LOVERBOYS SHOTS
SYNCH & MUSIC details
LOVERBOYS SCRIPT
Red Light District Amsterdam Montage
MUSIC Seeking X
14”
The bright shiny face of prostitution.
18”
Amsterdam, capital of the European sex industry.
22”
Its totally legitimate
24”
a tourist attraction.
27”
But through the windows lies a murkier world.
MIX TO TRAIN
30”
The young girls, groomed, beaten and brutalised into selling themselves for sex.
36”
37”
MUSIC
Audio Network Track Id “Empty” (1132/9)
Helen Jane Long
40”
This British dad is risking his life to take on the groomers.
Men who he claims lured his daughter into a relationship when she was just 16 then brainwashed her into prostitution.
53”
Tracking shot through train window
55”
The pimps are known as loverboys. Men so dangerous that he’s asked us to hide his identity.
1’02
Tom’s glasses (blurred)
1’03”
TOM SYNCH:
The communication broke down and I could see
External shot train pulling in
my daughter slowly being cut away
1’10”
Train pulls into station internal shot.
1’11”
It’s indescribable. It’s the next thing to losing your daughter.
1’17”
Tom walking along platform
1’19”
On repeated trips to Holland over 2 years
Tom on street of The Haig
he says he’s been gathering evidence about the man who first became his daughter’s boyfriend and then her pimp.
1’27”
1’29”
MUSIC Seeking X
Red Light District Montage
1’32”
He says the man who’s groomed his daughter is part of a well known criminal family . One of whom, already convicted of human trafficking with established connection to drugs and guns.
Night time car headlights
But no one in authority in Holland seems able to do anything about it.
1’48”
Night time car headlights
1’50”
TOM SYNCH:
These people are the underworld: Prostitution, drugs, trafficking. All the areas that
Red Light District crowds
you would not expect your daughter to be anywhere near.
2’04
Tom’s hands
2’06”
Tom says he made his discovery after he insisted on meeting the ‘boyfriend’ and his family.
2’12
Tom’s hands in shadow
2’13”
TOM SYNCH:
1was warmly greeted by the family. Which shows me how
Tom through water glass
sophisticated these people are. And how
Close up glass
they will make the police’s job difficult. I met
Hands
Mohammed, the older brother, the man I would suggest is the leader.
Tom through water glass
2’32
Mohammed was shot point blank in the stomach leaving a night club.
Close up glass
He was still carrying the wound when I met him.
2’41”
Detective’s eyes in rear car mirror
2’43”
Struggling on his own, Tom hired this man, private detective Jacques Smits to find Sonya and obtain evidence against the loverboys.
Driving wheel
With help, Jacques tracked her down in the Red Light district in The Hague.
2’57”
Jacques in car smoking
2’58
JACQUES SYNCH
She lived in a hotel in the Chinese district in Den Haag
Jacques In vision
JACQUES SYNCH
it’s a very bad district, close to the Hollein Street. The Hollein Street is the street where the red windows are , girls are sitting behind the windows
Jacques in Red Light area in the Haig.
JACQUES SYCNH
to give their bodies for sex
3’13”
Jacques in Red Light area in the Haig.
3’14”
Jacques says what he saw convinced him that Sonya was not acting out of choice.
Jacques In Vision
3’20”
JACQUES SYNCH
When she goes out of the hotel directly one of these guys is there. She can’t go into the supermarket by herself. Always one of these guys around. And that’s the line of work for these guys. She can’t leave, she can’t go herself, she can’t run away to France , South America or whatever because she makes money.
3’45”
Safe-house GV
3’45
SX (girls taking)
Safe house Girls
3’49”
But Tom’s daughter Sonia did escape to this safe house near Amsterdam. Most of these girls have fled from so
Hair dressing
called loverboys and often
Girls on site
years of enforced prostitution. The aim is to break the physical
Hand with cigarette
and psychological grip of the abusers.
4’06”
4’07”
MUSIC: Seeking X.
