Jamaica Inn
Season #1 Episode #3- Year:
- 2014
- 177 min
- 544 Views
1 EXT. OPEN DEVON COUNTRYSIDE, DEVON - DAY 1, AUTUMN- 1820 1
CRASH into sudden noise and movement as a dry mud-spattered
-sunlight glinting off it and its wheels churning dust into
the frame.
WELL-HEELED TRAVELLERS waiting at this unofficial staging
post at the intersection of two dry dirt roads surrounded by
golden cornfields, jostle backwards into
-a young woman who is travelling alone and she steadies
An ordinary farm-girl, MARY YELLAN is 20, pretty, quietly
unconventional, a strong sense of right and wrong, a touching
guilelessness that makes her vulnerable. She’s drowning in an
oversized man’s coat (once her father’s) and looks very out
of place as she’s pushed to the back.
The horse is still rearing with a whinny, shaking at its
harness, hooves flying dangerously, as the DRIVER heaves on
the reins to bring it to a halt.
After everyone else, MARY drags her tatty trunk through the
dirt to board the coach.
The DRIVER whips the horse along
-the coach bumping and racing unsteadily on the dirt track,
a tiny black beetle among the cornfields.
Inside the coach it’s cramped and unpleasant.
A middle class FAMILY with a FAT DAUGHTER take up the room,
MARY squeezed into a corner, feeling out of place and
uncomfortable at their staring.
She hugs her giant coat round her, a treasured keepsake, and
turns to look out of the window, and a last glimpse of this
warm and manicured place she has called home as
4 FLASHBACK:
EXT. CHURCHYARD, DEVON - DAY (A FEW WEEKS EARLIER)4
The year is dying, autumn leaves starting to fall.
MARY wears her big coat, in the centre of a small group of
black-clad MOURNERS who stand by the grave-side as earth is
shovelled in on top of the coffin.
.
JAMAICA INN EP1 FIRST REVISION SET PINK 25.9.13
2
A VICAR mutters benedictions, but MARY does not cry, her face
blocking out raging emotion.
5 EXT. DEVON LANDSCAPE - DAY 1 5
The coach continues its long journey through the pastoral
landscape.
6 INT. COACH, DEVON TO CORNWALL - DAY 1 6
Back with MARY on the coach as she shifts to try and block
out the painful memory, hugging her coat around herself for
comfort against being an orphan.
She turns to the window away from the other PASSENGERS,
staring at the Devon fields passing outside…
But the FAT LITTLE GIRL reaches up to her MOTHER and FATHER
and MARY involuntarily watches them pick her up, another
FLASHBACK:
EXT. FIELD YELLAN FARM, DEVON - DAY - 1820 7MARY pushes a hand plough through a small field, and her
mother, MRS YELLAN, 40s but old beyond her years and doesn’t
look well, follows behind her sewing seeds.
They work in silence, at ease with one another, then MRS
YELLAN looks at her daughter in concern.
MRS YELLAN:
Mary, love. You shouldn’t be out
here on your own with me every day.
MARY:
(warm, joking)
trouble you before.
But MRS YELLAN’s serious, even though she tries to say it
lightly MRS
YELLAN:
You need to find a husband to take
care of you.
MARY’s obstinate - darts her MOTHER her a wryly humorous look-
MARY:
You manage well enough without one.
MRS YELLAN:
You should take Ned, love. You know
he’d see you right.
*
.
JAMAICA INN EP1 FIRST REVISION SET PINK 25.9.13 3
MARY sits back on her heels, looks at her MOTHER, surprised.
MARY:
You always said that if I married I
should love the man. Have you
changed your mind?
MRS YELLAN purses her lips, but not without humour, at being
caught out. MARY grins, these two are close.
MRS YELLAN:
Of course I haven’t.
MARY’s pleased.
MARY:
Well then.
But as MARY puts her head down, continues with her work, MRS
YELLAN’s show of strength evaporates, she’s worried for her
daughter’s future.
8 EXT. FLASHBACK: CHURCHYARD, DEVON - DAY 8
A continuation of scene four, we come back in on MARY’s face,
remembering her mother.
But the service is over, MOURNERS walking from the grave,
leaving only MARY.
A tall, loping farm boy, NED, who’s better dressed than your
average farm boy moves to comfort her *
- and from across the churchyard, three GIRLS with ribbons in
their bonnets, who are not part of the funeral, are
surreptitiously trying to catch his eye and flirt with him.
