*Disclaimer: Contents of this script are not final, and are subject to change.
Opening Shot: Dark room, the camera pans over a computer screen with a missing persons poster on it, sent through an email detailing the circumstances of their disappearance.
Music track 1 begins playing: "Blank Shell" by Mike Klubnika
Second Shot: Camera pans to a close-up side view of our protagonist scrolling and clicking around on the computer, assumedly doing research and looking for details on the case, whilst a narrative begins to recite in the background.
Protagonist: Missing persons cases are difficult, less because of the process of tracking them down, and more because of the potential to unearth some truly disturbing conflicts. Gang violence, crime syndicates, I've seen it all, and the depravity on display by this side of humanity, it sticks with you.
Third Shot: Camera provides another close-up, low-angle shot of the computer, another email containing information, and more details about the case. Our protagonist opens a link sent to him with a google maps location.
Protagonist: And usually if the family is coming to me, it's because the police haven't done anything, or god forbid aren't equipped to handle it. This has some pretty bad implications, and I've learned the hard way, that you can't save everyone.
Music track fades out to generate tension
SFX: Ears ringing
Fourth Shot: At the end of the tinnitus SFX, the audio goes completely silent, and the camera abruptly cuts to a wide shot of the dark room, with an uncanny, deeply unsettling figure faintly visible in the corner of the room.
Fifth Shot: A very brief side close-up of our protagonist jolting to look at the figure.
Sixth Shot: Another very brief side close-up of our protagonist looking back, realizing who the figure was (perhaps a person he couldn't save) and looking back at his computer in complete shock. He reaches into a pill bottle and quickly retrieves and takes two pills. This is followed by a long exhale and body gestures that show emotional distress.
Protagonist (Before taking the pills, in a soft whisper): You aren't real, you aren't real.
Sixth shot lingers for a few seconds, before the protagonist's narrative lines continue
Protagonist: This time would be different, it had to be. And I think the lead I've been given is going to do just that.
Seventh Shot: Camera provides another close-up low-angle shot of the computer screen, this time with the google maps pinpointed to one location, a cemetery.
Music track 2 begins playing: "You are an Angel" - Mike Klubnika
Eighth Shot: Camera provides a low-angle, mid-shot of the protagonist's car, as they walk to the drivers side door and get in, starting the car.
Ninth Shot: Brief close-up shows the keys entering the ignition, and the car starting.
Tenth Shot: Camera shows a close-up of the car's navigation system, with it routed to the cemetery from before.
Protagonist: It was time to change fates.
Eleventh Shot: Camera shows a low-angle mid-shot from the backseat, as the protagonist begins driving.
Credits roll
*Writer's note: It's extremely likely that more intermediary shots will be added in order to meet duration requirements if need-be.
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