Pilot Jane Smith
Carson City Police Department
Dr. Roger Fleming
UCLA School of Anthropology
PREFACE
The Great Rift Valley
Some 25 million years ago two continents, Africa and Eurasia,
moving on their respective tectonic plates, collided and
recoiled shattering the earth's crust and creating the land
feature known as the Great Rift Valley. The valley extends
over 6,500 km from the DEAD SEA in the north to BEIRA
in the south and varies in width from thirty to ninety
kilometers and in depth from a few hundred to several
thousand meters, far below sea level. In Kenya the
valley is deepest in the hundred and sixty kilometers
that run north from Nairobi. Most of the lakes in the
Rift, such as LAKE NAKURU are shallow and having
no outlet to the sea, are high in mineral content as the
evaporation of water leaves salts behind. Nairobi
Africa is the center of genetic studies of evolution
and Paleontology. It's longed believed that some
species became extinct because they were unable to
compete for their survival. Or in some cases wiped
out by natural disaster or widespread disease. Using
the dinosaurs for example, we are still not sure what
happened.
LAKE NAKURU AFRICA
FADE IN
EXT. CARSON CITY NEVADA DAY
EXT. CARSON CITY POLICE DEPARTMENT
INT. COMMANDERS OFFICE
Police Commander JOEL STEIN is a middle age man with
gray hair and sharp features. He's having a yearly revue
with Jane Smith and seems concerned.
STEIN
Office Smith, your supervisors say
you refuse to go to the firing range
and maintain your readiness as a Law
Enforcement Professional, is that true?
SMTIH
Yes sir that's true.
STEIN
This is very serious, must I suspend
You without pay?
SMITH
How can you do that sir, I'm the only
chopper pilot you have!
STEIN
Ok, what's the problem?
Jane Smith tells Captain Stein about the death of her friend
and he seems to understand.
STEIN
I understand Jane, but we have
regulations! If you're needed
for backup and not qualified
with our M-16's, BERETTA 9MM
or shotguns, your endangering
one of your fellow officers!
SMITH
I will try again sir. But I just
don't think I can kill a human
being.
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EXT. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA DAY
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
INT. ADVANCED ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS
The Professor is continuing with his dissertation.
GOLDMAN
Several of you were asking about the
African phone call. Two of my
colleagues found what appears to be
a 10,000 year old male with 24
chromosomes. As you all know we all
have 23 so this is quite a find!
One of his students raises her hand and is recognized.
STUDENT
Professor Goldman, what does this mean?
GOLDMAN
I really don't know my dear. The only
clue we have is that a German Scientist
had proof that only a Caucasian person
can have 24 chromosomes.
STUDENT
If we could have 24 what would it
represent?
GOLDMAN
It could mean the end of a particular
species. Ancient reptile remains
discovered in eastern Pennsylvania
may hold clues to the mysterious
disappearance of more than half
the earth's land animals 200
million years ago. Three skulls
belonging to animals of the genus
HYPSOGNATHUS present paleontologists
with a rare addition to the scarce
fossil record of the late Triassic
and early Jurassic periods, when
dinosaurs first began to dominate
the planet.
STUDENT
What did they look like?
GOLDMAN
They are reptiles a foot-long, horned
herbivores that resembled the
modern-day groundhog in stature.
They were among the crawling reptiles
and salamander-like amphibians that
prevailed in the animal kingdom just
before the age of dinosaurs at the
dawn of the Mesozoic Era 248 million
years ago. The area where the skulls
were found is part of the Newark rift
basin, a geological formation created
190 million to 230 million years ago
as North America pulled away from the
ancient super-continent known to
scientists as PANGEA.
STUDENT
I don't understand where we're going.
GOLDMAN
At about the same time, near the end
of the Triassic Period and the
beginning of the Jurassic Period, a
mass extinction occurred among the
older, established lines of animals.
The course of evolution changed as a
result, and dinosaurs were able to
develop into giants such as the
TYRANNOSAURUS. Before the mass
extinction, the biggest dinosaur had
been no heavier than a cow.
STUDENT
What caused the mass extinction?
GOLDMAN
The cause of the extinction remains
a mystery to science, largely because
skeletal remains from the period have
been very rare. The Exeter fossils have
been dated to just 500,000 years
before the extinction, which puts
it at about 202 million years ago.
