9EXT. THE TIDEFLAT – DAY9

A grey day. The mud shines.

Grey mud with ripple marks. Steam leans left to right in a west wind.

A brass pipe runs out to a squat basalt hut with an iron door: the wellhead. Through its window, rows of hand-turned valves. The gauge reads 43.

The lighthouse stands on the headland to the left.

A crack in the mud breathes steam.

At high water, the board offers low water sooner.

THE LIGHTHOUSE is out on the headland. THE HARBOUR is along the shore. At high water: I'LL WAIT, or SOONER, PLEASE. PULL BACK shows the set.