by Randy Duniz
A feature film proposal
Jacob Clarke is a Homicide detective – a silver-tongued salesman with a reputation for being adept at interrogation and a master of getting confessions. Most days, his place of business is one of the Homicide unit’s three interview rooms – every bit unwelcoming with their cold, grey walls, steel table, three chairs and emptiness. But today is unlike any other day in the Homicide unit. Today, Detective Clarke is pulled into all three rooms.
Inside Interview Room One, Detective Russell Hughes of the Internal Affairs Division is conducting an investigation of his own - looking to find out what really happened the night Clarke's partner, Detective Reyna Mercado, shot and killed a suspect. Inside Interview Room Two, Clarke’s daughter, Rosie, is waiting to speak to her father. After turning up unexpectedly at the precinct, Rosie is about to confront Clarke about the affair his boss had with her mother. And finally, in Interview Room Three, Clarke faces off against Elias Dunne - the primary suspect in the abduction of a young girl, Clara Williams. The evidence he has is circumstantial at best and Clarke is acutely aware that if he ever going to bring Clara home safe and sound, he's going to have to break Elias and get him to confess.
Running out of time, being pulled in different directions, Clarke is tested as a friend, a father and a detective.