SUMMARY
Elliott Moulding, a struggling screenwriter, lives a completely normal life. One night, he has a strange dream about being watched by cameras. When he wakes up, he begins to notice cameras in his surroundings, watching him. Then Elliott realises that he can sense when something is about to happen, after he prevents himself and his girlfriend, Elena, from being hit by a car. At work, he also senses that he is going to be fired. He confronts his boss, but is fired anyway. The next day, he also senses that there’s going to be a fire at an office building near his house, and manages to warn everyone in time. This draws the eyes of the media in his town, who hail him as a hero. It also draws the attention of two men, Tom and Vince, who begin following Elliott. Elliott is now even more paranoid, with cameras watching him at every turn and now Tom and Vince. He finds a document that they leave behind, and overhears a conversation Tom and Vince have, revealing that he is on a television show, and that a man called “The Director” is controlling them all.
Elliott begins to try and convince everyone he knows about his discovery, but no one takes him seriously. Elena thinks he is losing his mind. Once Elliott begins trying to convince others, the Director is introduced, the man who sent Tom and Vince and the man in charge of everything. At first, he was alright with Elliott knowing about the cameras, as no one believed him. But once Elliott begins trying to tell everyone it’s all a show, the Director decides that Elliott needs to be stopped.
Elliott and Elena go out to dinner, and Elliott, to Elena’s embarrassment, loudly announces that the restaurant’s food is contaminated. They get kicked out of the restaurant and Elliott sees Tom and Vince and panics, running off and leaving Elena. Elliott hides out in a small bar, where a host from the local news station invites Elliott on for an interview the next night about him saving everyone in the office building. After Elliott arrives home, he discovers a note from Elena, breaking things off with him.
The next day, Elliott discovers that his flat has been ransacked. Tom and Vince arrive and threaten Elliott, but he manages to escape, thanks to a grateful woman he saved and a cake. Tom and Vince are angry, and the Director is even angrier, as all Tom and Vince’s efforts have ended in failure thus far. The Director threatens Tom and Vince, who promise to get Elliott the next time.
That night, during the interview, Elliott has a bit of a breakdown and begins trying to convince the host and other members of the studio about his wild discoveries. He keeps getting more and more agitated, eventually causing the interview to be cut off. Elliott leaves the studio for some fresh air. After some hesitation, Elena, who was watching the interview, follows after. As Elliott exits the building he is grabbed and bundled into the back of Tom and Vince’s car. They drive off just as Elena comes outside.
Elliott wakes up in a small room with no windows, sitting at a table, interrogation-room style. Tom and Vince enter, trying to be menacing but failing. Elliott is angry rather than frightened, and demands to know what is going on. Tom mentions the fact that Elliott knows too much about the show, and Vince lets slip that the Director is not pleased. Elliott insists that he speak with the Director. Tom and Vince reluctantly agree, and call the Director. The Director shows up outside the door and speaks with Elliott. He is quite pompous and monologues, revealing vital information to Elliott, like the fact that Elliott’s reality is created and controlled by the Director, and the “actors” are merely puppets to him, like a giant video game. The only reason Elliott became aware of the cameras and began to have his premonitions was due to a glitch in the system that didn’t give Elliott his script programme. Elliott is still angry, and berates the Director, who gets angry and decides to cancel the show, rather than allow it to continue. Elena, who has been tracking down Elliott, then shows up. Elliott, Elena, Tom, and Vince manage to outwit the Director and escape, locking the Director inside the show’s reality.
The show ends with the four living happily in the Director’s reality, closing with the Director’s face on a TV. screen, trying to escape. To be continued?
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