AMERICAN JUSTICE 444

The Interview

Part 1

PG 1

[1]
LONG ON A STREAM OF LIGHT FROM ABOVE OFF-PANEL ILLUMINATING A MAN WHO APPEARS TO BE IN HIS LATE SIXTIES. THIN BUT NOT FRAIL, AVERAGE BUILD. LONG GRAY HAIR AND BEARD OBSCURE FACE. POSTURE IS SLUMPED. HIS ARMS HANG LIMPLY AT HIS SIDE. HIS WRISTS ARE SURROUNDED BY A BLACK LINE THAT IS LOOSE AND CONNECTS TO A BLACK BLOCK ON WHICH HE ALSO SITS. HE IS NAKED AND HIS BODY HAS NUMEROUS SCARS, PREDOMINATELY THREE OLD BULLET WOUNDS SURROUNDING HIS HEART.

CAP A: INTERVIEW SUBJECT: RYAN, RANDOLPH OLIVER
ALSO KNOWN AS: DOC TERROR

CAP B: LOCATION: FORT ALPHA
MAXIMUM SECURITY S.P.A.

[2]
CLOSE; FRONT ON TERROR. STREAM OF LIGHT FROM ABOVE. JUST ENOUGH TO SEE DETAILS OF SKIN; SCARS & BULLET WOUNDS

[3]
SAME AS 2.

[4]
SAME DISTANCE AND ANGLE AS 2; TERROR SCRATCHING AN EAR WITH HIS SHOULDER.

[5]
SAME DISTANCE AND ANGLE AS 2; TERROR LOOKING UP INTO LIGHT. ONE EYE VISIBLE, REST OF FACE OBSCURE BY HAIR/BEARD/SHADOW.

INTERVIEWER (OFF-PANEL/FROM ABOVE): ANY ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE AND YOU WILL BE INCINERATED INSTANTLY.

[6]
SAME DISTANCE AS 2; TERROR, HEAD FORWARD, HAIR DANGLING.

PG 2

[1]
SAME AS PG 1/6.

INTERVIEWER: UNDERSTOOD?

[2]
SAME ANGLE/DISTANCE AS 1. TERROR, HEAD UP, LOOKING TOWARD VIEWER, FEATURES IN HAIR/SHADOW.

DOC TERROR: I UNDERSTAND.

[3]
SAME AS 1.

INTERVIEWER: GOOD. THEN WE CAN BEGIN.

[4]

LONG; FROM ABOVE; 15'. TERROR SPOT LIT IN CENTER, REST IN DARKNESS.

INTERVIEWER: YOU'VE BEEN BROUGHT OUT OF DEEP LOCK-DOWN FOR A PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AS
WELL AS A PSYCHOLOGICAL RE-PROFILING. YOU WILL BE ASKED QUESTIONS. YOU
WILL ANSWERS THOSE QUESTIONS. YOU WILL ANSWERS THOSE QUESTIONS OR THERE
WILL BE CONSEQUENCES. DO YOU UNDERSTAND.

PG 3

[1]
CLOSE ON TERROR, HEAD UP, LOOKING TOWARD VIEWER. FACE REMAINS HIDDEN.

[2]

CLOSE ON TERROR, WRITHING IN AGONY AS ELECTRICITY COURSE OVER HIS BODY.

TERROR: YAAARRGH!!

[3]
CLOSE ON TERROR; ON FLOOR IN NEAR FETAL POSITION, DROOL AND PISS PUDDLE BENEATH HIM. SMOKE DRIFTS UP FROM HIM.

[4]

SAME AS 3.

INTERVIEWER: INSUBORDINATION WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED.

PG 4

[1]
MEDIUM ON TERROR, STRUGGLING TO STAND, USING THE BLACK BLOCK FOR SUPPORT.

[2]
CLOSE ON TERROR'S WRIST; BLACK LINE RETRACTING INTO BLOCK.

[3]
MEDIUM ON TERROR'S WRIST CLAMPED TO SIDE OF BLOCK, HEAD AND CHEST COMING DOWN FAST.

[4]
CLOSE ON TERROR FACE SLAMMING INTO BLOCK.

