Betrayed Final Storyline

Cast:

Ashton Smith: Joe Nourse

Jay Collins: James Easey

Man 1: Callum Rulton

Man 2: Ivan Fellows

Lily Collins: Saskia Dare

Ashton and Jay are both really close friends. They are both going through a difficult time at the moment as Jay’s sister Lily recently committed suicide due to depression.

Jay takes Ashton into a forest where Lily’s favourite place was. Here, Jay places a cross with Lily’s name on it. He pauses for a few moments after he has laid the cross down thinking about Lily. He then gets up and lets Ashton lay down some flowers next to the cross.

Suddenly, there is a loud scream from Jay. Ashton abruptly stands up and realises that Jay isn’t in sight. Ashton calls out for Jay and begins to run in the direction where he heard the scream.

When Ashton finds Jay, he is laying on the floor unconscious with two men in dark clothing standing above him. Ashton begins to edge closer to Jay shouting at the two men. As he does this the men begin to walk hastily towards him. With that Ashton begins to back away and goes to run when the two men grab him. As Ashton attempts to escape from them one of them holds him whilst the other punches him in the stomach to stop him from struggling, and then punches him around the head, knocking him semi-conscious.

Ashton is on the ground facing upwards and his vision is blurred. As Ashton turns his head slowly to the side, a point of view shot from Ashton’s point of view show that there are now three dark figures standing together. As Ashton begins to regain consciousness, he groans as he tries to get up. With that one of the three come over and kick him hard in the head which knocks him out completely.

Sounds of a person being dragged, mumbling voices, a car boot slamming and the sound of a moving car can be heard. There will be nothing but sound at this point as it is meant to represent what Ashton can hear.

When Ashton awakes, he is laying on the floor with his hands tied up behind his back. As he attempts to free his hands, he suddenly stops and realises that there is someone standing over him. Ashton begins to shout at the figure about where he’s been taken and where his friend Jay is.

As the figure crouches down next to Ashton, it is revealed that the figure in fact is Jay. Ashton sighs with relief and asks if he’s ok. He goes on about how the men took him and how they need to escape and quick before the men come.

But Jay just stares at Ashton with a plain expression on his face. With confusion, Ashton badgers on at Jay to un-tie his hands so that they can get away quick. Suddenly, the distant expression on Jay’s face turns to look at Ashton with an angry look. Ashton stops talking and begins to feel slightly threatened by Jay’s expression.

When Ashton asks Jay what he’s doing, Jay violently punches Ashton around the head which makes Ashton yelp with pain. Confused, Ashton asks Jay what he’s doing. In response Jay tells Ashton that if he thinks about it, he’ll understand.

Feeling scared, Ashton asks Jay to stop whatever he’s doing because he’s scaring him. Angrily, Jay shouts at Ashton he just wants revenge, revenge over his sister’s death. Jay explains to Ashton that he knows that he was trying to convince his sister to commit suicide and he hates him for it. In anger, Jay punches Ashton several times more whilst Ashton is lying on the ground pleading at Jay to stop, almost in tears.

Jay stops punching Ashton, and quickly walks over to the wall where he is trying to calm himself down, but then suddenly paces over to Ashton this time grabbing his hair tightly resulting from a cry of pain from Ashton. Jay pulls out a gun from his pocket and aims it at Ashton’s head before asking him why he did it. Ashton starts to plead his innocence and begins to explain the real reason why Lily killed herself. He told Jay Lily went into a depression because Jay was putting too much pressure on Lily to do well. He told Jay that he had also become quite violent towards Lily which made Lily frightened. Ashton then explains that Lily came to him to get away from Jay, but Lily eventually became too strongly depressed with her life to carry on.

In a building rage, Jay shouts at Ashton and tells him that he’s lying. He tells Ashton that he could shoot him dead right now, but Ashton just stares at Jay and quietly pleads with Jay not to shoot him. In realisation that he’s the real one responsible for his sister’s death, Jay lets go of Ashton and screams as he throws his head to the floor, before crumbling down and crying.

As Jay sits up, once again he has a plain sorry look on his face. He pulls Ashton to his feet and unties his hands. Avoiding eye contact, Jay tells Ashton to go. Ashton just stands there in silence looking at Jay. Suddenly, Jay looks at Ashton through his crying eyes and shouts at him to go. Ashton tells Jay that he doesn’t want to leave him in the state that he’s in. With this, Jay pushes Ashton out of the building and once again tells him to go more angrily this time.

Ashton listens to Jay this time and turns his back to the building and begins to slowly walk away with one arm placed on his bruised ribs. A shot is suddenly heard which halts Ashton from walking leaving a pained look on his face. At this point, the audience won’t know if Ashton has been shot by Jay or if Jay has shot himself.