Synopsis

Synopsis

By Liam Potter & Thomas Powers

Written by Liam Potter

John Candor wakes up dazed handcuffed to a chair in a warehouse and is being tortured by two men one of which is standing in the back of the room and one who is actively participating in torturing John, they want to know where he and his brother George Candor hide a case. They a series of questions relating to the circumstances up to the robbery, this triggers a flashback for John. The flashback begins with John and George sat in a car discussing what the contents of the case can do for them and how it can help them start a new life. Eager to get his hands on the case George dashes out of the car followed more cautiously by John.

Cut back to the warehouse scene, John is snapped back into consciousness with a punch to the face, spitting blood. The man in the suit is flicking through a criminal record document of John and his brother George. John is still being pressured to give up the whereabouts of the case, which John refuses to give up. Aggravated the torturer pulls a sheet off a steel medial trolley, reviling several torture instruments ranging from knives spattered in dry blood to car batteries with crocodile clips still attached. John’s reluctance exasperates the torturer who goes to pick up pliers and begins to twist John’s finger backwards.  The torturer stops due to a loud ringing sound emanating from the man in the suit; he grabs his phone and with a startled look rushes outside to answer it, telling the torturer to wait for his return. The torturer now alone with John turns back to the table of torture tools to grab his phone walks back to John and shoves the phone in his face. Showing him the disturbing images taken only a short while ago of his brother George being brutally tortured and finally killed. The torturer insults John's brother, the remark and the video infuriate John so much he breaks free from his constraints.

The man in the suit presses the phone against his ear as a loud, deep and gruff voice questions his progress with John, as the man repeatedly tries to reassure him that he has the location of the case. The gruff sounding man hangs up and the man takes a deep breath and tightens up his tie and opens the door to re-enter the warehouse. The mans eyes widen in disbelief as he stares at the pool of blood surrounding the torturer who has being pierced with several of the blades from the table. The mans hand loosens and his phone collides with the ground shattering it into pieces. The mans eyes rush around the room, but John is gone.

A car is driving down a long desert road with John at the wheel, still covered in blood and with a busted up face. The car comes to a stop and John grabs a shovel out of the boot of the car, he walks to the edge of a field looks down and begins to count his steps. He reaches a certain point and swings the shovel over his shoulder and thrusts it into the ground. As John approaches the car covered in dirt he drops the shovel on the ground and swings the case onto the hood of the car, slowly he unclips the locks and opens the case. For a moment he glares at its content and then smiles.