Saturday, 29 August 2015

MirrorMan

No-new flipsides this week! Sorry! But I think this will be more interesting! Read on!


Below is a new story Rayhaan's been working on called MirrorMan. It's criminal story based on a criminal type called 'Mirrormen', criminals a façade of good reputation who work under cover for bigger criminal gangs. The story is focused on one man who used to be one of the greats. Below is Rayhaan's pre-release description of the background of the main character:

For years police and investigation departments have solved crimes with ease thanks to the carelessness of the average felon. At the turn of the decade, however, a new trend began in America.
Criminals who were never convicted for their crimes began hiring talented and skilled individuals to replicate their heists, which paid the individual and their contractor handsomely. These talented individuals were known as Mirrormen.
Mirrormen were found in all walks of life, ranging from doctors, to magicians, mentalists, and martial artists. They would often be assembled into a team, enabling them to combine their skills to pull of the ”perfect” heist for their contractor. Only the most qualified of these people would commit these crimes, making them virtually impossible to track, identify, or arrest. However, there was one Mirrorman who was feared by the criminal underworld. He comitted crimes so complex and flawless that he began to build a reputation as the perfect criminal, simultaneously increasing his value. Corrupt politicians and business men would pay hundreds of thousands for him to do their dirty work.

After building a legacy, the feared” Mirrorman of California” exposed his contractors to the police and escaped with his fortune to the Maldives where he lived a quite life under the alias Aiden Rook with his family. His paradise was soon threatened when the right hand man of a former contractor, Wayne Christchurch, attempted to assassinate him. He burned down the Mirrorman’s resort home at sea and disfigured him in a duel. As the home burnt and fell into the sea, so did the Mirrorman’s wife and children. Miraculously, however, The Mirrorman survived but was unidentifiable due to his disfigurement.  For weeks he was unconscious in hospital, but once he woke up he was traumatized from the memory of failing to save his family .Devastated, he escapes the hospital and attempts suicide from a bridge, where he is confronted by Government Agent Sarah Morgan, who convinces him into staying alive so he can bring his family’s killer to justice. Agent Morgan then takes him back to California where he is convinced to reveal his true identity and the details of his previous life as a criminal. He is then given a choice, whether to be taken for trial and eventual imprisonment, or to allow the Department to drop charges if he agrees to use his observant skills and insight of the criminal mind in aiding them to solve cases. The Mirrorman agrees to work with them, and from there onwards begins to carry out his own dark agenda.

Hope you like the sound of it. Rayhaan has now completed the first chapter/scene of it, and you can read it below. You'll notice it's written in the manner of a screenplay, because (quoting him) 'After weeks of thinking,I have decided to write it in the manner of a screenplay,considering the dramatic,comedic,and criminal overtones.Should anyone want to adapt it for television one day,it will be ready.'  If there's a director or screenwriter in need of good story, well, someone will be over the moon if you decide that this is going to be good for your film/drama (as long as you ask him first!)
Before you read this, please please do leave feedback, Rayhaan asked me personally, and it was on that condition he gave me this to publish! 
Here's what he said: Anyway read it with an open mind and don't expect anything,its completely new in every sense of the word.
Put it on the blog if you like and send it around a few other writers you know.I'd like feedback.
Enjoy the Story!

Scene One:

Scene opens with a shot of a man standing in line at a supermarket with a bag of groceries in his hand. His name is Morgan. His face is bandaged and people are staring at him. They don’t think he can see them through all the bandages, and they go on staring. The woman behind him in line pulls her child away from him. He turns around, somehow noticing. Morgan speaks, sarcasm riddled in his words.

Morgan: What? It's just cancer. Its not like its contagious.

The woman stares at Morgan, shocked. He chuckles…

Morgan: Gets them every time.

He’s losing patience, and decides to cut the line. One by one, he nudges past the people ahead of him and calls out to the cashier.

Morgan: Javier! I presume you have Esteban’s package?

Javier: No sir…Someone came for it earlier…

Morgan: What? Well did you give it to him?

Javier: Yes. By the way that’ll be 12.99

Morgan stares at the young man. He grabs his grocery bag and heads for the door without paying

Morgan: Dammit Javier. Your parents were right. You really need that brain surgery.

Javier: Sir…Your groceries..

Morgan exits the supermarket and meets with his colleague, Sarah Murdoch ; A young woman working for the FBI, with Morgan.

Sarah: Did you get the tea?

Morgan: Forget the tea. We’re too late. And no, I did not.

The two of them get into his car and he begins to drive restlessly

Sarah: I thought your client told you the shipment was coming in at 10.00 am sharp.

Morgan: Apparently, someone told him I’m working for the Feds now. Must have changed timings. Call Simmons and Mason, tell them we’ll need all the backup we can get.

Sarah makes the calls as Morgan parks at their destination. The duo walk on the street frantically heading to the port, only to find the body of the man they were trying to save.

Sarah: They got here before we did

Morgan: I think you’re going to have to call more than just backup

To be continued....

Thanks for reading!

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Little update: Thank you so much guys for the views! It's much much appreciated. I've  already forwarded your eargerness to Rayhaan, and I promise you I'm going to get the second part out of very very soon! 
One more thing, and don't think that I'm not being grateful, I am, very, but please, leave a comment or two on about what you think of the story. That's why Rayhaan wanted this published. He wants to know your reaction. Why not grant him that favour, eh? :-) 
Thanks guys!

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