Locke Page #6

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IVAN LOCKE:

Katrina, don’t go.

KATRINA (OOV)

I have to throw up again.

The call is cut. Ivan drives. He glances in the rear view

mirror. He takes a while to decide to speak again to the

ghost. When he speaks it is with self doubt, as if he is

confiding...

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IVAN LOCKE (TO THE GHOST)

I could have said nothing. I could

have said nothing. Or I could have

lied. I could have run. I was

offered a thing in Toronto. A two

year tower.

He suddenly remembers who he is speaking to.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Why am I telling you of all f***ing

people. I can see that sh*t-eating

grin on your great fat face, wipe

it off...

Ivan stares at the road ahead.

IVAN LOCKE (TO THE GHOST) (CONT’D)

I’m not you. Pop the f***ing

corks. I’m not you. I’ll fix

this.

He drives. He gets a call and sees ‘Home’ and answers

fast...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Kat, listen....

EDDIE (OOV)

Dad, we’re one nil down.

Ivan must adjust.

IVAN LOCKE:

Is your mother there?

We hear him call...

EDDIE (OOV)

Mum!

Eddie comes back on the phone.

EDDIE (OOV) (CONT’D)

Stupid penalty. Are you listening

on the radio?

IVAN LOCKE:

No.

We hear a muffled voice.

EDDIE (OOV)

Dad? She’s on the lavatory I

think.

IVAN LOCKE:

Eddie?

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EDDIE (OOV)

What?

IVAN LOCKE:

It’s ok. I’ll talk to you when it

all settles down.

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He cuts the call. He drives for forty seconds. We study him.

The phone rings.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Ivan Locke.

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

Hello, this is Sister Margaret from

St. Mary’s Maternity unit.

IVAN LOCKE:

Is everything ok?

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

I’m with Bethan Maguire...is it

your partner?

A hesitation with a practical outcome...

IVAN LOCKE:

I am the father.

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

She’s quite distressed and we were

wondering if someone was going to

be with her for the birth. She

says she doesn’t have anyone else.

IVAN LOCKE:

Yes, I’m, an hour away I think if

the traffic’s ok. Is she alright?

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

There’s a complication.

Ivan speaks evenly.

IVAN LOCKE:

What is the complication?

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

A complication with the umbilical

cord. It means there will be a

procedure and it would help if dad

was around. You are dad?

IVAN LOCKE:

Yes. I’m driving. I’m doing

ninety.

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

Please don’t do anything...

IVAN LOCKE:

I will be there.

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SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

She’s with the consultant at the

moment. I just wanted to make sure

someone was coming.

IVAN LOCKE:

Yes. I will be there.

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

Good. Use the emergency entrance.

Ask for Bailey ward.

IVAN LOCKE:

Bailey. Ok.

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

She’s very emotional.

IVAN LOCKE:

She isn’t used to being emotional I

think. I think she is normally a

very quiet person.

A puzzled pause...

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

You are her partner?

IVAN LOCKE:

I am the father. I don’t...

A pause...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

...I don’t know her too well if you

want the truth. But I’m coming.

A pause. The sister is used to oddness, the strangeness of

relationships and continues...

SISTER MARGARET (OOV)

She’s very afraid.

IVAN LOCKE:

I understand. I’m driving.

The call is cut. Ivan drives on and thirty seconds pass.

The rear view is never far from his thoughts. The phone

rings and he sees the name and manages to keep his voice

under control...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Yes Donal.

DONAL (OOV)

I checked all twelve pumps and

they’re pissing out.

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IVAN LOCKE:

Good. You’re testing with C6.

DONAL (OOV)

Only C6.

IVAN LOCKE:

And you called all the plants?

DONAL (OOV)

They gave me dog’s abuse for

checking.

IVAN LOCKE:

They have the trucks lined up and

the mix is in?

DONAL (OOV)

I ticked off each response after

the f*** you’s and piss offs and it

came to six and a half thousand

cubic metres.

IVAN LOCKE:

What about retardant?

DONAL (OOV)

They have retardant on site ready

to go into the trucks.

IVAN LOCKE:

Good. Now, do you have a pen?

DONAL (OOV)

Pencil.

IVAN LOCKE:

Get a pen.

We almost hear Donal rolling his eyes. A pause. A drawer...

DONAL (OOV)

Ok. I have a pen.

IVAN LOCKE:

In the top right hand drawer above

the blow heater you’ll find my

folder. Get it. It’s going to be

your Bible tonight.

We hear movement, drawers opening.

DONAL (OOV)

I don’t see any folder.

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IVAN LOCKE:

Yes, it’s there, it’s there. It’s

got everything you’re going to need

in there. All the numbers, the

sign offs, the road closures that

you have to confirm with the

police. The drawer above the blow

heater.

DONAL (OOV)

The blow heater was taken by the

Hungarians. You’d think they’d be

used to the cold wouldn’t you.

IVAN LOCKE:

Donal, you know which drawer I

mean.

We hear movement and checking. Ivan drives...

DONAL (OOV)

Ivan, I’ve checked every drawer in

the cabin. No bible.

Ivan drives. He thinks. Then he has an awful realization. He

opens the glove compartment and sees a file.

IVAN LOCKE:

F***.

DONAL (OOV)

Are you ok?

IVAN LOCKE:

F***.

DONAL (OOV)

What?

A pause. Ivan has dropped the file on the passenger seat.

IVAN LOCKE:

I have it here.

A pause.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

All the things you’re going to need

and I have it f***ing here in my

car.

A long silence.

DONAL (OOV)

You know Ivan in all the ten years

I’ve worked with you, I’ve never

known you to f*** up.

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A pause.

IVAN LOCKE:

Ok Donal, give me some time to

think. Stay near to your phone.

Ivan cuts the call and drives. He glances at the folder on

the passenger seat.

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

F***.

The phone rings. We see ‘Home’. Ivan takes the call

immediately...

IVAN LOCKE (CONT’D)

Are you ok?

KATRINA (OOV)

Ok?

IVAN LOCKE:

Kat please, just hear what I want

to say...

She suddenly screams at the top of her voice...

KATRINA (OOV)

Of all the things in the world, I

never thought of you doing

this!!...

IVAN LOCKE:

Katrina, don’t let the boys hear

you...

KATRINA (OOV)

You f***ed some...!!

IVAN LOCKE:

Quietly.

KATRINA (OOV)

You f***ed her. And then me! I

looked in my diary and checked and

I remember when you got home from

Croydon that weekend and you had a

big stupid grin...

IVAN LOCKE:

The block was in. I was happy with

it.

KATRINA (OOV)

And I sit in the dark.

IVAN LOCKE:

It was once.

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KATRINA (OOV)

And the difference between never

and once is the whole world. The

difference between never and once

is the difference between good and

bad.

Ivan checks the rear view...

IVAN LOCKE:

I know that.

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