Creatures of Necessity opens thirteen days after the kidnapping of fallen actor Isabella Costini (Mindy Gilkerson). Drugged at a party, Isabella finds herself tied to a chair with three “parasites” (as she calls them) arguing amongst themselves over their next move. Her kidnappers, code-named Platinum (Dane Oliver), Diamond (Andrew John Morrison), and Nitro (Isaiah Locust), are in a panic because the job was only supposed to last four days, and they’d be paid $1 million once it’s done.
The extra time has been both a blessing and curse for Isabella as she has been able to detox from her current drug addictions. The curse is that it involved a lot of vomiting. Being the actress that she is, Isabella continues the appearance of a drug addict, but by breaking the fourth wall, we learn she is completely sober within her senses and lays out her plan for our benefit. Isabella takes a divide-and-conquer approach. With Platinum, she takes advantage of the fact that he’s a barista by day and a playwright by night. She leads him to believe that she can help get his script off the ground, quickly seducing him. Nitro is in a tenuous emotional state. He’s recently divorced after his wife’s infidelity and even more rattled after Isabella may or may not have dropped the N-word. Diamond is the harder nut to crack. He’s the only one who has a cool head, and he appears to be the one in charge. Though Isabella’s plan to play her abductors against one another appears to be working, a mysterious figure arrives in The Prince (Johnjay Fitih). He is ready to shake everything up as he represents the mastermind behind the entire kidnapping.
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