The Debt Page #8

79 INT. KITCHEN. SAFE HOUSE - NIGHT 79

Rachel comes out of the bathroom in her nightclothes, with

her hair wet around her. She looks into the kitchen. David

is sitting smoking. Rachel pauses in the doorway and then

walks in. A small two bar electric fire provides the only

light in the room. Rachel kneels down in front of it to dry

her hair.

David looks at her as Rachel spreads her hair around her

shoulders. She looks very beautiful. She starts to comb her

hair. On impulse, Rachel HOLDS OUT the comb to David.

David takes it. He starts to comb, pulling it slowly

through her hair. Then stops. The atmosphere is suddenly

charged.

DAVID:

It’s a brave thing you’re doing.

RACHEL:

I’m not brave. I’m terrified.

DAVID:

But you’re doing it anyway.

Because you know how important it

is.

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Another stroke and then he stops again, stares at the comb

in his hand.

DAVID:

You’re very brave.

RACHEL:

(Beat)

David...

Rachel turns round and stares at him, overcome with

longing. She leans in to KISS HIM. For a moment David

hesitates, but then it’s as if something inside him closes

and he pulls back from Rachel, his face cold.

Without a word he gets up and walks out. Rachel sits,

crushed...

80 INT. LIVING ROOM. BERLIN SAFE HOUSE - LATER. 80

Rachel, sits at the piano in her robe, picking out notes.

She’s been crying. Stephan stands watching her from the

doorway, holding a drink - something slightly predatory

about him.

He crosses to her, sits down beside her and starts to match

her notes. They work out a nonsense tune between them.

81 INT KITCHEN - CONTINUOUS 81

David listens as they play.

82 INT. LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS 82

Rachel picks up Stephen’s drink and takes a sip.

STEPHAN:

It’s whiskey.

Defiantly Rachel drains the glass, grimaces a little.

Stephan watches her. He continues to play, moving the

melody up in octaves until his hand is beside hers, then

covering hers. Rachel brushes him away. He puts his hand

back and starts to caress her wrist.

STEPHAN (CONT’D)

You’re so beautiful...

He begins to kiss her neck. Rachel stares ahead, pretending

it isn’t happening. Then she gives in, turning to him.

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83 INT. RACHEL’S BEDROOM - MORNING 83

Rachel stands at the mirror, dressing in a DARK SKIRT and

WHITE BLOUSE, trying to control all the emotions she is

feeling.

Behind her Stephan lies in the bed watching her. Neither

speaks.

84 EXT. COURTYARD/STREET - LATE AFTERNOON 84

Rachel and David cross the courtyard to the gate. David

holds it open for Rachel.

As they turn into the street, David takes her hand. Both

stare fixedly ahead, only too aware of what happened the

night before.

85 OMITTED 85

86 INT. EXAMINATION ROOM. LATER 86

Rachel is in the chair for what she knows will - whatever

happens - be the last time.

VOGEL:

Alright, this is my hand. And

this is the speculum.

RACHEL:

Okay.

Vogel begins the exam. From beneath her GOWN Rachel slips a

HYPODERMIC NEEDLE.

VOGEL:

You had intercourse last night?

RACHEL:

(Tight)

Yes.

VOGEL:

Good. You’re at the most fertile

stage of your cycle. This is very

good timing.

He turns to his tray of implements.

VOGEL (CONT’D)

I think we are going to see

results.

(MORE)

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VOGEL (CONT’D)

All you have to do is have faith.

Ask any of my patients.

RACHEL:

What about your patients in

Birkenau...?

Vogel looks up in shock.

Rachel grabs a fistful of his hair and pulls his head to

one side. With her other hand she jams the needle into the

side of his neck, and begins to depress the syringe.

Vogel gives a grunt of surprise, opens his mouth to speak

but no sound comes. He grabs vaguely for Rachel’s throat

with one hand, struggles with the needle with his other,

eyes dull with fury, fighting the drug racing through him.

Rachel fights to hold him, bucking on the chair, pinned

beneath his weight, struggling for breath...

Weakening, VOGEL manages to pull the needle free and it

drops to the floor...

INSERT OF SYRINGE

...which we see still contains some FLUID.

A rope of spittle drools from Vogel’s contorted mouth onto

her face. Then his eyelids flutter and close and he

collapses onto her.

Rachel pulls his hand from her throat, gasps for air.

Finally she pushes him to the ground. She leaps up and

deliberately knocks the tray of medical instruments to the

floor.

RACHEL (CONT’D)

Help!

The Nurse runs in, reacts at the sight of the prone VOGEL.

RACHEL (CONT’D)

He collapsed!

NURSE:

My God! What happened?!

RACHEL:

(overlapping)

I don’t know! I don’t know! He

just clutched his chest and

collapsed!

The Nurse grabs for the phone and dials.

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NURSE:

(into the phone)

I need an ambulance! Karl-Gustav-

Strasse. The clinic. My husband

has had a heart attack.

Rachel reacts to this revelation.

EMERGENCY OPERATOR (O.S.)

(Over phone)

Your name please?

NURSE:

It’s Frau Bernhardt, please,

please hurry!

87 EXT. REAR OF CLINIC - CONTINUOUS 87

Stephan kneels in a recess of the building, by the open

NETWORK JUNCTION BOX of the clinic. He’s wearing

HEADPHONES, alligator-clipped to two cables in the box.

EMERGENCY OPERATOR (O.S.)

(Over phones)

The ambulance is already on the

way, madam.

Stephan un-clips the phones and pockets them. He

straightens up, closes the junction box and walks calmly

away, through a gate in the wall, into the next courtyard.

HIGH SHOT:

As Stephan races up some steps, along a balcony, and into

the building...

88 INT/EXT. APARTMENT BUILDING - CONTINUOUS 88

TRACKING:

with Stephan through the hallway, out of the door and onto

the street....

89 EXT. AMBULANCE DISPATCH - CONTINUOUS 89

An AMBULANCE, sirens wailing, starts out of the dispatch,

and swings onto the street.

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90 EXT. STREET OUTSIDE CLINIC - CONTINUOUS 90

Stephan rounds the corner of the street and walks TOWARDS

THE CLINIC. He checks his watch as he turns into an alley

opposite the entrance.

91 INT. EXAMINATION ROOM. LATE AFTERNOON 91

Rachel finishing dressing, looks anxiously at the nurse as

she crouches by her unconscious husband, monitoring his

breathing.

92 EXT. STREET - CONTINUOUS 92

The AMBULANCE speeds on.

93 EXT. STREET NEAR CLINIC - CONTINUOUS 93

Stephan pulls back some rusty doors.

Parked in the small courtyard beyond is the van we saw

before, now decorated with AMBULANCE DECALS and LIGHTS.

David drives the car forward as Stephan climbs into the

passenger side...

94 INT. EXAMINATION ROOM. LATE AFTERNOON 94

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