Trip

Alan “The Tripper” Edwards is an infamous figure in Australian sporting folklore. In 1998 Edwards was running in the 800 metres in the Commonwealth Games alongside Australian sporting legend, Richie Setter, who was out to try and become the only man ever to win gold medals at four Consecutive Commonwealth Games. As the two runners entered the final bend Edwards was just in front of Setter, and as Setter ran past Edwards to begin his golden run, Richie suddenly fell or was he tripped? Edwards ran on to claim gold but rather than being hailed as a hero, he was castigated by sporting greats and the Australian public alike as the “bastard who tripped our Richie”. We meet Alan – nearly ten years later. He’s working as an advertising salesman on a cheap inner city newspaper. He lives hand to mouth, eking out a humble living in a lowly job. When his former girlfriend Lorna knocks him back on a much hoped for re-union and it seems his paper is on its last legs, Edwards thinks things can’t get any worse. Then one day he meets a mysterious property developer and publican, John MacMasters, who offers him the answer to all his problems, the chance to start a new life, a way out – and all he has to do … all he has to do …