The Paradise Page #6

Season #2 Episode #16

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SUSY sees CLARA’s hesitance and she panics.

SUSY (CONT’D)

Or -- we sometimes have a picnic on

Sundays.

LUCILLE:

I am so glad I have found you. The

only women I have met since I came

here have been those well-to-do

society wives who look down their

noses at me.

She takes CLARA by the hand.

LUCILLE (CONT’D)

I love picnics. Come and sit in my

garden. We will have champagne and

roasted meats and oranges ...

CLARA is trapped. She smiles and nods, yes. Capitulating.

CLARA:

We would all love to come, Lucille.

13 EXT. THE YARD. THE PARADISE - DAY 13

TOM moves like a man in a trance, oblivious to those around

him. It is not rage that is on him but despair.

He realises that someone is watching him ... JONAS.

JONAS:

Can I offer you a glass of brandy,

sir?

He is leading TOM into the store, but TOM is brimming with

the need to speak.

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TOM:

I must be rid of him.

JONAS:

Perhaps we should speak inside,

sir.

TOM:

Yes. Of course.

They pass SAM and EDMUND carrying a ladder.

But TOM can’t contain it: he’s quiet but charged with hatred.

TOM (CONT’D)

I can’t bear to watch him Lord it

about this place for one more day.

JONAS:

Haste will not serve you well, Mr.

Weston. If you are determined to

dispose of Mr. Moray then do not do

so on his terms. To dismiss him now

would play into his hands. He would

come out on top.

TOM:

What do you mean?

JONAS:

There are things I have heard, sir.

Will you trust that I know best in

this? Let me make some arrangements

and in a few days a proposal will

be laid before you that will finish

Moray.

TOM looks at him, considering, then nods his head, yes.

14 EXT. TOLLGATE STREET - DAY 14

SAM and EDMUND are carrying the ladder across the street.

EDMUND:

What do you think I’m going to do?

Run away with your ladder? I’m only

across the street.

SAM:

It’s not my ladder. It’s the

store’s ladder. All I’m saying is I

had to get permission to lend it to

you.

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EDMUND:

You can come over and inspect it

every ten minutes if you like. I

need it get the job done, don’t I.

SAM:

Next time ask Mr. Moray or Mr.

Dudley -- or someone higher up the

ladder.

EDMUND:

You see this street? I look along

it and there is not one person was

here before me. That means

something.

SAM:

Yes. It means you’ve been here a

long time and now it’s your turn to

pull the ladder up.

EDMUND:

Our Denise. Coming into the inn to

chide me. She wants rid of me. She

might just as well push me down the

road.

SAM:

She wants you to be happy, that’s

all. Surely you can see that,

Edmund.

They prop the ladder up against EDMUND’s shop.

EDMUND:

I shall paint my shop top to

bottom. And when it’s done ...

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