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SKIN DEEP

SKIN DEEP
By David Andrew Hall

GENRE: Thriller, Mystery
LOGLINE:

After living most of her life in a plastic bubble with what she feels are parents that are robbing her of her future, a genius 19 year old master of disguise becomes a serial killer, leading the police around by their noses as one of their own.


The script can be hard for some people to keep up with.

'Catch Me If You Can' (2002) meets 'Psycho' (1960)

95 min.

Will be continued as a 1/2 hour tv series with this as the pilot

SYNOPSIS:

Wearing a skin-suit that looks like Vera, Fiona robs a gas station by killing the attendant at night with a knife she has hidden in a belly pocket of the suit. ‘Vera’ then stuffs the money from the register and a six pack of beer into her belly pocket, leaving the murder weapon behind. Flashback to: While walking along the river side, Vera is approached by Fiona and stabbed in the back in the kidney, Vera dies quickly. Back to: The police begin investigating the gas station murder/robbery and watch the video footage in disbelief thinking that Vera is on heavy drugs.

Flashback to: Fiona wears a very plain skin-suit as she is casting Vera in a polymer, Becky and Willis come upon them but don’t catch on that Vera is dead as Fiona tricks them into thinking that Vera is participating in an art project. Fiona propositions Willis with Vera because she can’t move while the project is being done, this disgusts Becky and they leave. Flashback to: It is explained why Fiona is adopted and what happened to her birth mother.

Back to: Fiona, wearing the skin-suit of Vera enters Vera’s apartment and begins to check the place out as if never been there before. Thomas calls ‘Vera’ and soon shows up as ‘Vera’ awaits his arrival in the bathroom. Thomas enters the bathroom and showers while ‘Vera’ watches. They then have sex in the bedroom where ‘Vera’ stabs Thomas in the back during orgasm. Meanwhile, the police are investigation the murder of Vera in the park. They examine her naked body Officer Evens discovers Fiona’s original skin-suit. At the police station, the police identify Vera and can’t figure out how what happened at the gas station still. Willis and Becky show up at the police station to explain what they witnessed.

Detective Lake and Officer Evens show up at Vera’s apartment and discover ‘Thomas’ there. They ask ‘Thomas’ questions, but he won’t answer. They then ask him to identify Vera’s body. ‘Thomas’ shows up at the morgue and loses it before he leaves. Officer Evens drives ‘Thomas’ back to Vera’s place. It seems that Even’s stays the night with ‘Thomas’ and leaves the next morning. At the police station, ‘Evens’ shows up late and meets up with Detectives Hopkins, Lake, and Palmer. Having identified the plain skin-suit belonged to Fiona, they ask ‘Evens’ to go to Fiona’s parents home and have them come in for questioning as well as return to get Thomas for questioning. Fiona’s mother ‘Holly’ shows up and during questions, she freaks out that Fiona has had her skin-suit stolen again and the last time it was taken, it was Vera who had done it. ‘Holly’ appears to call Fiona on her cell and seems to be talking to her, trying to leave to get Fiona food and go to comfort her at her college dorm. The police let her leave.

‘Evens’ enters Vera’s apartment and discovers Thomas dead in the bathroom. He calls it in. The detectives and Forensics investigate as ‘Evens’ watches. They discover the same type kit in Vera’s bedroom as they had at Vera’s murder scene. Lake is sent with ‘Evens’ to go get Holly. Thomas is found to have been dead longer than when the police had seen him previously. They are still confused. At Fiona’s parents home, ‘Evens’ is sent to watch the back door. Lake then knocks at the front. ‘Holly’ opens the door and lets Lake in and stabs Lake. The Detectives and Forensics arrive to find Lake dead. ‘Evens’ is in the police car. Palmer talks with ‘Evens’ and suggests how to canvas the area. Inside, they wrap up Forensics and ‘Evens’ enters from the back telling them that there are bodies in the garden shed. Forensics investigates the scene and ‘Evens’ goes back out looking for more clues. Becky is seen at the perimeter as the neighbors all have gathered to see what’s happening.

The next morning, ‘Evens’ shows up at the station where they discuss what could be happening. Fiona’s original skin-suit has gone missing and it is found that Fiona’s adopted mother (Holly) and Father had been dead for two weeks already. From that and previous clues, Hopkins demands that ‘Evens’ open his shirt. ‘Evens’ claims sexual harassment, because he is gay, before complying and they are satisfied that he is himself (It’s not him) and ‘Evens’ lays out everything that is happening as if he knows it all saying it’s all spit-balling. Hopkins is pissed that a Rookie has figured it out, and Palmer praises ‘Evens’ for being smart. Hopkins recants his opinion of ‘Evens’ and says he didn’t know he was gay. They move past it. Palmer, Hopkins, and ‘Evens’ go to the business owned by Fiona’s father. They enter and as ‘Evens’ leads the way into the production area to turn on the lights, a shot rings out. ‘Evens’ returns to the entry and has wet pants. Hopkins is sorry for suggesting ‘Evens’ take lead and enters the production area. The FBI shows up and takes over the investigation. ‘Evens’s is sent home to change. The FBI show up at ‘Evens’ home and enter to find that he is dead on his bed.

Flashback to: Inside Evens bathroom, Becky lies on the floor as ‘Evens’ coats her with silicone to make a body mold. Becky tells ‘Evens’ how rich her father is and how she is excited to help with the investigation. ‘Evens’ injects her with something and she dies. ‘Evens’ is euphoric as the skin-suit is unzipped from the hairline and Fiona emerges stating that she can’t wait to get into Becky. Back to: The FBI find skin-suits in the closet at Evens place of Holly, Vera, Evens, Thomas, and the original found. ‘Becky’ sits down the street in a Bugatti calling the FBI. In the car with ‘Becky’ is the body of Becky and more kits in the back seat of the car. The FBI threaten Fiona, ‘Becky’ changes her voice a few times and threatens them back.

On a yacht, ‘Becky’ and two friends stand in bikini’s as ‘Becky’ tells them that she has decided to take up art as a major in college. As the girls drink, a platter with a bust of the lead FBI agent she had talked with on the phone is brought over for inspection. It is a bad piece of art and the friends laugh at it. ‘Becky’ tells them that is why she needs to get the art degree.

'Character' = Fiona in disguise

SKIN DEEP

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