Shadow Dancer Screenplay - Raindance Film Festival

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85. GERRY (CONT'D) It hurts, it really hurts... Like I’m back there... MA squeezes his shoulder. MA You’ve paid your dues. GERRY Our dues will never be paid. MA I’d like you to stop using Sean’s memory to bully Paddy and Collette. They’ve had enough. GERRY (stung) He was our brother. MA (angry) And my son! She shakes her head. MA (CONT’D) He was my son. With a look of sudden resignation -- even desolation -- MA turns away. We LINGER on GERRY’S FACE. They’re all quitters. Every last damned one of them. INT. COLLETTE’S HOME - A BEDROOM UPSTAIRS - A FEW MINUTES LATER. CHRISTY and LIAM on the bed, both with tear-stained eyes. GERRY sits down, puts an arm around his son. GERRY I’m sorry. He pulls LIAM to him. CHRISTY cries again, but whether in happiness or sorrow it’s hard to tell. EXT. HOUSE OF COMMONS - CARRIAGE GATE - DAY MCILHATTON watches from the crowd as the Prime Minister’s Jaguar sweeps in. He glances up at Big Ben. It’s 3.10 exactly.
86. EXT. A SNOWY HILLTOP FIELD IN SOUTH ARMAGH - DAY GERRY MCVEIGH and the rebel IRA commander DECLAN FOX stand on the edge of a wood. FOX has a shotgun under his arm. He’s been killing rabbits. COLLETTE stands nearby, out of earshot. FOX It’s sedition. You’ll get no support here. GERRY It’s not support I want. I need to know there’ll be no witch-hunt when it’s done. FOX raises the shotgun, so that it points at GERRY’s stomach. FOX You’re a traitor, McVeigh, and I ought to blow your balls right back to Belfast... GERRY (without flinching) It’s not me who wants to sell us out. FOX Our leaders have sweated blood on this. So who do you speak for? GERRY All those who can no longer speak for themselves and deserved something better. FOX Like what? GERRY Like a result that bears a passing resemblance to what we’ve been fighting for. FOX smiles slyly and lowers his gun. He glances at COLLETTE, starts walking. GERRY falls in beside him. FOX I’ll keep it to myself. I’ll give you that much chance, if you’ve the balls to go through with it. If you act quickly, if it’s as big as you say, maybe you’ll carry people. Maybe. (MORE)
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10. LONG Don’t play games, Gingy.
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16. RYAN We haven’t lost an agent
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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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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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Page 37 and 38: 36. She breaks away, staggers. She
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Page 41 and 42: 40. MULGREW. We need to talk about
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Page 67 and 68: 66. MULGREW. (CONT'D) Or did one of
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