The Night Manager Page #6

BURR:

Twenty years, come November.

PINE:

Congratulations.

BURR:

It’s marriage Jonathan. It’s not a

state of bliss.

PINE:

How many children?

BURR:

This is the first and last.

The train rattles on gently.

BURR (CONT’D)

Cairo isn’t on your professional

CV. No mention. I checked.

PINE:

I took it off after I left.

BURR:

Why?

PINE:

Why do you think?

BURR:

I think you didn’t want people

asking questions.

Beat.

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BURR (CONT’D)

So if Roper checked Meisters for a

biography Cairo wouldn’t come up.

PINE:

No.

BURR:

What about Freddie Hamid?

PINE:

I was just a man in a uniform. He

never knew my name.

BURR:

With a bit of airbrushing you’ll

clean.

PINE:

Clean for what?

BURR turns to look at the Meisters Hotel as they pass it.

BURR:

Do you handle cash at the hotel?

PINE:

Sometimes. Some guests still prefer

it.

BURR:

And that cash goes in the safe?

PINE:

Until the end of the month.

BURR:

Suppose you stole some of it? All

of it? Would anyone one notice

straight away?

PINE:

If I was clever. No. They wouldn’t.

BURR:

Luckily, you are clever, Jonathan.

I checked.

13 EXT. ZERMATT. PINE’S APARTMENT. DAY. 13

At the top of the mountain is a small monk’s cell of a place.

PINE’s apartment. BURR and he approach it.

BURR:

Don’t get many visitors, do we?

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14 INT. ZERMATT. PINE’S APARTMENT. DAY. 14

They enter PINE’s apartment. BURR takes off her coat. Stares

at the small, sparsely decorated room. Eyes scanning,

absorbing everything she can.

PINE:

I’ll make some coffee.

He goes to make coffee, struggles to find a second cup. She

notices. She goes to the bookcase. Takes out her phone and

discreetly snaps four shots of PINE’S reading landscape.

BURR:

You a fan of Hardy?

PINE:

My shot at nostalgia I suppose.

BURR:

Mr Burr teaches Hardy.

PINE:

So he is a fan.

BURR:

No, he can’t stand him. Man as

mouse and god as uncaring bastard,

that’s what he says.

She sees another book.

BURR (CONT’D)

TE Lawrence. Of Arabia. The lonely

genius who wished only to be a

number.

She takes the book.

PINE:

Would you put that back please.

BURR:

Whose initials are these?

PINE:

My father’s actually. Will you put

it back. It’s private.

PINE grabs the book.

BURR:

I’m sorry. I didn’t know how much

it mattered to you.

PINE:

Yes you did.

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BURR:

Your father was undercover in

Belfast wasn’t he?

PINE:

Yes.

BURR:

Same regiment as you.

The book taken firmly and replaced on the shelf.

BURR (CONT'D)

I read they had to put his uniform

back on before they buried him.

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