Sow The Wind

Part II

Whispers in the Wind

By
Richard Knight

6th August 2010

Richard Knight 2010

1 EXT NIGHT SKY - NIGHT 1
A MAN is in FREEFALL through the night sky. He pulls his
rip-cord and his parachute opens.

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2 EXT. FOOTBALL STADIUM - PITCH - NIGHT 2

A football stadium stands empty in the blackness.

The PARACHUTIST silently lands near the centre circle.
As he packs away his parachute, reveal that he is the
eco-terrorist GEORGI ROMANOV.

FADE TO:

3 EXT. FOOTBALL STADIUM - PITCH - TIMELAPSE 3

Timelapse flash-forward through the night into morning,

scudding clouds over the football stadium.
Then later in the afternoon, still on timelapse, the
stadium starts to fill with fans. Slowing down to real
time for the next scene.

FADE TO:

4 EXT. FOOTBALL STADIUM EVE 4

It’s a warm summer evening in the now packed stadium.

The usual sights from match day TV footage, PLAYERS
getting ready in the tunnel, the assistants leading them
out onto the field as:

COMMENTATOR ALAN (V.O)

Well after a short delay it looks
like the players are coming out.
They say these pre-season
friendlies don’t count for much
but you wouldn’t know it
here. Tony Mattelli is playing a
full strength side with just two
changes from the one which beat
Liverpool in the FA Cup
final. And they’re up against a
Russian National side which was
unbeaten away last year.
The Football club owner, Russian Billionaire CONSTANTINE
ROMANOV takes his seat in the VIP stand.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 2.

COMMENTATOR ROY (V.O)

Constantine Romanov there. He
gave his manager a bottomless pit
of money in the summer transfer
window.
COMMENTATOR ALAN (V.O)
He certainly did Roy, and the
Brazilian, Ecco, gets his first
start for the club in attacking
midfield. A twenty one million
pound signing from AC Milan. Is
he worth that, Roy?
COMMENTATOR ROY (V.O)
There’s always going to be debate
about the amount of foreign
investment coming into the
domestic game.
The RUSSIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM begins to play.

COMMENTATOR ALAN (V.O)

Apparently Ecco will only play
with a number 26 shirt because
that’s his mother’s birthday and
he always has to have his boots
blessed by a...
BOOM!!!!
The CENTRE CIRCLE of the pitch EXPLODES like a landmine
going off.

RATTLING of the microphone. The players and officials on

the pitch are bombarded with loose soil.
COMMENTATOR ALAN (V.O)
Oh my goodness, we’ve got a ...
there’s an incident here.
Screams from the crowd, the camera we’re viewing from
points to the ground as the cameraman runs for cover.
COMMENTATOR ROY (V.O)
Everyone try to keep calm.
Click - the microphones are switched off.
A panicky cut to a high wide shot of the stadium, smoke
still rising from the centre circle, where a small bomb
crater has appeared.
The crowds begin to file out of the stadium as the RUSSIAN
NATIONAL ANTHEM continues over the next five scenes.

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 3.

5 MI5 OPERATIONS ROOM 5

BILLY and desk staff member DARREN field multiple calls.

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6 INT GENTLEMEN’S CLUB MOMENTS LATER 6

HOME SECRETARY JEREMY WALKER is passed a mobile phone on a
silver tray by a SERVING PERSON. On the television in the
background, a cartoon is playing, which other members of
the club are watching intently.
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7 EXT SAILING CLUB MOMENTS LATER 7

ROBERT is sailing a small dinghy. He looks over towards
the shore to see.. his wife YVONNE waving her arms in his
direction, signalling for him to come in.

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8 INT AIRPORT DEPARTURE LOUNGE MOMENTS LATER 8

FIONA checks the departure board for her flight to NICE.

The screen flicks to “CANCELLED”
Every other flight flicks to “CANCELLED” too.

FIONA shakes her head.

FIONA
For godsake.

PASSENGER (ANGRY)
Again?!
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9 INT DEN OF INIQUITY MOMENTS LATER 9

King of Spin PETER BARBER covers his mobile phone with his
hand and lets out a very big sigh.
PETE BARBER
I’ve got to go.
A DOMINATRIX woman in full leather gear walks past him,
they exchange shrugs, and she puts the kettle on.
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10 INT MI5 OPS ROOM SOME TIME LATER 10

PETER BARBER sits in a meeting next to Home Secretary
JEREMY WALKER, with ROBERT, BILLY, CHARLIE and head of
Special Branch JOHN CARTER.
PETE BARBER
I’m getting pretty sick of this.
JOHN CARTER
We don’t know it’s Georgi yet.
PETE BARBER
Don’t know?! A bomb goes off in
the middle of the pitch at his
own father’s football ground and
you don’t know it’s him? Are you
stupid or something?
Everyone looks to home secretary JEREMY WALKER here.
JEREMY WALKER
Yes? Well.. what do we know this
time?
PETE BARBER
What we do know is it’s all bluff
and bluster. I mean, who closed
the airports again? Nobody was
killed. Georgi Romanov is clearly
not a killer.
BILLY
Don’t be so sure.
PETE BARBER
I beg your pardon?
BILLY
That Brazilian player, Ecco..
PETE BARBER
What about him?
BILLY
..has to have his boots blessed
by a priest.
JEREMY WALKER
And what on earth is the
relevance of that?

BILLY
It caused a delay, Home
Secretary.

(CONTINUED)
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ROBERT
The starting ceremony was two
full minutes behind schedule. So
had the match started on time,
two of the players..

BILLY
..and the referee..
ROBERT
..would have been standing on the
centre spot at the time of the
explosion.
BILLY
And blown to kingdom come.
(beat)
Still think he’s not a killer?
PETE BARBER
Nobody’s dead, are they?

JEREMY WALKER
How the bloody blazes did he
manage to plant a bomb full
square in the middle of the
field?

JOHN CARTER
We’re working on that.
At this point, Russian Billionaire and Georgi’s father,
CONSTANTINE ROMANOV enters the room with his assistant
MISHA (28), a hot Russian babe.

PETE
Here we go.
CONSTANTINE
Who’s in charge here?

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11 EXT. RICHMOND PARK - DAY 11

GEE sits among the deer at Richmond Park. Besides him, his
kit bag.
A family pack up a picnic nearby. FATHER, MOTHER and TWO
CHILDREN.

They leave various bottles and packaging behind them.

They all pile into a Range Rover.
GEE walks over and picks up the litter, then watches the
Range Rover as it leaves.

(CONTINUED)
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12 EXT. CHANNEL TUNNEL - DAY 12

FIONA, in a hire car, arrives at the Folkestone Channel

Tunnel terminal. On her radio..
NEWSREADER (ON RADIO)
..although a large area of West
London still remains cordoned
off, police are praising the
supporters on both sides and the
stadium officials for such a
smooth evacuation. Early
speculation is that the bomb was
planted by the wanted
eco-terrorist Georgi Romanov,
renegade son of the club’s owner
Constantine Romanov.
Click. Fiona switches the radio over to a music station.

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13 INT. MI5 OPS ROOM - LATER 13

CONSTANTINE ROMANOV sits around a tv screen with his

assistants MISHA and SONIA, with Home Secretary JEREMY
WALKER, ROBERT, BILLY, CHARLIE and head of special branch,
JOHN CARTER.
On the TV, CCTV footage of the football ground showing
multiple images at night time.
Firstly, a car on fire outside the main entrance, with two
security guards hovering around it.
At the same time, on other cameras inside the ground, GEE
parachuting silently onto the pitch.
CONSTANTINE (OFF)
The simplest of diversion
tactics.

BILLY
(genuinely impressed)
Nice entrance.
JOHN CARTER
How do you know it’s him?
CONSTANTINE
I know my son. It’s him.
(beat)
Mr Walker, I have fired my entire
security staff over this.. this
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 7.

CONSTANTINE (cont’d)
incident. I have taken decisive
action, have you?

MISHA unplugs her phone from the TV, which has been
playing the cctv footage.
JEREMY WALKER
What’s that supposed to mean?

CONSTANTINE
Your failure to catch him is
making a laughing stock of the
British Government.
(beat)
I want him caught, and quickly
too, or I may be forced to take
my business interests elsewhere.
JEREMY WALKER
I don’t think there’s any need
for that.
CONSTANTINE
France are interested in giving
me big tax concessions. And their
food is far superior.
(beat)
I want him caught, alive.
PETE BARBER
You’ve no say in it, we’ve
authorised lethal force.

CONSTANTINE
(switching to Russian)
He is my flesh and blood despite
everything. You savages will not
gun him down in cold blood.

PETE BARBER
(also in Russian)
We will do as we please, you have
no power to dictate terms. Your
son is attempting murder at every
turn.
CONSTANTINE
(in Russian)
Ahh a fellow comrade! You speak
it well.
PETE BARBER
(Russian)
Eight years in Moscow, naval
attache.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 8.

CONSTANTINE
(Russian)
You miss the mother country?
PETE BARBER
(Russian)
No. Moscow is a shit-hole full
of corruption and whores.
CONSTANTINE
(Russian)
And you’d know all about both, Mr
Barber, I’m sure.
PETE BARBER
(Russian)
Nowhere near as much as you,
Masha.
JEREMY WALKER
(English, to Pete Barber)
What are you saying?

PETE BARBER
(English)
I’m explaining to him how much we
value the Anglo-Russian
relationship.

JEREMY WALKER
(English)
Oh well done, keep him sweet eh?
CONSTANTINE
(to Pete Barber, in Russian)
My son will not kill anyone, he
doesn’t have it in him.
PETE BARBER
(Russian)
He’d have killed the referee and
your new Brazilian mummy’s boy if
the match had started on time.
CONSTANTINE
(surprised, in Russian)
Really?
(beat)
Well Georgi, you surprise your
old man.

JEREMY WALKER
(English, trying to join in)
That’s right Mr Romanov, we will
make sure your British interests
are secured.

A pause as Constantine takes the measure of Jeremy Walker.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 9.

CONSTANTINE
(Russian, to Pete Barber)
Why do you work for such brain
dead assholes?

PETE BARBER
(Russian)
That’s an excellent question.
(beat)
Because he makes me look good..?

CONSTANTINE
(Russian)
You could come and work for me. I
could use a man with your
connections.

They both motion to shake hands, cordially.

PETE BARBER
(smiling, in Russian)
It’d be a cold day in hell before
I worked for you.
CONSTANTINE
(Russian)
Well the offer stands, if you
tire of shit-for-brains here.

CONSTANTINE shakes hands with a smiling uncomprehending

JEREMY WALKER, then leaves, followed by MISHA, SONIA, and
a cloud of expensive cologne.

