The film starts in Sean and Zoe's house, Perry is with them playing cards. We are already in the Delusional World; with the real Sean, Zoe and Perry having been killed by the real Archie an unspecified amount of time ago.
There is a knock at the door and Sean answers it: it's Archie disguised as a pizza delivery man. This is the Guilty Archie: who is trying to snap out of his own delusion by confronting his Delusional side, who is pretending to be Sean. Sean (aka Delusional Archie) tries to ignore this attempt but the damage to the Delusional World has already begun: he returns to the others holding a manuscript instead of pizza which confuses the three of them.
As Zoe and Perry are dead in real life and this is all inside the real Archie's mind, Archie is controlling Zoe and Perry's actions and uses their quick dismissal of the pizza/manuscript mishap to ignore Guilty Archie's first attempt at confronting the murders he has committed.
The following day Sean and Zoe are out at Flared Owls Park
soaking up the beauty and tranquil environment. Sean is interrupted by a text
from Perry inviting him and Zoe over. Sean obliges and tells Zoe, who expresses
her interest in going.
The couple arrive at Perry’s house and knock, however, an
unfamiliar figure answers the door: Archie Veryl. The confused duo are let in
and inquire about the whereabouts of their friend. Archie is none the wiser and
proposes they wait around a bit longer to see if he returns. Some time passes
before it is decided that Perry isn’t coming back anytime soon, so he gives Zoe
his number saying he’ll contact her if Perry isn’t home by the end of the day.
His friendly demeanour agitates Sean and he squares up to the man. The
confrontation is defused and Sean leaves, Zoe shortly after.
Sean begins to put up some missing posters around the area
after an unspecified amount of time has passed. The next day the couple meet up
with Archie to discuss further after Perry doesn’t return. Sean mishears something
Archie says and, again, confronts him, this time getting more violent. Archie
leaves and Zoe argues with Sean, confused as to why Sean’s behaviour is so
rash.
We appear at the front corridor of the couple’s house as a
letter drops through the letterbox. Sean comes downstairs and opens the letter:
it’s a ransom note. Sean rushes out of the house and waits at the location given
in the note, he watches as a stranger crosses the road and tears off one of the
missing posters that Sean had put up. Sean gives chase but gives up are losing
the stranger down a wooded path. He
returns home and tells Zoe about the ordeal, she questions about the posters
and is unhappy that Sean has gone this far. Sean hands her the ransom note and
Zoe loses her temper: it’s a pizza leaflet. Sean remains adamant he has handed
her the ransom but she has had enough. Zoe tells him that she is going to live
with her parents until Sean begins to grow up. This doesn’t settle with him as
we hard cut to a sequence in which Sean is drinking and becoming increasingly angrier
as he wanders the streets.
Sean wakes up the next day, hung-over and tired. There’s a knock
at the door and Sean answers it to find Archie stood there looking annoyed. He
informs Sean that Zoe has asked him to help Sean search for Perry. Sean
reluctantly accepts and they arrive at a large field where they begin their
search. Archie forgives Sean for the other day’s misunderstanding and Sean
doesn’t respond. He expresses his hopes for Perry’s well-being and takes a
drink from his water bottle. Sean notices a label on Archie’s bottle that is
identical to the ones on the ransom note he received. Archie walks away to
answer a phone call whilst Sean continues to search the field. He finds a
mobile phone on the floor and picks it up: it’s Perry’s phone. He unlocks it
and checks the contacts list to find that Archie’s name isn’t on there, he
speeds over to Archie about to confront him but Archie interjects: he needs to
leave. Sean decides to stay and keep searching, feigning his discovery of the
phone.
A day passes and we join Sean in the living room as he tucks
into some food. A text message from Archie attracts his attention: ‘Watch the
news’ it reads. Sean switches the channel to see a report detailing the
discovery of a body. The reporter interviews a man who claims to have found the
crime scene: Archie. Sean leans forward in shock, Perry is dead, and Archie has
found the body. He launches the TV remote at the screen: smashing the TV. He
calls Zoe stating he knows Archie is behind Perry’s disappearance and he has
proof. He rings another number, Archie’s, and asks if he can come over.
Archie and Sean are seated in awkward silence, before Archie
decides to break it with some condolences. Sean shuts him up and accuses him of
killing Perry. Archie denies wholeheartedly, and an argument ensues. Archie,
fed up of Sean’s paranoia, storms out of the house. Sean decides to follow him.
Sean maintains his distance as his tailing of Archie leads
him to a campsite in the woods. Archie then addresses Sean as if he knew he was
following him. Archie invites Sean to open one of the tents: Sean does so with
caution and finds the dead bodies of Zoe and himself inside. Confused he
demands to know what is going on. Archie toys with Sean, asking why he is also
inside the tent. Sean proclaims his innocence and Archie responds, “You had
everything to do with Archie.” Sean stops, asks Archie to repeat himself.
Archie proceeds to tell Sean that the world they are in is false and that they
are the same person. Sean reaches his boiling point and chases Archie through
the woods. Archie continues to reveal more information on the truth before Sean
finally kills Archie with a knife from the campsite.
We appear back in Sean and Zoe’s house, but this time things
are different. A news broadcast details three bodies having been identified at
a campsite: Sean, Zoe and Perry. The sound of panic and breathing fades in and
we see Archie lying on the sofa: a knife in his chest. We watch as he breaths
his last breaths and falls silent.
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