Ordinary Lies Page #6

Season #1 Episode #1

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-is immediately out of her chair and beside him.

GRACE:

Marty, what are you doing here?

MARTY:

I need to speak to Mike.

GRACE:

It’s too soon, it really is. You

should be at home

MARTY:

I just need a chat with Mike.

GRACE:

Okay, but... come here...

And she suddenly pulls him into an embrace. He awkwardly

goes with it. Feeling terrible.

GRACE (CONT'D)

I’m so sorry to hear about your

wife - it’s a terrible terrible

thing - to lose someone before

their time...

Marty just stands there, awkward, embarrassed. Which of

course is read as ‘the pain of loss’.

Tracy pulls a cringe face, anything that falls outside of

the bracket ‘enjoyment’ is off limits to her.

Kathy comes scurrying through from her office

KATHY:

Marty, come through, come

through, can I get you a drink?

MARTY:

I’m fine. Honestly, I just wanted

a quick word with Mike.

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KATHY:

Of course, sweetheart, I’ll get

him right away

37 INT. JS MOTORS - MIKE’S OFFICE - DAY 3 - 15.15 37

On Marty’s face.

MARTY:

There’s something I need to tell

you... something very

difficult...

Wide to reveal Marty is now with Mike, just the two of

them, sitting across from one another in Mike’s office.

MIKE:

Take your time.

On Marty.

MARTY:

It’s about my wife...

On Mike, patiently waiting.

MARTY (CONT'D)

The thing is...

He swallows down hard...

MARTY (CONT'D)

Times have been tough at home and

money’s been tight and...

He looks at Mike’s face, and in that instant, just knows he

can’t pull this off...

MARTY (CONT'D)

I want to come back to work, as

soon as possible

MIKE:

Marty, you don’t have to worry

about your salary

MARTY:

It’s not just that, it’s up here

(taps his head)

I need to take my mind off

things.

MIKE:

This is a time for family. Think

about the kids

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MARTY:

I know, I know... we’ve got myparents over, they’re helpingwith the (

can barely say it)

- funeral arrangements and... I’mno good at this stuff, Mike - I’ma salesman, that’s what I do -

can I just come back - maybe halfdays at first... mornings... Iknow you think it’s grieftalking, but I can’t be in thehouse all day. I just can’thandle hanging around home -

Mike looks at him and sees a desperate man, he nods hisacquiescence.

MIKE:

You must do whatever is going tomake life easiest 37A

INT. JS MOTORS - TOILETS - DAY 3 - 15.25 37A *

Post talk, Marty feels sick. He feels wretched for his lies

and needs a moment by himself.

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38 INT/EXT. JS MOTORS - OFFICE AREA/CAR PARK - DAY 3 - 15.45 38

Marty is being walked back to his car by Kathy. But we arewatching this from afar, through a window - with thereception girls, Tracy and Viv...

TRACY:

It’s a damn shame isn’t it.

VIV:

You say that, she might have beena b*tch - he might be better offwithout her -

Viv TRACY

VIV:

What? Did you ever meet her?

No.

TRACY:

VIV:

Right then TRACY

He looks gutted

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VIV:

For our benefit, once he gets

home he might be doing a jig

They laugh. This is how Tracy and Viv talk, endless back

and forth gossip to amuse one another -

They suddenly realise Grace is standing behind them.

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GRACE:

We should go round there, after

work, offer to help out

Tracy and Viv swap looks - yeh right.

GRACE (CONT'D)

He’s clearly struggling - men

can’t cope can they - my dad

stopped eating after my mum died -

he lost two stone in a month

Fat Jason passing.

VIV:

You could do with that diet

They laugh. He pulls a ‘ha ha’ face.

GRACE:

Come on, it’s the right thing to

do - I’m sure he’ll say ‘no’ but

the offer’ll be appreciated

Which guilts them into it.

TRACY:

Okay but I’ve got Pilates at

seven

GRACE:

(pleased with them)

I’ll get his address off Kathy -

39 INT. JS MOTORS - BETH’S OFFICE - DAY 3 - 17.30 39

Beth at her desk, with pages and pages of PHONE RECORDS -

itemised bills - strewn around her, she is painstakingly

going through them.

With HIGHLIGHTER PENS she marks certain numbers.

She then glances at the pages and we see that a certain

mobile number, highlighted in YELLOW, has been called many

times.

Beth grabs the phone and slowly, checking the digits off

the sheet, starts to dial the number.

She waits... and gets THE DEAD TONE, disconnected.

On Beth. She looks across the office and sees Mike is still

in his office...

40 INT. JS MOTORS - MIKE’S OFFICE - DAY 3 - 17.40 40

Beth opposite Mike as he looks at the PHONE RECORDS.

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BETH:

There’s one particular number -

mobile - dialled again and again,

all times of the day and night...

it’s no one I recognize and when

I try ringing it, it’s

disconnected...

MIKE:

But the police went through all

this, they said there was nothing

suspicious...

BETH:

Maybe there isn’t. But who was

he ringing - more than he rang

me, more than he rang you -

there’s one call at two in the

morning -

Mike reacts - that is kinda suspicious.

BETH (CONT’D)

I should have done this months

ago, instead of falling apart.

MIKE:

Falling apart? Hardly.

Mike casually scans that number again, thoughtful.

BETH:

I know what you’re thinking -

another woman, maybe he was

planning this all along -

MIKE:

It can’t be a thought you haven’t

had

BETH:

Okay so let’s say he’d do that to

me, would he do it to his girls

Mike acknowledges that but then his expression changes

MIKE:

Why don’t you let this go - you’ve

started to feel better, move on a

little...

(he motions to the

paperwork)

All this is going to do is open up

the pain -

Hold the look between them.

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MIKE (CONT’D)

How about getting your girls sat

tonight - let me take you out.

Beth smiles. But is unsure. He stares kind of

jokily/playfully into her eyes and says

MIKE (CONT’D)

I won’t take no for an answer.

BETH:

(bit playful back)

How about ‘piss off’?

MIKE:

I won’t take ‘piss off’ for an

answer either

He smiles, she smiles. And we see that he has the ability to

brighten her day, take her mind from the darkness.

However...

BETH:

Another time.

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EXT. MARTY’S HOUSE - DAY 3 - 18.30 41

Post work. Grace’s car pulls up outside Marty’s house and

Grace, Tracy and Viv pile out, with some reticence.

TRACY:

(to Grace)

You do the talking -

VIV:

I hope no one cries - if a kid

cries I’m gonna be a wreck

They head up the path.

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INT/EXT. MARTY’S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM/HALLWAY/DRIVEWAY -42

DAY 3 - 18.40

Marty is playing on the Xbox with Jake, sword fighting,

they are attacking one another with considerable aplomb.

Doorbell rings. Marty nods to his son Joe who is nearby

reading a magazine.

MARTY:

Joe - door. Now, please.

Joe grumbles and reluctantly peels himself from the sofa

and heads to the door, opens it.

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