In the Loop Page #3

JUDY:

And don't say Mandela, that's rubbish.

And don't say Keira Knightley, you'll

look like a pervert..

MALCOLM:

What?

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JUDY:

Malcolm’s coming to see you.

SIMON:

Sh*t. He’s still alive. When’s he due?

Malcolm walks in with Toby sheepishly behind him.

MALCOLM:

Now. And don’t say you weren’t

prepared because I rang ahead.Now

then, Simon, as the late great Nat

King F***ing Cole said,

‘Unforeseeable, that’s what you are..’

8 INT. MICHAELS FO OFFICE - MORNING 8

MICHAEL is having croissants with Suzy. The music is

still playing.

Suzy hands him a folder.

SUZY:

This is the latest from the...sorry,

is it alright if I turn this down a

bit?

She turns the music down.

SUZY (CONT'D)

The latest from the State Department

for the American meeting. I gather

Fatty won’t be attending.

MICHAEL:

Hey, you. He's the Foreign Secretary.

So please address him by his full

title. The Right Honourable Sir

Jonathan Manboobs-Smith

9 INT. SIMON'S OFFICE - DAY / DFID OPEN PLAN OFFICE - DAY 9

MALCOLM is giving SIMON a controlled-anger dressing

down. Judy and Toby are outside in the open plan

office.

SIMON:

He asked me for a personal opinion

Malcolm.

MALCOLM:

He asked you? Oh, he asked you, that

explains it.

(MORE)

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What if he’d asked you to sing a

racist song and give him your PIN

number and sh*t yourself, would you

have done that? He’s an interviewer,

not a f***ing hypnotist.

MALCOLM (CONT'D)

SIMON:

Yeah, funny, Malcolm, I know he’s not

a hypnotist. But, I was just being

honest about the prospect of war. If

I’ve got doubts...

MALCOLM:

Doubts? Why didn’t you say? I’ll call

up, we can get all our aircraft

carriers to idle off Madagascar while

you fiddle about with your wee moral

compass.

10 INT. DFID OPEN PLAN OFFICE - DAY 10

Toby's with Judy.

JUDY:

So you’re...whatever your name is,

Dan, the new advisor?

TOBY:

Toby.

JUDY:

Right. Just most of you lot tend to be

called Dan, or Danny so it's always

worth a punt. OK, hello. As you know,

I'm Judy Molloy, Civil Service

Director of Communications for

International Development.

They shake hands.

TOBY:

Is this a normal morning, or...?

Judy’s not got time for questions.

JUDY:

Okay, I've got a meeting in

(looks at watch)

two minutes. And the minister was

rubbish in last night’s interview.

Rubbish?

TOBY:

JUDY:

It’s a technical term.

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11 INT. DFID SIMON’S OFFICE. DAY. 11

Back inside Simon’s office

SIMON:

But war is -- basically unforeseeable

isn't it?

MALCOLM:

That is not our line, alright? Walk

the f***ing line. Look. We've got

Karen Clark over from Washington,

okay? We've got the US National

Security Advisor's main guy coming.

Yeah? We've got enough Pentagon goons

here for a f***ing coup d'etat.

This is not the time to send out a

signal like this in some personal

f***ing sodcast.

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