Plotline 1

Idea 1:

Beginning: Character X moves from their Southern home town (near London?) after trouble at home (with their mother’s new husband/being a trouble causer at homewhich ties in with the ending?) and gets an offer from an estranged relative who lives in Manchester who offers to take them in; only if they offer to work for them and do a few odd jobs in exchange.

Middle: Character X travels to the relative’s house (i.e. Manchester, Sheffield) they are welcomed. After the relative being vague about their job, character X suspects that they may not be telling them everything about their life. Character X overhears them on the first phone to someone telling them that a ‘client’ needs to be ‘taken care of quickly and neatly’. After confrontation the relative tells character X that he’s a drug dealer, that he can make them filthy rich and that they have no other family that wants them (‘Are you in or are you out?’) So character X agrees and the relative tells them that tomorrow morning they want a package delivering to a certain address and gives character X a gun ‘just in case’. Along the way character X is kidnapped by a masked mob.

End: Whilst character X is tied up we find out that the person who actually ordered the guys to find them is his relative because they ‘know too much’. Whilst the kidnappers take a phone call they are unaware that character X has wriggled their hands free and manage to get the gun out that their relative left for them and shoot 2 of the kidnappers. Whilst holding one hostage at gun point character X negotiates with the kidnappers to let them leave at the expense of being allowed to be freed. Now pent up with rage towards their relative, character X goes back to the relative’s house to confront them. Upon confrontation the relative tells them that it was all a test to make sure that they were ready for the life they are offering them.