Two young private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Kelly a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She’s in debt he’s going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon realises he’s walked into twelve hours of hell where survival is the name of the game.
DIRECTORS STATEMENT:
I wanted to write a story about the ‘other’ people of the city I live in. These are People who are not part of the success story of modern Britain. They have no connection with society or community and have all but been forgotten. They are people that would not be missed if they were to suddenly disappear. The story is a violent realisation of something that has troubled me for long time.
The juxtaposition of two incredibly successful young bankers against a kid who hasn’t got a chance creates a tension that is there for all to see but nobody’s looking. Edinburgh is the city of financial services, booming property market, Restaurants, Hotels, Arts Festivals and is the destination of choice of millions of Tourists. It is also the home of people who are unaffected by this success story. They have become to all intents socially invisible.
Richard Jobson is a patron of FSU charity, which helps vulnerable families in difficult circumstances in some of Edinburgh’s most problem areas.
THE NEW TOWN KILLERS
ACT1
EXT. EDINBURGH STREETS - MORNING
The sun has not come up. A seventeen year old boy Sean runs through the dark Edinburgh streets. He looks completely focused. He runs below the Georgian New Town, which stands high and mighty above him. Over the running voices are heard negotiating a serious financial deal. The voices are stressed, tired and anxious.
INT. OFFICE - MORNING
A 25-year-old man Jamie sits at a conference table in a meeting room of a private bank in the middle of Edinburgh’s financial district. A team of bankers and lawyers surround him. It’s clear from the debris on the table that they have been up all night. Opposite him is the team he is negotiating with. They have hit an impasse.
INT. NEW TOWN HOUSE - MORNING
The negotiation continues over thirty-year-old Alistair as he stands in front of a mirror. He looks fit and fresh. His house in the centre of The New Town is stunning. He walks down the stairs and gets into a chauffeur driven car.
The negotiation continues as the young runner Sean glides through the splendour of The New Town. He looks through the floor to ceiling windows as the cities elite prepare for the day ahead. It all looks calm and untouchable.
The other side are silent. They won’t shift their position. Jamie’s team are impatient they think he’s letting the deal slip away. They whisper in his ear that he should accept the terms. He doesn’t respond. He looks at a large clock on the wall.
A Police car pulls up in front of Sean and asks what he is doing here. He tells them he’s a runner. They laugh and ask if he means drug runner. They tell him to move on and stick to his own part of the city.
Alistair walks through the reception and up the stairs. It’s clear he’s very important. He walks along a series of corridors his shoes clicking against the expensive slate floor. He opens the door of the meeting room. Everybody in the room turns to look at him. They look relieved that he’s arrived. He smiles at Jamie who sends him a signal that he is in control of the situation. The other team look to Alistair to take over. He tells them it’s Jamie’s deal. He passes a note to Jamie. It reads ‘Tell them to go fuck themselves.’ They wait for his decision. Jamie tells them to either sign now or to go fuck themselves. They sign – reluctantly.
Sean runs up the street. An old man Bobby shouts from an open window on the second floor of a block of flats. He tells him he was slower than normal. He points to his stopwatch. He meets a drunk/drugged man sitting on a wall. He stops Sean and asks him how his sister, Alice is. Sean walks past him onto a block of flats and up the stairs. He opens the door with keys. He walks through to the bedroom but stops when he realises Alice is talking to a woman. He tries to listen but they are talking very softly. After the woman leaves Sean asks who she was. She ignores him. She looks tired, depressed, worried.
INT. OFFICE - MORNING
Jamie walks through reception on his way home for a rest. The receptionist hands him an envelope. In it is a set of car keys and a note. The note reads ‘Congratulations. Join us for dinner tonight.’ He walks outside to see a new sparkling black Maserati 4200GT. Alistair is looking down at him from his office.
Sean sits in a bleak room, which has rows and rows of chairs filled with tired fucked up looking people. He doesn’t want to be there. Numbers come up on a digital screen. He’s next. He’s interviewed and treated like a number, feels patronised. We learn small details about Sean’s life from interview; about his mother, why he lives with his sister and the pressure he lives under. Sean tries to keep his anger in check. He’s told he has to go for a job interview before he can get anymore money. They give him the details.
A friend Sam joins Sean as he walks down the street. He laughs about the routine. Sam says that he should join him at night on Calton Hill where he works as a rent boy. He shows a wedge of cash he has stuffed in his pocket telling Sean that this could be his. Sean looks at the state of his face and how his body language is not so positive. He rubs the pebble on his necklace as if it were a lucky charm.
