TELOS
Marcus Reid stopped noticing things fifteen years ago, the night a story he wrote got a woman killed. Now he pours drinks and doesn't ask questions.
A stranger's estate leaves him a storage facility. Underneath it, he finds the real one; a black market trading in stolen childhood potential, including his own, taken at five and sold on before he ever knew it was gone.
Rebecca Ford, who runs what's left of it, gives him three ways out. Keep it running. Take back what's his and let everyone else lose theirs forever. Or give it all back and lose himself in the process, the one option its architect built to cost Marcus everything.
Three children are scheduled for Friday. The clock doesn't care which choice he makes.
His phone rings. His hand's still short of the screen.
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Jason SomervilleWriter
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Project Type:Screenplay
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Number of Pages:96
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:No
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Student Project:No
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Digital Cinema Package:Unavailable
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Jason Somerville is an Australian screenwriter, director, producer, and author whose work explores perception, identity, and the quiet damage caused by the roles people adopt to survive. Drawing on his varied life experience across policing, including undercover and uniform roles in high-crime, low-socioeconomic environments; as a tour leader across Asia, South America and Europe; and as a recruitment consultant working with everyday people, his writing leans towards implication rather than explanation, focusing on psychological tension and the moment reality begins to fracture.
His storytelling focuses on the silences left unsaid. Behaviour, silence, and detail carry more weight than the plot. Rather than driving towards spectacle, his work sits in an uncomfortable space where truth surfaces slowly and often too late.
Working across psychological thriller, domestic noir, and social drama, he places characters in contained environments where performance and reality begin to blur. His stories are intimate and high-stakes, grounded in the moment a person realises they have already crossed a line and is forced to face the cost of being who they have become.
