edited script for thriller opening sequence

Edited Script for Media:

Characters: 3 bad guys, spy, spies’ wife and daughter.

Main bad guy = Saeed

Spy = Simon

Saeed:  Tell me about your involvement with the Russians.

Simon: What the fuck are you talking about?

Saeed:  This is no time for games. Tell me about zulu 101 or your family will die. 

Simon reacts by spitting at the terrorist

Saeed: Hits the spy and phones his colleague, says in foreign language “Get them ready”

Saeed: My family and all my friends are dead because of your people and now a member of your family will die because you have not obeyed my orders.  (Holds up camera phone to Simon) Choose which one will die now. Your wife or your child?

Simon: (crying) please…don’t do this.

Saeed: (interrupts his crying) do what I say!

Simon: (Silent)

Saeed: (foreign language “Kill the wife”)

Simon: (looks at the camera and sees wife getting shot, starts screaming and crying) Noooo!

Saeed: (Puts the gun up to his daughters head) Tell me or your daughter will be next!

Simon: (Stares at the camera and sobs)

Screen fades into black and title appears

THE END

Why we changed the Script

We changed the script because we felt that using a piece of paper in our opening sequence would be unrealistic to our audience as it wouldn't relate to any past events in todays society.  Therefore, we chose to relate our opening sequence to the war for independance in Chechnya where Russia essentially bombed and killed thousands of Chechnyan people. 

Our Final decision was therefore, to have Chechnyan terrorists who were questioning a British Spy (their hostage) on the British Government involvement with the Russians about this war.  We found that England was also unrealistic as our location because if terrorists went to another country, they wouldn't linger:  they would make their attack and then leave the country as soon as possible.  Because of this, we chose to have a British Spy who was working and living in Russia (with his family) for the Government after the Cold War. 

From Wikipedia: (summary of event we are relating our opening sequence to)

Grozny was once again the core of fighting after the outbreak of the Second Chechen War, which further caused thousands of casualties. During the early phase of the Russian siege on Grozny on October 25, 1999, Russian forces launched five SS-21 ballistic missiles at the busy central bazaar and a maternity ward, killing more than 140 people and injuring hundreds. During the massive shelling of the city that followed, the majority of the Russian artillery were directed toward the upper floors of the buildings; although this caused massive destruction of infrastructure, civilian casualties were much less than in the first battles. The huge scale of the devastation prompted numerous comparisons with Hiroshima and other cities leveled during World War II.
The final seizure of the city was set in early February 2000, when the Russian military beckoned the besieged militants to a promised safe passage. Seeing no build-up of forces outside, the militants agreed. One day before the organised evacuation, the Russian Army mined the path between the city and the village of Alkhan-Kala and concentrated most firepower on that point. As a result, both the city mayor and military commander were murdered; a number of other prominent separatist leaders were also killed or wounded, including Shamil Basayev and several hundred rank-and-file militants.  Soon after, the Russians slowly entered the empty city and on February 6 raised the Russian flag in the centre. Many buildings and even whole areas of the city were systematically dynamited. A month later, it was declared safe to let the residents return to their homes, although demolishing carried on for some time. In 2003 the United Nations called Grozny the most destroyed city on earth.