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Agnes of God (Video Transcript) Titles over black. FADE IN: EXT - CONVENT - DAY Whispering of nuns at prayer. DISSOLVE TO: INT - CHAPEL - DAY Nuns at prayer; MOTHER MIRIAM, the Superior closes the gate and locks it. DISSOLVE TO: EXT - COURTYARD - DAY The nuns walking around the courtyard in
Agnes of God
(Video Transcript)
Titles over black.
FADE IN:
EXT - CONVENT - DAY
Whispering of nuns at prayer.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT - CHAPEL - DAY
Nuns at prayer; MOTHER MIRIAM, the Superior closes the gate and locks it.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT - COURTYARD - DAY
The nuns walking around the courtyard in an anticlockwise direction saying the
rosary.
DISSOLVE TO:
INT - CHAPEL - DAY
A line of nuns kneeling at prayer. Closeups of various individuals.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT - CONVENT - NIGHT
A single shot of the building.
INT - TOP CORRIDOR - NIGHT
SISTER MARGUERITE is locking up for the night, shutting doors, turning off
lights, finally walks off down the corridor. Suddenly a terrified scream is
heard, the voice of a young woman.
EXT - CONVENT - NIGHT
Lights in the windows flick on.
INT - TOP CORRIDOR - NIGHT
The nuns are running up the corridor in their night dresses and caps, calling
urgently in French. They reach the door of Sister Agnes' room and try the door.
It is blocked. Pushing harder they see the blood stained figure of SISTER AGNES.
Much alarm and crying...
MOTHER SUPERIOR
Agnes!... Agnes...
EXT - CONVENT - NIGHT
An ambulance comes tearing down the road, siren blaring. It cuts the siren and
stops outside the convent gates. The nuns open the gate and the ambulance drives
inside.
INT - TOP CORRIDOR - NIGHT
Two PARAMEDICS urgently run the stretcher down the hall to the unconscious
figure of Sister Agnes. The Mother Superior desperately wipes and kisses her
face.
PARAMEDIC
I'm just going to put something here to stop the bleeding. Excuse me Sister. She'll be fine.
They lift her on to the stretcher and run back down the
hall. The Mother Superior looks around worriedly and goes into...
INT - SISTER AGNES' ROOM - NIGHT
She kneels down by a waste paper basket full of bloodied sheets and starts to
pull them out. Then she freezes, makes the sign of the cross and starts to weep.
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT - MONTREAL - NIGHT
An aerial shot of the great cross of Montreal. Superimposed over this are the
words "MONTREAL, QUEBEC".
DISSOLVE TO:
EXT - SUPREME COURT - DAY
A normal busy day. A car pulls up with a woman and a man driving. The woman is
MARTHA LIVINGSTON. She kisses the man (LARRY), gets out of the car, runs across
the road dodging traffic and goes up the steps of the courthouse. There a group
of REPORTERS there and a sudden bustle of interest.
REPORTER
Here they are now.
Martha watches intently as 3 nuns, the
Mother Superior, Sister Marguerite, and Sister Agnes (dressed in a white novices
habit) and their LAWYER come out of the court escorted by police. The reporters
leap on them, taking photographs, asking questions in English and French.
Suddenly Sister Agnes looks right at Martha, then she is quickly bustled past.
Martha goes on into the courthouse.
INT - JUDGE'S CHAMBERS - DAY
Inside EVE, LYON, and JUSTICE LEVEAU are sitting. Martha is standing by the
window smoking furiously.
LEVEAU
Martha, it's you.
MARTHA
What about Roger? He's free.
EVE
They want a woman.
LYON
All you have to do is meet with her once or twice... then tell the court she's insane.
MARTHA
Are you dictating my position to me? We're getting into some sticky legal territories here.
EVE
Martha, all we're saying is, no-one wants this to come to trial, not the Church, not the Crown... least of all me.
MARTHA
Eve, she strangled a baby!
EVE
Nobody is interested in sending a nun to prison.
LEVEAU
We're not telling you what to decide Martha. We're not even telling you to take this.
LYON
Is there any reason why you feel you shouldn't take it?
Martha pauses for a long moment at the
window, then turns.
MARTHA
Today's my birthday. I always make bad decisions on my birthday.
The Judge, Eve and Lyon all chuckle. The
Judge throws the file down on his desk towards her.
LEVEAU
Happy birthday.
INT - MARTHA'S APARTMENT - NIGHT
Martha unlocks the door and comes in. She plays her answerphone and moves over
to her cat.
MARTHA
Hi, Kitty.
The answerphone whirs... SECRETARY (Voice-over)
Hi, it's Helen, calling to tell youthat Mrs Davenport phoned to confirm her appointment at nine o'clock tomorrow, okay? Bye bye.
Some whirs and clicks.
ROGER (Voice-over)
