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than those who falsely believe they

are free”. That was written by a

man called Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe...

35 EXT. SCHOOL - DAY 6 (2014) 35

We’re on a uniformed German police officer of 30-ish with a

kind face. JORN. Waiting. A car pulls up. Inside is EVE. Hergamine features belie a steely resolve. Jorn goes to her.

JORN:

Sergeant Stone? Jorn Lenhart, with

the Civil Police. We spoke on the

phone.

EVE:

Right. Good to meet you.

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JORN:

I’m surprised we haven’t spokenbefore.

EVE:

I only transferred out here 6months ago.

JORN:

I see. We meet at last anyway. Iwish the circumstances maybe theywere different...

Eve opens the car door - and Jorn, and we, see she isheavily pregnant. Jorn is so surprised he stops mid-

sentence. Eve looks at him and rolls her eyes.

EVE:

Never seen a pregnant woman before?

And she sets off towards the school.

36 INT. LEICESTER SCHOOL. CLASSROOM - DAY 6 (2014) 36

We’re back with GEMMA in the classroom.

GEMMA:

... Von Goethe’s most famous work

is Faust, about a man who sells his

soul to the devil in search of

power...

She’s interrupted by a knock at the door. She looks throughthe glass window in the door and sees EVE stood there withJORN. The German-born headmaster, RUDI, beside them. A

serious expression on his face. Instantly Gemma knowssomething’s amiss. She looks back to her classroom. Sheheads over to the door, keeping her voice light

GEMMA (CONT’D)

Turn your books to chapter threeand start reading...

37 INT. LEICESTER SCHOOL. HALLWAY - DAY 6 (2014) 37

GEMMA emerges into the hallway and closes the door behindher. She looks at EVE, JORN and RUDI, confused.

GEMMA:

What’s going on?

RUDI:

I’ll finish your lesson, Gemma,

don’t worry.

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He puts a reassuring hand on Gemma’s arm, not quite knowingwhat else to say, and then goes into the school-room to takeover the class. We hear the following in the background -

RUDI (CONT’D)

Okay, class, now, I see from the

board you have been discussing

Goethe. Can anyone tell me what

Johann von Goethe’s most famous

work might be?

(beat)

Come come, I know someone here

knows the answer.

A number of pupils raise their hands.

RUDI (CONT’D)

Beth.

BETH:

Faust. Mrs Webster just told us.

RUDI:

Yes, indeed. Faust is considered

one of the greatest works of German

literature, but the character of

Faust - the scholar who sells his

soul to the devil - goes back much

further than 1790. Back to medieval

German legend. His story has been

told many times in many different

countries, but perhaps found most

popularity in England, at the end

of the 16th century. Can anyone

tell me why that was?

(pause)

Nobody? Ah, so it seems perhaps I

have found something Miss Webster

has not told you... The Faust

legend was adapted by Elizabethan

playwright, Christopher Marlowe,

and became an instant success. Now,

in today’s lesson I think it might

be interesting for us to look at

some of the major differences

between Goethe’s Faust and

Marlowe’s...

But our focus is on Gemma outside the classroom. Now Gemma’s

more confused and anxious than ever. She turns to Eve.

EVE:

Mrs. Webster, my name’s Sergeant

Eve Stone. I’m with the Military

Police, 5th investigation company.

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JORN:

I’m Jorn Lenhart with the German

Polizei.

EVE:

I... I’m sorry, I’m not quite sure

how to say this...

GEMMA:

What is it? Is it Sam? Is he ok?

EVE:

A young woman walked into Eckhausen

yesterday, and collapsed on

Lindenstrasse. She was taken to

Hannover hospital where they

operated on her overnight. She’s

stable, now, and this morning she

came to...

Gemma barely dares to breathe right now.

GEMMA:

I don’t understand, what...

JORN:

She says her name is Alice Webster.

On Gemma - the world around her collapsing and disappearing.

Everything she knew, everything she’s been through, hittingher like a freight train. The sadness, the joy, the fear andthe confusion all at once. When she speaks her voice emergesas a whisper.

GEMMA:

What did you say?

The sound of tinnitus grows and drowns out all other noise.

38 EXT. ARMY CAMP. TANK PARK - DAY 6 (2014) 38

Over the ringing tinnitus sound - we find SAM drinking a cupof tea, talking to some colleagues, several of whom areworking on a jeep. Then, we see him frown as he spotssomething

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EVE getting out of her car. GEMMA not long after. And then,

Gemma running over to Sam, tearfully trying to explain

what’s just happened. Sam not understanding, turning to Eve

for an explanation.

EXT. TANK PARK - DAY 6 (2014) 39

The tinnitus stops as we see EVE driving through the camp,

past a line of young soldiers running through the rainwearing heavy packs, determination on their exhausted faces.

At the checkpoint, a GUARD in a black beret waves herthrough. She checks the rear view mirror, the car behind -

JORN drives. SAM beside him, GEMMA in the back seat. Theypull up and MATTHEW approaches, climbing into the back. Allof them are in complete and utter shock. Not knowing what tosay or think.

whirlwind of emotions. A man in a Father Christmas suit is

EXT. AUTOBAHN - DAY 6 (2014) 40

The cars travel down the motorway in convoy.

EXT. HANNOVER HOSPITAL - DAY 6 (2014) 41

CAPTION:
Hannover.

GEMMA walks along with SAM and MATTHEW, following EVE andJORN into the hospital in Hannover. A family united by a

stood on the snowy ground outside, holding out a bucket toraise money.

INT. HANNOVER HOSPITAL. HALL - DAY 6 (2014)

EVE, JORN, SAM, MATTHEW and GEMMA walk along the hall.

JORN:

The doctors say she had a rupturedappendix. They performed surgerylast night. Another few hourswithout treatment - she would have

died.

They come to a stop outside a door. Another, female, POLOFFICER is outside. Jorn says something to her quietly inGerman - telling her who Sam and Gemma are - and she stepsaside. Sam and Gemma grasp onto one another’s hands andhesitate - the emotion of the moment too much. It’s Sam who

pulls Gemma into the room

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43 INT. HANNOVER HOSPITAL. PRIVATE ROOM - DAY 6 (2014) 43

-and there, lying in a hospital bed, wearing a gown, isALICE. She looks pale and emaciated, hooked up to an IVrunning fluids into a canula. There’s dead silence in theroom, broken only by the steady beep of a BP monitor in thebackground. A NURSE is standing there, checking vitals.

GEMMA and SAM look at their daughter, open-mouthed. Neither,

for a moment, knowing how to react. A long and painfulsilence. MATTHEW waits behind them in the doorway. Tooscared to go in. EVE also lingers there.

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