Somebody, please put this in your thriller or horror. It's an unexciting snippet, but what if you could use it during a flashback to help make your protagonist more strategic, more intelligent. Girl, I haven't been able to come up with anything more, and why have a decent snippet go to waste. To get from A to C, play with the details in between. No need to be too formulaic.
Inspired by a TV clip I saw here, and the idea is simply a character getting a moment alone with a cop, one with whom they have no relationship, and they take a chance, handing the officer a sheet of paper with some names on it, an innocuous item, stating that they have reason to fear that most of those names belong to people whose energy/behavior invites suspicion, also stating that the first character fears that they will be framed for a crime. Maybe this first character owns a gun. Maybe they have a big blot on their legal record. Even if they don't, I'm curious about the thoughts, the tension, the energy between this person and the officer in such a moment. Would the cop take this seriously? Would they hold onto that piece of paper for days, or just until this fearful citizen had left the building? I'd prefer that the paranoia be well-founded. The first character could also say that the name separate from the others is their own, that they acknowledge the strangeness of this moment, but...they're forced to have these oddly/poorly-behaved individuals on the list in their life to some degree, and, well, they believe it's best to get a little ahead of whatever is coming. With that, they politely leave.
Anybody want to use this? I hope so.
