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THE BLIND BANKER SHOOTING (DRAFT 8) GREEN 16-02-10 1 INT. MUSEUM - ANTIQUITIES ROOM. DAY 1 Chinese music. Plucked strings, a bamboo flute - delicate; serene. A woman’s hand. She pours green tea from a Chinese tea set. The woman is SOO LIN YAO. Pale, young, beautiful - a fragile little doll. Her security badge says ‘BRITISH MUSEUM’. The Chinese Antiquities Room in the museum. Glass cabinets bursting with Oriental artefacts. The sun streams through the high windows. A demonstration. SOO LIN exhibits the tea ceremony to the tourists that pass by. People chatter and take photographs. SOO LIN The great artisans say - the more the tea pot is used, the more beautiful it becomes. (Pours the tea) The pot is seasoned by repeatedly pouring tea over the surface. Wipes the surface of the clay. It gleams. SOO LIN The deposit left on the clay creates this beautiful patina, over time. Some pots - the clay has been burnished by tea made over four hundred years ago. A party of school children watching her. She offers the cup to a BOY. He takes it nervously and sips. SOO LIN You drink from the pot that served Tan Lun himself. Great General of the Ming Dynasty. 2 INT. MUSEUM - ANTIQUITIES ROOM. DAY 2 The day ending. POV security camera. Tourists flock towards the exit. ANDY GALBRAITH. Museum staff - mid 20s. An archeology graduate. Sexy in a geeky way. ANDY watches SOO LIN meticulously pack away her tea set. He is enchanted by this exquisite but remote girl. Clumsily he tries to flirt. 1. THE BLIND BANKER SHOOTING (DRAFT 8) GREEN 16-02-10 ANDY Four hundred years old. And they’re letting you use it to make yourself a cuppa. SOO LIN Some things aren’t supposed to sit behind glass. They’re made to be touched - to be handled. She turns. He is looking straight at her. ANDY (Softly) Some things. Embarrassed, she looks away. SOO LIN These pots need attention. The clay is cracking. ANDY I can’t see how a tiny splash of tea is gonna help. SOO LIN Sometimes you have to look hard at something -