Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

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117. The line is cut. RYAN (O.S.) (relieved) Colette...it’s me...David. COLLETTE You have to get my mother. They... Something’s happened-- RYAN Where are you? COLLETTE I’m in the House of Commons...You have to get my mother. They think she’s me. They’ll-- INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS CHAMBER - DAY The Speaker is on his feet. SPEAKER Questions to the Prime Minister! INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - LIVING ROOM - DAY MULGREW is sitting opposite MA. MA (shaking her head) There won’t be any need for that, Kevin. I’ll tell you what you need to know. My code name is Foxglove. MULGREW. How long have you been working for them? She glances down the corridor at the kids, still eating their lunch. MA. (sighs) It began when you were just a kid. They said they had enough evidence to put Paddy in prison for the rest of his life. I’d lost one son. I didn’t want to lose another.
118. EXT. STREET OUTSIDE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS - DAY RYAN pounds the pavement, past startled tourists. Sirens wail. Cops scream in from all directions. INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - DAY GERRY hammers on the toilet door. As COLLETTE unlocks it, he steps in. He is CHARGED UP, CRAZY. He pulls a balaclava over his head and nods to her to do the same. Gerry-- COLLETTE He forces her balaclava roughly on and drags her out of there. They turn onto the stairs. They pass a pair of startled journalists and begin to descend as.... INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - CONTINUOUS. RYAN enters the bottom of the stairwell, a Browning pistol in his hand... INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - CHAMBER - CONTINUOUS. SPEAKER The Leader of the Opposition... INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - STAIRWELL - CONTINUOUS. RYAN runs into a large group of officials walking down the stairs... Move! RYAN He smashes through... INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - CHAMBER - CONTINUOUS. LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION (getting to his feet) Could the Prime Minister please tell the house whether he advised the United States Government to grant Mr Gerry Adams a visa to visit Boston, New York and Washington?
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Shadow Dancer by Tom Bradby Based o
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2. As we follow her down the hill,
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4. COLLETTE moves to the toilet, lo
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6. No answer. The cop flips open a
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8. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM OUTSIDE TH
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10. LONG Don’t play games, Gingy.
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12. She looks furious. RYAN (CONT
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14. No answer. RYAN (CONT’D) You
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16. RYAN We haven’t lost an agent
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18. He glances at a photograph of a
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20. She nods. She stares out of the
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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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26. INT. A TRAIN APPROACHING BELFAS
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28. INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - KITCHE
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30. PADDY Aaagh! You little bugger.
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32. COLLETTE kisses her daughter an
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34. A soldier suddenly blocks her w
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36. She breaks away, staggers. She
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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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42. INT. BOOK-SHOP - CAMDEN - CONTI
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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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52. A beat. ALLEN shrugs. RYAN (CON
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54. Yes. COLLETTE The driver pulls
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56. INT. HENDERSON’S HOUSE ON THE
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58. EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS. It al
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60. INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - KITCHE
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62. She glances up. She has no idea
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64. INT. CAR - A FEW MINUTES LATER.
Page 67 and 68: 66. MULGREW. (CONT'D) Or did one of
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Page 107 and 108: 106. He takes out the pistol and pl
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