147. CONTINUED 147. ROS It may seem an obvious question, but why do you think we won't try to stop you. DA SILVA takes out a mobile phone from a pocket. DA SILVA Your colleague is currently languishing in a cellar unable to move. Near him is a quantity of R6 just ready to explode when the correct tone is played from the telephone answer machine. Unless you let us get safely away, I'll have no hesitation in dialling the number and blowing him up. KENT It's a bluff. CHARLESWORTH It's not. He means it. DA SILVA throws down at BECKETT's feet ED's radio and earpiece. BECKETT That's Ed's radio. But how do we know the rest is true? CHARLESWORTH is becoming worried. He doesn't want to be responsible for ED's life. CHARLESWORTH It is. He killed Vermeer, and he'll kill your friend. DA SILVA You getting squeamish? You wanted to make money out of an explosive. Explosives kill people. CHARLESWORTH But Vermeer is dead. I could take over the company. Sell it legitimately. DA SlLVA Oon't be stupid. DA SILVA lifts his phone up high, so all can see. As he speaks he presses numbers with the fingers of the hand he is holding the phone with using the other hand to hold the gun and cover them. DA SILVA The number is ... 0 ... 8 ... 1 ... 6 ... 4 ... 3 ... ... 1 ... 9 ... 1 ... I only have to press the send button to connect the call. Now, do as I say. 148. INT. CELLAR. CHARLESWORTH'S HOUSE. DAY 148. CLOSER: on the phone. We see the number is exactly as DA SILVA has pressed into the phone. ED is near exhaustion. He reaches for a new hold on a heating pipe and the pipe's bracket gives and falls out. ED bounces down a foot: his body perilously close to the detector. The pipe creaks and bends a little more. 149. EXT. RIVERSIDE. DAY. 149. ** DA SILVA is still holding up his mobile phone, his ** thumb hovering dangerously close to the "send" ** button. ** ** He has used this threat to make ROS, BECKETT and ** KENT load the R6 into his car, which they finish ** doing. ** ** DA SILVA points his gun at BECKETT'S car and ** fires, blowing out the front tyres. ** He moves towards his own car and waves the gun to ** make BECKETT, ROS and KENT step away from it. ** At the driver's door, he stops. ** BECKETT ** What about Ed ...? ** ** DA SILVA smiles ** DA SILVA ** You want to speak to him. ** Let's call him. ** Deliberately he presses the "send" button. ** 150. INT. CELLAR. CHARLESWORTH'S HOUSE. DAY. 150. ED is still hanginq on the creaking, bending pipe. It has bent a little lower The phone begins to ring. ** ED's face shows shock. ** 151.. EXT. RIVERSIDE. DAY. 151. ** Everyone is horrified at what DA SILVA has done. ** ** DA SILVA goes to open his car door and get in, but ** to his surprise, it is CHARLESWORTH who reacts ** first, and launches himself at him in an attempt ** to grab the phone. CHARLEWORTH No. For God's sake ... We don't need to - ** Taken by surprise, DA SILVA falls. The phone ** drops from his hand skids over some cobbles or ** flags before it drops over an edge on to some ** lower area of riverside, or even into a barge. ** BECKETT now leape into the fray and tackles DA SILVA, tryinq to keep his frantically graspinq ** hands away from the gun whlch now lies on the ** ground. BECKETT ** (to ROS) * Get the phone! ROS needs no second bidding, and she is already * chasing the phone. But it has fallen into an inaccessible place. CLOSE on the phone, as ROS desperately tries to * get to it as fast as possible. 152. INT. CELLAR CHARLESWORTH'S HOUSE. DAY. 152. The phone is ringing still. ED makes a leap for the final handhold. He achieves it, and as he does so, tho frail pipe he was holding on to finally collapses, and falls to the ground. ED wastes no time. He grabs the door handle, and pulls it open. He races up the steps to the ground floor. CLOSE ON: the phone and answer machine. The phone stops ringing and the answer machine cuts in We hear the whirr of the cassette starting... 153. EXT. CHARLESWORTH'S HOUSE. DAY. 153. * * ED emerges from a window and runs away across a * bridge . 154. INT. CELLAR. CHARELSWORTH'S HOUSE. DAY 154. The answer machine starts to play the critical note that is the resonant frequency of R6. 155. EXT . CHARLESWORTH'S HOUSE . DAY . 155. * ED is still running fast away from the house and * up the road. There is an enormous explosion. The house erupts in fire. The blast wave knocks ED to the ground. A huge cloud af smoke, and debris envelope the area.