The greatest thing about this find is
that it is in well-dated rock near the
Triassic-Jurassic boundary. Now we
have evidence that these animals
lived right up to the boundary, which
supports our ideas about a large-scale
extinction.
David Hamilton, a graduate student seen in the back of the
lecture hall has lapsed into a flashback to the time when
he visited his family's plantation.
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EXT. CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA ………….. FLASHBACK
EXT. BLUFF ABOVE THE COOPER RIVER
Richard Hamilton is seen reminiscing about the past.
HAMILTON
(Talking to himself)
Banjo Man, Bo Jangles, Mammy Em and
Slow Joe.
He whispers their names as he pushes through the thicket
to a grove of white oaks. Beneath his feet lie their
sunken graves. There is nothing to suggest this is sacred
ground, no markers, no hint of how they lived and died.
The wooden shanties of Slave Street have long disappeared.
HAMILTON
(Talking to himself)
Oh Lord, what we did to these people
and we dare call ourselves Christians.
Gazing out at the old rice fields where his family's slaves
toiled, he reflects on their contribution to his family's
past. Growing up, he heard the tales, passed down at family
reunions of kind, benevolent masters and faithful, trusting
slaves.
HAMILTON
(Talking to himself)
Shame on you great grand father, how
could you do this to these beautiful
people.
The Hamilton plantations, the oldest and largest in South
Carolina, were good places to live and work according to
family lore. The horrors slavery were never mentioned,
except in connection with somewhere else. But when Hamilton
began to research the past, he then discovered a terrible
truth family lore was an enormous lie. Thousands of slaves
had been bought and sold, whipped and raped, torn from
their families under generations of Hamilton ownership.
HAMILTON
(Looking hard at the graves)
I'm so sorry that my family did this to
you. My grandfather told me of the time
he found twin slave girls casually taken
from their mother and handed as gifts to
twin Hamilton babies, a slave laundress
beaten by a Hamilton mistress and then
sent to the workhouse for a professional
torturer to finish the job, children of
slave women banished from plantations so
as not to embarrass their Hamilton
fathers. He also said the family would
own 25 plantations with names like HYDE
PARK, KENSINGTON and TRANQUIL HILL. They
grew a rice called CAROLINA GOLD and
owned about 4,000 slaves.
Sullivan's Island was like an Ellis Island for slaves,
sitting on a sandbar at the mouth of Charleston harbor.
About 40 percent of American slaves arrived at this
spot. And there is nothing here to remember them, not
a single marker.
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EXT. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA DAY
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
INT. ADVANCED ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS
The Dr. Goldman is continuing with his dissertation.
GOLDMAN (Cont.)
Several of you were asking about recent
findings. The first human remains ever
discovered in ARAGON SPAIN were the
molars of a Neanderthal man and the
jawbone of a CROMAGNON MAN which were
only 5,000 years old. In the quest to
explain human origins it's necessary
to find a species that bridges modern
man Homo sapiens with the apes. To
fill this gap evolutionists have set
forth Homo erectus. Does Homo erectus
have a form that is so different as
to place it in a distinct species
outside of the Homo sapiens? There is
no clear boundary between Homo erectus
and Homo sapiens. HOMO ERECTUS, HOMO
SAPIENS AND NEANDERTALS form one
continuum.
STUDENT
So what's the bottom line Professor
Goldman, are we descended from the ape?
GOLDMAN
The fossil evidence can be divided into
man or beast. Man and ape lived at the
same time and place. Looking at a time
line chart of these, all the pre-man
and apes lived together. The theory of
evolution is not converging, we see in
the human origins an Instability over
time. Instead of converging on a coherent
pathway to man, a single fossil find
throws the entire picture into disarray.
Fossils only record bone structure. What
about the fact that apes have 24 pairs
of chromosomes and man only 23? This is
a significant difference that is rarely
mentioned. Apes have a BACCULUM or hard
bone in the penis and man does not.
Given that this had to work right the
first time to propagate the race, how
could such a change have occurred?
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EXT. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA DAY
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
INT. ADVANCED ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS
The Dr. Goldman has a guest speaker from MIT. He's a man in
his late forties.
GOLDMAN
We have a guest speaker from MIT, I want
all of you to meet Dr. Jason Wells who
will tell you the latest on ice core
deep drilling. Professor, they are all
yours.
