The Elephant Man Page #8

The Boy closes the door.

FOX:

(quietly)

I say Freddie, what are you about?

TREVES:

Oh nothing... nothing of any great

importance.

AERIAL SHOT from third floor of the London Hospital looking

down on the hospital square.

Below, Treves is walking briskly across the square, through

a gate and into the slums beyond.

The aerial shot is actually FOX'S POV, and now we see Fox

filled with curiosity, watching the figure from a window.

Looking down from above and to the side of him, we follow

Treves walking through a cobblestone street still wet from a

recent rain, covered with horse manure and filth of all sorts.

The air is smoky from meat burning fires.

Rounding a corner, we see and approach the painted canvas

sign of "The Elephant Man" covering the front of a small,

dingy shop. The door of the shop is windowless and padlocked.

Treves walks into the picture, studies the whole scene for a

moment, goes to the shop door and finds that it is padlocked.

Treves tries to look under an edge of the canvas. To his

left he sees a SMALL BOY watching him intently.

TREVES:

Do you know where the proprietor is?

He holds a coin out. The Boy nods, snatches the coin and

then disappears around the corner.

Treves turns back to the canvas.

A PUB:

A noisy pub, long and narrow. Benches run the length of the

back wall, with small tables up against them. Men are

clustered around the bar, talking in groups.

We see the Boy standing at one of the tables talking to the

Owner, greedily consuming his lunch as he listens. The Boy

gestures outside.

OUTSIDE THE PUB:

The Boy comes out the door, quickly followed by the Owner

hurriedly putting on his coat, fumbling with a riding crop,

the last of his sandwich stuffed in his mouth.

AT THE CORNER:

The Boy and the Owner are carefully looking around the corner

at Treves still in front of the portrait.

OWNER:

He's not a peeler...

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