A siren sounds a burgeler runs out of The Buckingham Palace.

Two cops run after the thief.

The theif breaks open a car window and dives into the car.

The cops jump intop there cars... and the chase is on!!!

The thief speeds down a road.

AARON, a fluffy haired teen dressed up skate style, moves against the pedestrian flow. He is oblivious to the jostles and bumps engrossed as he is to his private soundtrack belting through over sized cans fed by his ipod.

Aaron fumbles in his jacket, drawing out a lighter and a crushed pack of cigarettes. He draws out a smoke, bent but salvageable. He tries to light it but there are too many people and the wind is too strong.

He edges into an alley for cover. The wind is still too strong... or his lighter's screwed, hard to tell.

Aaron looks up. A DUMPSTER stands a foot out from the wall. He tucks in behind it to get a light.

A GARBAGE TRUCK enters from an intersecting alleyway, reverse signal blaring. We hear an unpleasant CRUNCH as the truck connects with the dumpster.

As the truck is emptying the dumpster...

In central park zoo, a girl pulls her mom's arm and yells "We'll be late!" and drags her over to the ampatheater, just as a display begins. In the distance, she sees a minute copper-colored gleam in the distance.

BILLY, a long haired surfer type, and JAMES, a wannabe sorta long haired surfer type are heading along the pavement. JAMES is annoying other pedestrians by filming them with his mobile.

A police car is parked on the side of the road with the trunk open. There doesn't appear to be any cops around.

James points the camera at Billy as he checks out the cop cars contents.

Billy pulls out a NAIL STRIP (for ending high speed pursuits) out of the back. He holds it up posing.

As James presses send, Billy launches the nail strip across a lane of traffic. A car drives straight over the spikes. We hear the SQUEAL of tires then a gut wrenching CRUNCH. A PEDESTRIAN off screen screams.

At the intersection of Broadway and Sixth Avenue, across the street from Macy's Department Store, tourists file past a BEGGAR staking out an ATM. JAMES steps up to the machine.

James takes his cash and strides away.

Smiles brightly as a man steps up to the ATM.

A man - ARNOLD, uptight wearing a suit - and his wife - MARIE, similarly uptight with a perm and fashionable clothes about 30 years out of date - stand on the sidewalk.

Arnold throws his head back in exasperation. He appears to notice something. A glinting object is falling rapidly from the sky.

Arnold leaps backwards.

A penny neatly bounces off Marie's head.

JOHN stands with his back to the large refrigerator, his arms crossed and a scowl on his face. RICH, sitting at the small lino-covered table, is about to burst into tears and is not looking JOHN in the eye.

There is a distinct, lengthy pause during which JOHN shows no willingness to respond and RICH bursts into tears, screwing his fists into his eyes.

JOHN unfolds his arm and after a short pause walks brusquely past us, the force of his departure making the refrigerator rock. A number of mundane domestic items come crashing down from the top of it. RICH stops crying as he surveys the mess, staring at the items, and lifts his gaze to look out at the window and the Manhattan skyline beyond.

A TWISTIES VENDING MACHINE stands by the wall. There is nothing in the machine except PACKETS OF TWISTIES. George - a bright looking post-grad - walks on screen. He wears a smart casual jacket and is carrying a satchel.

George puts money in the machine pushes the A then 1. A packet of twisties rumbles forwards then falls into the collection chute. George pushes forward the protective flap and retrieves his prize. He opens the packet.

George looks around. He has this niggling feeling that something dramatic or devastating is about to happen... Nope.

A man paces back and forth anxiously with a cell phone pressed to his ear.While unfocused in the background is the figure of a medium sized mutt sniffing around the grass.

The Stoner stops pacing and sits down on a lawn chair near the back door. The camera now focuses on the dog who is contently rolling around in the grass.

An expression of immediate need crosses over the dog's disposition. The dog squats and starts pumping out the feces onto the lawn.

The Stoner jumps up from the chair and pulls two dish washing gloves from his pockets. He slips them over his hands and down his forearms and makes his way over to the steaming pile. The camera zooms in on the stoner's face from the crap's point of view. A look of utter disgust as a squishy sound is heard.

The camera then pans around to the house and gets closer to a window to the left of the door. It stops just before the glass so the audience is able to see into the bedroom. A younger boy (Stoner's brother) is sitting on his bed watching Family Guy on T.V. and smoking a freshly rolled joint. The Stoner's sack of ganja sits next to him on the bed.

MARK - skinny guy - and RUFUS - surprisingly not actually a dog, just another skinny guy with slightly lighter hair - peer over the edge of the building. A rusty fire escape leads to an alley below.

MARK shakes the railing near him and it really doesn't look too safe.

RUFUS climbs over the ledge turns to face Mark and steps down the first two rungs.

Bolts pop from the wall and the whole rusty framework jerks backward falling into the void.

Intro - A cheerful tune being whistled. (Not part of the scene, but music added.) The sun is shining. Birds are chirping. A beautiful day by anyone's standards. A row of brick buildings; apartments. Slight variations in colour, otherwise all identical. The music fades out. Clack clack. High heeled shoes striking pavement. A woman, SANDRA, dressed in a red business skirt and jacket walks down the sidewalk carrying a briefcase. Nose in the air. Eyes fixed ahead. Two or three kids are playing outside of their building, drawing with chalk on the pavement. She walks obliviously over their art, crushing a piece of pink sidewalk chalk under her heel.

The woman does not notice. She adjusts her sunglasses. Clearly she is too important for the world to interrupt. She passes a convenience store parking lot where some teenage boys are loitering. One of them whistles. Without blinking an eye, she raises her hand and gives him the finger. The other boys laugh. The camera now focuses on her ankles and feet, tracing her steps. As she approaches a cross-walk, we notice a large piece of gum left on the sidewalk just before the road. Back to full-view.

Suddenly the sound of a bus passing quickly in front of the screen, obscuring her from view. The camera follows it, pausing a second on the road it disappeared down. We do not know if the woman was hit by the bus or not.

(unfortunately?) SANDRA is clearly unharmed. She continues across the road and down the sidewalk. We see her start to "shrink" into the distance, as the camera stays in place. The camera pans down. The sidewalk no longer has gum on it. Pan up again to the woman in the distance. Whistling music resumes.