The Coroner Page #5

BETH:

(GLARES AT HIM) Stop it. I’m not in the mood.

DAVEY:

(TO JANE) Must be like looking in a mirror.

[JANE EYES HIM, HEADS OVER]

DAVEY:

Got a bag of rice, Judith?

BETH:

(TO A TOURIST) Can you just move back? Jeez.

JANE:

(HELPS HER GATHER PLATE SHARDS) How’s it going?

BETH:

It’s totally doing my head in. Been rammed all day. Still. I’m off in ten

minutes. I’m going to rent a boat. And go out very very far out to sea.

JANE:

(QUICKLY) I don’t think that’s a very good idea.

BETH:

It was a joke. Although actually... I reckon it’s the best idea I’ve had all day.

[SHE GRINS, HEADS OFF. OUT ON JANE - WORRIED]

CUT TO:

EP10/SC16. INT. THE DROP ZONE HANGAR. DAY 1. 13.38

LORI, DAVEY

NS POLICE, CSI

[NS POLICE AND CSI IN THE BACKGROUND AS LORI

EYES DAVEY, FROWNS]

LORI:

Eddie didn’t go anywhere near Rafe’s rig. Rafe brought it in from home.

DAVEY:

Anyone double check his parachute?

LORI:

(SHAKES HEAD) Rafe said he’d done it.

DAVEY:

Did he leave it unattended?

LORI:

Only for a few minutes.

DAVEY:

So who else had access to it?

LORI:

Me, Stix. (BEAT) And, Eddie.

DAVEY:

So Eddie could have done it?

LORI:

I don’t think so. We’re like a family. (FEELS HERSELF FILL UP, BITES

IT BACK) Rafe and I started this place together. Nearly sixteen years. He

was one of my oldest friends. Known him since our first day at comp.

[DAVEY TAKES IN THE PHOTO OF RAFE, LORI AND

EDDIE WE SAW EARLIER]

DAVEY:

Well families fall out. My dad hasn’t talked to his brother in years. Why

wasn’t Eddie skydiving?

[HE EYEBALLS LORI. SHE’S HESITANT – FEELS

DISLOYAL. TELLS A HALF TRUTH]

LORI:

He packed a chute wrong. Rafe took him off the team.

DAVEY;

Eddie happy about that?

LORI:

No, but… He wouldn’t have killed him.

[SHE FEELS HER EYES FILL AGAIN AS SHE TAKES IN

THE PHOTO, LOOKS AWAY]

DAVEY:

What d’you know about Jess?

LORI:

Not much. Doesn’t jump. Hates watching Rafe jump. Never comes here.

(FURIOUS WITH HERSELF) Why didn’t I double check his rig?

CUT TO:

EP10/SC17. INT. CORONER’S OFFICE. DAY 1. 13.43

JANE, CLINT, BETH

[BETH BORED, SHARES CHIPS WITH CLINT. JANE

TRIES TO CONCENTRATE ON PAPERWORK]

BETH:

(TO CLINT) Apparently, it’s too dangerous.

JANE:

It is too dangerous!!

BETH:

Hello, I’m from London.

JANE:

Exactly, you don’t know all the risks down here.

BETH:

What? Like being hit by a beachball? (GRINS) Maybe I could do

skydiving?

[JANE EYEBALLS HER HARD]

CLINT:

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