Drama Script Excerpts

New Tricks Series 9 Episode 6
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/newtricks-s9-ep6-love-means-nothing-in-tennis.pdf
Page 28

 PULLMAN

You think they could’ve bumped Alice

off to clear the way for Fawn to

become the top seed?

MCANDREW

People have been killed for less.

LANE, put out, as STANDING finishes on the phone.

STANDING

I’ve got an address for Alice’s dad.

House in east London where his benefit

payments are registered to.

PULLMAN

Benefits?

STANDING

From what I can see, David Kemp hasn’t

worked for the best part of a decade.

PULLMAN considers this as STANDING refers to his notes.

STANDING (CONT’D)

But get this, he’s had twenty-three

different addresses in the past eleven

years, leaving each one owing months

worth of back rent.

(checking his notes)

He owns ten credit cards, each one

maxed out, and at least nine bank

accounts, all overdrawn.

MCANDREW

He must owe thousands.

STANDING

Yeah, he’s a real prince this one. He

walks out when Alice is six and Jess

is one, never pays a penny in child

maintenance, barely keeps in contact

with either of them and then suddenly

decides to make an appearance on the

eve of Alice turning professional,

makes me sick.

PULLMAN

What do you mean?

STANDING

It’s obvious isn’t it? Alice was about

to hit the big time so he was trying

to get a cut of the action.

PULLMAN, considering.

New Tricks - Feb 2012 - 28.

The Walking Dead, Series 4 Episode 12
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts/Shadowplayshooting.pdf
Page 44

If the door was just on the latch

it could've sprung with no damage

to either. Trust me, I lose my

front door key about once a

month...

NICK

Look, we know who started this fire

- we know where and when. What are

you seeking to prove?

Now FRANKIE let her eyes run over the outside of the door.

CUT TO:

INT. HANGER. MOMENTS LATER DAY

Now FRANKIE and NICK carefully puff clean the soot covered

door with tiny bellows.

FRANKIE reacts to something.

FRANKIE

Hit the lights please.

NICK shuts the lights out and FRANKIE switches on the UV torch

- a sabre of blue light cutting through the darkened room.

She trains it over the door revealing a single TRAINER

FOOTPRINT...

CUT TO:

EXT. BACK DOOR, BLOOM HOUSE (FLASHBACK). NIGHT

ANGLE ON, a shoe slamming into the back door - the back door

flying open and wedging tight against the radiator cover.

CUT TO:

INT. HANGER. DAY

NICK

I should've seen this.

I can see that there is a lot more dialouge in the first script than the second, which is much more action and camera shot based. This is because the first script is based on the dialouge and the relationships between the characters and how they solve the case in front of them, where the second is more based on how the characters reatct to events os the storyline. Both scripts cover around a minute of screen time, yet the second script seems to progress the story much more. It also seems much more fast-paaced than the first one, as the second script changes scene three times, where the first is just a part of one scene.