PLANNING: Script

 

Script:

 

*Montage of images, voice overs, clips

*Blackout and silence.

*Slow music starts.

*Young woman sits down and looks at camera

 

Interviewer: Let’s start off with your name?

Olivia: I’m Olivia Droll

Amber: I’m Amber Droll

Interviewer: Do you know who kidnapped your mother.

Olivia: Yes

Amber: *pause* It was Leo Thompson.

*Blackout

 

Photos of Castle Combe, house and river. Old-fashioned editing

Olivia: It was 2011 and my mom and I went out for a walk. I was 7 at the time and well, a kid. It was pretty normal for us to walk in the evenings, since my dad was out with my brother at football practice. We stopped (photo of café) at the local café to get a hot chocolate. It was pretty cold that day and the ground was starting to get a bit slippery from ice.

Olivia: *cut to her in chair* we were going along the bridge over the river, like we had done everyday, and my mom seemed to get a bit jittery, she said she was ‘just feeling the cold.’ But *dramatic pause* as soon as she said that, I big shadow came over us and I felt this sudden pound hit my head. I instantly started drifting in and out of consciousness, and… for the few moments I had my eyes open, a saw my mom being pushed in the back of a small car.

*Pause with sad look*

Olivia: I um, *crying* I don’t remember anything after that. Except, waking up in hospital, being told that *cry* I had been in an induced coma for the last 10 years.

Interviewer: Police worked on the case for 3 years following the incident. Looking at different possibilities of what may have happened, where Amber could be, if she was even still alive. After no advancements in any leads or theories, the police closed the case and it was left unresolved. But, everything changed on August 16^th, 2021.

Olivia: I woke up.

*Beat*

Amber: This is the true story of how my daughter saved my life. *Long pause. * And the other 26 women who were trapped with me.

*TITLE APPEARS*