Double / Cross

Belle and Sofia have just pulled off a heist and made a clean getaway with a bag full of loot. Only thing is, Sofia has made a deal with her silent partner and intends to rub out her accomplice Belle and escape with the money, calling him on her burner phone before setting the plan into motion. Sofia corners Belle as she is preparing to wash up in the bathroom. Under the pretense of admiring her freshly stolen scarf, Sofia grabs ahold and suddenly strangles Belle, dragging her out into the hallway and assaulting her from behind. She never saw it coming... Belle puts up a mighty struggle, but Sofia maintains a dominant position behind her as she brings Belle to the ground and then pins her down with a knee jammed into her back. Sofia pulls the scarf hard as she can and asphyxiates Belle with the hanging pressure relentlessly. Her feet kick on the floor and her body squirms helplessly as she is held in place and murdered by her former friend. It becomes too much and drool escapes from Belle's lips before she limply falls face first onto the ground. Sofia pats Belle gently on the cheek and leaves her limp body there on the floor, then goes into the bathroom to wash up.

Belle suddenly awakens on the floor, alive but heavily dazed. She coughs and spits up before quickly removing the scarf from her throat, her face dark and mind focused on vengeance... Belle manages to surprise Sofia as she is sitting at the tub filled with water. Belle rushes towards her former friend and grabs on to her head to push. Sofia tries to fight back, straining all her effort into keeping her head up. But Belle overpowers her and dunks her head down into the water. Sofia screams out bubbles underwater as she is drowned in a bath tub. Her legs kick out against the floor as she desperately tries to get some air. Belle lifts Sofia up out of the water, holding her wet face close to her own as Sofia begs for mercy, afraid to die. Belle has no mercy to give and dunks the woman back into the water. In all the struggle, Sofia's insides give out and she soils her legging shorts while struggling with her face screaming underwater. After a protracted drowning Sofia's fight grows weaker and weaker until finally she goes still under the water, her eyes closed and face relaxed. Belle lifts her former friend up out of the water and holds up her limp body, snapping the neck viciously just to make sure she is dead for good. Belle exits the room exhausted.

Belle finds the bag of loot and checks it out on the bed, still catching her breath from the intense fight. Her face lights up at the sight of all that money, excited that she gets it all to herself. However, someone else is in the safe house... Sofia's Silent Partner stealthily grabs up Belles stolen scarf from the floor where she discarded it and tracks Belle to the room with the loot. Sneaking up behind her, the Strangler holds the scarf up behind the unsuspecting Belle before looping it around her neck and pulling her roughly down onto the bed. Belle is shocked by the sudden force returning to choke her out and puts up a valiant fight. She kicks and slaps at her attacker, trying desperately to crawl free off the bed. Belle is strangled by the scarf ruthlessly as the Killer holds on tight and follows her every move, keeping her pinned down on the bed as her eyes roll and tongue sticks out. The unrelenting pressure grows more and more intense as Belle shakes and spasms. The saliva gets caught up in her throat and foams out of her mouth as she shudders in agony, lungs burning, vision fading. There is no hope for Belle and soon it is all over for her. She goes limp on the bed with her mouth hanging open and eyes frozen in a death stare with one limp hand still gripping the killing scarf. The Strangler efficiently snaps her neck before snatching the bag of loot and escaping. He makes one final stop in the bathroom, hoisting Sofia's limp dead body out of the water and grabbing the burner phone from her pocket. He gently caresses a strand of hair off of her wet face before escaping with all the loot for himself.