Plot | Gregory Burbank

Danielle, a cool, sexy, brunette, is running late for work, and left her wallet at the office. She attempts to get on the metro without a ticket. Ian, the perfect gentleman, pays for her fare. They flirt en route to work--exchanging names, business cards, and stories. At work Danielle fantasizes about Ian, and she calls him about lunch. Lunch turns to dinner, dinner turns to sex. Danielle vetoes every hotel they pass in the cab. Finally deciding against infidelity, Danielle stops the cab. Ian pursues. They realize they have stopped at the gates of an unsavory motel that rents rooms by the hour. Nearly in flagrante delicto, a homeless man bursts into their room. Ian forgot to lock the door. At gun point the man steals Ian's wallet--cash, plastic, identity; and ties him to a chair. As the man rapes Danielle in front of him, Ian wrangles free from the ropes, and using the homeless man's gun, kills him. Danielle is sobbing, not from being raped, but because it turns out the man was her lover. And partner in con.