Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

72.
EXT. MILLTOWN CEMETERY - DAY
A panoramic view of dawn breaking over this iconic
graveyard at the heart of republican West Belfast -- the
IRA’s heartland. We sweep in to pick out two lonely figures
winding through the headstones. COLLETTE and her MOTHER
walk arm in arm. MA carries two bunches of flowers and a
brand new LIVERPOOL scarf.
They stop before a grave. The headstone reads; SEAN MICHAEL
MCVEIGH, BELOVED SON, MURDERED BY CROWN FORCES
MA places one of the bunches in the vase and slips the
Liverpool scarf around the headstone.
The two women lean their heads together.
They walk, arms still linked, down the line to another
grave. DAVEY MCGRAW, BELOVED FRIEND AND FATHER, MURDERED BY
CROWN FORCES.
COLLETTE has no flowers to lay here. We watch her face.
What would it say on her headstone? The woman who betrayed
them all...
MA notices COLLETTE’s cheeks are damp and brushes the tears
tenderly away.
EXT. FALLS ROAD - DAY
A group of men in black leather jackets, white shirts,
black ties and black shoes wait to carry DECLAN WALSHE’s
coffin. They’re surrounded by a crowd of mourners outside a
terraced house.
NEW ANGLE: Cops dressed in riot gear pack the street.
NEW ANGLE: GERRY MCVEIGH waits in the crowd, dressed in a
green corduroy jacket.
NEW ANGLE: A helicopter ‘eye in the sky’ hovers.
NEW ANGLE: a shot from its monitor reveals the cops fanning
out into dozens of surrounding streets. It looks like a
siege. In a sense, it is.
NEW ANGLE: The RUC -- the police -- commander taps a wooden
baton against his leg. As the coffin is brought out of the
house, draped in the Irish flag, he steps forward. He
approaches GERRY MCVEIGH.
COMMANDER
We agreed there’d be none of
this.
GERRY ignores him, nods for the pallbearers to continue.
The officer raises his stick.