4’09
ELEINA SYNCH
I was 18 years old when when it all started. I met a boy which I fell in love with .
Montage Red Light District
4’17”
4’19”
Eleina’s story is typical . The boy she fell in love had her raped by a group of men. Within weeks he was in control.
Red Window
Eleina’s story could be Tom’s daughter’s.
Red Window
4’31
ELEINA SYNCH:
It was really like you’re having
Eleina In Vision
4’36
a double life. Because in one life I saw my family, I went to school. The other life, that was them.
Elaine’s hands
4’44”
If they had customers for me I had to leave school
Eleina In Vision
4’46”
or I had to come at night.
4’48”
Safehouse girls
4’49”
Anita de Wit set up this safe house after her own daughter was groomed by the loverboys. Tom’s daughter Sonia stayed here for three weeks. Anita became her
Anita blurred
closest confidante, even she couldn’t stop her going back.
Anita In Vision
5’04”
ANITA SYNCH & SUBTITLES:
She was quite brainwashed
5’09
ANITA SUBTITLES:
and very confused.
5’12
SUBTITLES
She said, ‘I am in a relationship with this guy.
5’14
SUBTITLES
and he has made promises,
5’18
SUBTITLES
but he’s beaten me
5’20
SUBTITLES
and I’ve had to take drugs
5’21
SUBTITLES
and work as a prostitute’.
Safehouse girls and girl on mobile phone.
5’24”
Anita recalls the day Sonya decided to call her loverboy.
Anita in vision
5’30”
ANITA SUBTITLES:
He was very angry.
5’31”
SUBTITLES
He said ‘Where are you?
5’33”
SUBTITLES
How could you leave me like that!’
2011 girl on phone (hairdresser)
5’36”
Anita says Sonya was beaten, but when he threatened to take her little sister, she left.
5’41”
ANITA SUBTITLES
In her mind
AA0162 at 15’57
5’44”
SUBTITLES
he could do to her sister
5’48”
SUBTITLES
what he did to her.
5’50
MUSIC Empty
Eleina In Vision
5’55”
ELEINA SYNCH
The next day I woke up and he gave me a choice: Either I was going to work for him in prostitution or he was going to take someone whom I loved, somebody from my own family.
Eleina’s hands
6’06”
Like Tom’s daughter, Eleina says the loverboys took total control of her life.
Eleina In Vision
6’11”
ELEINA SYNCH
What you do , what you drink, what you eat, what you think. Even what you’re dreaming about. They control everything. Because they text message you before you go to sleep so you take that with you in your dreams///
6’26”
ELEINA SYNCH
You don’t understand your own feelings anymore and then, If he is angry you start to get angry as well. If he is hurt then you’re hurt. Its like you are a clone of him. That’s how you can deal with it. That’s the only way to survive.
6’39”
6’41”
So why didn’t Eleina run away?
6’44”
MUSIC Seeking X
Montage Red Light District
6’45
ELEINA SYNCH
Elina: He had a gun.
Montage
Yeah, I could run away but he would shoot me.
Montage
6’49”
And so Eleina worked for him as a prostitute for two years. Her cloning of the loverboy complete
Montage
when she began drawing in new girls to be abused,
Montage
becoming a lover girl herself
7’02”
Lights
7’04”
ELEINA SYNCH
The first girl I made contact with at the bar
Girls in bar & night life scenes
I was talking to her and she was telling me what a ‘crappy’ life she had. And I said to her, ‘I know this story its like mine’. She was really happy she had someone to talk to.
She got in the house and they took her to the bedroom
Eleina In Vision
there she was raped by them. And he was sitting next to me. And I could hear her screaming and I was thinking, ‘a couple of years ago that was me. Why am I not helping her, why am I not saving this girl’?
To BLACK
Eleina In Vision
7’39”
ELEINA SYNCH
He said’ its your choice. Either you’re going to work or they’re going to work’.
7’42”
Anita
7’43”
Like Eleina, Tom’s daughter is believed to have been groomed by dangerous international traffickers.
