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FindersWith award winning playwright, Rod Dungate, Liz has developed one of her many ideas for television, Finders. The first episode The Tears of Solomon is written, 5 more planned. SynopsisFinders finds people - young, old, people who’ve lost their ways and people who are making a new start. On occasions even people who have met violent deaths. The Finders team see it all: some cases have happy endings, some not, often they have no formal endings at all - because life just isn’t neat and tidy. Five are in the Finders team: divorced Paula, in her forties, who is psychic. Her daughter, Alison, who ran away from home, is in a coma after a drug overdose. Alison is put on life support, & Paula is torn between her loyalty to Colin, the man who gives her love, understanding and stability, and her daughter, over whom she is fiercely protective and still feels wracked with guilt. Victoria, never Vicky, ex police is married to Jason who is still in the force. Passed over for promotion Victoria left the police and has a point to prove, not least of all to herself. Parveen in her twenties, ace driver who has a lost brother: from a Moslem family which presents its own conflicts of family tradition versus job. Parveen breaks the rules. Wang, counsellor and IT whiz, married to poet and artist Su Li. Two fostered children keep them busy. Su Li’s son from her first marriage was abducted by her first husband, Wang always hopes in the course of his work he will find him for her. Australian Scott, 32, handsome, tough, athletic, gay and profoundly deaf as a result of a diving accident. Often the Finders team have fun in their work when they enjoy a meal together at Wang’s At other times they are in great danger as when Scott rooting around in the cellar of a house belonging to a suspected serial killer doesn’t hear the return of the owner. Or Parveen, petrified of water after a childhood incident, finds herself thrown off a boat to drown when working under cover tracking down a missing teenager who is involved in more than prostitution . The Finders office is in the centre of Birmingham,. The West Midlands is home to many, diverse communities and all have their stories to tell for better or worse and their work takes them all over the country. The team are friends as well as colleagues and their lives don’t stand still. Nor are their personal lives completely separate from their working lives. How could they be? Their jobs impact on their lives when they become too involved with a client, or perhaps when a search for a missing person so closely parallels their own tragic involvement with missing family or friends that their lives are never the same again. Extract from FindersEPISODE ONE - TEARS OF SOLOMON FADE IN: INT. DINING ROOM - WANG'S HOUSE. NIGHT. A warm, tasteful and friendly room. The Finders team, PAULA (42), WANG (38), VICTORIA (35), PARVEEN (28) and SCOTT (32) with respective partners, COLIN (46), SU LI (37), and JASON (39) are enjoying a happy meal at Wang's and his wife Su Li. (Scott's partner, Patrick is absent and Parveen is unattached. There is some general laughter and chatter. Parveen is telling a joke. PARVEEN Groans from some, in the mood for being silly and GIGGLES from others. Wang raises his glass which is empty. WANG Wang looks across at his wife SU LI
Wang rises and moves to the kitchen, the CHATTER continues. SU
LI (CONT'D) VICTORIA SCOTT PARVEEN
EXT. STREET An elderly woman, HILDA GOLDBLUM dressed only in her night clothes stumbles around the corner. She races frantically along the pavement. Her BREATHING's harsh and laboured. A sinister, black saloon car turns into the street its headlights catch the fleeing old lady. She stops and turns, her terrified face is caught in the car headlights and she muffles a scream as she focuses on the car.
EXT. STREET - NIGHT SUPER: 1942 The car appears as an armoured SS vehicle with its red Nazi motif, moving slowly along the blitzed streets of night-time Berlin. There are flares and flashes.
EXT. STREET - NIGHT THE PRESENT SUPER: THE PRESENT Hilda WHIMPERS and runs desperately up the driveway of a house and HAMMERS on the door. Curtains twitch and a face looks out but no-one will admit this `mad' old woman. She blunders back down the path and tries another house, and SCREAMS to be let in but no-one stirs.
INT. DINING ROOM - WANG'S HOUSE The dinner party are having coffee and still drinking wine. VICTORIA SCOTT PARVEEN PAULA She smiles at her partner Colin who gives her hand a squeeze. SCOTT The others
respond with "Oh yeah?" " It's quality not
EXT. STREET - NIGHT Hilda rushes up the driveway of Wang's house. She can hear the LAUGHTER outside. The soft light's spilling through the chinks in the curtain. The sinister vehicle cruises slowly and threateningly towards the driveway. Hilda BEATS frenziedly on Wang's front door and the house falls silent. We hear a car DOOR open and slam.
EXT. STREET - NIGHT THE PRESENT
SUPER:1942 The door of an army jeep closes and we hear a soldier SHOUT and the sound of feet, MARCHING feet.
EXT. OUTSIDE WANG'S HOUSE - NIGHT SUPER: THE PRESENT Hilda WAILS in fear and BANGS again. Wang opens the door, with Su Li behind him, and Hilda pushes her way in.
INT. WANG'S HALLWAY Hilda collapses in a heap BABBLING incoherently. HILDA Su Li holds Hilda while Wang looks out through the door.
