AN: I don't really know if this is allowed, as it's not really a fic per say, more of an idea I had to share with the masses. I think it's pretty self-explanatory, to be honest. Just to put this out there, I have published this on my Tumblr account, just so I'm not accused of stealing my own work! That would be one hell of a court case.
Disclaimer: I don't own Silk, although the rights to the show are on my Christmas list (Santa might be reading)
The end title of Silk theme plays, it has a slower tempo than is expected. A black and white scene is seen as a camera pans over various briefs with white ribbons, paper everywhere, the desk is a mess, the sort of mess that has accumulated through a disinterest of the owner. A tube of lipstick is sitting on the edge of the desk, a clerk enters the room as the camera pans up to a distraught, bewildered, tired looking Clive Reader. Looking older than the audience perhaps expected. Nicola from the Crown Prosecution Service is clearly angry at Clive and has a raised voice despite the scene being silent, apart from the theme playing in the background. Voiceovers of a happy Martha and Clive can be heard. The clerk drops another brief onto the high pile of existing brief, picking up a bundle of papers before leaving. Unknown to the occupants of the scene, the lipstick has escaped into the papers.
The clerk makes their way through the inner halls of Shoelane chambers, passing the offices of well-loved characters in the process. Caroline Warwick is seen to be drinking from a vodka bottle, as the voiceover of her finest moments plays. An office marked 'Amy Lang' is empty and full of boxes, the voiceover of her unseen exit is played, a clearly angry Clive is doing the firing.
In the clerk's room, Harriet, occupying the space that Billy once did is shouting at various clerks with Jake and Bethany looking at each other for support. The scene is frozen as various voiceovers can be heard, Billy's voice is dominant, the once happy environment of the clerk's room is heard through the voiceovers, juxtaposing the scene of anger and violence displayed. The lipstick rolls off of the desk onto a stack of papers. The scene comes back to life as the lipstick is picked up within another stack of papers, the person carrying them isn't as careful as the last, letting the lipstick fall from the stack as they rush to leave shoelane through the front door.
Free at last, the lipstick is seen to be rolling down a short incline, abruptly stopping as it makes contact with a black court shoe. Two hands reach to pick it up. The camera follows the hands, the mysterious figure is wearing a white shirt. The footage is still in black and white. The hands hold the lipstick tube, one removes the cap and the other twists it to reveal the colour of pillar box red. The only colour to be featured in the entire trailer. The mysterious person nods in agreement of the colour as the camera pans up to see Martha Costello appear from the darkness. She looks up in a sharp movement, the music comes to a crescendoing halt, the movement being the only real-time one in the whole trailer. The screen fades to black revealing two simple words "She's back."