Treatment
Beginning
The film starts with a Mysterious person placing points on a city map on a wall; these points are being placed with different shots, angles, sizes etc. We do not know who this character is or whether they are male or female. Their will be 6 points in total in different places on the map; the character who is placing them is the main Antagonist. The shot will merge into the face of the main Protagonist Martin Hallwood working in his office at Hallwood appliances. The phone rings; an order has gone wrong so leaves the office to go and investigate why. Whilst he is away from his office a figure with a large hat and overcoat on enters his office viciously slamming the door behind them; the mysterious person puts an envelope on his desk then vanishes as if he was never there. Martin returns to his desk and immediately unlocks his top draw, pulls out and takes some tablets. At this stage we do not yet know for. He opens the envelope and shockingly sees a picture of his sister Kirsty tied up battered and beaten and torn mini map with an arrow to a point on it; there is a boomerang shaped green field on the map. In the envelope there is also a timer with 24:16:24 on it. Martin shocked and bewildered exits his office and goes out to find the point where his sister is held to try and rescue her before the time runs out.
Middle
The film cuts to 2 hours later where Martin is in the library trying to match up the tiny peace of torn map with a large map of the area. He discovers a boomerang shaped public park fits the shape of the mini map almost perfectly; this must be the location where his Kirsty is being held captive. He rushes to the park and eventually does not find his sister Kirsty but in the bushes finds a 60 year old woman dead with a mask on her face. On the mask is a photo is another piece of the map and another timer, these Martin will then go to the next location and try and find his sister. When he arrives at a location he is always late as the victim has already been murdered whenever he gets there. He always works alone in going to the next place as if he notifiys the police, His sister will be killed. In many occurances he is being blackmailed into things he does not want to do and he must do this to keep his sister alive. The different crime scenes consist of an apartment, a park, a sewer, in the boot of a car, the library where he does his research, and his office. The victim will be a random individual each time. Each victim will be wearing a different mask and when he finds a victim, flashbacks will appear of a man and a woman but will never show their faces, it can be from the mans point of view or the womans and in each flashback the man is always abusing her both physically and verbally; this is slowly damaging the mind of the woman making her mentally ill and unstable. Often another woman who is about 10 years older joins in with the vicious abuse, slamming her head against the wall, pouring boiling water over her etc. This only happens when the man touches the mask. When Martin finds each victim the setting is always night time.
End
Near the end of the film Martin recieves a piece of map which resembles the business he works in. He searches everywhere and finds the victim in his office, he touches the map but this time no flashback occurs, he hears a scream from the another room but when he tries to escape his office its locked; he’s trapped in. He tries the window but that is locked aswell, his office is the securist room in the building as it has the store safe in there. Martin tries desperatley to get out but cannot; the same figure who put the first envelope on his desk comes up to the glass paned door. At this point is furious but nervous at the same time, the mysterious figure talks about how he was that angry in the old days and how martin has received revenge. Martin is dumbfounded and shocked; he becames more nervous and starts muttering to himself. The mysterious figure takes its hat off and turns on the lights. To Martins horror its his ex-girlfriend Rosie, immediatley another flashback occurs of him and his sister seriously abusing Rosie but this time the vision of their faces is much clearer. The Protagonist Martin is actually the villain that used to abuse her. Suddenly the vision stops and he sees his sister tied to a chair with a grenade in her mouth with the pin pulled; the grenade is not going off only because she is biting it. Martin is blackmailed to do many torturous things to himself. After putting Martin through the torture that he gave her she slowly takes the grenade out of Kirsty’s mouth, both Martin and Kirsty are screaming as it goes into slow motion. A raging explosion occurs killing Rosie and his sister. Martin is shocked! He breaks down into tears in his protective office. He spends the next 2 days depressed; taking the overdoses of theanger management pills he took at the start. Reverted to drinking when eventually his assistant finds him hung in his office.
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