178 ROME / CONGRESS CENTER – INDOOR / DAY
Merkel, Macron, Draghi and Biden are sitting around a round table. Behind the Chancellor, Olaf Scholz sits at the cat table. Merkel turns briefly to Scholz and then leans conspiratorially to her colleagues.
MERKEL: Do you already know this one?
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179 GOVERNMENT JET “KONRAD ADENAUER” – INSIDE / DAY
Merkel, Scholz and Greta Thunberg are sitting in the government jet. Greta clings anxiously to her sleeping bag. – Merkel gets up and gently pulls the sleeping bag out of her arms.
MERKEL (maternal): You can be completely relaxed, Greta.
She stuffs the sleeping bag in the overhead bins above them.
SCHOLZ (paternal): How else could you have got from Rome to Glasgow so quickly? And anyway: We fly with synthetic kerosene.
At that moment the pilot rushes into the cabin.
PILOT: The engines have failed. – We fall off.
He opens the overhead locker, pulls out a parachute, opens the cabin door and jumps off. – The Chancellor stands up and looks into the overhead lockers.
MERKEL (thorough): We only have two parachutes left.
Scholz jumps up, pulls out one of the parachutes, runs to the open cabin door.
SCHOLZ (calls): I am the Chancellor elected! I have to save the world!
He jumps off the plane.
MERKEL (gently to Greta): You take the other. You have to help Olaf. He can’t do it alone.
GRETA: We can both take one. – He jumped off with my sleeping bag.
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180 ROME / CONGRESS CENTER – INDOOR / DAY (LIKE 178)
The statesmen look confused.
BIDEN (to Merkel): Do you think he can’t rule your country without Greta’s support? – Wasn’t there this green lady? What’s her name?
DRAGHI (closes his eyes with a smile and breathes audibly through his nose): Anna-Lena!
SCHOLZ (reports from the cat table): That was a joke, Joe!
BIDEN (ignores him): And that unshaven Assange-looking guy even younger …?
MACRON: Christián!
SCHOLZ (loud and annoyed): It was a joke!
Biden turns briefly to Scholz at the cat table.
BIDEN (to Merkel): Only a joke?
The Chancellor looks at him with a smile and nI decided.
MERKEL: One of my favorites!
Niki Stein is a director and screenwriter. He is currently working on a six-part series on the cum-ex scandal.
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