Red Riding Page #3

AUNTY WIN:

There’s been a couple now, haven’t

there?

EDDIE:

Have there?

EDDIE’S MOTHER

Going back. Wasn’t there a little

lass, in Rochdale?

AUNTY WIN:

That is going back. There was one

not long ago. In Castleford.

Jeanette, was it?

BARRY:

Jeanette Garland. Never found her

neither.

EDDIE:

Didn’t they?

Eddie is suddenly interested.

BARRY:

Hear them wheels...

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AUNTY WIN:

Never caught no one.

BARRY:

Never do, though, do they?

13 INT. YORKSHIRE POST, RECORDS - EVENING 13

Microfische flashes from reel to reel. Opened boxes at his

elbow, Eddie stares at the screen. Stops. Flashes forward.

Too far. Forward. Names and events from the past flash:

BERNADETTE DEVLIN - HAROLD WILSON - THE MOON SHOT. Then:

APRIL 1969.

JACK WHITEHEAD, NORTH OF ENGLAND CRIME CORRESPONDENT.

“Susan Louise Ridyard, aged 10, has

been missing since 20th March. She

was last seen outside Trinity

Grange Junior and Infants School,

Rochdale...”

Eddie spins on. A photograph of “Detective Chief

Superintendent Bill Molloy”. Eddie makes notes. The

Microfische flashes forward in time.

JULY 1972.

JACK WHITEHEAD, NORTH OF ENGLAND CRIME CORRESPONDENT.

A school photograph of another smiling 9 year old - again

against a sky of fluffy white clouds...

“Jeanette Garland from Castleford went missing yesterday...”

A photo of the mother - PAULA GARLAND - blonde, hard-

beautiful. Dark glasses. Head down.

14 INT. YORKSHIRE POST, OPEN PLAN OFFICE - EVENING 14

Eddie comes through the busy open plan office. Clatter of

typewriters and chatter. GEORGE GREAVES - an old hand -

gossips with GAZ FROM SPORT. He nods at Eddie.

GEORGE GREAVES:

It’s the Prodigal returned.

Eddie juggles ‘V’ signs at George.

15 INT. YORKSHIRE POST, OUTSIDE HADLEY’S OFFICE -EVENING 15

From behind her desk, FAT STEPH gives Eddie a sour face.

EDDIE:

Here to shee the old man, Mish

Moneypenny...

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STEPH:

Didn’t cut it down South, then.

16 INT. YORKSHIRE POST, HADLEY’S OFFICE -EVENING 16

A magnifying glass moves over a black and white photo of

footballers. Gordon McQueen goes for a cross. No ball in the

photo. Editor, Bill Hadley studies ‘Spot the Ball’ photos.

Eddie sits opposite - ambitious, impatient.

EDDIE:

Three missing girls. Aged between

eight and ten. 1969, 1972 - and

then day before yesterday. All of

them go missing within miles of one

another. It’s the A34 Murders all

over again.

HADLEY:

Oh, let’s hope so, Mr. Dunford.

EDDIE:

Fingers crossed, eh.

HADLEY:

I was being sarcastic, Edward.

EDDIE:

Sorry.

HADLEY:

Did you talk to Jack Whitehead

about this?

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