Our Girl Page #2

James is trying his best to pack his wounds.

MANSFIELD:

(in shock)

Am I bleeding out, boss?

JAMES:

You're a bleeding nuisance. Keep still.

MANSFIELD:

Don't let me die out here, boss.

JAMES:

Don't worry about that, we'll get you back to Mansfield to

die.

MANSFIELD:

Language 10:
03:30 It's Derby, you knobhead

JAMES:

Dangles on me, we need to get him back in the truck.

We're evacuating!

(shouting back to Osman)

Medevac from base now. You'll be right soldier

Mansfield is groaning with the pain, eyes starting to roll into his head.

IN:
10:03:45 INT/EXT. SMALL CELL. AL SHABAAB SAFEHOUSE. DAY

A hooded Georgie is alone and terrified in a small cell. She is hanging by her arms with the hood

over her head.

The door opens and a somewhat frantic Zeki comes in. He is masked but we can tell it's him. He

pulls off Georgie's hood before turning and shouting something in Somali to a gunman in the

safehouse.

ZEKI (CONT'D)

(almost pulling Georgie up and out of the

cell)

Come. Come. Now.

GEORGIE:

Where?

ZEKI:

You speak English?

Georgie is desperately thinking on her feet.

GEORGIE:

I am English.

ZEKI:

English?

IN:
10:04:06 EXT. AL SHABAAB SAFEHOUSE. COMPOUND DAY

Zeki, tightly gripping Georgie's arm, leads her out of the cell and across the compound.

ZEKI:

Doctor from ambulance.

GEORGIE:

Sort of.

ZEKI:

Sort of?

GEORGIE:

Paramedic.

ZEKI:

They said you were a doctor.

GEORGIE:

(fudging)

No I am a doctor... paramedic doctor.

He removes the hood.

ZEKI:

(he nods)

You make him better or we kill you.

He pushes her into a building.

Music ‘2OG2’ out: 10:04:30

IN:
10:04:30 INT. BUILDING. AL SHABAAB SAFEHOUSE. DAY

A shot Al Shabaab man, injured a few weeks previous, is lying on a make shift bed. He has gun

shot wounds. Abu is sitting beside him.

Other masked Al Shabaab are fanned out around the building.

Georgie tries to take in her surrounds. Zeki points to the shot captor.

GEORGIE:

I haven't got any medicines... or even basic medical

equipment.

ABU:

Do what you can.

GEORGIE:

(checking the patients vital signs as he

winces)

Right I need morphine and I need antibiotics. If we're

across the border I know where we can get some.

ABU:

Keep your eyes away, off of him!

The shot captor shouts, clearly in agony. Georgie examines the wound.

GEORGIE:

Right he's lost a lot of blood.

As she tries to dress the wound the man screams and writhes in agony.

GEORGIE (CONT'D)

We need to get him to a hospital! His wound is already

infected. Are we, are we across the border or are we in

Kenya?

Music ‘2OG2a’ in: 10:04:52

Abu steps forward and suddenly grabs Georgie viciously by the hair.

ABU:

You don't ask us questions. Just do your job!

Such is his venom Georgie is startled and very anxious about her safety. She makes the

tourniquet tighter above the wound.

IN:
10:05:10 INT. SMALL CELL. AL SHABAAB SAFEHOUSE. DAY

Zeki is chaining Georgie that necessitates Georgie keeping her arms raised, and uncomfortable.

GEORGIE:

Let me know if there are any changes with his breathing.

Zeki looks at her, puzzled.

GEORGIE (CONT'D)

That's why I'm here.

He looks at her, and half shakes his head, not understanding.

GEORGIE (CONT'D)

I'm here to help people. I'm helping set out outreach

clinics... for people who are too ill to go to the hospital.

She tries to make eye contact with Zeki.

GEORGIE (CONT'D)

Are we across the border?

ZEKI:

Silence.

She half nods.

GEORGIE:

What's going to happen to me now?

He mimes her being shot before replacing the hood and goes. Georgie is left alone.

IN:
10:05:52 EXT. TEMPORARY BRITISH ARMY BASE/MEDEVAC HELICOPTER. DAY

A medevac helicopter lands. Fingers, Brains, Monk and Dangles are desperately ferrying

Mansfield on a stretcher towards them.

Music ‘2OG2a’ out: 10:06:03

FINGERS:

You're gonna be alright now, Mansfield.

James and Osman alongside with Mansfield, James holding the drip.

MANSFIELD:

(weak and groggy)

Where's Georgie?

JAMES:

(almost addressing all the guys)

We're gonna find her and get her back. Let's go. After

Three, One, Two. Three lift... Alright boys?!

Music ‘2OG3’ in: 10:06:33

They arrive at the medevac helicopter and the paramedics and doctors on board the helicopter,

take over. Mansfield is now clearly out of it.

The boys retreat as the helicopter takes off.

IN:
10:06:37 INT. SMALL CELL. AL SHABAAB SAFEHOUSE. DAY

Georgie, still chained, is trying to raise her hood by jerking her head and with her teeth and

tongue lift the bottom of the hood sufficient to be able to glimpse under it. It is a tiring and

frustrating exercise for her. We see her with her feet trying to write something in the dust.

Later Zeki looks in and sees an exhausted Georgie, chained, head drooped with fatigue. Zeki

looks around, clearly hesitating.

After a beat he steps in to the cell and takes off Georgie's hood. She looks at him, clearly

nervous.

GEORGIE:

(quietly)

Thank you.

Zeki nods.

GEORGIE (CONT'D)

(whispers)

I couldn't breathe with it on.

Zeki rolls up the hood a little.

ZEKI:

I can roll it. So your mouth is free.

GEORGIE:

Thank you.

He looks at her. A moment.

ZEKI:

But I must put it back on.

GEORGIE:

What's your name?

ZEKI:

(nervously looking around)

Zeki.

GEORGIE:

When all this is over... I will remember you Zeki.

He half nods and somewhat apologetically replaces the hood.

GEORGIE (CONT'D)

(under the hood)

It's okay... I understand. Zeki

IN:
10:08:19 EXT. COMPOUND. AL SHABAAB SAFEHOUSE. DAY

We see the Al Shabaab men sitting around. Zeki and Abu are sitting together eating.

Music ‘2OG3’ out: 10:08:21

ZEKI:

What will we do to her?

Zeki shakes his head as if he can't say it but the implication in Gaani is ruthless.

ABU:

White woman hostage. She's valuable.

ZEKI:

I don't understand.. Valuable?

ABU:

No, not to us... non believers are worth nothing. But to

the world... they take notice. Cos we have a Brit. That's

how the world notices us.

ZEKI:

We want the world to notice us?

ABU:

Do you want change.

Zeki nods, understanding.

ABU (CONT'D)

There's a lot of injustice in this world, Zeki. Unless we

fight back then Muslim people they're gonna be crushed

underfoot.

Zeki looks at Abu with admiration.

ABU (CONT'D)

People like you and me... mustn't let that to happen.

ZEKI:

I understand that.

ABU:

So we have to show the world that we are powerful and

won't be crushed.

ZEKI:

I want to be like you, Abu.

Abu looks at Zeki and smiles.

ZEKI (CONT'D)

You're brave and you know how to make the world

listen.

ABU:

That's why that one white hostage yeah it should put us

on the front page. They can kill thousands of our women

and children... nothing. But one white woman! How fair is

that?

ZEKI:

It isn't fair. It isn't right.

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