The Missing Page #12

JULIEN JULIEN:

(French)Il y'a quatre ans vous avez

Four years ago you brought d.pos. cette .charpe dans une

this scarf to a charity boutique de seconde main.

shop...

Vivienne has been looking at Tony. Trying to place him. And

now, finally, she turns to Julien

VIVIENNE VIVIENNE

(French)Je le reconnais.

I recognise him.

TONY:

What’s she saying?

JULIEN:

She remembers you.

Tony looks back at Vivienne. He’s grown used to this look -

the pity, the embarrassment at being so close to this kind

of tragedy. He points at the picture.

TONY:

The scarf. Do you recognise it?

Vivienne shakes her head.

VIVIENNE VIVIENNE

(French)D.sol.e.

I am sorry.

Tony looks deflated - all his excitement gone.

JULIEN JULIEN:

(French)Merci pour votre accueil...

Thank you for your time...

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VIVIENNE VIVIENNE

(French)Mais il y a quatre ans, quand

But four years ago, when we on a r.nov. la maison, j’ai

had the house redecorated, I vid. la cave. J’ai amen. des

emptied the cellar. I took a caisses au magasin de seconde

lot of boxes to the second-main.

hand shop.

Julien leans forward. Suddenly realising he’s onto something

very important. We’re on Tony here, watching, bewildered,

shut out from the conversation by his lack of understanding.

JULIEN JULIEN:

(French)Donc l’.charpe...

So the scarf...

VIVIENNE VIVIENNE

(French)On a rassembl. tout ce dont

Anything we didn’t need, we on n’avait pas besoin.

gathered up... I suppose the L’.charpe a pu se retrouver

scarf could have been thrown dans le lot, j’imagine.

in as well.

TONY:

What’s going on?

JULIEN JULIEN:

(French)Une question. O. .tiez-vous

I have to ask - where were il y a huit ans, quand Oliver

you eight years ago when a disparu ? Vous et votre

Oliver went missing? You and mari ?

your husband?

VIVIENNE VIVIENNE

(French)On .tait en vacances. En

We were away on holiday. Floride. Vous pouvez

Florida. You can check. v.rifier.

Tony is getting desperately frustrated now.

TONY:

Julien, what is it? Tell me.

JULIEN:

Four years ago she had her house

decorated, emptied the cellar

and... several things were taken to

the second-hand shop. Oliver’s

scarf must have got mixed up in

there.

TONY:

How?

JULIEN:

She and her family were away, the

house was empty... I think...

(MORE)

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JULIEN (CONT'D)

I think perhaps your son was taken

here.

Tony looks almost white with shock.

TONY:

He was here.

Julien turns back to Vivienne to ask more questions, but

Tony can’t listen any more. He staggers next door.

77 INT. SUBURBAN HOUSE. HALLWAY - DAY 5(PRESENT DAY) 77

TONY walks into the hallway, looking around this normal,

average house with fresh eyes, the horror of his son’s

abduction suddenly written in every family picture, and

every lick of paint.

Tony squeezes his eyes shut trying to block it all out as

JULIEN appears in the doorway.

JULIEN:

Tony, are you alright?

TONY:

Yeah, I just need... Just splash

some water on my face or

something...

He opens a door, expecting to find a bathroom - and instead

sees there’s a long flight of stairs leading down to a

basement.

Something makes him step inside.

JULIEN:

Tony, you can’t...

But he’s not listening. He’s a man possessed.

78 INT. SUBURBAN HOUSE. BASEMENT - DAY 5(PRESENT DAY) 78

It’s a typical basement - dark, messy, a losing battle being

fought against mould and decay. TONY has a manic look in his

eye as JULIEN descends the stairs behind him.

JULIEN:

(gently)

Tony. We cannot be here. This is

somebody’s house, we...

TONY:

(snapping; obsessive)

If they took him here, they’d need

be away from the street. Away from

windows.

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JULIEN:

We cannot know what happened...

TONY:

He was here. Someone took my boy

into this house. There must be...

there has to be something...

He’s on the edge right now, and Julien doesn’t want to push

him.

JULIEN:

I will make some calls. Do this

through the proper channels...

TONY:

We can’t just go, there has to

be... I mean, he was here.

JULIEN:

What we’ve found will help the

case. It will help a great deal.

But there’s nothing more to be

learned today. Patience, you must

remember. You of all people should

know this.

Julien looks at him firmly. Tony is upset, but he nods.

Julien puts a hand on his shoulder and the two men turn,

ready to go back upstairs, and just as Tony puts his foot on

the first step

-he sees something. And his blood runs cold.

TONY:

No.

Tony walks towards the back wall and sinks to his knees.

Staring at something on the wall as the tears runs silently

down his cheeks.

TONY (CONT’D)

No.

And he whispers the word over and over again, like a mantra,

as if somehow it will make everything go away. Julien comes

over and follows Tony’s line of sight

POV - on the wall, scratched crudely into the wood, faded

with time but unmistakeable, is a Daddy big ears - the big-

eared stick figure we saw Oliver draw in the opening moments

of the show.

CUT TO BLACK:

END OF EPISODE ONE

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