The Missing Page #10

MATTHEW:

So?

GEMMA:

I thought we’d all go together,

love.

MATTHEW:

You want to go and see Alice? I’m

here. Let’s go.

It’s sullen, almost aggressive. Gemma looks torn - thenstands.

GEMMA:

Right. Yes, of course. I’ll grab my

coat.

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67 INT. CAR - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 67

Music plays. GEMMA drives with MATTHEW in the passengerseat. Both of them are somewhere else altogether.

GEMMA:

You were out with those friends of

yours again. The twins.

MATTHEW:

Yep.

GEMMA:

They’re a lot older than you, love.

Matthew doesn’t reply. Knowing what Gemma is getting at.

GEMMA (CONT’D)

I thought you were out looking for

a job?

No reply.

GEMMA (CONT’D)

You quit the dishwashing job. The

data entry. That bar...

(beat)

I know you think it doesn’t mean

anything. Sleepwalking through some

nine to five. I know you think

they’re vacuous. Or that you’re

better than them, maybe. But

filling that empty space can do a

lot, you know. Just doing

something. Turning the wheels and

keeping moving.

She looks at him. And still he doesn’t reply. She can’t getthrough to him, however hard she tries.

68 EXT. FIELD - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 68

The car’s parked a way back, and GEMMA and MATTHEW aremaking their way down a path. They could be in the middle ofthe countryside, until we pull back and see that they’re in

a cemetery.

They slow down as they approach a grave. On it reads -

‘ALICE WEBSTER. Beloved daughter and sister. 1992-2014’.

Gemma looks at it for a long time. Her face betrayingnothing. She puts her hand on Matthew’s shoulder - and hedoesn’t move away. He looks utterly devastated as he staresat his sister’s grave.

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69 EXT. SUNSHINE TRAVEL - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 69

JULIEN returns to the travel office in Iraq.

70 INT. SUNSHINE TRAVEL - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 70

JULIEN enters the room. Sat there behind his desk is YARDIL,

on the phone. He smiles when he sees Julien.

YARDIL:

(Kurdish; unsubtitled)

I’ll call you back.

YARDIL:

(Kurdish; translation)

Tozeki ter telefonet bo

Akamawa

*

*

*

*

He hangs up.

YARDIL (CONT’D)

So! You have the money?

JULIEN:

I do. But first I want you to dosomething for me...

Casually, he pulls a chair and sits down. Leaning forwards JULIEN

(CONT’D)

Pick up the phone and call yourbrother.

On Yardil - what?

JULIEN (CONT’D)

From what I can tell he runs an

honest business here. You should

apologise for muddying his good

name by trying to rob me.

Yardil shakes his head, wearing a bemused half-smile.

YARDIL:

What are you talking about?

JULIEN:

(levelly)

Your man was big but stupid.

YARDIL:

Man? What man?

JULIEN:

You send me to the bank to withdraw

a large amount of money. Momentslater, I am being followed.

YARDIL:

How can you be sure?

(MORE)

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JULIEN:

I have some experience of thesethings. I was followed.

YARDIL:

Not by me, Sir. You think all of usare thieves, is that it? That’s how

you view this country?

JULIEN:

Not at all, I am simply sayingthings as I see them...

YARDIL:

Take your money. Take your damnmoney and get out of my office. Ifyou were followed, it was not by meor anyone I know. So whatever youare mixed up in - I want none ofit. Get out!

Julien looks shaken by the depth of Yardil’s furiousriposte, and silently he turns and walks out.

71 EXT. GRAVEYARD - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 71

Back with GEMMA and MATTHEW by Alice’s grave. Gemma looks upand sees a car up by the fence. In it sits SAM - lookingdown at them. Gemma frowns.

GEMMA:

Scuse me, love.

She walks towards the car. We stay with Matthew, who barelyacknowledges Gemma’s departure. He is still staring intentlyat the gravestone. After a moment, he speaks quietly -

almost a whisper.

MATTHEW:

I haven’t forgotten, Alice.

(beat)

I haven’t forgotten what I promisedyou. Even though it makes me sick.

He looks down at the ground where she’s buried. We PAN DOWNinto blackness.

72 EXT. GRAVEYARD/ROAD - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 72

GEMMA approaches the car and leans down. SAM looks at herthrough the window.

GEMMA:

Are you not coming down?

(MORE)

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SAM:

I can’t.

GEMMA:

I know it’s hard. But we haven’t

been, the three of us, at the same

time. Not once, since she died.

SAM:

He hasn’t forgiven me. You see theway he looks at me.

GEMMA:

He hasn’t forgiven himself.

(beat)

We can’t just sweep the last 18months under the carpet and pretendit didn’t happen. All of us, weneed to be together...

SAM:

Gem, I’m sorry. I just can’t.

Gemma hangs her head and leans against the car. WIDE - thetwo of them, so close together, but so far apart. And in thebackground, behind them, MATTHEW. At his sister’s grave.

Suddenly, Gemma’s phone goes. She glances at the number andmoves away from the car.

GEMMA:

Hey.

73 EXT. ERBIL STREET - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 73

JULIEN is in Iraq, on the phone.

JULIEN:

Mrs Webster. I said I would call

when I arrived.

Intercut now - back with Gemma

GEMMA:

Do you really think you’ll findsomething out there?

JULIEN:

I would not have come if I did not.

GEMMA:

I know. I want to believe you, it’sjust... hard.

JULIEN:

You are still doing what I asked?

(MORE)

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GEMMA:

I am. Sometimes, with everythingthat’s happened, I wonder why I’mdoing it - but I am.

She looks over at Sam in the car, and Matthew all the waydown by the grave.

GEMMA (CONT’D)

Have you ever felt like your familyare just... slipping away from you?

JULIEN:

All the time. We feel that way onlybecause we want to hold them so

close.

74 INT. CAR - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 74

Back with SAM in the car. He glances in the rear-viewmirror, at GEMMA deep in conversation. Something secretiveabout it. He frowns.

75 INT. QISHLA PLAZA HOTEL. BAR - EVENING 16 (PRESENT DAY) 75

We’re with STEFAN, sitting in the bar, laptop open. He’s onhis phone - and doesn’t look happy.

STEFAN:

Just wait, listen...

(beat)

Yeah. Okay, yes. I heard you.

He hangs up, angrily. He looks across the bar and spotsJULIEN entering. Walking slowly, flicking the plasticphonecard in his hand. Stefan stands and walks over to him.

STEFAN (CONT’D)

Mr Baptiste. How’d it go?

JULIEN:

I was followed. Someone hoping tosteal from me. I thought perhaps Iwas set up... Now, I am not so

sure.

STEFAN:

Who else would follow you? Someonewho saw you in the bank?

JULIEN:

An opportunist, yes. Perhaps. Butthis man.. He had done it before.

He had, I think, some experience.

Who he was... well, that is the

question.

(MORE)

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He sighs heavily.

JULIEN (CONT’D)

Perhaps I was too rash accusingYardil. I usually like to try andthink the best of people.

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