Final Shooting Script

SINS OF THE MARTYR

SCREENPLAY BY

Philip Smith & Nicholas Ashurst

BASED ON A CHARACTER CREATED BY

Nicholas Ashurst & Lee Davidson

SCENE 1 – LONDON - INT. CHARING CROSS UNDERGROUND STATION

Darkness. Train lights quickly illuminate the tunnel as the train emerges. JIM gets out of the train, looks around then heads for the stairs. DAVIDSON steps into view.

DAVIDSON

Just got off the train right now. We’ve arrived at Charing Cross.

He watches as JIM crosses the walkway above, and trails him through the underground station.

DAVIDSON (CON’T.)

I’m in pursuit.

CAPRIVI is elsewhere, his voice coming from DAVIDSON’s earpiece.

CAPRIVI (V.O

Good. Keep following him.

DAVIDSON follows JIM through the tunnels beneath Trafalgar Square and makes his way up the stairs of the subway exit.

SCENE 2 - EXT. TRAFALGAR SQUARE

JIM is out of sight.

DAVIDSON

I’ve lost him. He’s somewhere in the Square. Yung, do you have visual?

YUNG is watching from the balcony in front of the National Gallery, coffee in hand.

YUNG

Yeah. (Yawns) He’s just gone round the Column.

DAVIDSON walks along the road at the edge of the Square.

DAVIDSON

Yes, I can see him.

YUNG

He’s moving towards my position. Looks like he’s carrying a case.

DAVIDSON

A case? You sure? He didn’t have that on the train.

JIM sets the case down on the edge of the fountain. He begins to open it.

YUNG

I can get in for a closer look.

DAVIDSON

We have to make sure it’s clear. Palmer?

Davidson’s voice emerges from a fallen earpiece. A dead man is dragged away from the edge of the roof.

DAVIDSON (CON’T.)

Palmer? Caprivi, do we know if there’s a meeting about to place?

CAPRIVI is walking through a darkened walkway, consuming a meaty burger. A Slender-Man like figure follows in the shadows, albeit much shorter and browner.

CAPRIVI

I don’t know. We can’t risk it. Tell Yung to fall back.

YUNG

We have to go NOW.

DAVIDSON

Caprivi’s orders are to stand down! Yung?

YUNG

FUCK IT!

Yung rips the earpiece from his ear and casts it down into the Costa abyss.

DAVIDSON

Sir, he’s gone dark.

CAPRIVI

You have to stop him.

DAVIDSON hangs up. As YUNG makes his way from the balcony and down the stairs DAVIDSON starts moving. YUNG reaches the fountain as DAVIDSON makes a mighty leap over the wall into the Square. ZUBASU appears behind an agitated CAPRIVI. YUNG and JIM briefly exchange glances as DAVIDSON stops in the middle of the Square. Pause. Everything is at a standstill. Bang. YUNG is dead. His glasses float away.

DAVIDSON

Yung is down. I repeat Yung is down.

Silence. No response.

JIM shuts the case. DAVIDSON starts moving towards JIM, but two men approach from across the Square and lead JIM and the case away. One of them starts to follow DAVIDSON.

DAVIDSON (CON’T.)

Hello? Hello? … God damn it.

DAVIDSON crosses the Square and enters the toilets. The man follows him in, and, as the lift elevates, he and DAVIDSON engage in brutal combat, culminating rather bloodily. DAVIDSON exits the lift at the top, leaving the dead body behind him. He wipes the blood from his knuckles and tosses the handkerchief to the floor. He walks over to the balcony and looks down at YUNG’s body, as a local youth prods it.

RANDOM LOCAL FELON

You alright, mate?

A woman (or perhaps an effeminate man) screams at the sight of the deceased thug in the elevator, so DAVIDSON quickly makes his escape into a nearby alley.