
The Secret of Crickley Hall Season #1 Episode #3
- Year:
- 2012
- 59 min
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Episode 1
SHOOTING SCRIPT:
Pink Revisions
15/03/12
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THE SECRET OF CRICKLEY HALL Ep 1 Pink Revisions 1.
1 EXT. CRICKLEY HALL - 1943 DAY 1 1
Six year old STEFAN runs from the big grey stone slab ofCrickley Hall, more institutional than residential.
Children singing.
CHILDREN:
On the farm no poor rabbitComes to harm because I grab itThey jump and frolic whenever I go byThey know I help 'em to dodge the rabbitpie!
A figure grabs him by the collar and lifts him off his feet.
Stefan kicks wildly in mid-air as he pivots to face his
tormenter. Terrified that it might be:
AUGUSTUS CRIBBEN. We don’t see his face yet.
CRIBBEN O.S.
You’re mine.
Stefan screams.
2 INT. GABE’S BEDROOM - DAY 1 2
EVE wakes up with a start, next to her husband GABE, stillsleeping. She gets out of bed. Present day London.
3 INT. CAM’S BEDROOM - DAY 1 3
Eve opens the door to her son’s bedroom. CAM is the same ageas the boy in her dream. He’s sitting on the end of his bed,
rubbing his eyes. She sits next to him.
EVE:
Me too. What was yours?
CAM:
I can’t remember.
EVE:
Maybe it was my dream and you picked itup. Sorry.
CAM:
Why can’t we have our own dreams?
EVE:
I know! Do you want some milk?
THE SECRET OF CRICKLEY HALL Ep 1 Pink Revisions 2.
Coffee.
CAM:
EVE:
You’re not getting coffee.
CAM:
Really milky coffee.
5 INT. GABE’S BEDROOM - DAY 1 5
GABE turns over and reaches for Eve. Makes grumpy noises inhis half-sleep.
6 INT. GABE’S KITCHEN - DAY 1 6
Eve is on her laptop in the kitchen, eating cereal.
There are several windows open on her screen showing amarking database. A pile of homework books next to it.
GABE:
Why, love?
EVE:
Oh I’m sorry. Go back to bed.
GABE:
Can’t you just wing it?
EVE:
Never seen you wing it.
GABE:
It’s a bit tricky with structural
engineering. No-one dies if you skim abit.
EVE:
You haven’t met their parents.
Gabe hugs her and tries to lift her out of her chair.
GABE:
You’re working too hard. Even for you.
EVE:
Let me get through open day and I’m yours
for the weekend.
THE SECRET OF CRICKLEY HALL Ep 1 Pink Revisions 3.
Gabe sees Cam playing with the dog Clyde.
EVE (cont’d)
I woke up so he woke up.
CAM:
We’ve got work.
GABE:
You know you don’t have to copy
everything your Mum does. He’s going to
EVE:
You don’t say!
Gabe dumps Cam on his bed.
CAM:
Let’s play bombs!
GABE:
What’s bombs? I can’t keep up.
Cam pulls Gabe over to his lego construction. It’s a house.
Impressively constructed for a five year old.
GABE (cont’d)
That’s a pretty solid job there my man.
You know where you get that from don’t
you.
Cam retrieves a bowling ball from under the bed and totters
towards the lego house with it.
GABE (cont’d)
Oi monkey I’ve been looking for that.
Gabe watches bemused, winces.
GABE (cont’d)
You’re going to drop that on your toe -
Gabe tries to intercept him but Cam waves him off,
determined. Cam drops the bowling ball on his lego house,
exploding it utterly. Shouting:
CAM:
Bomb!
The multicolored bricks scattered over the carpet. Gabe nods,
solemnly.
THE SECRET OF CRICKLEY HALL Ep 1 Pink Revisions 4.
GABE:
Good game.
8 INT. LOREN’S BEDROOM - DAY 1 8
Gabe is trying to wake his eleven year old daughter LOREN.
GABE:
Last warning. Or I’m hitting you with the
cold hands up the back of the neck and
down the spine. Loren. Loren.
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