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The TECHNICIAN fails to notice this and the machine

continues smoothly TUTWOOD, Thomas T. ... TUZCZLOW,

Peter...

INTERVIEWER:

Thank you very much, Deputy Minister.

HELPMANN:

Thank you, David ... and a very merry

Christmas to you all.

14 EXT. HOUSING TOWERSNIGHT 14

ZOOMING past foreground outdoor Xmas decorations we

TIGHTEN in on one of several massive residential tower

blocks that loom over what appears to be a poorer part of

the city

15 INT. BUTTLE FLAT NIGHT 15

HELPMANN and INTERVIEWER are on the TV, the end credits

rolling over them to the beat of a Mozart theme tune.

PULLING BACK we reveal that the TV is in a conventional

sitting room, conventionally decorated for Christmas; out

the room is oddly encumbered by huge metal conduits that

snake unpleasantly across and through the walls. Smaller

conduits radiate from the main one connecting the various

services that Central Services (the name emblazoned on the

metal) supply to this household. A conventionally poor but

proud family occupies the room. MRS BUTTLE is reading

Dickens' Christmas Carol to GIRL BUTTLE who is about six.

BOY BUTTLE plays quietly with a toy machine gun and some

action men dressed in security gear. MR. BUTTLE is putting

the final touches to a neatly wrapped Christmas present

which looks identical to the "executive toy" we have just

seen in he TECHNICIAN'S office.

Faintly from outside comes a burst of laughter. A tilt of

the CAMERA indicates that the laughter is coming from the

floor above.

16 INT. JILL'S FLAT NIGHT 16

The flat is very bare and basic. The laughter is coming

from a cheap portable television showing "Sgt. Bilko. From

BILKO'S POV we look through an open door of a bathroom

straight at a mirror propped up by the bath, to enable the

person in the bath to watch the TV. The person in the bath

is JILL LAYTON, washing the grime off herself while she

watches Bilko in the mirror. From her POV in the mirror,

the T.V. screen is suddenly obscured by part of the body

of a MAN in uniform.

JILL:

(scared)

Who's there?

17 INT. BUTTLE'S FLAT NIGHT 17

The BUTTLE FAMILY as before. MRS BUTTLE is closing the

book.

MRS BUTTLE:

There, that's enough for tonight. He

won't come Xmas Eve if you don't get

plenty of sleep.

GIRL BUTTLE:

Father Christmas can't come if we

haven't got a chimney.

MRS BUTTLE:

You'll see.

The GIRL exchanges goodnight kisses with her parents and

leaves the room.

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