The Crew

The Story: Beginning to End

One late night, Marcus asks his wife, Sarah, to go get ice cream because his daughter got straight A's on her report card. "Okay, gimmie 10 minutes," she says, "Do you want to come too?" "No, I've got a migraine like someone is hitting a bass drum in my head," he says. Sarah replies, " Okay, I'll be back in a few minutes."

Two hours pass and Sarah only went 5 miles to Baskin Robbins. Marcus started to get worried after one hour passed, so now that two hours have passed he decides to go to Baskin Robbins to see if she is there. As he gets two miles down the road, he sees flashing lights and hears sirens. He pulls over and goes to look at the scene. There is a flipped over car and a car engulfed in flames. The flipped car is the royal blue Honda Civic that Marcus bought his wife for her birthday a year earlier.

As Marcus goes toward the scene an ambulance is pulling off and one body is in a body bag 30 feet away from the Honda. Marcus shoves officers and firefighters out of the way and runs toward the body bag. Marcus opens the bag hoping for the best but expecting the worst. When he opens the bag, there is a man in it, he runs to the officer and asks him, " Who got put in that ambulance?" The officer replies, " Some lady, she looked pretty bad, they thought she was dead, she actually was for a few minutes." Marcus rushes back to the car and races to the hospital.

While Marcus is driving to the hospital, thoughts and regrets run through his head about how he shouldn't have asked Sarah to go to leave. He thinks about how he is going to tell his daughter, Alex, that her mother is gone forever. He wonders if Alex will blame him, or even worse, blame herself for wanting ice cream.

As he pulls up to the hospital he rushes in and asks where the emergency room is. He pulls back curtain after curtain until he finally sees Sarah. She is laying on the bed with cuts all over her face and arms. Marcus asks the doctor if she is going to be alright. The doctor replies saying, " Well to start it she is in a coma. I personally think maybe she was driving without a seat belt and when the car started to flip she hit her head on the windows and that may be what put her in the coma. She also has a 2 fractured vertebrate, also caused from impact. I think I should tell you now that if she wakes up she will more than definitely be paralyzed from the neck down." Marcus looks at his wife, breaks down and cries.

Marcus knows he will have to pay for life support if he wants to keep his wife alive. He drives back home at 3 A.M. to get his daughter from their neighbors house. Once he picks up Alex up he packs food and clothes inside her old baby bag. Alex asks, " What's going on daddy?" Marcus replies saying, " Mommy got into an accident and shes in the hospital. We're going to go be with her until she wakes up." When Marcus and Alex get to the hospital, Alex asks her dad if her mom will be alright, Marcus says, " Yeah, she'll be awake soon." They both scoot the chair by Sarah's bed and wrap a blanket around themselves and fall asleep.

After a week of paying for life support, Marcus is broke, all of his credit cards are maxed out and he has no money left. The bank calls and informs Marcus that they cant give him any more loans. He tosses the phone against the wall in immense anger. All his friends say they cant loan him any money because they aren't able. Marcus decides to call two of his old friends and tells them to meet him outside of the hospital.

Marcus' friend Johnny pulls up first and next his friend Stuart, who they call Big Bird because he is 6'8, gets out of his car. He tells them both the situation and Big Bird says, " So what do you want to do about this?" Marcus says, " What other option do i have? If you guys aren't to old to get back in, we can rob a bank." Johnny immediately yells out saying, " Hell yeah! Just tell me when and where and I'm in." Big Bird agrees and says, " Yeah I'll do it but this isn't gonna be as easy as it was ten years ago. We're gonna need a few more people." Marcus says, " It's gonna take all three of us just to go in so were gonna need a driver." Johnny says, " We've gotta get a hacker. Ya' know to hack into the alarm systems to give us more time."