WELLS
One of the deep ice core drilling teams
from the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology have discovered that for
at least the last 1.5 million years,
the Earth has undergone rapid and
dramatic climate changes similar to
those observed in ice cores from more
recent times. Ten years ago, we had
no idea that climate could change
this quickly. MIT and at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute report that
millennial scale climate instabilities
swings of as much as 10 degrees Celsius
within a few decades are not restricted
to the large glacial periods of the last
700,000 years but existed much further
back in time.
STUDENT
So how do we stack up?
WELLS
For the last five years, a cutting-edge
initiative in climate studies has been
the search for understanding of millennial
scale climate instabilities. These rapid,
large-amplitude climate fluctuations were
first identified in ice cores in Greenland
and later in ocean sediment cores around
the world. While other researchers have
focused on the geologic record of the
past 120,000 years, MIT has undertaken
the far more ambitious effort of looking
at climate trends as far back as 1.5
million years ago, at the dawn of mankind.
STUDENT
Have the MIT teams come up with any new
trends or predictions for the Earth?
WELLS
The MIT Teams work has suggested that such
millennial-scale climate instability may
be a pervasive and long-term characteristic
of Earth's climate, rather than just a
feature of the strong glacial-interglacial
cycles of the past 800,000 years. These
climate changes are tied to changes in
the conveyor-like circulation of ocean
waters that delivers tropical heat to the
northern Atlantic in surface currents while
exporting salt-heavy deep waters cooled by
Greenland's winds to the south. But while
scientists know that climate changes are
linked to changes in ocean circulation
and heat transfer, they don't know what
causes these climate and circulation
variations in the first place.
STUDENT
Will we have anything to worry about in
our lifetime?
WELLS
The most dramatic instabilities tend to
be triggered during the cooler Ice Age
periods, most recently the period from
about 100,000 years ago to about
10,000 years ago. After more than 8,000
years of warmth, we're about due for
a cooling phase. To study these climate
changes, MIT retrieved sediments from
far below the ocean floor, where deep
water currents sweeping down from
Greenland have caused sediment to
accumulate at unusually high rates
for millions of years. By analyzing
the composition and chemical structure
of fossils in these sediments,
reconstructs past conditions on the
Earth. So in answer to your question
maybe and maybe not.
The students are uneasy after hearing the questionable future.
Dr. Goldman feels a disruption is coming.
GOLDMAN
Let Professor Wells finish his presentation.
WELLS
During a 1995 deep-sea drilling expedition
two months at sea aboard the JOIDES
Resolution, a former British Petroleum
oil-drilling rig MIT broke the world
record for the most sediment recovered
in a single ocean-drilling expedition.
And although these sediments have
provided a multitude of clues about
climate variations over the millennia,
scientists remain at a loss to explain
why parts of the planet have swung from
ice age to warm stage and back again.
Is it due to external forces such as
variations in the output of the sun or
internal oscillations caused by
instability in the distribution of salt
and heat within the ocean?
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EXT. SOUTH AFRICA
EXT. LAKE NAKURU - SOUTH SHORE
EXT. LARGE MOBILE HOME SUNK PARTIALLY IN THE SAND
DR. Fleming is conversing with Dr. Wasser over their findings.
FLEMING
What do you think we have here?
WASSER
I really don't know Roger, but if I
were to hazard a guess it would be
we found the missing link.
FLEMING
What are you saying is that this
thing is half ape and half man?
WASSER
I really don't know Roger, but if
if it has 24 pairs of chromosomes
it has to be part ape, don't you
think? I wish Goldman would call
us, we need his input!
FLEMING
He will say the same thing, that
this thing is half ape and half
man?
WASSER
Roger, that's what I'm afraid of!
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EXT. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA
EXT. UCLA NEUROPSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE
INT. LARGE ANALYSIS ROOM RICHLY DECORATED
DR. MARK FURMANN is in analysis with RICHARD HAMILTON
He seems concerned over his findings.
FURMANN
Richard, are you taking the Prozac at
least three times a day?
HAMILTON
Yes Doctor, but it's not helping me much.
FURMANN
The slave business of your family has
nothing to do with you, so why can't
you let it go?
HAMILTON
(Crying)
I wish I could, …I wish I could!
FURMANN
All of us have felt discouraged at times
in our lives when perhaps things were not
going well or maybe we were feeling bad
because of something that wasn't our fault.
