The Night Manager Page #7

SECOND VOICE:

Mr Roper, sir.

PINE:

Roper?

SECOND VOICE:

Yes sir.

Beat.

PINE:

Thank you I’ll call him there.

PINE hangs up. Writes the name. ROPER.

He walks back across the hall. Into the office. Shuts the

door.

Opens the safe. And takes out the envelope.

He studies the contents. The stock list of arms to blow up

half a continent. Ironlast Corporation. He goes on to the

internet. Into a search engine he plugs the name Ironlast

Corporation. Minerals and Ores.

A website comes up. But it’s incredibly thin. Just an address

in Switzerland and an address in Cyprus, some basic

information on shipping.

Nothing else. PINE thinks. He stares at the phrase on the

paperwork:
“Available for immediate use”.

He looks at the hotel key board. At the Hatshepsut Suite.

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He looks up at the TV. Tahrir Square. Celebrations in full

flow.

Then he stares at the SOLDIERS - with machine guns, grenades

hanging off belts.

And JONATHAN PINE makes his decision.

15 OMITTED 15

16 EXT. CAIRO STREETS. DAY. 16

PINE gets out of a taxi in a pleasant suburban area of the

city.

PINE stares round at the fine houses and colonial lawns. Not

a whiff of the revolution happening just miles away.

PINE walks up to the gates of a beautiful colonial mansion.

Passes through substantial SECURITY at the gates.

PINE:

Jonathan Pine to see Simon Ogilvey.

17 INT. CAIRO. OGILVEY MANSION. HALLWAY-LIVING ROOM. DAY 17

The door buzzes open and he is let in by an EGYPTIAN

manservant. A foreign office mandarin with clipped hair and

pressed trousers approaches. OGILVEY.

OGILVEY:

Jonathan? Wonderful to see you!

Come through.

PINE:

I’ve been calling the Embassy all

morning.

OGILVEY:

We shut it, I’m afraid. Got a

couple of bricks through the window

yesterday lunchtime, bit too close

to the action. Come through. Come

through.

18 INT. CAIRO. OGILVEY MANSION. DAY. 18

He and PINE are staring at the documents. The TV is showing

more scenes of the Arab Spring.

OGILVEY:

Bloody hell. There are enough toys

here to start a war.

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PINE:

Or crush a popular uprising.

They look at the Arab Spring in full flow on the TV.

OGILVEY:

Where did you get this?

PINE:

I found it.

He stares at him. Blank face.

OGILVEY:

You found it.

PINE:

Yes.

He smiles knowingly.

PINE (CONT’D)

Say they arrived by post. Don’t

mention me. Anonymous sender.

OGILVEY:

(reading from the lists)

Jesus... Jonathan, there’s bloody

napalm in here.

PINE:

And send it today. These people are

in a hurry.

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