INT. ALISTAIRS HOUSE - LATER
Jamie sits in the middle of a dinner party in Alistair’s house. He is captivated by the wealth, sense of power and people. He watches how easily Alistair deals with the gathering. As they leave Alistair asks Jamie to stay behind. Jamie looks at the hunting paraphanelia. They talk about hunting, how difficult it now is because of government restrictions, how the fun has been taken out of it. Alistair gets them a drink and casually introduces the idea of a game, a hunt. He tells Jamie that he has found a new way to enjoy hunting. He hunts people. Jamie is intrigued asks how he can get involved. Alistair suggests that he could start anytime, what about tomorrow. He shows him three possibilities. Jamie is excited and amazed by the amount of data on each of the three young people. Alistair asks him to choose – He randomly picks Sean.
Sean argues with his sister. He looks around the flat and can see the stuff she has been spending the money on – an attempt to suggest that they are living a better live than they are. Sean is angry with himself for not realising sooner.
Jamie picks up his clothes from a dry-cleaner and puts them in the back of his new car. Alistair dresses in a careful ritual-like manner. Jamie researches material on Sean. Over these images Sean makes a call to his aunt in the North of Scotland. He indicates that they’re in trouble. She tells him to come back. Sean is emotional for the first time. He tells her that he’ll think about it. He holds the pebble tightly throughout the conversation. As it ends and he walks away he reveals that he was standing by a grave, which is surrounded by small similar pebbles to the one around his neck.
He moves down a quiet street. After a few minutes he can hear the sound of a car engine following him. He can see a black Maserati beside him. He moves faster and then down a side street. He stops and waits. The car doesn’t pass him. He waits for a few seconds then turns a corner and walks straight into Jamie and Alistair. They stand on either side of him making it impossible for him to get through. Alistair introduces the game, outlines the rules, the reward. Alistair tells him he’s got nothing to lose and after all it’s only a game. Sean doesn’t like them, doesn’t trust them. He tells them that he wants to go. Jamie gives him a telephone number. Tells him that if he changes his mind then he should call before 9pm. Sean walks away when he looks back they’ve gone.
Sean comes home. The flat is empty. He notices a letter next to his sister’s bed. It details a return flight to Amsterdam leaving the next day. He runs out of the flat looking for her. He finds her in a café talking to the woman. Sean holds the letter in front of her. He shouts at the woman to stay away from them. He pulls his sister out onto the street. They don’t argue. They are quiet. She tells him she has no choice she has to go. She becomes hysterical. He holds her.
Sean walks to the top of Calton Hill. The light is fading. He can see young boys his age sitting on various benches. He looks for Sam but can’t find him. Sean stands alone by a tree. A man talks to him asks him to come into the bushes. Sean reluctantly follows him. As they reach the bushes the man asks him why he has stopped. Sean waits then walks away. He takes the telephone number out of his pocket.
He makes the call to Jamie agreeing to the offer. He asks when it starts he tells him that it has already started. He tells him where to pick up the initial payment of £1000.
ACT 2
Sean collects the money from a rubbish bin on the estate. He can’t believe it. He’s never seen so much cash.
He meets Sam who looks pretty fucked up. He tells Sean that he is going to a club. He asks Sean to come with him. He refuses. They share a joint. Sam seems worried about something or is it the drugs? He tells Sean to take care and moves on.
For a moment the streets are eerily empty almost silent. He walks down a dark alleyway. He can hear the slow steady rumble of a car engine moving up the street. He stops to listen. The noise is coming closer, louder, more threatening. Sean smiles. This is fun. He runs back the way he came and continues until he reaches a block of flats.
Sean looks down from a balcony and can see the Maserati parked in the middle of the estate. He can’t see either of the men. Footsteps are heard coming up the stairs. They sound loud and have an echo. Again Sean smiles. He runs to the end of the corridor and hits the button for the lift to come. The footsteps are coming closer. An elderly woman opens her door and looks out in the murky light Sean waves to her, tells her to go back in. The lift is coming but so are the footsteps. Sean looks for another route out, there isn’t one? The footsteps are close to the door at the other end of the corridor. The lift is still coming but slowly. Sean hears the creak of the door opening. The lift arrives. He looks back down the corridor. He can see a silhouette of a man. Sean jumps in the lift as the doors open. He can hear the man running toward him as the doors wait to close. The man is coming closer and closer. The doors shut just as a hand appears trying to keep them open. Sean laughs. He takes the lift to first floor checks the corridor then runs to the end and jumps of the balcony to the ground below.
