The Possession Page #2
ROLAND:
Actually, Beatrice, I was about to
footnotes!--.
BEATRICE:
It's important. It's about Ellen...
Ominous silence. Roland registers Beatrice's insistence.
She disappears down the hall. Roland has to follow her into
--.
INT. MUSEUM - ASH FACTORY - BEATRICE'S ROOM - DAY
A musty cavern of cardboard boxes and yellowing papers.
Behind them, almost bricked in, sits Beatrice. Who flings a
letter over to Roland.
BEATRICE:
I can't bear it. Another letter
from that impossible woman, Leonora
Stern. She wants a piece from me
for some ghastly new journal about
Ellen Ash's sexual relations -
ROLAND:
With... Ash?
BEATRICE:
With anyone. This woman's obsessed
with sex.
(CONTINUED)
6.
CONTINUED:
ROLAND:
You protect Ellen from questionable
suitors, Beatrice. I've always
admired that.
BEATRICE:
Ellen was a faithful wife. And I'm
faithful to her. She needs
protection. I'm the only one now
who cares...
NOISES in the corridor. Two academics poke their noses in.
One, his rival, a trendy young lecturer, FERGUS WOLF; the
other, a bluff elderly Scottish professor, JAMES BLACKADDER,
Roland's boss.
FERGUS:
Hi, Roland. Still here?
ROLAND:
Fergus...
(beat)
Congratulations on your
appointment...
Downcast, Roland shrinks back in defeat. Blackadder
blusters in.
BLACKADDER:
Ah, Roland... I want you at the
London Library. Come along,
Cropper's in town for the auction...
Blackadder whisks Roland out from the room.
INT. MUSEUM - ASH FACTORY CORRIDORS - DAY
They walk down the corridor with Fergus, Blackadder putting
on his coat.
ROLAND:
I feel sorry for poor Beatrice.
Even the feminists hate her now for
championing a dull wife -
BLACKADDER:
(exasperated)
Beatrice Nest and her bloody letters
of Ellen Ash are completely
irrelevant to modern scholarship.
(MORE)
(CONTINUED)
7.
CONTINUED:
BLACKADDER (CONT'D)
She's wasted twenty-five years
gooseberry jam and jaunt to
Broadstairs. That's what I get for
hiring a Ph.D from...
(can barely say it)
... New Zealand.
FERGUS:
The old witch. She's the best
keeper of the Ash Museum you'll find
BLACKADDER:
Yes. Like Ellen, Beatrice is best
behind closed doors...
Blackadder and Fergus swoop off. Roland watches them go,
turns 'round to see -- Beatrice scurry back into her room
like a crab. Obviously overheard their comments. Roland
sighs -
CUT TO:
EXT. LONDON STREETS (PICCADILLY) - DAY
The spinning wheel. On his bicycle, with his panniers and
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