Unassuming John Doe (working title)
/----- ACT I -----INT. HOME OFFICE - DAY In an unassuming home office, JOHN sits at his desktop computer, doing unassuming work.SHOT FROM SLIGHTLY LEFT OF BEHIND THE PHYSICAL MONITORJohn looks frustrated, but only with his eyes, like he's glaring at computer for daring to go against his wishes.OVER-THE-SHOULDER SHOTJohn moves an image around a multiple-page Microsoft Word document, but it fucks the entire document up with the slightest adjustment.END SHOT DIRECTIONA brick flies through the window. Broken glass is sprayed all over the room as the brick lands a few meters from John's feet.John leaves his seat and walks over to the brick, standing over it and looking at it intently, before picking it up, revealing the words "we know".John, worried but calm, walks briskly toward his nearby basement. Hidden behind an unassuming interior door is a high tech security door, which he opens, heading down stairs to a dark room.INT BASEMENTJohn turns lights on to reveal a fortified bunker of a basement, complete with heavy defenses, and weapons on the walls.John walks over to a clear case on the far end of the room, containing a mcguffin of some description.JOHN
(puts hand on glass and sharply exhales)
Don't worry, you're safeLoud noises are coming from the door, increasing over time in volume and intensity. We hear the sound of high-end power tools beginning to break through the door.JOHN
MerdeINT. WAREHOUSE INTERIOR - DAYSTEVE and MARK prepare for the exciting and dangerous mission ahead of them.STEVE
So why do we have to do this again? MARK
I don't know STEVE
What’s so special about the thing anyway? MARK
I don't know STEVE
But if...MARK
Look, I don’t know what it is, I don’t know why he wanted it, I don’t even know , but our boss, whether it exists your father , on his deathbed, spoke about getting it as a matter of great importance. He was a very intelligent man, so if he said that we need something then we need it. As for what it is and why we need it; we’ll find out when, not if, we get it. STEVE
Will we be enough? MARK
(scoffs)
He's a man, not a god!PAN OUT Dozens of operatives are preparing for the same mission----- ACT II -----EXT. DESERT HIGHWAY - DAY - 3 WEEKS LATERJohn is riding a motorcycle. A siren blares and he pulls over to the side of the road.A police OFFICER confidently exits his vehicle and walks over to John. He quickly realises who John is.OFFICER
(visibly shaken and taken aback)
Stay right here I have to go to my car to, uh, check something.Officer briskly walks back to his carOFFICER
(on radio, whisper yelling)
It's him! I've pulled him over! I need backup right now! I can't wait! He could blow up on me at any moment! [indistinct radio chatter] OFFICER
Okay! Okay! Affirmative. Over and out.Officer walks back to John, who is still waiting patiently.OFFICER
We need to take you in for questioning. Off the bike and hands behind your back.John complies without a fuss. As John sits down in the back of the police car, a convoy of police cars, swat vans, police motorcycles, and police helicopters arrive on the scene.JOHN
What's with them? OFFICER
Oh, them? They're just here to make sure things go smoothly.Officer closes the car door. SHOT FROM INSIDE THE POLICE CAR WITH JOHN IN-FRAME A police helicopter spins out of control and smashes into another one.END SHOT DIRECTIONThe smouldering helicopter land on a convoy road vehicle, destroying it and creating a multi-vehicle pileup. Another helicopter explodes and vaporises mid-air. The last helicopter goes into evasive manoeuvres, dodging an incoming rocket. The organisation arrives in full force - cars, SUVs, and even a flatbed truck with a large object of some kind hidden under a tarp, all can be seen in their convoy.ORGANISATION AGENT
(on a loudspeaker)
