(Danny climbs into attic)
(Danny opens a trunk stood on its side and discovers a body)
Danny (on phone): Police, please. About me? Alex: (laughs)
Danny: Is there something you want to tell me? Alex: Drugs? Alex: Had you guessed? Alex: In what sense? Alex: No. Alex: Sure. Alex? And I thought, how is it that this person, who I've never seen before... How are they the only person in the whole world that knows... That I'm not OK. And I was sure if I could just find out your name - I could just find out who you were - then everything would be OK.
Alex: What if everything isn't OK.
Danny: Then we tell each other. And he took me straight to the hospital... And I was put on a course of PEP, which is emergency medication. But...
Alex: It's a little fast. Danny: He lied. Danny: His name's Alex. Danny: Scotty, I was telling Alex--
Scottie: I hope you told him this is where we first met? Danny: That's... He disappeared two weeks ago. He worked for MI6. He's an insufferable romantic! He's my partner. His parents are dead. I have to buy a battery for my laptop. I presumed, if I bought him a drink, there wouldn't be a single second, when he wasn't hoping for someone better to come along. It's his apartment. One of the last. Scottie: Has he rung? So I bought him that drink... And to my surprise, he talked to me for the whole night. The police were concerned you might've taken something from the crime scene. You should call the police?
Plan: A: Warehouse worker Danny; Q: Who is recovering from a drug-induced haze? A: Alex; Q: What is the name of the person Danny meets jogging? A: lovers; Q: What do Danny and Alex become? A: Scottie; Q: Who is Danny's older friend? A: his past; Q: What does Danny confess to Alex? A: Alex's apartment; Q: Where does Danny find Alex's dead body? A: sado-masochism; Q: What was the room dedicated to? A: the police; Q: Who does Danny call after finding Alex's body? A: a code-locked cylinder; Q: What did Danny swallow? A: an orphan; Q: What was Alex/Alistair's background? A: a solicitor; Q: What does Scottie supply Danny with? A: MI6; Q: What organization did Alex work for? Summary: Warehouse worker Danny is recovering from a drug-induced haze when he encounters Alex jogging. They connect with one another, and become lovers. Danny introduces Alex to his older friend Scottie, and confesses to Alex about his past. Soon afterwards Alex disappears, and then Danny's flat is ransacked. Danny is mysteriously given the key to Alex's apartment, where he discovers Alex's dead body in a room dedicated to sado-masochism . He telephones the police, but remembering Alex's last words to him, he swallows a code-locked cylinder he finds in the battery compartment of Alex's laptop. The police tell Danny that Alex had lied to him: his name was actually Alistair and he wasn't an orphan. Scottie collects Danny from the police after supplying him with a solicitor, and tells him that Alex/Alistair was working for MI6. Before he leaves, Scottie tells him that the police were wondering if he had taken anything from Alex/Alistair's apartment. Danny lies and later passes the object he had swallowed.