Ordinary Lies Page #4

Season #1 Episode #2

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Ordinary Lies Episode Two Yellow Amendments 17.

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Tracy enters through a different door. She does a quiet

mantra to herself.

TRACY:

Stay calm, keep calm. Stay calm,

keep calm....

Her eyes dart around the huge airport, everything seems

perfectly normal. She approaches the ‘boarding’ screen and

scans it for her flight.

26 INT. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DOMINICAN - DAY 12 - 14.20 26

QUEUES of passengers are lined up at TWO SEPARATE desks.

Tracy is in one queue, Viv in the other.

Though they’ve been told not to, they sneak surreptitious

looks at each other. Both are terrified.

Viv wipes a bead of sweat from her top lip.

The queue inches forward. Jump cut time pass to find Viv at

the front of her queue.

ASSISTANT:

Next please.

Viv goes to the desk, hands over her passport and ticket.

ASSISTANT (CONT'D)

Good holiday?

VIV:

Yes thanks.

Viv watches her like a hawk (as does Tracy) as she taps

information into the computer, tags the bag, all the usual

paraphernalia. Tension, tension. Then she stops.

ASSISTANT:

One moment.

She picks up the telephone, time stands still. What’s she

doing? Who the f*** is she ringing?

She starts speaking - an English/Spanish mix - to someone.

Meanwhile across the way, Tracy is called to the front of her

queue, starts being processed in the usual way.

Both girls are rigid with fear, but acting as casual as they

can manage.

ASSISTANT #2

Passport?

Tracy snaps from her fear and fumbles for her passport, hands

it over for the assistant to inspect.

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Ominously, the assistant looks from the passport photo to

Tracy’s face. Then back again. Tracy posits an ‘it’s me’

smile.

ANGLE - back at Viv’s desk, the assistant places the phone

down. Looks up to Viv.

ASSISTANT:

Customs officer is coming.

VIV:

(terrified)

Customs, why?

ASSISTANT:

Procedure.

She keeps Viv’s passport and tickets. Viv has a wide-eyed

fear. Starts babbling.

VIV:

Look, is there a problem, I mean,

I’m just going home from holiday.

What do customs want me for?

ASSISTANT:

They won’t be a moment.

Tracy glances, almost imperceptibly from her queue. Sees the

problem. Her heart pounding inside her. But she is handed

passport, boarding card etc...

ASSISTANT #2

Gate seven. Enjoy your flight.

TRACY:

Thank-you.

Tracy takes her tickets and makes a hasty exit. Not even

daring to glance as TWO CUSTOMS OFFICERS (blue short sleeved

shirts, shades, strangely official looking) arrive.

Viv rooted to the spot, it’s almost as if she is watching

this out of body, from above herself.

CUSTOMS OFFICER speaks to ASSISTANT and takes Viv’s passport.

Then addresses her.

CUSTOMS:

Follow me, please.

VIV:

Why? Where we going?

CUSTOMS:

Just some questions.

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VIV:

I’m going home. I’ve been on

holiday...

CUSTOMS:

(motions - this way)

Please.

Viv has no choice. The other OFFICER grabs her bag and as

PASSENGERS watch on, she is led away.

ANGLE - Tracy, at a significant distance, watching this.

27 INT. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DOMINICAN - TOILETS - DAY 12 27

-14.45

Tracy slams into a toilet cubicle, literally shaking with

fear. Sweat pouring from her, heart pounding.

TRACY:

No, no, no, no, no, no.

She slides to the floor and stays huddled there.

28 INT. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DOMINICAN - DAY 12 - 15.00 28

Viv is flanked by the CUSTOMS OFFICERS - it’s an unnervingly

long walk - the officers swaggering a little - all the way to

a far door, where she is led into a side room.

Linoleum floor, pale green walls. Sort of room that would

smell of disinfectant and cigarette smoke.

The door closes behind her and all the noisy bustle of the

airport is shut out. Silence.

Then, as the OFFICERS speak to each other in Spanish, a sense

of foreboding fills the room.

Viv glances to one side, there is a GRUBBY PINBOARD. On it

are glossy photographs of various TRAVELLERS AND LOCALS with

small ‘trophies’ of drugs in front of them. They are the

previously captured.

Viv’s heart sinks. Her eyes dart faster than sound.

VIV:

I need to go to the loo.

CUSTOMS:

No, no toilet.

The OFFICERS start unzipping her SUITCASE and removing the

clothes and items without care.

Viv gets a brief window of hope.

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INT. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DOMINICAN - SECURITY -29

DAY 12 - 15.15

Tracy passes through a scanner without incident and heads

towards the gate where the planes are waiting.

She is scared and worried about Viv, but self preservation

has kicked in now. She has to get out of here.

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INT. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - DOMINICAN - CUSTOMS ROOM -30

DAY 12 - 15.30

Viv watches as her bag is inspected. There are now two plain

clothed DEA officers in the room too, along with a duty

lawyer and an airline representative.

Viv becomes aware that a DEA OFFICER is carefully watching

her.

DEA OFFICER:

Shoes off. Shoes!

Viv removes her trainers, she reluctantly hands them to the

officer, who feels and presses at them. The uniformed customs

police leave the room.

Viv is daring to think she might get away with this. There’s

more animated conversation between the officers. Then...

DEA OFFICER (CONT’D)

This way.

The officer leads Viv into an adjoining room, where she comes

face to face with what looks like a HOSPITAL SCREEN.

VIV:

What’s this? What am I doing?

DEA OFFICER:

X-ray, X-ray.

Viv freaks.

VIV:

Look, I shouldn’t even be here.

What about my plane. I should be

on my plane, I’m being picked up, I

need to get back home...

They manhandle her towards the machine.

VIV (CONT'D)

You can’t do this to me.

(then, in sheer

desperation)

I’m English.

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31 INT. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - PLANE - DAY 12 -17.10 31

Boarding. Tracy boards the plane as SMILING AIR HOSTESS

welcomes her and directs her to her seat.

32 INT. AEROPLANE - DAY 12 - 17.35 32

Tracy sitting at a window seat. She stares out at the

terminal. The pilot/captain is doing his taxi-ing speech.

It’s an oasis of calm as people settle into what’s going to

be a long flight. We stay with Tracy, and all the emotions

flying through her...

The PASSENGER next to her, older woman, talks to her.

PASSENGER:

It’s raining at home. If it wasn’t

for me cats I’d emigrate.

Tracy has no desire/energy/nerve to communicate, she makes a

half-hearted gesture then returns to staring out.

33 INT. JS MOTORS - SALES OFFICE AREA - DAY 13 - 09.00 33

Fat Jason is in his sales office with a mum, dad and their

young son buying his first car. He really wants that car.

But it’s negotiation time and things are getting tense.

DAD:

I can’t go over five grand, I just

can’t

THE SON:

Dad

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