The driver – he works on spec for either side. The hoodlum (bum fresh outta the joint) is looking to go in on a score so he can buy back the family farm. The bartender meets a lady well beyond his league, but she likes him and they form an inseparable bond. He wants to get into the drug business because that’s where the money and the power is. She knows a lot of people connected in just that business. Her sister went missing a few days ago, and she’s hired a private investigator to track her down. The P.I. is old and in the way when he gets the job, but he takes it to keep himself busy. The P.I. buys drugs from a group of dealers independent of the ring controlled by the city’s syndicate mafia. The independent dealers fill the P.I. in on what’s happening around town related to the drug business, and that there’s word a big score going down very soon from sources outside of the continental united states. The P.I. searches for the missing girl.
[a meth-addicted army veteran thinks he has found gold in his back yard, so he starts digging to find more.]
The hoodlum hooks up with a gang of bank robbers and pulls off a series of successful heists. Soon enough the syndicate catches wind of these heists, and corners the gang into working for them – splitting the take 50/50. The gang of robbers continue stealing money from banks, and the syndicate continues earning cash all the while denying to the police any connection with the marauding.
[The vet has dug a 15 ft. hole in his back yard in order to mine the "gold."]
She is introducing him to all of the notorious figures in the underground crime world, and in turn he is articulating his aspirations for making this city the drug capitol of the united states. With each new score he makes, for every new connection made, he gets closer and closer to bringing in more than enough attention to quench the dry spell of the streets. She supports him, she is the strong woman, she gives him all of the love he would ever need, and he begins to parrot her speech. Soon he is doing everything she wants him to for sex, but does he ever make a name for himself? Does he ever rely not on her advice, but on the strength of his own intuition? Is someone else influencing his next move?
The driver is hired for a job: pick up a group of three outside of a restaurant, downtown, nine o’clock. Drive said three to the North East side, a switch off has been arranged. No questions asked.
The P.I. is on the trail of the missing girl, and in the process he is reminded of an incident long ago when he was a detective on the police force: a girl went missing for three days and was found slaughtered in a warehouse. A fifteen-year old boy had kidnapped the girl, tied her hands, gagged her mouth, then holed up in an abandoned warehouse where he sexually molested her, eventually killing and disassembling her body.
All events are leading up to the big deal. The P.I. is getting closer to finding the girl. The gang is tiring of having to split the take from their successes to the syndicate, and are about to break apart from their contract. The police are moving in closer to finding the location of the gang’s hideout. The independent dealers have had a man on the inside for a while, and now they have enough information to score in on the deal. The veteran decides to steal an army tank and drive it through the city.
All words (C)Geoffrey Nel Thomas, 2009
These are just some ideas I have floating around in my head about the next script I am going to write. It’s interesting to note that most of these ideas have been used in some way or another in different scripts of mine completely unrelated to each other. I’m finding a way to connect and reuse my old stories / past ideas. Just goes to show you that any idea, be it good or bad, is always useful to have.
