Screenplay

  He started writing the fourth line, looking at a picture of the senator's family, taken as they were having a vacation at the seaside. The picture was dated a year ago, August the 7th.

  There were his two sons, about 12 and 15, his wife, in her late 40's and the senator himself, still very much in shape, although his hair was gray and the wrinkles caused by the exercise of his generous laughter betrayed that he was approaching his 60's. 

  In the background, the camera had caught a man who was pointing his finger at them and appeared to be whispering something into a woman's ear. 

"...who has been keeping the senator hostage for more than two weeks, has announced today that if the ransom money will not be delivered by the end of the day, there will be no further hesitations and that the senator will be decapitated. The secret services refused to make any comments on the development of the investigation and the political class, both goverment and opposition leaders, expressed the deepest concern for the senator's well being"

Continuation:

"Shock in the political world! The senator's decapitated body has been found this morning, abandoned by the bank of the river. The terrifying discovery was made by an annonymous fisherman, at about 5.30 a.m. Police, who came at the scene 25 minutes later, started searching the area in hope of capturing the murderer, but although they have formed a search perimeter of more than 3 square kilometers, there were no trails or leads which would prove useful for their investigation" 

Then, after reading the story once more, he moved on to another picture from the stash. He turned it on the back side and  could read the following description: "executive director of the company, 56 years old, divorced, 3 children, enjoys boat trips, poker games, hunting"
After a few moments of gnawing at his pen, he turned on the TV and tuned in the news. The senator was just being interviewed by a reporter on his party's opinion on immigration. He looked older than in the picture he had just seen...

"The executive director of the company had a very good night in poker..."