Hey fuzz, thanks for keeping him warm for us but we'll take it from here. Let John go and we can all leave with our lives. If not, well, you know how it is!SHOT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW FROM INSIDE THE POLICE HELPCOPTER, A CHAINGUN IN CORNER OF FRAME A police helicopter opens fire from a chaingun. A line of bullets shoots up up and across the windshield of an SUV, killing the driver. The driver slumps forward and leans on the accelerator, propelling the SUV into a police bike and sedan, driving up onto the bonnet with the left two wheels, crushing the occupants in the front, the SUV flipping onto its side off of the sedan. Organisation agents scramble for cover behind their vehicles, a few uncover a hidden machine gun turret on their flatbed truck. Others speed their vehicles to outflank the opposing side. Grenades are thrown and fired, the machine gun turret is live, the last helicopter is shot down. The smoking debris lands on a few police officers and their car. John, still in handcuffs, escapes the car by taking advantage of the window that was shot out during the carnage, but is met with multiple organisation agents. He is knocked out with the barrel of a rifle. INT. CAR - MOVING - DAYJohn is being driven in back seat of a car, restrained and unconscious. Mark is driving and Steve is in the front passenger seat.MARK
(driving, looking between Steve and and road)
So I sez to the guy; look pal, I just don't think that that is a reasonable assumption to make of the individual or of society at large. Your assertion that the faux regulatory relationship between firms and customers negates the need for formal regulatory bodies, is frankly, simplistic and laughable.John wakes up.STEVE
Well well well, look who's finally up! Could have used more beauty sleep though!John struggles in his seat.MARK
Nice try, Johnny boy, but we aren't about to lose you so easily this time. We equipped our cars with high-power restraints, just for you. We could put a bear back there and it couldn't do a thing ab- Mark looks at the side car mirror, and sees two police motorcycles gaining on them.MARK
We got company! Do we call for backup? STEVE
Nah, there are only two of them. Couple a 'nades should sort 'em out.Steve grabs a grenade launcher from next to a restrained John, leans out the window, and lets a few go.MARK
(looking in rear-view mirror)
That's got ‘em.EXT. ORGANISATION COMPOUND - DAY Steve, Mark, and John arrive at the Organisation HQ, get out of the car, and haul John out of the back seat. STEVE
Look at this place. Something's... off.MARK
What? I didn’t notice anything. Now keep up, will ya?A large truck with a ramp on the back breaks through a nearby large wall in the side of the compound. Police Officers on motorcycles ramp off of the truck into the compound, circling the area and killing anyone they come across. More officers scale down the compound walls. Organisation agents try to combat them but a repelled. Guards are physically overwhelmed by police officers at the entrance of the compound.John, Steve, and Mark find cover from the chaos. JOHN
(screaming)
Get me loose! MARK
(screaming)
What, do you can just take off? Steve we need to-JOHN
You wanna make it out of this, don't ya? Come on!MARK
(screaming)
Arrrrggggg!Mark unlocks John's restraints.Organisation agents rush out of buildings and a few agents on raised balconies launch teargas into a crowed of police officers. Other agents, wearing masks, into the teargas with weapons drawn, searching for officers. One agent screams and is thrown across the compound. Another is punched to the ground with a thud. The teargas clears to reveal a pair of lumbering, mechanically-armoured officers. Agents open fire, and some use tasers, to no effect. The officers punch every agent on the ground with them, before starting toward the compound's main building. From off screen, a car speeds in and hits one of the officers, who is stuck to the grill by the force of the car still speeding forward. The car hits a brick wall and pins the officer between the two for a moment, before the officer launches a projectile into the drivers head, killing him instantly. The officer pushes the car off of him, barely injured by the collision, and slams his fist into the bonnet of the car like a hammer, crushing the front of the vehicle and causing it to burst into flames.On the balcony, organisation agents are taken out by highly-trained snipers. They try to find the shooter as, one by one, they are taken out in rapid succession. More officers rush into the compound through the compound entrance, and rush the main building. An armoured SUV breaks through a loading bar door, full of higher-up organisation members trying to save their own lives. It hits and kills a few officers but the driver fails to see the barricade set up at the compound entrance. The SUV crashes and is quickly surrounded. Officers pepper it with a hail of bullets and shotgun shells.ZOOM OUT SHOT SHOWING THE ORGANISATION COMPOUND OVERRUN WITH OFFICERS, THE LAST OF THE ORGANISATION BEING EXECUTED BY POLICE OFFICERS. SMOKE IS COMING FROM A FEW AREAS OF THE COMPOUND.----- ACT III -----INT. BAR - NIGHT - A FEW DAYS LATERSteve and Mark find John at a bar, drinking alone. They approach him together. It's dirty and dimly lit. A real dive. JOHN
