SHUTTLECOCK
Thriller/Horror Series - Script
A pre-med, Indian-American rideshare driver (triple non-threat) gets caught in a dangerous fraternity-sorority rivalry which turns out to be a war on the whole Greek system.
Karan, woefully studying Anatomy in between SHUTTLE rideshare fares, decides to return a dead cell phone to a group of sorority girls.
In the basement of their dilapidated mansion, Maggie (his fare, sorority leader) DJs as girls and guys dance. On the mic, she congratulates the boys for returning their cell phones…A chill runs down Karan’s spine. She says they’ve been chosen for a game: plug in their special chargers, go to the on-screen location, retrieve an object, first one back gets $10,000. The race begins.
Karan goes to his marked location: a frat house. He sneaks in but is mistaken for a pledge and forced into a keg stand. Mark, a Caucasian bro, mistakes him for his Econ tutor but is congenial.
Karan stumbles upstairs to the cigar room, where a chest corresponds to his GPS. He opens it to find Imani, a young African-American woman, who bops him in the nose before storming out.
Karan exits, deciding he’s done with the game; but, Imani makes him drive her back to the dilapidated mansion.
En route, cops pull them over, interrogate them separately. Karan’s tipsy but sharp enough to avoid trouble. Imani’s story apparently corroborates.
The mansion is now empty. Imani reveals the house shut down when a girl died last year. Separately, Karan finds a USB which transfers $10,000 through his phone and Imani finds a MAP with the Greek system marked with circles and arrows, along with a combination code which indicates that:
They head BACK to the frat house. Imani explains that the girls are in rivalry with the frats, trying to bring them down, and she needs Karan’s help.
Karan needs to use the combination code on a safe in the cigar room. Mark stops him, says he knows what he’s up to. That the girls are after a rumored ledger: a coded account of hush money transfers and cover-ups that would expose corrupt donors. Mark hands Karan a ledger and says he’ll give him $10,000 to feed them this fake, which when “decoded” and published, will bring the sorority down instead. Mark even offers Karan a spot in the frat where he can roll in drugs, women and test scores.
Karan meets with Imani outside and hands her the ledger…
Imani returns to her sorority where the girls start to translate the ledger to be published in the morning. Karan’s Anatomy bookmark falls out and Imani understands it’s a fake, but lets it be published anyway; though pieces may fall in the wrong order, she’s trying to bring down the whole system.
Karan hides his night from his ailing mother back home, promising to get her a good doctor. “You will be a good doctor” she says.
Imani knocks on his door, confesses that the girls are using him as a fall guy but she has her own game to expose everyone since her twin sister died last year in a hazing incident. Karan agrees to be her mole in the frat.
In the basement of their dilapidated mansion, Maggie (his fare, sorority leader) DJs as girls and guys dance. On the mic, she congratulates the boys for returning their cell phones…A chill runs down Karan’s spine. She says they’ve been chosen for a game: plug in their special chargers, go to the on-screen location, retrieve an object, first one back gets $10,000. The race begins.
Karan goes to his marked location: a frat house. He sneaks in but is mistaken for a pledge and forced into a keg stand. Mark, a Caucasian bro, mistakes him for his Econ tutor but is congenial.
Karan stumbles upstairs to the cigar room, where a chest corresponds to his GPS. He opens it to find Imani, a young African-American woman, who bops him in the nose before storming out.
Karan exits, deciding he’s done with the game; but, Imani makes him drive her back to the dilapidated mansion.
En route, cops pull them over, interrogate them separately. Karan’s tipsy but sharp enough to avoid trouble. Imani’s story apparently corroborates.
The mansion is now empty. Imani reveals the house shut down when a girl died last year. Separately, Karan finds a USB which transfers $10,000 through his phone and Imani finds a MAP with the Greek system marked with circles and arrows, along with a combination code which indicates that:
They head BACK to the frat house. Imani explains that the girls are in rivalry with the frats, trying to bring them down, and she needs Karan’s help.
Karan needs to use the combination code on a safe in the cigar room. Mark stops him, says he knows what he’s up to. That the girls are after a rumored ledger: a coded account of hush money transfers and cover-ups that would expose corrupt donors. Mark hands Karan a ledger and says he’ll give him $10,000 to feed them this fake, which when “decoded” and published, will bring the sorority down instead. Mark even offers Karan a spot in the frat where he can roll in drugs, women and test scores.
Karan meets with Imani outside and hands her the ledger…
Imani returns to her sorority where the girls start to translate the ledger to be published in the morning. Karan’s Anatomy bookmark falls out and Imani understands it’s a fake, but lets it be published anyway; though pieces may fall in the wrong order, she’s trying to bring down the whole system.
Karan hides his night from his ailing mother back home, promising to get her a good doctor. “You will be a good doctor” she says.
Imani knocks on his door, confesses that the girls are using him as a fall guy but she has her own game to expose everyone since her twin sister died last year in a hazing incident. Karan agrees to be her mole in the frat.
