Thanks for the read, jackx :)
And in case anybody's browsing the thread to check for feedback, please ignore this post, as it deals with pretty big SPOILERS...
Just to clarify a couple things:
Quoted Text Wasn’t missie fat? Wouldn’t Trevor notice the difference? |
Yeah, and I went back and forth in my head. I ended up defying logic to go for the laugh. I may go back and change her weight for the sake of consistency, though.
Quoted Text Why would ian bother rescuing Trevor in the pool? also why was ian attacked with a garrot? I can see it working as misdirection, but in the truth of the story it doesnt make much sense. |
It deals with a line Cassie has at the end.
CASSIE
Do whatever we can to confuse them,
to make them hate each other. To
scare the hell out of them. And
then we finish it.
Essentially, they're doing whatever they can to scare the living hell out of them before actually killing them. And the Ian-garrot scene is purely so Sandra and the audience don't figure it out ahead of time. I tried to set it up a little bit with an exchange on page 33:
IAN
We’re in public! What’s wrong with
your camera?
CASSIE
Those jackasses broke it when they
knocked me down.
IAN
Does it still work?
CASSIE
Yep, we’re good for the big night.
Obviously that's not something most people would pick up on until a second read, but it's how I tried to justify the set-up. It was all part of their plan to keep suspicion off of Ian by having potential survivors see the footage of him being strangled.
Once again, thanks so much. You've confirmed just about every potential issue I had with this draft, so it's soon off to rewrite land...