Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

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103. INT. A CAR HEADING SOUTH - HALF AN HOUR LATER No answer. COLLETTE Is Paddy coming with us? COLLETTE (CONT’D) What are we going to do? GERRY What we have to. You’ll see. CRASH CUT TO: INT. SAFE HOUSE - SOUTH ARMAGH - DAY KEVIN MULGREW and a burly sidekick yank PADDY MCVEIGH from a chair and push his head into a bath full of cold water. And out again. MULGREW. Shall we start over? PADDY Fuck you, Mulgrew. HE sighs, shakes his head. Why do they make it so hard on themselves? CRASH CUT TO: INT. DUBLIN AIRPORT - DAY COLLETTE and GERRY walk through security. On the tannoy: VOICE (O.S.) This is the final call for Aer Lingus Flight 313 to Paris. INT. IRA SAFE HOUSE - SOUTH ARMAGH - DAY ON PADDY’s head UNDERWATER ANGLE on MULGREW as he pulls him up again. Under he goes. MULGREW. This is a grand day Paddy, so it is. So where shall we start? PADDY Fuck you, Mulgrew.
104. INT. FLIGHT TO PARIS - DAY GERRY and COLLETTE sit next to each other as the plane takes off. INT. BELFAST POLICE HEADQUARTERS - EVENING RYAN and ALLEN are sitting at their desks when TREVOR LONG bursts in. BARRY DELAVINE is at his shoulder. Source 642 -- Foxglove -- has come good... LONG They’re on the move: Dublin, bound for London. INT. PARIS AIRPORT - EVENING COLLETTE and GERRY look nervous as they approach immigration control. ANGLE on the their false passports. They sail through. EXT. ALDEGROVE AIRPORT - BELFAST - EVENING ALLEN and RYAN run towards the open door of a waiting chinook helicopter. It immediately takes off and twists skywards. EXT. CAFE IN PARIS - EVENING COLLETTE and GERRY sit outside on the pavement. They have just finished dinner. COLLETTE is looking at a couple with young kids at the table next to her. Gerry glances at them. COLLETTE You ever think about a different life, Gerry? GERRY All the time. COLLETTE Will you do anything about it? GERRY One day. But no one ever used to care about us. And now they do. She contemplates this. It is undeniably true.
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10. LONG Don’t play games, Gingy.
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16. RYAN We haven’t lost an agent
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22. BUCHANAN You’re not going to
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24. MULGREW. Who signed you up, Gin
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28. INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - KITCHE
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30. PADDY Aaagh! You little bugger.
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38. HEADTEACHER (CONT’D) I know t
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40. MULGREW. We need to talk about
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44. MARK What is it, Mam? COLLETTE
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46. VOICE (O.S.) I’m Richard McIl
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48. RYAN Of course. COLLETTE I don
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50. INT. POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN BEL
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