7’50”
7’51”
ANITA SUBTITLES
It needs further investigation
7’58”
ANITA SUBTITLES
It’s not just the Netherlands
8’01
ANITA SUBTITLES
Its going on other countries:
8’04”
ANITA SUBTITLES
Spain, Belgium and England.
8’08
Lights
8’09”
MUSIC Seeking X
8’08”
Sonya has now vanished. Tom knows she’s alive but little more.
Police car
The police have investigated but say that without her cooperation they can do nothing.
8’20”
In Vision
8’21”
DETTMEIJER SYNCH
So it’s a society problem that the police by themselves are not able to solve.
Dettmeijer set up
8’29”
Corinne Dettmeijer is the Dutch National Rapporteur for Human Trafficking.
She looks out of window
She says the problem for the police is that victims, like Sonya,
Pamorama through window
rarely complain:
View through window
8’41”
DETTMEIJER SYNCH
This an individual case
In Vision
8’42”
which is of course extremely sad for the father. And it may well be that the girl is forced into prostitution but she doesn’t want to come forward. She doesn’t want to say anything. If she doesn’t want to say anything and there’s no other proof that all these things going on, it is indeed very difficult to do something about it.
9’08”
9’09”
TOM SYNCH
Jacques! How are you doing? Its been some time. Take a seat Man.
9’14
JACQUES SYNCH
How are you?
9’15”
The lack of action by the authorities is leaving Tom increasingly frustrated.
9’20
JACQUES SYNCH
No,no.
9’21”
TOM SYNCH:
This is in effect what’s happening.
9’23
JACQUES SYNCH:
But you need proof. How many times do I have to tell you Tom? As long as the victims keeps her mouth shut there is no case.
9’34”
TOM SYNCH:
If the victim is too frightened or intimidated to give evidence you say you have no case? Is that how the law works? Its as simple as that?
19’43”
JACQUES SYNCH:
Its same in UK or Germany!
9’45”
TOM SYNCH:
So from a criminal organisation’s point of view they simply need to silence the victim. And they can operate with impunity?
9’54”
9’54”
JACQUES SYNCH:
You know what happens to girls who don’t shut their mouth? They gonna be killed. And they know. And that’s the major problem Tom.
10’02”
To Black
That’s the major problem
10’05”
CINDY
10’05”
Cindy endured life in the grip of a loverboy for nearly eight years.
Cindy Set Up
10’10”
CINDY SYNCH:
As long as you do what they say you have a life.
In Vision
10’14”
CINDY SYNCH:
You can work at the red light district for eighteen hours and for six hours you can sleep. Then you have a life. (Laughs)
Cindy Smoking
10’23”
Its a life dominated by violence. That’s why women like her and Sonia are so terrified of going to the police.
Cindy smoking
10’32”
CINDY SYNCH:
If you man breaks your arm..
Cindy In Vision
10’35
CINDY SYCH
…and don’t send you to the hospital and you have to work with a broken arm, so you have to , sorry to say so, but you have to ‘wank’ (BEEP) people with that arm, have to be raped in your room every 20 minutes, with a broken arm, then you know for sure that he is capable of doing any of the other things he’s saying.
10’58”
GVs the Haig
Tom posting letters.
11’01
So, without his daughter testifying, Tom has decided he must gather enough evidence about the men on his own.
Tom posting letters
11’09”
TOM SYNCH
So what I’m doing is, I’m delivering leaflets naming the gang and asking people to provide information. I’ve put a reward, a significant reward out for information that leads to the arrest of the people I am accusing of abusing, not only my daughter, but many other people’s daughters.
11’34”
11’55”
Tom is offering a 10,000 Euro reward, virtually all his savings, for information about the men he is
Close up leaflet
11’42”
convinced have groomed his daughter. He’s distributing their names and photographs. He acknowledges it’s a dangerous strategy.
11’52”
TOM SYNCH
It is, potentially, if these people decide to seek retribution. But the alternative is to do exactly what they want me to do, which is: ‘nothing’. And I’m not a brave man but when a man abuses your family you’ve got v little choice.
