The film starts with a close-up shot of a black-haired woman with her eyes wide and blue. This shot lasts for five seconds before the camera flickers and goes off and the screen goes black. The opening sequence is a man walking through a crowded town. This is a side-shot, following him until he reaches a road.
Whilst crossing the road, the camera lets the audience see a van driving and slowing down. We see a medium shot, noticing both the van and the man walking across the road. He sees the van stop and so he starts to cross. However, when the man gets half way, we see a close-up shot of the woman we seen at the start, through the windscreen. Her eyes widen and she stamps on the accelerator. The camera goes back to the medium shot, seeing both the man and the car. The van rapidly moves towards the man and he looks at it and starts to run.
The audience hears a band (as it hits him) but the camera goes black. The next thing we see is a van driving on a motorway from the front. After around three seconds, an ambulance sirens ring and it cuts to a man on a stretcher getting carried into an ambulance.
The opening credits start soon after this and the backing track is an ambulance siren. This tells the audience who the director was, who the producer was and who stars in the film.
After a minute or two of credits, it cuts to an extreme close-up of the woman, noticeably laid on a bed with her eyes slightly open. Whilst looking down, we hear a voice but her lips don’t move. This suggests that she is either having a thought-track or a flash-back to the audience. It says: Why? What is the purpose? What is the need to seek revenge?
Turns out that it was a thought-track of her thinking of what’s going on in her mind. After this, her eyes close as if to go to sleep and the picture quality decreases, leaving a crackled type fuzzy atmospheric theme.
It cuts to the man, again lying down with another extreme close-up of his face. He has bandages around his head and a stabiliser to support his neck. This shows his critical condition and how badly hurt he is. Fighting for his life, we see an over-the-shoulder shot of doctors/surgeons working on his body.
He breathes heavily before the camera switches over to a man we haven’t met yet working at a computer. We hear: “It’s a staggering five times something like this has happened. Why has nobody got hold of this vehicle?” Splitting over to the guy that was talking, we hear the guy at the desk say: “Again? Really?” He takes his glasses off and stands up.
We cut over to the woman, this time sat in a presumable kitchen table drinking a cup of tea/coffee. It’s steaming and her eyes rest on the steam. We hear what’s guessed as a TV in the background and a reporter saying “the hit and run victims all live around the same area, with a radius of around a mile. It’s still not clear what vehicle and what motives are behind these terrible crimes.” Her eyes widen and she runs into her living room where the television is. She shots her cup of tea/coffee at the television and the mug smashes. The TV falls back and we hear electric sounds buzzing.
