Hard Top

Surrounded by darkness outside, a contract killer sits in the middle-range car he’s won on a TV quiz, waiting... admiring what he’s won from the fruits of the depths of his knowledge. His oppo arrives – a woman three decades younger than he. Finding their jobs paling (more ‘bangs’ expected for the same amount of bucks these days), they ponder alternative ways of existing. He thinks of running off with the quiz hostess who had the hots for him. She ponders hitting the road with her new-born, leaving the inconsiderate husband in the lurch. Seeing the blanket of stars, she finds deep meaning in that we were all born of dead stars created billions of years ago. She contemplates which of the two guns offered her to choose. To ensure no trace back to her, she shoots her colleague – who was, on the quiz show, a ‘star’ for a night - dead. As she exits the car, all we hear are the sounds of her being hit and, presumably, killed by a car speeding past.