Final Pitch

Locations:

- Doctor’s shack

- Empty Room/Library

- office

- office 2

- house

Main Characters:

- Christopher Hilshire

- Andrew

- Vailese

- Clare (wife)

- Rose

Extras:

- 2 doctors

- 1 citizen

- 2 guards/officers

- desk secretary

Background Info:

Why do they kill?

Unfortunately, nightly battles between rebels and the upper class have incurred casualties on both sides. Because of this, the police become more and more loyal to the government, as the rebels attempt to cover their losses by targeting deeper and stronger. Because of growing up in this environment, it’s and honor to reach the level of assassin in the rank of police for the elite law enforcement agent.

How do they know whom to kill?

Much like today’s world, a judge issue warrants. The kinds that are issued to this elite assassin’s unit though are called Elimination Warrants, and they are the only ones who receive them. Many times, it is specified on the warrant, who is to be killed. On those occasions, the authorization of other casualties is not acceptable. However, there are occasions where an order is given and all that is written is the location and an order to “eliminate all.” The opening to this movie is just such a case when names are not listed on the mission profile.

What exactly is Vailese?

Vailese is the equivalent of an NPC or caretaker unit within a vastly advanced version of the Internet. Unlike a common NPC though, Vailese can build relationships with human people, and think well enough individually to give a rational answer to a question. Information can be obtained by her, or other web units like her, while the human user experiences a conversation-like experience in virtual reality. The more secluded parts of the web where private conversations are held, are really not as secluded as one might think. Any information spoken in the web is subject to collection by Vailese and other like units. Because of this, rebels tend to stay far away from the web when discussing their affairs.

Why do the rebels care?

Rebels are simply the product of common people who have been burned a few too many times, and perhaps all too aware of their circumstances for their own good. While everything may appear peachy on the outside, since citizens seem to live normal lives… the truth is that the government slowly picks off the things it can get at, one by one. When the government was first installed, homeless citizens disappeared off the streets overnight. Many people assumed that the government had found them lodging, food, and jobs. In a way they had. All those things were satisfied. The difference, though, was that, they were neither paid, nor allowed to leave. Normal crime also appeared to vanish, but this had yet another ploy. Normal citizens caught alone at night were known to disappear. This had to do with yet another part of the government called the Night Division. The name was simple, so the cover was that they were simply nightly patrols. Rumors among the common people, however, inferred that the people who disappeared were sold to labs for disease testing. For normal citizens alike, good healthcare is also non-existent.

How do the rebels act?

By day, rebels act as normal citizens with normal jobs. At night though, they set the city ablaze. Ezra is probably the exception to every rule. She lives a double life—one under the name of Rose, who is one of the three assassins in Christopher’s unit, and the other who is Ezra, the rebel leader. She leads from the sidelines and through espionage, which is why the elite authorities haven’t recognized her face. But because of her sideline approach, she often isn’t really the main one leading the front. Even so, the final decision in important matters is hers. She lives in wealthy society on her days working, and bombs it on her days off. Each meeting place is designated through word of mouth, never through written means.

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Act I: In a society with a single global government, the assassin Christopher Hilshire and his unit (Andrew and Rose) take out a small group of treacherous doctors (yes, with guns) who have been treating rebels and citizens alike. After killing these doctors, the other two in his group excuse themselves to report in. Christopher stays to collect evidence and insure that they’re dead. As he walks up to the first doctor and feels her pulse, he recognizes the wedding ring on her finger, confirming that she is dead. He pauses, removing her surgical mask, fearfully. When he recognizes her, he loses it, completely unaware that the video feed from the implants in his eyes is still recording. We cut to him in a shell-shocked stated. He takes the wedding ring off her finger, closing his hand around it, and sound goes on around him. His radio is going off, but he doesn’t hear it. He mulls over what has just happened.

Act II: Cut to a picture of him sitting at a desk. Someone has just slammed down a file on his desk, waking him from his living nightmare. The woman in front of him asks him if he’s filed his mission report yet, to which he doesn’t reply. She tells him to get to it and leaves. He starts typing a detailed report, but doesn’t get far, backspacing each time until he’s back to an empty page. He then eventually types out a very simple, bare basics report and sends it. Instantly, he gets a message back to the effect of, “You can’t lie to me! I saw it all. Your video feed was on the whole time.” Then a brief pause before he receives another message, “I know how you must feel. Come meet me…” (Yes, this computer can understand, because it just does).

Christopher hooks up with interface, plunging him into the virtual world that is the computer woman Vailese (who thinks for herself). She turns off his monitored audio and video signals, and asks what she can do to help. He tells her that he wants to look for the person who sent him the order. Because he was married to her, they have personal file relating to all police families on an encrypted server. Her info is among them. Vailese can tell him everything about Clare, right down to what her blood type and what she ate for breakfast this morning, but when she gets to the bottom of the list, it just says that Clare is dead, and that the assignment was designated by “unknown party.” She says that the source is password protected. Chris is devastated. Vailese comes up with the idea to track an IP address for the computer encrypting the data. It leads her to an address, which she then hands over to Christopher.

Act III: Christopher shows up at the address. He goes to the location alone at night. Uses the voice recording implants to tell Vailese to cut off the recording devices, which in turn also cuts him off from access to her help. While he’s there looking for the computer, he sees two guards (government enlisted) and a single janitorial staff member (obviously part of the common people). The janitor is cleaning the floors with a sponge, physically getting down on his hands and knees. The guard makes a threat about bringing down the “guys from that mission today” to set the man straight. Chris, who is hiding, starts to really listen. A brief mention of Chris and his ability to take out a high-ranking hospital official, who was a traitor (his wife), finally brings him over the edge, as the guard beats the man. Chris walks out from his hiding place, stopping the beating with a single well-placed hand. He then proceeds to ask about where the computer is that relates to the mission they were just talking about. The guard refuses to say anything, so Chris kills him (with his bare hands, because he hadn’t originally planned to kill anyone). He then turns to the next guard and asks the same question. That guard shows him the computer. With on hand on the guy’s neck, pressing his head against the desk, and another typing frantically at the keyboard, he asks the guard questions: starting with the password. The guy refuses to give it to him, so he clams the guard’s head down on the table. The guard complies, giving him the password slowly. The file gives a person (which he writes down), but not a location. He asks the guard when the location is, but the guard days he doesn’t know. The guard is wearing an item relating to the location, in plain sight, so as soon as the guard lies, he kills him too. (“Wrong answer.”) Cut to black. We then see, keys, a bus pass/passport, and a Swiss army knife being picked up off the table.