"The Best Revenge"

Logline A young lawyer representing a child killer comes to terms with his troubled childhood.

Theme - Life is full of self deception. Joe deludes himself and everyone else that he is strait. Tim’s Family history of abuse is hidden from the community and even within the family it is unspoken, and reality of corporate criminals happens behind the scenes and even those commiting the crimes don’t see what they’re doing as something wrong

Players

Joe Collins – Protagonist
Timothy Sutton – Defendant
Thopolis Collins – Joe’s Father
Kevin Lamar – Joe’s Love interest
Lester Drake – District Attorney
Alma Jean Collins – Joe’s Mother
Daniel Collins – Joe’s Little Brother
Synopsis Joe Collins is a young ambitious attorney given a big case. He works for the criminal division of a large corporate law firm. The case is representing a major client of the firm. The CEO of the company is under investigation by a federal grand jury. Joe is at first astonished at the level of malfeasance and arrogance his client displays. Through interviews with his client Joe learns of many illegal activities that which his own firm in is involved. But Joe is convinced to overlook them by his boss and mentor Dr. Robert Callaway. Joe wants to be successful in the firm and is convinced that means keeping its secrets. Joe works out an underhanded deal with the US attorney to drop the investigation. Meanwhile Timothy Sutton kills his father in cold blood. Joe’s mother, Alma Jean Collins is a trying to keep, and Joe’s little bother Daniel Collins, out of trouble. Joe’s father, Theopolis Collins, is dying of Lung Cancer. After getting the settlement Joe is given some time off from work as a reward. Callaway suggests that Joe go home and visit his folks. Joe hasn’t been home since he left for collage eight years ago and it’s unclear why. Joe entertains a young woman at his penthouse apartment in celebration. Joe’s car breaks down on the side of the road. An old law school classmate, Kevin Lamar, come to his aid and help Joe change his tire. Kevin and Joe have a strangely intimate and strained relationship that suggests Joe may have sexually experimented with Kevin. He tells Joe he should take a Pro Bono case while he has time off. This conversation suggests Joe to be much more compassionate that he first appeared at the start of the story. It also reveals that Joe is living a lie. He might be gay living as a strait man and he acts as a cold dispassionate advocate when Joe is a very passionate loving person.

Joe goes to get a Pro Bono and is instantly dispised by the lawyers at legal aid. Joe is clearly out of his league to them and they want to knock him down a peg by giving him the worst case they have. Joe is given the case of Timothy Sutton a fourteen year old boy who killed his father. He arrages an interview with Tim and discovers a very compassionate and average boy. Joe can’t understand why Tim would have killed his father and Tim refuses to talk about it. Joe then gets some information about his friends and goes to them to find out more about Tim. Time has one friend who tells of afriendly guy who like to do charity work at his church. His friend is unaware of why Tim would kill his father, but suggests that his father was strict and he’d hit him a few time. Joe then goes to meet Joe’s mother she is very angry and hurt and doesn’t want to talk to Joe. Tim’s mother explains some of the history of Tim. How her divorce ripped their family apart, but in the mother’s eyes Tim is responceable and doesn’t think Tim was abused.