(An original rom-com action movie plot by Creative Copywriter Ugur Akinci.) Rock and Cindy are two bounty hunters, the best in their profession. Once they were married but they divorced after a terrible fight which both regretted later on. The two have made a lot of money together in the years past by catching bail jumpers all over the USA, Canada and Mexico, and both still carry the scars to prove it. Now Rock is pushing sixty and he wants to retire after this one very big job -- nabbing Scorpion, a nasty drug pin out there on a $100 mil bond and he just disappeared into the void. Rock needs people he can rely on to pull off this big job. And just then Cindy (still ravishing and strong in her 40s) visits him with her "fiance" Maleek, a South Asian guy who owns an ink-cartridge refill business and warehouse in Carolina. Maleek has no idea what Cindy was doing before he met her at a Texas beach six months ago. The reason Cindy visits Rock is to settle the custody battle over their 10 year old son Austin, who is at the time living with his grandma. But when she sees Rock, Cindy's old hunting instincts flare up again, and she is flooded with all the memories of fast romatic times they had together when they were young, beautiful and growing a business together. Cindy wants to send Maleek back and help Rock on his last "mission impossible" but Maleek, believing that Cindy will just see an old business partner "to settle a dispute," insists coming with them. Time is ticking and they have to hit the road to chase down the Scorpion. So Rock yields and they take Maleek along who has no idea what is in store for him. At the first motel they stop, Scorpion's gang is already waiting for them. They get out of that one alive thanks to Maleek's street smarts and his impersonation of an Indian raja visiting America to blow off some money on gambling and girls. They press on, tracking Scorpion down to Boca Raton, Florida. But at their second stop a different sort of trouble awaits them -- Austin is waiting for them with his suitcase in hand, to spend his summer vacation with his parents. Rock's mother sent Austin away for some "quality time" with his dad, and "quality time" indeed is what they'll all have while chasing Scorpion through the swamps and beaches of Florida... Last sequence -- Rock and Cindy once again realize that they were really created for one another but time has passed and they can't pretend that what had happened did not happen. And then there is Maleek now, a very nice guy to whom Cindy owes a thing or two. So they decide to part -- this time as friends -- and not listen to their heartache. Rock stares long and hard after Cindy and Maleek after they pull into the highway and disappear towards the sunset. Austin is still with Rock. Rock puts his hand affectionately on his son's shoulder and they start walking towards the IHOP on the other side of the highway to eat a good dinner. "Strawberry pancakes? At this hour?" While walking to the restaurant Rock is telling Austin how he is now ready to retire and he has what it takes to send him even to a good private school if Austin wants to. Just then... Rock's cell phone comes alive. He takes the call, listens for a while as his face drops in disappointment. He is debating himself. "Two hundred grand? Are you serious?" We can tell he just got another big job offer and he can't turn it down just because he says he is "retired." He slips the phone into his pocket, they make a U-turn and start walking towards Rock's Toyota Tundra. As the truck pulls like a rocket into the traffic, we hear Rock's off-screen question to Austin: "There is another IHOP about 90 miles up the road. Is that okay?" The End ---------- |
