🎬 Audition Performance - “The Safe Word” a dramatic performance under 2 minutes

Here’s a tight, intense thriller scene—full of tension, trust issues, and a twist. Ideal for a dramatic performance under 2 minutes.

🎭 Title: “The Safe Word”

Genre: Thriller / Spy Drama
Characters:

·         Ayaan—Calm, calculating, a trained spy

·         Nira—Sharp, mysterious, Ayaan’s partner (in both missions and life)

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[INT. ABANDONED WAREHOUSE—NIGHT—RAIN OUTSIDE]

(Ayaan walks in, gun in hand. Nira is already there, sitting casually on a crate, a gun on the floor near her boot. They lock eyes.)

Ayaan:
Funny place for a midnight date.

Nira: (smirks)
We’ve had worse.

Ayaan:
I got the report. Dubai. Istanbul. Berlin.
You’ve been everywhere I wasn’t supposed to know.

Nira:
And yet... you found me.

Ayaan: (steps closer)
Because I stopped trusting you.
And when a spy stops trusting their partner...
It gets dangerous.

(Beat. He raises the gun slightly. Her eyes don’t flinch.)

Nira:
What do you want, Ayaan? An apology? A confession? A bullet?

Ayaan:
The truth.

Nira: (stands slowly)
The truth is...
You were the cover. I was the mission.
But somewhere along the way... I forgot which was which.

(A tense silence. Rain thunders outside.

Ayaan:
Say the safe word.

Nira: (coldly)
You don’t believe me?

Ayaan:
I believe in code. Not feelings.

Nira: (softly)
Velvet.
(The safe word.)

(Ayaan lowers the gun. Barely. She steps forward.)

Nira:
Now the real question is—do we run?
Or finish what we started?

[FADE OUT — with a single gunshot, but no reveal.]