The Script

INFERNO: SAT 4TH OCTOBER 9PM COMMUNITY CHANNEL (SKY 539 - VIRGIN 233)

Synopsis:

Lost in a gathering storm, Dante searches for the cemetery where his girlfriend Bea is buried, stabbed on her way to a party three weeks ago. Bea watches Dante's struggle from Heaven above and instructs Virgil, Dante's childhood friend to return to Earth and guide him through the many allegories of Hell to reach her and the truth about that fateful night...

• Prologue
  Dante wonders through the concrete wasteland of south east London, railing at the world and his lot, lost, pissed off at life, sick of the drudgery and misery surrounding him and everyone he knows....
• Scene I: Virgil Appears to Dante
  It transpires, after ten minutes of who the fuck are you and leave me the fuck alone, that Dante and Virgil were once the closest of kid mates, at their first school together, back when their...
• Scene II: Limbo
  Having seen no one for hours, Dante now begins to notice the shapes of people slipping in and out of the shadows as they walk on in the darkness. He's not sure if it's his eyes and tiredness - maybe...
• Scene III: Lust
  In the stairwell Dante can see shapes of figures again but no defined faces. He cranes his neck round and out across a corridor of balconies but only shapes, no faces. Turning back he stops fast,...
• Scene IV: Wrath
  A strange enveloping mist creeps into the stairwell reducing visibility to a few feet, muffling the sounds of crying ahead of them. Suddenly Dante recognises the voice in the whimpering as his own...
• Scene V: Avarice
  Light shines from the floors above and everything starts to get a lot louder and busier as Dante and Virgil ascend from the dark lower levels of the tower block. Men and women carrying those large,...
• Scene VI: Corruption
  Dante and Virgil climb higher and higher together, all the while Dante wondering when or if he'll ever find Bea in this hell hole, how could she be anywhere like here? Memories of the night she died...
• Scene VII: Love
  The day of the party races through Dante's mind like a movie in time lapse, their last day together compressed into a few seconds of beautiful memory. Inter-cut between the steps he takes towards...
• Scene VIII: Murder
  Dante and Bea start walking, chatting briefly about how good this party's gonna be, then dante gets a call on his mobile and starts reacting wildly to what he's hearing...its his cousin Jude on the...
• Epilogue: Heaven
  Dante stirs, his eyes squinting in the strong sunlight. He looks around himself and stops, confused at the boxes and bin bags surrounding him. In his hands he cradles a crisp, fresh, white rose....