The Witness story
A man murders a woman in an apartment in Hong Kong. He then realizes that a woman in the hotel across the street, identical to his victim, has witnessed the murder. He starts to chase her. The woman flees to a fetish club where she works as a dancer under the alias Zawora. The man enters the club, guided by the host. During her dance, she sees the man in the audience and he chases her through the city streets. The woman steals a gun and hides in an apartment, but the man finds and corners her. They proceed to fight over the gun, with the woman ending up shooting the man dead. She then realizes that a man in the hotel across the street, identical to her victim, has witnessed the murder, implying a time loop. Cast: Emily O'Brien, Ben Sullivan, Matt Yang King, Nolan North, Anastasia Foster Directed by: Alberto Mielgo.
6 total · 1 choice · 3 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| what if I became witness to a crime | choice | The story revolves around a woman whose day was turned completely upside down after she accidentally witnessed a murder in a hotel room across the street from her apartment. |
| murder | major | The plot turns on a woman witnessing a man commit a murder in the hotel room across the street from her apartment. The story concludes with the revelation that she'd actually witnessed the man somehow murder herself. At the end it was clear that the sequence of events would unfold again but with their roles reversed. |
| time loop | major | The story begins with the woman witnessing the man murdering someone who turns out to be herself, and concludes with the man witnessing the woman murder someone who turns out to be himself. The viewer is left to ponder whether the series of events would recur indefinitely in a kind of time loop. |
| what if a killer was after me | major | The story follows a woman who was desperately fleeing from a man who she'd earlier witnessed kill someone. |
| self-driving car | minor | The woman fled in a self-driving taxi after witnessing a murder. |
| sex work | minor | The viewer must gather that the woman made a living from working at a local fetish brothel. |