Sean runs down the street and bumps into the gang of young guys who were hanging out near the shops. They stop Sean and ask him what he’s running from. One of them points out that Sean is a friend of the rent boy Sam. They start to mill around Sean more aggressively asking him if he’s gay. They take the piss out of his necklace. Sean tries to laugh it off but their tone is threatening. He deflects their attention by asking them if they’ve seen the car parked in the middle of the estate and two rich boys who are walking around as if they own the place probably looking for a score. The leader of the gang pushes Sean out of the way as they make their way to the car. Sean pulls his hood up over his head and follows them.
The gang surround the Maserati. They try to open the door but it’s locked. Sean can see Alistair and Jamie walking toward the car. He smiles to himself; there are five members of the gang. Sean hides behind the hood of his sweatshirt. They surround the two men. Jamie asks one of them to get off his car. The gang laugh as Sean mimics Jamie’s posh sounding voice enjoying watching the two of them being intimidated. Alistair stands slightly further back not saying anything. Jamie asks them again if they would get off his car. The gang move closer to him becoming even more menacing. The leader pushes Jamie in the chest. Sean encouraged them. Alistair does nothing. Sean starts to try and provoke him calling him a coward, that he’s scared, in the wrong neighbourhood, all the clichés. Jamie looks to Alistair for help. The gang leader gives Jamie a slap in the face as the other gang members use their mobiles to record it. Then he turns his attention on Alistair. Starts abusing him. Alistair remains calm. The gang move closer like a pack of wolves. Sean eggs them on. The gang leader is in the middle of a tirade millimetres from his face when Alistair punches him in the neck, the stomach, then head butts him in the face. The leader falls fast and hard. He dispatches another with the same ease and pulls a thirds wrist, kicks his legs away, breaks his arm. The others step back. Jamie is surprised by the level of the violence but obviously relieved. Alistair maintains eyesight with the others as he slams their leader in the face with his foot. The other gang members are frozen to the spot too scared to move. They say nothing. Sean is shocked. He starts to back off. This is not what he was expecting. Not this kind of danger. Alistair looks at him as kicks another gang member in the face. He smiles and waves as Sean turns and runs.
Sean navigates himself through a variety of different back streets. He can hear the car coming closer but manages to lose it as he makes his way back into the city from the estate.
The car is close to him again as he joins the main street. The car gets caught at lights. Sean makes his way down another street and joins a cue as a bus pulls in at a stop. He gets on. The bus takes him into the centre of the city.
The two men drive through the city. Alaistar watches drunken men and women on the streets. One of them bumps into Jamie’s car. Jamie suggests to Alistair what he would like to do to him. Alistair eggs him on. Jamie revels in the fun of the power and fantasy violence. He tries to impress Alistair and suggests that they pick one of them up and take them to a quiet space and do society a favour. Alistair agrees and reveals an aspect of his philosophy. He suggests to Jamie that it’s time for him to be blooded. Jamie asks what he means.
Alistair suddenly pushes his foot down on Jamie’s on top of the acceleration pedal. The car suddenly takes off with Jamie trying to control the direction as the speed gets faster and faster. A car is coming towards them. The road is too narrow there is no space to move past. Jamie slams on the brakes. The other car pulls off the road and slides past them. Alistair laughs. Jamie laughs with him but looks nervous.
EXT. TRAIN STATION - LATER
Sean calls his sister but hears the answering machine. He tells her to stay in and not answer the door to anyone. He checks the envelope holding the money and the key to the safety box in the station. Sean runs to the gates of the train station but discovers that the doors are closed. He listens as Police officer explains that there has been a dead body found on the line - no trains would be leaving until the morning. He runs off.
Sean arrives at the bus station. He buys a return ticket on the last bus out of the city. He sits in the waiting room. He strikes up a conversation with a girl about the same age who is sitting opposite him. She tells him she likes his pebble necklace and asks where it’s from. He tells her it was a gift taking from a beach up North. They talk about the city. How much they hate it. She tells him she’s running away, heading south. He tells her that he intends to move but back North. An announcement informs them that the bus is about to leave in a few minutes. She says she’s going to the toilet. When she’s gone Sean picks up the copy of her magazine and opens it. A photocopied picture of him falls onto the ground. When the girl returns Sean has gone.
