It occurs to me that I didn't explain myself clearly.
While Adam and Anna do trade insults, I think it would be fun if they each create a story about the other. So, rather than volunteering information ("I'm a teacher"), Adam just says "I bleeping hates kids." And Anna guesses that he's a school bus driver. Or a school janitor. Some job beneath teaching.
Adam can do the same about Anna.
So, in the end, they create these wild, colorful profiles of each other... with neither confirming or denying the sketches.
That could be hilarious, and different.

Thank you all for the thorough and extremely helpful notes. I will get rid of the 911 thing. I also didn't think Adam's reveal of his past worked... but this one actually took me a long time to write and I simply ran out of time/energy.

Quoted from RichardR And I wish you had made them lie.

Great idea. That would totally be in keeping with Anna's character, probably both of them. And this might be the key to revealing a bit about their past in a more subtle way. I can do it in a way where the type of story each fabricates tells a lot about their actual past.

Quoted from Abe from LA Another thought is that instead of coming together because of some chemical reaction, they bond through a common goal � to escape.

Yes! I had this same idea but I was out of time so I couldn't explore it. The idea being they bond so effectively that Zaine's little game backfires when they come together and work towards escaping.

Starting with a tire suddenly popping and Anna saying she slashed the tire before she got in... then maybe they light the candles and toss them... or maybe they create a homemade explosive from stuff in the car. That might be too much, but I think people enjoyed it least anytime things veered towards normal saccharine rom-com stuff even for a moment.

It could end with the car crashing and Zaine being carried off in a stretcher and Adam says "Hey Zaine... ba-zing-a." Then tosses a cigarette towards a gasoline trail to his cab. Okay, that's too far. Or is it?

Nice work, Mark. I only had two Recs --
This was one of them!

Hey Mark,
     This was fun.  I enjoyed it.  

I think you also were hurt by the limitations of the OWC.  If you do a rewrite (and you should), do with without the page limit and have a blast with it.  

Dropping the 911 call is smart.  

Flesh out the 2 passengers and you have a really fun story.  

But, my advice is certainly lose the 10 page limit and write it as you see fit.  I bet the whole version of this is probably really fun.

Oh, and yes, I could see them blowing up his taxi of love...  Or worse.  

Oh, what if you made them both psychos.  

So many fun things you can do.

Dan