Episode One - YELLOW AMENDS - 10/04/12
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Reid, Drake, Jackson - lanterns in hand, pushing into the basement. Utter silence. A sense of abandonment. And then the three men are SEARCHING the place. Drake - that camp-bed turned over; meagre personal belongings rifled through. Reid - turning draws and records out. Jackson the same. A trunk. Clearing the junk from it. Checking its dimensions, and -- JACKSON False bottom. So he stamps through it. Pulls the remains away. Reaches in. And turns to the other two with his hands full of a treasure trove of Victorian pornography. Flicking through it. His face recoils at it. Harder, much more upsetting than the images he was exposed to with ROSE; even harder that what that over-exposed image hinted at. JACKSON Drake - you may want to avert your eyes. This is strong meat. REID - finding more in there. Similarly aghast at what he sees -- REID Got her. MAUDE THWAITES - many images of her in many different poses. JACKSON Not much seems beyond our Maude, does it? And DRAKE - visibly upset by all this -- DRAKE That’s him. An extraordinary image this: Against a painted backdrop of pyramids and camels, DONALDSON - made up like some kind of Pharoah - “forces” Maude, herself in Egyptian headdress, a leash about her neck, into subjugation. REID - putting the images aside. Moving to something else. Something he doesn’t recognise - strips of film, hung from a clothes wire -- REID What’s this? JACKSON - moving to him --
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