Sean moves through a gay club watching men interact. He doesn’t feel comfortable but continues walking through the various rooms. A man propositions him, he refuses and moves on. He goes into a toilet. It’s suddenly empty. He hears a noise behind him but can see nothing. He turns to leave but is aggressively pulled into a cubicle. It’s Sam. Sean tells him he needs some help, needs a place to hide, that two men are looking for him and they seem to know his every move. Sam tells him to wait there that he would go and speak to someone who might be able to help. Sean stands in the toilet but feels uncomfortable. He leaves the toilet and goes looking for Sam. He sees him at the far end of the room and is about to walk towards when he sees Alistair. He can see that they are talking together. Sam points in the direction of the toilet but stops when he sees Sean looking back at him. Sean realises he has been betrayed. Sean turns to run and makes his way out of the club.
Sean runs through the backstreets. He runs through a series of dark badly lit alleyways. In the distance he can see car headlights on full beam coming towards him. He runs down a side street. The car comes after him. He turns a corner and can see Alistair coming his way. He climbs onto a wall and jumps over the other side. He can hear Alistair coming after him, fast. He scrambles through a garden but the security lights come on. He can see Alistair on top of the wall. He jumps down. Sean opens the garden gate and makes his way onto the street and down a mews.
He hides behind large rubbish bins. Dogs bark behind a fence. They sound ferocious. He can hear the sound of Alistair walking on the cobbles coming towards him. In the background The Maserati pulls into the mews and lights up the road. Sean throws a stone at the window of the house where the owner of the dogs live. Alistair walks straight at the bins. Sean throws another stone. Alistair takes out his mobile phone and calls a number. Behind the bins Sean’s phone rings giving him away. Alistair laughs and takes his gun out. As he is within touching distance the door of the house opens and a man stands in his vest and trousers with two fierce growling barking Dobermans. They are tearing at the leash to get at Alistair who has hidden the gun behind his back. Sean can almost touch it. The man asks Alistair what he’s doing and tells him that this is a dead end, there’s no way through. Alistair can see that the man very well might let the dogs loose. He thanks him and moves back to the car. The man watches as it backs out of the mews. The dogs bark at the bins where Sean is still hiding but the man pulls them into the house and closes the door. Sean climbs the fence.
Sean calls the number the men gave them. Alistair answers the phone. Sean tells him that he doesn’t want to play anymore that they can have their money and the key back. Alistair tells him that it’s too late to pull out that the game has only just started. He tells them that he’ll go to the Police. Alistair laughs and hangs up.
Sean reaches a busy street. He can see a cue of people waiting for a late bus. He hides in a doorway and watches. In the distance the Maserati is sitting on a corner, waiting. He can see the bus coming along the road. It stops. He runs for it but is distracted when he sees Alistair running down the road. He doesn’t see a car coming the other way until its too late. It slams into him. His phone spins across the street and is smashed.
Sean opens his eyes. He’s in a private room at the end of a ward in a hospital. Two Police officers look down at him. They ask him what he was running from. He tries to explain what’s been going on. Tells them about the men and the hunt. One of the cops asks Sean to describe the men. Asks him about the money he’s carrying. They act as if they believe him. He tells them about the deal, why he accepted, about his sister’s debt. The cops tell him that he should rest and that they’ll be back. Sean feels safe, protected.
A nurse takes his pulse. She tells him he’s very lucky to have survived without being badly hurt. She gives him his necklace and asks about it. He tells her that he has to get up to speak to his sister, that it’s urgent. She tells him where the phone is.
Alistair and Jamie walk through the main reception. Alistair carries a small bouquet of flowers as they walk down long corridors. Their feet echo as they move at a pace. Jamie suggests to Alistair that Sean has been impressive, better than they thought, that maybe they should call it a night, that he’s exhausted, but that it’s been fun. Alistair tells him clearly that the game is not over. Jamie asks what they are going to do when they find him and suggests that maybe they’ve taken it too far, that Sean got hurt. Alistair stops looks at him but says nothing. He takes the gun out and switches the safety catch off. Jamie asks him what it’s for. Why does he have a gun? What’s going on? Alistair moves on Jamie follows but again asks what they’re doing here.
Sean makes the call but again gets no reply. He makes his way along the corridor back to the ward. He is aware that the corridors are surprisingly empty. He can hear footsteps coming closer and closer. He hides on a corner and waits to see who it is. An orderly appears. Sean relieved enters the ward.