There are normal variations in our moods
over time and even day-to-day. However,
depression is a disturbance in our mood
where we may feel particularly unhappy,
discouraged, lonely, or negative towards
ourselves. Depression may range from the
very mild, moderate, to severe forms of
this condition depending upon the symptoms
associated with each condition and the
extent the condition interferes with our
everyday functioning.
HAMILTON
That's the problem Doc, I can't function
anymore. I can barely make it from one
day to the next!
FURMANN
In the milder cases of depression, our
down or depressed moods are usually
brief in duration and may have little
effect on following through on our
everyday activities. Cases of severe
depression include symptoms that are
stronger or more intense, last a longer
duration of time, and tend to interfere
more with our functioning in daily
activities or in our relationships.
HAMILTON
Doctor I know the symptoms of depression,
depressed mood, lack of interest or
pleasure, hopelessness or thoughts of
suicide!
FURMANN
Richard, you never mentioned suicide
before. Have you been entertaining
those thoughts lately?
HAMILTON
Every waking hour.
FURMANN
Almost 2 million Americans currently
suffer from manic-depressive illness.
Treatments for people suffering from
depressive illnesses are successful
in alleviating symptoms over 80% of
the time.
HAMILTON
Society needs to be punished for all
the terrible things that have been
done to innocent people.
FURMANN
The most reliable method of preventing suicide
in patients with manic-depressive illness is
early and accurate diagnosis, followed by
aggressive treatment of the underlying
illness.
HAMILTON
It's too late Doc, it's too late!
FURMANN
WHAT DO YOU MEAN RICHARD?
HAMILTON
I MEAN IT'S TOO LATE. IT'S TOO
LATE DOC!!!!!!
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EXT. LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA NEXT DAY
EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
INT. ADVANCED ANTHROPOLOGY CLASS
The Dr. Goldman has a guest speaker from PEPPERDINE.
He's a man in his late thirties.
GOLDMAN
We have a guest speaker from PEPPERDINE,
I want you to meet Dr. Ron Peters
Professor of Philosophy. After all the
talk of creation, I thought we needed
a different view. Professor they are
all yours!
PETERS
We've all arrived at our present Awareness by
different routes and at our own speeds. We
all begin at birth, but our path of progressive
awareness doesn't begin until we grow beyond
pre-awareness. Shock is the first step in our
journey of progressive awareness. There's no
returning to the blissful ignorance of pre-awareness
once we receive our first shock of reality.
A student stands in the back row of the lecture hall and identifies
himself as Richard Hamilton.
HAMILTON
My shock of reality was when I found out my
entire family had over 4,000 slaves on their
plantations! I just can't feel nothing but shame
and guilt.
WELLS
Yes Mr. Hamilton, but it was something
that was not of your doing, so you
shouldn't feel that way. Shock doesn't
last for long it can't. People won't live
long in a state of shock. For almost all
of us, denial is our first reaction to shock.
Denial is a sanctuary from shock. This is
a good time to stop and figure things out
to get emotionally and intellectually ready
to continue the journey. Unfortunately,
most people never leave denial. You seem
to be doing well with the way things are,
what's the problem?
HAMILTON
I think society should suffer for what
they did to these beautiful people!
WELLS
As you know, our society has many things
that it's not proud of it and we live in
denial. Living in denial robs us of peace
of mind. Our conscience knows the nagging
truth, and the anger keeps leaking in. When
we stop denying reality, we are forced into
the next phase, anger. It looks ugly. This is
where you are now. But, hopeful anger is
a powerful, driving force which can keep us
working hard for years. Unfortunately, it is
also hard on our personalities. People have
sacrificed themselves in the battle to preserve
Earth's ecosystems, often becoming cynical
and giving up hope.
HAMILTON
What then?
WELLS
Then they move to the hopeless anger phase.
This is home to the cynical and the misanthropic.
The good aspect of this phase is that it allows
many to consider human extinction for the first
time. The bad aspect is that this option is usually
considered without love. Famines and epidemics
don't seem so bad from this perspective. Anger
is actually left over from denial. It means we
haven't fully accepted the situation yet. When
we do, anger dies. More depressing than hopeless
anger is acceptance without hope. Without anger
to keep us going, unrealistic hopelessness can
be a short-cut back to denial or even to suicide.
