Ordinary Lies Page #11

Season #1 Episode #2

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MIKE:

Have a good time - but not too

good...

They smile. If only things were different...

She heads away.

MIKE (CONT’D)

And don’t forget those texts

She smiles, heads to her car. On Mike.

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88 INT. GREEK RESTAURANT - NIGHT 17 - 20.15 88

Huge table - all the JS Motors girls (Emma, Grace, Beth,

Marianne, Amelie etc but NOT KATHY) and some of Emma’s

friends from outside work. They are all wearing fashionable

togas - adorned with various headwear and make-up - they look

stunning, everyone made a huge effort.

This whole sequence played STYLISED

Laughter, drinking, singing, flirting with waiter, gifts (the

obligatory chocolate penis). Emma the centre of attention.

And loving it...

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...but we are focusing on Tracy, making all the right faces,

joining in, but not really there.

And drinking. Drinking. Drinking. Wine, spirits,

cocktails, whatever comes her way.

There’s GREEK DANCERS now, smashing plates. Two hunky guys

getting jeers of approval. They’re lifting Emma on to thetable to do a dance herself. She goes for it.

All her friends chant her name ‘Emma, Emma, Emma’. And it is

a wonderful moment for her, really special. She is lovingbeing the bride to be, loving being in this moment, withthese people, on this night... it is everything it shouldbe...

...but for Tracy nothing is as it should be.

She drinks some more. This is noticed by Beth (the only onewho knows about Viv). She mouths ‘you okay?’ And Tracyraises her glass.

Emma is encouraged to launch herself from the table, like acrowd surfer, she does so and the two men catch her.

Applause from the girls.

89 INT. NIGHTCLUB - NIGHT 17 - 23.30 89

...and then to a club. Lights, music, dancing, looks fromthe guys - this lot in togas are fit...

The beat pumps through them. More laughter, more drinking,

this is turning into a classic night...

...but Tracy is numbed by booze, the alcohol not even havingany effect any more, she just sways, and allows her mind todrift into glorious oblivion...

...and then it happens...

The track changes...

...and on comes Chase & Status, ‘Let You Go’... *

And all the crowd are chanting along, euphoric, glad to bealive.

*

And we flashback to the Dominican Republic.

Tracy and Viv dancing with the dutch guys at the beach party.

Arms in the air. The moment of their lives. Before, before,

before...

*

We hold on Tracy’s face. *

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And she crumbles. It’s like her mind splinters into a

million pieces, and she falls or staggers or retches or

whatever seems right, but she breaks down.

And hits the floor.

Beth is the first there, then Grace... they go to help her,

screaming for others to help, but the music is so loud.

They drag her to her feet. And help her outside.

90 EXT. NIGHTCLUB/STREET - NIGHT 17 - 23.45 90

Tracy vomiting in the street. Beth and Grace still holding

her up. Beth rubbing her back...

TRACY:

I’m sorry, I’m sorry

BETH:

It’s okay

She vomits some more. Beth and Grace swap a look.

BETH (CONT’D)

I’ll take her home.

TRACY:

No, I can’t go home - I don’t wanna

go home...

BETH:

You can come back to mine. Come

on, we’ll find a cab

Grace goes off to search for a cab to hail.

Tracy wasted. We hold on her...

TRACY:

All I’ve ever wanted’s to have a

bit you know, the cool things, the

smart stuff... be part of it - hook

up with a footballer or a DJ - big

house, nice clothes, swan around to

parties and film premiere’s. You

look at those girls - Coleen or

Abigail or Charlotte - and you

think, what have they got that I

haven’t. They’re not that good

looking, not really, no more than

any of us, they just got lucky.

They got lucky.

On Beth...

BETH:

Tracy, did you know...

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On Tracy, hold and hold and hold...

Tracy looks at Beth she wants to confess, wants to get this

terrible secret she is carrying off her chest. Tell someone

and then it will have to be dealt with...

But she can’t, she can’t.

TRACY:

No, I swear...

But she has as good as admitted it.

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92 INT. BETH’S HOUSE - SPARE BEDROOM - NIGHT 17 - 02.30 92

Beth’s spare room. Tracy lying awake. Sleep simply won’t

come. She can’t live with it. She peels out of bed.

93 EXT. ESTATE - DAY 18 - 05.00 93

First light. A bedraggled Tracy walking across a deserted

estate as she heads home.

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95 INT. TRACY’S HOUSE - MUM’S BEDROOM - DAY 18 - 05.20 95

Tracy slides open the door of her mum’s bedroom. TANYA is

fast asleep. Tracy stares at her for a moment, then slips

her shoes off. She pulls back the covers and gets into bed

next to her mother, spoons her - and fights tears.

Her mother becomes aware of the presence - wakes.

TANYA:

Tracy...

TRACY:

Hold me. Please, mum... just hold

me...

And she does. She holds her daughter.

ROBBIE (V.O.)

(overlay from next scene)

Why did you do it? How could you

be so bleedin’ stupid?

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96 INT. TRACY’S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - DAY 18 - 06.10 96

CLOTHES BAGS, SHOE BOXES and IPHONE BOX - all the things from

Tracy’s shopping trip - in a pile in the living room.

Tanya and Robbie sit with a contrite Tracy. She has

obviously told them everything.

ROBBIE:

You wanna be like dad - in prison!

You got your whole life ahead of

you!

TANYA:

You’re not going to prison.

TRACY:

I can’t live with it

TANYA:

You’re not going to prison.

TRACY:

I can’t live with it, I can’t live

with it. I can’t get her out of my

mind, what she must be going

through, I’d rather be in prison

than deal with this

TANYA:

You’re not going.

Silence, you could hear a pin drop.

TANYA (CONT'D)

And I’m being selfish, because I

love you, but I’m not losing my

husband and my daughter - I can’t

do it, Tracy, I won’t do it.

They all look at one another.

ROBBIE:

So what we gonna do?

Tanya’s mind racing, working out a credible plan of action.

TANYA:

Okay... say we go to the police.

And you tell them you carried

drugs...

(those words stick in her

throat)

- they can’t prove it. You’ve

admitted it, but they can’t prove

it. What they can prove is Jimmy -

supplier, dealer, the middle man

for the whole thing -

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She eyes her daughter.

TANYA (CONT'D)

We go and we tell them about Jimmy Tell

them he forced you, tell them

he forced Viv, tell them this whole

thing was his fault - Robbie?

She looks to her son for his approval of this idea. He

slowly nods his approval

This idea scares Tracy.

TANYA (CONT'D)

So we need to get our story

straight. Robbie - pen and paper.

She goes to fetch them. Tracy and Tanya look at one another.

TRACY:

(of the shopping)

What about this lot?

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