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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a book about Alex, David, Juliet entitled Shallow Grave.
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conversations.value: Shallow Grave: David Stephens (Christopher Eccleston), a chartered accountant, Juliet Miller (Kerry Fox), a physician, and Alex Law (Ewan McGregor), a journalist, share a flat in Edinburgh.\nNeeding a new flatmate, they interview several applicants in a calculatedly cruel manner, amusing themselves at the applicants' expense before finally offering the room to the mysterious Hugo (Keith Allen).\nShortly after Hugo moves in, the trio find him dead in his room with a large suitcase full of money.\nThey agree to keep the death a secret and the money for themselves and to bury the body in the woods after removing the hands and feet to prevent identification should it be found.\nThey draw lots and David is given the gruesome and traumatising task of dismembering the corpse, while Juliet disposes of the hands and feet in her hospital's incinerator.\nUnknown to the three friends, Hugo is being sought by a pair of violent men who are torturing and murdering informants as they follow Hugo's trail.\nThe flat below Alex, David, and Juliet's is broken into, causing them much apprehension and anxiety.\nThe break-in also draws the attention of the police, who are surprised when the three deny that they ever had a fourth flatmate.\nWhile Juliet and Alex spend part of the money to 'feel better', David's fears explode into full-blown paranoia.\nHe hides the suitcase of money in the attic, and begins living there, drilling holes in the attic floor to watch the living space below.\nThe relationship between the three becomes increasingly strained and distrustful, with undertones of sexual tension and rivalry.\nThe men trailing Hugo break into the trio's flat and assault Alex and Juliet until they reveal where the money is.\nAs the men enter the dark attic, David, who has been lying there in wait, kills both of them with a hammer.\nDavid returns to the woods to dispose of the bodies.\nAlex and Juliet become more worried than ever about David's mental state and David becomes worried that the two are conspiring against him.\nMeanwhile, the police are already circling in the form of Detective Inspector McCall (Ken Stott) and Detective Constable Mitchell (John Hodge).\nJuliet, hoping to flee the country, secretly buys a plane ticket to South America, but she also seduces David to get at the money.\nMatters come to a head after the bodies are discovered in their shallow graves and Alex is sent by his newspaper to cover the story.\nHe returns to find Juliet and David have reached an understanding about their shared plans that excludes him.\nThat night, Alex, now fearing for his life, tries to secretly phone the police inspector in charge of the case, but he is interrupted by David and Juliet leaving.\nThe doorstep altercation quickly escalates into a murderous triangular fight.\nDavid reveals he knows Juliet's secret plan to betray them and attacks her.\nIn the scuffle, David stabs Alex in the chest but is killed by Juliet before he can finish Alex off.\nWith David dead, Juliet tells Alex he can't come with her.\nShe then forces the knife even deeper into Alex's torso, pinning him to the floor, before fleeing to the airport with the suitcase of money.\nWhen she arrives at the airport, however, she discovers that she has been tricked: the suitcase is filled not with money but with hundreds of headline clippings about the triple grave taken from Alex's newspaper.\nDevastated, with no possessions except her air ticket, and knowing that she will soon be wanted for murder, Juliet boards the plane.\nThe police arrive at the flat to find Alex bleeding heavily and pinned to the floor.\nThe camera pans down to reveal that Alex has hidden the missing bundles of cash under the floorboards.