People in this phase might not be so hard to take
if they would just shut up about it. If they were
angry, at least there would be some excitement
to their dirges. Though often necessary, this phase
should be as short as possible. It's hard to break
loose from a lengthy depression. Perhaps just
realizing that there is hope... allowing ourselves
to see the signs of hope, which are all around us,
will break the spell and allow us to move on to the
hopeful acceptance phase.
HAMILTON
So you say there is still hope?
WELLS
Yes, there is still hope, and it will raise us out of the
depths of depression. We can easily go too far,
however. If our acceptance elevates into the
clouds of mindless hopefulness, we will have lost
some of our hard-learned awareness. Unrealistic
hopefulness is socially graceful and more pleasant
than some of the previous phases, but it too can
be a short-cut back to denial. We must take the
final progressive step. Once we accept that humans
are hopeless as a species, there is renewed hope
for the survival of the planet as a life form. With
a balanced awareness, our efforts to preserve
life on Earth will meet with more success, no matter
what those efforts may be.
HAMILTON
Do you think the extermination of the human
race will solve everything?
WELLS
Will human extinction solve all of Earth's problems?
Well with out us meddlesome humans, all other
species would get their fair chance at survival.
What would it be like to be among the last people
on Earth? What will Earth be like without humans?
Homo sapiens is a newcomer to the web of
life on Earth. Life progressed for thousands
of millions of years before anything resembling
our kind came along. However, life on Earth will
never be the same, even if we were to disappear
tomorrow. The rate of extinction's today rivals that
of the days of the dinosaurs' demise. In a few
hundred million years, the activities of Homo
sapiens in the last 10,000 years would become
insignificant.
HAMILTON
I think we should all die for all the bad things
that we have done.
WELLS
Trouble with that thinking is that the real
bad stuff was done by our fore fathers, so
why punish us? Is human extinction possible?
In theory, there's no question of it. Billions
of species have come and gone already. But,
will enough of us reach the level of awareness
needed to reverse the present course? We
can only hope and try to bring it about.
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS FACE.
Hamilton is showing extreme trauma when he reaches down for his book
bag and opens it showing four pounds of C4 explosive.
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS BOOK BAG.
He exposes the timer and detonation device. He opens his buck knife,
and starts to make deep cuts on his forearm exposing cut skin and
forcing blood to spurt out like a small fountain. He hears Wells
dissertation but continues to cut his arm.
WELLS
(Faintly in the background)
In some ways, over-population is both a symptom
and a cause, a self-perpetuating, malicious cycle.
In contrast, voluntary human extinction is a
positively motivated, beneficial cycle of solutions
and benefits for all.
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS BOOK BAG THEN HIS ARM.
He moves the timer on the detonation device. He turns the timer knob to
five minutes and the timer starts to tick. He continues to make deep cuts
on his forearm exposing hatch marks of cut skin and forcing more blood
to spurt out and now his arm has become very bloody. He zippers the
bag closed and shoves it under the chair immediately in front of him.
He hears Wells dissertation but continues to cut his arm.
WELLS
Besides being a symptom of a heightened
awareness, The Movement is causing a
higher awareness. Whether our problems
are symptoms or causes, they'll be more
easily solved when there are fewer of us.
HAMILTON
(Whispering to himself)
You can say that again brother!
Hamilton gets up and walks out of the lecture hall, leaving about
three hundred people to their doom.
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EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
EXT. ANTHROPOLOGY BUILDING
Richard Hamilton is seen walking down the stairs of the UCLA
Anthropology building. He quickens his pace and finally
arrives at his car, opening the door with his alarm button.
He starts his car and moves slowly down the College access
street. He's now one thousand feet from the Anthropology
building when he stops the car and looks at his watch.
HAMILTON
WAV
BANG!
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS FACE.
Hamilton grimaces and closes his eyes when he hears the
tremendous blast and looks in the rear view mirror as
the building goes up in a huge fireball. He takes his
foot off the brake and continues down the street at a
quicker pace. He's now two thousand feet from what's
left of the Anthropology building when he stops the
car, looks at his watch and combs his hair.
HAMILTON (Talking to himself)
(Smiling)
If I hurry, I can still make my next
class. Now that was a good start!
Hamilton stops his car in the front of the Hospital building
where DR. FURMANN has his office and practice. He reaches
in the rear seat area and grabs a large jock bag. He pulls
the zipper open and exposes at least ten pounds of C4.
