Locke Page #5

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6 EXT. MOTORWAY 6

From surveillance cameras we see Ivan’s car driving in the

fast lane. We hear his phone ringing and hear him answer...

KATRINA (OOV)

Hello, love.

IVAN LOCKE (OOV)

Hello Katrina...

7 INT. LAND ROVER 7

Ivan stares ahead as he drives fast.

KATRINA (OOV)

I got you six of the German lagers

and I got sausages. I thought we

could have hot dogs again. And

guess what? I’m wearing the shirt.

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A pause.

IVAN LOCKE:

Did Eddie not give you the message.

KATRINA (OOV)

What message?

IVAN LOCKE:

I’m not coming home.

KATRINA (OOV)

What?

A pause.

KATRINA (OOV) (CONT’D)

What do you mean? It’s the match.

I’m wearing the shirt.

IVAN LOCKE:

Which phone are you on?

KATRINA (OOV)

What do you mean?

IVAN LOCKE:

I can hear the TV. Could you take

this call on the phone upstairs.

KATRINA (OOV)

Upstairs? Why?

IVAN LOCKE:

I have something...

A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

I have something to say.

KATRINA (OOV)

Can’t it wait until you get home?

IVAN LOCKE:

I won’t be home.

Silence. We hear the boys and the TV in the background.

KATRINA (OOV)

What’s happened?

IVAN LOCKE:

Will you go to the phone in the

bedroom?

A pause.

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KATRINA (OOV)

What’s happened?

IVAN LOCKE:

Go to the phone in the bedroom and

I’ll tell you what’s happened.

The line crackles and we hear Katrina call out...

KATRINA (OOV)

Sean, when I shout put the phone

down.

We hear her walk away, hear the sound of the TV, preparations

for a big football match. Ivan hears his two sons arguing.

Eddie comes to the phone...

EDDIE (OOV)

Dad, are you coming back?

IVAN LOCKE:

Eddie, I’m talking to your

mother...

EDDIE (OOV)

He’s not picked any wingers...

KATRINA (OOV)

Hello.

IVAN LOCKE:

Eddie, will you put the phone down

please?

EDDIE (OOV)

I can’t believe the team he’s

picked, dad.

IVAN LOCKE:

Please put the phone down.

Eddie puts the phone down. A pause...

KATRINA (SOFTLY)(OOV)

So what is it?

A long pause.

IVAN LOCKE:

Last year. The job in Croydon. I

was up and down there for three

months, remember?

A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

I stayed in that guest house. The

one I said had bad damp.

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A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

They gave me an assistant. She

worked with me on the block

construction.

KATRINA (OOV)

‘She’?

IVAN LOCKE:

She was a secretary. Quite old. We

worked together...

KATRINA (OOV)

Oh.

IVAN LOCKE:

She is quite old and lives on her

own. Forty three or something.

A pause.

KATRINA (OOV)

Why are you telling me about some

woman?

A pause. Ivan glances in the rear view mirror...

IVAN LOCKE:

This is the only time I ever did

this, Katrina. The only time.

After the block was settled in,

there were some drinks to

celebrate. The block going in is a

big thing because it is the base of

the whole building...

Silence...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

And she came back to the guest

house. She isn’t what you would

call an oil painting. But it was

wet and cold. She talked about

being lonely and I talked about

being happy but lonely sometimes

when I was away. And there was this

wine. And this was the only time I

did this in all our fifteen years.

Silence.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

And now, tonight, she is giving

birth.

Silence.

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IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Tonight she is giving birth. And

it’s mine.

The call is cut. Ivan drives on. We stay with Ivan for a few

minutes as he drives. He is not a man accustomed to moments

like this and his reaction is just the blue glistening tip of

an iceberg. He looks like a man made of ice in the

headlights.

The phone rings. Ivan forces himself to answer because he

knows he must.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Donal.

DONAL (OOV)

Look, Ivan, this isn’t a question,

ok?

Ivan waits.

DONAL (OOV) (CONT’D)

But I just got off the phone with

the plant in Stafford and they said

they know it’s a C6 mix, but how

far toward C5 can it go.

Silence. Ivan is expressionless...

DONAL (OOV) (CONT’D)

In other words, if one truck has

some C5, how badly would that be

taken?

Ivan lets the silence express his disbelief...

DONAL (OOV) (CONT’D)

Ivan, are you still there?

IVAN LOCKE:

Donal, what does it say on the

whiteboard?

DONAL (OOV)

It says C6.

IVAN LOCKE:

What does it say on every piece of

paperwork and every sign off sheet?

DONAL (OOV)

It says C6.

IVAN LOCKE:

It says C6. And you know why?

A pause.

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IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Because, eventually, when my

building is complete, it will be

fifty five floors high. It will

weigh two million two hundred and

twenty three thousand metric tons.

My building will alter the water

table and squeeze granite. Now...

A pause....

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

...If the concrete at the base of

my building is not right, if it

slips a half inch, cracks appear.

If cracks appear they will grow and

grow and the whole thing will

collapse.

DONAL (OOV)

Ivan, look....

IVAN LOCKE:

You make one mistake, Donal. One,

little f***ing mistake, and the

world comes down around you. So...

Silence.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Tell Stafford...

A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

C6.

DONAL (OOV)

C6 it is.

Ivan cuts the call. We drive with him for one minute as he

contemplates his own mistake. He calls up the number of

‘Home’ again.

IVAN LOCKE:

Katrina...

KATRINA (OOV)

That didn’t happen. I’m not

believing it...

IVAN LOCKE:

Katrina, I want to move to a

practical next step...

KATRINA (OOV)

I’m here in the dark in our bedroom

and nothing looks the same...

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IVAN LOCKE:

I can’t talk very well. I have

felt scraped out for months. She

phoned and said she was having a

baby and keeping it because it was

her last chance to be happy. And

then tonight she phoned and said

the waters broke and it’s two

months early. I was going to tell

you before but the waters broke

early. So I have to do this now in

the car. Every night I was going to

tell you...

KATRINA (OOV)

I can’t really breath.

IVAN LOCKE:

Katrina, you know what happened

with my dad and how the bastard

wasn’t around for me and didn’t

even give me a name...

KATRINA (OVER LAPPING)(OOV)

No. You’re confused. It’s you

that’s the bastard, it’s the baby

that’s the bastard. At least get

the words right..

IVAN LOCKE:

Katrina, I will give the baby my

name and it will see my face and it

will know and it won’t spend it’s

life thinking and thinking...

KATRINA (OOV)

I’ve closed the door and I’m in the

dark and I’m almost sure this isn’t

you.

IVAN LOCKE:

I should have said all this a long

time ago. I have behaved not like

myself.

KATRINA (OOV)

I have to put the phone down again.

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