[5]
CLOSE ON TERROR, HEAD RESTING ON BLOCK.

INTERVIEWER: UNDERSTOOD?

[6]
MEDIUM ON TERROR; REAR, ON KNEES HEAD, TURNED TO SPIT OUT TEETH AND BLOOD.

[7]
MEDIUM ON TERROR; FRONT, LOOKING UP INTO LIGHT, BEARD AND CHEST COVERED WITH BLOOD.

DOC TERROR: I UNDERSTAND.

PG 5

[1]
LONG ON TERROR SITTING BACK ON BLOCK, WRIST LINE SLACKENING.

INTERVIEWER: A DRONE WILL NOW EXAMINE YOU. YOU WILL COOPERATE.

[2]
LONG ON TERROR (SAME ANGLE/DISTANCE AS 1) SEATED, ELBOWS ON KNEES, HEAD SLUMPED FORWARD. ON FAR RIGHT OF PANEL AN OPENING APPEARS, A FLOATING ROBOT DRONE IS SILHOUETTED.

[3]
LONG ON TERROR; FROM 15' ABOVE. TERROR SITS IN SAME POSITION AS 2. F.R.D. APPROACHES, 5' AWAY.

[4]
LONG ON TERROR; FROM 25' UP. ROBOT CIRCLES TERROR, A "PROBE" EXTENDED.

[5]
LONG ON TERROR: 35' UP. TERROR AND ROBOT BARELY VISIBLE.

INTERVIEWER (OFF PANEL/FROM BOTTOM) DO YOU THINK HE'LL GIVE US ANY TROUBLE?

PG 6

[1]
CLOSE ON COMPUTER SCREEN, ON SCREEN PG 5/5.

INTERVIEWER 1 (FROM LEFT): THAT MAN IS THE MOST DANGEROUS LIVING BEING ON THIS PLANET. HE SPENT FIFTY YEARS TERRORIZING THIS COUNTRY. NOW HE'S LOCKED UP IN THE MOST ADVANCED DETENTION CENTER EVER DEVISED. HE WONT BE GIVING US ANYTHING BUT WHAT WE WANT HIM TO.

[2]
MEDIUM ON THE TWO INTERVIEWERS FROM BEHIND; BOTH IN BLUE SUITS WITH KIRBYESQUE HEADGEAR COVERING HEADS. FROM THE HEADGEAR EXTENDS TUBES, WIRING ETC. WHICH CONNECT TO VARIOUS PORTS SURROUNDING THE TWO MEN. NUMEROUS COMPUTER SCREENS DOT THE WALLS AND PANELS WHICH TAKE UP THE REMAINDER OF THE PANEL.

INTERVIEWER 2: SO WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO FIND OUT WITH ALL OF THIS THEN?

INTERVIEWER 1: I DON'T KNOW. AND YOU SHOULDN'T WANT TO KNOW. THIS IS OUR ASSIGNMENT. WE ASK HIM THESE QUESTIONS. HIS ANSWERS GET RECORDED. IF HE TRIES ANYTHING WE FRY HIM. SIMPLE.

[3]
SAME ANGLE/DISTANCE AS 2. INTERVIEWER 1 FIDDLES WITH DIODES NEXT TO HIM. INTERVIEWER 2 FIDDLES WITH DIODES ABOVE HIM.

INTERVIEWER 2: WHAT IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG?

INTERVIEWER 1: I TOLD YOU. WE FRY HIM.

INTERVIEWER 2: I MEAN , WHAT IF WE CAN'T FRY HIM?

INTERVIEWER 1: ...

[4]
CLOSE ON MULTIPLE COMPUTER SCREENS, SHOWING VARIOUS CLOSE UPS OF DOC TERROR, HIS SCARS, THE FLOATING ROBOT DRONE AND ITS PARTS.

[5] (SMALL, OVERLAPPING BOTTOM PORTION OF 4)
EXTREME CLOSE ON TERROR SMILING, THROUGH BEARD AND BLOOD.

INTERVIEWER 1 (FROM LEFT): THAT WOULD BE BAD.

CAP A: TO BE CONTINUED...