I was catching up on some small-screen viewing when I was presented with this:
[PREVIOUSLY: Our Hero has been investigating strange goings on when he is knocked out and thrown into a van by Mysterious Silhouettes.]
INT. VAN – NIGHT
Our HERO regains consciousness in the back of a VAN. There are silhouettes – one MALE and the other FEMALE hovering over him, passing streetlights zebra-striping them.
FEMALE SILHOUETTE
He’s coming to.
The Male Silhouette reaches down to our Hero --
MALE SILHOUETTE
Right then –
Our Hero swings wildly with his fist – despite the murkiness and shifting floorpan of the van he is rewarded with the thud and grunt of a kinghit!
He leaps to his feet, drags on a door handle and --
EXT. VAN + FOREST ROAD – CONTINUOUS
-- our Hero falls and rolls onto the grassy verge.
The van scrunches to a stop.
Our Hero scrambles to his feet as the van starts reversing.
EXT. FOREST + ROAD – CONTINUOUS
In the F.G. our Hero tumbles into the hollow of a LARGE TREE while --
-- in the B.G. the lights of the van come to a stop. The voices of his captors travel handily in the night-air:
FEMALE SILHOUETTE
Did you see which way?
MALE SILHOUETTE
We can’t just leave him –
FEMALE SILHOUETTE
He doesn’t know anything – let’s go!
Beat, then the slam of van doors and the van drives off.
Really? Someone’s looking into your highly secretive and illegal shit, you go to the trouble of abducting him, presumably to find out how much he knows and who he’s spoken with before you kill him and dump his body somewhere, but you don’t restrain him while he’s in your custody, so when your captive gets away from you, you go… He doesn’t know anything — let’s go!
Really?
