Art 360: Treatment 2-1-2010

Maurice Washington

Art 360

Writing Treatment

2-1-10

“Death of a co-worker” (Drama)

"It becomes a matter of life and death between best friends/coworkers Trevor and Lawrence"

Trevor Smith, Lawrence Walker, Sylvia Valdez, Marc Johnson all work for John Kane in a company that specializes in selling forks. Trevor and Sylvia have a history with a very bad relationship. This affects Trevor's work performance as they constantly argue. His jealousy of her friendship with Larry causes him to draw disturbing illustrations of Larry being killed in many ways. Marc the associate manager tells Sylvia that she should alter Trevor's work behind his back and use his jealousy, and his lowering work performance to make him look like a bad employee. When she tells their boss, he expresses his dislike for Trevor and advises her to let him deal with it. One night Larry is attacked by someone, Sylvia thinks is Trevor.

Sylvia is sure Trevor is going to be fired. Marc's guilt of how he help Sylvia, causes him to quit. He tells her that she was a "model employee" but that person "died" when she let her personal life affect her work performance. Sylvia finds out that Trevor has been promoted and by his decision, transferred to another company. Both of them talk and find out that neither of them were ready for a relationship, and its better for them to separate from each other for a while. Trevor tells her that he knew about her attempts to alter his work sheets, behind his back and that he went back and used her wrong information to help point out mistakes that he would have made in the first place.

Sylvia tells Trevor that she thought he told her last boyfriend about why they broke up, to ruin that relationship, so she wanted to ruin Trevor's work performance and his opportunity for a raise. It is also found out that Larry was attacked by a stranger and has decided to work somewhere else. The boss informs Sylvia that she has been let go from her job because of all her time talking to Marc, and Larry while they working, as opposed to what Sylvia knows she did wrong.