The Missing Page #14

We stay on Gemma - staring at the picture - but she’s notlooking at it because she’s enjoying the memory. She’slooking at it much more closely than that...

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INT. SAM AND GEMMA’S HOUSE. ALICE’S ROOM - LATER -NIGHT 7 96

(2014)

2 o’clock in the morning according to the flashing reddisplay on the bedside table. ALICE is alone in her room.

The rest of the house is asleep. She’s curled up on the bed.

Trying to sleep. But she’s fidgeting. Looking round the roomlike a frightened child. Finally, she gets up and sits onthe floor and curls up in the corner. We go in close on hereyes - staring into the darkness. We pan up to the ceiling -

to see it’s been painted with fluorescent stars.

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JULIEN (PRE-LAP)

When Alice Webster returned, I

remember...

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97 EXT. QISHLA PLAZA HOTEL - DAY 17 (PRESENT DAY) 97

CAPTION:
Kirkuk, Iraq. Present Day.

JULIEN and STEFAN are loading up a car with supplies.

JULIEN:

... people, they said - ‘finally,

she is free from this madman’. Free

as a bird, you know?

He looks up, at a bird, making its way across the sky.

JULIEN (CONT’D)

I never understood that saying.

People think birds are these free

creatures. That they are flying

around, without a care in the

world. And yet, they build their

nests high up in the trees, to

protect themselves from predators.

Because these free birds must keep

looking over their shoulders the

same way all of us have to.

(beat)

Nobody is free in this world.

Stefan’s looking at him - patient, knowing Julien’s buildingto something.

JULIEN (CONT’D)

That girl who came back after all

those years kept in a basement...

She was not free when she left that

place. She was still a prisoner.

But most importantly, I believe...

Julien throws the last bit of luggage in the boot. Thenlooks at Stefan.

JULIEN (CONT’D)

That girl was not Alice Webster...

98 INT. SAM AND GEMMA’S HOUSE. ALICE’S ROOM - NIGHT 7(2014) 98

Back on ALICE, lying, curled up in the corner, her back tothe door. We see the door silently open a fraction. GEMMA isstood there, and she looks in at her daughter, curious. Aslow but very real feeling that something’s not rightdawning upon her...

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And then we see Alice, her eyes open, staring ahead intonothingness, not asleep.. And in the dark there’s somethingalmost sinister about the way she looks...

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