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ACCIDENTAL PASSENGER

ACCIDENTAL PASSENGER
By Jay Han-San

GENRE: Comedy, Crime
LOGLINE:

Ordinary office nerd and a small-time computer criminal accidentally team up on a bus trip through Europe to stop a multi-billion shady corporate deal.

SYNOPSIS:

JACK (42) steals computer software code from a European tech conglomerate KROSS TECH in Amsterdam. He is set to deliver it to Paris for his Japanese client SATO CORP within two days. He has a FLASH DRIVE with the data.

Kross Tech and Sato Corp are announcing a multi-billion shady the merger that is going to take place in Reims. MR. SATO (head of Sato Corp) needs the flash drive from Jack to bully MR. KROSS (head of Kross Tech) and cut the price of the merger. Mr. Cross needs to stop Jack from delivering the flash drive. MR. WHITE – head of security of Kross Corp. identified Jack as a perpetrator and sends his face and data to Amsterdam Police.

MARK (26) a computer salesperson from a small Estonian firm misses his flight from Tallinn to Paris where he’s scheduled to give an important presentation to SATO CORP’s executives. If he doesn’t make it, his boss will fire him.

KRISTINA (20s) Mark’s wife, who is dreaming about a honeymoon vacation they never had, helps Mark get on a cargo plane to Amsterdam.

Meantime LISA, Jack’s ex-wife, now a VP of Public Relations for KROSS corporation is coming to Paris to announce the merger.

Mark arrives at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. He forgot his charger and his phone is about to die, so he goes to the souvenirs shop.

Jack can’t board the plane, because he is chased by the airport police and hides in the souvenirs shop.

Jack and Mark stumble upon each other. They accidentally swap the flash drives.

Jack and Mark both miss their train to Paris. Mark and Jack separately buy tickets to a bus from Amsterdam to Paris. And they are together on adjacent seats on the bus.

Meanwhile, an old friend of Jack, EUROPOL Cybercrime Agent MOSS, and her young deputy – agent HAAG get the alert that Jack was seen at the airport and they track him to the bus station. They have to take agent Haag’s electric car to go to Paris.

What started as a rough encounter became a friendly journey for Mark and Jack. On one of the stops, Mark is stuck in a broken fuel station toilet. Jack helps him get out and they catch another bus to get to Paris.

In Paris Mark goes with his colleague to a party, which is also hosted by Kross Tech. Jack arrives at the club but being escorted out and hit in the face, mugged and so on.

Now with no drive on him, he has to find another way to save Lisa, whose life depends on him delivering the promise, as Sato threatens to kill her and put Jack behind bars.

Kristina who decided to make a surprise visit to Mark accidentally gets into trouble by making an emergency stop in Berlin. She’s mugged, put in jail, had to pretend as a street girl. She meets a nice Bartender who helps her get to Reims.

Mark is being fired by his boss; cause the flash drive he gave to Sato executives was empty. No presentation.

Mark decides to join his friends in Reims.

Jack goes to Reims.

Kristina goes to Reims.

This story has a road trip adventure spirit, twists and unexpected turns…

ACCIDENTAL PASSENGER

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