JOHN CARTER
Well..?
PETE BARBER
Lets play it down. Re-open the
airports right now, and lets get
on with it people.
BILLY
Is that wise?
PETE BARBER
I’m not having this country
grinding to a halt like last
time.
ROBERT
(to John Carter)
When do we get the first forensic
reports?
JOHN CARTER
Hasta manana. Tomorrow,
tomorrow.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 10.

Everyone starts packing to leave the meeting.

ROBERT
(in Russian, to Pete Barber)
Well handled there, Pete.
PETE BARBER
(Russian)
He’s only throwing his weight
around. Probably capitalise on
the whole affair to get himself
even further under the top table.
ROBERT
(Russian)
I worked Moscow too, early
nineties. Never saw you there.
PETE BARBER
(Russian)
We must have moved in different
circles. Crazy times, eh Robert?

JEREMY WALKER
(English)
Alright people, enough.
(beat)
I simply cannot tolerate this
discourse in foreign tongues. I
find it hard enough to understand
English, nevermind Russkie.
PETE BARBER
(Russian)
Then learn it you ignorant son of
a donkey and a goat.
ROBERT and PETE BARBER share a conspiratorial smile here.

JEREMY WALKER
(indignant)
Peter! Stop it..
CUT TO:

14 INT. AIRPORT 14
A departure board switches from flights "CANCELLED" to
"BOARDING - GATE 21" and "PROCEED TO GATE 18" etc.

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 11.

15 INT. CAR/EXT. FRENCH MOTORWAY - EVE 15

FIONA drives down the motorway. An aeroplane flies
overhead. Fiona sees the plane.

FIONA
(sarcastic)
Oh lovely. Thrown your dummy out
eh, Barber?

She passes a sign which reads "Marseille 550km."

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16 EXT. STREET - EVENING 16

BILLY cycles home. At a junction he is virtually forced

off the road by a large car.
BILLY
Watch it!

The driver’s window is lowered.

DRIVER
Buy a car you cheap bastard!

Billy touches the left side of his clothing.

BILLY
Don’t make me shoot you in the
head.

DRIVER
Yeah right, tosser.
The car heads off.

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17 EXT. BILLY’S HOUSE - NIGHT 17

BILLY arrives home on his bicycle. Just before going
inside, he removes his gun from beneath his clothing and
puts it in his rucksack.
He exhales loud and long, then heads inside.
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18 INT. BILLY’S HOUSE - NIGHT - CONT’D ACTION 18

BILLY walks through the hall to the lounge. His mum CARLA
sits alone reading a newspaper. The front page headline
reads "Plans unveiled for new "Super M25""
BILLY
It’s a fascist republic out
there, mother, I swear.
(beat)
You hear about the stadium bomb?
CARLA
No.
Billy notices that Carla is subdued, and that she’s the
only one in the house. His asthmatic sister, Ruth, is
missing.
BILLY
Where’s Ruth?

CARLA
I’m sorry, love, we had to take
her in.
BILLY
You’re kidding?
CARLA
She had a terrible attack this
afternoon, we had no choice.
(beat)
Your Dad’s there, I’m here
waiting for you.
(beat)
What stadium bomb?
BILLY
Doesn’t matter, let’s go.
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19 INT. HOSPITAL ROOM/CORRIDOR - NIGHT - LATER 19

Billy’s sister RUTH is hooked-up to a heavy duty

ventilator. Father PARVEEN sits by the bed as CARLA and
BILLY arrive.
PARVEEN stands and walks CARLA and BILLY back out into the
corridor.
BILLY
How is she?

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 13.

PARVEEN
Resting.
BILLY
Can I see?
PARVEEN
In good time.
(beat)
It’s not looking so good.

CARLA
Meaning?
PARVEEN
They’re thinking of keeping her
on one of those.. machines.. full
time.
CARLA
Oh.

BILLY
It’s pollution-related.
PARVEEN
They didn’t say that.

BILLY
Yeah but the other week when the
planes were grounded, she was
much better wasn’t she?

CARLA
Oh yes.
(beat)
Probably a coincidence.
BILLY
You don’t know that.
PARVEEN
So.. what? You think we should
move to the mountains now?

BILLY
If it helps, yeah.
PARVEEN
Don’t be so stupid, Billy.

But Billy isn’t listening - he heads into Ruth’s room

where she gives him a plaintive wave from inside the
ventilator. Billy waves back.
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20 INT. ROBERT’S HOUSE - NIGHT 20

ROBERT and YVONNE watch the news on TV:

A reporter is outside the stadium doing a piece to camera.

REPORTER (ON TV)
Clive, this is as close as we’re
allowed to get. Police are still
searching the stadium for clues,
and they’re concerned that
further bombs may have been
planted.
The image on TV switches to the game, the build-up, just
prior to the explosion.

REPORTER (V.O)
You could say it was a case of
"saved from on high." Neither
his manager or anyone else in the
squad realised that the staunchly
Catholic new signing, Ecco,
insists on having his boots
blessed by a priest before each
match.

The explosion happens on the screen.

REPORTER (V.O, CONT’D)
Now, the explosion happened at
exactly 7.45pm. If they hadn’t
lost time looking for a priest,
the players would have been in
the middle of the pitch at
exactly that time.
The action reverts back to the Reporter standing outside
the stadium.

NEWSREADER (OFF)
How certain are the police that
the bomb was planted by Georgi
Romanov?

REPORTER (ON TV)

Officially, police say they
haven’t ruled out Al Qaeda or
dissident Republican factions,
but unofficially they’re telling
me they’re pretty convinced
Georgi planted it.
NEWSREADER (OFF)
But why would he bomb his own
father’s football team?

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 15.

REPORTER (ON TV)

Well, Clive, it’s a known fact
that Georgi is estranged from the
Romanov family. His father also
owns an airline and has
substantial Russian oil and gas
interests. But even so, it does
represent a change of tactics for
the self-styled
eco-terrorist. So far it’s a
miracle that no-one has been
killed, but it can only be a
matter of time before the luck
runs out.
The action moves into the news studio;

NEWSREADER (ON TV)

Thanks, Colin. Other news now,
and the Government today unveiled
plans for a new outer outer M25
for London.
The action moves to a conference where minister for
transport GEORGE HARRIS is speaking, muted as the
newsreader continues.

NEWSREADER (V.O, CONT’D)

Transport Secretary George
Harris, speaking at a CBI
conference, said the plan would
revitalise the south east and
take pressure off the existing
road network. Transport
companies welcomed the move but
local community groups and
activists are already seeking to
block the plans in the European
Courts.

Drift off the above dialogue about half way through, to

focus on Robert and Yvonne in their lounge. Yvonne turns
the sound down.
YVONNE
They won’t stop until the whole
country is one big road.
ROBERT
More wine?

He tops up her glass. A cosy pause.

YVONNE
Imagine having a son who was out
there causing chaos.

(CONTINUED)
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ROBERT
Are you glad we don’t?
Another pause while she considers.

YVONNE
Yes. Not for that, but, well, I
wouldn’t fancy having kids in
today’s world.

ROBERT
Do you not think it’s up to us to
shape that world?
YVONNE
We’re all trying aren’t we? Well,
you are.
(beat)
But it still looks like a great
big mess to me.

Yvonne stands.
YVONNE (CONT’D)
I’m off up, you coming?
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21 EXT. SMART SUBURBAN STREET - NIGHT 21

GEE carries his kit bag down a street lined with quite
opulent homes.

He stands opposite a particularly grand house, with a

Range Rover parked on the drive.
Gee removes his rocket launcher from his kit bag.

He places a rocket into the launcer, and shoulders it.

The range rover viewed through the cross hairs of the
rocket launcher.
Then.. delay. The outside light above the front door of
the house comes on.
The door is opened, Gee hides himself.
A WOMAN at the door places a cat outside.

WOMAN
Out you go Tiddles.
CHILD (OFF, INSIDE)
Aww, can she stay in, Mum?

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 17.

WOMAN
(surly, harrassed)
No she can’t, Jocasta.

The woman shuts the door.

Gee re-shoulders the rocket launcher. He gets the Range
Rover in his cross hairs.
But then.. Tiddles the cat jumps onto the Range Rover.

Gee’s finger hovers on the trigger. He can’t do it.

He lowers the rocket launcher, runs across the road and
grabs Tiddles off the Range Rover.

He returns to his rocket launcher, carrying Tiddles to

safety.
Tiddles struggles to escape, scratches Gee repeatedly,
then runs off down the street.

GEE
(whispering, Russian)
Son of a bitch!
The cat has drawn blood. Gee shakes his head in
disbelief. He re-shoulders the rocket launcher.
Viewed from the far end of the street, a moment of
peaceful suburban night-time.
Then.. whoosh.. and.. boom!

Alarms go off up and down the street.

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22 INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT 22

BILLY sits with his sister RUTH. She is sleeping, still
in the ventilator.
BILLY
I hate to see you like this.
(beat)
I’ve been reading up, sis.
(beat)
Some studies say pollution
worsens asthma, some say it
doesn’t.
(beat)
I’m inclined to believe the ones
that say it does.
(double beat)
You know, there’s a guy out there
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
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BILLY (cont’d)
who’s single-handedly fighting to
keep the lid on it.
(beat)
But he doesn’t raise petitions,
oh no. He lobbies with his
fists.
(beat)
Man, I’d love to get you out of
here.

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23 INT/EXT. BASEMENT FLAT - NIGHT 23

GEE arrives back at his safe house, a basement flat.

He washes his scratched arm in the kitchen sink.
He dries his arm, then sits at the kitchen table. The
table is virtually covered with seed trays.
He takes his hunting knife out of his belt, and then uses
it as a dibber to plant seeds in the seed trays.
There is a knock at the door.

GEE stealthily puts down the knife and picks up an

automatic pistol. He switches the lights off and heads
for the door.
Standing outside is a very drunk man.

DRUNK MAN
Ey up, is that you Shaun?
GEE
No, you have the wrong house.

The man falls forward. GEE comes out of the shadows to

stand him back up.
DRUNK MAN
Aww sorry mate, I’m looking for
Shaun.
(shouting)
’Ere Shaun! Where are ya?
Inside, hidden behind the door, GEE flicks the safety
catch off his pistol.
GEE
He isn’t here, OK?

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 19.

DRUNK MAN
Yes but where’s here? Look it’s
very simple, I’m supposed to be
meeting Shaun for a curry. And
here I am at Shaun’s gaff.. are
you his mate?
During this ramble an upstairs window is opened, revealing
Shaun.

SHAUN
Alan?! Is that you?
DRUNK MAN/ALAN
Oh ey up Shaun!

SHAUN
(laughing)
Wrong flat, Alan. We’re round
the back.
(to Gee)
Sorry about that mate.

