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Black screen with ‘Lovett & Die Episode Fourteen.’ in white text. The text fades out and white text ‘Don’t Let the Fire Rush to Your Head’ the text fades and leaves a black screen
Fade from black to the inside of Die’s Jaguar. Die is driving and Lovett is in the passenger seat looking at her phone. They are driving through a busy part of central London.
Lovett: “Do you have to drive this slowly?”
Die: “You do see this traffic right?”
Lovett: “We need to get lights and a siren on this thing.”
Die: “On a car that belongs to the British secret intelligence service?”
Lovett: “Fair point. But you drive like my Nan.”
Die stops the car at a red light. Die look at Lovett.
Die: “I’ll have to meet her someday.”
Lovett: “On No! I’m not having the pair of you ganging up me.”
Die: “As if I would!”
Lovett: “Yeah you would.”
Lovett looks up from her phone for the first time and pokes her tongue out at Die as he laughs and she looks back down at her phone and without looking up
Lovett: “Lights green nana.”
Die: “What?”
Die looks out at the road
Die: “I knew that.”
Die puts the car into gear.
Lovett: “We’re nearly at the end of our journey.”
She holds up her phone showing Die the satnav map she has been looking at on her phone.
Die: “Not long to go now.”
Cut to outside the car we watch it pull away from the traffic lights. A slowly fade to black as the ominous start of ‘Sirius’ by the Alan Parson Project beginnings to swell up.
Fade out from black to a low-level shot of a pair of black boots walking down a hotel corridor.
The camera falls behind and we see the back of a tall man in all black with a huge long black rucksack on his back the man’s footstep are in time with the bass drum of the song.
The first power cord of the song plays as the man stops in front of a door and knocks on it once hard. A man in shirt tie and trousers answers the door he looks surprised and is about to say something when the man in black grabs him by the throat and pushes him backwards into the room. That door closes on us. The room number is 101.
Cut to the inside of the hotel room. The man in the shirt and tie is lying face down dead on the floor his neck broken and his eyes open. The tall man is putting on a pair of black gloves and he moves to a table in the room and knocking all the stuff off a table, moves the table to the big hotel window. He places the big black rucksack on it. He looks out the window. He turns back to the table and the rucksack and he starts taking out parts of a large rifle from the rucksack. As ‘Sirius’ plays on we watch the man put together the rifle and a tripod. Closes up shots of him putting the gun together. Finally he slams the bullet magazine into the gun and attaches the gun to the tripod. Then from the rucksack, he pulls a large riflescope and attaches it to the gun. The man pushes the tripod forward until the end of the barrel of gun nearly touches the glass of the window. The man takes out a mobile phone from his jacket pocket and looks at it. He runs a finger over the screen and then puts it back into his pocket. He then slowly rests his shoulder into the butt of the gun and looks into the scope.
The music mixes into the song ‘Eye in the Sky’ as the first lyrics “Don’t think sorry’s easily said” are sung the view cuts to looking out from the scope. We see with the scope cross hairs, a busy street with a row of shops and flats above then. The scope slowly pans round a little; we see the glass front of the shops and people walking along the pavement. The scope moves round until we rest on a young woman with a pushchair the lyrics “I can read your mind (looking at you), I can read your mind (looking at you), I can read your mind” are heard as the cross hairs rest on the woman’s forehead and then slowly we pan down to the head of the toddler in the chair. The cross hair rest there for a while.
The scope then lazily moves round again and we hear “I am the eye in the sky. Looking at you.” being sung as the cross hairs stop on the head of a young man in a hoody who is talking on his phone. The scope then slowly moves (the song is still playing and has got to “I am the eye in the sky. Looking at you”) to a No Parking sign by the edge of the road; on the bottom right hand side of the sign is a small triangular purple piece of fabric slightly moving in the wind. Cut to the man pulling back from the scope and adjusting the scope.
The man settles his shoulder and face back to the gun and looks through the scope again. From the scope view, we are looking at the road in front of the no parking sign when a black Jaguar F type pulls to a stop in front of it. The scope moves to the passage door as Lovett (wearing her red coat) gets out and closes the door behind her (we don’t hear anything other than the song) and she moves to the pavement where Die is getting out of the drives door.
The song is on it last few lines now.
Still from the scopes view and only with us hearing the song we see Lovett and Die talking while standing next to the car. “I can cheat you blind. And I don’t need to see any more to know that…” is sung as Lovett turns her back to us looks up at the flat above the shop in front of her. The cross hairs are dead between her shoulders.
“I can read your mind (looking at you). I can read your mind (looking at you)” Die is looking around and he sees the small triangular purple piece of fabric. “I can read your mind (looking at you). I can read your mind” we hear the gun fire and Die pushes Lovett out the way and takes the hit full in the middle of his chest and crashes into the glass window of the shop behind him. Cut to the man looking up from the scope in surprise.
Man in black “Der’mo!”
The man in black looks back into the scope, and cut back to the scope’s view; we can just see Die lying in the shop window there are people everywhere now getting in the way, and we just see glimpses of Lovett. She is kneeling down next to Die and she is on her phone screaming at it but we don’t hear her just the guitar of the song as it starts to fade.
Cut to the man lean back from the scope and he whisper.s
The man in black: “Vezuchiy suka.”
The man stands and leaves everything he brought with him and walks to the hotel door. Fade to black.