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Downton Abbey: Season 3 Episode 1
Scene 1
INTERIOR, LIBRARY: A tour guide in his early 20s leads a group of children through Downton Abbey’s large library. With one or two exceptions, the children all look down at mobile phones and portable gaming devices. A pair of adults (presumably teachers) follow on behind.
TOUR GUIDE: As you can see, the library remains in an excellent state of preservation. Some of these books are more than one hundred years old.
TEACHER (Trying to stir up some kind of interest in his students): Is it possible that this library was ever the scene of some kind of intrigue? A visit from some old face from a forgotten past, perhaps? Scandalous liaisons? That kind of thing?
TOUR GUIDE: Probably not, no. This is where people read books and wrote letters.
TEACHER: Oh.
Scene 2
INTERIOR, STAFF ROOM: Three tour guides sit around a long table. One (female) is reading a paperback copy of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Another (male) is smoking a cigarette and absent-mindedly flicking through a tabloid newspaper. The third is drinking a cup of tea.
Tour Guide 3: I just know there’s more to life than this, you know? I can’t believe I was destined for a life of drudgery, showing uninterested kids around a big old mansion, telling them about old tapestries and the like.
Tour Guide 1: Oh aye? Got delusions of grandeur have we?
Tour Guide 3: Aye. One day…one day…one day I’ll be working in the front office. Tour guide? Pah! I’ll be an administrative assistant to the chief curator, that’s what I’ll be!
Tour Guide 1: Dream on, William.
Tour Guide 3: Just you wait. Things around here are going to change.
Tour Guide 2 (Referring to tabloid newspaper in front of him): Look at the knockers on her. Oof.
Scene 3
INTERIOR, OFFICE: The Chief Curator and his administrative assistant look at a pile of papers.
Chief Curator: I think someone has been stealing our brochures, Margaret.
Administrative Assistant: But…but who?
Chief Curator (Looking out of the window with a dark glint in his eyes): Oh, I think I have an idea.
