4.09 Shawn takes A Shot In The Dark – Plotline

While investigating a possible crime, Shawn stumbles upon one of a pair of criminals, gets shot, and is dumped in the trunk of a car…

[OLDER BROTHER / MECHANIC] 40-50 years old, the older of a pair of brothers, an imposing but easily manipulated man, he’s a Special Forces veteran with sniper training, currently working as a mechanic, who’s been roped into his brother’s somewhat wild plan to rob a Brinks truck. Under his brother’s thumb both intellectually and psychologically, he’s recently fallen in love with a beautiful redhead, and thinks that a robbery might give him a chance at a fresh start in life with a beautiful woman. Not very good at thinking quickly under stress, he’s in the middle of executing his brother’s scheme to weld a false bottom onto the Brinks truck, when Shawn stumbles in on him — and he reacts badly, shooting Shawn and dumping him in the trunk of his car. Berated by his clever psychopath of a younger brother, who regards Shawn as excess baggage that needs to be killed and dumped, the Older Brother in fact has no interest in killing anyone ever again — an attitude that gets him killed…LEAD (16)

[YOUNGER BROTHER / GAS STATON ATTENDANT] 30-40 years old, the Younger Brother, less physically imposing, he’s the brains, guts and will of the family; unfortunately, he’s also a psychopath with a vicious and menacing streak, who thinks the quickest solution to every problem is a bullet in the brain. Having come up with a scheme to use his older brother’s job as a maintenance mechanic to cut a hole in a Brinks truck and use it as a point of entry, he’s intensely displeased when Shawn literally stumbles upon his scheme. Wishing that Shawn were simply dead and gone, he winds up taking Shawn hostage when his plans start to unravel — and after he murders his own brother for being too simple and stupid a criminal…LEAD (25)