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LOG LINE: This above all: To Thine Own Self Be True...

FISSHER, if that’s really his name, is new in town and is intent on a mysterious revenge. Prompted by a chance encounter with an edgy and desperate teller name JANICE, he begins a series of thrilling bank robberies. Their relationship develops into a steamy and mutually unsatisfactory affair; but all they really share is the titillation of the crimes.

The man Fissher is pursuing is the one pursuing him, SMITH. A disgraced cop with an uncertain and unhappy relationship with Janice. He has no idea who or what Fissher is or who he will be to him. The three of them have chosen each other and yet they have no choice whatsoever. Together they form a strange and twisted triangle of want, need and obsession.

MURRAY LOGAN

Murray writes stage plays as well as screenplays. He's the author of the critically acclaimed collection of short stories published in 1998 titled "The King of Siam". The books titled story, "The King of Siam" was produced into an award winning short film drama about a fragile father and son relationship at a local horse race track.

The screenplay "Steam" made the semi-finals at the Nicholl Awards, sponsored by the Academy Awards Foundation.

Synopsis:

Fissher is new in town. He's a hard case and he's clocking the movements of a disgraced cop named Ray Smith. Who is himself obsessed with a young bank teller named Janice. Fissher contrives to meet Smith in his sanctuary, the steam room of a local community center. Where the steam, if it doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

But when Fissher encounters Smith's obsession, Janice and sees her in an act of ultimate boredom, stealing a crisp $100 bill from a customer he decides to give her a little surprise of his own and robs the bank and her. Afterwards he confronts her, tantalizes her and invites her into his twisted game. And she's in. Boy is she in!

And so is Smith, though he doesn't know it. Janice and Fissher steal his gun and Fissher uses it to rob a different bank. But that's not enough, not for Fissher. Not for Janice. There's a sex and danger buzz going, but it's not enough. It needs more heat. More steam. And Smith brings it by beating Fissher up in the steam room. He's protecting his own, Janice who is his estranged daughter and there is nothing he won’t do to keep her safe. Which will take everything he has.

Fissher and Janice rob her own bank a second time and Janice, with Smith's gun, kills an innocent man, her bank manager. Smith tracks Fissher down, or is it the other way around and beats half the life out of him. Anything to save Janice.

But can he? Back in the steam room, with Janice just outside the door, Fissher turns the tables on Smith and drops the bombshell on why he's going to kill Smith, until he came up with something better. Janice! In the end we close in on Fissher and Janice, together in Smith's stolen car, heading west. Fissher has Smith's gun. He has his daughter. He has everything you can take from a man. And Janice, hand on Fissher's thigh, tells him she knows exactly who he is. And the steam is just beginning for all of them.