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sorts of things there in my favour.

PAXMAN (TV)

You’re not seriously telling me

that this is a judgement that

supports you?

IRVING (TV)

Plainly, I ran rings round the

defence. My only regret is that I

didn't use a mallet of sufficient

calibre to ram my case into the

thick skull of the judge. I’ve

always been taught that whatever

the result of the game it’s how you

play it that counts. I went over to

congratulate Mr Rampton and he

turned his back on me. That hurt.

And I thought I have not been

dealing with ordinary English

people here. These are people who

have been operating in the pay of a

foreign power.

PAXMAN (TV)

What we all want to know, Mr

Irving:
on the basis of this

judgement, will you stop denying

the Holocaust?

IRVING (TV)

Good Lord, no.

The phone goes. DEBORAH picks it up and lowers the TV volume.

JULIUS (PHONE)

Deborah?

DEBORAH:

Is that you Anthony?

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151 INT. JULIUS’ OFFICE. MISHCON DE REYA. NIGHT 151

JULIUS is watching the same interview on a TV in his office,

lit by a single angle-poise lamp.

JULIUS:

Are you watching?

DEBORAH (PHONE)

Can’t tear myself away.

IRVING on TV is heard saying ‘The fact that she didn’t even

dare appear tells you everything you need to know about Miss

Lipstadt.”

JULIUS:

He seems to be saying he won.

152 INT. ATHENAEUM HOTEL. NIGHT 152

DEBORAH:

Yeah. He used to be a Holocaust

denier, now he’s a verdict denier.

Why don’t we just turn him off?

IRVING (TV)

I don’t think her Brooklyn accent

would have endeared her to the

court.’

DEBORAH:

Queens.

She picks up the remote and does exactly that. The screen

goes to a spot, and blank.

153 EXT. BBC TV CENTRE. WOOD LANE. LONDON. NIGHT 153

All smiles and charm IRVING comes out through the glass

doors, shaking hands with a couple of NEWS STAFF. Then he

heads off alone, his smile gone. The doughnut-shaped building

gleams behind him. He sets off walking down the rain-soaked

streets, wiping the egg-stain off his shoulder as he goes.

154 EXT. HALF MOON STREET. NIGHT 154

A deserted exit. Padding out into the street comes DEBORAH,

in her running clothes. She runs out into a silent

Piccadilly. She passes that same Evening Standard billboard.

This time it says IRVING CASE VERDICT: HE LIED. She smiles.

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155 EXT & INT. TUBE. NIGHT 155

VERA comes alone into a deserted station. She goes through

the barrier and onto an escalator, away down into the

underground and out of sight. The shot is held for a moment.

156 EXT. PICCADILLY. NIGHT. 156

A milk-cart. A lone woman moving silently along empty

pavements. London glowing slightly. DEBORAH runs away into

the distance.

157 INT. RAMPTON’S CHAMBERS. NIGHT 157

RAMPTON packs up his books and papers. As he does, he sees

the small piece of barbed wire on his desk. He picks it up

and puts it in his pocket. Then turns out the light.

158 INT. LAURA’S FLAT. NIGHT 158

LAURA gets matches from the stove. SIMON is sitting already

at the table. She lights candles. He looks up at her. Close

on the candle flame.

159 EXT. EMBANKMENT. NIGHT 159

For the third and last time DEBORAH runs up the statue of

Boadicea. She stops, hands on hips. This time she smiles up

at it, makes a little victory sign and a small air-punch.

160 EXT. BIRKENAU. AUSCHWITZ. NIGHT 160

Birkenau empty, the ruins floodlit in the rain. The deserted

ground, the fences, the abandoned track. Ruins.

The camera is still for a moment, then it tracks right into

the wreckage. There is a hole in the rubble where there is a

rectangular opening. The camera moves right in to the

blackness of the hole. In the dark, a message:

SIX MONTHS AFTER THE VERDICT, A SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION AT

AUSCHWITZ FOUND THREE OF THE FOUR HOLES IN THE GAS CHAMBER

ROOF:

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