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kettle, the sea. The old crockery.

PINE feels strangely, wonderfully at home.

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INT. DEVON. ROSUMS COTTAGE. NIGHT. 29

PINE sits alone at his laptop.

He is deep in research about Roper, about Ironlast, about

Roper’s business. About his Mallorca villa, maps that PINE

studies. About an Indian premier league cricket franchise.

Footage of cricket. About a restaurant he co-owns in New

York.

And about a charity foundation called SAFEHAVEN.

PINE stares at images.

ROPER smiling on a red carpet. With JED on his arm.

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EXT. DEVON. BEACH / CLIFF-TOPS. DAWN. 30

Dawn. PINE fills his rucksack with stones from the beach.

PINE runs, rucksack on back, along the cliffs.

He starts to sprint.

PINE is doing press-ups.

PINE is doing push-ups.

Shattered to the point of vomiting, PINE lies back against

the walls of the cottage.

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EXT. DEVON. STREET. DAY. 31

PINE stops his bike on the street. Looks round, seeking

someone out.

Then he sees him.

A lean and tough young man CHARLES NARRAMORE standing smoking

outside the run down old garage.

A car drives up, JACOB DODRIDGE gets out, takes out twenty

quid, hands it to NARRAMORE. A transaction is made. Small-

time drug-selling.

PINE watches. Takes out his phone. Stares at a photo of

Charles Narramore.

Yes that’s his man.

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33 EXT. DEVON. GARAGE. DAY. 33

PINE gets off his bike and walks up to Narramore.

CHARLES NARRAMORE

What do you want?

PINE:

An eighth.

NARRAMORE stares at him. Laughs.

CHARLES NARRAMORE

You police. Right?

PINE stares at him.

PINE:

No.

CHARLES NARRAMORE

Well whoever you are, get lost. I’m

not selling you anything.

PINE:

I’ve got an offer for you.

CHARLES NARRAMORE

Not interested.

NARRAMORE walks away. PINE watches for a moment.

34 INT. DEVON. GARAGE. DAY. 34

PINE follows NARRAMORE into the garage. NARRAMORE is an

addict himself and we can feel the itch.

NARRAMORE turns to see JONATHAN PINE staring at him.

NARRAMORE:

You deaf?

PINE:

I told you I had a business offer.

NARRAMORE:

And I told you to get lost.

PINE:

Yeah well... I thought you might

change your mind.

And suddenly PINE grabs NARRAMORE hard, pushes him against a

wall.

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35 INT. DEVON. GARAGE. DAY. 35

PINE drags NARRAMORE into the workshop. There’s a skinny girl

ADDICT who is loitering.

PINE arms her out.

PINE:

Wait out there. This won’t take

long.

He walks back, grabs NARRAMORE hard.

PINE (CONT’D)

Now you listen to me. I don’t know

who you were buying off but things

have changed. I have a delivery

coming in a week’s time. You’re

buying off me now.

NARRAMORE:

Piss off.

PINE grabs NARRAMORE hard.

PINE:

I’d advise a different business

language from now on.

PINE releases him, throws him on an old sofa. Takes out a

stash from his pocket. Hands it to him.

PINE (CONT’D)

Try it.

NARRAMORE stares at him.

He takes out the powder. He burns it on a pipe. Inhales.

Stares at PINE. Smiles.

36 INT. DEVON. THE SNUG. NIGHT. 36

An estate pub in the town. Three men play fruit machines and

pool. PETE DODRIDGE, JACOB DODRIDGE and TOBY SHEPHERD.

In another corner MARILYN sits. With a rum and coke. Alone.

The door opens. PINE enters.

JACOB DODRIDGE:

That’s him.

A dozen eyes turn to stare. PINE approaches the bar.

PINE:

Pint of Blue Anchor.

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He takes his drink. Stares at the room. Sees JACOB, blanks

him. Smiles at MARILYN. Recognises her, and she him.

PINE (CONT’D)

Evening.

MARILYN studiously ignores him. PINE sits.

Time passes. Pool is being played. Drinks have been drunk but

nothing has changed. PINE still sits alone.

Then the door opens and a stocky man in his forties enters.

BARRY HARLOW.

He enters with a small blue holdall, walks past the DODRIDGES

and SHEPHERD, and sits with PINE.

PETE DODRIDGE watches. HARLOW and PINE in deep discussion.

PINE hands HARLOW a bulging envelope.

Then HARLOW stands up, leaving PINE the blue holdall.

HARLOW walks out.

MARILYN, intrigued, can’t help staring at the holdall.

PINE gets up, with the blue holdall, walks out.

PETE DODRIDGE stares after him with real hostility.

DODRIDGE:

You see that?

MARILYN stares through the window with real curiosity.

As PINE walks, blue holdall in hand, into the darkness.

37 INT. LONDON. FCO. MEETING ROOM. DAY. 37

REX MAYHEW addresses an assembled group of MANDARINS and

INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS.

MAYHEW:

And so it’s a great pleasure to

introduce Chief Officer at the US

Directorate of Defence Trade

Controls, Joel Steadman.

JOEL STEADMAN is 45, African-American, leather jacket and a

metaphorical gun always in the holster. He stares at a room

of English Intelligence and Enforcement Services. GEOFFREY

DROMGOOLE sits surrounded by Intelligence mandarins. REX

MAYHEW sits back.

STEADMAN:

Firstly gentlemen... and lady...

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This a nod to the ANGELA BURR, who is hurriedly walking into

the back of the room just packed full of suited men. A

moment’s look between them.

STEADMAN (CONT’D)

I’d like to thank you folks for

inviting me to London to share a

little of what I know about the

global arms trade in the 21st

century and how to fight it.

There’s about three thousand years

of wisdom in this room and I

represent about six weeks of it.

But hell those kind of odds never

stopped an American before.

Laughter in the room. He’s warming them up.

STEADMAN (CONT’D)

There are two philosophies on how

to confront international arms

smuggling. You can exploit or you

can enforce. I am an enforcer and

I’ll tell you why. You go down the

exploitation path, this is what

happens. You identify the bad guy,

you watch him, get a whole heap of

dirt on him, and you approach him.

And then what do you do? You

recruit him. You recruit him to get

to the next guy, then you watch

him, you recruit him, and so on, ad

infinitum. The never ending story

of chasing your own tail. And

somewhere along the way the lines

get blurred, my enemy becomes my

friend and the devil always has the

best lines. Now I enforce. I go

after someone. And I put them down.

The reason I am here today is to

ask you folks to help me.

38 INT. LONDON. WHITEHALL. CORRIDOR. EVENING. 38

JOEL STEADMAN is walking through the corridors of Whitehall.

GEOFFREY DROMGOOLE, GALT and PALFREY are with him.

DROMGOOLE:

I thoroughly enjoyed your speech

Joel.

STEADMAN:

Then let’s keep the channels open

at all times.

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DROMGOOLE:

Particularly when it comes to the

Middle East. Anything you have at

all. I have money and people ready

to work with you. All right?

DROMGOOLE shakes his hand, STEADMAN smiles.

STEADMAN:

Sure will Geoffrey.

DROMGOOLE and his friends recede down the corridor back into

the labyrinth. STEADMAN watches them go.

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