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Synopsis

It is Halloween 2005. A man is trick or treating along a street with his son when he is
shot. Six bullets are fired, but only five find a home in his body. Surprisingly, the man does
not die from his gunshot injuries but lies critically ill in hospital.

Bethany is a teenager with a slightly unusual career choice. Whilst holding down a
busy and successful life at college, she is trying to lead a second life - her 'real' life. She has
a best friend, who quickly finds out her secret, and a mentor, a father figure named Richie.

After years of training from Richie, Bethany opts to space on a party with best friend Jo in
favour of 'work.' It so happens that the work she has decided to do is to shoot a man.
The man survives being shot but Bethany knows that she will be caught and found
guilty of his attempted murder. Determined not to let this happen, she sets out to finish the
job she was hired to do - to the cost of all who bar her way - and then run away with the
payment from the murder.
She knows what she has done, and what she plans to do, is wrong. Neither Jo nor
Richie are told her plans in case they try to stop her. Killing is what she does. There is
nothing wrong with doing a job, and she can make this all right as long as no-one knows.

But all does not go to plan when the police are chasing her.

SW E E T SIX TEEN

1. In t - M o r n in g - co lle g e c o m m o n r o o m .

G en er a l h u stle a n d bu stle o f s t u d e n t s. B et h a n y sla m s lo c k er s sh u t a n d lo ck s it.

Bethany: God, I hate Mondays !

Jo: Bethany. start of the week? Hello? Never popular.

Bethany: And infinitely worse when you're looking forward to double Bio.

Jo: (Sh e giggle s) You know you like it here. Anyway, you could always skive off
with me. I'll get my mark, then I'm buggering off.

Bethany: Jo ! You're gonna get caught one day.