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Victor Graham is the secondary protagonist-turned-overarching antagonist of the 2019 YouTube short drama film The Face of Danger by Lagarto Films.[1]
He is portrayed by director Adrian Rivera, who also played John Georgia in Nine on The Line.
Biography[]
In the opening scene, George Siegel wakes up on the beach of a deserted island. As he is gathering his senses, he sees a masked man strangle Victor, George's best friend, to death. Horrified, George shouts out his name, which leads to a flashback showing him and Victor preparing to go out on a boat, since Victor had recently gotten his boating license. As they head to the dock, Victor lets George know that he didn't bring any alcohol, since George doesn't like it when his best friend gets drunk, especially when it resulted in them getting kicked out of a party earlier. As the pair head to their boat, a mysterious man watches them from afar.
Back in the present, the masked man starts chasing George through the forest. Eventually, George finds a cave takes cover, waiting for the man to pass by. After the coast clears and George comes out of his hiding spot, another flashback reveals the aforementioned party. A drunken Victor ridicules George for ruining his fun, while George annoyedly drags him to his car so he can drive him to his mother's house. Right before he can get into the car, Victor starts violently vomiting, much to George's concern. Victor convinces him to just wait for him in the car, and George reluctantly agrees.
On the island, George returns to the beach to see Victor's body again. He has an emotional breakdown and swears to avenge his best friend. George then notices a backpack and finds a recorder in it. He plays the tape, of which the audio reveals a conversation between Victor and the masked man. Victor asks him why he is doing this, but the man refuses to fully elaborate at first, though he does give hints at what he is talking about, saying that Victor must have been "really drunk that night," as in the night of the party. The man takes off his mask for Victor to see (but not for the audience [yet]). When Victor recognizes the figure's face, he apologizes profusely and begs him to show mercy, but the man doesn't listen, calling Victor sinful.
Enraged, George throws the tape out of the recorder and is about to leave, when he notices another tape in the backpack. Curiosity gets the better of him, and he plays it. The audio consists of the same man's voice announcing his plan to kill Victor, which he had been anticipating for a long time. Suddenly, the masked man reappears and snaps George from his trance by yelling his name and firing his gun. George snaps out of it, grabs the other gun he found, and the chase continues. Eventually, they come to a creek, where the man slows George down by shooting at him. George points his gun at the man and demands an explanation for everything he has learned so far. When the man tries to stall more, George gives him a countdown warning to put down his gun. On three, the man shoots George in the leg, but George manages to shoot him in the arm, leaving them both mortally wounded. As the two try to treat their own injuries, the man takes off his mask for George (and also for the audience), who instantly recognizes him as Jack Moore, another acquaintance of his and Victor's.
More confused than ever, George asks Jack why he killed Victor. Jack says that Victor had ruined his life and therefore deserved to die, but George still doesn't understand. Jack then reveals his perspective of the night of the pulse party incident; Jack was just leaving the party, when he spots Victor throwing up. He walks over and tries to help, but Victor tells him to get away. Then, out of nowhere, Victor starts viciously beating Jack, seemingly almost to death. Afterwards, Victor gets into George's car so they can drive home. George is shocked by this revelation, knowing that Victor was dunk, but never thinking that Victor would hurt anyone. Jack tells George that his life was destroyed after that, having lost everything that he had apparently worked very hard to accomplish, and he even damns Victor for his privileged frat boy lifestyle being his downfall.
George argues that Jack murdering Victor was even worse, but Jack just keeps saying that he had it coming, even when George asks if there was a better way to resolve the conflict. As Jack keeps rambling about how he got his revenge on Victor, he tells George that he had always liked him and never saw him as his killer. He then points his gun at George again and tells him he's going to pull the trigger on the chance of there being one last bullet. George draws the pistol on Jack, who counts to three. On three this time, when they both pull their triggers, Jack's rifle clicks, while George's pistol shoots a bullet to Jake's head, killing him instantly. Afterwards, George limps painfully away, bleeding out from his leg wound. He lies down on his back and takes in the sounds of nature around him. Having fulfilled his promise of avenging Victor's death, he draws one last breath before dying.
Trivia[]
- Victor's actor, Adrian Rivera, was also the film's director and editor.