The Missing Page #13

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STONE (CONT'D)

Adam, your press office needs to bein constant contact with the

Polizei team. Find out if any of

the press are onto this.

He looks at Engel.

STONE (CONT’D)

Now, back to the photofit. I have

over 5,000 men and women in this

garrison ready to help. You wantthem to hand the sketch out, show

it in town...?

He points at the photofit on Engel’s desk.

ENGEL:

Thank you, Brigadier, but I havesupport from Hannover, the matteris in hand.

STONE:

Were you listening just now? Thisis what I mean about workingtogether. You were here, weren’tyou, when the girl was taken? Youwere a detective on the case?

Engel nods.

STONE (CONT’D)

Then you saw how it shook thiswhole damn place. And I watchedwhile the Army and the Polizeibutted heads time and again overwho was bloody in charge. This isno time for egos. And you and I,

now we’re the grown-ups. We’re in aposition able to do something aboutit.

ENGEL:

(thoughtfully)

You are right, Brigadier. You areright. We need to set jurisdictionaside. What matters here is findingthe person who took these girls.

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STONE:

Okay then..

89 EXT. ECKHAUSEN POLICE STATION - DAY 7 (2014) 89

EVE, STONE, O’SULLIVAN and ADAM emerge. There’s an AIDE

waiting for Stone by a car.

O’SULLIVAN

(to Eve)

I’ll see you back at base.

Eve nods as he goes.

ADAM:

Terrible bloody business.

STONE:

I know.

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ADAM:

If I hear anything at all from thepress, I’ll call.

And Adam heads off. Eve turns to Stone.

EVE:

You think he means it? About

working together?

STONE:

He can be a stubborn bastard,

Engel, but he’s got his headscrewed on right. He knows howimportant this case is.

Stone looks at her, standing with her hand on her pregnantbelly.

STONE (CONT’D)

You should really be on leave bynow. Not caught in the middle ofsomething like this.

EVE:

I’m fine, Dad. Really.

Stone smiles. It’s only now we realise he’s her father.

STONE:

I know. But your sister would’vekilled me for not at least sayingit.

EVE:

Have you told her yet?

STONE:

I will.

EVE:

Dad...

STONE:

(gently)

I will. It’s my job to worry aboutyou remember? Not the other wayround.

Stone kisses her on the cheek and gets into the car waitingfor him and Eve watches it drive off.

90 INT. CAR - NIGHT 7 (2014) 90

SAM drives. GEMMA beside him. MATTHEW and ALICE in the back.

Alice is staring out the window.

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It’s so dark all she can see is her own reflection lookingback at her. The silence is too much for Sam, and he turns

the radio on. Instantly

ALICE:

Turn it off.

Sam does it right away - and Alice instantly seems to relaxEnjoying the silence as she stares out the window.

91 EXT. SAM AND GEMMA’S HOUSE - NIGHT 7 (2014) 91

We’re outside with SAM, GEMMA and MATTHEW as they guideALICE down the front path leading to the house. They’regiving her space and letting her take her time. It’s a bigmoment and they don’t quite know how to act. Sam unlocks thedoor and Gemma guides her inside.

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92 INT. SAM AND GEMMA’S HOUSE. LIVING ROOM - NIGHT 7(2014) 92

Inside the house, SAM enters, followed by GEMMA and MATTHEWand then ALICE. Alice looks around, wide-eyed. Taking it in.

GEMMA:

It looks a bit different now...

Another painful, difficult silence. Matthew can’t deal withit.

MATTHEW:

I’ll, uh... I’ll put the kettle on.

He crosses the room and enters the kitchen. Gemma looks at

Alice.

GEMMA:

Love, I understand if you don’twant to... but... the doctor

said... I mean, he said there were

signs... that you had a baby.

Alice looks at Gemma. Blank.

ALICE:

I don’t know what you’re talkingabout.

It’s a weird, horribly tense moment. Gemma’s not sure whatto say to this. Was the doctor wrong? Or is Alice in denial?

SAM:

D’you want something to eat...

ALICE:

I’m tired.

SAM:

Right. Right, of course.

93 INT. SAM AND GEMMA’S HOUSE. HALLWAY - NIGHT 7 (2014) 93

SAM and GEMMA lead ALICE down the hallway towards a door,

which Sam opens. Alice looks in.

94 INT. SAM AND GEMMA’S HOUSE. ALICE’S ROOM - NIGHT 7(2014) 94

ALICE looks into the room and we see her POV. A neatly

dressed bed. Boxes piled up by the window. Inside, weglimpse clothes, things that used to belong to 11 year oldAlice. SAM and GEMMA enter behind her. Quietly

GEMMA:

We kept your things...

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Alice crosses over to one of the boxes and starts riflingthrough it. Gemma picks up a bundle of letters from one box.

GEMMA (CONT’D)

Every Christmas, we wrote you aletter. To wherever you were.

Everything we were doing that year,

and.. Well. They’re here. If youwant them.

Sam goes to Alice.

SAM:

You’re home now. And I promise, no-

one will ever hurt you again.

(hesitant)

Is it okay? If I give you a hug?

ALICE:

Of course you can.

But the way she says it, it’s not like it’s fine. Samawkwardly embraces her, gently. Alice doesn’t reciprocate atall. He and Gemma both turn to go. Before they do

ALICE (CONT’D)

Mum...

Gemma turns, her heart racing, just to hear herself becalled that by Alice again.

GEMMA:

Yes, love?

For a moment Alice looks like she’s about to say something.

But she changes her mind. Drops her head.

ALICE:

Goodnight.

Gemma looks disappointed but tries not to show it.

GEMMA:

Night love.

She and Sam go and we stay in the room with Alice. We go inclose on her hand, with her tattooed wrist. She clicks her

thumbnail against the nail on the tips of each of herfingers - one by one...

Then she looks around the room, slowly. Goes to the end ofthe bed and sits on it. Picking up one of the boxes, shestarts to look through it. And as she does, we see hersmile.

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INT. SAM AND GEMMA’S HOUSE. BEDROOM - NIGHT 7 (2014) 95

GEMMA is lying in bed looking at old family photos of Aliceand the family all together. SAM gets in beside her. Neitherlook remotely tired.

GEMMA:

She looks so different.

She puts the photos down and for a moment, the two of themjust lie there, side by side, staring into nothingness.

GEMMA (CONT’D)

I keep wanting to go next door.

Just to check she’s still there.

SAM:

I know. There’s so much I want to

say to her. Where do you start?

After eleven years?

GEMMA:

There’s time, love. There’s time

now.

A silence.

GEMMA (CONT’D)

What happened to her baby, Sam? Whyis she pretending it neverhappened, when the doctors know itdid?

SAM:

She’ll tell us when she’s ready.

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