Excerpt of Nuclear Warning message
by Harry Shearer for BBC
Radio Announcement from the Prime
Minister:
PRIME
MINISTER
This is the Prime Minister. Stay in
quarantine; I assure you, everything will be alright.
EXT.
WATERFOOT - DAY
A
conversation between the journalist (TOM) and the war veteran (MAX)
establishing a relationship between them.
TOM
Friendly!?
MAX
I’ll be whatever you want for that can of beans
EXT. COWM
RESERVOIR - NIGHT
Cuts to
another conversation between Tom and Max at night around a fire.
TOM
I just want to escape this place,
forget my past.
MAX
I know a way out, but I’ll always
wander these wastes.
Montage of news report:
NEWS
ANNOUNCER
“Global economy is in meltdown.
*Static* Food supplies short. *Static* Revolution is upon us.
INT. COWM
RESERVOIR - NIGHT
Enclave sat in a room (any room
with chiaroscuro lighting).He slams shut his laptop and then he marks a map
whilst saying “they’re here” when pinning it. Then he cocks his gun.
EXT. COWM
RESERVOIR - DAY
Montage of dialogue with a
non-diegetic voice over:
MAX
Tom? TOM!
TOM
We gotta
leave!
Non-diegetic voiceover of Tom:
TOM
I knew this place once. I knew
these people, I knew these streets. I knew myself.
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