
The Coroner Season #2 Episode #2
- Year:
- 2015
- 45 min
- 301 Views
AN ABANDONED COTTAGE, ONE WINDOW
BOARDED UP, BREEZE RIPPLING THROUGH THE
OVERGROWN GARDEN, BIRDSONG - THE IDYLL
SHATTERED BY ANIMALISTIC SOUNDS FROM
INSIDE, A GIRL SCREAMING IN PAIN:
LARGE, SLIGHTLY BLOODY KITCHEN SCISSORS
GLIMPSED THROUGH THE BROKEN WINDOW
BOARD]
ADOLESCENT GIRL (OOV):
(AGONISED) No! No..!
[SLANTING SUNLIGHT BLEACHES OUT THE VIEW]
MIX TO:
EP2/SC2. EXT. COTTAGE. DAY 1. 07:25
[THE SAME COTTAGE, ALL WINDOWS BOARDED UP
"DANGER:
KEEP OUT".SOUND OF A MECHANICAL DIGGER WORKING]
CUT TO:
EP2/SC3. INT. COTTAGE. DAY 1. 07:32
NSE WORKMAN:
[DIGGER SOUNDS OUTSIDE. CLOSE SOUNDS OF
SLEDGEHAMMER HITTING MASONRY AND: A
COLLAPSE, DUST CLEARING TO REVEAL:
BROKEN, DECAYED BOARDS - A CORNER OF OLD
NEWSPAPER (FOR SCALE) AND THE SMALL BONES
OF A BABY'S FOOT POKING OUT. SOUND OF BOOTS,
CUT TO:
EP2/SC4. EXT. COTTAGE. DAY 1. 08:40
JANE, DAVEY, CLINT
NSE PC'S, CSI
[CREDITS OVER ESTABLISHING SHOTS OF THE
RUGGED LANDSCAPE AROUND:
THE COTTAGE, CORDONED OFF WITH POLICE TAPE,
JANE APPROACHES (FROM HER CAR) WITH CLINT
AS DAVEY APPROACHES FROM THE COTTAGE]
DAVEY:
You found it then? Should have sent a man for you.
JANE:
(WRY) I didn't need a man, I had Clint.
CLINT:
I heard that. (UNDER BREATH) Sexist.
[A SENSE THE BADINAGE IS A SHIELD AGAINST THE
GRIM DISCOVERY]
DAVEY:
(RE COTTAGE) Shall we?
CLINT:
No thanks. The adult ones are bad enough.
DAVEY:
(NOT RELISHING IT HIMSELF) Very manly.
CLINT:
It's just... human remains! And spiders. And big... boozy, smoochy women.
(SEEING THEM LOOKING) Early Great Aunt trauma.
[THEY SMILE AS CLINT MOVES OFF]
CLINT:
(TO JANE) I need to take the demolition guys names, anyway.
[JANE AND DAVEY SOBER AS HE LEADS HER INSIDE
(AS CSI EMERGE):
]CUT TO:
EP2/SC5. INT. COTTAGE. DAY 1. 08:41
JANE, DAVEY
[JANE PICKS HER WAY IN AFTER DAVEY, EYEING:
FADED DECOR, DECAYED FURNITURE - STILL
WEIRDLY HOMEY.
DAVEY POINTS HER TOWARD THE COLLAPSED
WALL - CAREFUL, JANE PEERS CLOSER, TOUCHED
BY:
SMALL BONES]
JANE:
So small.
[DAVEY GLANCES AROUND THE COTTAGE
(RELUCTANT TO LOOK AT THE REMAINS, ITCHING
DAVEY:
Wrapped in 1970's newspaper. Elderly couple lived here way back in the
60's, but it's been empty since.
JANE:
(PREOCCUPIED BY REMAINS) And way off the beaten track.
DAVEY:
Condemned due to coastal erosion. Another few years and the sea probably
would have had it. Bury the evidence forever.
[JANE STANDS, SENSING DAVEY'S TENSION]
JANE:
Looks newborn, or near enough. If the birth happened way out here in the
middle of nowhere, the Mum must have been frightened... confused.
[UNCONVINCED, DAVEY TURNS FOR THE DOOR]
DAVEY:
Managed to hide the body, didn't she? That says foul play.
JANE:
(FOLLOWING) Not necessarily. We don't know the circumstances.
Childbirth is traumatic.
CUT TO:
EP2/SC6. EXT. COTTAGE. DAY 1. 08:43
JANE, DAVEY, CLINT
NSE PC'S, HELICOPTER CAMERAMAN & PILOT
[CONTINUOUS:
THEY EMERGE, PICKING THEIR WAYOVER RUBBLE]
JANE:
Women don't have an easy ride.
[DAVEY IS RELIEVED TO RETURN TO FRESH AIR]
DAVEY:
(WRY) Yeah, neither do men, putting up with them.
[FAUX-OFFENDED, JANE WOULD REPLY]
DAVEY:
(RE RUBBLE) Watch your step, Calamity.
[SHE STUMBLES, DAVEY CATCHING HER ARM,
STEADYING. A BEAT, BOTH SLIGHTLY
EMBARRASSED AS HE LETS GO, JANE SEEING CLINT
APPROACH]
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