Grease Trap

The three young heroes of our story, STU, DAZZA and MARCO work for a drainage company. The weekend beckons, when they are called out on an emergency un-block at a West End theatre. Opening up the manhole and sending down a CCTV camera the extent of the problem becomes obvious. The whole sewer network beneath the theatre has become overwhelmed by a conglomeration of fat, oil and grease. What’s known in the trade as a fatberg. During the camera survey, a blur seems to pass in front of the screen, and the video feed goes dead. Pulling up the camera cable, they find that the camera is missing. It’s been bitten off by something. They descend into the drainage tunnels to look for the camera. What they find instead is a small Thames Water diagnostics team. They’re taking samples from the Fatberg, and are about to field test a new fat busting enzyme, Reagent X, which it is hoped will be the magic bullet that will put an end to the fatberg problem for good. The team is headed by a DR. HILDEGARD, who’s a bioengineering expert. Her second in command is a female drainage consultant called FLORENCE. Stu and Flo have history. He used to work for her when she ran her own drainage business “ Go With The Flo: Lady Plumbers”. The test of Reagent X goes exceedingly well. It cuts through the fat and oil like acid. The team think it’s job done when a massive fatty tidal wave of filth, grease and excrement barrels out of a side tunnel, slamming into the group and knocking them off their feet. Sinewy tendrils form out of the seemingly sentient filth, and drag two members of the Thames Water security team into the depths of the sewage tunnels. What follows is a battle for survival as the drainage engineers try to save their comrades and battle the mutated unholy biomass that is The Fatberg.