ext. hillside, day

Fingers tune through dials of static on a handheld radio. ORWELL, 22, a white male, stands on a baron hillside wearing a backpack. Orwell takes out binoculars and looks at a small town in the distance. He then looks to a broken graffiti ridden building overlooking the town. Orwell exits.

radio

Fighting along the East Coast has intensified with recent attacks focused on government agencies. Enemy forces using primarily home-made explosives and illegal firearms attempted to overtake a police headquarters as well as other facilities. Insurgents were effectively eradicated by the United States Army and National Guard.

int. broken building, day

Orwell sets the radio on a ledge and unrolls a pad and blanket while it continues. Red spraypaint sprays on a concrete wall. A black spraypaint can is set on the ground. Orwell walks away from the unseen fresh paint.

RADIO

Another bill was passed unanimously in the senate today enabling more accurate monitoring of terrorist activity via phone lines and radio transmissions. Senate majority leader Frederick Johnson had this to say: "...this bill will enable police to more accurately weed out the terrorists more difficult to locate by monitoring feeds such as cellular conversations..."

Orwell lays with his eyes closed. Helicopter blades can be heard getting closer. Orwell wakes suddenly scared and looks out an opening to the sky. He hurriedly grabs his blanket and pad running from the building. Hiding behind a rock, Orwell uses binoculars to look back to the town. A large truck stops on the main town road.

ext. town road, day

An OFFICER, dressed in black with patches of the American Flag on his shirt and hat and a pistol on his waist, steps out of the truck holding a wired CB radio. His voice carries over loudspeakers placed on poles through the town.

Officer

Attention citizens of City 147: please bring forward your identification forming a single file line for standard checks.

EXT. HILLSIDE, DAY

Orwell watches through the binoculars as families herd from homes toward a SECOND OFFICER.

OFFICER (cont.)

Any in non-compliance will be detained in accordance with the anti-terrorist act.

EXt. town road, Day

The Second Officer scans cards with a barcode scanner.

EXT. HILLSIDE, DAY

Orwell runs away in the distance

INT. BROKEN BUILDING, DAY

The radio remains in the building with the spraypaint in the distance of an American flag with the caption "Democracy Now."

RADIO (woman's voice)

We have Tom Richards in the studio with us. Tom, why does the fighting continue? 

Radio (man's voice)

Well, diane, Many of your listeners are old enough to remember when there were 2 party elections and they'll tell you that nothing divided this country more. What we have on our hands are a group of nomad anarchists hell-bent on de-evolving the american society back petty bipartisan politics. These people carry this false notion that they've somehow been enslaved, but really, the steps the government has taken have been to protect our families and our very lives, even THEIR lives, these terrorists who still have the gall to call themselves U.S. citizens.