He can hear voices talking to the Nurse. He slowly moves closer. They are talking about him. He recognises Alistair’s voice. He stops when realises Jamie can see him. He doesn’t give him away but instead gives Sean a sign to get back out of the ward. The Nurse tells them that Sean has gone to make a call to his sister. Alistair smiles.
Sean hobbles through the car park and then to a taxi rank. There are no Taxis.
Alistair and Jamie drive through the city. The suns coming up. They are quiet. Jamie looks worried. They pull up outside the block of flats.
Sean is frustrated as the bus he is in slowly drives into the city.
Alice sits in front of Alistair. Jamie stands behind him. Alistair puts his gun on the table between them. She looks terrified. He tells her that they are going to wait here for Sean. He tantalisingly leaves the gun on the table as he makes her a cup of tea. He looks at the ingredients in the cupboard tells her that she should try shopping at Harvey Nichols. She looks at the gun asks what they are going to do to Sean. Alistair gives the question to Jamie. He tells her that it’s only a game, that nothing bad is going to happen. Alistair suggest differently. She goes for the gun. Jamie tells her to put it down. She points it at Alistair. He walks towards her. She tells him to stay back. He keeps coming. She tells him that she will do it. He laughs. She looks like she is about to pull the trigger. She can’t. He knocks it out of her hand onto the floor then hits her hard. She falls. Alistair starts to savagely beat her. Jamie shouts at him to stop. He doesn’t listen. Jamie picks up the gun and demands that he stops. Alistair turns to face him. He can tell that Jamie is serious. Jamie makes him leave the apartment. Alice is still on the floor.
Sean hobbles down a quiet backstreet toward the block of flats. He is about to cross the street when he ducks behind a van and crawls underneath. He can see Jamie and Alistair coming out of the building and get into the Maserati.
The two men discuss their new situation. Alistair apologises tells Jamie that he was getting out of hand that he’s right that maybe they should call it a night. Jamie is relieved tells him that he was sorry that he pointed the gun at him, gives it back. Starts the engine. Alistair points the gun next to Jamie’s temple and pulls the trigger.
Sean hears the noise of the gun going off then watches as Alistair gets out and moves quickly away from the car. Sean waits for a moment then walks over to the car. Jamie is still at the driver’s wheel but his head is back and bleeding. He’s dead. He’s holding the gun as if he has shot himself. Sean looks up at the building where his sister lives.
Sean makes his way up the backstairs. The doors open. He goes in. He cautiously moves from to room. He finds her hiding under a table lying on the floor. She has been badly beaten. Her face is a mess. He holds her.
Sean takes his sister to Bobby’s place. He leaves her there. Tells her that he has something he has to do. He goes back to the car.
INT. CAR – LATER
Sean finds Jamie’s card with The Banks address, he takes it. He undresses him and puts his clothes on. Puts the body in the boot.
Sean pulls up outside the bank. He can see a security guard on the door. Sean makes sure he parks The Maserati so the guard can see it. He goes into the building and introduces himself as a lawyer and that he had arranged to meet Jamie here in the building. The guard tells him that nobody comes in at the weekend and Jamie’s not here. Sean tells him that he called him from here and asked him to come over. The Guard explains that he would have seen him if he had come in. Sean asks if it’s not possible that he had been working through the night and never left. The guard thinks about it then calls Jamie’s extension. There’s no reply. He tells Sean to wait as he goes and checks. Sean waits until he has gone up the stairs before moving over the other side of his desk. He looks through various files but can’t find the details he is looking for. He can hear the Guard walking about up stairs and making his way back. He finds an emergency file. He opens it and punches in the name Alistair. Three names come up but only one address is in The New Town. The security guard is walking back down the stairs. He starts to tell Sean that there is no one up there but Sean has gone.
Sean sits in a New Town Street in the Maserati. A police car pulls up beside him and asks if everything’s OK. They don’t recognise Sean. He smiles and tells them everything’s great. He waits until they leave then gets out of the car and walks to a corner.
He checks the address then goes around the back of the house. He takes out the gun, breaks a window and enters. It’s very dark. He walks up the stairs looks at the contraptions on the wall. Moves through the rooms. Alistair is not there. He takes in the sheer splendour of it all. He sits in the drawing room looking at the art on the wall. His attention is drawn to the photograph of a young woman and kid smiling back at him. He moves into the bedroom, opening drawers looking for a clue, something that might help him understand what has happened. He touches the clothes, the bed covers, to Sean this is exotic. Looks at the 50inch plasma screen, a bathroom bigger than Alice’s flat.
