Scene 26

Mark and Daniel are sat in Daniels office at the desk looking over the laptop. Louise is sat at her desk writing.

Louise:
So let me get this straight. They got the line from us?

Mark ignores her for a second.

Mark:
That’s good… Yeah… You think you might want to use a word over two syllables at any point.

Daniel stops writing.

Daniel:
Louise asked you a question.

Mark spins in his chair to face her.

Mark:
Yeah, we gave the script to around thirty people for testing.

Louise:
What sort of people.

Mark:
Friends. Family

Mark stands up and walks over to a bowl of fruit and grabs some grapes.

Mark:
Employee’s, ex employees.

Daniel turns around in his chair also.

Daniel:
Even Chloe’s read it.

Mark:
Sure she’s not the leak?

Daniel laughs.

Daniel:
No way

Louise:
You sure she was pretty annoyed at you yesterday.

Daniel:
She wouldn’t leak it.

Mark:
Why?

Daniel:
She never got through the whole show. She didn’t like it.

Mark:
Dump her, get rid, right now.

Louise:
So who do you think did leak it?

Daniel:
My bet is that was that guy from human resources who didn’t like you.

Mark:
Yeah he was weird.

Louise:
Why didn’t he like you?

Mark:
He was going out with Anni.

Louise:
Now that makes sense.

Mark: N
o he wasn’t clever enough to leak it, whoever it was would have to have been close with a member of press.

Louise:
Probably your ex-girlfriend

Mark’s face drops, Daniel smiles and points at Louise.

Daniel:
There you go, she’s solved it.

Mark shakes his head.


Mark:
No way. No way she wouldn’t do it to me.

Anni walks in.

Mark:
Trust me Anni I’m fine you don’t have to keep checking in on me.

Anni:
I know who published the first story.

Mark:
 Who?

Anni:
 Elizabeth

Daniel’s eyes widen and he looks nervously towards Louise. Mark is clearly stunned.

Mark:
Elizabeth who?

Anni:
She wrote it on her blog. Mark the papers and news outlets picked it up from there.

Mark:
Elizabeth who?

Anni:
You know who Mark.

Mark slams his fist on the table.

Mark:
God dammit.

Anni:
Calm down.

Mark:
I’m going to kill her. I swear she just wants to ruin my life.

Mark grabs his things and goes to leave.

Daniel:
What are you going to do?

Mark stops in threshold of the door.

Mark:
I’m going to pay that manipulative devil a visit and find out why she wants to ruin my life.

Mark storms out of the office. Anni stops by the door and shouts out to him.

Anni:
Do you want me to make an appointment?

Mark shouts back from out of shot.

Mark:
NO!

Anni disappears, Louise leans over towards Daniel.

Louise:
I wish I could be a fly on that wall.

Daniel:
I don’t.

They smile and return to there work. End scene. End scene