Our Girl Page #5

2 Section all look determined. They are all focused as the

helicopter flies towards the fob.

JAMES (CONT'D)

This mission is about hearts and minds.

We want to leave this place in a better

state than we find it. Stay focused.

Stay Alert. Stay alive. The day you are

less than 100 per cent focused is the

day sh*t happens.

The helicopter lands. 2 section are crouched until the helicopter

takes off again and then tap each other to indicate that they

can stand and start to make their way to the fob.

10:
21:36 MUSIC OUT – 1G4

Molly takes in the surroundings as they make their way towards

the fob. She is approached by a young girl. Molly turns to her

and smiles.

MOLLY:

Hello you.

Bashira is looking up at Molly. Molly smiles warmly. James comes

up and hands Bashira a pen.

JAMES:

Hearts and minds, Dawes!

Someone calls out for the little girl.

PERSON (OOV)

Bashira?

2 Section head on towards the compound, Molly looking back and

making eye contact with Bashira who waves. Someone calls out to

Bashira again.

PERSON (OOV)

Bashira?

Smurf catches up with Molly.

SMURF:

You don't wanna be talking to the little

bleeders.

MOLLY:

Eh?

SMURF:

Dickers. Oh they may look sweet and that

when they're little but they all grow

up with one aim... to kill us.

MOLLY:

I think she was just being friendly.

SMURF:

Straight back to tell some insurgent

everything about us. It's their way.

10:
22:08 MUSIC IN – FUEL TO FIRE

Molly looks back at Bashira who has joined a group of people.

2 Section head on into the compound.

10:
22:16 EXT. COMPOUND. CONTINUOUS.

We are introduced to the compound the platoon will be staying

in through Molly's eyes.

James greets the Commanding Officer of the Engineers .

Molly sees a sign on one of the walls in the compound that reads

'Welcome to Hell'.

The rest of 2 Section are larking about, happy to be there.

She watches as the helicopter that brought them there takes off

and leaves.

She sees the tent with the cross symbolising the Med Centre and

heads across towards it.

10:
23:11 INT. MED-CENTRE. COMPOUND.

Molly enters the tent. A stretcher on legs is the 'hospital bed'.

There is a make shift sink and some shelving with various bottles

and equipment on. It is all very minimal.

Molly looks around and we see the enormity of what she has signed

up for.

10:
23:45 EXT. COMPOUND. DAY 5. 05:15

Brains brings a box of bottles of water for them and starts to

hand them out.

BRAINS:

Water boys?

10:
23:48 MUSIC OUT – FUEL TO FIRE

Baz Vegas throws Smurf’s headgear away from him.

SMURF:

Oh, comedy boys.

Smurf laughs and goes to pick it up.

As he looks up he sees an ANA soldier, SOHAIL, walks past.

SMURF:

(to Sohail)

Alright handsome?

Sohail stops and looks at him.

SMURF (CONT'D)

What happened, someone set fire to your

face and beat it out with a golf shoe?

10:
24:03 MUSIC IN – 1G6

Sohail readjusts his gun on his shoulder keeping his eyes on Smurf.

SMURF (CONT'D)

What you gonna do, shoot me?

The two of them are looking at each other angrily before Molly

comes over and moves Smurf away.

MOLLY:

Oi. Oi, what is that all about?

SMURF:

That ten dollar Taliban was giving me

the evils.

MOLLY:

Behave will you. He ain’t Taliban, he’s

one of us.

They head across to where the rest of the boys are and grab a

bottle of water. Sohail keeps watching Smurf as he walks past.

Smurf stares straight back while Molly watches on.

10:
24:33 EXT. COMPOUND.

A shot of the compound from outside the gate then a shot of the

watch tower.

2 Section stand by the gate ready to go out on patrol as Molly

heads over to them.

MANSFIELD MIKE:

Right then boys. First patrol.

Molly looks to her side and sees some of the ANA soldiers at

prayer. We see the anticipation on all of 2 Section’s faces...

nervous energy, but excited.

NUDE-NUT

Alright lads, all those years of

training... it’s about this moment.

BAZ VEGAS:

Yeah. I hope there's contact.

MANSFIELD MIKE:

Come on. Let’s be havin ya... before

the sun gets his hat on.

The others around half nod whilst staying totally focused. A sign

on the front get says ‘Talibanland’ with an arrow pointing ahead.

James approaches the section and Captain Azizi.

JAMES:

Captain Azizi, let's go.

Captain Azizi nods and says something in Pashto to Sohail who

starts to open the gates and they all move forward.

JAMES (OOV)

A magazine of thirty rounds. Load.

They all load their guns.

Molly looks around nervously as they make their way towards the

gate and head out the compound. She looks up to a watch tower

and sees a soldier covering them all with a gun.

10:
25:41 EXT. AFGHANISTAN. CONTINUOUS

We follow Molly as she walks outside the walls of the compound.

We start to hear Molly breath as the tension increases as she

takes her first steps out on patrol. Close on Molly as she looks

around, rifle in her hand.

Captain Azizi and the ANA soldiers spot some people walking on

the road towards them and call out to them in Pashto. The men

hold their arms up.

Molly looks around nervously again, checking the watch tower.

James briefly holds up his gun towards the Afghan men on the road

before lowering it again. The Afghan men lift up their clothes

to show that they are not armed.

We see that Molly is very tense and nervous. Molly suddenly becomes

aware of someone tugging her arm. Startled, she gasps. A moment

of panic before realising it is the small Afghan girl Bashira.

10:
26:31 MUSIC OUT – 1G6

BASHIRA:

Hello girl.

MOLLY:

Hello you.

Molly takes a Bic Biro from her pocket and hands it to Bashira

who looks delighted.

MOLLY:

There you go, little one.

BASHIRA:

You stay?

Molly nods and smiles.

BASHIRA (CONT'D)

Pen. Pen. Pen!

She smiles at Bashira and heads on with the others. She turns

back to Bashira and smiles again before her face turns to worry.

A shot of the exterior of the compound.

10:
26:57 EXT. COMPOUND.

2 Section have returned to the compound. They stand in a circle

around James for a de-brief.

JAMES:

How was that?

NUDE-NUT

Thought there might be a bit

more...action, Sir.

BAZ VEGAS:

Were they watching us d'you reckon,

sir?

JAMES:

Without a doubt Baz, after just one

patrol you have become their ace of

spades, the Taliban's most wanted man

after Prince Harry.

MANSFIELD MIKE:

My mum always tells me I look like Prince

Harry.

There is a general sniggering.

JAMES:

The kids will come up to you, but don't

be distracted. The ones on the bikes

by the trees to the west could have been

dickers. What are they thinking,

Dawes?

MOLLY:

That we're at our most vulnerable.

JAMES:

Why?

MOLLY:

We're finding our feet, we don't know

the terrain.

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