Back in 2008 I did a sketch base about a double suicide case. There were two physical characters in it, the Inspector of the police and a hired private-eye, Private Detective Mal. I always had an interest in pulp investigative fiction and have decided to bring the neglected character of Det. Mal back in the spotlight. I have decided to develop the character more, but before that I would need to get back to the original. The short sketch is down below and is entitled 'THE SITUATION'.
THE SITUATION
Scene 1 EXT. Construction Site
A dead body (Du Rate) is laid sprawled on the ground with a Bent Coin in palm wearing a wedding suit tuxedo.
Inspector
Evening detective Mal, Private-Eye; what’s your situation here?
Detective Mal
Evening Inspector, the situation? Suicide, jumps off the building, dead by shock before impact. Who we have here is Mr. Du Rate, his wife hired me to investigate his whereabouts; I discovered that he’s in love with another woman. Mr. Du Rate is from the Du Rate family, rich and famous and all that. His marriage with his wife was more of a business deal between the families. Following his diary, he seems to be in love even before his marriage. The woman he loved took her own life yesterday, while him, tonight.
Inspector
Double suicide. But why jump off a building?
Detective Mal
I believe, to him, by jumping off a building is like he had flied off into the next world and by doing so, left his body tumbling down to the ground; a ticket bought. The woman he loves took her life in bed by drugging herself with sleeping pills, a painless death, I assume. Well, at least their together now.
Inspector
Incredible! I assumed that they’d been planning this for awhile. But what’s with the Bent Coin in his palm?
Detective Mal
Through the letters, he kept saying that their love is priceless not like the marriage he had with his wife. Paying the Ferryman everything they have just to be together is not a price at all. They can’t be in love here, so they took it on to the next.
Inspector
So that’s love eh? [beat] How’s his wife?
Detective Mal
Pleasurable!
Scene 1 EXT. Construction Site
A dead body (Du Rate) is laid sprawled on the ground with a Bent Coin in palm wearing a wedding suit tuxedo.
Inspector
Evening detective Mal, Private-Eye; what’s your situation here?
Detective Mal
Evening Inspector, the situation? Suicide, jumps off the building, dead by shock before impact. Who we have here is Mr. Du Rate, his wife hired me to investigate his whereabouts; I discovered that he’s in love with another woman. Mr. Du Rate is from the Du Rate family, rich and famous and all that. His marriage with his wife was more of a business deal between the families. Following his diary, he seems to be in love even before his marriage. The woman he loved took her own life yesterday, while him, tonight.
Inspector
Double suicide. But why jump off a building?
Detective Mal
I believe, to him, by jumping off a building is like he had flied off into the next world and by doing so, left his body tumbling down to the ground; a ticket bought. The woman he loves took her life in bed by drugging herself with sleeping pills, a painless death, I assume. Well, at least their together now.
Inspector
Incredible! I assumed that they’d been planning this for awhile. But what’s with the Bent Coin in his palm?
Detective Mal
Through the letters, he kept saying that their love is priceless not like the marriage he had with his wife. Paying the Ferryman everything they have just to be together is not a price at all. They can’t be in love here, so they took it on to the next.
Inspector
So that’s love eh? [beat] How’s his wife?
Detective Mal
Pleasurable!
END
Of course the main theme about the whole sketch is LOVE. Be it even though it was observed through a third person point of view. The idea did work quite well at the time to question the true meaning of love between a man and a woman, but that was just the situation Det. Mal finds himself being involve with and as payment he slept with the dead man's wife. Now from here, we find out that Det. Mal is an admirer of woman of all sorts but I believe I made him a too clean. As is noticed, he did not curse at all through out the sketch but he goes straight to the point when giving a report which shows that he was in the police department before. What made him quit to be a private investigator is something I would have to think about. Maybe his wife died in an unsolved crime which might take the same tale as Adrian Monk or maybe he did solve the crime but he can't touch the murderer because it is out of his jurisdiction. This will make the murderer some kind of untouchable top shot. Maybe it was not his wife but rather his fiance.
I will be needing a dark event in his past, because of the whole intention is to make the character darker and driven by the past to hope in building a future he would tend to live on later. Thinking about it, I believe it would stick to being his fiance's death. But the death or the crime is fill with conspiracies, which means her family must be in the 'rich and famous' category involved with the 'rich, dangerous and infamous'. [...]