ALAN
Yeah sorry mate, an easy mistake
to make for a man in my current
state of in.. in.. inebriation.

GEE covers his head and waves the matter away.

GEE shuts the door to the flat and heads back inside.
He switches the kitchen light back on, revealing his
father Constantine’s assistant, MISHA, sitting at the
table surrounded by Gee’s seed trays.
MISHA
Oh dear Georgi, cover blown
again?

Gee sees that it is Misha, clicks the safety catch off,

and puts the gun down.
GEE
He was just a.. how do they say
it?.. a piss head. He won’t
remember anything.
(beat)
Long time, Misha.
MISHA
Two years, three months, six
days.
(referring to the seed
trays)
Still trying to save the World?

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 20.

GEE
Somebody has to.
(beat)
How did you find me?

MISHA
Oh come, darling, a safe flat
here, a safe flat there, I know
this place, remember?

GEE
What do you want?
MISHA
I came to check up on you. Are
you ok?

GEE
I’m fine, couldn’t be better.
(beat)
Tea?

MISHA
How perfectly.. English of you.
Gee puts the kettle on.
MISHA
(switching to Russian)
Your father wasn’t pleased with
the bomb at the game.
Gee smiles.

MISHA (CONT’D)
(Russian)
He’s annoyed that you made it
so.. personal.

GEE
(Russian)
He should have thought of that
before he started raping the
planet.

MISHA
(Russian)
You could have blown somebody up.
(beat)
I thought you despised violence.

GEE
(Russian)
Wrong. I despise unnecessary
violence.
(beat)
No-one was in danger at the game.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 21.

MISHA
(Russian)
Only because the match started
late, Gee. Innocent people could
have died.

GEE
(Russian)
No, they couldn’t. Believe me.
MISHA
(Russian)
You should stop playing these
games now. The stakes are too
high.
(beat)
They will kill you Georgi.
(beat)
Is this a cause worth dying for?
GEE
When Volgograd is swamped by
rising sea, when Moscow is
parched after months of drought,
when people are dying in their
hundreds of millions, will people
still ask if this cause is worth
dying for?

MISHA
(Russian)
But we can extradite you in a
matter of days, I know Putin
now. You’ll be repatriated and
they won’t be able to touch you.
GEE
(Russian)
Already we’re seeing beginnings
of global catastrophe. Forest
fires and great floods.. and..
what? You know Putin..?
MISHA
(Russian)
What am I supposed to do Masha,
sit around and wait for you? My
underwear would fill with
cobwebs, if I ever wore any.
The kettle starts to whistle. GEE gets close to her,
trying it on, sex-wise. MISHA expertly disarms him with a
power-hold to the neck.
MISHA (CONT’D)
(Russian)
I’m sorry Georgi, you had plenty
of chances.

(CONTINUED)
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(beat)
I cannot let you break my heart
again.

GEE
(half-throttled)
Ok.
MISHA
(Russian)
I’ll have milk, and two
sugars. No doubt you only have
soya, you hippie freak.
She relaxes her grip on his neck.

CUT TO:

24 EXT. MICHAEL’S HOUSE - NICE - EARLY MORNING 24

FIONA stands at the door of her estranged partner,
Michael’s house. She’s knocked.
MICHAEL answers, in his pyjamas.
FIONA
I’ve left.
(beat)
The service. Finito. I drove
all night.
(beat)
It’s over.

MICHAEL
Only about six months too late.
Michael opens the door fully, to reveal his new partner
MARIE, standing at the bottom of the stairs in a dressing
gown.
FIONA
So you’re Marie, the
house-sitter.

MARIE
And you must be.. Fiona?
FIONA
That’s right sweet cheeks, I’m
here to see my son.

MARIE
It’s five in the morning.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 23.

FIONA
Fine. I’ll wait.
CUT TO:

25 EXT. SMART SUBURBAN STREET - NEXT MORNING 25

A group of hippie-looking twenty-somethings stand across
the street from the posh house. They are all smiling.

A friend of theirs, HIPPIE JOHN, cycles past the end of

the street.
They see him.

HIPPIE #1
John, John! Down here!
John sees the others and spins his bike round.
HIPPIE #1 (CONT’D)
Come and look at this.
John cycles up to them and stares at what they’re staring
it.
HIPPIE JOHN
Oh now that is priceless.
And reveal.
The burned-out shell of the range rover on the drive.

HIPPIE #1
Isn’t it fantastic?
The WOMAN from the house, still in her dressing gown,
argues with a uniformed POLICEMAN.

Other police and forensics personnel busy themselves

around the vehicle.
BILLY stands on the pavement overseeing everything, hands
on hips.

BILLY watches the hippies high-fiving each other at the

spectacle.
He smiles.

CUT TO:
 24.

26 INT. MICHAEL’S HOUSE - MORNING 26

FIONA, MICHAEL, MARIE and LAWRENCE (8), sit around the
breakfast table. It is awkward. Lawrence is shy, staring
at Fiona.
MARIE
(in French, to Lawrence)
Come on sweetie, lets get you to
school.

LAWRENCE
(in French)
I don’t want to go to school.
MARIE
(French)
Well tough, you have to. Don’t
forget your lunch box.
Marie bundles Lawrence out of the door with his lunch and
school bag, leaving Fiona and Michael alone.

FIONA
Where did you meet her?
MICHAEL
At the school. She works there.
FIONA
Is she safe with him?
MICHAEL
Of course she is.
FIONA
Well I don’t trust her.
(beat)
I hope you’re keeping up his
English lessons too.
MICHAEL
From time to time.
FIONA
I mean, what have you been
telling him? He hardly
recognised me there.
MICHAEL
I think that lack of recognition
is more down to your absence, not
because of anything we’ve said.
FIONA
Touche.
(beat)
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 25.

FIONA (cont’d)
Well I’ve quit now.
MICHAEL
Fiona, I can’t have you upsetting
things here.
FIONA
He’s my son. I’ll do as I
please.

MICHAEL
For his sake, you won’t. Come
on, I’m sure we can sort
something out.

A pause.
FIONA
Fine. I’ll stay at a hotel.
Fiona’s eyes drift down to a pile of mail on the table.
Michael sees her staring, and quickly gathers up the mail.
FIONA (CONT’D)
Sorry, force of habit.

MICHAEL
You make trouble for us Fiona, I
swear I’ll seek an injunction.
FIONA
Jesus, why am I the bloody
villain? You’re the one who
pissed off to France.
MICHAEL
Only to keep a safe distance from
you.

FIONA
Michael, how many more times? My
work is not me. That.. persona..
it’s a shell. It’s not the real
Fiona.

MICHAEL
Yeah? Well you do a bloody good
job of not showing it.
(beat)
There’s a Beaux Reves down the
road. Reasonable rates mid-week.
Fiona appears genuinely chastened.
CUT TO:
 26.

27 INT. MI5 OPS ROOM - LATER 27

King of Spin PETE BARBER sits in on a briefing from head
of special branch, JOHN CARTER. ROBERT, BILLY and CHARLIE
also present.

JOHN CARTER
Some interesting developments
then, chaps. First up, the
football match.
(beat as he reads)
Point one - the material was made
from the warheads of two
missiles, RPG’s by the look of
it.

CHARLIE
An improv job.
JOHN CARTER
Professional, mind.

ROBERT
Gee.
Nods from pretty much everybody.
JOHN CARTER
The key development is point two
- the detonator wasn’t a
timer. It was a remote.
PETE BARBER
Meaning..?

BILLY
(realising)
He was inside the ground when it
blew.

JOHN CARTER
Correct, and..?
BILLY
He must have had a clear view of
the pitch.
(beat, realising again)
He could see no-one was in the
kill zone!
(beat)
No shit.

JOHN CARTER
Point three - his parachute and a
makeshift camp were found in a
store cupboard behind "F" stand
in the early hours.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 27.

ROBERT
So he never left the ground.
JOHN CARTER
Exactly. He just planted the
bomb and waited for the circus to
arrive. Simple.
(beat)
If you could do the honours
Charlie.

CHARLIE hits play on a TV screen.

On the TV, footage of the evacuation from the football
ground on the day of the bomb.

The action is paused. In the exiting crowd, GEE, smiling

down the lens of the camera, Where’s-Wally style. John
Carter points him out.
JOHN CARTER
There.

CHARLIE
Looks like he’s enjoying himself,
don’t he?
PETE BARBER
What about last night’s little
escapade?
JOHN CARTER
Definitely an RPG.

PETE BARBER
Motive?
ROBERT
A big bulky unnecessary vehicle.
Eighteen miles to the
gallon. That’s the motive.
CHARLIE
SUV’s have been targeted in the
past. The extreme wing of the
Earth Liberation Front has hit
them in the States.
JOHN CARTER
But again no human collateral.
(beat as he reads the
report)
The owner put the cat out moments
before the hit.
(beat)
So he must have been near or
nearabouts by then, to see she’d
safely gone back in.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 28.

PETE BARBER
Woopty fuckin’ doo, he’s not a
real killer. Which I think
you’ll find is what I said
yesterday.
CHARLIE
It’s what his dad said too.
BILLY
(hardly concealed
admiration)
He’s one hell of a hell raiser.
PETE BARBER
We should hit him with the shrink
ray.
JOHN CARTER
What?
PETE BARBER
Hit the press hard, with these
findings. That ought to stop the
panic.
(beat)
Where’s my bitch?

BILLY
I think he’s at the Russian
Embassy.
PETE BARBER
What? He’s not due there ’til
three. Jesus H Christ, they’ll
eat him alive.
Pete gets up to leave.

CHARLIE
How was the cat?
BILLY
Still missing. It either
vapourised in the hit, or saw the
chance and legged it. If you’d
met the owners.. either way it’s
a lot better off.
CUT TO:
 29.

28 INT. RUSSIAN EMBASSY - LOUNGE - DAY 28

JEREMY WALKER sits with a shot of vodka on a large leather
sofa, opposite the Russian Ambassador, VICTOR PETROV, and
his PA, ALEXANDER VITKO. They are sharing a joke,
laughing.
PETE BARBER arrives.
PETE BARBER
Whatever he’s just promised you
I’m un-promising it.
JEREMY WALKER
Ahh Peter. This is the
ambassador, Victor Petrov and his
assistant, Alexander.
Victor and Alexander wave hello.
PETE BARBER
I know who they are, Home
Secretary. You were due here at
3pm.
JEREMY WALKER
I skipped lunch. Get ahead, you
know?
(beat)
Have we caught him yet.. Georgi?
PETE BARBER
His capture is imminent.

