The Night Manager Page #3

PINE:

If you say so.

ROPER:

Everyone thinks I was born with a

silver spoon in my mouth. It’s

balls. My father was an Oxfordshire

auctioneer, taught me everything

has a price. But the energy, the

drive, to create all this, that

comes from me alone. Where does it

come from in you?

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PINE:

I’m not sure I have what you

describe.

ROPER sips his wine.

ROPER:

Why d’you do it?

PINE:

Do what?

ROPER:

Murder that Australian. It’s all

over the wire. I called the police,

by the way. Had no choice. Be here

any minute.

PINE doesn’t move. ROPER smiles.

ROPER (CONT’D)

My you are a cool cucumber.

PINE:

Listen you’ve patched me up. I’d

like to move on.

ROPER:

Corky can’t make you out you see.

Suspicious chap Corks. Got bad

vibes about you. But I think he’s

being possessive. Why’d you kill

that Aussie? Don’t deny it, because

that’s just tedious.

Beat.

PINE:

He lied to me.

ROPER:

And you didn’t like that.

PINE:

No.

ROPER:

Quite right. What happened to the

dope you were smuggling?

PINE:

I threw it in the sea.

ROPER:

That must have hurt.

PINE:

Yes it did.

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CORKORAN comes out of a side door.

CORKORAN:

The Langbournes have confirmed. So

that makes twelve for the lunch

party. Or thirteen.

He eyes PINE without much love.

ROPER:

Come and explain why you think this

one’s a bad apple Corky.

CORKORAN:

His references aren’t all that

clever. Lucky for you old Jorge was

so desperate for a sous-chef he

didn’t bother to check them.

ROPER:

Did you fake them Pine?

PINE:

I needed a job fast, I didn’t have

time for formalities.

ROPER:

How did you get the passport?

PINE:

I met a girl in Devon.

ROPER:

Marilyn Trethaway. Pretty little

thing.

He throws a photo. It’s Marilyn. PINE stares.

PINE:

Quince was her ex. Never been

abroad. Never had a passport. I

took his name.

ROPER:

Taken a lot of names haven’t you?

Makes a man wonder who you really

are. Father died in service. No

relationship with mother. Married

once, lasted all of six months so

we can assume not a triumph. Two

tours. Distinguished service. But

on return? What? Despair?

Depression? A loss of hope, a loss

of sanity? Five years as a night

owl in the hotel business, what was

that? Hibernation? Burying yourself

alive?

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ROPER (CONT'D)

Then a sudden moment of madness,

thievery, narcotics, murder. It’s

bloody chaos Jonathan. I mean do

you have any idea who you are?

Beat.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Those fellows you smashed up in the

restaurant. You know them?

PINE:

No.

ROPER:

They hadn’t eaten there before?

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