The Meeting (with Mike Hoad)

Meeting

Characters

Plumber 

Name: Len 

Aggressive, unmotivated, divorced twice, bald, middle age.

Journalist

Name: Toby

Shy, young, living on his own, looking for his big break in journalism.

Story

A local newspaper journalist is chasing a plumber working in a company named Speedy Plumb. When the plumber is getting ready for his next job, he finds the journalist is waiting for him in a dark parking lot and confronts him without seeing his face. The journalist finds out the plumber is putting in dodgy boilers and putting lives at risk and decides to write an article to expose the culprit. 

The plumber spots the journalist and confronts him in a very aggressive way, taking control of the situation and demands to know what the journalist is doing. The journalist loses control and reveals all the work he has done. 

After the plumber finds out that he is being blamed, he rushes, shouting across the parking lot and when close, he discovers that the journalist is actually his cousin. The plumber becomes apologetic and begs his cousin not to publish the article. The journalist gets more confident and decides not to publish it, but to blackmail him, despite the fact that they are family.