What Bradley Brinklow Did On Wednesday

WHAT BRADLEY BRINKLOW DID ON WEDNESDAY by Mark Wesley. Synopsis: Drama / Comedy/ Fantasy Bradley Brinklow, an arrogant, charmless 35+ year old (Think Simon Pegg) has just been fired from his job at a bank. The only person to turn up for his leaving party is Brads bashful, besotted and utterly ignored stalker, Christine, 28. That evening, Christine turns up at the bar where Brad, drinking heavily and abusing the customers, insults her scornfully. She leaves in tears. After being punched out, Brad is befriended by an enigmatic stranger. Cowboy hatted Texan, A. P. Patterson, late 50s, calls himself a holistic hobo. He puts an app into Brads phone. “It’ll get you a whole lot of new channels” he tells Brad. Later, in his shabby apartment, drink-soaked Brad fires up the app. His smart TV opens a news channel. Fumbling with the app controls he accidently sends the news channel a few hours into the future. A sequence of stories set to happen the following day appear. Panic at the NYSE as share prices crash. A bank robbery at Brads old firm. A fire at a department store. A young woman threatening to jump from a city building. Brad is alarmed to recognise Christine on the roof. Brad awakes in the morning still in his dirt and booze-stained suit, with the mother of all hang-overs. The TV news is running the share crash story – word for word. Brad remembers the ‘jumper’ story and tries to locate Christine before she climbs to a roof, but his cell is dead. He doesn’t know Chris’s number. Out on the street he borrows a phone. His old work place won’t give him the number. The police won’t help and, as he looks like he’s just crawled out of a dumpster, they don’t believe his warning about the bank robbery that will happen later. This is the new Brad who wants to save Christine. He spends the morning trying to locate her but is constantly frustrated. He ends up at the bank, demanding her cell number – just as the bank is robbed. The gang take Brad hostage. As they leave a news report on a TV screen reveals that Christine is on a roof and she’s asking for Brad! Time is running out! Brad is now tied up in a van, heading out of the city - away from Christine. After a police chase, Brad escapes and is taken by police cruiser to the old tenement building from which Christine threatens to jump. He sits with her on the dangerously unstable concrete wall high above the city, trying to talk her into coming down. The stone tile he sits on gives way. He slides off into the void, his fingers gripping the crumbling structure. The concrete breaks away and he begins to fall – but his hands are grasped by Christine who manages to pull him back up to safety. In an ironic twist, on his way to redemption, Christine saves Brad.