JEREMY WALKER
Well, we need to get on with
it. I’ve been talking with
Victor here and we’re both agreed
it’s very damaging for the
Anglo-Russian relationship,
having a renegade on the streets.
PETE BARBER
Oh I don’t know. Not exactly
working to Moscow Centre orders
is he?
(beat)
Is he?
VICTOR PETROV
Certainly not.
(beat)
Mr Barber, last night on a
hillside some 200km south-east of
Moscow, a gas pipeline was
attacked by a group of activists
calling themselves the People’s
Green Brigade of Russia.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 30.

(beat)
Fortunately they were intercepted
before inflicting any serious
damage to the infrastructure.
(beat)
What we do know is they were
inspired by Georgi Romanov.
PETE BARBER
How do you know, did you ask
them?

ALEXANDER
Alas they are all dead.
PETE BARBER
Why doesn’t that surprise me?
ALEXANDER
But we raided their apartments
and found.. certain literature of
Georgi’s.
(beat)
His activities here in UK are
inspiring radicals to action.
PETE BARBER
I’m sure your healthy little
police state can put them down.
ALEXANDER
It’s not like that these days.
PETE BARBER
Come off it. You might have
covered it with a silk glove, but
there’s still an iron fist.
JEREMY WALKER
Peter. I’m not comfortable with
you insulting our hosts.
Victor Petrov waves away the accusation.
VICTOR PETROV
No no, it’s fine. Mr Barber is
remembering his old days in
Moscow, yes?
(beat)
But simple fact is this; we
cannot allow this situation to
escalate any further. I’m sure
you don’t need me to tell you the
consequences of sabotage to
Russian Gas and Oil supplies. To
Western Europe, but most
importantly, to Britain.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 31.

ALEXANDER
Energy security is a serious
matter.
JEREMY WALKER
It’s a serious matter, Pete.
(beat)
Imagine the fall-out. Three day
weeks, intermittent
black-outs. Imagine if we
couldn’t even bury the dead.
PETE BARBER
Come on. I want you on the news.
They shake hands with Victor and Alexander, and leave.

JEREMY WALKER
(concedes)
OK, I suppose we could still bury
the dead. We just wouldn’t be
able to burn them.
(beat)
Pete do you think you need gas to
burn the dead, or do you just
need a match?
PETE BARBER
Move an appointment again without
telling me and I’ll take great
pleasure in finding out.
CUT TO:

29 INT. TV STUDIO - DAY 29

JEREMY WALKER sits in a TV Studio with newsreader and
presenter CLIVE MALTBY.

Also present is the TV station’s own Security

Correspondent MARK LITTLEWOOD, and "One World" Green
Activist JENNIFER CARTY.
As each person speaks for the first time, aston at the
bottom of the screen gives their name and job title.
CLIVE MALTBY
Firstly then, Home Secretary,
what is the official line on
Georgi Romanov?

JEREMY WALKER
Georgi Romanov is a known and
wanted eco-terrorist who will be
removed from the streets at the
earliest opportunity.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 32.

CLIVE MALTBY
Is he a killer?
JEREMY WALKER
Recent developments, Clive, would
indicate that Romanov’s desire is
not to kill.
CLIVE MALTBY
You’re referring to the recent
facts surrounding the stadium
bomb?
JEREMY WALKER
Yes. And remember, too, that he
came within a few hundred feet of
a 747, but also failed to bring
it down.
(beat)
This is a known characteristic of
extreme environmental pressure
groups. On the whole they attack
property, and the fabric of the
state. People are rarely
targeted.
CLIVE MALTBY
Mark Littlewood, surely this is
good news that Romanov is not
seeking a blood price for his
extremist agenda?
MARK LITTLEWOOD
In a way it is, Clive. But we
must remember that we can’t yet
know Georgi’s future
targets. What if he decides to
attack a nuclear power
plant? The fall-out from a
strike like that could have far
reaching consequences.
JEREMY WALKER
Mark, I hardly think an RPG would
have much of an impact on
Sizewell B.
JENNIFER CARTY
Yes but what about a train?
Trains still carry high grade
nuclear waste around this
country. He could hit one of
those maybe.
JEREMY WALKER
I don’t think its productive to
speculate on future targets.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 33.

CLIVE MALTBY
Jennifer Carty, what’s "One
World’s" position?

JENNIFER CARTY
At One World we don’t condone
Romanov’s actions, at all. But
you have to admit he’s done a lot
to put the environment back into
the headlines.
(beat)
It is our belief that Georgi
Romanov is in the vanguard of
non-violent direct action. And
the first of many, no doubt.
(beat)
The planet is still facing
environmental catastrophe despite
dozens of failed political
summits and promises, which have
frankly delivered nothing more
than further hot air.
JEREMY WALKER
That simply isn’t true,
Jennifer. We are already
implementing several of the key
green promises from our
manifesto.
CLIVE MALTBY
Which ones?

JEREMY WALKER
Well, I.. you’ll have to
interview the environment
secretary for that.
JENNIFER CARTY
See?
JEREMY WALKER
The simple fact is this; Georgi
Romanov is a cowardly loner, he’s
acting entirely on his own
pursuing a selfish anti-social
agenda which simply will not
work.
(beat)
I’d urge the British public to go
about their daily lives as
normal.
CLIVE
From the photographs released by
Georgi last month, we know he’s
in possession of at least six
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 34.

CLIVE (cont’d)
missiles, four of which have now
been used in various strikes.
(beat)
Home Secretary, can you
categorically reassure the public
that when the final two missiles
are deployed, no-one will be
killed?

JEREMY WALKER
We intend to catch him long
before that happens, Clive.
CUT TO:

30 EXT. STREET - DAY 30

The group of HIPPIE CYCLISTS we saw earlier ride down a
street. Two of them carry a banner between them.

On the banner is drawn: A plane with a line drawn through

it, a football stadium with a line drawn through it, a 4x4
with a line drawn through it.
And a photograph of Georgi and the slogan "fight for the
right".

Behind the hippie bikers, more cyclists have joined the

convoy.
CUT TO:

31 INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - LATER 31

BILLY and his father PARVEEN sit with Billy’s sister,
RUTH, who is still inside a large ventilator.

They are watching the TV, JEREMY WALKER’s last remarks

from the scene above.
CARLA enters wearing a new t-shirt. She stretches out the
corners so everyone can see.

On the t-shirt, that iconic image of Che Guevara but with

the face changed to GEE, not Che.
CARLA
What do you think?

BILLY
Nice.
Ruth gives a thumbs up from inside the ventilator.

CUT TO:
 35.

32 INT. MI5 - OFFICE 32

CHARLIE sits at his office on his computer. He’s on the
phone.

CHARLIE
(into phone)
Sorry for the delay, I had to go
through interpol.
(beat)
No, it’s way more complicated,
these days.
(beat)
Three.
(beat)
Coming through now.
(beat)
You’re not going to do anything
stupid are you?
CUT TO:

33 INT. BEAUX REVES HOTEL - NICE - SAME TIME 33

FIONA is sitting at her laptop in her Nice hotel room, on
the phone to Charlie.

FIONA
Of course not, Charlie.
(beat)
Bye. Oh, give my love to Pete
Barber won’t you?
(beat)
Thanks Charlie.
She ends the call, and peruses the files she’s just
received from Charlie.

On her computer, an interpol file:

MARIE AILLARD. Hometown: PARIS Age: 45 Charge: Driving
whilst under the influence, driving whilst disqualified.
..and the photograph is patently not Michael’s Marie.

Fiona clicks to file number 2:

MARIE AILLARD. Hometown: MARSEILLE Age: 53 Charge:
Harbouring Algerian illegals, falsifying immigration
documents.

..and again the photograph is not the right Marie.

File number 3:

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 36.

FIONA
Hello..
This time the picture is the right MARIE AILLARD,
Michael’s new partner. Drift off the file before seeing
all of the juicy stuff.
CUT TO:

34 INT. CAR/ EXT. STREET - DAY 34

PETE BARBER and several assistants are being
chauffeur-driven to another engagement.
The car passes a large wall which has recently been
graffiti’d.
The graffiti shows GEE, with a rocket launcher, standing
firmly between a bulldozer and the Earth.
Pete sees it.

PETE BARBER
Jesus.
(to an assistant)
Get the council, get a paint team
onto that, now.
ASSISTANT
Yes sir.
PETE BARBER
What’s going on in the country?
CUT TO:

35 INT. HOME OFFICE - DAY 35

PETE BARBER props up his chin with his hand at a meeting

table. Also present are Home Secretary JEREMY WALKER,
CHARLIE, ROBERT, BILLY, and head of special branch JOHN
CARTER and a few other Home Office staff.

CHARLIE
Ok, here is the news.
(beat)
Sales of 4x4’s are forecast to
drop by 18% this month.

PETE BARBER
Big deal.
JEREMY WALKER
How are the Russians?

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 37.

CHARLIE
Disappointed. They want him
isolated, out on a limb.

JOHN CARTER
Don’t we all?
CHARLIE
But he’s got growing public
support.

JOHN CARTER
Now they know he’s not going to
murder them, they’ve turned him
into Mother Theresa.

On BILLY here, wistful, happier than he should be.

CHARLIE
Gas prices reached an all time
high this morning. The strain
could hit the economy hard, what
with winter round the corner.
PETE BARBER
Alright alright, enough. Let’s
stop the pointless ruminations
and concentrate on catching him.
(beat)
It’s the party conference next
week. Let’s get him, and
announce it there.

JEREMY WALKER
Brilliant.
JOHN CARTER
Gotta catch him first though.

PETE BARBER
Well I’d say his recognition
factor’s gone up about a
hundred-fold, wouldn’t you?
CUT TO:

36 EXT. MICHAEL’S HOUSE - NICE - EVENING 36

FIONA stands at the door of MICHAEL’S house. MICHAEL
answers the door.

FIONA
I want a word with you.
CUT TO:
 38.

37 INT. MICHAEL’S HOUSE - MOMENTS LATER 37

FIONA confronts MICHAEL while he sips at a bottled beer.

She tosses Marie Aillard’s Interpol file onto the table.

FIONA
This is the woman you’ve
entrusted with our son, Michael.
(beat)
Marie Aillard aged 29. Convicted
in 2004 of running high grade
cocaine out of Malaga. Caught in
possession of two hundred grams
of uncut Peruvian destined for
supposedly untouchable local drug
baron Pierre-Michel Blanc.
MICHAEL
I know.
FIONA
You know? What do you mean? You
knew about this, but you still
let her into his life..?
Michael..?!

MICHAEL
It’s not how it seems.
FIONA
I want him out of here. I’m
taking him home.

MICHAEL
No, Fiona.
(double beat)
She was Blanc’s girlfriend. One
of them at least.
(beat)
He used her. Blackmailed her
into running his errands.
(beat)
The police knew all about it, if
you bother to read the rest of
the file.
(beat)
She got in way too deep and was
desperate to get out.

