Episode One - YELLOW AMENDS - 10/04/12
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REID (cont'd)
These stars and slits in her face - with Kelly and Eddowes, they were a postscript, an indulgence. (to Abberline) This girl - they’re top billing.
ABBERLINE - the logic may be wearing him down, but this is the obsession of his life and he’s not going to give it up as easy as all that. He has a long look for REID, then -- ABBERLINE This is theory. Not proof. (then) Get proof. If you cannot, I’ll pull rank and claim her. And with a curt nod for REID, he ignores the other two and heads for the door. REID - watching him go. A sadness certainly. But the bit is between his teeth now. He spins back to Jackson -- REID What else? Jackson - points out the photographs, the blank wall, the writing Down On Whores -- JACKSON (CONT’D) Whatever your friend Best’s connivery, she had been serviced. Recently. And vigorously. DRAKE So - she was a tart? JACKSON her - apparatus. By that age... even the more costly are - worn through. REID So, if she wasn’t a professional... JACKSON My guess - the lady taught fiddle. A scoffing hoot of disbelief from DRAKE. But JACKSON ignores him, focusses on REID, who’s intent, interested -- JACKSON (CONT’D) And she lived to the north. The new suburbs. I reckon not. I make her no younger than twenty-eight, and her skin, nailbeds... the essential health of
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