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INT. MALLORCA. ROPER’S VILLA. 1ST FLOOR CORRIDOR/ROPER’S 63

BEDROOM. NIGHT.

JED:

Is that all I get?

ROPER:

We’re on the telephone Jemima. Yes

that’s all you get.

Beat.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Listen. Stop so being so bloody

childish. Caroline was furious with

Sandy. She wanted to spread some

manure. End of story.

JED:

And there’s no truth in it.

ROPER:

No. There’s no truth in it. No

truth at all. Understand?

As if to say, that’s the story, stick with it.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Anything else of interest?

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JED stares at the flowers in the vase. That PINE put there.

And almost enjoying the lie:

JED:

No nothing else really important.

Just a lazy day.

64 INT. MONACO. HOTEL. NIGHT. 64

In the hotel in Monaco, RICHARD ROPER stares at the water,

phone in his hand.

65 INT. MALLORCA. PENINSULAR. FISHERMAN’S COTTAGE. NIGHT. 65

PINE enters the little cottage, and closes the shutters to

keep snooping gazes at bay.

He takes out Danny’s camera. Looks through the images he has

taken. Lists of names from Roper’s office.

He sees the image of the young boy he saw in the drawer of

Jed’s room.

He files that one under a different name.

Then he starts to send the rest of the images.

66 INT. MALLORCA. SURVEILLANCE VILLA. NIGHT. 66

It’s quiet, night-time. ANGELA BURR stares at her laptop.

STEADMAN is dozing on the chair.

Then suddenly ANGELA BURR sees a message coming in.

But BURR’s eyes are wide as she sees in encrypted form a

series of photographs from PINE, coming into her computer.

Names, numbers.

She jabs STEADMAN.

BURR:

Wake up sleepyhead.

STEADMAN wakes, gazes at the names.

STEADMAN:

How the hell did he get this?

67 EXT. MALLORCA. ROPER’S VILLA. DAY. 67

It’s morning. PINE walks up to the house, sees the SUV is

back, sees FRISKY at the door.

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68 INT. MALLORCA. ROPER’S VILLA. HALLWAY. DAY. 68

PINE enters the house. CORKORAN is inside.

PINE:

They’re back?

CORKORAN:

Apparently so. Went straight into a

meeting, without so much as a how-

do-you-do.

CORKORAN nervy, almost certain now he is being excluded.

PINE:

Been biting your nails Corky?

CORKORAN:

Want me to bite yours?

PINE smiles. FRISKY walks into the house.

FRISKY:

Chief wants to see you.

CORKORAN stands, moves forward.

FRISKY (CONT’D)

Not you. Him.

PINE stares at him, gets up. CORKORAN stares at him with

barely concealed hostility.

69 INT. MALLORCA. ROPER’S VILLA. OFFICE/LIVING SPACE. DAY. 69

PINE is walked through the security into ROPER’s office.

LANGBOURNE and ROPER are deep in conversation.

They look up, see PINE enter.

Beat.

ROPER:

Present for you. On the table.

He nods. PINE looks, sees a brown envelope. Walks over, opens

it.

Inside is a passport. New Zealand. Name of Andrew Stephen

Birch. Issued in Auckland. Born Marlborough, South Island.

Expiry. Three years off.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Told them to put some visas in it,

make it scruffy. Never trust a new

passport in my view.

(MORE)

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ROPER (CONT’D)

Go for the old uns. Like third

world taxi drivers. There’s a

reason they’ve survived.

PINE:

Thank you.

ROPER smiles. Puts his hand on PINE’s. It’s a moment of real

affection and PINE is strangely moved.

ROPER:

You’re born again. All official.

Visas are real. If you want to

renew do it at one of the

consulates abroad. Less risky.

ROPER (CONT’D)

All yours. You’re free to go.

Beat. PINE almost surprised.

PINE:

All right. Thank you.

ROPER:

Frisky will drive you to the

airport, we’ll give you a few

hundred quid to send you on your

way.

PINE:

Well I’ll go and pack.

He walks out the door. Turns to shut it.

ROPER eyes him through the door. Long beat.

ROPER:

What is it?

PINE:

Nothing.

ROPER:

Liar.

They stare at each other through the door.

PINE:

I was just wondering what my other

options are.

ROPER smiles.

ROPER:

And there I was thinking you were

going to disappoint me.

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Beat.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Get the papers Sandy.

LANGBOURNE opens the safe.

ROPER (CONT’D)

We’ll need a witness. Spanish

preferably so they can’t actually

read the bloody thing.

LANGBOURNE:

I’ll get the boy.

ROPER:

Is he eighteen?

LANGBOURNE goes into the next door room.

PINE:

What am I signing?

Beat.

ROPER:

I’m giving you your own company.

PINE walks over. Reads the document. The company is called

Tradepass Limited. There are all sorts of waivers to rights,

profits, revenue.

PINE looks at the second document. In which he accepts all

responsibility for debt, obligations and responsibilities as

Managing Director.

PINE stares at details of his predecessor, no longer in post.

Major Lance Montague Corkoran.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Try some signatures.

PINE tries out his new name. Again and again. It’s like

watching a new incarnation be born. Andrew Birch.

Then he signs the documents.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Chico!

The BOY appears.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Come here boy. You eighteen? Good.

Come and witness this.

The boy signs. ROPER smiles at PINE.

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ROPER (CONT’D)

Welcome to the family Andrew.

He holds out his hand. PINE stares at it. And shakes it. They

look eye to eye. Father - son. Criminal - detective. Betrayed

and betrayer.

END:

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