Issue 4
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Script:
FORAY 4 - "GHOSTS"
19.45, same day as end of F#3. Sue Kirk leaves Centre Point. She is
wearing a coat and has an umbrella, because its January and its cold
and its raining. She has a slimline executive briefcase. She crosses
Oxford Street and walks along the streets up towards Telecom Tower,
passing wine bars etc, until she ducks into the passageway leading to
Colville Mews. She enters 17a. Picks up letter, puts on coffee table
with briefcase.
Takes off her coat, shes wearing the outfit as described in F#3. She
lights a fire thats been set by her "daily", draws the
curtains, takes
off her tie and loosens a couple of buttons on her shirt, kicks off
her shoes, puts a tape in the stereo - Vivaldi - Flute Concerto
"La Notte".
Picks up a framed photograph, Stephen Tyler, at a polo match, looking
very Steve McQueen... she strokes his face in the picture. Memories of
Paris, baking bread and Gauloise, rain in the chestnut trees... Enters
kitchen, pours glass of wine, goes upstairs with wine and picture.
Enters bathroom, starts water running, enters bedroom tosses
photograph onto bed - duvet, neatly spread and folded open. Takes off
jacket, skirt and shirt, revealing expensive silk outfit, this is one
very sensuous woman!
50 minutes later, Sue in bedroom tying cord of Japanese silk kimono,
black with fire-breathing dragon on back. Duvet on bed is rumpled,
pillows have moved. Her hair is wet.
Downstairs, puts photo back, pops M&S seafood pasta into microwave,
changes tape - Dan Fogelberg
"Innocent age", pours glass of wine,
plays telephone answer machine messages - Nigel Frobisher of Merrill
Lynch, can they do lunch? Her mother - younger sister Jenny in trouble
at school, could Sue phone the headmistress?
Gets pasta from microwave, sits on couch with feet up, eats from
plastic tray with a fork, wine on coffee table. Opens letter - an
offer from a recruitment agency.....
Finishes meal, opens briefcase takes out three slim folders, opens one
- she cannot concentrate. Memories intrude, of Sir Edward, looking
like Stewart Grainger, remembers he once described Foray as "an
honorable man".... pictures Foray.. Did you kill them? Can I work
with
you?
Stands, throws plastic tray away, pours third glass of wine, turns
tape off, stands staring into fire, one hand at her throat....
smiles.., loads new tape - Billy Joel, "An innocent Man".
Tears up
agency letter, sits, opens folder and begins to read......
Next morning, Sue arrives at her office 8.15, Linda Dalston is already
there, Sue says can Mr. Foray please pop in and see her as soon as he
arrives - Linda says the night security man left a message - Mr. Foray
called, he left on the 7.00 Concorde for New York.....
TO BE CONTINUED