Section 5: Treatment

Beginning

The film starts with a Mysterious person placing points onto a map of a city, which is attached to the wall.  Currently the viewer does not know who this character is or whether they are male or female as their entire body is covered in dark clothing and a hood covers their head along with a plain white mask. The only visible points of skin are the characters hands and jaw but these are indistinct. The shady character adds another photograph to the map to complete a total of six pictures. The latest picture placed onto the picture is then revealed to be the main Protagonist, Martin Hallwood. Martin is at work in a high industry office building. Martin looks stressed and undoes his tie sighing in frustration. He then opens the top drawer of his desk and takes out a bottle of unmarked pills. Martin takes one of these pills and throws the bottle back into his drawer. He notices an envelope in his drawer that he hadn’t noticed before. He picks up a blunt paper opener from off of his desk and slits open the top of the envelope. He reaches into the envelope and pulls out a photograph. The photograph depicts his sister, Kirsty in a dark room tied to chair. She sits there bruised with her hands and feet bound to the seat and a thick rope gag in her mouth. Nothing in the picture gives any hint to her location and the only writing within the picture is written on her gag and reads simply the word HELP. Gasps at the sight of the picture and starts to breathe deeply. Flipping the picture over, he finds those words on the back of it and a small section of map has been attached also. He glances at the map and sees an area of an old estate with a park in the centre. A red ex marks one of the houses next to the park. The same red paint is used to write a message below it reads. “5:00pm come alone. Hurry Martin” his breathing gets deeper and he begins to hyperventilate. His hand drops the picture onto his desk in a panic and scrambles back into his top draw. He rummages in the draw franticly and takes out the bottle of pills. Opening them he quickly swallows one and his breathing starts to calm. He picks up the picture again examining the righting on the back. He looks at the clock on his desk that reads 4:26pm. Time seems to slow and the tick of the clock becomes a pounding in his head. He rapidly grabs the expensive suit jacket that had been carefully placed on the back of his chair and runs out of his office. The door swings open as martin runs through it causing the whole office to stare at him. The office is a large room with plain white walls and the workers cubicles take up most of the room. He sprints towards the map on the far side of the room passing several cubicles in which his subordinates are working but some of them rise from there work to see what’s happening. He almost runs into the map on the far side of the wall in his hurry. He places the backside of the photograph against the map and moves it around quickly scanning the map for a match. He continues to do this until he finds a perfect match in the top right of the map. He places the segment on from the photo over the larger map and writes down the address of the building marked with the red ex. He put on his suit jacket which looks expensive and runs into the elevator. He taps his toes urgently waiting for the elevator to descend to the bottom floor. The other people in the lift stare at him seeing this behaviour as out of sort.

Middle  Part 1.

The lift arrives and martin urgently walks over to his personal car. The driver speaks in a muffled voice from behind the tinted glass “where to sir?” “Ranvenscroft lane” martin replies sitting whilst getting into the back of the car. The drive seems to last forever and martin constantly checks his watch and taps his foot anxiously. Finally the driver declares that they have arrived and martin lowers the window and scans around to see if anyone is waiting for him. The coast looks clear so he exits the car still looking around. He walks over the small grassy are that Ravenscroft is built around. As he walks cautiously he checks his watch. 4:48pm “not long left” he remarks to himself. His pace quickens and he arrives at the door of the marked building. It is an abandoned council house. The windows have been boarded up and the brickwork is covered in graphity. The front door is plain black with the paintwork pealing down its centre. A large red cross is painted over the door. Martin raises his hand, slowly turns the handle and enters.

 He flicks a light switch on the wall but there are no bulbs left in the lights. The interior is bare and caked in dust. He walks through the room slowly the floorboards creaking below him with every step. He pushes through the clouds of dust that billow around the room while the slits of light burst through the slits of the windows and cross the room. At the other end of the room lies a door broken and hanging limply from its hinges. He hears a rustling from behind the door and he gasps and pauses for a step. He presses forward towards the door reluctantly. The rustling behind the door grows louder. Martin reaches the door and bends down to pick up a wooden board that has broken off of the door frame. He grasps it tightly in his hand, takes a deep breath and throws the door aside.  As he does so a tide of rats run from the room ahead of him swarming over his feet. Martin winces and shakes the wood at them. “Little bastards” he says buffing his shoes against each other. He enters a hall way. Long and narrow with every exit boarded off. Something sits at the end of the corridor covered in a long flowing white cloth that trails to the floor. He approaches it slowly with his weapon raised. It’s hard to make sense of the shape of it through the thick layer of dust but eventually martin can discern that it is a piece of covered furniture.

“Kirsty?” he reluctantly asks the vacant sheet but there is no reply. He reaches down and grabs the bottom of the sheet with his left hand while raising his weapon with the right. He rips the sheet away to reveal what’s below. Lying beneath the sheet is an old chair and what remains of a man. The corpse has been torn and bitten by the vermin living in this house. The only non-grotesque feature is a sleek white mask placed over his face. Martin reels back and begins to gasp for air. He drops the wooden board as he falls to his knees. Martin’s vision goes hazy and he whites out (faints)

After he faints martin has a series of short flashback. They depict a series of white rooms that are hazed although they were within a storm. In this flashback martin sees himself in 1^st person. A figure lies on the floor in front of him she has no features is completely white and has no face only dark eyes. By her hair and figure you can tell that the figure is female. The figure on the floor weeps into her hands then looks up her face streaming with black tears she cried “no more!” in an otherworldly voice. Martin’s character then looks at his own hand which is completely black and featureless and swings at the girl on the floor. Just before the blow makes contact the image flashes white and martin regains consciousness.

Still gasping for air martin rummages in his pockets franticly searching for his bottle of pills. He grabs the bottle and takes 2 of the pills. His breathing slowly becomes normal once again. He takes a silk handkerchief out and hesitantly looks up at the body. He rises to his feet whilst covering his mouth with the handkerchief and closely inspects the body. His hands had been nailed to the chair and his feet to the floor. His body is so ravaged that there is no way martin can tell who it is. Then he notices the glasses wresting on the bodies lap. Martin’s shoulders sink as he realises this is the body of his friend. “Louie” he sighs. He picks up the glasses and finds that words have been painted on the lenses that read Orion Hardware 6:00pm. Martin turns away from the body and starts to walk away as his mobile phone starts to ring. He pulls the phone from his top pocket and answers it. “Hello?” he asks.  The voice that answers is the voice of a little girl “Ringer ringer Rosie, get it?” “Who is this!” martin shouts down the phone. “Your fired!” the girl reply’s as the phone goes dead. A beep starts to come from the body. Martin notices a red light coming from behind the mask. He pulls the mask off to show a digital timer counting down inside the mouth of the body. 45.44.43.42.41. The timer counts down. Martin drops the mask and runs towards the door. He reaches the exit and runs away onto the grass. Turning back he sees the house silent then a small explosion as flames begin to lick through the windows. Martin looks at his watch which tells him its 5:22pm. He runs across the field and into his car. “What the hell happened?” the driver behind the screen asks. “Nothing! Take me to Orion hardware and be quick about it!” martin replies. The car pulls away down the street.

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 occurrences 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.