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DANUTA

SCENE 1 INT POLICE INTERVIEW ROOM- DAY In a cold, dark interview room at St. Johns Wood Police Station a Polish girl named Ruta is being interviewed by Sergeant Colman about the wear about of her friend Danuta. Ruta sits on one side of the table; she looks around the room and starts to feel intimidated. She starts fiddling with her thumbs as she looks down. A couple of minutes pass until the door suddenly opens and Sergeant Colman walks in through the door opposite her. She looks at the table once again as she is afraid to look up to the dominant figure in front of her.

SERGEANT COLMAN (Raised tone) WHERE IS SHE?!

Ruta immediately starts to cry

RUTA (Calmly) I dont know (Pauses) I promise if I knew I would have told you (Wipes away a tear)

SERGEANT COLMAN (Calmly) Ok, lets start from the beginning once more (Huffs) And tell me what you remember.

RUTA (Sniffles) All I can remember is that she was on the run (Pauses, timidly) She was on the run from someone

SERGEANT COLMAN (Intrigued) Yes? And who was this someone?

RUTA Borys Borys_____ She had to leave Poland because of him

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SCENE 2 EXT WALKING ALONG A STREET- AFTERNOON- RAINING Its a cold, miserable, rainy day. Danuta walks down a road into a grim boarded up flat. She walks in and hovers in the hallway for a few seconds; she hears a harsh male voice from another room. She walks into the room. The men sit in a darkish, dirty room and barely look up as she enters. DANUTA Hi, Im back. Silence BORYS (Aggressive) Good. Did you get the parcel?

DANUATA Yes. She hands over the parcel

BORYS (Order) Good. Im hungry. She starts to walks into the kitchen

DANUTA Okay Danuta walks towards the fridge, and opens it; the fridge is empty with just potatoes and mouldy milk. She shuts the fridge, and opens a cupboard. She looks through old cans with polish food in, and then in the back corner picks up a wad of money by accident. Her eyes light up she keeps turning behind her to check she is alone; she puts the money in her pocket, goes to another drawer takes her passport out, checks the photo, and walks quickly to the front door.

She pauses; second thoughts come into her head. She has flashbacks of Borys hitting her. CUT TO SCENE 3, AND THEN BACK TO SCENE 2

SCENE 3 INT- INSIDE HOUSE- AFTERNOON Danuta sits opposite her boyfriend in a dimly lit room.

BORYS (Shouts) CAN YOU NOT DO ANYTHING RIGHT!?

DANUTA (Shouts) I DIDNT KNOW

BORYS (Shouts) YOURE USELESS

Borys walks up to Danuta and slaps her round the face; she stands there stunned for a couple of seconds holding her face. Borys then pushes her to the ground and walks out the room.

SCENE 2 She walks away from the front door and to the doorway of the room with the men in, and they turn to glare at her. There is a pause for a few seconds.

DANUTA There isnt much food; Ill go to the supermarket.

There is silence, apart from the men talking amongst themselves, she gets no reply. She walks out of the front door, runs down the road, looking back behind her, and hails for a taxi. DANUTA Take me to the airport

SCENE 4 EXT- CAF- MORNING Its a windy morning and Danuta is standing outside a caf on a side of the road and stumps out her cigarette with her foot. She then opens the door to the caf and walks in. INT- CAF The caf is plainly decorated with white walls and wooden tables, a few customers are sitting around tables having breakfast and Danuta walks forward to the counter. DANUTA (Deciding) Err Tea

CAF WAITRESS (Moody) Anything else?

DANUTA No CAF WAITRESS 70p then

Danuta goes into her pocket and grabs her change, she looks at it and realises she doesnt have enough she looks in one of her other bags she is carrying MAN 1 (Brash) Are you getting it or not? I gotta go work in 30

Danuta turns around and steps to the side to let the man order

DANUTA No, sorry I havent got enough money Danuta walks towards the caf door and walks outside. A woman is sitting in the corner and follows her outside. RUTA So you dont have enough money, where are you living? DANUTA I have just got here and I have no job so nowhere at the moment

RUTA I got here 2 months ago, come with me Ill show you a place to live.

SCENE 5 EXT- WALKWAY UNDER CAMDEN DARK- V.LOW LIGHTING NIGHT Night time, Danuta is walking on her way to do a job for another client. Alone, she walks underneath a bridge walkway by Camden Lock. She feels as if shes almost being watched, feels another presence besides her own but ignores it and continues. She reaches the flat door of the clients flat and rings bell. INT- CLIENT FLAT- NIGHT (Enter Danuta) Danuta walks into the building, and hits the button for the lift. The flat is run down and empty, but this does not phase Danuta. There are four other men in the life, they are hooded and she cannot see their faces. She enters the lift; she is looking down at the floor and recognises the shoes of one of the men. She looks up and sees Boriss face. As she tries to quickly escape, she is held back and the lift door closes. Danuta is now surrounded and blocked by four men.

BORYS (Calm, Sarcastic) Hello Danuta. How are you? Just checking by, wondering how life in the beautiful city of London Town was going, you know (Getting Louder) Just wondering 9

(Shouting) Where my fucking money was!

SCENE 6 INT- BACK TO THE POLICE INTERVIEW ROOM- AFTERNOON Back to the cold, dark interview room at St. Johns Wood Police Station. Ruta still sits opposite Sergeant Colman as he stands hunched over on the table. Grabs papers in a hurry SERGEANT COLMAN Ok (Stutters) Ok Interview terminated at 2.18pm Struggles to open the door and runs out of the room. Ruta begins crying as she is left alone.

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