Locke Page #3

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Ivan? From Chicago. USA.

Yes.

IVAN LOCKE:

GARETH (OOV)

You’ll have to speak up.

IVAN:

Yes, I heard.

GARETH (OOV)

And you’re the man in charge of the

entire operation but, with ten

hours to go, you’ve decided you

won’t be there.

IVAN LOCKE:

Donal will handle it. He is a good

man.

GARETH (EXPLODING)(OOV)

Don’t you f***ing dare say that to

me.

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GARETH (EXPLODING)(OOV) (CONT'D)

Don’t f***ing dare to give

qualitative appraisals of my staff

and say ‘good man’ like it’s going

off to buy a f***ing ice cream.

Ivan drives.

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

This is f***ing concrete. Like

sh*t. Like piss when it comes, you

pump it.

IVAN LOCKE:

Like babies.

GARETH (OOV)

It’s a joke to you.

IVAN LOCKE:

No. Right now nothing is a joke

anymore.

A pause...

GARETH (OOV)

So it’s not your wife giving birth?

IVAN LOCKE:

No it’s someone else.

GARETH (INCREDULOUS)(OOV)

Jesus. Ivan? You are the last

person on earth...

IVAN LOCKE:

Yes. I am the last person on

earth. But it happened.

GARETH (OOV)

And this woman can’t give birth on

her own?

IVAN LOCKE:

I’ve made a decision. There is

nobody else who could be with her.

She has no friends in London and is

a quite fragile person.

GARETH (SNARLING)(OOV)

Fragile?

Ivan drives...

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

You’re going to abandon the biggest

f***ing concrete pour in Europe to

hold someone’s f***ing hand because

she’s fragile.

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IVAN LOCKE:

And because the baby was caused by

me. That is the decision I have

made. I have not behaved in the

right way with this woman. At all.

I have behaved in a way that isn’t

like me. But now I am going to do

the right thing.

GARETH (OOV)

And Chicago can go to f***ing hell.

IVAN LOCKE:

It is the decision I have made.

I’m not going to turn back.

GARETH (OOV)

Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. You know how

many million pounds are riding on

tomorrow?...

Ivan drives...

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

If any one of those pumps fucks up

we are facing ten million pounds

worth of losses in fifteen minutes.

So we get that every fifteen

minutes for the whole morning, a

total shut down, hundred million

dollars. Pumping the hard stuff

into soft ground and watching it

set so we have to pay another

f***ing gang of f***ing Hungarian

monkeys to dig it out again.

Secondary cost, outside insurance,

another five million.

Ivan drives.

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

Are you still there?

IVAN LOCKE:

Yes. I have no explanation apart

from the one I have given. I must

do the right thing by this woman.

A pause. Gareth is about to speak...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

But, Gareth, I have made a pledge

to myself that I will not allow the

pour to f*** up.

GARETH (OOV)

This is a joke. Are you wearing a

f***ing red nose?

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Silence.

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

This is a f***ing joke. I’m going

to call Chicago. If it weren’t for

the fact that you’ve been so solid

for us for so many years I would

fire you down the phone.

Ivan drives...

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

But I will speak to Chicago first.

Silence...

GARETH (OOV) (CONT’D)

Ivan? Have you lost your f***ing

mind?

Ivan checks his rear view mirror.

IVAN LOCKE:

I made my decision.

The call is cut. Ivan drives on as he considers the

question. Has he lost his mind?

We come close to his face as he considers his situation.

Then he glances in the rear view mirror. We sense that

something in the mirror bothers him, an irritant he tries to

ignore but finally can’t.

He snaps into the rear view mirror...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

What the f*** are you looking at?

A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

You’re watching this aren’t you.

Laughing at my predicament? A

familiar predicament to a man like

you, right dad?

A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

You think ‘there he is, look. Like

father like son. The man I made’.

A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

What is it they say? The apple

doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Well that’s where you’re wrong.

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He studies the road, the lights flashing across his face...

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Ivan erupts slowly...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

You listen to me you f***ing piece

of worthless sh*t. I want you to

watch...

A pause. His face harder and harder...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

In fact I’d like to take a f***ing

shovel and dig you up out of the

f***ing ground and make you watch

me tonight.

He stares into the mirror.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

I’d pull open your eyes and kick

the mud and worms and sh*t out your

ears. Just for the duration of this

f***ing journey. Because it’s me

driving not you.

He drives on but his face fixes with determination....

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

And unlike you I’ll go to the place

where I should be and I’ll be there

to take care of my f*** up. I’ll

take what’s due to me.

He glares into the rear view mirror...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

So you laugh or do what the f***

you want, like you always do, but

I’ll fix this.

Pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

I’ll fix it.

Yes Donal.

His phone rings. He glances at the ghost of his father with

venom.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

DONAL (OOV)

Ok, I’m driving back so I’ll be

quick. I called Ryan and stole a

half dozen Poles and some

Hungarians from Patrick.

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DONAL (OOV) (CONT'D)

I got breakfast tickets for the

concrete farmers and the shutter

boys are done bar the f***ing about

with clips. I asked Albanian Alby

to test the pumps on the Argylle

side and he said they’re pissing it

out.

IVAN LOCKE:

Ok, ok stop. When you get back on

site you check every pump yourself,

individually and with your own hand

on the turner. You don’t ask

anybody else to check and sign off.

You go around the whole site and

you check each one yourself. And

don’t trust Alby after five because

he drinks. Now. Talk to me about

the mix.

DONAL (OOV)

Did we say C6?

Ivan reacts...

IVAN LOCKE:

Don’t say that like it’s a

question.

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DONAL (OOV)

Sometimes when I say things it

sounds like a question when it

isn’t.

IVAN LOCKE:

All the mixes for this pump will be

C6. Why do you even ask? It’s

written on the whiteboard in

f***ing giant letters. I put ‘C6’

all over the cabin in big red

letters. Slump of one inch, C6.

Don’t ask me questions like that...

DONAL (OOV)

It wasn’t a question. I know you

don’t like questions.

IVAN LOCKE:

What time are you unlocking?

DONAL (OOV)

I’m going to sleep here tonight.

IVAN LOCKE:

Good. Except, don’t sleep. Check

everything. You’ve got the client

sign-off.

DONAL (OOV)

Yeah. And the client sign-off on

the gates.

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