EXT. MOUNTAIN LODGE NURSING HOME- DAY 1 Establish the outside of the home. It is an old Edwardian pile. There are two estate agents PEARSON and EDWARDS outside, Pearson holds a clip board. Edwards has stopped to take a photo. INT. MOUNTAIN LODGE: LOUNGE – DAY 1 OPEN on TV set with the sound low, showing an old fifties Black and White film of bank robbers. In the lounge sitting in chairs watching are SIDNEY, an old rogue of seventy five - who could easily have stepped of the film, LEONARD a mild mannered old man and DOROTHY, a frightfully well spoken elderly “lady”. EDITH, a very, very old person. CHARLIE, who is in a wheel chair, sits further away. Pearson and Edwards are measuring up the lounge around the residents. DOROTHY Do we have to watch this? It’s in black and white. SIDNEY Don’t you want a little nostalgia Dorothy? DOROTHY No, I want the snooker. LEONARD I saw this film at the Regal in Wakefield. EDITH I’ve never been to Wakefield SIDNEY I spent four years there. LEONARD Was that in the war? SIDNEY No, in the prison, I was banged up. Got caught trying to turn over a Jewellery shop. Fortunately Alfie got away. EDITH I thought you were a bank robber. SIDNEY Edith, we robbed safes. Any safe, Alfie was a master safe-cracker, you don’t get craftsman like him any more, and do you know why? They don’t teach ‘em metalwork in school. Edwards and PEARSON exchange looks. SIDNEY notices. SIDNEY (contd) …You got a problem? ESTATE AGENT (PEARSON) No, but we may need you to move in a moment, if we’re not interrupting. SIDNEY Well you are actually. CHARLIE Who are these men? SIDNEY Undertakers, Charlie, they’ve come to measure us up. CHARLIE Bugger off. ESTATE AGENT (PEARSON) We’re auctioneers CHARLIE You can still bugger off. DOROTHY If this place being auctioned, what’s going to happen to us? ESTATE AGENT (PEARSON) I can’t comment on that. LEONARD Are you going to throw us out on the street? ESTATE AGENT (EDWARDS