RAILROADED
Moving at speeds as high as 180 miles per hour, the California Express is a businessman's bullet train linking Los Angeles and San Francisco. Executives who prefer not to fly, travel in luxury between cities in less than three hours. A formal dining car, deluxe club car (with piano bar), and first class compartments with safes for important business documents to insure that travellers arrive rested and relaxed for their 9am meetings.
When Mark Farrow hopped aboard the Express, he planned on three hours of relaxation before a critical business meeting. If he fails to negotiate this deal, his company faces bankruptcy.
Those plans change when Mark meets Laura Preminger, the bored wife of powerful attorney Leroy Preminger. Laura invites Mark back to her sleeper for a drink. Leroy will be playing poker in the Club Car for the entire journey, nothing to fear. Why not?
But when Mark enters the sleeper, he finds Leroy dead and the safe ripped wide open. Then things get worse. Much worse.
Leroy wasn't just an attorney, he was a courier for the Mexican Mafia. The safe contained six million dollars in dirty money... FBI Agent Buck Aldrich has been tailing Preminger, and believes that Mark is a killer and a thief. Aldrich and his agents begin a front to back search of the train. Mark is on the run!
Moving at 180 mph, there's no way off the train. No escape.
Police are waiting in San Francisco. With nowhere to run, and few places to hide; Mark has less than two hours to find the real killer while evading the FBI Agents and Leroy's VIOLENT bodyguard.
"RAILROADED" is a non-stop action thriller: "The Fugitive" on a bullet train. A high speed adventure you don't want to miss.
"RAILROADED" screenplay by William C. Martell.
NOTE: This script is going through a page one rewrite, and will end up THE FUGITIVE on a bullet train (in real time) with Mark and his business partner taking a large cash payment to San Francisco - the partner is killed, the cash is missing, and Mark is on the run... but he has no where to go! He's trapped on the train!
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