A crash course in changing the world.
EPISODE 1
NIGER DELTA - NIGERIA
The earth moves at different speeds depending on who you are – Nigerian proverb
PAGE 1
PANEL A
At Agborikoko Junction. Sunrise. School Children running, Soldiers approaching. The commercial motor bikes (Okada) speeding off and traders scampering for safety. Everyone is talking about them, everyone is afraid of them and they are storming the city in few minutes. some call them egbesu while others call them the "creek boys". We call them MILITANTS!
TEXT BOX 1
Warri. February 13, 2020
OFF-PANEL 2
You’re certain they are coming?
PANEL B
A cloudy shadow of warri is spread before the silhouette of the GOVERNOR of Delta State. His posture indicates that he is deep in thought.
GOVERNOR 1
Because we need real help, not stories of support. Even with the soldiers on the streets, these boys keep attacking our city! We are losing oil revenue everyday and the state economy is now badly affected.
OFF-PANEL 2
Mr. Governor, It’s not just us. Asaba, Yenagoa, Port Harcourt, and Escravos have not been spared. Everyone is SCARED! They don't know what will happen this time.
GOVERNOR 3
I cannot let this happen. I will not. Not in my city.
PANEL C
A wide shot of the Governor’s office. The office is large and well-appointed with an impressive desk (and maybe a portrait of the himself and the President). The main feature, though, is the floor-to-ceiling window, and the key light is the setting sun coming through it at an almost horizontal angle. The Governor has turned away from the view and is facing his ASSISTANT, who paces nervously.
ASSISTANT 1
It’s said the network was responsible for saving Benin after the invasion of 2017. But they’ve never taken credit. They never do. They never will!
GOVERNOR 2
So, if they’re real, how do we get in touch with them?
ASSISTANT 3
You have to send an EVOKE, Mr. Governor.
PANEL D
Close up on the Assistant.
ASSISTANT
It has to come from you.
PANEL E
Close up on the Governor.
GOVERNOR
Show me.
PAGE 2
PANEL A
We see the message sent on the private, encrypted short message network. It is surrounded by a texture of ambient data, and layered on top of a map of the Niger Delta Area of Nigeia and a red locator dot over Warri.
MESSAGE TEXT: This is an EVOKE from Warri. Urgently require tactical social innovation deployment
Category: Terrorism.
PANEL B:
TEXT BOX 1
Goree Island- Dakar, Senegal
A high-tech surveillance room. Computer and video screens relay news and images from all over the world. The star display is a digital world map, covered with data. We can see that the message from the previous panel is a small part of this map. In the foreground is ALCHEMY, in silhouette, sitting at a desk with a keyboard, a laptop, and a pencil and paper in front of him. He wears a wireless headset.
INSET PANEL C
ALCHEMY 1 (to himself – he should have a kind of smile when saying this line. He’s looking forward to the challenge.)
Hello, Warri.
PANEL D
On one screen we see a picture of Tompolo, captioned with EVOKE MEMBER CODENAME: TOMPOLO. A touch-screen button underneath her dossier says “ACTIVATE”. Alchemy is pushing it. (this could be broken into two panels, or a main panel and an inset of the action).
PAGE 3
PANEL A
TEXT BOX: Universite Abomey-Calavi, Benin.
A classroom. Tompolo is in the middle of a lecture. The lecture hall is full of students, all watching her with rapt attention. In the front row is a student wearing a t-shirt that says “I EVOKE” in a Helvetica font. Also apparent in the lecture hall are several giant screens, from which still more students watch and listen in rural classrooms. A textbook says “Resilient Logistics”. Each of these next three scenes should be tinted with the color tone of the character. Tompolo is yellow, so this scene should have a palette that features yellows and golds.
TOMPOLO 1
So if we look at the social problems caused by the mass migrations of 2016 -
INSET PANEL B
A silver phone, Nokia N9, on her desk is ringing.
PANEL C
Close up on Tompolo, looking at the phone.
TOMPOLO 1
Excuse me, class. We’ll pick up this discussion next week.
PANEL D
Tompolo picks up the phone and opens the laptop secretively as her class files out. In the background, two students whisper as they leave.
STUDENT 1
What do you bet she pulls another one of her disappearing acts?
TOMPOLO 2
This is Tompolo.
PANEL E
ALCHEMY 1 (splitscreen him in)
It’s Alchemy. There’s a problem in Warri. I’m sending you in.
TOMPOLO 2
Warri ?!! How am I supposed to keep low profile if i can't speak waffi
ALCHEMY 3
You’ll have to be creative.
PANEL F
TOMPOLO 3
Another Oil Installation attacked? Jimigbimi has been posting warnings on the internet.
ALCHEMY 2
JimJim is an irresponsible and dangerous organization, and I don’t know why you follow them. But yes, it’s terrorism. And we’re going to make them surrender!
To Be Continued
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