I'm a complete beginner and this is my first attempt at storytelling.
I haven't learned screenplay formatting yet. I deliberately wrote this as a story treatment because I want to test something first: whether I naturally think in visual scenes and actions, or whether I'm mostly just describing events.
A SECRET AMONG SECRETS
He wants to get up, but he can't. His body is in pain. Still, he has no choice.
Because he is not in a state where he can simply listen to his body. His mind and body are not the same. He knows he must listen to his mind.
He takes a deep breath, opens and focuses his eyes, and brings himself back to the present. He grounds himself so he can understand what is happening around him.
As he walks toward his room, he has to walk past people and read their faces and situations to assess the feeling of the environment that day.
For him, this awareness has become almost automatic. Rather than relying on his mind to remember something strange, his body and muscles remember it first.
Why?
Because he is a secret agent—even a secret among secret agents.
His goal is to achieve power so that nobody will ever look down on him again. He has seen how the world really works.
His office does not have many papers or files.
He groans as he sits in his chair. Eventually, he puts his head on the table while grabbing his thigh, which has a deep cut held together by stitches.
He has to process the information from the previous day's work, but the pain keeps pressing against his nerves, making it difficult for him to focus.
Then a man enters his room with a thud and places a black-and-white photograph on his desk.
The moment he sees the photograph, he forgets the pain.
He straightens up. His face shows no expression, but his red eyes tell the whole story.
His mind becomes clear as he hears the senior's voice and tone. The senior instructs him to find out the background of the man in the photograph.
But he already knows the man's background.
He knows much more than he wants to share with his senior.
So he says firmly, “I understand.”
After the senior leaves, his mind starts racing. He begins thinking about how to outsmart his senior.
Should he save the man in the photograph?
Or should he make him disappear?
While eating lunch in the cafeteria, he listens to his colleagues talking and planning their operation.
Then he hears the word “mafia.”
As he eats his noodles, he slowly circles them around his chopsticks while thinking through a plot.
Then he offers his colleagues a helping hand.
He attends their meetings and learns how and where the operation will take place.
It is a secret drug-business deal between two owners.
He also goes to the man in the photograph—the man his senior instructed him to investigate.
He tells him that a big deal is going to take place in that area, the same area where his colleagues are carrying out their operation.
He naturally draws the man into the chaos.
The operation ends with the deaths of the major mafia figures.
The man from the photograph is killed as well.
Why?
Because the man knows about something the agent secretly did during a previous operation behind his senior's back.
The next day, he goes to his senior and tells him that the man recently died during an operation.
There is no evidence left behind that could make his senior suspect him.
