The Night Manager

1 EXT. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA HARBOUR. DAY. EXT. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA HARBOUR. DAY. 1

TITLE:
MILITARY ZONE: ALEXANDRIA HARBOUR, EGYPT

The ship LEILA JANE is docked in a guarded military section

of Alexandria’s harbourside.

The same LATVIANS that we saw in episode 4 are lowering the

cranes with over forty huge containers. The LATVIAN LEADER

leads the operation.

Container after container after container.

Taken off, stored in a huge warehouse away from the sea.

Each labelled. TRADEPASS.

A delivery of death in an ocean of commerce.

2 INT. PRIVATE JET. MID-FLIGHT. DAY. 2

The Roper private jet flies over the Mediterranean. Pine sits

across from Richard Roper. JED is next to ROPER. ROPER has

her hand in his. PINE watches. ROPER smiles, sips from a

glass. The radio comes on-

RADIO VOICE:

Fifteen minutes to touchdown sir.

2a INT. SAFE HOUSE. EGYPTIAN DESERT. DAY. 5 YEARS EARLIER. 2a

SOPHIE and PINE. All those years ago.

PINE:

Why do you call him the worst man

in the world?

SOPHIE:

Because he sells destruction.

3 EXT. CAIRO. AIRPORT. RUNWAY. DAY. 3

PINE’s face. He and ROPER, JED, FRISKY, TABBY, LANGBOURNE,

and other BODYGUARDS descend from the aeroplane on to the

burning Cairo tarmac.

PINE stares at the tarmac. Feels the heat.

4 EXT. CAIRO. STREETS. LIMOUSINE. DAY. 4

A luxury Mercedes limo takes PINE, ROPER and JED through the

streets he used to know so well.

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ARAB MEN and WOMEN are on the streets selling and buying.

It’s quiet. None of the joy of the Arab Spring all those

years ago.

And noticeable on every street corner, EGYPTIAN SOLDIERS,

armed, machine guns, watching, keeping an eye, ensuring the

security of the state.

4a INT. CHICAGO HOUSE. EGYPTIAN DESERT. 5 YEARS EARLIER. 4a

PINE and SOPHIE are making love, he is kissing her bruised

face.

5 INT. CAIRO. NEFERTITI HOTEL. LIMOUSINE. DAY 5

The car is drawing up to an area of Cairo that PINE

recognises. His breath shortens slightly.

PINE:

Where are we staying?

ROPER:

Freddie’s put us up in one of his

places. Meant to be good I hear.

PINE swallows slightly. The limo is approaching the

NERFERTITI HOTEL.

JED smiles but it’s an effort. ROPER takes her firmly by the

arm.

ROPER (CONT’D)

Cheer up darling. You’re on

holiday, remember?

6 EXT. CAIRO. NEFERTITI HOTEL. DAY. 6

The limo draws up and PINE gets out. He puts his sunglasses

on. He checks the hotel bellboys and PORTERS. No faces that

recognise him.

He walks in after ROPER and JED. LANGBOURNE, FRISKY, TABBY

accompany.

7 INT. CAIRO. NEFERTITI HOTEL. RECEPTION. DAY. 7

They walk in. The same hotel lobby. The same reception desk.

The same staircase, the one Sophie walked up on her doomed

return.

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7a INT. NEFERTITI HOTEL. RECEPTION. CAIRO. FIVE YEARS EARLIER.7a

SOPHIE ALEKAN, sunglasses on although it is night, is

walking through the hotel reception on her enforced return.

JONATHAN PINE watches helpless from the manager’s desk.

8 INT. CAIRO. NEFERTITI HOTEL. CORRIDOR. DAY. 8

They are all walking along the corridor following EGYPTIAN

PORTERS who have their cases. FRISKY and TABBY frame the

retinue.

8a INT. NEFERTITI HOTEL. NIGHT. 5 YEARS EARLIER. 8a

PINE is running down the corridor towards an open door, and

into a hotel room....

8b INT. CAIRO. NEFERTITI HOTEL. CORRIDOR. DAY. 8b

A PORTER takes bags as ROPER and JED stop at the door of the

Hatshepsut suite. The door opens.

PINE stares. The Hatshepsut Suite. The same suite Sophie

Alekan stayed in. ROPER opens the door. PINE can see in.

ROPER:

Time for a snooze amongst the

pharaohs. Meet you for supper. 8pm

all right?

8c INT. HATSHEPSUT SUITE. NEFERTITI HOTEL. FIVE YEARS EARLIER.8c

PINE is staring at the dead body of SOPHIE ALEKAN being

covered by sheets as a POLICEMAN asks questions he does not

even hear.

9 INT. CAIRO. NEFERTITI HOTEL. CORRIDOR. DAY. 9

The door of the suite is shut.

PINE stands alone in the corridor outside the room. His body

shaking slightly.

Memories flooding in.

TITLE:
THE NIGHT MANAGER

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10 INT. LONDON. FCO. JOINT STEERING COMMITTEE. DAY. 10

We are right in the middle of the joint steering committee

review into Limpet, a small Whitehall chamber lined with

history and power.

DROMGOOLE is there, with PALFREY, who is looking pale. With

GALT. Other INTELLIGENCE MANDARINS.

And BARBARA VANDON.

ANGELA BURR is there, alone. Very alone.

And convening the meeting is the PERMANENT SECRETARY herself.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

Aside from the money wasted, and

the embarrassment to our American

friends...

BARBARA VANDON acknowledges the apology.

PERMANENT SECRETARY (CONT’D)

... the debacle at the Turkish

Syrian border has put us back five

years in terms of intelligence

sourcing with Syria and the Middle

East. I’m extending the meeting so

we can explore the reasons why the

operation went ahead with such

corrupted intelligence, and what

lessons can be learnt to ensure

this never happens again.

Later:
BURR is giving evidence.

PERMANENT SECRETARY (CONT’D)

What led you to believe that

British arms were being exported

under the counter through

Tradepass?

BURR:

I was shown fake MOD end-user

certificates for seven different

arms companies. UK and US.

DROMGOOLE:

Do you mean these?

And BURR stares. DROMGOOLE is holding up the certificates.

BURR:

Yes.

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DROMGOOLE:

These are genuine MOD export

certificates. For Bulgaria and

Italy.

BURR:

That’s not true.

DROMGOOLE:

I have signed letters from both

Italian and Bulgarian governments

confirming the sale.

He hands her the letters. BURR stares.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

I spoke to Rex Mayhew during his

handover, before he joined the

Royal Commission. He said you

persuaded someone to leak

intelligence from the River House.

Someone you referred to as the

Boatman?

HARRY PALFREY’s face is frozen.

BURR:

I’ve never heard of such a person.

DROMGOOLE:

Then how did you get your hands on

the certificates? They’re

classified material.

BURR stares at him.

BURR:

An angel gave them to me. With a

halo.

Beat.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

You do understand the seriousness

of this enquiry Ms Burr?

BURR is silent. PALFREY’s face is one of racked tension.

Later:
BURR pale, exhausted. The interrogation has been

relentless and she is 8 months pregnant and feeling it.

PERMANENT SECRETARY (CONT’D)

Let’s move on to the arms swoop

itself.

(MORE)

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PERMANENT SECRETARY (CONT’D)

Based on what we now know to be

flawed intelligence, you authorised

through an American enforcement

connection, and behind the FCO’s

back, a full US military raid on

twenty aid trucks crossing the

Turkish-Syrian border.

BURR:

Rex Mayhew authorised it. Not me.

PERMANENT SECRETARY

On his last day. And on your cast-

iron guarantee that the

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