Four Floors Down a Parking Spiral

Stage 1: Level six of a concrete multi-storey car park at night, empty, lit by sodium strips with every third one dead. A black sedan comes around the ramp at speed with its headlights off, and a white pursuit car follows one beat later with its lights on full. Ends with both cars committed to the same descending spiral, the sedan half a turn ahead. Stage 2: They take three continuous turns of the spiral. The sedan's rear tires break traction on every corner and the car runs wide, touching the outer wall twice and leaving paint on it. The pursuit car cuts the inside line and closes to one car length. Tire smoke and concrete dust hang in the ramp behind them. Ends with the two cars level with each other entering the next turn. Stage 3: The sedan brakes hard mid-corner. The pursuit car goes past on the outside and hits the wall square. The sedan reverses out of the corner and takes the down ramp alone. Ends on the wrecked pursuit car steaming against the wall with one headlight still burning, and the sedan's taillights dropping out of frame down the ramp. Camera: mounted low and outside the sedan's rear quarter through stages one and two, then whipping to a locked wide on the corner to catch the impact in stage three. Look: anamorphic, sodium orange against bare concrete, headlights raking a low ceiling, smeared highlights on the light strips, heavy grain. Audio: two engines echoing hard off concrete, tires howling on painted floor, one long scrape of metal along wall, the impact, then an idling engine and dripping. No score.