Page 149 of The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
Go back to bed.
JONAH
Why are you up anyway?
Holly waves the bottle at him. Beat. Jonah’s air softens, he moves towards her.
HOLLY
What’s The Assembly?
JONAH
Where we hand it over, so others can destroy it.
HOLLY
Is it here? Today?
JONAH
It’s not the alignment yet.
Jonah turns away, slips out. Holly stares at the Baby for a moment, pads from the room …
EXT. DERELICT HOUSE – MORNING
The house stands desolate as traffic ticks by.
INT. KITCHEN, DERELICT HOUSE – DAY
Holly rinses baby bottles in the old sink. Her tired eyes gaze through the broken window on to an untidy yard. She shakes the bottles, crouches to a shelf beneath the sink and stands them carefully to dry. She rises.
A FACE AT THE WINDOW.
Holly gasps in horror, recoils, slips and scrambles away across the floor. The Woman who has been following them, ASHLEIGH (26, angelic) peers in. Around her neck is a simple PENDANT of ANGEL WINGS. Her eyes meet Holly’s as she cowers on the floor.
ASHLEIGH
Hello. Who are you?
Holly’s eyes dart to the stairs and back. She picks herselfup, cautiously nears the window again.
HOLLY
Holly. What do you want?
ASHLEIGH
I need to know you’re OK.
Holly hesitates. Perplexed.
ASHLEIGH
That you’re not being held against your will.
Beat. Holly studies Ashleigh’s face.
