Section 6: Character outlines and Script

Script of Indigestible

INT. Liverpool Lime Street station. Night time.
It is a plain black screen with the diegetic sound of a train station and a train pulling in. The screen changes colour and we see an establishing shot of Lime Street station. There is a long shot of a man stepping off a train and we see him walking across the platform.

INT. Unknown room. Day or night.
There is an over the shoulder shot of an unknown man pinning photos of the main character, John, onto a board. The camera pans across the board, revealing more picturesof John going about his everyday life and a newspaper article about him denying a cancer drug.

EXT. Liverpool Lime Street. Night time.
There is another long shot of John coming out of the station and walking down the slope towards the main road, carrying a brief case. The camera follows John as he crosses the road and heads towards the museum and St Johns Park.

INT. Unknown room. Day or night.
There is another over the shoulder shot of the unknown man looking at a book on canibalism with a picture of a man and a woman in the background.

EXT Liverpool St Johns Park. Night time.
The camera shows John approaching the park and going up the steps. The camera has a low angle shot of John from waist height stood near a tree. The camera shows Arnold behind the tree, an over the shoulder shot. There is a long shot of Helgawalking towards where John would be stood. There is a profile shot as Helga watches John being dragged away by Arnold. Helga runs behind a tree and hides, upset.

Credits
There is an image of John sat on a chair looking dishevelled, he is still wearing his suit but with his tie loose and his jacket off. He no longer looks smart and clean cut. He has a blind fold over his eyes and it is obvious that he has been taken hostage. The name of the film appears.

Arnold
Arnold is a 42 year old psychotic killer, he is very tall and stocky and his wife died of cancer a year ago because she couldn’t afford the money for the cancer drug. He has very big hands and pale skin because he has not left his house in the past year. He wants to kill John because he blames him for the death of his wife.

John
John is the MP of Liverpool; he has a wife and 2 young children. He himself is 38 and lives in West Kirby with his family. As an MP he has power to rule things out, he did this with the cancer drug, he made sure it was unavailable on the NHS, because he believes people who get cancer deserve it. He is very clean cut and he has a reseeding hairline and is always in a suit, he is widely respected in Liverpool, but he is secretly having an affair with a woman named Helga.

Helga
Helga is a heroine addict who will do anything to get her fix. She is the woman John is having an affair with; she wears dark pink fishnet tights and black leather mini skirts, and always looks like she could do with a shower. She has fallen in love with John and thinks that they are going to run away together, but John is just using her for sex.

Detective Johnson
Johnson is an old single man, who is very well respected in his field; he has a lot of experience and goes through everything meticulously, to slowly but surely solve any case. He has almost got OCD because he is that scrupulous with everything. He is always in a Mac and trilby, and has a thick layer of grey stubble on his chin, he likes literature.

Detective Boon
Boon is a laid back detective, he is young and inexperienced. He is always messy and wears un ironed clothes, sporting the ‘just got out of bed look’ often. He wants the case over and done with but has been paired with Johnson who is annoys regularly. He is in a serious relationship with his girlfriend and she is pregnant.

Claire
Claire is John’s wife, she is the ‘perfect housewife’, she always has tea on the table and looks after the children, and however she refuses to have sex with John. She has a cleaning OCD and is suspicious of John. She is very clean cut and always has her hair tied back and a sleek bun.