
The Coroner Season #1 Episode #2
- Year:
- 2015
- 45 min
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EXT. THE ENGLISH CHANNEL. DAY 1. 07:05
GRAVELLE:
NSE UNDERTAKERS ASSISTANTS, NSE FUNERALGOERS
[TWO MILES OFFSHORE, A MOTORBOAT BOBS IN
WAVES. ON THE BACK IS A RAISED COFFIN
DRAPED IN A UNION JACK. AROUND IT STANDS
GRIEVING NSE FUNERALGOERS LISTENING TO
JOSEPH GRAVELLE (59), A CLIPPED MAN SURE
THAT UNDERTAKING NEED NOT BE
UNFASHIONABLE. FROM THE BOAT’S TINNY
SPEAKERS ELGAR’S “NIMROD” PLAYS AS
GRAVELLE READS A FEW LINES OF TENNYSON]
GRAVELLE:
…“But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.”
[AN NSE FUNERALGOER WIPES HER EYE]
GRAVELLE:
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, we now commit Margaret Crighton to the deep.
[TWO NSE UNDERTAKERS ASSISTANTS RAISE THE
FLAG-COVERED COFFIN SO THAT IT SLIDES INTO
THE SEA. THE UNION JACK REMAINS ABOARD. ONE
OF THE NSE FUNERALGOERS TAKES A WREATH OF
WHITE ROSES AND THROWS IT INTO THE SEA
AFTER THE SWIFTLY SINKING COFFIN]
GRAVELLE:
May she rest in peace.
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EP2/SC3. EXT. GREYROCK POINT. DAY 1. 07:13
CLINT:
DOG:
[A SURFER PULLS HARD AGAINST THE WATER TO
CATCH A WAVE. HE SURFS IT BEAUTIFULLY
BEFORE SITTING BACK DOWN ON HIS BOARD.
JUST AS HE’S ABOUT TO KICK BACK INTO THE
DEEP, SOMETHING ON LAND CATCHES HIS EYE. ON
THE BEACH, A DOG IS SNIFFING AROUND A DEAD
BODY]
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EP2/SC4. EXT. GREYROCK POINT. BEACH. DAY 1. 07:15
CLINT:
DOG:
[THE SURFER RUNS THROUGH THE WASH, BOARD
UNDER ARM. THIS IS CLINT. THE SIGHT THAT
GREETS HIM MAKES HIM WRETCH; A NAKED DEAD
BODY, BLOATED BY DECOMPOSITION GASSES.
CLINT:
(TO DOG) Gross.
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TITLES:
EP2/SC5. INT. JUDITH’S HOUSE. KITCHEN. DAY 1. 07:44
JANE, BETH, JUDITH
[JANE’S ON THE PHONE TO CLINT WHILST BETH
AND JUDITH SIT AT THE KITCHEN TABLE. JUDITH’S
ENGROSSED IN A LINGERIE MAGAZINE AND BETH’S
SIMULTANEOUSLY SCROLLING THROUGH HER
PHONE, COMMENTING ON JUDITH’S CHOICES AND
EARWIGGING HER MOTHER’S CHAT]
JANE (ON PHONE):
And is Davey there yet? I’ll be over in fifteen can you hold tight?
[SHE POURS COFFEE]
JANE (ON PHONE) (CONT’D):
Then put a jumper on. Look just hold tight, Clint, or hang ten or whatever
you do.
[SHE HANGS UP AND SCRAMBLES TO COOL THE
COFFEE IN THE FEW SECONDS SHE HAS LEFT]
BETH:
They’ve found another one? That’s, what, two in as many weeks?
JANE:
Three.
BETH:
Where’s this one?
JANE:
Greyrock Point. Clint was out surfing and stumbled on it.
JUDITH:
Clint can stumble on me anytime he fancies.
[JANE MEETS HER MOTHER’S EUPHEMISM WITH
SILENCE. BETH POINTS TO AN ITEM IN THE
CATALOGUE]
BETH:
Is that lace or –
JUDITH:
Satin. Comes in red or silver.
BETH:
I’d go silver.
JANE:
Not sure this is entirely appropriate for breakfast time.
JUDITH:
Should be by dinner. This lot do same day delivery and it’s a big night for
Mick.
JANE:
JUDITH:
He’s refreshed the menu at the Black Dog. He’s got new steaks, says he
even caught a few lobsters himself. You should come? Big night for him
downstairs so I thought we’d…celebrate upstairs.
JANE:
If I’m done in time I will.
BETH:
(SHOWING JUDITH HER PHONE) Here, this is the tattoo I’m getting.
JANE:
(GIVING JUDITH A LOOK) If I approve.
[JUDITH TAKES BETH’S PHONE AND ADJUSTS HER
BIFOCALS]
BETH (CONT’D):
It’s a barcode tattoo. When you scan it it pings and the display reads my
name.
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