Our Script

This is the first draft of our script for the thriller sequence...




Wife cuts vegetables in skilful way – fast cuts between knife movements.


Phone rings


Piper answers her phone


The killer: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers


Piper: what?


The killer: But if Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers – where is peter Pipers husband


One of the men punches John


Piper: Let me talk to him


John: I’m here, I’m okay


Piper: how many are there?


The husband hesitates to answer


John: 4


One of the men in a white boiler suit punches john – blood lands on the killer’s shoe – close of the shoe – the killer wipes the blood off the shoe – shoots the man in the white boiler suit


The killer: make that three. You have 12 hours to wire 5 million dollars to the offshore account number 56789865.


Shots of the wife writing this information down on a pad of paper she had next to her.


The wife: where are you john?


The killer: he’s tied to a chair, twenty miles north of your location in a basement in (location pending)


The wife: why are you telling me this?


The Killer: There is twelve pounds of explosives below your daughter’s bedroom – if you try to contact the police or leave the house they will be detonated. You have 12 hours. Good luck Piper.


The killer drops the phone – slow-motion tracking shot of the phone – killer crushes phone.


 

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