Page 196 of Murder in the Family

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INFAMOUS

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WHO KILLED LUKE RYDER?

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BLACK FRAME, TEXT APPEARS, with VOICEOVER – narrator (female)

For twenty years the death of Luke Ryder has been an unsolved mystery. The truth has eluded not only the Metropolitan Police, but the thousands of amateur sleuths who’ve pored over the case online.

But now everything we thought we knew about the case has been called into question.

Not only who the victim really was, but why someone might have wanted him dead. And who his killer could have been.

But is the real truth about to be revealed?

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CUT TO: Dorney Place. The team are around the table, alongside Guy and Tarek. Sunlight is streaming inthrough the French windows, they’re all in summer clothes, but the atmosphere is ugly. Dark and ugly.

BILL SERAFINI

So, Alan. Now we’re all here, I think you owe us an explanation.

ALAN CANNING

I don’t think I oweyouanything, mate. You’ve hardly been playing it exactly straight, now have you—

LAILA FURNESS

The rest of us, then. I think we deserve to know, don’t you? Why didn’t you tell anyone about this before?

ALAN CANNING

I did.

LAILA FURNESS

No, you absolutely did not.

The others start chipping in to agree, but then there’s the sound of Nick’s voice.

NICK VINCENT (Producer) – off

Actually, he did.

There’s a silence as the others watch Nick walk round into shot, and take up his favourite position by the window.

He told me.

GUY HOWARD

(gaping at him)

Hetold you? Why the hell didn’t you say something? I’m the bloodydirector—

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