Red Riding Page #6

Eddie goes. Kath left shipwrecked.

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19 INT. KATH’S BEDSIT, HALLWAY - NIGHT 19

A SLEEPY GIRL hands Eddie the phone.

EDDIE:

Yeah?

VOICE OFF:

(muffled)

Dunford? Thought you were a f***ing

journalist. Start asking some

f***ing questions...

EDDIE:

Who’s is this?

VOICE OFF:

You don’t need to know. You

interested in the Romany Way?

White vans and gypos...

EDDIE:

Where?

VOICE OFF:

Hunslet Beeston exit of the M1.

EDDIE:

When?

VOICE OFF:

Mischief Night came early. You’re

late.

The line goes dead.

20 INT. VIVA, M1 MOTORWAY & HUNSLET EXIT - NIGHT 20

Eddie drives fast. Jimmy Ruffin: “What becomes of the broken

hearted / Who had love that's now departed?...”

Lights flash past. He exits the motorway - swerves to halt on

the hard shoulder.

21 EXT. HUNSLET CARR, MOTORWAY - NIGHT 21

Eddie gets out at the foot of the embankment. The black sky

beyond the embankment is filled with orange smoke and

sparks...

Eddie clambers to the top of the embankment. He looks down

into the basin of Hunslet Carr. He looks down into hell.

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Below, a gypsy camp is on fire. Caravans and trailers blaze.

GYPSY MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN are trapped amongst the flames,

ringed by POLICE IN RIOT GEAR. Screams of terror, engineroars and heat. The police rhythmically bang their shieldswith truncheons. They move in on the trapped gypsies. Theycharge. Bones are broken. Flesh ripped.

A tiny 10 YEAR OLD GYPSY GIRL stands screaming amid thesatanic fury.

Eddie hides again in bushes. He sees: OFFICERS - includingSERGEANT BOB CRAVEN - ginger bearded and carnivorous - and ashort arse - CONSTABLE TOM DOUGLAS. Also DETECTIVE SERGEANTS

JIM PRENTICE and DICK ALDERMAN - greased blonde hair,

moustache and sideburns. All smoking and drinking andlaughing. Illuminated by the flames of hell. At their centreis Detective Chief Superintendent Bill Molloy. Molloy looksup. Eddie buries his face in the mud.

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22 INT. EDDIE’S MOTHER’S HOUSE, BEDROOM - DAWN 22

Eddie is sprawled on the bed, fully clothed and muddy in thefloral room. His mother brings him tea.

EDDIE’S MOTHER

Look at the state of you.

EDDIE:

Says you, not dressed at this time.

Not like you.

EDDIE’S MOTHER

No, love. Not today.

She sits, staring. Lost.

EDDIE’S MOTHER

You know, he really loved you, yourdad...

EDDIE:

Had a funny way of showing it,

then.

(regrets saying it)

Mum...

Too late. His mother leaves him. He sits up, feeling bad...

His sister, Susan, stands in the doorway.

SUSAN:

You never did one good thing, you.

Upset mum again and you’re out on

your ear.

The door slams. Eddie winces.

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