Two worlds collide when a shy computer geek befriends a cleaner whom is rifling through his office, but, unbeknown to him, she is a spy.
For our stimulus, we chose the Cellar location, and the Office Cleaner and Computer Geek as our characters. From this, we developed a comic spy story.
Our Protagonist is Joseph Wolfstien, a shy computer geek that works in a government archive, in a basement office. He has blonde, curly hair, wears smart clothes and is in his late twenties. he wears glasses and has a small collection of pens in his top pocket.
Our antagonist is Petra Fyde, a Russian spy posing as a cleaner in a government building. She is slender, pale skinned, dark haired, red lipped and in her mid-twenties. Despite wearing a cleaning uniform, she still wears her slightly heeled boots, and has black cleaning gloves. She has with her a basic cleaning trolley.
The Cellar takes the form of a basement archive/office in a government building, in which the night shift belongs to Joseph.
The basic plot is as follows:
Petra, in disguise, works her way into the office which contains a multitude of secret files and other high security information. She is sifting through some files, silently, when our protagonist, Joseph, gets up from his desk. Joseph carries with him a top secret file, which he is about to lock back in its container. He then discovers Petra. Initially, she tries to explain herself by saying she is the new cleaner, and doesn't know where she is and isn't supposed to clean. Unconvinced, Joseph keeps hold of the secret file, forcing Petra to employ a new tactic. At this point, she realises that she couldn't find the file, because Joseph has it. In a last attempt to pry the file from him, she starts to flirt with him. Whilst he is flattered, h keeps guard over the files and locks them away. Somewhat reluctantly, Petra turns to violence in order to attain the file by knocking him out with the mop bucket.
What we learn:
First, we learn that Joseph wants nothing more than to be noticed, no matter how suspicious the attention may be. Altohugh he forgets to keep asking Petra the important questions, he never lets down his guard over the documents, illustrating his dedication to the job. We also learn that although Petra tries desperatlely to attain the files through non-violent means, when no other option is in touching distance, her morals are of no consequence, if she had any to begin with.
