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 YOUTH
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. As he turns the corner,
another thug pulls out a gun and attacks DAVIDSON, who quickly dispatches the
enemy and stashes his body in the alleyway. As DAVIDSON is about to leave, he
hears footsteps. ZUBASU. The suited brown-faced badass inspects the area, sniffing
about for DAVIDSON who is hidden away. DAVIDSON reaches over for a blunt object,
and is about to cave ZUBASU’s skull in before the latter leaves unexpectedly.
DAVIDSON’s earpiece comes to life.
CAPRIVI (V.O.)
Anderson,
can you hear me?
DAVIDSON
Caprivi?
You’re alive?
CAPRIVI (V.O.)
(Breathing
heavily) You have to leave London. Now.
DAVIDSON
NO,
I’m coming to you.
DAVIDSON
exits the alleyway. CAPRIVI, with his hand over a bloody wound, stumbles across
Horse Guards Parade. CAPRIVI stumbles and falls against a wall. DAVIDSON
sprints down a path to Horse Guards Parade and arrives at Caprivi who has collapsed
onto some steps.
DAVIDSON
We’ve
been compromised.
CAPRIVI
They have Stretzel. The
others…?
DAVIDSON shakes his head woefully.
CAPRIVI
Take – this.
CAPRIVI fumbles around in his bloody pocket for a small note. He
tries to unfold it, but struggles and lets DAVIDSON unfold it. CAPRIVI looks at
his watch.
CAPRIVI
You have ten minutes. After
that -
CAPRIVI taps a detail on the paper saying ‘HUNGERFORD BRIDGE –
N. SIDE’.
DAVIDSON
Who am I meeting?
CAPRIVI
This man…he can protect –
(coughs) Now go.
DAVIDSON
No. Wait, Caprivi, there’s
something I need to tell -
CAPRIVI looks faint and smiles ruefully before his life leaves
his eyes.
DAVIDSON
- You. I’m sorry.
DAVIDSON lets go of CAPRIVI’s body and leans it against the
wall. He places a pair of sunglasses on the dead man’s eyes and stands up.
DAVIDSON
Shit. SHIT.
DAVIDSON fumes. Then he realizes the paper in his hand.
SCENE 2 – EXT. THE HUNGERFORD BRIDGE
DAVIDSON is waiting at the Hungerford Bridge. He checks his
phone for the time. Everyone around him is a potential threat. He is just about
to leave as a man drops a phone into his pocket without him realizing. It
rings. DAVIDSON looks around for the stranger then picks up the phone.
MARIUS (V.O.)
Your phone. Remove the
simcard and destroy it.
DAVIDSON follows the man’s orders and snaps the simcard in half,
tossing it into the Thames. DAVIDSON continues to look around.
MARIUS (V.O. CON'T.)
This is your new phone.
DAVIDSON
Who are you? How do – did -
you know Caprivi?
MARIUS (V.O.)
My name is MAGNUS. You are
AGENT DAVIDSON, a deep cover operative for the L.E.E. -
REVELATION. DAVIDSON looks shocked. DUN.DUN.DUN.
MARIUS
(V.O. CON’T.)
- and we will meet at the
park in Canary Wharf in half an hour. That is all you need to know for now.
MARIUS hangs up. DAVIDSON looks doubtful before leaving the
bridge.
TO.BE.CONTINUED.