Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

13.
She puts her HEAD IN HER HANDS.
She doesn’t budge.
RYAN (CONT’D)
They’re going to put you in a
stinking English jail a thousand
miles from home. Every time you
want to see the kids, or they
want to see you, your mother is
going to have put them on a ferry
and drive for hundreds of miles.
You can’t do it to them,
Collette.
RYAN stands ABRUPTLY and grabs another pile of photographs.
He squats again and HOLDS ONE UP.
RYAN (CONT’D)
Remember him?
He pulls apart her hands.
Her eyes GLISTEN.
No reply.
RYAN (CONT’D)
Look at it!
RYAN (CONT’D)
Raymond Quinn. You used to work
for him at the print factory...
RYAN (CONT’D)
You told Paddy he was a part-time
soldier and this was the
result...
He holds up a picture of a BODY LYING AMIDST KIDS TOYS.
RYAN (CONT’D)
Paddy rang the doorbell and
gunned him down. His wife found
the kids crawling all over his
body, covered in blood. You
scouted it, Gerry ordered it,
Paddy pulled the trigger...
She shakes her head.
RYAN (CONT’D)
Yes you did! And now you visit
his grave every month, without
fail.
A photograph of her placing flowers in front of a
headstone.