Fiasco!: Don't Steps in It
Setting
A seedy London neighborhood
- A Manor House of Ill Repute
- A Modest Home (with a Hydroponic Pot Farm in the Attic)
- A Local Pub
- Duncan's Place
Cast of Characters
Steps - A Gangster, Pimp and Unstable Individual
Stella - His Daughter and Messenger
Tim - His Right Hand Man and Stella's Real Father
Duncan - His Weapons Supplier, Tim's Old Army Buddy
Eliza - His Weed Supplier and Stella's Lover
Nigel - Eliza's Husband, Duncan's Probation Officer
Synopsis
Mayhem ensues with a mild-mannered probation officer decides to get revenge on a gangster for getting his wife involved in some shady business while a pair of old army buddies try to rip off the gangster (possibly inadvertently) with a shipment of bad guns.
Story, Roughly Written
Our story centers on the gangster Steps who was in the whoring, drug and weapons businesses. His weed supplier is a woman named Eliza who is married to a probation officer who is on his weapon supplier's case. Steps' daughter Stella is sleeping with Eliza to get a discount on the pot which was being sold to her daddy. Except, it turns out, Steps isn't her daddy at all. Tim, one of Steps' crew and good friends with Duncan (Steps' weapons supplier), is actually Stella's dad, which isn't much surprise given that Stella's mom (Steps' ex-wife who is now dating Duncan) started out as one of Steps' whores a couple decades ago.
So, Nigel, Eliza's husband, finds out that she's having an affair with Stella and calls in a favor with a detective he knows who IDs the girl and warns that if Stella has her claws into Eliza, it's likely that she got Eliza tangled up in some nasty business. As such, Nigel is determined to get revenge upon Steps and Stella for involving his lovely wife in their misdeeds.
And while that's all happening, Tim is meeting with Duncan to get some weapons for Steps. Duncan is not a very good weapons dealer, but he's an old friend of Tim's, from back in their army days. Duncan sells Tim several cases of AKs and one very nice handgun. When the guns are delivered, Tim tests a couple, finds they work fine, lets the shipment through. Trouble is, most of the guns are shit and the safety won't release. So, pissed off that he's been duped, Steps arranges to meet with Duncan directly...
In a dramatic scene, Steps draws one of the AKs on Duncan, points it at his head, pulls the trigger and... click. Steps keeps asking him every time this happens as he keeps picking up new guns, "Do you know why you're still alive?" trying to point out that the guns are fucked. Duncan, a bit inebriated at the time, determines, "I'm alive because God loves me." One of the guys does eventually shoot, allowing Steps to blow out Duncan's kneecap, but when he lifts the same weapon to shoot Duncan in the head, it fails again.
Prior to that, Nigel had also been in contact with Duncan, swinging by on a standard home visit as probation officers are wont to do. Now, he had come by just to have a chat, but he happened to catch Duncan crating up the guns for Steps' order, so he was able to blackmail Duncan into giving him something, anything, with some firepower so that he could get his revenge (though he didn't tell Duncan why he needed it). Duncan decides to unload this old, unexploded bomb from World War II that he's had lying around for ages. Nigel, excited, goes to setup the bomb in the basement of Steps' house of ill repute from which he does most of his business.
Eliza, meanwhile, has been doing some thinking. She wants to come clean to her husband, so she confesses everything the next time she sees him, which is incidentally right after he installed the bomb. She tells him about Stella, about her marijuana growing business which has done so well to help them pay off their mortgage and, when he assumes she got tricked into this as his detective friend had suggested, that she was the one who had approached Steps in the first place, which is how she met Stella. In the course of conversation, she tells him that he really ought to visit the whorehouse. The ladies there are lovely. They could maybe rekindle their romance with a night out to the brothel together! Nigel, realizing he had misplaced the blame, rushes off in a panic to go stop the bomb.
Nigel rushes in and runs into a man he assumes is Steps--the two have never met, but this guy looks nefarious--and apologizes for misjudging him. Meanwhile, Tim has found out that Steps shot Duncan and is /pissed/. He goes to Steps' office and shoots him multiple times in the chest. As he's leaving the building, the building next door, which is where Nigel had incorrectly set the bomb, explodes... with Nigel in it. Turns out, there were bad people living there, too, so Nigel, in the end, is recognized as a national hero for his vigilantism. Tim gets up after the explosion, brushes himself off, raids one of Steps' safes, reunites with his lost love and drives off into the sunset, which is where our story ends.
But we also see that poor Duncan hangs himself after a failed prison escape attempt as he can't stand the lack of alcohol in jail; Eliza, too, is arrested and has to watch all about what a hero her nitwit of a husband was on the news; but at least Stella, who also robbed one of her (adopted) father's safes so that she could start a life of her own, still comes to visit her in jail.
Postscript
May come back to edit this later with the actual 24 scene script.
