The Night Manager Page #3

Season #1 Episode #2
Synopsis: An Englishman, Jonathan Pine (played by Tom Hiddleston), is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), an English billionaire. She is soon found dead, murdered due to her having this information. Fearing for his own life, Pine flees, ending up working at a remote hotel in Switzerland. Four years pass, and then Roper visits the Swiss hotel. This rekindles Pines thirst for revenge, and he is enlisted by British Intelligence to spy on Roper. What follows is a very dangerous game of intrigue and deception.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
  Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 17 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
TV-14
Year:
2016
358 min
477 Views


JED:

What do you think?

ROPER:

Well go on then.

She signals to DANIEL, who follows. As he passes ROPER:

ROPER (CONT’D)

(quietly)

Drinking my wine, stealing my

woman. Whatever next?

ROPER and DANIEL eye each other. Something terribly fragile

about the boy here.

JED goes to talk to the waiter, conspiratorial look in her

eyes. CARO is having a go at SANDY, via their NANNY.

CAROLINE:

Lord Langbourne is a snob,

basically. Three generations of

Eton or you’re not on the map.

ROPER’S ears hear this, they prick slightly.

SANDY:

Caro, darling...

ROPER:

I’m not even one generation, Sandy.

What does that make me?

An alpha male challenge here, coded in wit. SANDY’S too smart

not to notice it.

SANDY:

You’re paying the bill, Dicky.

You are the map.

He raises a glass. They all toast ROPER, as -

SANDY (CONT’D)

To Richard!

Night Manager ep 2 final

9 EXT. MALLORCA. CLIFF TOP RESTAURANT. NIGHT. 9

Music begins. Spanish music, pop-traditional fusion, and

asking to be danced to.

And there is JED. She takes DANIEL’s hand and starts to dance

amidst the tables. Others join, CORKY dancing alone in a

joyous abandon, camp as hell, SANDY and the NANNY dancing,

ROPER alone sitting smiling, smoking a lovely cigarette.

Staring at his empire.

Behind him TWO MEN walk into the restaurant. Are led to

another table.

The music heightens in pace, JED leaps on to the table and

dances for ROPER, the crowd whistle and applaud, she is

playing out the whore her mother claimed her to be. And how.

Wild clapping, roaring of encouragement, ROPER humouring her,

Daniel is here... but he needs to learn.

DANIEL turns away, slightly embarrassed, smiling but abashed.

That’s when he sees the TWO MEN smiling at him.

JED’s body is alive, released, her hair wild in the evening

light.

An euphoria.

When suddenly the music stops.

JED turns, looks round.

And her face goes white in horror.

The TWO MEN, ALBANIAN, are staring at the party, guns in

hand.

And one of them has DANIEL in his arms. DANIEL is silent.

Pure terror.

Instantly FRISKY and TABBY’s hands are on their holsters.

But the ALBANIANS see the move and train their guns on FRISKY

and TABBY, screaming with adrenaline madness...

ALBANIANS:

GUNS DOWN!! Put the guns down! On

the FLOOR!!

The ALBANIANS, sweating, see FRISKY and TABBY with their

hands on their guns.

ALBANIAN 1

WHY YOU HAVE GUNS?? You police??

A long beat. ROPER stands.

Night Manager ep 2 final

ROPER:

They’re with me.

The ALBANIANS swivel to ROPER - wired, crazed with tension,

ready to go at any moment.

ALBANIAN 1

Guns on the floor!

ROPER:

Do as he says. Everyone stay still.

No one do anything silly.

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