LUTHER by NEIL CROSS Episode 1
Page 20 .
CORNISH
So he’s back.
TELLER
From outer space.
CORNISH You do know the man is nitroglycerine. TELLER With respect, sir - a comprehensive investigation under your edict cleared him of any wrong-doing - CORNISH Not least because the sole other witness is in a coma measuring twelve on the Glasgow Scale. TELLER - and Mia Dalton is at school today, not in the ground. Rose, if you bet too heavily on Luther then you stand or fall with him. And with you goes this unit - and my credibility, as its architect. Haven’t you’ve worked too hard, for too long to place that big a risk on such a wild card? TELLER I don’t consider him a risk. CORNISH Then what is he? TELLER An investment . CORNISH
A beat. Challenging but not unfriendly. CORNISH
And if Henry Madsen wakes up? Gives his account of what happened that night? TELLER He won’t. He gives her a wry look. Exits. And Teller sags. Perhaps not as confident as she made herself appear. INT. SCU, INTERVIEW ROOM - DAY 3 - 16.16 40 40 Luther and Alice.
Made with FlippingBook flipbook maker