The Night Manager Page #4
Season #1 Episode #4- TV-14
- Year:
- 2016
- 358 min
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WAITER:
Yes!
CORKORAN:
Then why did your ugly little
friend over there tell me that my
lady here could not have a lobster
salad! WHY?
He grabs the salad.
WAITER:
Sir it is for another table.
CORKORAN:
No it’s bloody not.
WAITER:
They pre-ordered this morning sir.
Only the lobster salad for pre-
orders!
CORKORAN:
GET YOUR BLOODY HANDS OFF ME.
JED:
Corky stop it!
But CORKORAN hurls the waiter into an adjoining table and
starts to beat him.
PINE stands. IN a second he has CORKORAN in a hold, and is
hurling him off the waiter and hard on to the floor. Then he
turns, unflappable. He speaks calmly to the other table. With
utter authority.
PINE:
Andrew Birch, pleasure to meet you.
I’m so sorry about my friend. He
got a little intimate with the
rioja. Please feel free to re-order
and the entire evening will be
taken care. With a bottle of the
best champagne on me. I do hope
that’s all right.
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GUESTS:
Of course.
The GUESTS nod, utterly charmed. PINE turns to the HEAD
WAITER.
PINE:
Can I take the bill please? I’ll
pay by card.
ROPER looks on admiringly. PINE turns and smiles at CORKY.
CORKY raises his glass to PINE and then to ROPER.
CORKORAN:
To the victor. And to the blind man
who cannot see the human grenade in
front of his bloody eyes.
He stares at ROPER. Who takes a cursory glance then walks
away.
21 INT. LONDON. RIVER HOUSE. PALFREY’S OFFICE. DAY. 21
HARRY PALFREY sits in his office.
He is opening a brown envelope from what appears to be a
standard internal postal memo about health insurance.
Inside is a letter. Apparently procedural. He stares at it.
“Annual health check with Dr Boatman confirmed. 3pm. The Old
Clinic.”
PALFREY stares at the note. Stares out at GALT and DROMGOOLE.
(If not possible in eye-line, similar to evoke sense of his
paranoia).
22 INT. LONDON. SQUARE. DAY. 22
HARRY PALFREY enters a London square. Approaches a bench. He
sits. A WOMAN sits next to him. Puts her newspaper down
between them. ANGELA BURR.
ANGELA BURR:
Nice and prompt Harry.
And now we see ANGELA BURR is sitting on the bench. PALFREY
checks every street as he speaks.
PALFREY:
What are you doing contacting me
like that? That’s a dead protocol.
ANGELA BURR:
I was in a hurry. Want to see why?
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PALFREY picks up the newspaper. Inside is the document of
Roper’s that PINE photographed. PALFREY stares at it. Halo.
Felix.
PALFREY:
How did you get these?
BURR:
Who are Halo and Felix?
PALFREY looks round, scared.
BURR (CONT’D)
It’s all right, I’m on my own.
Beat. Someone passes, they pause. Then:
BURR (CONT’D)
Richard Roper’s buying arms under
American arms companies. People on
the inside are aiding and abetting.
And getting paid to do so. Five
million dollars.
PALFREY:
I shouldn’t be here.
PALFREY stands.
BURR:
Sit.. Down.
She puts her hand on his. Gently.
BURR (CONT’D)
Harry, listen to me. I like you.
I’ve always liked you, even when I
was at the River House. You’re a
decent man. But you’re too easily
led.
PALFREY:
I didn’t want to be a part of it. I
swear.
BURR:
Who’s Halo?
Beat.
PALFREY:
Dromgoole.
BURR:
Money to cover all River House
expenses yes? Including you?
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Beat. Yes, including him.
BURR (CONT’D)
And who’s Felix?
PALFREY:
Langley in London.
BURR:
Barbara Vandon. What’s Dromgoole
doing for his money?
PALFREY:
Falsifying MOD end-user
certificates.
BURR:
Did you help him with that?
He did.
BURR (CONT’D)
Harry that’s corruption, serious
fraud and a gross abuse of
government. It’s also a long
custodial sentence and a
humiliating end to a decent career.
Is that really what you want?
Beat.
BURR (CONT’D)
Unless...
PALFREY is hooked. He stares, needy.
PALFREY:
What do you want?
23 INT. MALLORCA. PALMA. HOTEL. EVENING. 23
A small, glamorous boutique hotel in Palma. ROPER and PINE
walk and talk quietly, with LANGBOURNE and JED behind. ROPER
preoccupied, a result of the phone call in the restaurant.
PINE:
Everything all right?
ROPER:
Yes fine. We fly tomorrow at ten.
Private jet from the airfield.
Beat. ROPER thinking on his feet.
ROPER (CONT’D)
I have to talk to Sandy. Buy her a
quick drink would you?
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PINE:
Of course.
ROPER:
I’ll only be half an hour.
PINE smiles. ROPER pats him.
ROPER (CONT’D)
You’re a handsome man Andrew. What
would I give to look like you.
PINE not sure what to say.
ROPER (CONT’D)
Mind you. Might not have made my
millions might I?
He smiles and grabs SANDY LANGBOURNE.
ROPER (CONT’D)
Darling the old men need to talk.
Andrew here is offering to buy you
a drink on the terrace. Accept
quick, I see there might be other
takers.
He gestures around the bar to the women who are all eyeing
PINE greedily.
24 EXT. MALLORCA. PALMA. HOTEL. TERRACE. NIGHT. 24
JED and PINE are sitting as a waiter brings cocktails. JED
looks through the window at ROPER in conversation with
LANGBOURNE in the bar.
JED:
You think Corky told him?
PINE:
No I don’t think so. He likes you
too much.
JED:
What is it you’re after Andrew? You
after his money? Or is there
something else going on?
PINE:
I don’t think I can tell you that.
JED:
You don’t trust me?
PINE:
I don’t want to get you hurt.
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Beat.
JED:
Roper’s got a crush on you. You
know that?
PINE:
Maybe.
JED:
Oh he does. He’s taken a real
shine.
PINE stares at ROPER. He knows it’s true.
JED (CONT’D)
So my question is - are you trying
to sleep with me just to get close
to him?
He stares at her. She returns his gaze. Desire fills them
both.
PINE:
What if I was?
JED:
Heat rising between them.
JED (CONT’D)
This trip you’re taking. When will
you be back?
PINE:
I’m not sure I’ll be back at all.
This hits her like a bullet. She stares at him.
JED:
How long are they talking for?
PINE:
He said half an hour.
JED:
Follow me.
She stands.
PINE:
What if he sees us?
JED:
I’m feeling faint. You’re helping
the damsel in distress.
She walks out of the terrace.
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25 INT. MALLORCA. PALMA. HOTEL. CORRIDOR. NIGHT. 25
She is walking fast down the corridor. He is with her.
JED:
Which one is yours?
PINE:
This one.
JED:
Open it.
He gets the room key, opens up. She pushes him inside.
26 INT. MALLORCA. PALMA. HOTEL. PINE’S ROOM. NIGHT. 26
Inside and already she is grabbing him, pure lust, they are
pulling clothes off, kissing, grabbing.
JED:
Don’t tear anything. I have to put
it back on. And don’t use the bed.
He might see you to your door.
She is naked now. She is kissing his stomach. He pulls her to
him.
They begin to make love.
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