlie looks uncertain. Thomas turns and walks. Charlie watches him go and we suspect dangerous times are upon them. EXT. WATERY LANE - DAY 1 - 18:10 1/6 Two lines of two storey terraces form a long street where children play. Thomas approaches a particular door. We will learn that this is the Shelby home and headquarters. Thomas opens the unlocked door and enters. We notice a horse shoe nailed to the front door for luck as the door is slammed in our faces... INT. SHELBY HOME, PARLOUR - CONTINUOUS - DAY 1 - 18:11 1/7 Thomas breezes through a hallway and a parlour decorated with brass and fancy floral crockery. The Shelby home is compact, a typical terrace, but we might notice a surfeit of brass and flowery ornamentation around the place. The Shelbys are cash rich but without conventional good taste. The home is decorated like a gypsy caravan, or a boatman’s barge with lots of roses, elephants and castles. We might glance a photograph of three brothers in military uniform, smiling (this is Arthur, Tommy, and John - all in Warwickshire Yeomanry uniform, with a freshly dug trench behind them). Thomas tosses his coat aside and passes through a small kitchen, where a young boy (FINN, 10, Thomas’s youngest brother) is smoking a cigarette into the flames of a coal fire. A rabbit roasts on a spit. Finn hides the cigarette and calls out as Thomas passes... FINN Arthur’s mad as hell. THOMAS What does a ten year old know about hell? FINN I’m eleven Sunday.
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