PEAKY BLINDERS II Page #6

For now we don’t see a face. Just a black bowler hat, a heavy

black coat and a set of heavy iron keys on a ring being

rhythmically spun around a large hand. The man uses the cane

as much for authority as support.

We see a hand unlocking a heavy door in the corridor. As the

door opens we hear the sound of a man yelling in despair...

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INT. PENTONVILLE PRISON, PRISON CELL - DAY 1 16

A flurry of arms and legs, snarling and spitting.

(CONT'D)

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Inside a bare cell a CONDEMNED MAN is sobbing and fighting.

A PRIEST in black robes and two prison officers are in

attendance.

There is also a middle aged man in a dark suit (THE GOVERNOR)

who is trying to calm the man and stop him fighting...

GOVERNOR:

You must reconcile yourself with

the fate that awaits and make your

peace with God...

The condemned man snatches his arm away and shoves the

priest. The guards step up and the man growls in a Northern

Irish accent...

CONDEMNED MAN:

I demand to speak to a

representative of His Majesty the

King!...

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We hear the voice echoing from inside the cell...

CONDEMNED MAN (OOV)

..a representative of His Majesty

the King!!

The man in the black bowler hat approaches. Still we don’t

see his face. He wraps on the cell door with the silver wolf

head on his cane. After a moment the Governor emerges,

looking anxious.

The visitor removes his bowler hat and we see his face for

the first time, lit by barred light from a high window.

It is MAJOR CAMPBELL.

CAMPBELL (A HALF SMILE)

Someone here has business with the

King?

The Governor closes the cell door behind him and looks

Campbell up and down. He glances at the silver headed cane.

GOVERNOR:

Major Campbell?

Campbell nods gently.

GOVERNOR (CONT’D)

About f***ing time.

Campbell rides the emotion (it seems he was expecting anger)

and busies himself with tapping his pockets, looking for

something.

(CONT'D)

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CAMPBELL:

Governor, I am a very busy man.

The Governor is furious and checks his pocket watch...

GOVERNOR:

In seven and a half minutes the man

in that cell is due to be hanged

for murder.

Campbell finds his pipe in a deep pocket.

GOVERNOR (CONT’D)

The murder of an Irish activist in

Whitechapel. Does the case ring any

bells Major Campbell?

Campbell looks mock dumbfounded as he finds tobacco.

CAMPBELL:

No Governor. I hear no bells.

Campbell seems to be amused as he fills his pipe. We hear the

condemned man yelling...

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