FIONA
So.. what?
MICHAEL
They got her out. Gave her the
minimal of sentences. She did
her time, and rehabilitated fast.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 39.

(beat)
They got her some community
service work at the school,
highly supervised of course. She
got on so well that when the
service ended, they took her on
full time. That was two years
ago.
Fiona and Michael stare out of the window as a car arrives
in the drive. MARIE gets out, and then helps LAWRENCE out
too. She takes a hankie and wipes his grubby face and
hands. It’s a tender loving moment.
MICHAEL (V.O)
People change, Fiona. They swap
sides. It happens all the time.
Marie picks Lawrence up, swings him round and hugs
him. Fiona watches for a while, realisation sinking in.
FIONA
I’m in the way here, aren’t I?
MICHAEL
Don’t be a stranger.
(beat)
I mean, you should come down more
often. Let’s try and set up a
routine, it’d be good for
you. And him.
FIONA
Thanks.
(beat)
Sorry.
MICHAEL
You should stop trying to see the
worst in people.
FIONA
But.. that’s my job.
(beat)
That’s my job.

CUT TO:

38 INT. PUB TOILETS - NIGHT 38

Career drunks ALAN and SHAUN (from the earlier scene at

Gee’s flat) pee in a pub urinal.
In the noticeboard above the urinal, the day’s Daily
Telegraph (or equivalent) and the lifestyle section named
"Profile" - showing a photograph of GEE and the title
"Georgie Romanov; terrorist, or freedom fighter?"

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 40.

ALAN focusses fully on the image whilst emptying his

bladder. A glimmer of recognition.
ALAN
Here, Shaun. Come and look at
this.
SHAUN
I so don’t want to see your cock,
Alan.

ALAN
Nah, this, you pillock.
They both peruse the photograph.

ALAN (CONT’D)
Ain’t that the bloke downstairs
from you?
SHAUN
No idea, mate, I ain’t never seen
him.
ALAN
I swear it’s him.

CUT TO:

39 INT. MI5 OPS ROOM - LATER 39

Desk staff member DARREN sits at the main operations
desk. BILLY plays catch with a tennis ball against a
nearby wall, to Darren’s annoyance.
The phone rings.
DARREN
(answering phone)
Hello Ritzy’s.
(beat)
Yep.
He waves frantically for Billy, whilst simultaneously
writing down the information he’s getting on the phone.
He puts the phone down. Billy reads what Darren has
written.
DARREN (CONT’D)
Positive ID.
(beat)
Get in!
Darren jumps up and down like the footballer Roger Miller
in post-goal celebration.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 41.

He turns round to share the moment but Billy is already

out of the room.
CUT TO:

40 EXT/INT BASEMENT FLAT - NIGHT 40

A large number of police cars and vans arrive outside
Gee’s secret basement flat.

A team of SO19 armed police creep up to the front door.

They smash the door in and head inside.
POLICE
Armed police!
The flat is empty.
CUT TO:

41 EXT. SIDE ALLEY - SECONDS LATER - NIGHT 41

GEE is hauled down a quiet side alley, by BILLY. They are
both out of breath.

Gee holds his kit bag and Billy holds some seed trays.
Blue lights in the background bouncing off the walls.
BILLY
Come on.

GEE
Wait. Who are you?
BILLY
Billy Vashista, MI5.

Gee makes to run away. Billy holds him.

BILLY (CONT’D)
It’s not like that.
(beat)
I’m here to help, I’ll explain
later.
They run further down the alley.
MISHA, Constantine’s Russian assistant, rounds the corner
at the end of the alley, holding a pistol.
MISHA
Stop.

Billy and Gee put the brakes on.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 42.

GEE
Misha.
MISHA
(switching to Russian)
What’s going on?
GEE
(Russian)
A raid, I escaped.

MISHA
(Russian)
I told you your cover was blown.
(referring to Billy)
Who the fuck is he?

GEE
(Russian)
MI5. He saved me.
MISHA
MI5?
GEE
(Russian)
A renegade, I think.

Billy understands they’re referring to him.

BILLY
(English)
Billy Vashista. This is not an
authorised MI5 operation.
MISHA
(English)
I understand.
(beat)
No passengers.
She raises her pistol as if to shoot Billy.
Gee rapidly disarms Misha, takes possession of the gun and
points it at her.

MISHA
Fuck!
GEE
Play nice, Misha.

BILLY
(to Gee)
You know her?

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 43.

GEE
Misha Volgarov, FSB training camp
2004-2006, former Miss Belarus,
hammer and sickle tattoo on left
butt cheek..

MISHA
Fuck you.
(beat, switching to Russian)
I came to rescue you too, Georgi.
You must come back to Russia
now. Take this as a warning. If
they catch you I cannot help you.
GEE
(Russian)
I don’t want your help. Tell it
to my father too. I can’t
believe you’re working for him.
MISHA
(Russian)
Your father is a charming
man. He is nicer than you,
Georgi.
GEE
(Russian)
I bet he is.
MISHA
(Russian)
Look at your brain, always
jumping to dirty
conclusion. He’s my boss, but I
don’t lie down for him, no way.
Gee and Billy make to leave.

MISHA (CONT’D)
(English, to Billy, of Gee)
Apart from Wednesday, know when I
last saw this asshole?
BILLY
No..
GEE
Can we get out of here now?
MISHA
Our wedding day.
(beat)
Only this tough guy doesn’t show
up, know where he is?
(beat)
Chained to a tree in some fucking
swamp!

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 44.

GEE
Sshhh.
Billy looks to Gee.

GEE (CONT’D)
(to Billy)
A new pipeline, through ancient
woodland.
(beat)
You’d have done the same, maybe?
Billy shrugs.
GEE (CONT’D)
Let’s go.

Gee and Billy run off.

MISHA
Fuck it.

CUT TO:

42 EXT. BASEMENT FLAT - NIGHT 42

CHARLIE and ROBERT stand outside the safe flat, as several
FORENSIC SQUAD officers walk around.
CHARLIE
Looks like we missed him.
FORENSIC OFFICER
Only just, his tea is still warm.
CHARLIE
Slippery fish ain’t he? What is
he, psychic?
(to Robert)
Worth checking the neighbourhood?
ROBERT
He’ll be long gone.
CUT TO:

43 SECOND SAFE HOUSE - NIGHT - LATER 43

GEE and BILLY share a beer in a low-lit new safe house.

Gee checks the windows.

GEE
We should be safe here.

They chink bottles.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 45.

GEE (CONT’D)
Thank you, Billy.
(beat)
A problem with being made famous,
recognition follows.
BILLY
Yes.
They drink.

GEE
Why the rescue?
BILLY
I have a sister, asthmatic. With
the breathing, you know?
GEE
Yes, I understand.
BILLY
When you grounded the planes, her
condition improved.
(beat)
I don’t drive. I cycle, like
you. I hate the cars, and the
pollution. It’s killing her, it’s
killing all of us
(beat)
After the stadium bomb, I kind of
lost faith in what I was doing.
(beat)
Doing that 4x4.. I saw the
aftermath, man. Genius.
(beat)
And when I realised you weren’t a
killer, well, there was nothing
left to hold me back really.

GEE
Billy..
(beat)
The only reason I haven’t killed
anyone is because it hasn’t been
necessary.
BILLY
So..?
GEE
I will gladly kill if it furthers
the cause.
(beat)
In fact my next plan involves
death. But you’ll be pleased to
know, just one.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 46.

(beat)
OK, maybe two or three bystanders
but.. not many.

BILLY
No shit.
GEE
Of course - what? You think this
is some tree-hugging
bullshit? I’m way past tree
hugging, Billy.
Billy is into an uncomfortable zone here.
BILLY
I don’t know..
GEE
Ok. How about if I said the
target was a politician?

BILLY
(unsure)
Erm.. well, ok.. I suppose they
might deserve it.

GEE
Deserve it? They encourage such
action with their corrupt deeds.
(beat)
Come, Billy, what’s the death of
one evil politician for the sake
of saving the planet? We have to
get the message across. One
World, Greenpeace, Friends of
Earth? They’re living in cloud
la-la land my friend.
(beat)
Violence is the only language
they understand.
BILLY
You’re not wrong there.

GEE
You can help me with the next
phase. You can use a video
camera, yes?

CUT TO:
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44 INT. MI5 OPS ROOM - DAY 44

Home Secretary JEREMY WALKER, king of spin PETE BARBER,
ROBERT, CHARLIE, BILLY, JOHN CARTER and other staff sit
around a large TV screen.

Billy sits at the back of the group.

On the TV, GEE speaking to camera, martyr-style.
GEE (ON TV)
We have one planet to share
amongst all of us, just one.
(beat)
And this tiny island has done
more to destroy it than any other
country in the history of
mankind.
(beat)
Industrial revolution started
here, so is only fitting that
green revolution starts here too.

JEREMY WALKER
What’s he talking about?
GEE (ON TV)
This is first wave of a new world
order. You cannot be trusted to
implement your grand green
policies, so we will rise up, and
make you do it.
(beat)
I have not yet killed, and you
said on TV I am not a killer.
Gee now shoulders the rocket launcher and picks up a
pistol with his other hand.
GEE (CONT’D, ON TV)
You were wrong.
In the room, Jeremy Walker visibly sits back in his seat
at the sight of the weaponry.

On Billy, enjoying the reaction being provoked.

GEE (CONT’D, ON TV)
Those in Government should pay
the price for their corruption
and lies.
(beat)
I am coming for you, Home
Secretary.
Click. CHARLIE freeze-frames the action on the TV. Gee’s
face (and weaponry) still looms large in the room.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 48.

JEREMY WALKER
Don’t just pause it, switch it
off, switch it off!
CHARLIE
Sorry.
Click. The screen goes blank.
PETE BARBER
And what’s the reach of this?

JOHN CARTER
Oh, saturation. It’s everywhere
already. Internet, all the
networks. Even your mum will
have a copy by now.
JEREMY WALKER
Bloody hell.
(beat)
Why am I the target?

JOHN CARTER
Because you’re the Home
Secretary..? Home Secretary.
JEREMY WALKER
But my department kills people,
not the environment.
BILLY
Your Government does though,
doesn’t it?

JEREMY WALKER
It’s just not bloody fair.
(beat)
I know. I’ll lay low on the
yacht. He’ll never find me
there.
JOHN CARTER
Excuse me?
JEREMY WALKER
The yacht, you know. Miles out
to sea.. safe.
On Billy again, amused by events.

PETE BARBER
What?! You’ll do no such thing.
(beat)
You’ve a packed diary of events
and you’re sticking to every
single one of them, including the
party conference.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 49.

