Breathe Page #2

DIANAThis doesn’t look like a jollypub by the river.

ROBINNo. We seem to have missed our

way.

DIANA:

What a surprise.

ROBINLucky I packed a bottle of wineand a pork pie.

DIANA:

Good Lord, is that the time?

She reaches for the car door handle. There is no car doorhandle.

DIANA:

How do you open the door?

ROBIN:

You don’t.

DIANA:

But I want to get out.

ROBIN:

No you don’t.

DIANA:

Don’t I?

ROBIN:

You want to kiss me.

DIANAWhat makes you think I want to

He pulls her towards him and kisses her. No aggression, butnor does he give her any choice in the matter.

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For a moment she accepts the kiss passively. Then shestarts to kiss him back. Then she starts to kiss him withreal passion.

9 EXT. GARDEN, BLACKER HOUSE -DAY 9

The grounds of Diana’s family home. Diana sits on a swingattached to a branch of a tree. She’s slowly twisting herselfround and round, winding the two ropes above her. At her feeton the grass lie her brothers, Bloggs and David.

BLOGGS(to Diana)

You hardly know the little man.

DAVID(to Bloggs)

Would you say he’s littler than us?

The two brothers eye each other, as if making the mentalcomparison.

BLOGGSNot much in it.

DAVID(to Diana)

Has he got any money at all?

BLOGGSIt’s not like you don’t have otheroptions.

DAVIDWhat happened to Hugh? Doesn’t hehave a castle in Scotland?

BLOGGSMind you, who’d want to live inScotland?

DAVIDShe’s talking about going to livein Kenya, for God’s sake!

BLOGGSDiana, please stop going round andround and concentrate. This is yourfuture life we’re talking about.

DAVIDYour future happiness.

Diana stops twirling. Her feet on the ground hold the swingsteady.

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DIANA:

The thing is, I just know this is

it.

She lifts her feet and the swing spins her round and round,

skirts flying, as the ropes unwind.

9A EXT. KENYA 9A

We find ourselves flying through a magnificent gorge ravine.

The searing heat of the bright African light upon us. We flyover trees and waterfalls, ahead of us a towering mountain.

Into frame drops a Tiger Moth biplane, flying away from us.

Its pilot unknown.

9B EXT. KENYA 9B

The biplane, now a tiny speck, flies along a massive cliff

wall and circles over the planes below.

9C EXT. KENYA 9C

The biplane comes in to land. As it taxis and stops, theengines cut. The pilot climbs out of the cockpit, raising hisgoggles, revealing that it is in fact ROBIN. He helps DIANAdown.

10 EXT. BUSH ROAD, KENYA -DAY 10

TRACKING PAST red earth, fields of sugar cane, banana

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