The Night Manager Page #7
Season #1 Episode #3- TV-14
- Year:
- 2016
- 358 min
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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.
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.
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.
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
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.
REX MAYHEW (CONT’D)
In that context I find the actions
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.
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
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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