12’11”
Tom walking
12’14
JACQUES SYNCH
My Goodness
12’14”
JACQUES
Oh my goodness. These ARE the guys.
12’16”
12’19”
JACQUES SYNCH
He says 10,000 Euros for these guys, and these guys say: ‘Only 10? We say 50,000 for your head.’
12’27”
12’25”
MUSIC ‘Benbient’ by cantonbecker.
GVs Moroccan Embassy
12’28”
The alleged loverboys are Dutch Moroccans. And despite Jacque’s warning, Tom is heading for the Embassy.
12’35”
12’35”
TOM SYCH
I’m just alerting the Embassy to what some of their citizens are doing.
12’39
Letter Drop
12’41 SX
12’43”
TOM SYNCH
Yeah.
12’44”
TOM SYNCH
Mission accomplished.
Turkish Mosque
12’52”
TOM SYNCH:
It’s quite a big Moroccan community isn’t it. And its huge.
12’57”
13’00
TOM SYCH
Down there , yeah.
Mosque Tom out of vis
Moroccan mosque
13’08”
TOM SYNCH
OK I’m out of here now. I’m not staying anymore.
13’10”
Tom running
SX
Tom gets into car
SX
Inside car
13’20
TOM SYCH
OK. Time to go. They’re starting to get funny now.
13’23”
Tracking shot from inside car
Tracking shot
13’ 27”
JACQUES SYNCH
Of course he’s desperate. He’s going to do this.
13’30”
Jacques In Vision
13’31”
JACQUES SYNCH
And I sure hope, I sure hope for Tom he doesn’t end with a bullet in his head, in England.
13’40”
13’41”
MUISC ‘EMPTY’
End on shots of Tom on Freddie or night time GVs.
Or swans disappearing.
13’43
Tom now can only wait to see if his plan brings any new leads.
13’48”
13’49”
He still hasn’t heard from his daughter.
13”52”
13’59”
MUSIC & FILM CREDITS.
ENDS 14’25”
SYNCH & MUSIC details
LOVERBOYS SCRIPT
Red Light District Amsterdam Montage
MUSIC Seeking X
14”
The bright shiny face of prostitution.
18”
Amsterdam, capital of the European sex industry.
22”
Its totally legitimate
24”
a tourist attraction.
27”
But through the windows lies a murkier world.
MIX TO TRAIN
30”
The young girls, groomed, beaten and brutalised into selling themselves for sex.
36”
37”
MUSIC
Audio Network Track Id “Empty” (1132/9)
Helen Jane Long
40”
This British dad is risking his life to take on the groomers.
Men who he claims lured his daughter into a relationship when she was just 16 then brainwashed her into prostitution.
53”
Tracking shot through train window
55”
The pimps are known as loverboys. Men so dangerous that he’s asked us to hide his identity.
1’02
Tom’s glasses (blurred)
1’03”
TOM SYNCH:
The communication broke down and I could see
External shot train pulling in
my daughter slowly being cut away
1’10”
Train pulls into station internal shot.
1’11”
It’s indescribable. It’s the next thing to losing your daughter.
1’17”
Tom walking along platform
1’19”
On repeated trips to Holland over 2 years
Tom on street of The Haig
he says he’s been gathering evidence about the man who first became his daughter’s boyfriend and then her pimp.
1’27”
1’29”
MUSIC Seeking X
Red Light District Montage
1’32”
He says the man who’s groomed his daughter is part of a well known criminal family . One of whom, already convicted of human trafficking with established connection to drugs and guns.
Night time car headlights
But no one in authority in Holland seems able to do anything about it.
1’48”
Night time car headlights
1’50”
TOM SYNCH:
These people are the underworld: Prostitution, drugs, trafficking. All the areas that
Red Light District crowds
you would not expect your daughter to be anywhere near.
2’04
Tom’s hands
2’06”
Tom says he made his discovery after he insisted on meeting the ‘boyfriend’ and his family.
