Episode One - YELLOW AMENDS - 10/04/12
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INT. THE DEN - DAY 1/84 CECIL CREIGHTON - the door to this large wooden cabinet now open to reveal a protrusion that is both camera and projector. Donaldson - Rose by the hair; fresh bruising all about her. Dragging her into a chair and on to his lap. DONALDSON Creighton. Lift the curtain. Creighton - his discomfort. Does as he’s bid. Sets the machine going. Rose - nothing in her life has prepared her for this. Astonishment at these images that move. And sheer dread at the content of the images -- THE FILM: MAUDE THWAITES - that leash about her neck, a slave girl offering herself to DONALDSON, the Pharoah. INT. LEMAN STREET - DAY 1/85
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REID and DRAKE - pushing back in with their men -- REID His friends. Any relatives. (beat) Hobbs! The Telegraph. Scotland Yard must have their names and addresses. But then -- JACKSON (O.S.) Reid!
REID spins to his name. Sees JACKSON - scratches and bruises fresh on his face, his hand still on the collar of a very pinched LONG SUSAN, deeply unnerved by being surrounded by all these police. He pushes her toward them -- JACKSON (CONT’D) Show and tell, Susan. SUSAN - handing REID a few counterfeit notes. And this is hard for her -- LONG SUSAN Three of my girls. Collected last night. Not yet returned. Black coach, two black horses. (beat) They paid in that. REID - studying the bill, handing it to DRAKE; many things dawning on them --
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