(not looking up from his drink)
I wondered how long it would take. You two don't let up, do you?STEVE
Come on, man! Don't be coy with us! We have to get these guys! You saw what they did, what they can do!JOHN
No, you have to get these guys. They didn't do anything to me.MARK
Are you kidding me? What about that day in the desert? That didn't look like 'nothing' to me!JOHN
(turns to Mark and Steve)
Well get your eyes checked because that's all it was. Nothing. They could have done anything after taking me away, but since you guys showed up, we'll never know, will we?STEVE
We-JOHN
But! I don't like the idea of all these rouge actors out there, doing whatever they want, and I know a do guy who owes me a favour... okay, let's do it. They're as good as dead.MARK
Now we're talkin'! So where do we get our gear? I want a gun the size of your fuckin' leg!JOHN
(taking a phone out of his pocket)
No, I know a better way. Sever the head and the snake dies off.John calls a contact of his.JOHN
(on the phone)
Yep. It's time. We've had enough. They need to go. Tonight.MONTAGE - WITH OLD-TIMEY, POSITIVE-SOUNDING MUSICMen in SWAT-like gear burst into a home and comb the rooms, shooting an older man as he gets up from a comfortable chair.A woman in the shower as a grenade is thrown in from the top. The camera shows the outside of the shower as it goes off.A man on the phone, hysteric at what he's hearing. We don't hear him. The phone goes dead and a mysterious figure appears. The man tried to fight back but is quickly stabbed to death.An old old man is smothered to death in his bed.Woman with her husband. The husband tries to fend off the multiple attackers in their living room but is shot in the chest. She is picked up thrown out of a highrise window after we hear her beg for her life.Inside an office building, a uniformed police officer working late drinks from his coffee and grabs his throat before quickly falling over dead. Coworkers gather around him to help him as the camera zooms out and fades to black.END OF MONTAGEINT. TROPICAL-THEMED BEACH BAR - DAY - SOME TIME LATER
Mark, John, and Steve are sitting at a bar shooting the shit.STEVE
And the guy says to him "hey, my wife is your lawyer!"All laughMARK
So J, remember when we went after you because you had that thing? The... badabing? The thing that does the stuff? What ever happened to it?JOHN
Oh, that! funnily enough, and you may not believe it, but it was destroyed in the fight you guys brought to me to get it!INT. JOHN’S BASEMENT - DAYLoud noises are coming from the reinforced door, increasing over time in volume and intensity. We hear the sound of high-end power tools beginning to break through the door.JOHN
(V.O.)
You guys were about to break through and I needed to find a place to hide the thing.John breaks the glass case and takes the mcguffin, searching for a face place to hide it. He happens upon a small, unused metal box underneath a table. It isn't a safe but it should do while he deals with the threat. The organisation are almost through the door. John takes in hand what he can - a large hammer - and dashes next to the door. The door is breached and an agent enters forcefully. John smashes his head in with the hammer, takes him in his arms to use as a shield, and guns down a few of his fellow agents with his gun. John pushes the dead agent into the others, sending them flying backward. On the floor, they explode, as John pulled the pin from the dead agent's belt. John runs to retrieve a chain gun from the wall, but it was of no consequence. An earth digger ploughs its arm through John's ceiling - revealing the entire house has been destroyed, merely to go after one man. A heavily armoured agent with a flamethrower appears in the doorway, scorching everything in sight with destructive hellfire. John finds cover from the flames and, once the fire slows down, takes aim at the flamethrower agent. Rather than wasting bullets on the agent himself, John pierces the fuel tank with a few well-placed shots. The fuel tank doesn't explode, but instead empties all over the floor, soaking the basement floor and setting alight once it meets the existing flames.JOHN
(V.O.)
I suppose that's when it was destroyed. Fuel must have seeped into the box and burned it to a crisp.THE END