2’12
Tom’s hands in shadow
2’13”
TOM SYNCH:
1was warmly greeted by the family. Which shows me how
Tom through water glass
sophisticated these people are. And how
Close up glass
they will make the police’s job difficult. I met
Hands
Mohammed, the older brother, the man I would suggest is the leader.
Tom through water glass
2’32
Mohammed was shot point blank in the stomach leaving a night club.
Close up glass
He was still carrying the wound when I met him.
2’41”
Detective’s eyes in rear car mirror
2’43”
Struggling on his own, Tom hired this man, private detective Jacques Smits to find Sonya and obtain evidence against the loverboys.
Driving wheel
With help, Jacques tracked her down in the Red Light district in The Hague.
2’57”
Jacques in car smoking
2’58
JACQUES SYNCH
She lived in a hotel in the Chinese district in Den Haag
Jacques In vision
JACQUES SYNCH
it’s a very bad district, close to the Hollein Street. The Hollein Street is the street where the red windows are , girls are sitting behind the windows
Jacques in Red Light area in the Haig.
JACQUES SYCNH
to give their bodies for sex
3’13”
Jacques in Red Light area in the Haig.
3’14”
Jacques says what he saw convinced him that Sonya was not acting out of choice.
Jacques In Vision
3’20”
JACQUES SYNCH
When she goes out of the hotel directly one of these guys is there. She can’t go into the supermarket by herself. Always one of these guys around. And that’s the line of work for these guys. She can’t leave, she can’t go herself, she can’t run away to France , South America or whatever because she makes money.
3’45”
Safe-house GV
3’45
SX (girls taking)
Safe house Girls
3’49”
But Tom’s daughter Sonia did escape to this safe house near Amsterdam. Most of these girls have fled from so
Hair dressing
called loverboys and often
Girls on site
years of enforced prostitution. The aim is to break the physical
Hand with cigarette
and psychological grip of the abusers.
4’06”
4’07”
MUSIC: Seeking X.
4’09
ELEINA SYNCH
I was 18 years old when when it all started. I met a boy which I fell in love with .
Montage Red Light District
4’17”
4’19”
Eleina’s story is typical . The boy she fell in love had her raped by a group of men. Within weeks he was in control.
Red Window
Eleina’s story could be Tom’s daughter’s.
Red Window
4’31
ELEINA SYNCH:
It was really like you’re having
Eleina In Vision
4’36
a double life. Because in one life I saw my family, I went to school. The other life, that was them.
Elaine’s hands
4’44”
If they had customers for me I had to leave school
Eleina In Vision
4’46”
or I had to come at night.
4’48”
Safehouse girls
4’49”
Anita de Wit set up this safe house after her own daughter was groomed by the loverboys. Tom’s daughter Sonia stayed here for three weeks. Anita became her
Anita blurred
closest confidante, even she couldn’t stop her going back.
Anita In Vision
5’04”
ANITA SYNCH & SUBTITLES:
She was quite brainwashed
5’09
ANITA SUBTITLES:
and very confused.
5’12
SUBTITLES
She said, ‘I am in a relationship with this guy.
5’14
SUBTITLES
and he has made promises,
5’18
SUBTITLES
but he’s beaten me
5’20
SUBTITLES
and I’ve had to take drugs
5’21
SUBTITLES
and work as a prostitute’.
Safehouse girls and girl on mobile phone.
5’24”
Anita recalls the day Sonya decided to call her loverboy.
Anita in vision
5’30”
ANITA SUBTITLES:
He was very angry.
5’31”
SUBTITLES
He said ‘Where are you?
5’33”
SUBTITLES
How could you leave me like that!’
2011 girl on phone (hairdresser)
5’36”
Anita says Sonya was beaten, but when he threatened to take her little sister, she left.
5’41”
ANITA SUBTITLES
In her mind
AA0162 at 15’57
5’44”
SUBTITLES
he could do to her sister
5’48”
SUBTITLES
what he did to her.
