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EXT. STREET DAY

General B-roll of suburban streets. Ambience sounds of cars,

birds, dogs barking, school kids etc. Sudden interruption of
MEL’s legs running followed by officers(DIMITRY and MOHAMMED)
running.

QUICK CUTS:

-MEL running from behind

-DIMITRY and MOHAMMED running from behind

-Tracking MEL run past and tracking of DIMITRY and MOHAMMED

MOHAMMED
(Shouting)
Stop, put your hands up!

DIMITRY
(Panting)
This isn’t what I signed up for.

MOHAMMED tilts his head back to DIMITRY.

MOHAMMED
(Shouting)
Hurry up! We’re gonna lose her!

MEL turns down an off road, the officers are still chasing.

She went down there!

MOHAMMED turns the corner and stops.

Where’d she go?

DIMITRY sluggishly appears behind MOHAMMED and bends over

panting like a dog. He then sits down on the curb.

DIMITRY
(Panting)
She’s clearly got somewhere to be.

MOHAMMED
How did she know we were undercover? I thought our
disguises were pretty convincing.
Whilst MOHAMMED is talking, DIMITRY opens up a chocolate bar
and takes a bite.
DIMITRY
(Muffled and Uninterested)
Mhmmmm.

MOHAMMED
Do you reckon it was our clothes?

DIMITRY
(Satisfied)
Ahhhh yeah.

MOHAMMED
Do you really think-

As MOHAMMED talks, he turns to DIMITRY and stops talking when

he realises DIMITRY is not focused on him, but rather on his
chocolate bar. DIMITRY notices that MOHAMMED is staring at
him.

DIMITRY
Well we weren’t gonna catch her anyway.

MOHAMMED stares at DIMITRY for a few seconds, sighs, then

starts walking away from DIMITRY back to the car.

Where you going?

MOHAMMED ignores DMITRY and continues walking away.

INT. CAR DAY

MOHAMMED gets into the driver’s seat and stares blankly into
nothing. A few seconds later, DIMITRY gets in the frame and
enters the passenger seat. He chucks the wrapper down on the
floor and pulls out his phone and another bar of chocolate. He
takes a bite and scrolls whilst MOHAMMED doesn’t react to
DIMITRY at all.

DIMITRY
Wait a minute.

MOHAMMED turns his head.

MOHAMMED
What?

DIMITRY
I think I know why she ran from us.
 MOHAMMED
What do you mean?

DIMITRY gives MOHAMMED the phone and he reads what the phone
says out loud.

The phone shows a photo of both of them at the corner through

a car window with a caption saying:

“Since when was Dimitry a fed, still got that good

kush. Drop round mine, home all day”.

MOHAMMED looks up and turns his head to DIMITRY and stares at

him for a few seconds.

DIMITRY
What?

MOHAMMED
(frustrated)
What do you mean ‘what’? You obviously know her.

DIMITRY
(Embarrassed)
She was my bully at school. She used to steal my
stuff.

MOHAMMED
Well you must know where she lives right?

DIMITRY
Yeah I used to have to go round there to get my
stuff back.

MOHAMMED
Then why are we still sat here then?

DIMITRY jests to his chocolate bar.

DIMITRY
At least let me finish my curly wurly.

A quick cut montage ensues. MOHAMMED snatches the chocolate

bar, rolls down the window, chucks it out the window, puts his
seatbelt on, turns the key, puts into first gear, cuts to view
through windscreen with sunglasses on and drives off.

I’ll tell you where to go.

The car travels a short distance down the road.

 Stop!

The car screeches to a halt.

MOHAMMED
What is it?

DIMITRY
We’re here.

MOHAMMED stares at DIMITRY with a stern expression.

MOHAMMED
We could’ve walked that.

DIMITRY
Yeah, but I’m still knackered.

MOHAMMED rolls his eyes, sighs and gets out of the car. They
both look at the house and take off their sunglasses.

MOHAMMED
So this is it.

They both walk to the front door and MOHAMMED knocks on it. As
the officers are waiting outside, a small twitch of the
curtains with MEL can be seen behind them but they are unaware
of it.

DIMITRY
Do you reckon she knows it us?

MOHAMMED
Why would she?

The officers wait outside for a little while then MOHAMMED

tries the door handle and is surprised to find that it is
unlocked.

Well that was easy.

They enter the house, close the door behind them and stand in
the hallway.

Alright, I’ll take upstairs and you search

downstairs.

An hour passes as MOHAMMED is deeply searching the upper floor

whilst DIMITRY briefly searches and eats more chocolate.
DIMITRY goes upstairs to the room that MOHAMMED is in.
 DIMITRY
Found him yet?

MOHAMMMED
(Sarcastically)
Oh yeah, bumped into her not that long ago. She’s
taking a shower. Of course I haven’t found her.

DIMITRY
Oh, well. I’ve checked downstairs three times over
and nothing. Guess she’s not here then.

MOHAMMED
Yeah. I bet she probably fled ages ago.

MOHAMMED sits down on the bed, stares at the floor and sighs.
DIMITRY stays standing and goes on his phone.

DIMITRY
(Mumbles to himself)
I wonder if she has posted anything else.

MOHAMMED continues to stare blankly at the floor.

Hold up, she poste again.

DIMITRY hands MOHAMMED the phone and he reads aloud what he

sees. It is a video of DIMITRY eating chocolate in the kitchen
through a crack in the cupboard door.

MOHAMMED
“You enjoying that mate”.

MOHAMMED looks up at DIMITRY and stares at him.

DIMITRY
I swear I checked every nook and cranny.

MOHAMMED
(Angry and Sarcastically)
Yeah, sure you did.

A brief silence. Followed by MOHAMMED sighing.

Alright, let’s go get her.

They both leave the room and walk downstairs to the kitchen.
They then stand in front of the kitchen cupboard and open it
to find MEL squeezed in a tiny space texting on her phone. She
then looks up and sees them staring at her. A back and forth
of awkward silence fills the room.
EXT. OUTSIDE DAY

MOHAMMED and DIMITRY are holding an arm each of MEL as they

escort her to the car. Mel is fidgeting, trying to break free.

MEL
(Shouting)
Let me go! I haven’t done anything! You two have
broken into my house, fucked with my shit, and now
you’re taking me god knows where! I’m calling the
police!

DIMITRY
Yeah you do that, see how far you get.

MOHAMMED puts MEL’s hands behind her back and handcuffs her.
He then puts her in the car.

MOHAMMED
Melanie Capri, you’re under arrest on suspicion of
the possession and intent to distribute of a class b
drug.

He shuts the door and they both walk to their respective car
doors.

DIMITRY
Can we stop at the shop on the way?

MOHAMMED
Yeah go on then.

They get in the car and begin to drive off. A single curly
wurly wrapper is on the floor.

Fades to black

FIN