The Night Manager Page #7

PINE:

What do you want, Ms Burr?

Beat. BURR stares at PINE.

BURR:

I want to make you an offer.

(frowns)

No, that’s not right. I want to

give you a chance. Come and work

for me. Afterwards when it’s over,

I’ll look after you. Resettlement,

new name, new identity... new life.

What do you say?

PINE:

A chance to do what?

BURR:

To bring down Richard Roper.

Beat.

I’ve spent ten years of my life

going after that man. I’ve had

microphones up his arse, I’ve had

GCHQ tapping into every bloody

email, overflying him with a

thousand satellites, and listening

to every phone call he makes. I

can’t touch Roper. And why?

PINE:

Because he’s never near the

destruction he causes.

BURR:

But that’s going to change. I want

to get you on the inside. I’ll give

you a legend thicker than your arm.

(MORE)

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BURR (CONT'D)

I’ll send you so deep inside his

operation, you won’t feel like

you’ll ever get out. You’ll be

feeding the rat three meals a day,

hanging on by your finger-nails in

force ten gales, there’s not a

scrap of you won’t be used, not an

hour you won’t be scared stiff. But

you’ll nail him. You’ll nail him

for Sophie Alekan. You’ll nail him

for your country. And you’ll nail

him for the man that owned that

book.

BURR stares at the bookcase.

BURR (CONT’D)

Or you can stay hiding in the hotel

of non-existence. It’s up to you.

15 INT. ZERMATT. MEISTERS HOTEL. LOBBY. NIGHT. 15

JONATHAN PINE is standing at the night desk of the Meisters

hotel. The small hours, sleepy atmosphere, no one around.

The same world. The same people. Nothing changes.

PINE walks into the office and stares at the safe.

16 INT. ZERMATT. MEISTERS HOTEL. OFFICE. NIGHT. 16

He quietly closes the door of the office and pulls down the

blind.

He does the combination. Opens the safe.

Inside is a significant amount of cash.

He stares at it. A moment of decision.

One last look through the blinds at the sleepy hotel he is

leaving forever.

Then puts his hand in and takes the cash.

17 I/E. MADRID. RESTAURANT. DAY. 17

JUAN APOSTOL gets out of a taxi in a humming street in

Madrid.

He enters a restaurant.

We stay outside, POV of someone watching as APOSTOL walks to

the back, sits and meets Roper’s smooth-as-silk lawyer, SANDY

LANGBOURNE. They shake hands and begin to talk.

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As they do, we hear the click click of a digital camera

taking shot after shot of the two men as they begin their

conversation.

The man taking the photo is tall, solid, African-American, 45

years old and likeable. We have never seen him before.

He is JOEL STEADMAN.

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