EXT. STREET The street looks almost deserted, the rain's driving down. We see down the driveway from Wang's POV. There's nothing. A CAR moves away and Wang shuts out the night.
INT. WANG'S DINING ROOM. NIGHT. Su Li has wrapped the old lady in a blanket. She wipes her rain drenched face with a towel and then holds her trying to calm her pitiful SOBBING. The dinner party's forgotten, the atmosphere shattered, the team are trying to decide what to do. JASON VICTORIA JASON VICTORIA PAULA JASON At the mention of the word `hospital' and `police', Hilda becomes even more HYSTERICAL and tries to wrigglefree.
HARD CUT TO: A SERIES OF HARD CUT MEMORIES 1942 SUPER:1942 The SS police, the barbed wire of a concentration camp, experiments performed on screaming children by men in sterile white coats.
INT. DINING ROOM. - NIGHT SUPER: THE PRESENT Hilda lifts up her arms in supplication. She whispers. HILDA Her dressing gown sleeve falls back revealing her Auschwitz number branded on her forearm. The team are shocked into silence. Paula kneels down beside her. PAULA Paula takes Hilda's arm and as she does so, the shock of a memory waves over her, she `sees' Hilda's visions. PAULA
(CONT'D)
EXT. PRISON CAMP - NIGHT 1942 Two ten year old GIRLS in the concentration camp at night behind a prison hut. One's keeping watch, whilst the other is searching for something on the ground. We see she's poking about in recently defecated stools. Something sparkles in the debris, she retrieves a number of jewels. The lookout, Hilda, hisses a warning.
HILDA She runs to the other girl's side as a GUARD (26) approaches who spots them and SHOUTS in German. HILDA
(CONT'D) GUARD GIRL HILDA GIRL The girl passes the jewels to Hilda who makes a dash for it. The guard reaches the other girl and he drags her away. Hilda dodges between huts and hurriedly washes the gems in a muddy puddle before swallowing them.
INT. SITTING ROOM - NIGHT - THE PRESENT Hilda looks up pleadingly into Paula's face and gasps. HILDA
INT. HALLWAY AND STAIRS WANG'S. NIGHT. The commotion has disturbed Wang and Su Li's two small foster children, JULIE - 6 and PETER - 4, who've come out from their bedrooms and are on the stairs, rubbing their eyes. JULIE Su Li enters the hall. SU LI She ushers them back up the stairs to their rooms.
INT. LIVING ROOM The Finders are in deep discussion about what's best to do. The table's still laid with desserts, a cheese board and coffee. WANG PARVEEN PAULA COLIN PAULA Colin throws a look which shows his disapproval. PAULA
(CONT'D) She looks at him, and signs. PAULA
(CONT'D) SCOTT VICTORIA JASON VICTORIA
EXT. STREET The sinister, saloon car pulls away and moves slowly past the house and turns the corner.
EXT. DRIVEWAY It's stopped raining. Victoria and Jason are helping bewildered Hilda, wrapped in a borrowed coat and blanket, into their car. Victoria sits in the back with her to comfort her. Paula and Parveen watch from the drive and return to the house as the car pulls away.
EXT. STREET As Jason's car pulls away and Paula and Parveen turn back to the house, the black saloon turns into the bottom of the road and pauses. It's clearly travelled around the block and pulls out from the shadows and follows Jason's car.
EXT. STREET. Shot of Hilda's frightened face peering through the rear rain spattered, windscreen of the car. Her tears mingle with the raindrops until the back wiper blade wipes away what was left of the rain.
EXT. OFFICE BLOCK BIRMINGHAM CITY - DAY Establishing shot of a building housing the Finders' office.
INT. FINDERS OFFICE Parveen's catching up on some paper work, Paula is filing and Scott's on the computer, closing completed case files. The talk has been of the night before when they are interrupted by an unpleasantly assertive woman, middle aged, smartly dressed - KIRSTY FLETCHER.
PARVEEN KIRSTY PARVEEN KIRSTY Parveen bristles at this. She goes to respond but Kirsty interrupts her, pointing at Paula KIRSTY
(CONT'D) PAULA Paula and Parveen exchange a look as if to say, "Got out of that!" The office door opens, and Colin enters. COLIN Paula closes the filing cabinet and exits with Colin, leaving Kirsty nonplussed. Kirsty spots Scott and settles herself into the seat opposite him. KIRSTY We see the expression on Scott's face " what the f....?"
INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE OFFICE - DAY Colin has his arms around Paula, they're enjoying a tender moment. COLIN PAULA COLIN PAULA
INT. OFFICE Kirsty's trying to explain to Scott what she wants and is further put out because Scott's deaf. KIRSTY SCOTT KIRSTY SCOTT KIRSTY SCOTT KIRSTY Scott makes a note on his PC. KIRSTY
(CONT'D)
Liz Spear co-wrote
Finders with Rod Dungate his web sites are:
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