Our Girl

Season #1 Episode #4
Synopsis: Our Girl is a British television drama, which starred Lacey Turner as Molly Dawes (in its first series) a young adult from a lower class background who joins the British Army after deciding her life is going nowhere. A one-off special was broadcast on 24 March 2013 on BBC One, which saw Dawes make the decision to join the army, despite the protests of her protective family.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Year:
2013
90 min
430 Views


10:
00:00 PREVIOUSLY

MOLLY:

Bashira. That’s a lovely name. I’m

Molly.

10:
00:03

JAMES:

You do not involve yourself in the lives

of the locals.

10:
00:06

SOHAIL:

Her father, Badrai… sent her to spy.

10:
00:09

MOLLY:

We’re soul sisters.

BASHIRA:

Am I going to die?

10:
00:13

JAMES:

Move!

There is a big explosion and everyone ducks.

10:
00:15

MOLLY:

Where have they taken her Sir?

JAMES:

They’re willing to help facilitate the

removal of Bashira from her family and

into a safe house in Kabul.

10:
00:20

JAMES:

Come back to me.

MOLLY:

I will.

10:
00:24

SMURF:

Fate’s thrown us together.

MOLLY:

Captain James?

SMURF:

Me and you.

10:
00:30

MOLLY:

Why can’t you just be my mate?

SMURF:

Because I love you.

10:
00:34

MOLLY:

Nothing happened with Smurf. But at

least now I know.

JAMES:

What you trying to say Dawes?

MOLLY:

Do you love me?

10:
00:41

SOHAIL:

They beat me with rocks because I

wouldn’t kill someone.

JAMES:

Kill who Sohail?

Sohail points to Molly.

10:
00:51

James holds Molly’s face in his hands as she cries and touches

his head to hers.

10:
00:55 CUT TO BLACK

10:
00:57 EXT. AFGHANISTAN. DAY A.

Flash-forward.

A blurry image, the noise of gunfire and frantic screams of battle.

As the image clears we are close up on Molly's desperate face

as she screams into her head mic from the pov of a casualty.

MOLLY:

Man down! Man down! One Cat A, urgent

med-evac required! MIST out, wait out.

She speaks urgently to the casualty.

MOLLY (CONT'D)

Stay with me, okay... you're gonna be

alright. I'm gonna get you out of

here... I just need you to stay with

me, okay!

Molly's image once again becomes blurry. Her voice fades as the

victim loses consciousness.

MOLLY (CONT'D)

Stay with me!

JAMES (VO)

(from far away)

Come on, stay with me..

10:
01:23 EXT. CAMP BASTION. DAY 17.

Caption:
27th APRIL 2014

James is leaning out of the window of his vehicle addressing 2

section in their full PT kit as they are part way through their

5k run. He drives alongside them.

JAMES (CONT’D)

(driving and leaning out of

side)

Stay with me... Just because you're

tugged up all snug and safe in Bastion,

does not mean you are no longer real

soldiers! Now dig in!

We see the platoon digging in and giving it their best. We see

Molly near the tail of the group.

MOLLY:

Give us a lift, boss.

JAMES:

You'd only be cheating yourself,

Dawes.

Molly watches James raise his coffee cup in her direction.

JAMES (CONT'D)

Oh by the way, the last one over the

finish line is on 'latrine clean'! Now

come on!

And with this James puts his foot down and the vehicle speeds

off creating a cloud of dust.

We see the faces of the troops, each gripped with a will to win.

James has that ability to engender competition.

10:
01:44 EXT. CAMP BASTION. DAY 17.

The finish line and James is now sitting on the bonnet of his

car, relaxed and drinking his coffee. He hears the noise of 2

Section and Kinders yelling at them, approaching.

KINDERS:

Moll... fellas... if this is all the

effort you're going to put in, we can

do a 5k run every morning and a 10k run

every evening until you do not look like

the unfit rabble you look like today.

Can we remember we are the British Army!

2 Section thunder towards the line.

JAMES:

The last soldier past me is gonna be

on...

(yelling in warcry)

Latrine clean!

Suddenly a few yards from the finish the leaders slow up. There

is clearly some premeditated plan underway. James and Kinders

exchange puzzled glances.

They watch as 2 Section all cross the line together, arm in arm.

James nods slowly, grinning.

JAMES:

Very clever, 2 section, indeed.

(with a smile, to Kinders,

clearly impressed)

I think our work here is almost done!

They all collapse amid much laughter and cheers.

10:
02:18 INT. QUARTERS. CAMP BASTION. EVENING 17.

Evening and 2 Section crash into their beds.

BAZ VEGAS:

Oh, that backfired. My hands stink

of...

DANGLE BERRIES:

You know what they say, a job shared

is a job halved.

FINGERS:

Boys, I reckon we got another month of

Bastion before decompression and home,

you know.

MANSFIELD MIKE:

I'm gutted we're pulling out, man. I

wanna go on another tour. There's still

Taliban out there.

BAZ VEGAS:

There's still Badrai out there!

BRAINS:

Where d'you reckon he's hidden

himself, Molls?

MOLLY:

What you asking me for?

MANSFIELD MIKE:

Oh, and all that time I spent writing

my death letter and now no-one’s gonna

be able to read it!

BRAINS:

You sound gutted, Mansfield!

BAZ VEGAS:

In my death letter home, yeah, I told

them I wanted one of them eco-friendly

wicker casket basket thingys.

The others laugh but Smurf looks at them with a straight face.

SMURF:

Can we stop talking about dying? Me

mum's sh*t me up enough as it is.

Molly looks across at Smurf, puzzled.

MOLLY:

Why?

SMURF:

(explaining and waving his

letter)

She's just wrote to me... had a

premonition. Thinks something bad's

gonna happen.

Beat. Suddenly they all burst out laughing at Smurf's glum face.

All roaring and throwing things at Smurf.

MANSFIELD MIKE:

Shut up.

FINGERS:

Go to sleep.

SMURF (CONT'D)

I'm being serious, boys. She was right

about Geraint.

The others carry on jeering, apart from Molly who stares at him,

stony faced, fearful and doomy.

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Tony Grounds

Tony Grounds is a British writer of television scripts. He was born in 1957 in East London. Described by The Independent (11 October 2002) as "the best TV writer of his generation", Grounds has written for all four of Britain's main channels. He started writing for the theatre, winning the Verity Bargate Award for Made in Spain, which was subsequently performed in London and published by Methuen. It was then filmed for ITV and transmitted in their Screenplay slot. There then followed stints on EastEnders and The Bill before he penned episodes of 'Chancer', which starred Clive Owen. more…

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