Ordinary Lies Page #13

Season #1 Episode #1

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Katrina opens the front door and stares out. Marty crying

now, stares back at her...

He steps out of the car.

MARTY (CONT'D)

I’m so sorry. I don’t want to

lose you -I don’t want to lose

you...

And Marty sobs like a child. KAT remains rooted to the

spot, awaiting the revelation, but she knows it’s going to

be pretty terrible...

82 INT/EXT. JS MOTORS - OFFICE AREA/BETH’S OFFICE/FORECOURT 82

-DAY 7 - 13.30

Beth working at her desk, the phone rings and she grabs it.

BETH:

Hello - Beth Corben.

But silence is all that greets her. She tries to control

her anger/upset but fails and screams

BETH (CONT’D)

Why don’t you bloody say

anything.

She slams it down, furious. And immediately her mobile

rings, startling her... she checks the display: George MPU.

BETH(CONT'D)

(collects herself, then)

Hi, George -

GEORGE:

Beth, good news - we’ve managed

to locate the source of that

phone number you requested

BETH:

(interest pricked)

Really? Have you got a name?

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GEORGE:

Absolutely, according to

Vodaphone records, it was

disconnected two weeks after Dave

went missing - May 4th - and the

owner was a woman called Marianne

Morton. Does that name mean

anything to you

BETH:

Marianne Morton

George makes affirmative noise. Beth stands and looks

across towards the sales area.

She can make out ‘acting head of sales’ Marianne, sharing a

joke with Emma, and a couple of others.

Beth just stares, dumbfounded.

BETH (CONT’D)

Yes, it means something...

But then something strange happens.

Across the office, we see Pete looking up, Emma stops her

phone call, Fat Jase speaks to Marianne, other workers

start nudging each other, gossip flies and people start

straining to see through the window to the car park...

because...

Coming towards us, side by side, are Marty and his wife

Katrina.

They look at one another. A fragile truce.

And we pick out certain people, Kathy from the window of

her office, she glances and sees Mike looking.

Rick and the mechanics.

And of course, Grace, from her position in the sales

office. She stands, a feeling of dread engulfing her...

Marty and Katrina walk towards the entrance, closer and

closer and closer...

The truth about to be revealed.

END OF EPISODE ONE

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