The Night Manager Page #7

Season #1 Episode #3
Synopsis: An Englishman, Jonathan Pine (played by Tom Hiddleston), is working as the night manager of a Cairo hotel. He gets involved with a local woman who is the girlfriend of a local gangster. Through her relationship with the gangster she has acquired information linking illegal international arms sales with Richard Roper (Hugh Laurie), an English billionaire. She is soon found dead, murdered due to her having this information. Fearing for his own life, Pine flees, ending up working at a remote hotel in Switzerland. Four years pass, and then Roper visits the Swiss hotel. This rekindles Pines thirst for revenge, and he is enlisted by British Intelligence to spy on Roper. What follows is a very dangerous game of intrigue and deception.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
  Won 3 Golden Globes. Another 17 wins & 45 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.2
TV-14
Year:
2016
358 min
536 Views


She smiles sadly.

BURR (CONT’D)

Gordon’s a decent man. It’s not his

fault I’m not in love with him.

STEADMAN stares at her. A rather desperate look between them.

STEADMAN:

Listen...

BURR:

Let’s not have one of those

conversations Joel. Please.

STEADMAN:

Can’t deny the past.

BURR:

The past is all it is.

STEADMAN:

My god you are a wondrous piece of

work.

She looks up at him. Sudden vulnerability.

Luckily perhaps an OPS PHONE phone buzzes. STEADMAN stares at

it.

BURR:

What is it?

STEADMAN:

It’s your boy.

BURR joins him on the computer-phone. STEADMAN enters an

apparent social networking site.

It flicks to a new message board. He plugs in a code.

A message flashes up.

SEVEN TRACTOR FIRMS. HOME SALE. BUYER BEIRUT. VIA WORST MAN.

TRADEPASS.

BURR stares.

STEADMAN (CONT’D)

Seven armament manufacturers. UK

and US. Buyer from Beirut. Roper’s

the middle man. What’s Tradepass?

BURR stares at STEADMAN. Smiles.

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BURR:

I don’t know. But I do know that

Roper’s pressed the green light.

45 INT. LONDON. FCO. MAYHEW’S OFFICE. DAY. 45

MAYHEW sits sipping tea. He looks at the clock. Three thirty

pm. Then his phone rings.

SECRETARY (ON PHONE)

Rex, do you have a minute? The

Permanent Secretary would love to

grab you.

MAYHEW:

Of course.

He gets up, walks up the stairs into a private corridor,

along and to a door that he opens.

46 INT. FCO. PERMANENT SECRETARY’S OFFICE. DAY. 46

Inside to his surprise are three people. The PERMANENT

SECRETARY, plus GEOFFREY DROMGOOLE, and a woman we have not

seen before. American. Forty-five years old and charming as

hell. BARBARA VANDON.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

Come in Rex, sorry for the late

notice. You know Geoffrey Dromgoole

of course from the River. And

Barbara Vandon, from the American

Embassy. Rex Mayhew, my under

secretary.

MAYHEW:

Barbara how are you?

BARBARA VANDON:

Good to see you Rex.

They smile. SMASH CUT TO mid-meeting.

BARBARA VANDON (CONT’D)

Rex it’s this Limpet thing.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

Limpet?

DROMGOOLE:

The Joel Steadman enforcement

operation, with Angela Burr on side

saddle.

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MAYHEW:

I know what Limpet is. It’s an

enforcement case. It has nothing to

do with Langley or The River House.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

Well that’s what Barbara feels we

ought to be discussing.

BARBARA VANDON:

Rex, Langley has been completely

railroaded on this. We currently

have a joint operation on foreign

soil between two extremely fringe

outfits, with not a geopolitical

bone in their bodies. They’re

chasing international arms in an

area of the world way beyond their

comprehension. It’s crazy.

DROMGOOLE:

I have to say I agree. Limpet is

operating in a highly incendiary

region and I would hate to see that

run out of control. In my view it

should be placed under a Pure

Intelligence jurisdiction, acting

to a political brief.

He gestures here to the Permanent Secretary.

DROMGOOLE (CONT’D)

But it’s not my decision.