He wanders into an office/media room. A computer is on. Sean sits in front of it. He doesn’t know what he’s looking for but keeps on scrolling through. He sees a small auxiliary drive by the side. He plugs it in. He goes to recently opened documents. Mostly data re: bank deals. He punches in the name Sean Kelly. Up comes a photo, details of where he lives what he does where he hangs out. He discovers a series of maps of the streets in the estate. He opens more documents, which show his health records, his social security number, police records. Next up is his sister, there are notes about her situation, about setting her up for a loan. Then there’s a photograph of him. He doesn’t hear the door downstairs open and close. He looks at the information he has on him. The appraisal of where he might go and what he might do. He doesn’t hear the sound of steps coming up the stairs. He reads what he has written about his chances of survival. It reads None. He looks through other files and finds a variety of faces, previous targets. They all have XXXX beside them.
He hears a noise. He looks through the crack in the door and can see someone move into the bedroom. He hears a shower being turned on and the TV.
Sean selects all of the files and punches instructions into the computer. He quickly unhooks the auxiliary drive and puts it in his pocket then slowly leaves the room. He keeps tight to the wall and slides along to the door and then out onto the stairway at the top of the house. He can’t see Alistair. He pulls out the gun. He walks into the bedroom the gun pointed ahead of him.
The TV is on and the shower is running. Sean carefully walks into the bathroom. It’s empty. He thinks he hears a voice downstairs.
He slowly backs down the stairs. He doesn’t see a trip wire extended across the stairs. He backs straight into it. An alarm goes off and blasts around the house. He hobbles down the stairs but hits another trip wire. This time a cage drops from the ceiling and clamps shuts just in front of his face.
He moves down to the next level but hears a door open behind him. He limps to the door but it’s locked. A knife hits the door just above his shoulder. He scrambles to the back kitchen area on the ground floor but hits another trip wire that knocks out all of the lights plunging the house into darkness. He can hear Alistair coming down the stairs. He opens a door down to a cellar and tries to run down but his leg gives way and he falls clumsily down the steps to the bottom. He drops the gun. The door above opens.
Alistair stands above Sean pointing the gun. He crouches down next to him. He looks at his watch tells Sean that the game is almost over. Sean holds his necklace rubbing the pebble. Alistair puts the gun to Sean’s head and as he pulls back the hammer of the gun Sean swings the pebble necklace into Alistairs face hitting him in the eye. He falls back. Sean rolls out of the way and gets up and is about to scramble away when Alistair grabs his ankle and starts to pull himself up. Sean tries to kick him off but he’s getting up. He hangs onto one of the large wine racks and feels it give way. He pulls it towards him and gets himself out of the way. It falls on top of Alistair. He can see the gun in the corner. He picks it up. Alistair sits up in front of him. Sean points the gun at him. Alistair explains the nature of a deal to Sean – the gamble – the excitement - the prize – he tells Sean that they can do a deal – he moves towards him – still talking the deal – Sean tells him to stay back – He keeps coming still talking – Alistair is right in front of him still explaining the deal – He asks Sean if he will be able to pull the trigger.
Alistair gently takes the gun away from Sean. Sean slumps to the floor. Alistair holds the gun to his head. He tells Sean that he’s weak. Hopeless. Useless like his sister, like his Mother. He tells Sean the story he will tell the Police, how he stole Jamie’s clothes, his car, killed him, tried to break in here, tried to kill him. Tells him that no-one is going to care. That he’s invisible. A nobody. Sean shows him the pocket hard drive. He holds it up. Tells Alistair that he sent the details to every single contact on the computer upstairs – his world the banking world will now know everything. That he Alistair will be completely visible. He asks how this places him in the negotiation, where he stands. For a moment he doesn’t believe him. Then he runs up the stairs to the computer room.
Sean walks down the street. The New town is alive, people are getting into their cars, walking their dogs, getting ready to go away for the weekend to their second homes. Sean walks past them, his face a bloody mess. He looks up at Alistair’s window. He’s looking down at him. Sean keeps on walking then starts to run, to run fast, fast, faster, as fast as the wind.
INT. STATION - MOMENTS LATER
Sean opens the box containing the money which is in a carrier bag. he leaves the station.
EXT . STREET - MOMENTS LATER
Sean walks across a bridge. He swing s the bag high into the air. He lets it go. The bag flies over the side of the bridge into the river. The money spills out and falls into the water. Sean smiles and walks away. He can't be bought.