A woman, Gigi, wakes from the rapid and disturbing
flashes of a nightmare to the much happier sound of her husband and daughter on
the phone, wishing her good morning and good luck. She’s apparently an actress
getting ready for an audition (she’s not very good. She’s really really not),
packing her essentials like the script – and a gun, but leaving her phone
behind in the hotel room.
At the audition the gun turns out to be a water pistol.
But she doesn’t get the role – she’s considered too sexy, too young and to have
too strong an accent (she’s French). Instead they offer her the role of the
daughter - a role as a drug addicted prostitute, naked and tied up which the
guy leading the audition calls “so French”.
Uh-huh, cut to outside and her throwing the script in a
bin. Alas, we did not see the righteous groin kicking he so obviously deserved,
but I like to imagine it happened off camera. She goes to a big building that
seems to have a lot of police presence – and ends up stuck in a dark lift with
one of said police (Officer Muñoz), an older woman, a man who occasionally
sounds Irish (McCormick), occasionally sounds English and always sounds awful
(and he has a strange need to swear every 2 seconds. I think I’m leaning
towards Irish) and a clown.
I think whatever the nightmare was that opened this
episode, it’s nothing compared with being stuck in a lift with a clown.
After being stuck for 10 seconds, they resort to prying
at doors. Getting them open they’re lowered out into a deserted parking garage
– deserted and dark with a car alarm blaring away. The exits are all blocked. 2
more people come down the stairs – and the door closes and locks behind them.
They try to force the gate but it doesn’t work – and the
one man they see just looks at them and walks away. Unable to get out they head
to the car with the incessant alarm to at least cut the annoying noise – it’s
Muñoz’s police car, the boot is open. A man runs at them from between the cars
and Muñoz screams “stop” and shoots him. Ok…
While everyone’s focusing that way, another man appears behind Gigi and grabs her and holds her at gun point. Lots of shouting follows. Officer Muñoz recognises the man who she calls “Dee”, he’s an escaped prisoner, an accused murderer, but he protests his innocence. The guy from the stairs, Wade, speaks up probably to introduce him to the audience as much as anything, apparently he’s a lawyer, quite why that makes him a hostage negotiator I do not know. After a stand off he keeps his gun but pushes Gigi away to the group, again protesting his innocence. The man who was shot is apparently a prisoner who escaped with Dee, but there’s not much they can do for him.
And while discussing the tense stand off with guns and whether to try and get medical help, it’s revealed that all the other doors from the stairwell were locked when Wade and the woman (Tammy) came down to the parking garage. But then the next drama happens – the old woman (Francis) has wandered off to the lift and collapsed, barely conscious; they search in her bad and find a packet of sugar in her handbag and decide that she must be diabetic with low blood sugar so pour it on her tongue. Thankfully, they’re right and she comes round. In all the drama, Dee has scarpered.
