Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

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3. She walks again. PUNCH UP; WINCHESTER, UNITED KINGDOM, DECEMBER 1993 As COLLETTE approaches the railway station, quick cuts follow her casual glances at: A YOUTH cleaning windows. A MIDDLE-AGED MAN sitting at a bus stop. A YOUNG WOMAN selling flowers. INT. STATION - WINCHESTER - A MINUTE LATER. COLLETTE moves along the platform. Quick cuts again as she checks out: A PRIEST. A group of MOTHERS with their kids. A YOUNG MAN doing a newspaper crossword. He’s concentrating hard. NEW ANGLE: A train SMASHES into frame. CRASH CUT TO: INT. TRAIN. COLLETTE’S P.O.V. as she searches for a seat. DISJOINTED voices and snippets of conversation. KIDS arguing. MOTHERS discussing their day out. COLLETTE glances over her shoulder at crossword guy. CLOSE on a discarded newspaper front page, which shouts TARGET LONDON; EXPECT ‘MORE BOMBS, MORE CHAOS’, CRASH CUT TO: EXT. A TRAIN HURTLING THROUGH THE ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE - ALMOST AN HOUR LATER. CUT TO: INT. TRAIN. COLLETTE sits with the rucksack on her lap. ON CROSSWORD GUY, two rows back. He’s still concentrating hard. Maybe too hard.
4. COLLETTE moves to the toilet, locks the door, opens her bag. A beat. She reaches into her rucksack and fiddles with something, but we can’t tell what. She looks up. She breathes in deep. Back to her seat. A conductor inspects tickets. COLLETTE sees him exchange a look with crossword guy. Something’s not right. EXT. WATERLOO STATION - MINUTES LATER. COLLETTE’s P.O.V. as she steps onto the platform. Something is not right: The newspaper seller, the two young men by a stairwell... Faster. The ticket collector by the gate is not checking tickets, doesn’t meet her eye... Faster still. A shout behind her. Shocked faces as she ricochets through the crowd and bursts out of the station to... EXT. LONDON STREET - CONTINUOUS. ...where she runs like hell. We hear police sirens, more shouts, whistles. She weaves through the traffic. An oncoming car screeches to a halt -- nearly flattens her -- but she doesn’t break her stride... EXT. NEARBY STREET - CONTINUOUS. DAVID RYAN stands by the open door of an unmarked car. He has a police radio in his hand, only just audible over the wail of sirens. VOICE (ON THE RADIO) She’s going for the bridge... EXT. BANK OF THE THAMES - CONTINUOUS. TIGHT ON COLLETTE as she sprints along the bank of the RIVER. All we can hear is her BREATHING. A helicopter swoops low.
Page 1 and 2: Shadow Dancer by Tom Bradby Based o
Page 3: 2. As we follow her down the hill,
Page 7 and 8: 6. No answer. The cop flips open a
Page 9 and 10: 8. INT. OBSERVATION ROOM OUTSIDE TH
Page 11 and 12: 10. LONG Don’t play games, Gingy.
Page 13 and 14: 12. She looks furious. RYAN (CONT
Page 15 and 16: 14. No answer. RYAN (CONT’D) You
Page 17 and 18: 16. RYAN We haven’t lost an agent
Page 19 and 20: 18. He glances at a photograph of a
Page 21 and 22: 20. She nods. She stares out of the
Page 23 and 24: 22. BUCHANAN You’re not going to
Page 25 and 26: 24. MULGREW. Who signed you up, Gin
Page 27 and 28: 26. INT. A TRAIN APPROACHING BELFAS
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Page 31 and 32: 30. PADDY Aaagh! You little bugger.
Page 33 and 34: 32. COLLETTE kisses her daughter an
Page 35 and 36: 34. A soldier suddenly blocks her w
Page 37 and 38: 36. She breaks away, staggers. She
Page 39 and 40: 38. HEADTEACHER (CONT’D) I know t
Page 41 and 42: 40. MULGREW. We need to talk about
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Page 45 and 46: 44. MARK What is it, Mam? COLLETTE
Page 47 and 48: 46. VOICE (O.S.) I’m Richard McIl
Page 49 and 50: 48. RYAN Of course. COLLETTE I don
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Page 53 and 54: 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.
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66. MULGREW. (CONT'D) Or did one of
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68. INT. BELFAST’S ROYAL VICTORIA
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70. INT. IRA CHIEF OF STAFF’S DAI
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72. EXT. MILLTOWN CEMETERY - DAY A
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74. We’re CLOSE again on Gerry. H
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76. He stares at her. And he turns
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78. GIRL Wolf Tone called. The pass
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80. RYAN doesn’t answer. No point
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82. ALLEN (CONT'D) Maybe that’s w
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84. INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - LIVING
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86. EXT. A SNOWY HILLTOP FIELD IN S
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88. No answer. He stops the car. GE
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90. A long silence. GERRY You want
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92. COLLETTE (agitated) I’ve made
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94. COLLETTE I don’t know... RYAN
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96. ALLEN What in the hell are you
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98. DELAVINE (CONT’D) We have a r
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100. PADDY What do you want? MULGRE
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102. We follow her out... INT. LAND
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104. INT. FLIGHT TO PARIS - DAY GER
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106. He takes out the pistol and pl
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108. GERRY (CONT’D) Everything we
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110. PADDY’S head sags. Collette.
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112. A telephone is on the desk bet
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114. COLLETTE (CONT’D) Who did yo
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116. INT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - DAY GE
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118. EXT. STREET OUTSIDE THE HOUSE
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120. EXT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - UNDERN
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122. ON COLLETTE as she clings to h
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