JEREMY WALKER
(remembering)
The conference, shit!
(beat)
They love the resorts,
terrorists. Remember Brighton?
PETE BARBER
Brighton was another world
away. You’ll be fine.

JEREMY WALKER
That’s easy for you to say. You
haven’t got a great big target
drawn on your back.

FIONA (OFF)
Grow a spine, Home Secretary.
FIONA is standing at the back of the room.
JEREMY WALKER
Fiona..
PETE BARBER
..you’re back?

FIONA
Yes. I’m back for Georgi
Romanov’s head, I want it on a
silver platter. Now.
PETE BARBER
And how do we know you haven’t
been over in the Tora Boras,
fixing Bin Laden’s dialysis
machine and taking fresh
instructions?

Fiona gives a "don’t give me that shit" look.

CHARLIE
She’s been tested. She’s fine.
PETE BARBER
Fine? What’s that supposed to
mean?
JOHN CARTER
Look at her, Pete. She’d have
smashed Osama’s machine to a
thousand pieces for fun.
(beat)
And scratched his fuckin’ eyes
out too.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 50.

PETE BARBER
(concedes)
You’re right.
(beat)
Welcome back.
FIONA
(sarcasm, obviously)
Aww, thanks Pete.

She puts both her hands on the seated Jeremy Walker’s

shoulders.
FIONA (CONT’D)
Shall we plan how to keep him
safe then?

BILLY
Good idea.
(beat)
You’re in safe hands, Home
Secretary.

They walk towards a meeting room, Billy last.

FIONA
I’ve a theory about the father
too.

ROBERT
Go on..
Billy shuts the door behind them, a wolf in sheep’s
clothing.
CUT TO:

45 EXT. EAST LONDON URBAN WASTELAND/EMBANKMENT - DAY 45

GEE sits on an old discarded sofa on a patch of urban

wasteland, scoping the place out.
A train passes nearby. Gee watches it intently.

BILLY arrives behind him.

GEE
How was that?
Billy sits down.

BILLY
That.. was amazing.
(beat)
You’re absolutely right. He’s a
coward, a stupid selfish
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 51.

BILLY (cont’d)
coward. You should have seen his
face.
(beat)
He deserves to die.
A pause while Billy weighs this up in his mind.
BILLY (CONT’D)
Jeremy Walker deserves to die.
(beat)
And I know how.
CUT TO:

46 EXT/INT CONFERENCE CENTRE - DAY 46

An "Ocean’s 11" style montage as Billy describes events.
As he talks, the movement on the screen goes from outside
the Party Conference centre to inside.
BILLY (V.O)
They’ll call it the tightest ever
security to shut Walker up, but
it’s basically the same double
net as every year.
Outside on the street are a variety of obvious spooks,
plus some less obvious ones.
BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
Plenty of teams outside..
An ice cream seller keeps an eye out. He’s wearing a
discreet earpiece.
BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
..plus Tony on ice creams as
usual.
The action drifts through the doors into the conference
lobby.

BILLY (CONT’D V.O)

Inside it’s a different story..
There is a table with a large number of name badges and
photo id’s etc, with two OLD LADIES standing behind it.

Conference delegates mill around, picking up their id’s.

Two very obvious spooks stand near the table.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 52.

BILLY (CONT’D V.O)

Two obvious hoods by the table
but their job isn’t to watch the
crowd. The real watchers are
Babs and Rita at the table.
Closer on the smiling old ladies. Hidden behind the
smiles, sharp, watching eyes.
BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
They’re watching to see how you
react to the presence of the
hoods. And they’re the best in
the business.
(beat)
The key is to look, but for
godsake don’t twitch.
(beat)
You’ll need a disguise. I can
sort you out a photo pass, not a
problem.

The roving image finds another smiling greeter at the bag

checking section.
BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
Then you’ve got the standard bag
check and metal detector.
Security staff search various delegates bags. The image
moves through a metal detector.
BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
It’s five times more sensitive
than the airport systems.
(beat)
But that’s not a problem because
your weapon will be waiting for
you inside.

GEE (V.O)
Where?
BILLY (V.O)
In the toilet. Obvious yes, but
wait for it..
The action moves into a toilet.
DISSOLVE TO:

FLASHBACK FIVE YEARS...

In the toilets, a security teacher shows new recruits how
to use the gun detector thing.

One of the recruits is a younger BILLY.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 53.

The teacher runs the detector around the false ceiling and
around the cisterns in one of the cubicles.
BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
They’re so obsessed with cisterns
and false ceilings, they
sometimes forget about the loo
roll holder.
The young BILLY in the flashback stares at the toilet roll
holder and raises his hand to ask the question, but the
teacher and other recruits are already leaving the area.
BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
I saw it in my training. A
little Walther or a thirty-eight
could fit in there, easy.
DISSOLVE TO:
The action on screen now moves into the main conference
hall, logos on the back screen being tested and retested.

Some early arrivals take their seats.

BILLY (CONT’D V.O)
Once inside the main hall, I can
get you a seat on the front row
easy, seeing as no-one ever wants
to sit there.
(beat)
Then all you’ve got to do is wait
for Walker, and, boom..

CUT TO:

47 EXT. URBAN WASTELAND/EMBANKMENT - DAY 47

BILLY still talking to GEE on the old sofa on the

wasteground.
BILLY
..pop him in the head..

Billy tails off at the end there, another little doubt

creeping in.
GEE
Great.
(beat)
One question. How do I get out?
BILLY
Well..
(beat)
We’d need to work on that.
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CUT TO:

48 INT. CONFERENCE CENTRE - JEREMY WALKER’S DRESSING ROOM 48

Home Secretary JEREMY WALKER paces up and down, PETE

BARBER sits with a scotch.
JEREMY WALKER
I’m really not happy about this.

PETE BARBER
Will you just sit down? You’re
wearing out the carpet.
JEREMY WALKER
What if he’s here?
PETE BARBER
Jeremy, it’s the tightest
security we’ve ever put in
place. A gnat without i.d. would
be gunned down in cold blood.
Jeremy fumbles with a sheaf of papers, his speech. He
thrusts them in Pete’s direction.

JEREMY WALKER
Here. You wrote it, why don’t
you give it?
PETE BARBER
Home Secretary, get out on that
stage right now.
(beat)
Do it, or I’ll shoot you myself.
CUT TO:

49 INT. CONFERENCE CENTRE - MAIN HALL 49

JEREMY WALKER and PETE BARBER stand in the wings of the
stage. On the stage, a conference organiser addresses the
crowd.

ORGANISER
Ladies and Gentlemen. Despite
the threats against his life, he
has made it here today.

There are a few shouts of encouragement from the crowd.

JEREMY WALKER
Fucking hell.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 55.

ORGANISER
It gives me great pleasure to
present our second keynote
speaker of the afternoon, home
secretary Jeremy Walker.
Jeremy turns to exit, Pete is blocking his way. Pete
practically pushes him onto the stage.
On stage, Jeremy walks towards the podium.

The crowd go wild. Proper, genuine respect for Jeremy’s

bravery, in the face of the threats against him.
Jeremy turns to Pete, a little perplexed.

Pete, applauding, gestures for Jeremy to take the stand.

Jeremy addresses the crowd.
JEREMY WALKER
Ladies and Gentlemen.
(beat)
As you know, the British
Government has no truck with
terrorists, whatever their colour
or agenda..

Wild wild applause. Jeremy has to stop for a moment.

CUT TO:

50 INT. MI5 - OPS ROOM - DAY - SAME TIME 50

BILLY, ROBERT, FIONA and desk staff member DARREN, watch
the conference on television, the wild applause.
DARREN
And suddenly they love him.
Fiona sits back, bored. Billy leans forward, expectant.
On the screen, Jeremy Walker continues his speech.

JEREMY WALKER (ON TV)

Thank you, thank you.
(beat)
And so, to business.
(beat)
I’d like to introduce you all
today, to a number of new key
initiatives which we think will
guarantee the security of the
nation for the coming years..

CUT TO:
 56.

51 INT. CONFERENCE CENTRE - MAIN HALL 51

As Jeremy Walker continues his speech, drift along the
front row of the audience.

Several northern couples, rosettes on, died-in the wool

supporters.
JEREMY WALKER (OFF)
..we live in a world of
unprecedented threat levels.
Islamic fundamentalism and now
this new wave of eco-terrorism..
Some more old ladies, one of them knitting.

JEREMY WALKER (CONT’D, OFF)

..yet we must balance the needs
to keep our nation secure against
the individual freedoms of each
and every one of us..

Finally on the front row a young-ish MAN with straggly

long hair, glasses and a beard, arms folded, watching
intently.
He looks a lot like Gee, this man does.

CUT TO:

52 INT. MI5 - OPS ROOM - DAY - MOMENTS LATER 52

As before, DARREN, ROBERT, BILLY and FIONA watching the

speech.
JEREMY WALKER (ON TV)
..and if that means making
compromises, then I’m afraid
that’s exactly what we’ll have to
do..
FIONA
Big brother eat your heart out.

JEREMY WALKER (ON TV)

..firstly, my colleagues at the
UK Border Agency have been
working on new ways to streamline
and toughen up the immigration
system..

Fiona looks at Billy. Is he listening to the words?

Or waiting?

CUT TO:
 57.

53 INT. CONFERENCE CENTRE - MAIN HALL - AS BEFORE 53

Later in the speech, JEREMY WALKER at the podium.

Viewed from the front row.

Over the shoulder of the man with the straggly hair.
JEREMY WALKER
..and that is a summary of our
current new measures. I expect
to have several of these
implemented by the time of the
next Parliament.
(beat)
Ladies and Gentlemen. Together we
can beat terrorism. I hope I
have proved this today.
A ripple of applause begins and builds over his final
words.

The action now viewed.. through cross hairs.

JEREMY WALKER (CONT’D)
We will not lie down. We will
not roll over. We will continue
on our path for, Ladies and
Gentlemen, that.. is the British
way.
The applause reaches a crescendo. Jeremy Walker steps
down from the podium, waving.

The cross hairs focus on his head. And.. flash.

Reveal.
The MAN on the front row with the straggly hair holds
nothing more than..
..a phone with built-in camera.. he takes another photo..
flash. He isn’t Gee in disguise..
..whoever he is he’s whooping and cheering along with
everyone else as Jeremy milks the applause like a pro.
CUT TO:

54 INT. MI5 - OPS ROOM - DAY - SAME TIME 54

As before with BILLY, FIONA, ROBERT and DARREN watching

the tv.
The applause continues on the TV as JEREMY WALKER waves to
the crowds.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 58.

Billy’s brow is furrowed. Disappointment that nothing

happened.
Billy leaves the room. Fiona watches him go.
CUT TO:

55 INT. CONFERENCE CENTRE - HALL/CORRIDOR - MOMENTS LATER 55

JEREMY WALKER walks off stage to be greeted by a smiling
PETE BARBER.

