LUTHER by NEIL CROSS Episode 1
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Alice is waiting in a recess, out of view. As Zoe passes, Alice steps up behind her. Tucks an elbow round her NECK. Presses a HAT-PIN into her ear. ALICE Don’t look at me. Her voice is low, almost sexy. Lips very close to Zoe’s ear. ZOE Okay! Okay! ALICE Shhhhh. ZOE (low) Okay. Okay. ALICE Your husband assaulted me. ZOE What? ALICE He touched me. Intimately. He made me do things. He hurt me. Because of you. ZOE What do you mean? ALICE As he touched me, he talked about you. He told me you were dead. Zoe frozen - as Alice caresses her cheek with a fingernail. ALICE That you’d been very badly burned. Your skin was gone. Your face was gone. You’d been abducted. Right off the street. By a man, a very sick man. He kept you alive for days. He used knives. A blowtorch. He kept pieces of you for souvenirs. (very close) I’m worried someone might want to hurt you like that. ZOE Don’t. Please don’t. Please. ALICE Shhhh. Shhhhh. Don’t turn around. And Alice slips away. Leaving Zoe in horror-struck silence.
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