Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

40.
MULGREW.
We need to talk about London. But
only when you’re ready, Collette.
She stares at him, unsure of how she is expected to
respond.
PADDY arrives through the back gate. We sense immediately
that he cannot abide this man.
PADDY
What the hell’s he doing here?
COLLETTE
It’s all right, Paddy. He’s just
leaving.
MULGREW.
I’m doing my job, Volunteer
McVeigh.
PADDY
Then fuck off and do it somewhere
else.
MULGREW looks irritated.
MULGREW.
(to Collette, terse)
We’ll talk.
He leaves. PADDY takes his sister’s arm.
PADDY
What did he want?
COLLETTE
It’s about London.
PADDY
What’s the problem?
COLLETTE
I don’t know.
PADDY thinks about this a moment and then we FOLLOW as he
ducks back through the gate to the alley.
PADDY’s P.O.V. as he stalks down the narrow lane to where
his brother GERRY is standing in open ground. GERRY is
talking to his wife CHRISTY, a slim and attractive
brunette. His seven-year-old son LIAM stands patiently by
his side. He’s a kid always looking for his Dad’s attention
but rarely getting it.
CHRISTY shoots her brother-in-law a long-suffering -- maybe
even barbed -- grin and melts away. When they are out of
earshot;