Episode One - YELLOW AMENDS - 10/04/12
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The world spinning around him, he claws at the ground. Tries to raise himself upright, to focus on that area of crowd, to find Donaldson again, but the world just swims. BACK TO: REID - signalling now to HOBBS and the other PLAINCLOTHES and stepping forward, his men forming a phalanx behind him. Moving for SMEATON. The PUNTERS - seeing this body of men, their intent. They move aside. Reveal SMEATON, who turns, sees Reid. These men behind him. And the penny drops. The betrayal of it -- SMEATON (CONT’D) You....!? You’re blue!? REID - a nod for HOBBS, who reveals his warrant card. REID Joseph Smeaton. I’m arresting you for the organization of, and illicit profiteering from proscribed fights. (to HOBBS) Put the irons on him. And the PUNTERS scatter now. Word spreading like fire through the crowds. The WELL-TO-DO the sharpest to scramble. Jackson - stood in the melee. Pushing against it. Eyes on Drake. Making for him. BACK TO: DRAKE - his breathing shallow. Craning himself to see as the crowds shout and scatter. The flash of Donaldson’s face. Dragging himself to his knees. Trying to shout. No words forming. And appalled to find his head suddenly taken and held in Jackson’s hands -- JACKSON Drake. Hold still. I have you. BACK TO: Reid - oblivious, facing Smeaton’s fury and indignation -- SMEATON
Buckle me?! They’ll be leaving their earnings with another body tomorrow. You need to put the iron on every man-jack in East London!
But then --
JACKSON (O.S.)
Reid! Here!
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