1. EXT. EMBANKMENT - DAY
ROS - very very very very late thirties, attractive, intense, very intense - strides purposefully along dressed in a short leather jacket and jeans.
She glances behind her. Is she being tailed?
She spins suddenly right, steps off the footpath into a line of traffic. The traffic stops to admire as she walks across. They know a good actor when they see one.
Flicking lightly through the stopped cars and cabs, she's a silver fish flashing through the dark water, hard to track, elusive.
Suddenly she's looking down on the traffic and people from Hungerford bridge. Standing next to a silver living statue. Is anyone looking for her?
ROS
I think I lost them.
An AMERICAN TOURIST stopped nearby gives her a funny look. Ros reaches for his arm, twists it, bringing him deftly to his knees in front of her.
He whimpers in fear. She pulls her hand back, two fingers held apart, ready to take out his eyes. She stares intensely at him. Very intensely.
A PARENT with a CUTE TODDLER stops to watch.
PARENT
Give the woman a pound, see her move...
The toddler holds out a gold coin.
The camera spins around the tableaux. They are all wearing clothes in shades of perfectly matched steel blue and grey.
Then hard in on Ros. She is intense, very intense, a faint smile on her lips but with that look in her eye that says she could kill you without thinking.
Pointless rain falls. Water slides down Ros's face. Her makeup doesn't run. Special MI5 issue.
A tear runs down the toddlers cheek. Her makeup goes mental.
TODDLER
Mum? I'm scared...
Instinctively Ros looks back down on the Embankment - an urgent face looks up. It's her TAIL. He has her now, runs up the steps, gunning for her.
Sudden blinding movement, a sprinkle of water drops, a gold coin spins in the air... and is caught.
The American Tourist collapses to the ground. The Toddler stares at her empty hand, then at Ros who holds out the coin.
ROS
MI5 doesn't do kids.
Ros smiles her enigmatic smile, then turns and runs down the Bridge towards the Southbank centre...