HAMILTON
(Grinning)
Oh, Dr. FURMANN, I have a present for you.
He hesitates as he sees a campus police car go by him with
full siren on. He grabs the jock bag and opens the car door
steps out and locks his car with the alarm button.
HAMILTON
(Laughing)
Oh, Dr. FURMANN, it's time to Rock and Roll!
He hesitates as he sees a another campus police car go by
him with siren on, then he walks up the sidewalk and heads
for the Hospital entrance. He is seen going in the front
door.
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EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ONE WEEK LATER
EXT. POLICE SCIENCE BUILDING
LAPD CAPTAIN JOSEPH COIN a nice looking man in his early fifties
is seen giving a Terrorism lecture to his advanced Science
Class. His dissertation touches and is background for the
two explosions at UCLA.
COIN
(Pointing to a chart)
The definition of terrorism is crucial to an
understanding of terrorism. Because acts
of terrorism are criminal, the way we define
terrorism determines which acts will be
considered terrorism and which will be
considered normal crime. Some scholars
define terrorism as the use of violence for
political objectives. Although this definition
is widely accepted as a basic definition of
terrorism, it is overly broad because it includes
political revolutions and coups which,
although in most cases illegal, are not
generally considered terrorism.
He replaces this chart with another showing large bold print.
COIN (Cont.)
Other scholars define terrorism as the random
use of violence against the population of
a country to affect government policies.
This too, is not completely accurate because it
excludes the use of violence against government
assets, which are by far the most popular targets
of terrorists. Perhaps the best definition of
terrorism is the use of random violence for the
purpose of making a particular political belief
system or problem gain the attention of
government officials and a nation's population
which would otherwise not be available.
A young lady raises her hand needing to be recognized.
She seems to be exhibiting extreme trauma.
COIN (Cont.)
(Pointing to the lady)
Yes Patty.
PATTY
(Gripping)
Captain Coin, I lost my best girlfriend
last week in the explosion of the
Anthropology Building. Who in Gods name
could have done this to us, and why?
What is there to gain by killing students
and teachers, I want to know why!!!!
COIN
Terrorism has become one of the greatest
fears of Western Democracies. Incidents
like the bombing of the 1994 WORLD
TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK, NY or
the more recent bombing of the ALFRED
P. MURRAH FEDERAL BUILDING IN
OKLAHOMA CITY, have focused a great
deal of attention on terrorism both domestic
and International, and its effects on the
average person. In fact, since 1968, terrorism
has received such wide spread media
attention that many leaders of terrorist
groups have become household names
in virtually every country of the world.
This is also true of many of the terrorist's
groups like the Provisional Irish Republican
Army and the Palestinian Liberation
Organization.
PATTY
Do you have a clue who could of done this?
COIN
The FBI and other government agencies
have some strong leads they are working on.
One lead is it may have to do with the
recent ruling on the State Afirmitive Action Law.
PATTY
So you're saying it could have been done
by a minority group?
COIN
No Patty I didn't mean that! I just said
it was a lead.
Richard Hamilton is sitting in the last row among hundreds of people.
COIN
During a four year period, between 1989
and 1993, there were 32 reported terrorist
incidents in the United States. Twenty
other incidents were suspected and 23
were prevented. The worst attack in 1993
occurred at the World Trade Center in
New York in which six people were killed
and more than a thousand wounded.
Terrorist targets in the United States are
varied but the vast majority are either
commercial establishments or military
personnel or facilities. Other targets
include educational Organizations,
government buildings and property
and diplomatic personnel and buildings.
A comment is heard in the back part of the lecture hall.
UNKNOWN NO SHIT!!!
A continuing laughter is heard in the lecture hall.
COIN
By far, almost five to one, the preferred
method is bombing with arson a distant
second. Terrorism in Southern California
has not been spared the effects of
terrorism and is an especially lucrative
region for fund raising efforts for terrorist
organizations. The Southern California
area, with its many cultures and varied
interests, lends itself well for seemingly
legitimate fund raising while providing
funds for violent and radical groups.
One dubious benefit however, is that
terrorist incidents in this region have
been relatively rare. Experts believe this
is because incidents which attract the
public's attention and arouse their
wrath will hamper fund raising.
PATTY
Captain, has anything been done to prevent
this from happening again?
