Cupidity is a 30-minutes crime drama, based around a man who asks his police officer friend to help him locate the money his brother stole from a bank and left in a stranger's car. Originally made during studying at University, Cupidity is currently under re-writing.

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Treatment:

     Arthur (early 30s) robs a bank and runs into downtown. As the police locks down the area, Arthur becomes trapped and can only do one thing, hide the money. He sees a car’s backseat window open and throws the two bags inside then hides in the playground nearby. He calls his younger brother, Jim (late 20s) to tell him what he has done. He describes the look of the car but can’t tell the whole registration number. The police catch Arthur and thus he is forced to hang up.

     The police call Jim in to question him, but he states he doesn’t know anything about the money. Jim then calls his police informer friend, Douglas (late 20s) and asks him to help him one last time in finding something only a police officer is able to. Douglas says he will not do it until Jim offers half of the money for him. He meets Douglas at the police station, before he leaves, he takes two tiny pins and a thin, metal coat hanger with himself.

     The driver, Erika (mid-40s) arrives home and finds the money in the backseat. She feels blessed then pulls out a dead body from the boot and brings it to the basement, through a secret door.

     At the station, Douglas mentions to Jim a new case about a suspect of cannibalism the police hunts for but are unsuccessful so far. After a long search, they find the address of the car’s owner and they hit the road, Jim steals a little ball from his friend’s office.

     Once there, Douglas wants to avoid breaking into the woman’s garage, but Jim persuades him. Inside the garage, Jim opens the car with the coat hanger, but finds nothing. Erika comes to the garage and the two men watch her entering the secret door. After she leaves, Jim keeps looking around the garage while Douglas investigates the secret passage and gets trapped after entering the door. While Jim tries to force it open, Douglas finds a surgery table and a couple of freezers in the basement which contain human organs and dead bodies. Erika comes back after hearing noise coming from the garage and knocks out Jim.

     When Jim wakes up, he is in Erika’s bedroom. In their conversation, Jim finds out Erika’s mother needs a heart transplant, but she does not have enough money to pay for the operation and for finding a healthy heart. For this reason, Erika began kidnapping people to murder them and find the perfect heart for her mother but with the money she could stop this. Unfortunately, since the two men are witnesses, they need to be taken care of. She locks Jim in the bedroom and leaves to the basement, where Douglas is still stuck. Jim opens the door with the two pins he had and while looking for a weapon to stop Erika, he finds part of the money. He has got two choices, search for the rest of the money and run away with it or try to save his friend. He chooses the latter and runs to the basement where Erika has already set Douglas up for an operation. Jim stabs Erika in the heart and frees Douglas who passes out of blood loss.

     When the officers question the two characters, Jim says he was around when he heard screaming, that’s how he found Douglas and killed the woman in his self-defence. He stands up for his friend, calling him a hero for finding the serial killer on his own. In a private talk, Douglas apologises for the money, the police have probably found by now, but Jim reveals some bank notes he hid in his pocket. He gives it to Douglas, saying he deserves it. When Jim leaves the area, we see him pulling out a few bucks from his other pocket and starts counting.