ten buildings with blasting
gelatin. In two minutes, primary
charges will blow base charges, and
those buildings will be reduced to
smoldering rubble. I know this
because Tyler knows this.
TYLER
Look what weve accomplised.
(checks watch)
Thirty seconds.
JACK (V.O.)
Somehow, I realize all of this -- the
gun, the bombs, the revolution -- is
really about Marla Singer.
PULL BACK from Jacks face. Its
ten million dead souls. It scurries the ashes
into drifts, stark white in the moonlight against the charred rubble. A
TITLE CARD FADES IN:
LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2029
3 ANGLE ON a heap of fire-blackened human bones. Beyond the mound is
a 3 vast tundra of skulls and shattered concrete. The rush hour
crowds burned down in their tracks.
4 WE DISSOLVE TO a playground... where intense heat has half-mel
toxic
or deadly than a human child.
A single touch could kill you!
Leave a door open
and a child could walk
right into this factory!
Right into the monster world!
I wont go in a kids room!
You cant make me!
Youre going in there
because we need this.
Our city is counting on you
to collect
those childrens screams.
Without scream,
we have no power.
Yes, its dangerous work
and thats why I need
you to
And force, my
friends, is violence, the supreme authority
from which all other authority derives.
CARL JENKINS, 18, a superintelligent geek, jumps in.
CARL
Gee, we always thought you were the
supreme authority, Mr. Rasczak.
Laughter. Rasczak grins.
RASCZAK
In my classroom, you bet. Whether its
exerted by ten or ten billion, political
authority is violence by degree. The
people we call citizens
ten thousand years.
You guys want to put
a dollar in here?
OK. Here you go.
One for each of us.
Just take it and put it
in the kittys nice little... ow!
...from the ice.
They cut off a piece of it...
and they thawed it out,
cooked it up, and they ate it.
Yeah, I know. They made
this frozen woolly mammoth stew.
This is my field trip,
young man.
Thats five even. Yeah?
I dont need a bag. Thank you.
the desolation, keening with the sound of ten million dead souls. It scurries the ashes into drifts, stark white in the moonlight against the charred rubble.
A TITLE CARD FADES IN:
"LOS ANGELES, July 11, 2029"
ANGLE ON A HEAP OF FIRE-BLACKENED HUMAN BONES
Beyond the mound is a vast tundra of skulls and shattered concrete. The rush hour crowd burned down in their tracks.
DISSOLVE TO:
a playground
ten pounds. Havent been very hungry.
Hows your wife?
Well, when we divorced a decade ago...
she was very angry.
Now shes just hostile.
Right.
I did tell you, didnt l, that I would be ready...
to start the Berlin model today?
George, this is not me.
We can show clients endless options.
We can change anything, really...
in a matter of hours on the computer...
but you wont change.
Ive been here twen
ten seconds to make a choice. I had to make it.
I hope I did the right thing. I think I did.
Oh, shit.
Maybe I didnt, I dont know.
Listen, Im sorry. Im just...
Its okay, its okay.
You may well be right and I appreciate it.
I will resign first thing in the morning.
Thats fair.
Good night.
Look, Jodie?
Are you doing second shift tomorrow?
Yeah, why?
Well, its just I have to...
...get these intern e
ten cents.
Tough shit.
Can you rent it?
How much?
Ten cents.
You dont bring it back, I break your arm.
If you can catch me!
Six bags of trash I emptied.
People are so filthy.
Is she here yet?
As always.
- Any problems? - as usual.
Not enough pressure in the shower and the AC is too loud.
Witch.
They want to be mothers and they cant even take of themselves.
Good morning, maam. Excuse me.
Your cler
toxic air. In a
LONG LENS STACK it is a marching torrent of anonymous
isolated souls.
INT. JAKE몶S APARTMENT - NIGHT
The room is a tiny CUBICLEprison cell meets 747 bathroom.
Narrow cotwall-screen droning away in the B.G. --
PERKY NEWSCASTER
The Bengal tigerextinct for over a
centuryis making a comeback. These
cloned tiger cubs at the Beijing Zoo
are...
Jake laboriously pulls his pants off -- ro