Update 10-01
Update of Day 10-01
Sunday 6 November 2005
7:13 PM

Quite a boring day today. Spent the entire time writing script. I don't feel very well. I sense a flu coming. Of all the damn times. Been sleeping at 1 AM and waking up at 7 AM. Its done horrors to my body system. Checked a camera rental shop. They charge $120 a day for a 'Prosumer' camera (Without tripod) - Which is the same standard as the camera our school has. Also finally came up with an improved 30 min idea. Draft and full of flaws per usual:

Long Synopsis
The first scene starts off with Sergeant Lee, SWAT team leader, lying on the floor, wounded. A man, unseen in the shot, walks up to him slowly and pulls the trigger. The introduction sequence plays. The second scene shows Tay ambling through the police station before walking into a room. He is wearing a sling and is walking with slight limp (Wounded). Inside it, a police counselor, Wong, is waiting. He introduces Tay to the audience – Him being a new addition to SWAT and being one of only two survivors from the warehouse massacre. (Although Tay thinks there is only one survivor) Hence undergoing psychological behavior for trauma and disorientation, Wong struggles to establish a connection with Tay despite his officer ranking – Telling him that he too is a new transfer and that he recently failed an assignment which also caused him much anxiety. Apart the fact that he is wearing glasses, we never really see the shrink’s face. He also smokes and offers Tay a cigarette which is declined politely. The two talk and Wong convinces him to run through what happened at the warehouse in order to ascertain who the killed all the SWAT men.

Flashbacks of the warehouse occur whereby Tay recalls Lee and company heading to the warehouse and enter despite sufficient backup because Lee wants revenge against the killer for killing his girlfriend (Flashback). Once inside, local law enforcement appears to have been wiped out. Tay mentions how, because he is a new recruit, has a limp, and a slightly Americanized accent, his new teammates (All part-time NS men) simply ignore and ostracize him – Only Lee takes pains to watch over Tay. Once inside, an automated trap knocks out Tay, forcing Lee and team to leave him at the entrance wounded; Tay thus feels guilty about not helping out his team and attributes his lone survival to his initial injuries. The narrative then takes the perspective of team leader Lee as he and his comrades search the warehouse. Things go from bad to worse as the team are eliminated one by one in very gruesome, horrific ways. Soon, only Lee is left.

He faces off and duels with the serial killer but looses (Same as first part of movie where he gets shot). Back in reality, Tay tells Wong that he blacked out from his wounds after that. Wong, deep in thought, writes all of this down. A revelation suddenly hits Wong. He believes (And says so to Tay) that Lee was the serial killer all along who led them to the warehouse (Without backup) in order to kill them and etc. etc. Wong also reveals that the serial killer they were hunting has no identity – The killer is a stalker who hunts his victims and studies them for months before he makes his move. After killing them, he assumes their identity and kills all who know the victim personally in order to cover his tracks. He has killed over 4 victims in 5 years, all the time advancing up the social hierarchy and becoming increasingly complex. Wong believes that this is the motive behind Lee’s behavior and so-called ‘revenge’ mannerisms. The only reason why the killer spared Tay was because he was a new recruit and did not know anyone. He also served a useful purpose of telling the cops that Lee ‘died’.

Meanwhile, as this is happening, the cops at the warehouse are questioning another survivor: A badly wounded policeman who barely survived and claims to have seen the serial killer. Throughout the movie thus far, the cops have been trying to do a picture sketch of him. It finally comes through and the shrink is called. It is revealed that Tay, the only survivor, was the killer all along. However, it is already too late. Stopping the tape recorder, Tay whips out a pistol and guns down Wong. Wiping his fingerprints clean, he makes it appear like a suicide. Putting on the dead Wong’s glasses and smoking, he replaces his ID card with his own. As officers responding to the gunshots burst in, Tay stands up calmly, lifting his new ID and saying ‘my patient has committed suicide’.
- posted by BLT @ 3:16 AM