JEREMY WALKER
Oh my goodness. They loved me.
PETE BARBER
Attaboy. You did exactly what
you said in the speech, that’s
why.
JEREMY WALKER
Can we.. capitalise on this?

PETE BARBER
Of course we can, Home Secretary.
(beat)
I suspect the PM is already
worried, after that performance.

JEREMY WALKER
I bet he is.
(beat)
I say, Pete, things are looking
up for a change.

Pete rolls his eyes like the seasoned PR man he is, Jeremy
is trademark callow.
CUT TO:

56 EXT. URBAN WASTELAND/EMBANKMENT - DAY 56

At the same piece of Urban Wasteland as previous, GEE is
now planting out some seedlings.

BILLY arrives. Gee doesn’t even look his way.

BILLY
What happened?
GEE
It was too obvious, Billy.
(beat)
They’d have killed me and I don’t
want to die.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 59.

BILLY
So now what?
GEE
I have a better plan.

BILLY
Which is..?
Gee draws his pistol on Billy.

GEE
I don’t trust you with that
information Billy.
(beat)
I am going to kill a man tonight.
(beat)
Let’s make sure it isn’t you, ok?
BILLY
Ok.. Jesus.

Gee lowers the gun.

GEE
In my time in Russian army I saw
a lot of death, yes.
(beat)
And my father’s empire.. is built
on corpses. You know that?
(beat)
Is up to me to honour the family
name.

Gee returns to planting the seedlings. Billy helps him.

BILLY
Your father killed people to get
where he is?

GEE
Not with his own hands, but he
will have ordered it, for sure.
(beat)
He is well connected big-time
gangster.
CUT TO:

57 INT. ODESSA RESTAURANT - EVENING 57

CONSTANTINE ROMANOV and MISHA sit at dinner in a booth in

a posh restaurant, with the Russian Ambassador, VICTOR
PETROVITCH.
MISHA pours the wine.

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 60.

MISHA
Ambassador?
Victor gestures, fill the glass.

VICTOR
I’ve never seen anything like it.
(beat)
We are in a very strong position.

CONSTANTINE
We should hit them for more, as
soon as possible. They call it
here "make hay while sun shines."
They toast.

VICTOR
To Georgi.
(beat)
We could have used him in the
Cold War.

The people in the next booth stand up. FIONA and CHARLIE.
FIONA
As far as I can see, the Cold War
never ended.
VICTOR
And you are..?
FIONA
Fiona McGovern. MI5.
VICTOR
(completely non-plussed)
Charmed, I’m sure.

FIONA
I’d like to say I’m surprised to
see you in such company,
Ambassador. But I’m not.
CONSTANTINE
Hey hey Boadicea, calm down
eh? Perhaps some wine?
FIONA
You don’t want Georgi caught at
all.
(beat)
His reign of terror is pushing
gas prices to an all time high,
the wimps in the market are
panicking about supply.
(beat)
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 61.

FIONA (cont’d)
Your son is making you millions,
by accident or design I don’t yet
know.
MISHA
Is this true?
CONSTANTINE
Yes, it is a shame..
He clearly doesn’t mean it.

FIONA
Our Government is pussy-footing
round your embassy like a kitten
in a bear pit.
(beat)
I just bet Moscow is delighted at
the instability.
Victor smiles, raises his glass to her, and drinks more
wine.

CONSTANTINE
So..what? You come into my
restaurant and accuse us
of..what?
VICTOR
We have committed no crimes, have
we, Miss McGovern?
Fiona balks. They haven’t.

CONSTANTINE
It is simply circumstance. Some
you win, some you lose.
FIONA
If I find any of you have aided
or abetted him, I’ll be down on
you like a ton of bricks.
Reaction off MISHA here as obviously she has seen Gee.
FIONA (CONT’D)
And I don’t give a shit about
this namby pamby diplomatic
immunity bollocks. I’ll staple
your balls to the first plane to
Siberia.

Victor doesn’t know where to look.

Fiona turns back round to Charlie. Charlie has sat back
down to dinner.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 62.

FIONA (CONT’D)
Excuse me, we’re leaving.
CHARLIE
If this is on the firm I want
pudding.
FIONA
For godsake..

Constantine pops his head above his booth.

CONSTANTINE
Add it to my tab. I see the sorry
state of the British secret
service.

FIONA
(firm)
Charlie, now.
CHARLIE
(cracks)
Oh alright..
He takes one more big mouthful of food and a massive glug
of wine, then they leave.

Constantine watches them leave, shrugs and resumes

eating.
Off Misha, watching Constantine in a fresh light.

CUT TO:

58 INT. CAR/ EXT. ODESSA RESTAURANT - DAY 58

FIONA and CHARLIE fasten their seat-belts. Fiona in the
driving seat. She starts the car.
Then stops.
MISHA is at the window. Charlie winds his side down.

MISHA
I want him taken alive.
FIONA
Sure sure, what do you know?

MISHA
He has another safe flat, in
Earl’s Court.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 63.

CHARLIE
How do you know?
MISHA
I cannot say. It’s history.
FIONA
Take us there?
MISHA
No way.
She hands Fiona a napkin with an address written on
it. Misha doesn’t let go of the napkin immediately.
MISHA (CONT’D)
But promise me. Alive. We
extradite him to Russia, is last
you hear of him.
She holds out her hand. Fiona shakes it. Misha releases
the napkin.

FIONA
I’m glad the betrayal business is
still alive and well.

MISHA
I know, it’s big business in this
country, no?
Misha grins. Charlie winds up the window and Fiona drives
off.

CUT TO:

59 INT. CAR - MOMENTS LATER - DAY 59

FIONA drives CHARLIE away from the restaurant.

CHARLIE
What’s with the grin?
Fiona thinks for a while, then smacks the steering wheel,
realisation hitting.
FIONA
I knew it. I knew. I saw it
with my own eyes.
(beat)
I am so slow Charlie my darling,
so so slow.
CHARLIE
What on earth are you talking
about?

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 64.

Fiona throws him the napkin with the address written on

it.
FIONA
Send the boys round to the flat,
we’ve got a little job to do.
Charlie unpockets his phone.
CUT TO:

60 INT. MI5 - OFFICE 60

FIONA storms into the office, followed by CHARLIE. Desk
staff member DARREN, ROBERT, and a few others are in
there.
FIONA
Where is he?
DARREN
Who?
FIONA
Billy.
DARREN
He’s off, not on until tonight.
Fiona walks round to the back of Billy’s chair.
She leans over, and plucks one of Billy’s hairs from the
headrest.
FIONA
How much DNA did you find at the
first safe house?

ROBERT
It was like a Roman orgy in
there. Hundreds of marks.
Fiona holds up Billy’s strand of hair.

FIONA
You try to match any against the
house files?
ROBERT
No. Why would we?

FIONA
How long to get this profiled?

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 65.

ROBERT
No time at all. We hold records
of all your DNA.

Charlie immediately sits at a computer and starts to work.

FIONA
Who was on when the first
positive i.d came in?

DARREN
Me. And Billy.
FIONA
Can we see that too?

DARREN
Sure.
Robert now sits at a computer, and cross-references dates
and times.

DARREN (CONT’D)
There.
On a computer screen, cctv footage of the MI5 Ops room,
from the moment Darren took the call giving the positive
i.d of Gee.
Darren is seen on the screen doing his silly dance. Fiona
and Robert look at him quizzically.
DARREN (CONT’D)
What? I was happy ok?
Back on the cctv screen, Billy looks at Darren’s note and
leaves rapidly, exactly as in that earlier scene.
FIONA
There he goes look, like a
scalded rabbit.
CHARLIE (OFF)
Fiona..

Fiona and Robert move over to Charlie’s computer to see..

On the screen - A DNA match from the safe house with the
house file.. of Billy Vashista.
FIONA
Damn it.
CHARLIE
What?

(CONTINUED)
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FIONA
Deep down I wanted to be wrong.
CUT TO:

61 INT. SECOND SAFE HOUSE - EVENING 61

S019 ARMED POLICE storm Gee’s second safe flat.

Like the first one, it is empty.

ARMED POLICE
(into radio)
Empty. Again.

CUT TO:

62 EXT. STREET - EVENING 62

GEE is already on the move. Sunglasses on. Hat. Kit bag
over his shoulder.
CUT TO:

63 INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - EVENING 63

BILLY sits at the side of his sister, RUTH. She is still

on the heavy-duty ventilator.
BILLY
How are you?
RUTH
I’m ok, Billy.
They sit for a while.

BILLY
I want us to move to the coast.
What do you think? I think the
fresh air would do you good.

Ruth gives a smile.

A door on the main ward clicks. Billy looks round to
see..
..ROBERT approaching.

BILLY (CONT’D)
The thing is, I don’t work for
Naxos communications. I work for
the Government.

(CONTINUED)
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On the other door, CHARLIE and several heavies, already in

position.
RUTH
Who are they?
BILLY
It’s ok, I work with them.
(beat)
Listen, if you knew a bad man was
going to be killed what would you
do?
(beat)
A very bad man.
Ruth gives a pained expression, uncertain,
uncomprehending.
ROBERT
Billy.. we know.
BILLY
I’ve got to go now, Ruth.
RUTH
I’d do the right thing, Billy.

Billy walks towards Charlie and the two heavies, his back
to Ruth.
BILLY
It’s ok guys I’ll come quietly,
no fuss now. If she starts to
panic she could have an
attack. There you go, just wave
at Ruth please, thanks.
The heavies, wrongfooted, wave at Ruth as instructed. She
smiles and waves back.

CUT TO:

64 INT. INTERVIEW ROOM - LATER 64

Smack! FIONA slaps a handcuffed BILLY round the face.

ROBERT (OFF)
Fiona, enough.
ROBERT and CHARLIE are also in the room.

BILLY
I guess I deserved that.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 68.

FIONA
Just be thankful there’s
witnesses here.

ROBERT
Why did you do it?
FIONA
For his sister. The asthmatic.

BILLY
Correct. Also for the world..the
environment.
FIONA
Then you’re a schmuck.

BILLY
No, it’s easy.
(beat)
I believe in what he’s doing more
than I believe in what we’re
doing.
(beat)
He’s blurred the distinction
between good and bad.

FIONA
No he hasn’t. We’re law and
order, and he’s chaos.
CUT TO:

65 EXT. STREET - EVENING 65

GEE walks down a Kensington Street, and makes a left.
CUT TO:

66 INT. JEREMY WALKER’S HOUSE - NIGHT 66

JEREMY WALKER, his wife DANIELLE and children SOPHIE (8)
and REBECCA (10) watch the news in the kitchen.

