LONDON SPY Page #2

Episode #5
Synopsis: A chance romance between two men from very different worlds, one from the headquarters of the Secret Intelligence Service, the other from a world of clubbing and youthful excess, leads into mystery after one of them is found murdered.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 1 win & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
2015
60 min
686 Views


Danny accepts, with mock formality that is both wisecracking

but also trying to raise himself up a little.

DANNY:

Normally I wouldn’t drink before

sundown but, on this occasion,

to be sociable...

The runner listens, curious, to these lines and jokes.

Danny drinks - small, painful sips.

In an instinctive act of kindness the runner places a

hand on Danny’s arm. The hand lingers there. However,

the runner changes his mind. As if he’s gone too far.

Embarrassed, he abruptly leaves.

DANNY:

What about your drink?

Several strides away, the runner glances over his

shoulder, bashful and apologetic.

MYSTERIOUS RUNNER

You can keep it.

With those words he’s off. Danny’s left alone.

INT. WAREHOUSE. DAY

A huge warehouse. A maze of tall steel shelves full of

goods. Danny’s collecting orders, holding a computer

device that maps the shortest route between items.

Danny isn’t come-down sad. Distracted. Daydreaming.

And then the device bleeps angrily: “Increase speed”.

INT. WAREHOUSE. TOILET CUBICLE. DAY

Danny stands in one of the cubicles trying to urinate.

Sweating. Straining. A tiny amount of gloppy orange.

INT. WAREHOUSE. TOILET. DAY

Danny running his face under the flow of cold water at

the sink. He takes small sips.

INT/EXT. TRAIN CARRIAGE. VAUXHALL STATION. EVENING

Danny slumped against the window, returning to the centre

of London, the MI6 building, just another building.

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LONDON SPY -EP 1 -SHOOTING SCRIPT

His eyes on the London view; his thoughts are not.

EXT. DANNY’S APARTMENT. VAUXHALL. EVENING

Danny unlocks the door. A low rise block of apartments

adjacent to the railway, the clubs and MI6.

INT. DANNY’S APARTMENT. CORRIDOR. EVENING

Danny enters. He shares a small, beat-up apartment.

INT. DANNY’S APARTMENT. KITCHEN. EVENING

Danny enters a bustling kitchen. A foreign language

chatter. His flat-mate Pavel is eating pre-night shift

dinner with friends dressed for construction work.

Danny peers into the fridge. Decaying scraps.

INT. DANNY’S APARTMENT. BATHROOM. NIGHT

A handwritten sign warns people to use the hot water

for no more than sixty seconds. A feeble dribble

flattens Danny’s hair. And he does not mind.

INT. DANNY’S APARTMENT. BEDROOM. NIGHT

A tiny, narrow, chaotic bedroom, with a clothes hanger,

packed with second hand clothes. On the floor protein

powder jars intermingle with cheap sneakers.

Danny flops onto the bed, eyes on the beside cabinet,

atop of which sits the sports drink.

EXT. RIVERBANK. MORNING

Danny running, wearing mismatched T-shirt and Bermuda

shorts. The sports drink stuffed into a pocket.

The river embankment is popular with joggers. While

everyone else runs in neat straight lines, Danny runs

with no strict route, turning round, eagerly checking

who they are, looking back & across the river.

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Tom Rob Smith

The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, both antique dealers, Smith was born and raised in South London where he went to school at Dulwich college between the years of 87 and 97. Following his graduation from St John's College, Cambridge, in 2001, he received the Harper Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature and continued his Creative Writing studies for a year at Parvin University, in Italy. more…

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