Ordinary Lies Page #4

Season #2 Episode #1

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talking right up into someone’s face/personal space.

Ordinary Lies 2 Episode 1 Pink Amends 18.

ALLY (CONT’D)

(takes Ash’s hand)

Come on, tell me all about yourself

-where were you working before...

ANGLE - JOE with some of the gang - Caz and Fletch, Ray

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Finch, Holly, Neil (from the warehouse, Holly’s boyfriend)...

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another SALES REP Jag Rawlinson...

RAY:

(of Ally)

Not a great advert for marriage is

she, nine months - I’ve been on

speed dates that have lasted longer

than that

JOE:

I know, do you think I can ask for

my present back -

CAZ:

(glances around to check

Ally isn’t listening)

Turns out he was into prostitutes.

Three a week sometimes

HOLLY:

Really -

NEIL:

(laughing)

-that must have got costly.

Holly nudges him and we see that they are dating, less

overtly coupley than Caz and Fletch but clearly together.

CAZ:

She reckons he was a sex addict.

Couldn’t keep it in his pants.

HOLLY:

Suppose we don’t really know anyone

do we - as well as we think

On Joe...

CAZ:

Nah. You could tell he was weird,

he had a monobrow... You have to

just choose a good one -

She smiles across at Fletch. Ray pretends to puke.

FLETCH:

Piss off

On Joe.

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JOE:

How did she find out - Ally - abouthis prossie habit?

CAZ:

His internet history -

RAY:

School boy error CAZ

No - nothing incriminating, theopposite, everytime she checked,

he’d cleared it - every singletime. Empty HOLLY

Now that’s weird KARL

(finally speaks)

You know what they say - if itlooks like a duck and quacks like aduck, its probably your partnershagging someone else.

On Joe.

27 INT. COOPERS. JOE’S DESK - NIGHT 3 20.10 27

Joe back in the office, everyone else has gone now. Laptopopen. He’s watching his home through the CCTV live feed.

Nothing. He decides to look at earlier footage and fast

forwards through the day...

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Nothing, nothing... Joe presses fast forward and we whizzthrough hours and hours of nothingness... until... his familygetting up... the morning ritual....

He slows the speed and watches his daughter for a moment,

laid on the couch, watching TV. She laughs at something andhe focuses on her beautiful laughing face... he fast forwardsonce more and then... someone enters the house... with

cleaning gear, mop, bucket etc...

We watch as the cleaner starts her work. Fast forward. And

then... she disappears, reappearing with a brew, hand fullof biscuits... she zaps the TV on, sits down...

On Joe.

JOE:

I knew it. Lazy cow.

28 OMITTED 28

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29 EXT. STREETS - NIGHT 3 22.41 29

Ally leads Ash by the hand, they’re both drunk... they head

off the main street, down a back alley, to somewhere

concealed... and suddenly... they are on each other...

Kissing hard... and then, without ceremony, it’s straight to

a street f*** - knickers down, pants down, against the wall.

Exhilarating.

30 EXT. STREET. TAXI RANK - NIGHT 3 23.25 30

Ally and Ash walk to a taxi rank. Ally delighted with her

conquest, cuddles his arm. Ash stares ahead.

ALLY:

Thanks for being my first shag as a

free woman

ASH:

Pleasure.

ALLY:

You will talk to me tomorrow won’t

you, you’re not one of THOSE guys.

ASH:

Course.

Silence.

ALLY:

Can’t believe you used to be a

footballer. That’s brilliant.

ASH:

Yeah, well... it’s in the past.

ALLY:

Still awesome.

(sudden thought, getting

her phone out)

Hey, if I Google you, can I find

you in your kit

ASH:

(he stops her)

Ally...

He has a serious face now.

ASH (CONT’D)

I only told you ‘cause it’s the

most interesting thing about me.

‘Cause now I’m craP...boring.

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He stares away again. Hold on him, there’s something wrong

with this guy...

31 INT. JOE’S HOUSE. LIVING ROOM - DAY 4 06.00 31

Joe asleep on the couch. He wakes up, it’s the early hours.

TV still blaring away... Joe sighs.

JOE (V.O.)

I struggle to let go of things...

thoughts go round and round my head

like a hamster wheel...

32 INT. AA MEETING - DAY 4 07.45 32

Joe at his early morning AA meeting. Others sit in a circle.

JOE:

...it’s to do with anger, I know

it’s to do with anger, at what

happened... powerlessness...

He looks around the group.

JOE (CONT’D)

-betrayal... by someone I

trusted... and sometimes I’d love

to wash it all away... pick up a

bottle and swill all these thoughts

straight out of my mind...

33 INT. COOPERS. CALL CENTRE - DAY 4 09.30 33

Joe giving one of his presentations to his staff - Karl and

Ally are here. Upbeat, funny. He presses a clicker in his

hand. A quote scrolls on screen.

JOE:

Try not. Do. Or do not. There is no

try. Which great philosopher said

that?

No one knows. Joe smiles, clicks again and YODA appears.

JOE (CONT’D)

Yoda. Empire Strikes Back.

They laugh.

JOE (CONT’D)

(Yoda voice)

Help you sell sportswear I will.

Through the glass we see Ray Finch sneaking in...

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34 INT. COOPERS. TOILET CUBICLE - DAY 4 10.30 34

Joe in a toilet cubicle. Laptop on his knee. Watching thefootage... fast forward... he finds himself asleep on thecouch... fast forward... and then...

His son appears. He slows the action.

It’s the early hours of the morning. His son sees his dad

asleep on the couch and shakes his head... he does a

‘wanker’ sign to his sleeping dad’s face and then laughs tohimself...

On Joe. Little sh*t!

He then switches camera view to the kitchen, where his son

opens the back door and produces what is clearly a SPLIFF,

and starts smoking it out of the back door.

On Joe.

35 OMITTED 35 *

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INT. COOPERS. JOE’S DESK - DAY 4 11.00 36

Joe at his desk... CCTV on fast forward and it’s just hours

and hours of nothing... boring, boring...

And then suddenly... middle of the day...

HIS WIFE RETURNS HOME. In her nurse uniform. And then...

coming in with her is... ANOTHER WOMAN.

From Joe’s face he doesn’t recognise her.

They engage in some small talk, his wife offering the other

woman a cup of tea or whatever, some laughter...

HOLLY:

Joe.

Holly appears beside him, he instinctively SLAMS DOWN the lid

of the laptop. And in doing so, makes himself look guilty.

Holly clearly thinking that is weird.

On Joe, did she see?

HOLLY (CONT’D)

...the disciplinary - Jenna and the

others are already in there.

JOE:

Right, on my way.

And he stands. There’s an awkward moment. He can’t take the

laptop as that would be too weird. But she doesn’t go either.

So he heads away. Giving a backward glance as he leaves

Holly next to his desk and his secret life... f***, f***...

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INT. COOPERS. JENNA’S OFFICE. CALL CENTRE - DAY 4 11.05 37

Disciplinary. Ray sits with Karl, Jenna is here. Joe enters.

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JOE:

Sorry, I’m late.

(of Karl)

What’s he doing here?

RAY:

I’m allowed to have a

representative, I read up online

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