The Night Manager Page #5

Come out! Hands up! NOW!

But no one comes out.

The ALBANIAN approaches.

And we zoom into the darkness. Into the window.

Into a human eye that is staring out. Calmly.

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And the eye belongs to JONATHAN PINE.

TITLE:
THREE MONTHS EARLIER

11 INT. ZERMATT RESTAURANT. DAY. 11

BURR:

You’re not going to be a pudding

traitor are you?

ANGELA BURR, 3 months pregnant, stares across at JONATHAN

PINE as the main course dishes are cleared away, the Alpine

snow stretching behind them through the window of this very

different, rather sober restaurant. The restaurant from the

end of Episode 1.

PINE smiles.

PINE:

Good lord no.

BURR turns to the waiter.

BURR:

We’ll have the puree of chestnut.

Two spoons. And coffee. Strong. Two

sugars in mine...

PINE:

No sugar for me.

BURR raises her eyebrows The waiter leaves. Beat.

BURR:

So why did you do it?

PINE:

Do what?

BURR:

Why does Jonathan Pine, the

respected hotelier, risk his career

by snitching on his guests. First

Cairo. Now here.

PINE:

I don’t know.

BURR:

Yes you do.

PINE:

Something stirred I suppose.

BURR leans in quietly.

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BURR:

What stirred?

PINE:

A man’s peddling a private arsenal

to an Egyptian crook, he’s English,

you’re English, and those arms can

cause a lot of pain to a lot of

people. Well you just do it.

BURR:

Plenty wouldn’t. You were a

soldier yourself, of course.

PINE.

Iraq

BURR:

Two tours. You know what those

weapons can do to a body.

Beat.

BURR (CONT’D)

Why did you leave the army?

PINE:

I saw things... that didn’t reflect

my idea of being a soldier.

BURR:

And then there’s Sophie Alekan.

Your Sophie.

PINE:

She’s not my Sophie.

Beat.

WAITER:

Your dessert madame.

The WAITER appears.

He puts it down. Two spoons. They each take a spoon.

And stare at each other.

12 INT. ZERMATT. TRAIN. DAY. 12

A small train winds up the hill, through the stunning Zermatt

countryside. BURR and PINE talk in a quiet corner of an

almost deserted carriage. BURR stares out the window at the

astonishing view.

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BURR:

Mr Burr always wanted to come to

the Swiss lakes. Likes the peace

and quiet, does Mr Burr.

PINE:

You don’t?

BURR:

All this snow and silence? Makes me

want to scream.

She looks around at the demure Swiss passengers.

BURR (CONT'D)

Don’t worry, I’m not going to.

PINE:

How long have you been together?

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