12 people in a large cell. Completely light and sterile,
all white. Floor starts splitting up, people move out of the way, up comes a
table with food on it. All but 3 ravenously start eating it. One, TIM, curled
up in the corner is in no condition to eat. Another, black and muscular,
CHARLES, is about to take a bite, when seeing a Timothy Hutton type guy HARRISON
not touching it.
Charles: Aren’t you
hungry?
Harrison: Of course.
Charles holds utensil in mid motion
Charles: Why would they
feed us to kill us? If they wanted to kill us they’d do it by now.
Harrison: There’s always a perfect time for everyone.
Charles: Come on.
Harrison: Yes, it would be pointlessly sadistic to poison the
food. Would you put it past the Nazi’s?
Charles puts it down. Suddenly, everyone collapses their
neural centers being shot down.
Charles: What’s happening?
Harrison: Somehow they’ve managed to make everyone paralyzed
from the neck down.
Two “people” in heavy, amorphous protective gear come in
and take Charles and Harrison out.
They are thrown into a room with a Man in a dark suit.
Man: A Nazi? Hmm.
Charles: What the fuck is
going on here.
Man: Calm.
Charles: No! I’m sick of
this…
He collapses instantly.
Man: I can do worse to
you. I will too. So shut up before I have to speed up the process. Now
then. Two men have just robbed a bank. In the bank there were 6 people, they
were all killed. Cameras caught their every move.
They are shown a monitor. Charles can’t see where he’s
laying.
Charles: What is it?
Harrison: (non-plussed) It’s us.
Man: Now, in about 5
minutes, you’re going to find yourselves outside of that very bank, and there
will be a car in there, with just enough gas to get you out of the country.
Funny thing is, there’s a bomb on it—I thought of this after seeing a movie.
Anyway, you get caught, the bomb goes off… And if you’re thinking I’m talking
some Die Hard explosion you are sadly mistaken. We’re talking making a few
hundred thousand people’s bad day. And then, guess what, you’re now terrorists
for some Asiatic mafia—you’ll be amazed how cleverly we cover things up. Oh,
and also, we’ll have some of our guys driving some of those police cars. It’s
amazing how easy it is to kill someone and pretend to be them long enough that
their passing will not be noticed? So, they will kill you if they catch you,
and they will want to catch you. You’re only way out, is to kill them. It’s
as simple as that, we do it as sport, you live on our whims, if you wonder,
look at the monitor.
Charles: What is it? What
is he showing now?
Harrison: It’s the other boys from the cell. Everyone except
us and the guy who is still curled up in that corner ate the food, and the food
has bad effect on them. 2 seem to be ranting psychotically. 1 is just
randomly lashing out erratically with his fists, no one seems willing to
contest him. Most are horrified, crying and wetting themselves. Some are
flinging themselves against the walls and clawing at their skin. 2 are in a
fight pounding their fists relentless on each other, they are a bloody mess.
Oh wait! The other guy who didn’t eat the food, he’s waking up, he’s looking
around disbelieving. He’s trying to avoid everyone, trying to avoid getting
hit… He sees the camera, but I don’t he knows what it is, it probably doesn’t
look like a camera. Oh wait, we can hear him for some reason.
Tim: Help me, someone help
me! For god sakes, I can’t be in here, I’m sick, they’re sick, what do you
want from me.
Charles: you bastard.
Charles get his body strength back, starts getting up.
Tim: Wait, who is that?
Harrison: Can you hear us?
Tim: Yeah.
Charles: I’m Charles.
Harrison: Harrison.
Tim: Tim.
Man: Yes, and Tim, good
luck in there.
Shuts off monitor.
Man: um, you might want to
brace yourself.
Charles just gets up. Harrison quickly, yet casually lays
on the ground on his back.
Charles: Wha—
Charles collapses again, hard.