A seedy London neighborhood
- A Manor House of Ill Repute
- A Modest Home (with a Hydroponic Pot Farm in the Attic)
- A Local Pub
- Duncan's Place
Cast of Characters
Steps - A Gangster, Pimp and Unstable Individual
Stella - His Daughter and Messenger
Tim - His Right Hand Man and Stella's Real Father
Duncan - His Weapons Supplier, Tim's Old Army Buddy
Eliza - His Weed Supplier and Stella's Lover
Nigel - Eliza's Husband, Duncan's Probation Officer
Synopsis
Mayhem ensues with a mild-mannered probation officer decides to get revenge on a gangster for getting his wife involved in some shady business while a pair of old army buddies try to rip off the gangster (possibly inadvertently) with a shipment of bad guns.
Story, Roughly Written
Our story centers on the gangster Steps who was in the whoring, drug and weapons businesses. His weed supplier is a woman named Eliza who is married to a probation officer who is on his weapon supplier's case. Steps' daughter Stella is sleeping with Eliza to get a discount on the pot which was being sold to her daddy. Except, it turns out, Steps isn't her daddy at all. Tim, one of Steps' crew and good friends with Duncan (Steps' weapons supplier), is actually Stella's dad, which isn't much surprise given that Stella's mom (Steps' ex-wife who is now dating Duncan) started out as one of Steps' whores a couple decades ago.
So, Nigel, Eliza's husband, finds out that she's having an affair with Stella and calls in a favor with a detective he knows who IDs the girl and warns that if Stella has her claws into Eliza, it's likely that she got Eliza tangled up in some nasty business. As such, Nigel is determined to get revenge upon Steps and Stella for involving his lovely wife in their misdeeds.
And while that's all happening, Tim is meeting with Duncan to get some weapons for Steps. Duncan is not a very good weapons dealer, but he's an old friend of Tim's, from back in their army days. Duncan sells Tim several cases of AKs and one very nice handgun. When the guns are delivered, Tim tests a couple, finds they work fine, lets the shipment through. Trouble is, most of the guns are shit and the safety won't release. So, pissed off that he's been duped, Steps arranges to meet with Duncan directly...
In a dramatic scene, Steps draws one of the AKs on Duncan, points it at his head, pulls the trigger and... click. Steps keeps asking him every time this happens as he keeps picking up new guns, "Do you know why you're still alive?" trying to point out that the guns are fucked. Duncan, a bit inebriated at the time, determines, "I'm alive because God loves me." One of the guys does eventually shoot, allowing Steps to blow out Duncan's kneecap, but when he lifts the same weapon to shoot Duncan in the head, it fails again.
Prior to that, Nigel had also been in contact with Duncan, swinging by on a standard home visit as probation officers are wont to do. Now, he had come by just to have a chat, but he happened to catch Duncan crating up the guns for Steps' order, so he was able to blackmail Duncan into giving him something, anything, with some firepower so that he could get his revenge (though he didn't tell Duncan why he needed it). Duncan decides to unload this old, unexploded bomb from World War II that he's had lying around for ages. Nigel, excited, goes to setup the bomb in the basement of Steps' house of ill repute from which he does most of his business.
Eliza, meanwhile, has been doing some thinking. She wants to come clean to her husband, so she confesses everything the next time she sees him, which is incidentally right after he installed the bomb. She tells him about Stella, about her marijuana growing business which has done so well to help them pay off their mortgage and, when he assumes she got tricked into this as his detective friend had suggested, that she was the one who had approached Steps in the first place, which is how she met Stella. In the course of conversation, she tells him that he really ought to visit the whorehouse. The ladies there are lovely. They could maybe rekindle their romance with a night out to the brothel together! Nigel, realizing he had misplaced the blame, rushes off in a panic to go stop the bomb.
Nigel rushes in and runs into a man he assumes is Steps--the two have never met, but this guy looks nefarious--and apologizes for misjudging him. Meanwhile, Tim has found out that Steps shot Duncan and is /pissed/. He goes to Steps' office and shoots him multiple times in the chest. As he's leaving the building, the building next door, which is where Nigel had incorrectly set the bomb, explodes... with Nigel in it. Turns out, there were bad people living there, too, so Nigel, in the end, is recognized as a national hero for his vigilantism. Tim gets up after the explosion, brushes himself off, raids one of Steps' safes, reunites with his lost love and drives off into the sunset, which is where our story ends.
But we also see that poor Duncan hangs himself after a failed prison escape attempt as he can't stand the lack of alcohol in jail; Eliza, too, is arrested and has to watch all about what a hero her nitwit of a husband was on the news; but at least Stella, who also robbed one of her (adopted) father's safes so that she could start a life of her own, still comes to visit her in jail.
Postscript
May come back to edit this later with the actual 24 scene script.