After thinking about my script and how I can improve it, so I came up with the idea to give the main character George a motive and to steer him away from being greedy and money grabbing personality that he has at the moment. He now does his job to save up enough money for him and his wife Anna to move to Italy and start a new life. George has it all planned out that after he finishes his next few cases and gathers 15 million pounds to pay for a house and other living arrangements him and Anna will leave the country together. At the moment he has 14 million so only needs to gather another million until he begins his life in paradise.
The film starts with George on the phone to Anna, she is in Manchester at the moment visiting her mother who is quite ill, they talk about how much they look forward to living away in Italy and how much George has to go to reach the 15 mill and that it will take a year or so. As George is on the phone we see him looking at an Italy poster which he has on his office wall and in the corner of this poster we see a small picture of Anna. The conversation ends but just as George puts the phone down it rings again and it turns out to be Patrick Heartly a famous journalist who wants info on some of the stories George has covered. George refuses to give out the information but Patrick manages to get it out of him by offering another million. Although George contemplates taking the money he still refuses and turns down as he thinks of the long term effects it would have on his future with Anna and not to mention the fact that he would lose all the faith he gained from his clients. Patrick becomes aggressive and tells George to watch his back. George becomes distraught by this but shakes it off and carries on with a current job.
The next day George is woken up by loud knocking noises at his front door followed by cursing and then a window smash. George knows that these are people sent by Patrick so grabs a few things from his office (the Italy poster, pictures of his wife, case files and a credit card) and makes a run for it out the back door of his house.
We now see George running down the street clutching the possessions from his house. He rings up his younger brother Craig and begs for him to hide him in his house, Craig agrees and picks George up in his car.
George and Craig arrive at Craig's house where George tells Craig what happened. Not long after a car pulls up in front of Craig's house and two burly looking men step out demanding to see George. George not wanting Craig to get hurt goes outside to confront the men leaving his possessions with his younger brother, he is punched and shoved into the back-seat of the car. The two men are about to get into the car, but suddenly an angry man waddles over to the men complaining that they're parked in his disabled spot. The two burly men start an argument with the angry neighbour, totally forgetting about George. Craig takes advantage of this by sneaking up to the men's car and freeing him out of the back-seat. They both jump into Craig's car and drive off leaving the two men cursing and still arguing with the angry neighbour.
George asks why Craig helped him and what they were going to do. To which Craig replies that they will head up to Manchester to meet Anna and all will be sorted out from there.
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