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THE RUSE GAME

THE RUSE GAME
By Norman L.Kgatla

GENRE: Crime
LOGLINE:

The ultimate score puts four Bank Robbers in jeopardy as they’re stuck in a bank for hours. With no way out, they eventually turn on each other.

SYNOPSIS:

The Ruse Game is the story of four smart bank robbers, NOBLE, DANNY, PATTY and THOMAS, who have been trapped for hours in a bank that's surrounded by Cops. The crew has a couple of Hostages hot-wired to explosives that they use as leverage to hinder the Police from breaking in.

There's chemistry between Noble and Patty, which turns sour as things heat up due to a Bleeding Hostage that Noble shot after having a tantrum, because the Hostage refused to follow orders. The situation between the four worsens as each one starts to lose their temper, as they are trying desperately to escape the situation without going to jail. The argument of what to do next with the Bleeding man, leads Noble to come up with a solution of ending the man's life and of which in the end causes both Patty and Thomas to reveal their true identities as Cops.

Meanwhile, discovering that Patty and Thomas were undercover Cops all along, this in turn deeply disturbs Danny as his confusion worries Noble a bit and then Noble on the other hand creates an elaborate argument that makes matters worse for Danny as he sees the Bleeding man getting up on his feet and revealing himself as a Cop as well, that insists Patty shares with Noble and Danny of how they used tricks to manipulate them into a set-up. Before the end, things turn out in Noble and Danny's favor even though they are surrounded and outnumbered.

"The Ruse Game" is a tale of mistaken identity, greed, police corruption and subterfuge.

Tasha Lewis

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