LLM and HG: Treatment

Who’s Next?

Synopsis

It is night, very dark and quiet, a man dressed in a suit is walking home from work. There is an uneasy feel whilst walking and the male begins to feel like he is being followed; he walks briskly towards the house. He opens the door and hangs up his suit jacket, he then shuts the door but doesn’t notice a male antagonist standing in the kitchen as the light flashes on to the slender figure…

The door shuts, and the man walks towards the kitchen to begin making his dinner; in doing so he briefly glances out the window and believes he sees a hidden figure in the shadows of the garden. He wanders outside to take a better look; he walks slowly and carefully being cautious and feeling anxious about what it could be that he saw. He opens the door to the outside, but doesn’t see anything, just the outside light shining brightly onto the gentle garden. The male character returns to house rapidly and shuts the door, the moment the doors shuts completely, the phone rings, the male character approaches the phone and picks it up slowly, he doesn’t answer, he just listens; quiet breathing is heard on the other end on the phone, and then the phone is put down. The male is now getting worried but tries to ignore the situation.

The man continues round the house to turn lights on, putting his mind at rest; the last lamp is in the corner of the living room right next to the window that looks out onto the street. Again the male character believes he sees another unknown figure when going to turn on this light and this time decides to take no chances; rapidly running round the house, he locks all the doors. Without noticing, the garage door is unlocked and he passes it, avoiding locking it. He then runs upstairs to look out the windows down on the street; the first two windows looked out of, he sees nothing, but as he looks out the final window, his bedroom window, the figure is in another location which he spots clearly.

The unlocked garage is then opened gently, and a figure appears. He walks through the house going through each different room; when walking through the rooms the lights unexpectedly turn off, making the house have an isolated feel. The antagonist walks upstairs quietly towards the fearful character that is still looking out the window concentrated on the frozen figure standing unmoved in the street. The antagonist has now reached the same room, the light turns of and the male protagonist realises and turns round shocked, he sees the antagonist standing tall and slender in front of him, and the screen goes black…

The title appears ‘Who’s next’ in bold red letters on a black background

An establishing shot is then shown of the same house but during a clear day, and writing appears reading ‘3 days earlier’.