TEXT: Journalist: You were his sexual partner for eight months. He never mentioned sadism, never asked you to participate? Danny: Well, that's what I'm trying to tell you. I don't think anything did go on up there. I never saw him use those items. Frances: Alistair was... as precocious sexually as he was intellectually. Danger, pain, submission, domination. Policewoman: Is it possible that you enjoyed extreme sexual encounters with someone who didn't want you to know their name? Frances: I don't know what went on in that attic... and the truth is neither do you. Alex (O.C.): I have to buy a battery for my laptop. American: Lots of people think they have nothing to lose. But in my professional experience, they just haven't thought it through. Danny: You threatening me? American (O.C.): Once in a while, someone unexpected tells you something that might save your life. [SCENE_BREAK] ( Panting ) Police (O.C.): Armed police! Police! Stay where you are! Show us your hands! Sara (O.C.):Danny? Danny, what's going on? Let me go! Get your hands off him. Danny! [SCENE_BREAK] ( Sirens wail ) [SCENE_BREAK] Detective Taylor: The trunk. An antique. Wood. Leather. Steel frame. Very strong. You claim it was used to store hiking boots and other outdoor equipment in the back of his car? With a man inside, oxygen levels drop 17%. The temperature jumps ten degrees. You become breathless. Sweaty. There's a moment of euphoria. Danny: Euphoria? Detective Taylor: Have you ever experimented with erotic asphyxiation? "When the brain is deprived of oxygen, it induces a semi-hallucinogenic state called hypoxia. Combined with orgasm..." Danny: I know what it is. Detective Taylor: "..the rush is said to be no less powerful than cocaine, and highly addictive." You know what it is, because you've tried it? Danny: There was
SUMMARY:
Danny is arrested, and admits to having experimented with auto-asphyxiation . The interrogators show him the logo of a rent boy agency they say Alex used, and suggest he confess that, while high on drugs, he accidentally asphyxiated him. If not, he will be charged if they discover his DNA on the sheets in the attic room. Once released, Danny visits an old acquaintance, a record producer called Rich, and asks for help to find the rent boy agency. Rich offers to help in return for sex, but Danny refuses. Danny's flatmate informs him that the tablet left by the American is anti-HIV medication. Danny is tested, and told that he is HIV positive. Scottie takes Danny to see a friend who says she will try to arrange a meeting with Alex's old professor who may be able to make sense of the contents of the code-locked cylinder which he took from Alex's flat. Later, at Scottie's club, Scottie blackmails a former colleague into revealing that every major espionage agency agreed Alex was a threat. Later, Danny is walking when a car draws up. Rich is in the back, and gives him a phone.