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A storyline for a Wild Things influenced crime mystery thriller.


After successfully stealing $3.7 million dollars in a midnight bank robbery. Career criminal Clinton McBain is arrested and implicated in the murder of unknown woman Tru Skynyrd, by forcing her car off the road, crashing her car into a swamp, which the unknown woman drowned, which McBain claims he did not do and also claims that he does not know her. As the police and forensic scientists investigate the crime scene and search for Tru's body and McBain goes to court and not only faces the charge of murder, as well as other charges for other crimes he has committed. Detective Jennifer Kingston whom is investigating the case begins to believe McBain is innocent and suspects something is not right about the case and realizes Tru's murder took place at 5am and when McBain was being interviewed stated he was in bed at that time with his wife Ellen at that time and their apartment is nowhere near the swamp. A suspicious Kingston begins to follow McBain's wife and soon discovers Ellen and her partner Detective Ted Bentley whom arrested McBain have been having an ongoing affair and have involved with each other for sometime and when Kingston breaks into McBain's apartment and listens to a voice message from McBain's partner Hollis Felkner, instructing Ellen to meet with him and Bentley, so he can take them to where McBain and himself have hidden the $3.7 million dollars, so they can split the money and go their separate ways. Kingston learning and suspecting Ellen, Bentley and Hollis have set McBain up, so they can keep the $3.7 million dollars for themselves, sets out to expose and thwart their scheme.
But Kingston soon learns that Ellen, Bentley and Hollis have not acted alone and that they are being aided by an unknown and unseen accomplice and as Kingston sets out to uncover the identity of the trio's accomplice, Kingston soon finds himself caught up in a dangerous game, where two will be doublecrossed and two will get away with the money.

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It would make a good film with loads of twists to the plot. But how would behind the mystery work?

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