Two broke, useless mates realise their camping buddy is quietly sitting on sixty-five million dollars in bitcoin — and hatch a plan so bad it’s almost admirable.
A based-on-real-events mate comedy where the crime escalates in completely plausible small steps.
The story
Tom, Pete and Dave are camping badly — no food, no water, no matches, weed instead of supplies — when Tom casually mentions he’s got sixty-five million dollars sitting in a crypto wallet on his phone. Pete and Dave spend the rest of the afternoon in Dave’s hotboxed tent talking themselves, with flawless stoned logic, from “he should split it with us” to “what if we just rolled his tent off the cliff and got his phone,” filming the whole thing for evidence. A Convoluted Plan is a based-on-real-events mate comedy that plays the entire crime as an extension of ordinary camping incompetence — nobody in it is smart enough to be dangerous, which is exactly the joke.
Coverage — plot points
- Tom reveals he’s sitting on $65 million in bitcoin, almost by accident.
- Pete and Dave retreat to a hotboxed tent to workshop how they deserve a share.
- Stoned logic escalates from an even split to Dave doing the maths wrong in Pete’s favour.
- The plan lands on rolling Tom’s tent off a cliff and grabbing his phone — filmed for posterity.
“What if we just… I don’t know… rolled his tent off the cliff, and got his phone.”
“Hang on, just before we start, look right at the camera and say ‘I’m Pete Davis and welcome to Jackass.’” — “I’m not going to do that.”
Read the sample
Below is the existing draft. Scroll to read, or download the PDF.
Seeking representation, or a home in a shorts / anthology package. Complete script available on request.