Cal (Would You Rather)

**Cal** is a protagonist in Would You Rather.

## Biography

Cal was one of the eight contestants whom had signed up for Shepard Lambrick's dinner game. He is first shown talking with Lucas when Iris first arrives at the mansion.

At the mansion, Bevans the butler demands that everyone hand over their phones and wallets before the game begins, and then dinner is announced. After the meal is served, one contestant, Iris, points out that she cannot have the steak and foie gras meal, since she is vegetarian. Rather than providing her a backup option, however, Shepard instead offers her $10,000 if she eats the steak, which she reluctantly does. Shepard also coaxes another cntestant, a recovering alcoholic named Conway, into drinking an entire decanter of Scotch for $50,000.

After dinner ends, Shepard reveals the game to be a version of the party game "would you rather" in which players must choose between two options. He explains that there is a 15-second time limit for each choice, and that players will be eliminated if they do not make a choice. Shepard gives everyone in the room a chance to leave, and when no-one does, the game begins. After the game starts, however, Bevans (who happens to be a former MI5 interrogation agent) wheels in an electric shock machine, much to the concern of everyone in the room. Unnerved, Conway goes to leave, but is shot dead by Bevans, much to the horror of everyone in the room. The remaining contestants quickly learn how serious and deadly the game is, and realize they can only win the game if they are the last surviving player.

Everyone is forced to remained seated as Shepard explains the rules of the first round of the game, which involves two contestants connected to the electro shock machine, with one person deciding whether they should shock themselves or the other person. Cal is the first one chosen to be the decision maker, and opts to shock himself instead of the prudish goth, Amy, whom expresses indifference to his loyalty. Iris then opts to electoructe herself instead of Cal, and the round ends with no one eliminated.

After a heated argument occurs between Travis and Shepard's son Julian, the second round begins. In the second round, each contestant has 30 seconds to choose between stabbing the person next to them in the thigh with an ice pick or whipping Travis three times with a sjambok, as decided by Julian. Iris and Lucas choose to whip Travis, out of fear of killing someone from the thigh stab, and Travis chooses to be whipped by Bevans out of dignity. Ultimately, Travis is badly injured and, Peter, knowing he won't survive another lashing, stabs Linda in the leg, but he hits the femoral artery and she dies shortly after stabbing Amy. Amy is then given the choice to either whip Travis or choose any player to stab. She chooses to stab Iris, but in the side instead. Thanks to Lucas, she survives. Cal then opts to mercy-kill Travis, whipping him enough to have him incapacitated and removed from the game.

## Death

As Shepard prepares the third round of the game, Lucas causes a distraction, allowing everyone to attempt an escape. During the chaos, Cal beats down a guard with a sjambok, and tries to attack Shepard as well, but is simply shot and killed in retaliation.

## Trivia

* Cal is played by Eddie Steeples, whom is also known as the "Rubberband Man" from an ad campaign made by OfficeMax.
* In order to prepare for the electro-shocking scene, Steeples actually recorded himself getting tazed to get an idea of what it felt like.