Locke Page #5

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A long pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

She’s in London. I have to be

there.

GARETH (OOV)

Ok, ok, ok, let me read you

something. Ivan. Are you

listening? Yeah? Good. It’s from

Mr Dean in Chicago. ‘Good luck

tomorrow with the pour. We have

just had it confirmed by CGO that

this will be the biggest single

concrete pour ever made in Europe

outside of nuclear/military

projects. I know the day is in the

safest of hands. Best wishes,

Mitchell.’ That’s Mitchell Dean

himself. The President of the whole

f***ing company. Did you hear that

Ivan? From Chicago. USA.

Yes.

IVAN LOCKE:

GARETH (OOV)

You’ll have to speak up.

IVAN:

Yes, I heard.

GARETH (OOV)

And you’re the man in charge of the

entire operation but, with ten

hours to go, you’ve decided you

won’t be there.

IVAN LOCKE:

Donal will handle it. He is a good

man.

GARETH (EXPLODING)(OOV)

Don’t you f***ing dare say that to

me.

(MORE)

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GARETH (EXPLODING)(OOV) (CONT'D)

Don’t f***ing dare to give

qualitative appraisals of my staff

and say ‘good man’ like it’s going

off to buy a f***ing ice cream.

Ivan drives.

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

This is f***ing concrete. Like

sh*t. Like piss when it comes, you

pump it.

IVAN LOCKE:

Like babies.

GARETH (OOV)

It’s a joke to you.

IVAN LOCKE:

No. Right now nothing is a joke

anymore.

A pause...

GARETH (OOV)

So it’s not your wife giving birth?

IVAN LOCKE:

No it’s someone else.

GARETH (INCREDULOUS)(OOV)

Jesus. Ivan? You are the last

person on earth...

IVAN LOCKE:

Yes. I am the last person on

earth. But it happened.

GARETH (OOV)

And this woman can’t give birth on

her own?

IVAN LOCKE:

I’ve made a decision. There is

nobody else who could be with her.

She has no friends in London and is

a quite fragile person.

GARETH (SNARLING)(OOV)

Fragile?

Ivan drives...

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

You’re going to abandon the biggest

f***ing concrete pour in Europe to

hold someone’s f***ing hand because

she’s fragile.

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IVAN LOCKE:

And because the baby was caused by

me. That is the decision I have

made. I have not behaved in the

right way with this woman. At all.

I have behaved in a way that isn’t

like me. But now I am going to do

the right thing.

GARETH (OOV)

And Chicago can go to f***ing hell.

IVAN LOCKE:

It is the decision I have made.

I’m not going to turn back.

GARETH (OOV)

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. You know how

many million pounds are riding on

tomorrow?...

Ivan drives...

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

If any one of those pumps fucks up

we are facing ten million pounds

worth of losses in fifteen minutes.

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