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THE BRIEFCASE

THE BRIEFCASE
By Charles K. Frazier

GENRE: Mystery, Crime
LOGLINE:

A frustrated screenwriter stumbles onto a briefcase full of money and becomes the lead character in his story that if published, could cost an innocent woman her life.

SYNOPSIS:

A frustrated screenwriter has an interesting dream of a robber stuffing cash into a briefcase and attempts to write a story base on this premise, but has a serious case of writer's block. He decides to get out of the house and takes a ride on a commuter train to clear his head and meets a young English teacher who offers to help him with his script. When she gets off the train, he sees the story start to unfold in front of him. The actual robber from the dream comes on the train and takes a seat beside him with the briefcase on his lap and drops dead. The writer is so intrigued and wonders if there is cash in the briefcase and decides to take the briefcase and manages to get off the train and home with it..

He contacts the English teacher, they go out and get to know each other better. It turns out that her roommate is the secretary of the guy who was robbed and the owner of the briefcase. When the teacher learns that he took the briefcase from the hands of a dead man, she wants nothing more to do with him, that is until her roommate starts to notice him.

He and the secretary go off on a vacation to Aruba to work on the screenplay which they plan to finance with the stolen funds while the English teacher stays behind to get her parents to help promote the project. But the English teacher almost gets arrested when the briefcase full of money is found in their apartment.

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THE BRIEFCASE

* Script available upon request

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