Film Treatment

The story starts with the main character Nicholas tied up and unconscious in a room, inside a deserted building. The room has newspaper clippings and pictures on the walls; the room also has some of Nicolas’s possessions on the floor. His Girlfriend’s Dad, Jonathan, enters the room, and Nicholas wakes up, Jonathan then starts to explain why he has brought Nicholas here and that he is going to pay for what he has done. He pulls up Nicholas and pushes him onto the chair and then removes the tape from his mouth. Jonathan then circles Nicholas and Nicholas then asks what is happening and why is he here. Jonathan then questions him and asks Nicholas if he can remember anything. Then Jonathan Starts to explain what has happened.

FLASHBACK

The story then flashes back to when Sarah and Nicholas first met which was when Sarah was out with her girls shopping and she caught the eye of Nicholas standing next his brand new BMW X5. Then he walks over and they get talking and exchange numbers.

The story then fast forwards to Nicholas meeting Sarah’s parents and they get along very well. However Jonathan Pulls Nicholas aside away from mother and Sarah and threatens him that if he ever hurts his little girl he will kill him. Nicholas took that as a joke.

FLASHES BACK TO START

Father then asks Nicholas if he remembers their conversation and Nicholas says he can’t just remember things so quickly, and that things are just started coming back to him but things are still a bit fuzzy.

FLASHBACK

Sarah is on stage in a bar performing a song, it is clear who she is singing directly to in the audience… Nicholas, who really admires her voice, this is evident when we he exaggerates his applause at the end of the song. After the song Nicholas drives them to the hill on the outskirts of the city, which shows a beautiful breathtaking view of the entire city. Nicholas tells Sarah how one day they will get married and then gives her a bracelet, they then kiss and the scene ends.

FLASHBACK OF START

Nicholas tries to explain to the father how much he loved her and he always had time for her, Jonathan mentioned how he was happy when Sarah told him how Nicholas said they will get married..

FLASHBACK

Relationship continues and you see Sarah calling up Nicholas reminding him of their 4 month anniversary. Nicholas replies by saying that he can’t make it as he has some business to attend to. The next thing you see is Nicholas putting down the phone while he is half naked in bed next to another girl.

A couple of days later Sarah is telling her mum that she is pregnant and that she is planning to tell Nicholas later that day.

Later that day in Nicholas’s car, Sarah finds a pair of knickers that do not belong to her and she confronts Nicholas. They argue; Nicholas says that he doesn’t want to be with her anymore and she blurts out that he can’t leave because she is pregnant and she is keeping the baby. Nicholas starts to get aggressive and angry, and tells Sarah he don’t want to be a dad and that if she doesn’t get rid of it that he would do it for her. She disagrees. He pulls over the car, Sarah gets out of out the car and runs but Nicholas follows her grabs her and throws her to the floor, she tries to escape by repeatedly slapping and kicking him, but Nicholas continues to beat and abuse her. He stops the assault when he notices blood leaking from her trousers. Nicholas leaves her unconscious on the floor and jumps back in his car…

FLASHBACK

Nicholas and Sarah have just finished having sex and Sarah expresses how much she loves him, Nicholas replies by saying how he will always take care of her no matter what.

FLASHBACK TO ABUSE SCENE

After reminiscing, Nicholas feels ashamed of his actions but instead of taking her to the hospital, he calls the paramedics anomalously and reports an injured woman lying on the floor, he then drives off into the distance.

FLASHBACK TO HOSPITAL SCENE

Jonathan storms into the hospital, he sprints to the emergency ward, looks through the window and sees a baby drenched in blood, with eyes closed on a table next to a bed, and on the bed was Sarah crying her eyes out. A doctor then exits the room and explains to Jonathan how Sarah has lost the baby due to abuse from her boyfriend, at that point an evil look appears on Jonathan’s face as he stares at the dead baby, he then punches the window and storms back out. He hunts Nicholas down, for a total of three days and nights Nicholas continually escapes from Jonathan, but eventually Nicholas is knocked out from a big battle they had in the middle of a football pitch. Jonathan picks him up and walks with him on his back…

FLASHBACK TO START

Jonathan brings out a butcher knife and before Nicholas can ask any questions, Jonathan swiftly chops off Nicholas’ ear. Nicholas screams at the top of his voice for ages while the father laughs casually, while elsewhere Sarah hears the screaming, we then notice she is outside the building, she then enters. Jonathan then tells Nicholas how he wants him to suffer more and exits the room.

Sarah enters the room and slaps him while he is still trying to recover from his ear being chopped off; she then kisses him on the forehead and starts to cut the rope, Nicholas repeatedly asks ‘why’ and Sarah repeatedly says ‘I’m still in love with you.’

Suddenly Jonathan returns…with a chainsaw! Sarah begs him not to kill Nicholas but it is clear that Jonathan is filled with rage. Sarah repeatedly asks ‘why are you doing this?’ Jonathan stops powering the chainsaw and explains how he really wanted a grandchild as his wife became infertile after Sarah was conceived but Sarah was unaware of this, he then goes on to say how his own mother was killed from abuse too because she was pregnant but he managed to survive as she was nine months pregnant, and that Nicholas resembles his father. Nicholas attempts to apologise but is interrupted by the sound of the chainsaw, Nicholas dashes Sarah out of the way, then Jonathan repeatedly swings the chainsaw at him, but thanks to Nicholas’ fast reflexes he was able to dodge, unfortunately Nicholas trips over the masking tape on the floor. Jonathan has him trapped; Nicholas is defenceless but seems ready to accept death. As Jonathan swings the chainsaw above his head to deliver the finishing blow, Sarah tries to jump on her fathers back and the chainsaw goes through the top of her head! She dies instantly. Jonathan falls to his knees and begins to shed tears. Nicholas looks shocked, and without hesitation makes a run for it, he manages to escape but because of the loss of his ear he fails to hear the sirens outside and so he runs straight into the police, they arrest him and the rest of the police head inside the building, they enter the room and all point their guns at Jonathan, he stands up powers up the chainsaw and the film ends.