Ordinary Lies Page #8

Season #1 Episode #2

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ZIGGY:

How can they be hiring that out in

Ibiza?

On Tracy, sh*t, sh*t, sh*t...

AMELIE:

(playful, trying to be all

fun to impress Ziggy)

Are you sure you didn’t secretly

fly off to the Caribbean

They laugh. This is starting to unravel.

On Tracy...

TRACY:

Why don’t you just put your hand

down his pants Amelie, it’d be more

subtle. Men like a bit of a

challenge you know -

AMELIE:

What you on about

TRACY:

You think he’s gonna respect you if

you’re throwing yourself at him,

you’re acting like a school girl -

GRACE:

Tracy

TRACY:

‘Oh Ziggy, oh Ziggy, you’re so

gorgeous and funny - please come

home and shag me senseless Ziggy’ -

mwww, mwww, mwwww

She does kissing motions.

AMELIE:

(really upset -)

She’s talking sh*t, that wasn’t

what I was doing

ZIGGY:

It’s okay

TRACY:

(stand up, making real

scene now -)

(MORE)

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TRACY (CONT'D)

So why don’t we get this out in the

open once and for all - Ziggy, do

you or do you not want to sleep

with Amelie

AMELIE:

(flees the room)

You total b*tch!

She tears away and all eyes fall on Tracy.

PARACETAMOL PETE

You’re out of order Tracy

But Tracy’s eyes glance down at the now discarded and

forgotten photos on Amelie’s phone.

TRACY:

What’s up, can’t she take a joke?

54 INT. TRACY’S HOUSE - TRACY’S BEDROOM - NIGHT 14 - 23.45 54

Tracy lying in bed, sleep won’t come.

55 INT. TRACY’S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 14 - 01.30 55

Tracy lying on the sofa, staring at NEWS 24, she obsessively

checks the red button News headlines. Still nothing.

56 INT. TRACY’S HOUSE - LIVING ROOM - DAY 15 - 07.00 56

Morning. Tracy jerks awake as she hears voices. News 24

still on, she stares at the screen (sound muted) - Breaking

News. And an image of a foreign location.

Her heart pounds - is this it?

She grabs the remote but she can hear her mum coming down the

stairs. As she hits the sound (’a young woman found dead on

a beach in Thailand’) she realises it isn’t a Viv story.

She zaps the news off as her mum enters.

TRACY:

Morning.

TANYA:

How long have you been up?

57 INT. JS MOTORS - RECEPTION/SHOWROOM - DAY 15 - 08.10 57

Tracy arrives at work (most workers are already there inc

Kathy who we see walking around), Amelie already there.

Amelie greets her arrival with contempt. Word has obviously

got around the office as people are looking her way

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TRACY:

(begrudgingly offers)

Sorry -

Amelie acknowledges that.

TRACY (CONT'D)

So, did you shag him?

58 EXT. JS MOTORS - FORECOURT - DAY 15 - 10.30 58

Tracy walking the customers across the forecourt to where

Marty is working, but she is in a daze. Ziggy and Rick are

busy working on the cars.

FLASH CUSTOMER:

I’ve always driven statement cars

me, top end - Audi’s, Beamers...

they send a message don’t they,

people see you in a nice motor they

think you’re doing well... people

see you/ driving a Micra, what they

gonna think, I’ll tell you what

they’ll think - loser.

At / Tracy sees a CAR arriving and to her horror she realises

that in it are Viv’s parents, JANICE and JOHN - and then,

even worse, in the back seat, is her mother Tanya.

Tracy stops dead heart pounding, sick to her stomach, we hold

on Tracy’s face. The customers swap looks.

TRACY:

Your salesman’s over there.

She turns and runs away.

59 INT. JS MOTORS - SERVICE AREA - DAY 15 - 10.31 59

Tracy dashes past the mechanics area, which catches eyes.

Her urgency. People wondering what’s wrong.

JEZ:

You alright, Trace?

TRACY:

Tell Mike I’m sick.

And to be fair she looks sick. She dodges out through their

back door, gone. Jez, Rick and Ziggy swap looks.

60 EXT. BEHIND JS MOTORS/FIELDS - DAY 15 - 10.32 60

Tracy running across the fields at the back of JS Motors,

knowing this is absurd but needing to escape.

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Running, running, running...

When her mobile phone starts to ring. She looks at the

display:
MUM.

She slows to a walk. Then stops. What should she do? She

stands motionless in the middle of the field...

61 INT. JS MOTORS - MIKE’S OFFICE - DAY 15 - 11.30 61

Crash straight in - high energy, intense. Office full of

people - Tracy, Mike, Beth, Tanya, Janice and John.

JOHN:

(barely controlling his

anger)

Who paid for it?

TRACY:

I don’t know

JOHN:

She’s lying

TRACY:

I’m not.

JOHN:

My daughter’s in a foreign prison.

Answer the bloody question. Who

paid for it?

TRACY:

I don’t know

JOHN:

(yells)

What do you mean you don’t know?

MIKE:

John, please

JOHN:

You told everyone you were going to

Ibiza. Why? Why would you do that

if you were going to the Dominican!

TRACY:

We were scared people would ask how

we were affording it

JOHN:

And how were you -you didn’t pay

for it out of reception wages.

All eyes on Tracy.

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TANYA:

You’ve gotta tell us darling

Her mind racing.

TRACY:

It was Viv’s boyfriend.

JANICE:

Which boyfriend?

TRACY:

I don’t know.

JOHN:

(furious)

Have you any idea how serious this

is. Which boyfriend?

TRACY:

He’s called Jimmy.

Tanya registering that.

JOHN:

Jimmy?

JANICE:

Never heard of him.

JOHN:

Jimmy who?

TRACY:

I don’t know, just Jimmy.

JANICE:

Where does he live?

TRACY:

I don’t know.

JOHN:

Jesus Christ - someone pays for a

holiday, thousands of pounds and

you don’t even know who it is

TRACY:

(attack best form of

defense)

He’s loaded. I thought he was

treating us. Viv was going on and

on about how we hadn’t had a

holiday and he just... offered. It

didn’t seem that weird

They despair.

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JOHN:

This doesn’t make sense. None of

this makes any bloody sense

MIKE:

(pissed off)

No, it doesn’t - and the last thing

I need is a scandal on my doorstep.

Beth takes over, more conciliatory.

BETH:

Tracy, you told Mike Viv was sick,

you told John she’d met a lad; she

wasn’t on the plane with you - you

see how this is looking -

All eyes on Tracy - accusatory.

TRACY:

She said she wanted to stay a few

days - we argued about it - but she

was adamant, so I left her. I

didn’t know she was gonna do this -

who smuggles coke, it’s crazy... no

wonder she wanted me out of the

way... either that or she was

forced, maybe the guy forced her...

I don’t know...

JANICE:

(heart breaking -)

Why would she carry drugs for him?

She wouldn’t do that.

TRACY:

...money.

JANICE:

(in utter despair)

What kind of money’s worth risking

your life for?

TRACY:

I don’t know!

ANGLE - Kathy on the other side of the door trying to hear as

much as she can and simply not believing her ears.

MIKE:

Tracy, you need to be honest with

us, did Viv mention anything to you

about this, anything at all, it’s

vital you tell us the truth

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