Screen 1
ONE:
Wide, of the cabin. SABRE speaking as much to PAYNE as to the others.
1. SABRE: My task was to deliver it unto the Rose.
2. SABRE: But I wonder, who are you to deliver it to, Mister Payne?
TWO:
On PAYNE, crossing his arms across his chest — and slipping one hand inside his coat as he does so.
3. PAYNE: I believe your Ladyship knows the answer to that already.
THREE:
SABRE looks to the LANTERN. A thin WISP of SMOKE is escaping the glass.
Her expression is more somber.
4. SABRE: Indeed.
FOUR:
SABRE still staring at the LANTERN, as PAYNE watches her. The GUNMEN are exchanging looks — is this our chance?
PAYNE as before.
5. SABRE: And what would the Smoke do with it, I wonder.
6. SABRE: Sell it to the highest bidder? Set the great nations one against the other?
7. SABRE: Or simply keep it for himself…
FIVE:
On PAYNE’S hand, beginning to withdraw from his COAT — he’s holding something.
8. SABRE/off: …and seek to expand his considerable power?
what’s he got in his inside pocket? some nasty gizmo probly.
String, or nothing!
I wonder if what he has “under his coat” has anything to do with the sample of her blood he got earlier.
Would not surprise me. But will she have found a way to render that irrelevant?
“My task was to deliver it unto the Rose.”
The verb tense chosen here has not gone unnoticed…
Love the tension!