The Missing Page #3

SAM (CONT’D)

(to Matthew)

You hear from that bank in

Hannover?

MATTHEW:

They’d already filled the position.

GEMMA:

You’ll find something.

MATTHEW:

This close to Christmas it’s not

exactly open season on the jobmarket.

SAM:

Tell you what - I know where youcould try...

MATTHEW:

Where?

SAM:

Apparently - and you didn’t hear itfrom me - one of Santa’s elves

fractured his tibia. Might be aspot open there.

MATTHEW:

(flatly)

You’re hilarious.

Sam laughs, and as the family carry on eating breakfast andchatting, we TRACK BACK from the breakfast table, until wesee a photo on the side of the whole family - Sam and Gemmaand young Matthew and Alice, as she looked when she wastaken in 2003.

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16 INT. AMBULANCE - DAY 5 (2014) 16

The WOMAN lies unconscious on a gurney. A PARAMEDIC isattending to her, and shining a light in her eyes, for aresponse. She’s groggy and not with it. But she pulls on heroxygen mask which the paramedic helps her with.

WOMAN:

(slurred)

Help me please...

PARAMEDIC:

English? Can you tell me your name,

Miss...

The ambulance takes a sharp corner, jolting them. She callsout to the driver up front -

PARAMEDIC (CONT’D)PARAMEDIC (CONT’D)

(German; subtitled)(German translation)

Hey, Schumacher, I know we’re Hey, Schumacher, ich wei.,

in a hurry but it’d be good wir haben es eilig, aber sieto get there in one piece. sollte m.glichst heil

(English; to Woman)ankommen.

Is there someone we can call

for you? To join us at the

hospital?

The woman turns to her, in a daze. Drifting in and out ofconsciousness.

WOMAN:

Sophie... Giroux...

PARAMEDIC:

(broken English)

Who is that? Your mother? Your

sister?

No reply.

PARAMEDIC (CONT’D)

We will try to find her. Tell us -

what is your name?

The woman groans, clearly out of it. She reaches out herhand, which the paramedic takes. Then her eyes close as sheloses consciousness. The paramedic puts the mask back onher, still holding her hand. She looks down at it - and seesomething. There, on her wrist, we see a tattoo of aspider’s web. Just like the girl from the opening scene.

And that’s when we realise - this woman is ALICE WEBSTER...

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17 OMITTED 17

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18 EXT. ERBIL AIRPORT - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 18

We’re looking up at the sky, at a bird flying lazilyoverhead, framed against the bright, blistering sun. Abovethe bird, the outline of an Emirates A330 flies into view.

We’re outside a long line of automatic glass doors. Abovethem, big yellow letters in Sorani. Just below this, the

English translation in bright red capitals - “ERBILINTERNATIONAL AIRPORT”.

CAPTION:
Erbil, Kurdistan. Present Day.

The doors open - and JULIEN emerges, a bag slung over hisshoulder. Though it might take us a moment to realise it’s

him, because his head is shaved. It gives him a tougher,

leaner look than the calm detective we know so well from

2014.

Julien blinks in the fierce heat. He looks around, taking inthe very modern city in front of him. There’s a large andshowy fountain that conceals the road behind, although thegridlocked traffic is still visible. It’s not quite Dubai

but it’s still every inch the opulent Middle Eastern city.

He scans a small group of men idling nearby, and spots one.

A Kurdish man, BAGIR, in his late 20’s, smoking a cigarette,

wearing a smart suit, and with his other hand holding up asign that reads “PAPTEES”. Julien smiles at the sight.

JULIEN:

I think this is for me.

BAGIR:

Mr Paptees.

JULIEN:

Baptiste.

Bagir frowns, confused. Julien smiles.

JULIEN (CONT’D)

It is not important. You are?

BAGIR:

Bagir. The car is this way, Mr

Paptees.

Bagir leads Julien along the road. Julien wipes his armacross his brow as he walks, already sweating in the intenseheat.

JULIEN:

How far, to Kirkuk?

BAGIR:

One or two hours maybe.

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Bagir looks at Julien thoughtfully.

BAGIR (CONT’D)

You must know, Kirkuk is no place

for tourists.

JULIEN:

I am no tourist.

19 INT. TOWN-CAR - LATER - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 19

JULIEN sits in the back seat of a black town-car, BAGIR up-

front driving. Julien looks out of the window at thelandscape as it passes by, and it’s clear they’re a worldaway from the familiar modernity of Erbil. The arid, barrenlandscape is broken up by the occasional half-finishedbuilding. They pass a faded green sign with large Soraniletters, and below it, “WELCOME TO KIRKUK”.

Not far beyond the sign stand three Kurdish peshmergasoldiers in red berets, AK-47’s slung over their shoulders.

They stare at the car as it passes.

We go in CLOSE on Julien, holding something in his hands. Aworn out plastic card. A phone card of some sort. He staresat it, flicking it back and forth with his finger.

20 EXT. QISHLA PLAZA HOTEL - DAY 16 (PRESENT DAY) 20

The town-car pulls up outside a narrow 8 storey building.

Above some scruffy arches, the sign reads QISHLA PLAZA.

JULIEN pays BAGIR, then clambers out of the car, pulling hisbag over his shoulder. As he approaches the hotel he hears -

STEFAN (O.C.)

Monsieur Baptiste?

Julien turns to see STEFAN.

JULIEN:

Mr Anderssen?

STEFAN:

Stefan’s fine.

JULIEN:

Then call me Julien, please. Thank

you for meeting me.

STEFAN:

I’m not the one who travelled over

a thousand miles to be here.

(beat)

Monsieur Baptiste...

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JULIEN:

Julien.

STEFAN:

Julien, I’m sorry to be blunt but -

I’m not quite sure why you wantedto meet me. You didn’t give muchaway on your e-mail...

JULIEN:

Can we go inside? I am not used tothe heat...

Stefan smiles and gestures for Julien to enter.

21

INT. QISHLA PLAZA HOTEL. BAR - LATER - DAY 16 21

(PRESENT DAY)

JULIEN sits opposite STEFAN.

JULIEN:

I am looking for someone.

He pulls a photograph out of his pocket and hands it toStefan. Stefan looks at the photo - we don’t see who it is.

Stefan shrugs - clearly not knowing who it is.

STEFAN:

Who’s this?

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STEFAN (CONT’D)

What’s this about?

JULIEN:

Two girls, kept prisoner in abasement for more than ten years.

The person who abducted them wasnever brought to justice. I am hereto find that person.

Stefan looks at him, intrigued.

STEFAN:

I read about that a while back, in

Germany wasn’t it...?

JULIEN:

Yes. Eckhausen. The search in 2003,

after the second girl was taken,

yielded nothing. But then, in2014...

STEFAN:

One of the girls came back. Iremember.

JULIEN:

Indeed. And what happened from thenon, well...

(shrugs)

What is it they say about notbelieving everything you read?

STEFAN:

(smiles)

I wouldn’t recommend it. You end upnot believing anything you read.

Stefan hands the photo back to Julien.

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