Our Thriller Outline

Our idea involves a girl in her late teens (17/18) as the main character. The scene starts with her sitting on the beach watching the waves (possible while listening to her ipod). She is wearing jeans and a hoodie. The girl is blond. While the waves wash in and out, headlights of a car keep flashing through the picture - the lights are in the girl's memory, not part of the mise-en-scene. 

After a short while, the girl stands up and walks towards a car park opposite the beach. She walks up some stairs that lead to the car park. Then, she stands still when she notices the back of an empty car parked there. We will use a point of view shot of her looking at the car's number plate. Flashback to an empty street in the city during the night. It's dark but the street is slightly illuminated by street lights. The same car is standing in the street. The boot is open. In the boot, one can only see a briefcase - the rest is covered up by a blanket. No one else is in the street excepting the car, but one can hear music and partying students/youngsters in the distance. The blond girl stumbles into that street looking scruffy after a night out. She is drunk. She is wearing a sparkly (fancy) short dress and heels (which she is probably holding in her hand, walking barefoot). Her make-up is smudged. She is unable to walk properly. She notices the car. A man is standing by the car, he takes out a briefcase from the back. One never sees his face, but he is about 30 years old. He is wearing dark/black clothes. When he moves the case out of the car, a hand falls from behind the blanket. The man quickly shoves the blanket back over the hand. A female hand (Painted nails, wearing jewellery etc). One suspects that the blanket is covering up a body, which is either dead or unconscious.

The drunk girl sees the hand and is shocked, but too drunk to take any action.

The man does not notice the girl. He closes the boot, walks to the front of the car and drives off. 

When the car drives off, we see the number plate clearly. The flashback ends by the shot fading into the original point of view medium close up of the number plate of the car parked by the beach. The girl remembers the night out. The girl is shocked. End of scene.