MAYHEW:

No it’s not.

Beat.

REX MAYHEW:

Geoffrey I’m sure I don’t need to

remind you that my recommendation,

accepted by the Permanent

Secretary, was that River House was

over-extended, and that Enforcement

Agencies were urgently needed to

prosecute areas of international

criminal activity that were, for

whatever reason, slipping through

the Intelligence net.

He lets this hang for a moment, implication understood.

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REX MAYHEW (CONT’D)

In that context I find the actions

of the River House somewhat

inimical to the new era of

parliamentary accountability and

transparency, and will be seeking

to formalise an examination into

their activities at the next Joint

Steering. Does that answer your

question?

He pauses. Smiles at the group.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

Well why don’t we leave it there

for today?

47 EXT. LONDON. FCO. DAY. 47

REX MAYHEW, helmet on, somewhat triumphant, is walking out of

his office.

MAYHEW brings his bike out on to the pavement.

DROMGOOLE suddenly appears.

DROMGOOLE:

You got a moment?

MAYHEW:

Not much more than that. Celia’s

cooking rabbit.

DROMGOOLE:

That’s all it will take. Why don’t

you park your bike?

He smiles.

They walk along the street to the bridge.

DROMGOOLE leans forward.

DROMGOOLE (CONT’D)

You did a good job. Pressed all the

right buttons. Accountability.

Transparency. Very good.

MAYHEW:

I don’t like being bullied. Never

have.

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DROMGOOLE:

Thing is I have a feeling that

Limpet’s not quite the abject

failure Angela Burr would have us

believe.

MAYHEW, innocently:

MAYHEW:

Really?

DROMGOOLE, not buying it for a second:

DROMGOOLE:

Yes. Really.

He stares at REX MAYHEW. DROMGOOLE speaks quietly.

DROMGOOLE (CONT’D)

You’re over your head Rex. Spheres

of interest you don’t know about.

Think about it. And enjoy that

rabbit.

And off he wanders along the river as MAYHEW watches.

48 EXT. MALLORCA. ROPER’S VILLA. DAY. 48

ROPER, LANGBOURNE, FRISKY are getting in a car to take them

out of the complex and to the private airfield. Small

suitcases being packed into the SUV.

PINE watches as the cars tear out of the complex through

security. In a window of the villa he sees CORKORAN staring

at him with barely concealed venom.

PINE:

Where are they going?

CORKORAN:

Monaco. Two days of meetings.

Things are ramping up.

PINE:

You’re not going with them?

CORKORAN smiles at him. Hiding rejection.

CORKORAN:

I have a much better offer. I’m

going riding with Jed old boy.

Didn’t she invite you?

He turns and walks indoors. PINE watches him go.

JED and DANIEL join CORKORAN, in riding gear, ready for the

ride. PINE watches them.

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49-51 OMITTED 49-51

51 INT. MALLORCA. ROPER VILLA. LIVING ROOM/KITCHEN. DAY. 51

PINE walks in through the empty living room to the kitchens.

Three cooks and maids are working. He is still carrying the

flowers. He approaches a SPANISH MAID. She knows him, and she

likes him.

PINE:

Maria I need a vase for these.

They’re for Daniel for when he gets

back.

MAID:

Of course Mr Thomas.

She smiles.

PINE:

What time do the chamber-maids do

the rooms? I wanted to ask them if

they found Danny’s phone.

COOK:

They come at 12 sir. And there’ll

be an alarm check at 11am today.

Just ignore it.

PINE:

Thank you.

He smiles. She smiles. She likes him.

52 INT. MALLORCA. ROPER’S VILLA. CORRIDOR. ROPER’S BEDROOM. DAY.

52

PINE walks up the stairs, flowers in hand. He reaches the

doors to the Roper private apartments.

He pauses, looks round, feels the almost eerie silence.

And enters closing the door behind him.

53 INT. MALLORCA. ROPER’S VILLA. BEDROOM. DAY. 53

PINE enters the bedroom. It’s unkempt, it has not been tidied

by the maids yet. Jed’s nightdress lies abandoned on the bed.

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