Tamara Drewe Page #3

9A INT. DAY. STONEFIELD. 9A

Glen settles back in his chair.

GLEN:

It’s paradise...

10 INT. DAY. STONEFIELD - NICHOLAS’ SHED. 10

Nicholas, dreading his predicament, is staring out at a cow’s

arse. The cow starts to piss. He shuts his eyes in

desperation.

10A I/E. DAY. TAMARA’S CAR. 10A

Shooting from inside the car, we pass the sign “Ewedown”.

11 EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. EWEDOWN - HALFWAY DOWN THE STREET. 11

The same car drives through the village. Jody and Casey

appear from behind a wall and chuck eggs at it. They both

land on the windscreen.

JODY:

F***ing bingo!

Jody and Casey run away, laughing.

11A EXT. DAY. EWEDOWN. OUTSIDE THE PUB. 11A

The driver brakes, swerves and comes to a halt. Tamara Drewe

gets out. She’s twenty eight, startlingly beautiful. She

looks around shocked, for the culprit.

The immaculate, picturesque street is deserted. Tamara takes

it in, with an expression of such distaste that it might as

well be a landfill site.

TAMARA:

What a dump.

As she drives away, we see Nadia sitting outside the pub in

her urban heels, anxiously smoking a cigarette.

GOLDENROD REVISIONS 20.10.09 7A.

12 EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. WINNARDS FARM. 12

Tamara drives up to an old farmhouse. She gets out of the car

and stands at the gate. Air of neglect; dark windows. Tamara

looks at the place as if it stirs memories. She doesn’t move.

12A DELETED 12A

14 EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. WINNARDS FARM. 14

At the back of the house Tamara walks through an overgrown,

neglected garden. She peers through the back door into the

kitchen. A thin layer of dust on the surfaces; a sense of

recent abandonment.

Suddenly a pigeon flies out from the porch eaves - just over

her head. Tamara startles. It completely spooks her. She

backs away. She doesn’t know what to do.

13 EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. EWEDOWN - BUS SHELTER. 13

Jody and Casey are slouched on the bench at the bus stop.

Three teenage boys are doing wheelies over the T-junction.

One of them almost lands in the shop. An old lady comes out,

shoo-ing them away.

JODY:

We could walk up the garage.

CASEY:

I’m supposed to be helping my mum

up at Stonefield.

JODY:

They keep you busy.

CASEY:

Yeah.

JODY:

You never stop, you!

Neither of them moves. The boys are yelling. Two try to put

the third head first into the bin outside the shop. Jody and

Casey are not impressed.

15 DELETED. 15

GOLDENROD REVISIONS 20.10.09 8.

16 EXT. EVENING. STONEFIELD - THE GROUNDS (PATIO). 16 *

The writers are sitting round a table lit with tea-lights injars. Casey is helping her mum, Mary, an efficient localwoman in her late thirties. She wobbles the heavy servingdishes dangerously.

GLEN:

It was called ‘From Hearth to Heath

- Doomsday and Revelation inVictorian verse.’

TESS:

What was it about?

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GLEN:

Oh you know. Pale poets onlaudanum, dark towers and sunless

seas - a little sturm and drang in

a teacup.

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