• One Free Crime

  • Ian Simpson
  • 2012
  • Available
  • Action
  • Thriller
  • 83.7
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Market: Tue, 25 Sep 2012
AgentChristopher Smith, Scott Henderson (Paradigm)
ManagerAndrew Kersey (Kersey Management)
While vacationing in Barcelona, a man’s family goes missing without a trace, leaving him to embark on a dangerous journey into a world of intrigue where he is forced to do the unthinkable in order to get his family back.
While on vacation in Barcelona, a family man is forced to commit an atrocious series of crimes in order to save his wife and daughter from terrorists intent on crashing the world market.
In order to save his kidnapped family and stop terrorists from crashing the world market, a bookish humanitarian lawyer is forced to commit a series of atrocious crimes.
Film
Film, Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Detective, Film Noir, Thriller, Mystery, Conspiracy, Hostage, Dark, Vigilante, Hitman, Kidnap, Mistaken Identity, Terrorist, Travel, Foreign Locale
109
R
Ultra High
M
White / European
30
Attractive
Ransom, Taken, The Man Who Knew Too Much
Present, A Few Days / Several Flashbacks, A Few Seconds or Minutes Each
Urban Barcelona, including a hotel suite, bar, and lobby, several streets, an airport, the U.S. embassy, a train station, a seedy hotel, a small apartment, an inner city neighborhood, an internet cafe, a garden, an underground chamber, and several cabs/vans. Also included are short scenes near the Mosque of Damascus in Syria, and the Treasury of Petra in Jordan, both of which monuments explode and collapse.
Immigration lawyer, DAVID (30s), his wife, MOLLY (30s), and daughter FIONA (6) are vacationing in Barcelona when Molly and Fiona disappear in the middle of the night. David, who is continually mistaken for a man named "Malloy," contacts hotel security, but they are unable to assist him. He scours the streets of Barcelona, but finds nothing. He then visits the U.S. embassy, where he meets INSPECTOR ZORRILLA, who is equally unable to help but promises to keep an eye out.

When David returns to his hotel room, he is summoned to an empty bar by a mysterious OLDER GENTLEMAN. This man tells David that if he does not commit a crime on his behalf, Molly and Fiona will die. David is given a briefcase, which he takes to the Plaza Reial. Unbeknownst to David, two other men are performing this same task at the Great Mosque of Damascus in Syria and the Treasury of Petra in Jordan.

David discovers a bomb inside his briefcase. He is able to throw it off a bridge, but the men in Syria and Jordan are not so fortunate: their bombs explode and demolish the surrounding structures. Having escaped, David finds a luggage...