Ordinary Lies Page #10

Season #2 Episode #1

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BELINDA:

No. But I wanted to

Hold the look between them.

JOE:

And I wanted to kill Marlon

Fielding, for what he did to my

daughter. But I didn’t... I

didn’t...

Joe is gonna cry, he can’t stand it. Turns to leave the room

but as he does so, they hear a noise - the front door.

It’s Finn, coming home from college.

JOE (CONT’D)

...Finn.

(sudden panic)

(MORE)

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JOE (CONT’D)

- don’t show, please, you can’t

show him - they can’t know I’ve

done this -

Belinda slams the laptop closed. Relief from Joe. She

removes the small camera, pockets it. As we hear

FINN:

Hey - who’s home?

Hold on Belinda’s face.

JOE:

Both.

FINN:

Slackers. Make us a brew.

He heads for the stairs but suddenly Belinda pings from her

seat and marches past Joe...

JOE:

Belinda, Bell

She marches straight to the stairs and grabs Finn as he

starts his ascent...

BELINDA:

You stupid boy

She slams him against the wall.

FINN:

Mum

BELINDA:

(slamming hard)

You stupid, stupid boy

But the slamming turns into hugging, she holds him tight,

embracing him as you would a small child.

FINN:

What is it?

He looks to Joe.

JOE:

We know about Hayley

Finn’s confused...

BELINDA:

Tell me you haven’t had sex. TELL

ME. Tell me Finn

FINN:

We haven’t, I promise.

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BELINDA:

She’s thirteen years old - do you

know what that means - you could go

to jail...

FINN:

Jail

BELINDA:

It’s statutory rape -

On Finn.

BELINDA (CONT’D)

(in tears now)

Finn, Finn look at me - You know

what happened to Zoe... you’re old

enough - you know what she went

through with

Can’t say it.

FINN:

I’m not like that -

Horrified...

FINN (CONT’D)

Mum, that’s totally - I just like

her... I’m not like that...

BELINDA:

(holding his face in her

hands)

I know you’re not, I know that

angel, but if it went to court, if

the police got involved... it’s

illegal... they could charge you -

put you on the register...

Finn truly scared now...

FINN:

I’m sorry - I’m sorry...

BELINDA:

You don’t see her anymore... okay,

you can’t see her Finn...

Finn nodding, truly scared...

FINN:

I’m sorry...

We hold on Joe, what a mess their lives have become... he

watches his wife and son sobbing and holding each other.

He walks out.

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90

INT. BAR - DAY 8. 16.00 90

PINT of LAGER sits on the counter. Joe stares at it. Hold

and hold and hold... go into his mind, into his thoughts, so

much anger, so much pain and frustration... that he couldn’t

kill the bastard that caused all this... he looks at that

pint... and then... in one swift continuous series of gulps,

he downs the lot. He goes, with determination.

Where is he going, what is he going to do?

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EXT. SCHOOL - DAY 8 16.30 92

Music over...

Joe runs towards the school, anxiously searching for someone.

Astro turf playing field. On Joe waiting, watching young

girls take part in a football lesson, young girls who play

with a lightness and innocence... we see a teacher... we

might think it has something to do with the teacher... but...

We’d be wrong...

As the game ends... his daughter, Zoe, appears,

surprised/confused to see him.

ZOE:

Dad...

He motions her over.

As she approaches, Joe pulls her into a tight embrace.

ZOE (CONT’D)

Dad...

JOE:

If anyone ever hurts you again...

He’ll kill them.

He just holds her, tight. His precious daughter.

93

INT. COOPERS. CALL CENTRE - DAY 8 16.50 93

Ally goes to Ash’s work station. Perches, speaks sotto

ALLY:

Look... if it’s the divorce thing

that wasn’t my fault... I know I’m

a bit older than you but I think if

we went on a date, nice meal say

and got to know one an

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ASH:

(gets up)

Follow me.

He goes. She follows.

94 EXT. COOPERS. FIRE EXIT - DAY 8 16.52 94

Fire exit. Ash heads out onto the fire exit. He takes

Ally’s hand and leads her to the edge where there’s a kind of

fence/barrier...

Ash climbs up, dangerously so.

ALLY:

Ash

ASH:

Climb up

ALLY:

No chance

ASH:

Climb up.

She does. It’s scary. He takes her hand and makes her step

even higher. This is actually really dangerous.

ASH (CONT’D)

Look down.

She does, she’s shitting herself.

ALLY:

Ash, Jesus.

ASH:

Look down -

(she does)

Now imagine an internal voice

shouting ‘jump, jump, JUMP’.

Terrified, she lets go of his hand and grabs for safety.

Climbs down. Ash looks at her.

ASH (CONT’D)

That’s how it feels to be me

He jumps down, goes. We stay on Ally...

95 INT. COOPERS. CALL CENTRE - DAY 8 17.05 95

Ash walks back through... as Joe heads in... big genuine

smile for his team - perhaps reached catharsis...

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JOE:

Shakespeare walks into a pub in Ye

Olde England, the barman looks and

shouts - ‘get out Shakespeare -

your Bard’.

...as he tells the joke and heads to his desk, we sweep

across to..

95A

INT. COOPERS. JENNA’S OFFICE - DAY 8 17.06 95A

And find JENNA, going through her mail...

...and she’s surprised to find A LETTER with a HM PRISON

SERVICE stamp in the top left hand corner...

On Jenna. Her heart stops. For the first time this episode

her cool business-like exterior is ruffled...

Eyes dart across the office.

She cautiously opens it.

Produces a letter from inside. Reads the contents.

And whatever it says and whoever it is from shakes her

world... we hold on her face, ashen, shocked.

Hard cut to black.

END OF EPISODE:

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