Episode One - YELLOW AMENDS - 10/04/12
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Pick out - A BOY PICKPOCKET, perhaps 10, catching the eye of the GUIDE. Collusion here. The barest of nods exchanged as the BOY makes his move toward a particular COUPLE. In a footstep, he’s relieved the entirely innocent GENTLEMAN of his wallet. GUIDE (CONT’D) (all outrage) I say! You, boy! And in a deft step or two, the GUIDE lays a meaty fist on the collar of the escaping boy, takes back the wallet in triumph. Holds it aloft. GUIDE (CONT’D) Gentlemen. Please. Vigilance is your only guardian on these - mean and wicked pathways. The BOY and the GUIDE - another barely visible moment of complicity as the child stamps on a foot -- GUIDE (CONT’D) (all theatre) Wretch! Ruffian! But the BOY - a smile on his face - is gone. EXT. FOLGATE - CONTINUOUS 1/3 Stay with the BOY as he runs. Fast, agile, a left, a right. And then he careers to a halt. Sudden, real fear on his face. Stood above him -- A man. All we see - his looming black GREATCOAT. And the DEAD BODY at his feet. What was once a young woman, wrapped in drapes, her throat cut, her face sliced, disfigured. The GREATCOAT - disturbed from his work perhaps - advancing on the appalled child as -- GUIDE (O.S.) ... the young of this parish know little else but thuggery... The grateful BOY - his skin surely saved by this interruption, taking off and away. The GREATCOAT no choice but to scarper too. And here is the TOUR GROUP again, turning blithely into the alleyway -- GUIDE (CONT’D)
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... how best to raise them up from such iniquity? That is a matter for you good people, of course...
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