Footage of Jeremy’s keynote speech earlier.

DANIELLE
Look girls, Daddy’s on the news.

JEREMY
How was it?
DANIELLE
Honestly?
(beat)
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
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DANIELLE (cont’d)
Fantastic.
JEREMY
Thank you.
DANIELLE
I’ll put supper on.
CUT TO:

67 INT. INTERVIEW ROOM - MOMENTS LATER 67

BILLY is still handcuffed, as before, with FIONA, CHARLIE
and ROBERT watching.

FIONA
Billy, we work damn hard to keep
this little country at the top
table in world affairs. But
right now she’s like an old prize
fighter in a comeback bout. Only
these days, the competition is
younger, faster, harder, and
we’re on the ropes Billy, on the
fuckin’ ropes.
(beat)
The last thing we need is someone
like you in there, making things
worse. Understand?
Billy remains silent.

ROBERT
Billy, remember what your sister
said.
(beat)
Do the right thing.

Billy stays silent, and then hangs his head.

BILLY
Alright.
(beat)
He’s got another flat, in Earl’s
Court.
FIONA
Yeah yeah Billy been there got
the t-shirt.

BILLY
What?

(CONTINUED)
CONTINUED: 70.

FIONA
It’s empty.
BILLY
How did you find it..?
(beat, realisation)
Oh. The girl.
FIONA
(angry)
Where is he God-dammit?

She smacks Billy round the face again.

BILLY
(pained)
I don’t know! He said he
couldn’t trust me.

FIONA
Jesus Billy.
BILLY
I’m telling you the truth, he
told me nothing.
ROBERT
That’s because deep down, he
knows you value human life over
anything else.
(beat)
So.. think.
BILLY
(remembering)
"Tonight." He said, "I’m going
to kill a man tonight."
(beat)
Oh God. If the flat was empty,
he’s already on the move.

ROBERT
(fast, to Darren)
Alright, locate Walker. Get him
secure, now.
BILLY
But his MO, his MO is diversion.
(beat)
I don’t know him at all, do I?
Fiona rolls her eyes in disgust at Billy. Then stops
herself.

FIONA
Diversion. It’s never what it
seems.

(CONTINUED)
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BILLY
Never!
FIONA
Shut up Billy.
(musing)
Always diversion. Always
environmental.
(beat)
Where’s our paper?

DARREN
Have we really got time for..?
He stops himself when he sees her face.

Darren throws her the day’s paper. Fiona skims through

it. And stops again.
FIONA
(to Charlie)
Come on.
(off his puzzlement)
I’ve had an idea, quick.
They both leave.
CUT TO:

68 EXT. STREET - EVENING 68

GEE still walks through endless suburban streets, nicely
tucked up behind glasses and hat.

He stops at a fence, checks no-one is looking then smartly

vaults the fence into a garden.
CUT TO:

69 EXT. JEREMY WALKER’S HOUSE - EVENING 69

One of two armed POLICE on guard outside Jeremy Walker’s
house takes a phone call.

ARMED POLICEMAN
Three four alpha.
(beat)
Copy that control.

He checks up and down the road.

ARMED POLICEMAN (CONT’D)
All clear here. But we’ll have a
look round.

CUT TO:
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70 EXT. BACK GARDEN - EVENING 70

GEE settles in some bushes at the bottom of a
garden. From his position he can see the back of a house.

CUT TO:

71 INT. JEREMY WALKER’S HOUSE - EVENING 71

DANIELLE, SOPHIE and REBECCA are all still in there, the

kids watch a cartoon while Danielle cooks tea.
DANIELLE
Now then, where’s your Daddy
gone? He’s not gone up for a
bath already, has he?
CUT TO:

72 INT. HOUSE - BATHROOM 72

A MAN climbs into a full bath and slithers under the

surface. His face is not revealed.
Music plays.

CUT TO:

73 INT. FIONA’S CAR - EVENING 73

FIONA drives fast with CHARLIE in the passenger seat,

mobile phone in hand.
FIONA
He’ll wait until it’s dark to get
away unseen.

Charlie stares out at the almost pitch black sky.

CHARLIE
I reckon that’s about a minute
away.

FIONA
Any joy?
She means with his phone call.

CHARLIE
No. Here’s the street.
They screech to a halt outside a smart town house.
CUT TO:
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74 INT. HOUSE - BEDROOM WITH EN-SUITE BATHROOM 74

The music still plays in the en-suite bathroom of the
house. The man hums along.

On the bed in the bedroom, the man’s mobile phone vibrates

but it’s on "silent".
CUT TO:

75 EXT. BACK GARDEN - EVENING 75

GEE looks up to check the sky, then removes the rocket
launcher from his bag.

CUT TO:

76 INT. JEREMY WALKER’S HOUSE - EVENING 76

DANIELLE and the girls are still in the kitchen.

JEREMY enters with the ARMED POLICEMAN in tow.

DANIELLE
Oh there you are darling,
everything ok?

JEREMY
No worries but we need to go to
the safe room, now.
DANIELLE
Again? But what about supper?
ARMED POLICEMAN
Sorry Miss.

SOPHIE
Is this another exercise, Daddy?
JEREMY
That’s right sweetie.

The family all head to the cellar.

CUT TO:

77 INT. MI5 - OPS ROOM - MOMENTS LATER 77

DARREN sits at the control desk, with his head set

on. ROBERT reads the paper.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 74.

DARREN
Walker’s secure, and it’s all
clear.
ROBERT
She was right then, again.
On the newsaper. The article.
"Minister unveils plans for new "Super M25"" and the
accompanying picture of the smiling Minister for
Transport, George Harris.
CUT TO:

78 EXT. BACK GARDEN - EVENING 78

GEE loads a rocket into the rocket launcher.
GEE shoulders the rocket launcher and aims it carefully at
the house.

He pulls the trigger. The rocket snakes it’s way towards

the house.
CUT TO:

79 EXT. KENSINGTON HOUSE - FRONT - NIGHT - MILLISECONDS LATER

79
FIONA. CHARLIE and Gee’s real target, TRANSPORT MINISTER
GEORGE HARRIS, in a dressing gown, dive forwards as the
house they’ve just departed explodes in a fireball.
George sits up. He’s still wet from his bath.
GEORGE
What the hell..?

FIONA and CHARLIE look at each other. Close call.

Charlie hands George his yellow rubber duck.
GEORGE
Thanks.
CUT TO:

80 EXT. GEORGE HARRIS’ BACK GARDEN/STREET - NIGHT 80

GEE bags up the rocket launcher and returns through the
foliage to the back fence of the house, which is on fire
in the background.

He climbs back over the fence into the street.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 75.

The darkness is broken suddenly by multiple spotlights.

POLICEMAN
(through a loud hailer)
Put the bag down and take two
steps back.
Gee ignores him. He takes the rocket launcher out of the
bag and loads a rocket, as if to shoot his way out of
danger.

Blam blam blam!

Gee is shot by marksmen. Properly peppered. He falls.
The armed police run towards him and check his neck for a
pulse.
POLICEMAN #1
Dead.
POLICEMAN #2
I should fuckin’ think he is,
after that.
POLICEMAN #1
’Ere, Marcus, were they..unleaded
bullets?

MARCUS POLICEMAN
Erm, nope. Why?
POLICEMAN #1
Not very eco-friendly of you, was
it?
CUT TO:

81 INT. MI5 OPS ROOM A FEW MINUTES LATER 81

BILLY is lead away in handcuffs by CHARLIE and the two

heavies.
ROBERT watches the screens. On the TV, breaking news:

"Minister of Transport attacked at home."

BILLY
Did they get him out?

ROBERT
Yes.
BILLY
Gee?

Robert shakes his head. Billy sighs. They lead him out.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 76.

ROBERT
You did the right thing, Billy.
FADE OUT

82 INT. HOME OFFICE - DRINKS RECEPTION AREA - NIGHT 82

FIONA, CHARLIE and ROBERT all partake in a glass of
champagne.

They watch PETE BARBER and JEREMY WALKER schmoozing

Russian Ambassador VICTOR PETROV and ALEXANDER, his PA.
FIONA
There they are look, makes you
sick.
ROBERT
Oh come on, Fiona. They were
hardly going to let the small
matter of Georgi Romanov derail
the bon accord.
(beat)
Truth be told they’ve all got
bigger fish to fry.
(beat)
Walker wants the top job now, you
know?
FIONA
I can’t watch this any more.
(to Charlie)
Lets get out of here.

CHARLIE
Where to?
CUT TO:

83 INT. ODESSA RESTAURANT - NIGHT 83

End credits montage begins.
FIONA and CHARLIE sit at dinner at the posh Odessa
Restaurant, in the same booth from where they confronted
Constantine and Petrov earlier.
Caption reads:
Fiona and Charlie later received
bravery medals for their work.
The ceremony was in private, for
operational reasons.
Charlie had double helpings of
pudding.

(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 77.

CUT TO:

84 INT. PRISON CELL - NIGHT 84

BILLY is lead into a cell.

Caption:
Billy Vashista served three years
for aiding and abetting a wanted
felon.
CUT TO:

85 EXT. JEREMY WALKER’S HOUSE - DAY 85

JEREMY WALKER arrives home in his chauffeur-driven car to

a media scrum. Flashlights popping.
Caption:
Jeremy Walker’s bid for the
premiership failed by a majority
of 112 votes.
He now sits on the back benches.
CUT TO:

86 EXT. URBAN WASTELAND/EMBANKMENT - DAY 86

A COUNCIL WORKER sprays weedkiller on the seedlings Gee
planted earlier.
Caption:
Georgi’s seedlings were sprayed
by the council a week after he
planted them.

CUT TO:

87 EXT. GEE’S FUNERAL - DAY 87

CONSTANTINE ROMANOV is tearful as Georgi’s coffin is

interred. MISHA stands next to Constantine, also
tearful.
There are a few other people there, including PETE BARBER.

Caption:
Fired by Jeremy Walker, Pete
Barber took a job as an advisor
to Constantine Romanov.
Georgi Romanov’s body was
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
 CONTINUED: 78.

repatriated and buried in the

Gorky Cemetery, Moscow.

His father dedicated 10,000

hectares of Siberian forest to
his memory.
Georgi’s legacy lives on...

CUT TO:

88 INT. LOUNGE - NIGHT 88

A group of slightly hippie-looking middle aged women sit
drinking tea. The focus of the room is ROSE (55) who
stands next to a flip-chart with a map stuck to it.
ROSE
Now, the power station is served
by just the one line, here.
(beat)
We only need to hit the points..
here.. to disable the place for
weeks.
(beat)
Now. Does everyone know what
they’re doing, or shall I go
through things one more time?
THE END.

FADE OUT