From Darkness Page #4

JOHN:

Drop me home later and get an

overnight bag.

BOYCE:

Where are we going?

JOHN:

The Western Isles.

BOYCE:

But isn’t that... Scotland?

But as BOYCE speaks, JOHN’S already walked away, headed back

towards the crime scene tent.

BOYCE:

I wasn't breast-fed.

JOHN turns and looks at him.

BOYCE:

Bottle. Last of three.

FROM DARKNESS EPISODE ONE 7

JOHN heads back in to the crime scene - leaving BOYCE alone

in that desolate place feeling stupid.

JOHN looks away, almost sighing, in disbelief. He heads back

towards the tent, BOYCE heads off.

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12 SCENE CUT. 12

13 INT. JOHN’S HOUSE, GARAGE - NIGHT 1 (22:36) 13

The light comes on in the garage as JOHN enters via an

internal door and goes to a series of shelves and boxes at

the back. He pulls down an old box file and after some

rummaging pulls out an old green folder.

He brings it down and rests it on an work bench: leafing

through the yellowing pages.

Turning eventually to an old photocopied ID shot of a police

constable from 1998: Constable CLAIRE CHURCH.

14 EXT. COAST. WESTERN ISLES - DAY 2 (17:50) 14

CLAIRE CHURCH pulls her goggles down over her eyes and,

clad in her wet-suit, plunges into a very uninviting sea

and swims.

She swims hard:
her face plunging in and out of the

freezing cold water, her breathing strong and determined.

The harder she trains the easier it is not to think.

Between breaths she and we hear a vague shouting. She looks

up to see a girl (MEGAN DUNCAN, 15) shouting from the

jetty.

MEGAN:

Mum! Mum! There’s someone here.

MEGAN beckons her then turns back up the track towards the

COTTAGE on the hillside behind. CLAIRE sticks her goggles

on her head, exhausted and paddles back in.

15 EXT. COTTAGE. WESTERN ISLES - DAY 2 (17:58) 15

JOHN’S WORK CAR sits parked outside the cottage. It is

incongruously executive. CLAIRE brushes a hand across it,

intrigued and a little concerned. She heads in.

FROM DARKNESS EPISODE ONE

16 INT. COTTAGE, LOUNGE & KITCHEN - DAY 2 (17:59) 16

NORRIE in scruffy farming gear hands his two SUITED

VISITORS:
JOHN & BOYCE mugs of tea.

NORRIE:

She’s out training. She won’t be

long. Sugar?

BOYCE:

You don’t have any sweetener...?

NORRIE shakes his head. JOHN looks at BOYCE - like he’s a

pillock.

BOYCE (CONT’D)

Getting married... Trying to stay

trim for the big day.

CLAIRE walks in.

CLAIRE:

Is everything okay? Whose car is-

She stops, looks at JOHN. The mere sight of him is like a

punch in the stomach.

NORRIE:

Detective Sergeant Boyce.

Detective Chief Inspector...

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