5’50
MUSIC Empty
Eleina In Vision
5’55”
ELEINA SYNCH
The next day I woke up and he gave me a choice: Either I was going to work for him in prostitution or he was going to take someone whom I loved, somebody from my own family.
Eleina’s hands
6’06”
Like Tom’s daughter, Eleina says the loverboys took total control of her life.
Eleina In Vision
6’11”
ELEINA SYNCH
What you do , what you drink, what you eat, what you think. Even what you’re dreaming about. They control everything. Because they text message you before you go to sleep so you take that with you in your dreams///
6’26”
ELEINA SYNCH
You don’t understand your own feelings anymore and then, If he is angry you start to get angry as well. If he is hurt then you’re hurt. Its like you are a clone of him. That’s how you can deal with it. That’s the only way to survive.
6’39”
6’41”
So why didn’t Eleina run away?
6’44”
MUSIC Seeking X
Montage Red Light District
6’45
ELEINA SYNCH
Elina: He had a gun.
Montage
Yeah, I could run away but he would shoot me.
Montage
6’49”
And so Eleina worked for him as a prostitute for two years. Her cloning of the loverboy complete
Montage
when she began drawing in new girls to be abused,
Montage
becoming a lover girl herself
7’02”
Lights
7’04”
ELEINA SYNCH
The first girl I made contact with at the bar
Girls in bar & night life scenes
I was talking to her and she was telling me what a ‘crappy’ life she had. And I said to her, ‘I know this story its like mine’. She was really happy she had someone to talk to.
She got in the house and they took her to the bedroom
Eleina In Vision
there she was raped by them. And he was sitting next to me. And I could hear her screaming and I was thinking, ‘a couple of years ago that was me. Why am I not helping her, why am I not saving this girl’?
To BLACK
Eleina In Vision
7’39”
ELEINA SYNCH
He said’ its your choice. Either you’re going to work or they’re going to work’.
7’42”
Anita
7’43”
Like Eleina, Tom’s daughter is believed to have been groomed by dangerous international traffickers.
7’50”
7’51”
ANITA SUBTITLES
It needs further investigation
7’58”
ANITA SUBTITLES
It’s not just the Netherlands
8’01
ANITA SUBTITLES
Its going on other countries:
8’04”
ANITA SUBTITLES
Spain, Belgium and England.
8’08
Lights
8’09”
MUSIC Seeking X
8’08”
Sonya has now vanished. Tom knows she’s alive but little more.
Police car
The police have investigated but say that without her cooperation they can do nothing.
8’20”
In Vision
8’21”
DETTMEIJER SYNCH
So it’s a society problem that the police by themselves are not able to solve.
Dettmeijer set up
8’29”
Corinne Dettmeijer is the Dutch National Rapporteur for Human Trafficking.
She looks out of window
She says the problem for the police is that victims, like Sonya,
Pamorama through window
rarely complain:
View through window
8’41”
DETTMEIJER SYNCH
This an individual case
In Vision
8’42”
which is of course extremely sad for the father. And it may well be that the girl is forced into prostitution but she doesn’t want to come forward. She doesn’t want to say anything. If she doesn’t want to say anything and there’s no other proof that all these things going on, it is indeed very difficult to do something about it.
9’08”
9’09”
TOM SYNCH
Jacques! How are you doing? Its been some time. Take a seat Man.
9’14
JACQUES SYNCH
How are you?
9’15”
The lack of action by the authorities is leaving Tom increasingly frustrated.
9’20
JACQUES SYNCH
No,no.
9’21”
TOM SYNCH:
This is in effect what’s happening.
9’23
JACQUES SYNCH:
But you need proof. How many times do I have to tell you Tom? As long as the victims keeps her mouth shut there is no case.
9’34”
TOM SYNCH:
If the victim is too frightened or intimidated to give evidence you say you have no case? Is that how the law works? Its as simple as that?
19’43”
JACQUES SYNCH:
Its same in UK or Germany!
9’45”
TOM SYNCH:
So from a criminal organisation’s point of view they simply need to silence the victim. And they can operate with impunity?
