The Night Manager Page #5

BARGHATI:

Mr Birch. It’s a great pleasure to

meet you.

PINE:

On behalf of everyone at Tradepass

welcome to the Hill Fort. You had a

good trip I hope?

He smiles. BARGHATI smiles but his look interrogates PINE’s

soul.

PINE (CONT’D)

Well let’s show you what you’re

buying. Frisky get the jeeps.

FRISKY signals. The jeeps roar to life. PINE smiles. ROPER

watches. They walk through the compound and into the jeeps.

The jeeps fly out of the compound.

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The jeeps speed up the mountain side to the top of a lonely

peak.

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LANGBOURNE, PINE, ROPER and the buyer BARGHATI alight from

the jeeps, flanked by FRISKY and TABBY. A series of chairs

have somewhat surreally been laid out on a small hill crest.

Mountains on all sides, a valley deep below. On one side a

FILM-MAKING TEAM is setting up a number of cameras in

different positions.

They sit down. An ARMY GUY runs up the hill. He waves to

PINE.

SOLDIER:

Ready sir!

ROPER:

All right! Cameras rolling! Mr

Birch will give the order to begin.

There is a pause in the night. ROPER turns to PINE.

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ROPER (CONT’D)

Time to light the fuse.

He hands him a gun.

PINE takes it and shoots in the air. And it begins.

It’s a firework display of ammunition.

It lights up the sky. And below figures run, cars are driven

fast across parched mountain.

The suddenly - a huge explosion as a truck is apparently

blown sky high by a rocket from above.

The FILM-MAKER films all this.

Then a plane flies over - suddenly rocket fire from the

ground attacks it. It’s all incredibly real.

PINE:

British Vulcans M61A2. A

six barrel, air-cooled,

electrically-fired Gatling-style

rotary cannon firing twenty

millimetre rounds at a rate of six

thousand six hundred a minute,

muzzle velocity of over three

thousand feet a second.

The plane bursts into flames. BARGHATI watches. Quite taken

in. Did the pilot die?

But now they see a figure parachuting to the ground across

the valley. Almost relieved applause from the buyers.

Then another cargo plane, black cross on its side. The plane

opens and ten parachutists pour out.

A tank emerges from camouflage and seems to shoot at the men.

Clouds of smoke. But then suddenly the tank is no more,

engulfed in flame.

The cameras film.

PINE (CONT’D)

FGM Javelin light anti-tank

missile. A self-guided fire-andforget

system with an effective

range of up to two thousand five

hundred metres. A tandem warhead

fitted with two shaped charges, to

guarantee penetration of surface

and base armour.

A drone aeroplane suddenly appears. ROPER nods.

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