Our Girl Page #4

JAMES:

'In Flanders fields the poppies

blow...'

FINGERS:

Different type of poppies here, sir.

SMURF:

More smack heads here than Liverpool

eh Brains.

BRAINS:

Don't stereotype us you leak eating,

daffodil growing, sheep shagger.

They laugh.

The mastiff pulls up sharply. Kinders driving turns and shouts.

KINDERS:

Circle of rocks ahead Sir.

JAMES:

Nude-Nut, you're up.

SMURF:

My shout, sir.

JAMES:

(forcefully)

Not on your first full day back Smurf.

10:
07:35 MUSIC IN – THE SWIMMER

Smurf looks gutted. Molly looks at him with concern.

10:
07:39 EXT. AFGHANISTAN. DUSTY ROAD. DAY 8. 09:13

Nude-Nut is checking out the circle of rocks with the vallon,

carefully and professionally as James and Smurf cover him.

Some locals approach along the road and Qaseem calls out to them

in Pashto to lift their clothes. James looks at Smurf with concern.

QASEEM:

(in Pashto – 10:07:46)

Stop! Lift up your chemise.

SMURF:

I'm alright, sir.

JAMES:

I know you are Smurf, it's just that

it's your first full day back.

10:
07:57 MUSIC OUT – THE SWIMMER

SMURF:

You just don't wanna have to tell my

mum she's lost another one, sir.

QASEEM:

(in Pashto - 10:
08:02)

Thank you very much.

JAMES:

Well yeah, there is that.

SMURF:

Anything happens to me, you might have

to move to Newport yourself, sir.

JAMES:

That truly is a fate worse than death

Smurf.

SMURF:

(sings proudly under his

breath)

'I'm Newport till I die, I'm Newport

till I die, I knows I am, I'm sure I

am, I'm Newport till I die!'

MOLLY:

(having heard Smurf)

You sad, Welsh tosser.

SMURF:

They call Newport the Venice of Wales.

MOLLY:

Who does Smurf?

SMURF:

My Aunt Linda, if you must know.

Although she's never been to Venice but

she has got a tattoo of a gondola...on

her arse.

Nude-Nut has checked the stones are innocent, no IED.

NUDE-NUT

All clear here sir.

James nods for Nude-Nut and everyone to get back on the Mastiff.

JAMES:

Alright lads, close in.

SMURF:

Sir, I will be able to reassume my duties

as lead man, sir?

10:
08:42 MUSIC IN – 2G3

JAMES:

Well I hope so, Smurf.

(to the others)

Lads, fall in with me.

James nods for Smurf to get back in the vehicle.

10:
08:51 EXT. VILLAGE. STREET/TRACK. DAY 8. 10:00

2 Section are patrolling the village. Some are engaging in a

friendly manner with the locals, others are just keeping an eye

out for anything unusual. Molly sees Bashira sitting down outside

a building, her head bowed. Smurf comes over to Molly.

10:
09:10 MUSIC OUT – 2G3

SMURF:

That dicker's still around then, is

she?

(to Bashira)

Planted any devices around here

lately?

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