Anything Good on TV?

Droneland: Episode - Anything Good on TV ?

Narrator V / O titles and caption

AFGHAN / PAKISTAN BORDER

Previously on Droneland: Codename T, a leading logistics expert in a terror group responsible for attacks in UK  / US was believed taken out in a drone strike 7 years ago. His wife and daughter now live alone on a farm in the border region, Waziristan. Some of their land is in Pakistan, some in Afghanistan. After the reported death of T she resisted calls for  armed revenge and joined a women’s coalition political group. Now her daughter is picked up by a UNICEF vehicle each day and taken to the local school. She is unaware that very recently GCHQ picked up traffic that T was still alive and involved in a potential terror plot.

EXT. AFGHAN / PAKISTAN BORDER  - DAWN

In distance dust cloud, otherwise still and silent.

Closer, sound of a vehicle, old VW, painted hippy style with ban the bomb signs etc, dust from behind the vehicle.

The VW is travelling at speed ( on Pakistan side)  in distance a farm ( on Afghanistan side), no other immediate buildings.

Pull out of establishing shot to show all following action on 2 TV monitor screens in a secret military location. The TV monitors continually show the border location.

 

V / O 1 OPERATIVE, RAF BRITISH ACCENT

Your call, boss.

V/ O 2 RAF OFFICER

How long?

V / O 1 OPERATIVE

50 seconds.

V / O 2 OFFICER

Audio - Visual update from the building, numbers, personnel ?

 

A second screen monitor shows the farm building. Outside a white Land Cruiser with UNICEF logo visible from side and air. A second vehicle –a blacked out Toyota pick up truck aggressively parked in front of the Land Cruiser as if to prevent it leaving. Skid marks visible.    A tethered dog is looking up at the sky [ as in to the monitor] barking fiercely. A woman in local head attire holding the hand of a small girl walks out of the building towards the Land Cruiser.  The girl is crying, heated remonstrations visible. The girl is forced back in by men with assault weapons. The woman alone for a moment goes back into the farm building.

V / O 1 OPERATIVE

Your call, boss, 30 seconds. 25 seconds we are going to lose the visual.

V / O 2 OFFICER

Do it. Open channel.

V /O 1

Mission compromised. Abort now, return to holding position. Acknowledge.

 

Monitor back to VW, close up reveals man in Afghan style headgear, puts his hand to an earpiece.

 

V/ O 2 OFFICER( to herself)

Come on, acknowledge.

 

Radio crackle. Monitor shows VW van slow. Inside man partly removes headgear, speaks into a mobile phone receiver.  

Van stopped. Man exits VW speaks looking up into the sky. It appears he is speaking directly into the monitor. Voice received over the monitor.

 

V / O VW DRIVER (synched coming to the monitor from the VW)

Proceeding with mission. Call off the drone. We’ll do it low tech, old school. And it’s illegal to be on the phone and drive at the same time. Thank you for your concern. Out.

 

Monitor shows man throw away comms chip,  replace headgear, gets back into VW, British special forces issue machine guns on seat next to him.

VW moves towards building at high speed. Second monitor is now also focused on VW with cross hair target lit up on screen.

 

V / O 1 OPERATIVE

16 seconds boss. We can do the vehicle or the farm. One not both. You want to call a friend?...

 

 

 

 

A deontological episode: Anything Good on Telly? – pilot 2014 /15 jk abc