Story Telling Short Project

Death by Garage

Location: Garage
Characters: Plumber, Office Cleaner

Character breakdown:

Office cleaner - Female, Maria,
Plumber - Male, Steve,

Plumber is in toilet fixing under sink, Maria walks in to collect car from MOT, man walks in and demands to see the mechanic. By chance the mechanic walks through the staff entrance and is shot in front of Maria (now she is the only one there). The plumber hears the gunshot, slowly approaches toilet exit and sees Maria being tied up by assailant. He creeps back and grabs a piece of cooper pipe and returns to the slightly opened door. As the gunman walks over to counter and through where the mechanic came from, Steve rushes to Maria, unties her and tells her to go and hide in the toilets.

The gunman comes back through door but freezes for a second as he sees that Maria is no longer there, in this time Steve is hiding behind the door and hits him over the head with the pipe. A gasp of celebratory safety is short lived as the unconscious man's phone rings. Gingerly Steve answers it and a voice tells him" we're 10 minutes away". Steve runs back to Maria and tells her they need to go and try to exit the back door but it was locked and non breakable. Steve has a moment of thought and goes to toilet, takes all small metal objects e.g. screws etc. and tells Maria to get all her cleaning cloths. They wrap the screws around a large pipe and Steve rips a regulator off the wall just as a blacked out car stops outside.

5 men walk in and look around for a second (can not see gunman as he is unconscious behind counter) peering through a crack in the door both Steve and Maria watch as pipe groans bulges and explodes next to the men. Shrapnel flies everywhere and rips through the plaster walls next to them. Water was now gushing out of the pipe diluting the pool of blood engulfing the men now on the floor in silent pain. They moved quickly and efficiently weaving in and out of the bodies to the exit smashing through the door to let the warm touch of the sun reach their face. A crack of sound shattered the air and Steve fell to the floor, Maria turned and saw a dying man in the garage with a wobbling raised arm grasping a pistol.