The Night Manager

Season #1 Episode #1
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
1,054 Views


Episode 1

PRE-SHOOTING SCRIPT

15-3-15

THE INK FACTORY:

Developed in association with BBC/AMC

1

I/E ZERMATT. PINE’S APARTMENT. EVENING. 1

Looking out the window of a small monk’s cell of a Swiss

mountain-top apartment building: the snow is falling thick

and soft.

Inside the apartment, in the snow-filled silence of early

evening, a MAN, whose face we do not see, is meticulously

clipping his fingernails, one by one. First the left hand,

then the right.

He is wet-shaving, oiling his skin for a smooth finish.

Now he is dressing in a crisp, perfectly ironed white shirt.

The collar is starched and firm.

A dark tie is perfectly tied.

A single breasted dark dinner suit is taken from the hanger

in the closet where another identical suit sits in place.

The buttons of the single breasted suit are polished.

The suit is put on. Shirt tucked in.

The tie placed.

A pair of navy blue socks is placed on to a pair of pale

feet.

A pair of fine black patent-leather shoes are carefully

placed in a small plastic bag for transportation.

A pair of lightweight walking shoes are taken from the drying

rack by the door. And put on over the navy blue socks.

They look incongruous below the dinner suit.

A winter anorak is taken from the hook by the door.

The door is opened. The snow is falling.

1a

I/E. ZERMATT. TRAIN. EVENING. 1a

The sun is just disappearing behind the solitary peak of the

Matterhorn as THE MAN takes the little train down the

mountain.

We do not see his face.

2

EXT. ZERMATT. HILLSIDE STREAM. MEISTERS HOTEL. EVENING. 2

The lone figure, distant amidst the Alpine winter landscape,

makes the walk from the station to the glinting evening

lights of a high-class Swiss hotel that overlooks the luxury

resort of Zermatt.

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3

INT. ZERMATT. MEISTERS HOTEL. LOBBY. EVENING. 3

From the comfort of the concierge’s office, FRAULEIN VIPP,

60, Austrian, seriously old-school receptionist, looks up to

see a figure walk out from the staff changing-rooms.

It is our MAN. He is now wearing the black leather shoes.

The hair is oiled, short. Everything is in its place.

The face that we see now for the first time is composed.

Thirty three years old. A secret to all men. And to himself.

JONATHAN PINE.

PINE:

Guten abend, Fraulein Vipp.

FRAULEIN VIPP:

Guten abend, Herr Pine.

JONATHAN PINE smiles.

3a

INT. MEISTERS HOTEL. NIGHT 3a

As PINE goes about his nightly duties:

He locks a door with a hefty set of keys.

He sets the NIGHT ALARM.

He heaves a crate of beer down into the cellar.

He paces a corridor, trying a door handle here, a window

latch there.

He surveys the contents of the HOTEL SAFE - jots a note on a

clipboard, closes the safe and spins the tumbler.

4

INT. ZERMATT. MEISTERS HOTEL. LOBBY. NIGHT. 4

The clock Swiss-ly chimes eleven.

It’s dark outside now and JONATHAN PINE sits in the office

behind reception typing on the hotel computer.

A voice, female, interrupts his reverie.

SYBILLE:

Aren’t you going you to say good

evening?

He looks up. She is 18, pretty, dressed in strangely formal

clothes, one of the moneyed French. SYBILLE. Dines out on

pouting melancholy.

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PINE:

Bonsoir mademoiselle. Ou est votre

mere?

PINE (CONT’D)

She’s asleep in our room. I sneaked

out.

She sounds the second syllable - sneaked. And eyes PINE, with

pouting intent.

PINE (CONT’D)

Well, I think it would probably be

best if you sneaked back in.

She ignores him.

SYBILLE:

What do you do every night? Just

sit here. Nothing happens. No one

comes. I’d kill myself.

She is seeking a reaction. Doomed to failure. He continues to

type. She takes a small mini-bar bottle of vodka from her

pocket, downs it. He does not react.

She looks at him. Leans in.

SYBILLE (CONT’D)

Je te degoute? Non?

PINE:

Not at all.

SYBILLE:

I disgust myself too. Sometimes I

want to cut myself just to feel the

pain.

PINE:

Does Mademoiselle require a knife

to be sent to her room?

She fingers an ornate PAPER KNIFE on the reception desk.

PINE (CONT’D)

You won’t have much luck with that,

I’m afraid.

He looks at her coolly.

SYBILLE:

I hate you.

She turns on her heel and sashays across the parquet floor.

The snow falls outside. PINE opens a French window. Walks out

into the cold.

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PINE gets up. He savours the quiet. Just one Milanese couple

having a tryst in the dining room. Nothing else.

Yes. Nothing happens. No one comes. The perfect retreat from

a cruel world.

Then he sees a light on in an office window. He pauses,

curious.

5 INT. ZERMATT. MEISTERS HOTEL, OFFICES. NIGHT. 5

PINE (IN GERMAN)

You should have gone by now.

An office off the main reception area. The manager of

Meisters Hotel - HERR STRIPPLI, 50 years old, punctilious and

slightly vain, is finishing his paperwork. PINE’s head round

the door.

HERR STRIPPLI:

A late booking came in. I had to

arrange their requirements.

Because of course, no one else can.

PINE:

Nationality?

HERR STRIPPLI:

One of yours.

HERR STRIPPLI (CONT’D)

Private jet, landing at Lindesheim

in two hours. A large party. He

wants the Tower Suite.

PINE frowns.

PINE:

How can they land at Lindesheim?

That’s military.

HERR STRIPPLI:

And this is Switzerland, Jonathan.

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