EXTERIOR. Albert Docks, Liverpool. midday. Scene 1.

MATTHEW (48, Bald, 5ft 8in) and BRYAN (50, brown hair and Beard, 5ft 5ins) stood on a remote pier with view of the water and the skyline behind. They are bundled up with clothes against the cold. A boat approaches (a RIB with a big engine) containing 3 bodyguards and

the MIDWIFE (Female, 30, Blonde Hair, 5ft 3ins. Business Suit under fur coat with russian style fur hat). She climbs steps onto the pier.

MIDWIFE

(Eastern European Accent)

Hello gentlemen, shall we cut to the chase? Do you have the money?

BRYAN

(New York Jewish American Accent)

You got the goods?

One of the bodyguards hands a briefcase to the MIDWIFE. MATTHEW exchanges a bag for the briefcase. The MIDWIFE passes the bag to a bodyguard to check the money is there. MATTHEW and BRYAN check the briefcase. In the briefcase is a packet and a phone.

Matthew

(New York American Accent)

what's the phone for?

MIDWIFE

The picture on the phone will mean something to your supplier. It conceals a second picture within it that has the formula and other information for the drug. Don't lose it!

BRYAN

Good doing business with you.

The MIDWIFE gets in the boat with her bodyguards and they disappear into the distance. BRYAN rings a contact to get a boat to the pier. The boat takes them through the river into

the dockyards and to a ship. The ship name and AMSTERDAM is painted on the stern of the ship.MATTHEW and BRYAN rush up the steps and are directed through an open door into

the ship. The crew quickly start to get the ship ready to set sail.