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He pats him on the arm.

PINE smiles.

JED is swimming gracefully in the pool.

The Night Manager ep 3 final

10 EXT. LONDON. CITY AIRPORT. DAY. 10

ANGELA BURR and JOEL STEADMAN are taking a taxi into London.

BURR stares out at the city.

11 INT. LONDON. RIVER HOUSE. MEETING ROOM. DAY. 11

GEOFFREY DROMGOOLE holds out his hand to JOEL STEADMAN.

RAYMOND GALT and HARRY PALFREY are there. DROMGOOLE shakes

STEADMAN’s hand. Firm handshake.

DROMGOOLE:

Very nice to see you Joel.

STEADMAN:

Always a pleasure Geoffrey.

DROMGOOLE:

How’s life and love?

STEADMAN:

Life’s good. Love was never my

specialty.

DROMGOOLE laughs. BURR smiles. Just.

DROMGOOLE:

Angela.

He shakes her hand.

DROMGOOLE (CONT’D)

You remember Raymond Galt, Harry

Palfrey.

BURR:

How could I forget?

PALFREY:

Nice to see you Angela.

Congratulations.

BURR:

Thank you Harry.

He means the baby. She smiles sweetly.

Later:
They are sitting. Coffee and biscuits.

DROMGOOLE:

So tell me about Limpet.

STEADMAN:

Limpet’s an ongoing anti-arms

Operation based in Washington.

Standard tracer op. About a year

old.

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DROMGOOLE:

Who you going after?

STEADMAN:

Richard Onslow Roper. Director of

Ironlast. And we think a lot more

on the side.

DROMGOOLE:

That wouldn’t surprise me.

STEADMAN:

I came here to see if there are

opportunities for mutual

collaboration and intelligence-

sharing. Angela is happy to sign

up. I wanted to see if you will do

the same.

DROMGOOLE:

Where are you at the moment?

STEADMAN looks oddly unconfident here.

STEADMAN:

Well it’s going pretty well.

Wouldn’t you say Angela?

He looks at BURR. BURR nods apologetically.

STEADMAN (CONT’D)

We have photographs of a lunch that

took in place in Madrid one month

ago between Roper’s money-man

Alexander Langbourne and a Spanish

lawyer called Juan Apostol. It’s

possible that they were discussing

an arms deal in the near future.

Photos of the lunch between Langbourne and Apostol are

distributed.

GALT:

You get any audio on that?

STEADMAN:

Unfortunately not.

GALT:

So they could have been discussing

their children’s Christmas party.

Embarrassed smile.

DROMGOOLE:

And that’s it?

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PALFREY:

What about on the ground? Got

anyone close to Roper?

Beat. BURR and STEADMAN do a carefully rehearsed embarrassed

look. It’s very convincing.

STEADMAN:

Not yet.

PALFREY:

In development?

STEADMAN:

Not at the moment. But getting an

agent on the inside Harry - that’s

a long game. What I need now...

DROMGOOLE:

Let me stop you right there Joel.

Angela runs her own modest

enforcement agency, she can do what

she likes. Roper is an obsession of

hers, he was when she was here at

The River. I suspect he always will

be. But I can’t waste the nation’s

intelligence budget on an operation

whose current status appears to be

somewhat catatonic.

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