In my screenplay, a cop who is out for revenge, the MC, wants to bring down the villain and needs to set the villain up, since there is evidence to get him on legally. The MC does not know who the villain is though, so he blackmails a crook who is a good computer hacker, into hacking into another suspects bank accounts and personal information. From there he finds out who the main villain likely is, but needs to get the villain to incriminate himself to know. He also cannot do anything against the villain legally, because since he used computer hacking and blackmail, all the evidence would be "fruit of the poisonous tree".
The MC decides to blackmail the hacker further, and gets him to call the suspect that is already known to police. He gets the hacker to tell the suspect that he is a computer hacker who has been blackmailed by the MC into hacking his personal information. He tells the hacker that he feels guilty about hacking it and wants to stop his blackmailer and turn him in. He asks the hacker if he would go to the police with him and back him up, when turning in the blackmailing cop.
The villain can then think about this and decide to call the hacker back. He asks the hacker what else the MC has gotten him to hack into. The hacker then tells the villain that the MC has gotten him to hack into certain places he has been to recently. This causes the villain to panic cause he is keeping stuff in one of those places that can be used as evidence against him. So the villain then goes there to see if the MC has broken into the place and has seen or taken any of the evidence. He then goes there, but the MC has tracked him and can now do something about the villain, since the villain has now taken him to the evidence.
However, I am wondering how the MC should play this in order to trick the villain. Should he get the hacker to call the villain and tell the villain that the MC blackmailed him into hacking all his information, and among it, he mentions the place where the villain needs to go to incriminate himself as one of those places? If the hacker tells the villain right away, it will send the villain into a panic, but he would have go to the place to incriminate himself, trusting the word of a stranger, he never met before.
But if the MC gets the hacker to call the villain and not mention that certain place right away, and instead slowly builds up a rapport with the villain, and then mentions that the hacker got him to access that place, then the villain might believe the hacker more and be more comfortable going to that place, as oppose to relying on a stranger. But then again, perhaps building a rapport is a bad thing, because it gives the villain time to think and second guess the hacker, instead of sending him into a sheer panic straight away, in which case, he may act dumbly without having near as much time to think as a result.
What do you think? Which approach to for the MC to blackmail the hacker into tricking the villain to incriminating himself works better, or more plausibly would you say? Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it.
The MC decides to blackmail the hacker further, and gets him to call the suspect that is already known to police. He gets the hacker to tell the suspect that he is a computer hacker who has been blackmailed by the MC into hacking his personal information. He tells the hacker that he feels guilty about hacking it and wants to stop his blackmailer and turn him in. He asks the hacker if he would go to the police with him and back him up, when turning in the blackmailing cop.
The villain can then think about this and decide to call the hacker back. He asks the hacker what else the MC has gotten him to hack into. The hacker then tells the villain that the MC has gotten him to hack into certain places he has been to recently. This causes the villain to panic cause he is keeping stuff in one of those places that can be used as evidence against him. So the villain then goes there to see if the MC has broken into the place and has seen or taken any of the evidence. He then goes there, but the MC has tracked him and can now do something about the villain, since the villain has now taken him to the evidence.
However, I am wondering how the MC should play this in order to trick the villain. Should he get the hacker to call the villain and tell the villain that the MC blackmailed him into hacking all his information, and among it, he mentions the place where the villain needs to go to incriminate himself as one of those places? If the hacker tells the villain right away, it will send the villain into a panic, but he would have go to the place to incriminate himself, trusting the word of a stranger, he never met before.
But if the MC gets the hacker to call the villain and not mention that certain place right away, and instead slowly builds up a rapport with the villain, and then mentions that the hacker got him to access that place, then the villain might believe the hacker more and be more comfortable going to that place, as oppose to relying on a stranger. But then again, perhaps building a rapport is a bad thing, because it gives the villain time to think and second guess the hacker, instead of sending him into a sheer panic straight away, in which case, he may act dumbly without having near as much time to think as a result.
What do you think? Which approach to for the MC to blackmail the hacker into tricking the villain to incriminating himself works better, or more plausibly would you say? Thanks for the input, I really appreciate it.