NED ignores them, though he knows they’re there, only has
eyes for MARY.
*
NED:
She was a fine woman.
*
MARY nods curtly, goes. But there’s something other than
condolence on NED’s mind. *
NED (CONT’D)
I know that… maybe now is not the
time, Mary, bu*
MARY:
No Ned, it’s not. *
She keeps on walking, the VICAR watching her in worry, but
.
JAMAICA INN EP1 FIRST REVISION SET PINK 25.9.13
4
NED:
You need to think about what you’ll
do. If you and I should - [marry]
*
MARY:
I’m going to my aunt’s in Cornwall.
(beat)
It’s what my mother wanted.
NED:
But! Mary?
*
She’s walking away but she stops. He hesitates -
NED (CONT’D)
You - you have my heart.
*
For a second she looks at him in painful, mute apology. The
jealous watching GIRLS look daggers and whisper behind their
hands, judging this unconventional farm-girl.
MARY:
I’m sorry.
MARY hates hurting him, fixes her eyes on the ground as she
walks away.
The coach careens through a bleaker, rockier landscape.
Different PASSENGERS sit opposite MARY now, still better
dressed than she is, their blank eyes staring at her as
though she has no right to be in here.
MARY turns to the window and outside the landscape has
changed.
The sun is sinking in the sky as the coach rumbles over the
River Tamar and there’s a glimpse of the distant sea as the
landscape gets wilder, bleaker, and -
MARY’s eyes close, taking her into -
BLACKNESS.
CORNISH DRIVER (V.O.)
Launceston! All out!
11 EXT. THE FLEECE INN, LAUNCESTON, CORNWALL - EVENING 11
MARY blinks awake. The DRIVER opens the carriage door and
MARY follows the other PASSENGERS out *
*
.
JAMAICA INN EP1 FIRST REVISION SET PINK 25.9.13
5
-to see that Launceston seems for all the world like a
frontier town from the Wild West.
DRAGOONS; PROSTITUTES; grimy TIN AND COPPER MINERS, chewing *
sticks; toothless old MEN; weather beaten FISHERMAN; and
young, rugged CHARMERS; all poor, most rough, spilling out of
the inn, drinking beer from mugs or tankards.
Fiddle music plays from somewhere. The small surrounding
houses are built of cold, grey Cornish granite.
It’s a long way from the twee morality of her home and MARY
is afraid, their eyes upon her as she steps around a MAN
who’s unconscious on the ground, and looks to see that the
other PASSENGERS have gone inside the bar.
As MARY hesitates to follow, unaccustomed to bars, a
uniformed Customs Riding Officer, LEGASSIK pulls up
-a filthy MAN in the back of his horse-drawn cart bleeding
from a wound to the leg, his hands and feet bound.
Translation
Translate and read this script in other languages:
Select another language:
- - Select -
- 简体中文 (Chinese - Simplified)
- 繁體中文 (Chinese - Traditional)
- Español (Spanish)
- Esperanto (Esperanto)
- 日本語 (Japanese)
- Português (Portuguese)
- Deutsch (German)
- العربية (Arabic)
- Français (French)
- Русский (Russian)
- ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada)
- 한국어 (Korean)
- עברית (Hebrew)
- Gaeilge (Irish)
- Українська (Ukrainian)
- اردو (Urdu)
- Magyar (Hungarian)
- मानक हिन्दी (Hindi)
- Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Italiano (Italian)
- தமிழ் (Tamil)
- Türkçe (Turkish)
- తెలుగు (Telugu)
- ภาษาไทย (Thai)
- Tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)
- Čeština (Czech)
- Polski (Polish)
- Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian)
- Românește (Romanian)
- Nederlands (Dutch)
- Ελληνικά (Greek)
- Latinum (Latin)
- Svenska (Swedish)
- Dansk (Danish)
- Suomi (Finnish)
- فارسی (Persian)
- ייִדיש (Yiddish)
- հայերեն (Armenian)
- Norsk (Norwegian)
- English (English)
Citation
Use the citation below to add this screenplay to your bibliography:
Style:MLAChicagoAPA
"Jamaica Inn" Scripts.com. STANDS4 LLC, 2024. Web. 8 Nov. 2024. <https://www.scripts.com/script/jamaica_inn_1040>.
Discuss this script with the community:
Report Comment
We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.
If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly.
Attachment
You need to be logged in to favorite.
Log In