THE PIGGYBANK PLOT ACTIVITY –
Protagonist of film: Agnes (young female Australian woman)
OPENING.
- Agnes and Jasper hurriedly run into empty streets.
- Woman reveals a wad of cash from a black bag and they almost share a kiss before the sound of sirens fills the air.
- Jasper looks around frantically and questions the location of the getaway car.
- Cut to Camille sitting in her car at a parking lots boom gate. She studies the ticket machine carefully.
- Agnes and Jasper argue about the location of the car as they enter the parking lot.
- Camille feeds her parking ticket to the machine as Agnes pulls up behind her with the getaway car.
- Jasper frustratedly tries to help Camille get our of the parking lot and Agnes frustratedly threatens to shoot Camille.
- Jasper gives Camille Agnes and his ticket and aim to tail her car through the boom gate.
- Agnes is too slow to follow and gets trapped in the parking lot. The police arrive with sirens blaring.
- Jasper quickly jumps into the drivers seat of Camille’s car and they both speed out of the parking lot with Agnes left to deal with the police and getting arrested.
ACT ONE.
- As Jasper swerves the car down and around dark, dimly lit alleyways, Camille (an elderly woman) begins to rustle through the bag that was flung across the seat. Jasper is unfazed by this movement.
- Camille asks Jasper if the money is all there and he responds about all $25,000 being present. Jasper comments on Camille’s excellent plan to get rid Agnes and secure the money for an even $12,500 each way split. Camille doesn’t comment on this statement and Jasper begins to wonder why.
- After parking the car in a nearby alleyway Camille and Jasper get out and Jasper reaches for the backpack. Camille pulls a pocket knife from her trousers and hands it to Jasper whilst slipping the backpack over one of her shoulders. Jasper humphs and slits the cars tires before following Camille out of the alleyway and toward open park land that also has a nearby bridge.
- Jasper questions Camilles direction and she tells him there is one more thing they must collect before travelling toward the safe house. They turn a corner and begin to approach a dishevelled looking bridge.
- Jasper stops in his tracks. He tells Camille if she’s up to something he will blow her brains out. Camille tells Jasper to Shut the hell and besides, the gun was left with Agnes. Jasper hesitantly follows.
- On approaching the side of the bridge Camille tells Jasper to climb down the side of the riverbank ledge to grab a black box from the base of the closest ghost gum. Jasper says no way in hell and Camille reinforces the importance of this so called box.
- Jasper climbs down the ledge slipping at different points but eventually reaching the ghost gum.
- Jasper claws through the scrub at the bottom of the tree but comes up empty.
- Upon finding no black box his anxiety begins to grow and turns to face Camille who is surprisingly no longer alone.
- Agnes stands at the top of the slope blood splattered on her clothing. A shaky hand raises with a gun and she claims that Jasper shouldn’t have tried to double cross the double crosser. Before he can properly stand and scream he is shot in the forehead and collapses to the ground.
- Camille stares blank faced and then turns to Agnes smiling. Camille says good job and that its time to go and begins to walk a toward the bridge entrance with the bag still over her shoulder, by the time she enters onto the bridge she realises Agnes isn’t following her.
- Camille turns around to find herself staring the gun used to kill Jasper face on.
- ’Nice try gran’ says Agnes before shooting her in the forehead.
- As Camilles body falls over the bridge railing, Agnes grabs the bag draped over Camilles shoulder.
- Cut to later. Agnes sits in a vehicle and unzips the black bag. When she opens the bag all that is inside is a parking ticket, the same one Camille first fed into the machine at the car park.
- Agnes swears and panic crosses her face as she frantically looks over her shoulders. She then returns her attention to the ticket and turns it over to find an address on the back of it.
- After the dress the ticket reads, “want your share?…Ive got a couple odd jobs for you to do first”.
END ACT ONE.