COIN
Yes, all suspicious packages are being checked
and re-checked by the state police and the FBI.
Hamilton has un-zippered his book bag and is feeling inside of it.
COIN (Cont.)
On occasion, terrorist incidents do occur in
Southern California. On October 6, 1980,
the home of the Turkish Consul General
was firebombed in the BEL AIR section
of Los Angeles. An ARMENIAN terrorist
was captured and convicted of the crime.
On January 28, 1982, the Turkish Consul
General was assassinated in Los Angeles
and again, the terrorist was caught and
prosecuted. On October 11, 1985, a bomb
was attached to the front door of the Arab-
American Anti-Discrimination offices in
Santa Ana and killed ALEX ODEH, the
organization's western regional director.
PATTY
Captain, do you think this was a lone
bomber like the UNA-BOMBER?
COIN
On January 21, 1991, the Los Angeles
Sheriff's Department arrested a suspect
who had announced that he had placed
a bomb aboard an airplane bound from
Los Angeles to the Middle East. Then,
more recently, in June of 1995, threats by the
UNA-BOMBER prompted much tighter
security for flights leaving airports
throughout Southern California.
PATTY
So what now?
COIN
Consequence Management Measures
to alleviate the damage, loss, hardship
or suffering caused by emergencies.
These include measures to restore essential
government services, protect public
health and safety, and provide emergency
relief to affected state and local
governments. Limited consequences
are within State and local capabilities.
Major consequences exceed State and
local capabilities, requiring a Federal
response. Federal agencies support
local efforts under the coordination of the
Federal Emergency Management Agency, FEMA.
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS FACE.
Hamilton is showing trauma when he opens it showing four
pounds of C4 explosive.
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS BOOK BAG.
He exposes the timer and detonation device. He hears Wells
dissertation but continues to play with the timer.
COIN (Cont.)
(Faintly in the background)
Crisis Management Measures to resolve
the hostile situation, investigate, and
prepare a criminal case for prosecution
under federal law. Crisis management
response is under the primary jurisdiction
of the federal government with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation acting as the lead
agency. Crisis management response
involves measures to confirm the threat,
investigate and locate the terrorists and
their weapons, and capture the terrorists.
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS BOOK BAG.
He moves the timer on the detonation device. He turns the timer
knob to TEN minutes and the timer starts to tick.
He zippers the bag closed and shoves it under the chair
immediately in front of him.
COIN (Cont.)
Individual BOMB attacks are becoming more
deadly. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing
was one of the largest explosions ever
investigated by the FBI. That single
bombing killed more Americans in the
United States than any terrorist attack
in the modern era. It's likely that the United
States will continue to face the threat of
spectacular terrorism for the foreseeable
future. While there is no specific information
indicating an immediate specific threat of
terrorism within Los Angeles County, a
number of factors continue to make enhanced
preparedness measures essential.
HAMILTON
(Whispering to himself)
You can say that again brother!
COIN (Cont.)
Bombings remain significant sources of
terrorist activity. During the last quarter
a variety of groups worldwide of conducted
successful or attempted bombings. Closer
to home, a small cell of terrorists was
plotting to carry-out suicide bombings
against transit targets in New York City.
Sports arenas, concert halls, department
stores and malls, transportation terminals,
office buildings and Universities!
HAMILTON
(Whispering to himself)
You can say that again brother!
Hamilton gets up and walks out of the lecture hall, leaving about three
hundred people to their doom.
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EXT. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
EXT. POLICE SCIENCE BUILDING
Richard Hamilton is seen walking down the stairs of the
building. He quickens his pace and arrives at his car,
opening the door with his alarm button. He starts his
car and moves slowly down the College access street.
He's now TWO thousand feet from the Police Science
building when he stops the car and looks at his watch.
HAMILTON
(Smiling) WAV
BOOM!
CLOSEUP ON HAMILTONS FACE.
Hamilton grimaces and closes his eyes when he hears the
tremendous blast and looks in the rear view mirror as
the building goes up in a huge fireball. He takes his
foot off the brake and continues down the street at a
quicker pace.
HAMILTON
(Smiling and Talking to himself)
Three down and one to go!!
Hamilton stops his car in the front of the UCLA Administration
Building.
HAMILTON
Goodbye UCLA, goodbye!
Hamilton takes his foot of the brake and steps on it,
disappearing down the UCLA access road.
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