Timothy Carrier likes to have a beer every day after a hard day’s work being the “the most skilled mason in town”. It has become his routine - his way of life. But one day after work, he sits in his usual seat drinking his usual beer when an edgy stranger sits down next to him. A misconception leads the stranger to hand him a manila envelope and say to him, “You get the rest when she’s gone”. It becomes very clear that he has been mistaken for someone totally different to himself, someone who needs to make her go. Before he realises that the envelope contained cash - and a lot of it, a photo of a pretty woman and her address, the stranger had left; too long ago that Tim could ever catch him up.
Everything is about to get worse though. A split second later, another stranger sits next to him. He is the killer who thought Tim was the man who had hired him. Thinking fast, Tim says, “I’ve had a change of heart. You get ten thousand - for doing nothing. Call it a no-kill fee.” He then follows the confident stranger secretly out of the tavern - and surveys the cold blooded killer climb into the driver’s seat of a cop’s car.
Tim now knows that his ordinary life has altered to extraordinary proportions and knows that the encounter may not only cost him his peace of mind - it could cost him his life... but no matter what, he knows deep inside that he has to help this innocent woman and be The Good Guy.
Jade Wong, 9H
