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shoulder. The ALBANIAN crashes to the ground, releasing

DANIEL. The gun flies across the floor.

DANIEL stares at PINE.

PINE looks at the ALBANIAN.

The ALBANIAN looks at PINE. As if secretly to say, do it. The

next bit.

PINE:

Go back to your mother. Go this

way.

But DANIEL is not moving. Still scared. Unable to move.

PINE takes his arm.

PINE.

Go. Go!

But DANIEL can’t move. He stands there shaking.

ALBANIAN 2 comes through the door.

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PINE turns.

ALBANIAN 2 surprised to see DANIEL still there. Not in the

script.

But PINE acts fast, runs across grabs his arm, twists it,

breaks it, smashes him to the ground, kicks him again and

again.

DANIEL suddenly released into action, runs out the back way

and back up towards the restaurant.

PINE stares at the ALBANIAN 2, squirming in broken-armed

agony on the floor.

ALBANIAN 1 gets up.

ALBANIAN:

You bastard. You were supposed not

to hurt him!

PINE.

It needed to look real.

The ALBANIAN suddenly punches PINE hard in the stomach.

ALBANIAN:

You want it real? I’ll give you

real!

PINE does not resist as the ALBANIAN smashes his fist again

into PINE’s stomach. PINE collapses. The ALBANIAN kicks him

in the head, once, twice, three times.

ALBANIAN (CONT’D)

I’ll show you real.

And then a hard-bastard kick in the groin. Then he grabs

ALBANIAN 2 who is in utter agony and they pile out of the

wash-house, leaving PINE bloodied and beaten on the ground,

his face smashed, blood pouring from his nose.

Silence in the wash-house.

PINE looks round.

He looks through the window at the dark trees.

He feels his own blood.

He looks round and hears voices.

He hears a boat skimming away across the bay.

He hears voices coming closer.

He sees two MEN storm into the wash-house.

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FRISKY and the other BODYGUARD.

They look round.

FRISKY:

Jesus Christ.

But it doesn’t sound right to PINE. The voice is distorted,

his ears have been kicked in and he is hearing humming and

whining.

65 OMITTED 65

66 EXT. MALLORCA. CLIFF TOP RESTAURANT. NIGHT. CONT. 66

PINE is being carried now, three men, up to the restaurant.

Voices all this while.

FRISKY:

Put him here.

CORKORAN:

Someone call the police, get them

to send a boat.

LANGBOURNE:

Who is he?

HEAD WAITER:

He is our seasonal sous-chef. From

England.

JED:

What happened Danny?

DANIEL:

He punched him daddy. He saved me.

Faces above PINE staring at him. LANGBOURNE, CORKORAN.

CAROLINE LANGBOURNE

Good god.

CORKORAN:

Chief he needs medical attention.

And then the face that he has been waiting for, appears,

looming over him. Quiet. Calm.

ROPER.

The two men stare at each other. ROPER down at PINE. PINE up

at ROPER.

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ROPER:

I know him. What’s his name?

HEAD WAITER:

Thomas Quince. He is from Cornwall

in England.

ROPER:

No he’s bloody not.

He stares again, trying to fix him beneath the blood and

broken nose.

ROPER (CONT’D)

You’re Pine. From Switzerland.

PINE stares up.

ROPER (CONT’D)

What are you doing here?

PINE gestures ROPER to come closer. Then whispers.

PINE:

No police.

Beat. Then again, imploringly.

PINE (CONT’D)

No police.

ROPER looks at him. Smiles.

ROPER:

Jorge, don’t call the police. I

have a better idea.

He turns back.

ROPER (CONT’D)

How’s his pulse Frisky?

A hand on his wrist.

FRISKY:

Quite sporting chief, all things

considered.

ROPER:

You hearing me Pine? We’re going to

get you out of here. Corky get the

boat ready. Call the hospital. Our

one, not the death trap on the main

drag. Make sure they’re ready to

operate. We might need that Israeli

surgeon.

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CORKORAN:

Dr Shimon?

ROPER:

Yes get him to fly in from whatever

Russian party he’s currently at.

A man dashes up. TABBY.

TABBY:

They left the money in the washhouse

chief. All of it.

ROPER turns to PINE.

ROPER:

You must have given them the scare

of their lives.

Beat. Their eyes meet. A stretcher has arrived. They put him

on to it.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Jorge, let’s keep this to ourselves

shall we? No need for any adverse

publicity.

HEAD WAITER:

Of course Mr Roper.

ROPER:

I’ll pay for any damage done. Corky

will sort the bill.

A flurry of blurred activity. PINE looks round to see JED

looking after a frightened and relieved DANNY. CORKY on the

phone. LANGBOURNE in conversation with JORGE the OWNER.

And amidst all this, ROPER comes close to PINE.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Anyone we should call? Girlfriend?

Family?

PINE looks up at ROPER. Shakes his head.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Still all alone eh?

Beat. He smiles.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Well. We’ll look after you.

He smiles.

67 OMITTED 67

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68 EXT. MALLORCA. ROAD. DAY. 68

A jeep is tearing through olive and cypress groves towards a

villa nestled deep in the countryside. The Mediterranean sea

glimmers between the trees.

69 INT. MALLORCA. ROAD. JEEP. DAY. 69

In the jeep, sweating and uncomfortable, is ANGELA BURR.

Driving the jeep is HECTOR JIMENEZ, US arms enforcement and

pal to Joel Steadman.

70 EXT. MALLORCA. SURVEILLANCE VILLA. DAY. 70

BURR leaps from the jeep and enters the holiday villa. Panic

on her face.

71 INT. MALLORCA. SURVEILLANCE VILLA. DAY. 71

Except inside it is anything but a holiday villa.

Inside it has been turned into a surveillance HQ. Computer

systems set up, audio and video surveillance gear litter the

room. Four or five US OPS OFFICERS are at the screens or

listening in to emails and phone calls.

ANGELA BURR walks across to meet JOEL STEADMAN.

BURR:

Any sign of him?

STEADMAN shakes his head.

BURR (CONT’D)

So what went wrong?

STEADMAN:

He went off-script. He broke one of

our guy’s arms in three places.

BURR:

What was he playing at?

STEADMAN:

He said he wanted it real. So they

made it real. They think they might

have killed him.

Beat.

STEADMAN (CONT’D)

And Roper didn’t call the police.

We have no idea where he is.

Beat. BURR’s face can’t hide the responsibility she feels.

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STEADMAN (CONT’D)

It was clear choreography. We went

through it three times. He knew

exactly what he had to do.

STEADMAN furious. JIMENEZ walks across to STEADMAN.

STEADMAN (CONT’D)

Hector, you remember Angela Burr?

From Baghdad?

JIMENEZ:

Sure do. Welcome ma’am.

BURR:

You two still working together?

JIMENEZ:

Yes no one’s more mystified by that

than me. Sir. You should hear this.

ANGELA BURR and STEADMAN gather round a phone-tap audio pickup.

It’s CORKORAN on the phone to someone we have not heard

before.

OPS OFFICER:

Corkoran’s calling a number in

Gloucestershire from his mobile

phone.

CORKORAN:

Tony?

VOICE:

Who is this?

CORKORAN:

Corkoran here. Roper’s cup bearer.

VOICE:

What do you want?

CORKORAN:

Pressing matter I’m afraid. Chief

needs your good offices. Got a pen?

The name is Pine, like the tree.

First name Jonathan. Goes under the

name of Thomas Quince, like the

fruit. Head-to-toe background

check, all avenues. All perfectly

mum. 360 degrees.

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