Written by
Peter Straughan & Jon Ronson
10/21/08
1 BLACK 1
SUPERED TITLES READ:
More of this is true than you would believe.
FADE IN:
2 ...CLOSE ON A MAN'S FACE... 2
He is STARING at us with fixed concentration. He is
sweating slightly in the summer heat. We hold for a
moment. Silence, apart from the soft swish of an unseen
ceiling fan.
WIDE SHOT - the Man, wearing military uniform, sits at
his desk in his office, still staring straight ahead.
SUPERED TITLES appear, reading: General Putkin, United
States Army Intelligence SED. Arlington, Virginia. 1983.
The General's assistant, LIEUTENANT BOONE, sits at his
desk, working. After a moment Putkin seems to come to a
decision.
GENERAL PUTKIN
(SOLEMNLY)
Boone?
LIEUTENANT BOONE
Yes General?
GENERAL PUTKIN
I'm going into the next office.
LIEUTENANT BOONE
Yes sir.
The General stands up, smooths down his uniform, steps
out from behind his desk and begins to walk. Boone
watches, with some trepidation, as the General increases
his pace. He quickens to a jog, his face set with
determination.
He breaks into a run...
Then he slams into the WALL of the office, rebounds and
lies splayed on the floor.
He stares up at the wall balefully.
GENERAL PUTKIN
Damn it!
2.
3 EXT. FORT BRAGG - DAY 3
General Putkin is being driven in a jeep through the vast
military base. He has a band-aid over his injured nose.
SUPERED TITLES read: Special Forces Command Centre, Fort
Bragg, North Carolina.
GENERAL PUTKIN (O.S.)
I have been having ideas,
gentlemen. Challenging ideas. And
when I thought about these ideas I
thought about who in the U.S Army
would be most receptive to my
challenging ideas.
The Jeep pulls up at the SPECIAL FORCES COMMAND CENTRE.
The General gets out, a brief case in his hand and
surveys the centre.
GENERAL PUTKIN (CONT'D) (O.S.)
(CONT'D)
Which section of the military is
always straining to reach the peak
of their physical and mental
capabilities?
4 INT. SPECIAL FORCES COMMAND CENTRE - DAY 4
General Putkin stands in front of a room full of seated
SPECIAL FORCES OFFICERS.
GENERAL PUTKIN
You are, gentlemen. Special
Forces.
The assembled Officers nod modestly.
GENERAL PUTKIN (CONT'D)
I want to talk to you about Mind
Wars, gentlemen. War...With...
MINDS...
His audience stare at him. With a flourish he produces a
BENT FORK from his briefcase.
GENERAL PUTKIN (CONT'D)
How'd you like to be able to do
this? What if you could teach
soldiers to do this? Would you be
interested?
Silence.
(CONTINUED)
3.
4 CONTINUED: 4
GENERAL PUTKIN (CONT'D)
(changing tack)
Or, or let's say you have a unit
operating outside the protection
of mainline units. What happens if
someone gets hurt? How do you deal
with that?
He surveys the blank faces.
GENERAL PUTKIN (CONT'D)
Psychic healing! Protect the unit
with hands-off healing. Using the
mind to heal.
Silence. Putkin senses he is not convincing his audience.
GENERAL PUTKIN (CONT'D)
Let's talk about time! What if
time is not a point but a space
and at any one instant we can be
anywhere in that space! (Laughing)
Physicists go nuts when I say
that!
Silence. He is growing desperate.
GENERAL PUTKIN (CONT'D)
Animals! Stopping the hearts of
animals! This is the idea I'm
coming to you with. You have
access to animals right?
Special Forces look like they've had enough. A tough
looking officer - MAJOR JIM HOLTZ - stirs.
MAJOR HOLTZ
No sir. We don't have access to
animals.
5 EXT. SPECIAL FORCES COMMAND CENTRE - DAY 5
A dejected General Putkin climbs back into his jeep.
Lieutenant Boone, in the driving seat, looks at him with
sympathy.
BOB (V.O.)
In 1983, when Special Forces told
General Putkin that they weren't
interested in his ideas...that was
a lie.
6 INT. SPECIAL FORCES COMMAND CENTRE - DAY 6
The BENT FORK sits on the table in the EXTREME
FOREGROUND, a window in the background.
(CONTINUED)
4.
6 CONTINUED: 6
BOB (V.O.)
And when they told him they didn't
have access to animals...that was
also a lie.
We FOCUS on the window - a shaky ZOOM taking us towards
an abandoned looking HOSPITAL BUILDING half hidden by
trees.
7 INT. ABANDONED HOSPITAL - DAY 7
We TRACK forward into the shadowy interior into a large
space which we now see is full of...GOATS.
BOB (V.O.)
The hundred goats in the disused
hospital building had been
secretly flown in from Central
America so as to avoid customs.
Special Forces weren't worried
about the General hearing the
goats because they'd been de-
bleated.
The GOATS stare at us, their mouths silently opening and
closing.
BOB (V.O.) (CONT'D)
This is the story of those goats.
We CLOSE ON the unblinking EYES of one GOAT, then...
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