9’54”
9’54”
JACQUES SYNCH:
You know what happens to girls who don’t shut their mouth? They gonna be killed. And they know. And that’s the major problem Tom.
10’02”
To Black
That’s the major problem
10’05”
CINDY
10’05”
Cindy endured life in the grip of a loverboy for nearly eight years.
Cindy Set Up
10’10”
CINDY SYNCH:
As long as you do what they say you have a life.
In Vision
10’14”
CINDY SYNCH:
You can work at the red light district for eighteen hours and for six hours you can sleep. Then you have a life. (Laughs)
Cindy Smoking
10’23”
Its a life dominated by violence. That’s why women like her and Sonia are so terrified of going to the police.
Cindy smoking
10’32”
CINDY SYNCH:
If you man breaks your arm..
Cindy In Vision
10’35
CINDY SYCH
…and don’t send you to the hospital and you have to work with a broken arm, so you have to , sorry to say so, but you have to ‘wank’ (BEEP) people with that arm, have to be raped in your room every 20 minutes, with a broken arm, then you know for sure that he is capable of doing any of the other things he’s saying.
10’58”
GVs the Haig
Tom posting letters.
11’01
So, without his daughter testifying, Tom has decided he must gather enough evidence about the men on his own.
Tom posting letters
11’09”
TOM SYNCH
So what I’m doing is, I’m delivering leaflets naming the gang and asking people to provide information. I’ve put a reward, a significant reward out for information that leads to the arrest of the people I am accusing of abusing, not only my daughter, but many other people’s daughters.
11’34”
11’55”
Tom is offering a 10,000 Euro reward, virtually all his savings, for information about the men he is
Close up leaflet
11’42”
convinced have groomed his daughter. He’s distributing their names and photographs. He acknowledges it’s a dangerous strategy.
11’52”
TOM SYNCH
It is, potentially, if these people decide to seek retribution. But the alternative is to do exactly what they want me to do, which is: ‘nothing’. And I’m not a brave man but when a man abuses your family you’ve got v little choice.
12’11”
Tom walking
12’14
JACQUES SYNCH
My Goodness
12’14”
JACQUES
Oh my goodness. These ARE the guys.
12’16”
12’19”
JACQUES SYNCH
He says 10,000 Euros for these guys, and these guys say: ‘Only 10? We say 50,000 for your head.’
12’27”
12’25”
MUSIC ‘Benbient’ by cantonbecker.
GVs Moroccan Embassy
12’28”
The alleged loverboys are Dutch Moroccans. And despite Jacque’s warning, Tom is heading for the Embassy.
12’35”
12’35”
TOM SYCH
I’m just alerting the Embassy to what some of their citizens are doing.
12’39
Letter Drop
12’41 SX
12’43”
TOM SYNCH
Yeah.
12’44”
TOM SYNCH
Mission accomplished.
Turkish Mosque
12’52”
TOM SYNCH:
It’s quite a big Moroccan community isn’t it. And its huge.
12’57”
13’00
TOM SYCH
Down there , yeah.
Mosque Tom out of vis
Moroccan mosque
13’08”
TOM SYNCH
OK I’m out of here now. I’m not staying anymore.
13’10”
Tom running
SX
Tom gets into car
SX
Inside car
13’20
TOM SYCH
OK. Time to go. They’re starting to get funny now.
13’23”
Tracking shot from inside car
Tracking shot
13’ 27”
JACQUES SYNCH
Of course he’s desperate. He’s going to do this.
13’30”
Jacques In Vision
13’31”
JACQUES SYNCH
And I sure hope, I sure hope for Tom he doesn’t end with a bullet in his head, in England.
13’40”
13’41”
MUISC ‘EMPTY’
End on shots of Tom on Freddie or night time GVs.
Or swans disappearing.
13’43
Tom now can only wait to see if his plan brings any new leads.
13’48”
13’49”
He still hasn’t heard from his daughter.
13”52”
13’59”
MUSIC & FILM CREDITS.
ENDS 14’25”