Orton, Halliwell, Janet and two students are walking through a park. Fairy lights in the trees, loudspeakers attached to trees. Music playing (or they are moving towards distant music and the lights of an open-air dance floor). People are lying on the grass in sleeping bags; rows of people. Some locked in each other’s arms. Halliwell strides ahead.

HALLIWELL   (declaiming)
‘Let us go then, you and I
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table …’
Orton is looking at the lovers and sleepers.

JANET   Come on.
Orton comes running up beside Halliwell.

ORTON   You know, some of these people are … well, having sexual intercourse.

HALLIWELL   Fucking, you mean? Well, what do you expect?
Many of them are from Australia.
A sailor passes by. Halliwell looks at him. Orton sees and looks at Halliwell. They walk on and come to an outdoor dance floor with couples dancing.

LAHR   (voice-over) What was the Festival of Britain?

PEGGY   (voice-over) Oh, that was when it all came off the ration.

LAHR   (voice-over) You mean food and stuff.

PEGGY   (voice-over) Life, dear. Sex. Everything. Only they didn’t, of course.

EXT. FESTIVAL OF BRITAIN. BALCONY (OR HUNGERFORD BRIDGE). NIGHT. 1951.

Orton and Janet go to the wall by the river and kiss.

JANET   I wish he’d never come. I wanted it to be just us.
Orton kisses her again, interested in the sex but not the conversation.
John.
Orton is trying to touch her up. During the scene the lights of the Festival gradually go off, section by section.
No.

ORTON   Why?

JANET   Not here. People are looking.

ORTON   Fuck people.

JANET   You can’t live like that, John. I want to take things gradually.

ORTON   I don’t.

JANET   You don’t know what life’s like, you.

ORTON   And I’m not going to find out at this rate either.
He leaves Janet and goes back to Halliwell, who is now looking at the Festival, where the only thing left glowing between them in the darkness is the Skylon. Suddenly the Skylon goes out. There is a moment of total darkness, then the fireworks explode in the sky, illuminating the upturned faces of Orton and Halliwell.

INT. CAR. LONDON STREET. DAY. 1953.

Orton and Halliwell come out of gents’ outfitters and get into the car. Orton is wearing new clothes.

ORTON   Thank you.

HALLIWELL   Cheap clothes suit you. It’s because you’re from the gutter.
Orton and Halliwell drive along in Halliwell’s car with the hood down.
It occurs to me. Since we’ve so little in common, why don’t we share a flat?

ORTON   I’ve said I’ll move in with Janet.

INT. ORTON AND HALLIWELL’S FLAT. STAIRCASE. DAY. 1953.

Mrs Sugden taking Halliwell and Orton up the staircase.

MRS SUGDEN   This is the room.

INT. ORTON AND HALLIWELL’S FLAT. BEDROOM. DAY. 1953.

Halliwell walks around. Orton stays outside the door with Mrs Sugden.