Our Girl Page #3

COLE:

Oh yeah.

GEORGIE:

Hum!

COLE:

Well the sclera of your eyes are as white as virgin snow.

GEORGIE:

I can't. I'm sorry.

Georgie looks at him for a moment before bursting out laughing.

COLE:

Wait! Oh come on, you see, I try to be romantic and you

just throw it back in my face!

GEORGIE:

Everything is just medical with you.

COLE:

Yeah and military with you, young lady!

They kiss again, clearly in love. Cole laughs.

GEORGIE:

It's six weeks. Okay. You're happy for me to go Kenya?

COLE:

What have they got in Kenya they don't have in Preston?

All right don't answer that.

GEORGIE:

And once we're married I won't be doing any more tours

away.

COLE:

Maybe, maybe we should set a date. To get married.

GEORGIE:

Look I do want to marry yer... I do, it's just, it's just all the

shiz that goes with it.

COLE:

What shiz?

GEORGIE:

Everything!

COLE:

Yeah but I thought after Sierra Leone you were going to

stay based in the UK.

Music ‘1G07’ in: 10:15:12

GEORGIE:

Yes and I will be. You won't even know I'm gone. Yeah.

Yeah...

IN:
10:15:19 INT. GEORGIE'S BEDROOM. LANE'S HOUSE. DAY

Georgie in uniform is packing her kit. Marie, still in her pyjamas, sits on the bed watching her.

Music ‘1G07’ out: 10:15:27

MARIE:

Language 10:
15:29 I know I'm not exactly Sigmund Freud or anything like

that, but... It's pretty clear to me you are refusing to set a

date for the wedding cos you're shitting yourself Jamie's

gonna do an Elvis.

GEORGIE:

(laughing)

What's doing an, an Elvis?

MARIE:

Forgetting to turn up! Jamie's not gonna do that Georgie,

he dotes on you.

Marie studies Georgie as she continues to pack.

MARIE (CONT'D)

So if you are gonna run off and abandon him, can you

please let me know first because I'll be all over that boy.

GEORGIE:

(laughs)

Alright. I'll give you first dibs.

(emphatically)

Anyway I'm not running away, Marie.

MARIE:

Language 10:
15:53/54 You can't bullshit a bullshitter, Georgie. I know exactly

what's going on here okay. I did GCSE psychology don't

forget.

GEORGIE:

Yeah and you failed it.

MARIE:

So then why haven't you told Jamie about Elvis?

GEORGIE:

Language 10:
16:05 Look do you mind buggering off so I can concentrate on

packing my kit please?

MARIE:

Oh... Back of the net!

GEORGIE:

What?

MARIE:

(victorious)

You are running away and you haven't told him about

Elvis.

GEORGIE:

Language:
10:16:14 I don't give a toss about Elvis. I ain't thought about him in

years so…

MARIE:

(sarcastic)

Oh really.

GEORGIE:

Yeah it's a six week Humanitarian tour in Kenya, Marie,

right. And once we're back gonna set a date for the

wedding!

MARIE:

Okay and that's when you're gonna tell him about Elvis,

yeah?

GEORGIE:

Well do you tell all your boyfriends about your previous

relationships? No!

MARIE:

And I didn't fail... I got a 'D'!

Marie smiles and skips out, as if victorious.

GEORGIE:

Yeah for demented!

IN:
10:16:39 INT. KITCHEN. LANE'S HOUSE. DAY

Cole is in the kitchen with Grace and Max as Georgie comes in. She throws herself into Cole's

arms.

MAX:

What in to Nairobi?

COLE:

Yeah, and then err…

MAX:

So how many hours drive?

COLE:

About six seven

MAX:

Language 10:
16:43 I bet… Bloody hell…

COLE:

Ohhhh. I love a woman in uniform! Come here.

They laugh and kiss. We see her dad is watching them.

MAX:

You used to love me that much, mother.

GRACE:

In your dreams!

COLE:

You look gorgeous!

GEORGIE:

No I do not!

COLE:

You look gorgeous!

They kiss.

GEORGIE:

Thank you…

Music ‘1G08’ in: 10:17:00

IN:
10:17:00 EXT. NAIROBI, KENYA. DAY

Establisher

10:
17:02 On screen text: Nairobi, Kenya.

IN:
10:17:05 EXT. ARMY BARRACKS. KENYA. DAY

Soldiers on exercise, with their guns. The trucks swing inside the barracks. Georgie is sitting in

the back of the open sided truck alongside Fingers, Dangles, Mansfield, Brains and Monk. King

and James are in the front with the Kenyan Army driver.

IN:
10:17:33 INT. ARMY BARRACKS. COMMS ROOM. DAY

The platoon have gathered for a briefing. Captain James stands up top with Kenyan Army officer,

Captain Osman.

There is a large map on the wall that the officers refer to. We see Georgie standing with 2 section

as she studies the map.

Music ‘1G08’ out: 10:17:37

JAMES:

Right guys, we're just gonna update you on our current

situation and give you your missions and tasks. We're

gonna be heading towards the Somali border, here.

We'll be imbedded with Kenyan Army under the

command of Captain Osman, who was, incidentally, at

Sandhurst with me.

Captain Osman half nods.

OSMAN:

Firstly welcome. I'm looking forward to working with you

over the next few weeks.

JAMES:

We're going to be working closely with the Kenyan

N.G.O. Kenya Crisis Care.

OSMAN:

They are working here at the large refugee camp... a

breeding ground for Al Shabaab, many NGO's have

been killed, many more have fled leaving the camp very

unstable.

JAMES:

Primarily, we'll be tasked with supporting the Kenyan

Army in restoring order and assisting the Kenya Crisis

Care with delivering medical services to the tens of

thousands of inhabitants.

OSMAN:

The insurgence have a ready supply of weapons from

across the Somalia border and they are proficient at

making I.E.D's.

We see the faces on the guys and of course Georgie change. What they thought was going to be

a relatively straight forward mission is clearly far more complicated than they imagined as they

look at a range of IED’S on display.

JAMES:

We need to stay focused, stay alert and stay alive.

OSMAN:

This is effectively a war zone.

JAMES:

Therefore whilst our mission is primarily humanitarian,

we need to protect ourselves.

OSMAN:

The situation on the Somali border is anything but

straight forward. When the Brits drew the border

between the countries, they did it with a straight line...

which has resulted in a displacement of many ethnic

Somalis... generally inside the camps here they are

hostile to the military.

JAMES:

Their men with guns hate our men with guns.

OSMAN:

Pretty much. But also the NGO's needing to remain

impartial so they can function within the camps... Can

not be seen as taking sides with us...

JAMES:

Albeit we're there to help them.

OSMAN:

We don't want to add to the confusion within the camp...

we are there to help... then we will withdraw to a military

base three miles outside of the camp.

JAMES:

That's where we'll be based and we'll move into the

camp for specific purpose.

Any questions thus far?

ALL:

No boss. No Boss. No Boss.

There is a general muttering of 'no boss', as they try to grasp the enormity of the situation.

JAMES:

Right guy's, get you're heads down tonight! Breakfast

zero five thirty. Then we move out at zero six hundred.

ALL:

Sir.

IN:
10:19:37 EXT. ARMY BARRACKS. DAWN

Several large army trucks are being loaded by 2 section and the rest of the platoon, along with

Kenyan Army.

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