Synopsis / Outline:
It starts with a pitch black scene with the sound of PANTING, HEAVY BREATHING, distant BOOMS, FOOTSTEPS frantically hitting a hard but brittle surface. Suddenly there is a huge EXPLOSION somewhere nearby and the whole scene lights up with a thick gray gloom. A US SOLDIER is frantically running alongside a battered wall. Comes to a huge hole in the wall and stops at its edge. Peers out to see where the explosion came from. There is a huge mushroom cloud looming over the buildings of a completely destroyed city. In the haze profiles of: a destroyed WORLD TRADE CENTRE (U.S), the Eifel Tower (Europe), the Badshahi Mosque (Asia), can be made out in the distant background. The soldier looks down from the mushroom cloud and notices two SUICIDE BOMBERs standing in front of the destroyed buildings, backs turned and looking up at the mushroom cloud. The soldier takes in this scene when suddenly one of the suicide bombers looks around cautiously. The soldier ducks back in behind the wall. Breathing heavily and clutching to his standard issued rifle, he closes his eyes to calm himself down. Takes another peek from his hiding place, and notices only one suicide bomber standing where there were two a while back. The suicide bomber is looking around cautiously, ready to blow himself up with the remote in his hand rigged to his bomb jacket. The soldier ducks back and leans against the wall trying to think of what to do. The story cuts to a desert in the scorching heat of the afternoon sun where, under a date tree, a camel, a rather stupid look on its face and a tattoo that reads "M-bile Scud Launcher" hosts AHMEDIN EJAD, bound and gagged with a noose around his neck. While he struggles to break free of his bonds, GEORGE BUSH, standing on the shoulders of EHUD OLMERT, is supporting a UN SOLDIER who is trying to tie the other end of the rope to one of the top branches of the date tree. At the feet of the camel KIM JONG IL is tied up and gagged, while in the background a SADDAM HUSSEIN can be seen hanging to another date tree. The background reveals the ONE EYED PYRAMID at one side of the scenery and a few OIL RIGS scattered all over the desert. While Ahmedin Ejad sweats and struggles, the UN soldier is not making much progress with the rope while also trying to balance on Bush's shoulders. Kim Jong's glasses reflect the whole seen. The soldier gets lucky and manages to get the rope over a branch. The story cuts to a third scene reflecting in the eyes of GENERAL MUSHARRAF. OSAMA BIN LADIN (OBL) gets finished cutting a tree with an axe. CONDOLEEZA RICE and an ENGLISH BULL TERRIER are standing at the base of a very scrawny tree that has Musharraf sitting in. The scenery shows a forest completely destroyed with stumps that hint at the tree's they used to be. Each stump has a plaque on it stating the date of inauguration (independence date) and the name of the tree (name of the country). In the background, over a thick forest wall, the PENTAGON, THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA and the KREMLIN loom over the scenery. On one of the stumps closer to the tree with Musharraf on top, sits HAMID KARZAI, content and gloating to be sitting on a stump of his own. Condoleezza looks up at Musharraf who returns the gaze with a nervous look. The Terrier is barking up the tree. Condoleezza looks meaningfully at Musharraf and then at OBL. OBL smiles a big bearded smile up at Musharraf. Musharraf sweats, looks at Condi and shakes his head frantically. Condi gives him a huge smile and then looks at OBL and nods slowly. The dog barks up the tree. OBL firms his grip on his axe and walks towards the base of the tree. The story cuts back to the US soldier. He feels around on his belt and retrieves a grenade. He looks at it and then looks at the suicide bomber. He allows himself an evil smile, pops the pin and throws the grenade out through the hole in the wall, towards the suicide bomber. The grenade hits the ground and rolls towards the bomber, who turns around and looks at it unsuspectingly. The soldier closes his eyes and ears expecting the explosion on the other side of the wall. Suddenly a finger taps him on his shoulder. He opens his eyes and sees another suicide bomber standing right next to him with his hand on his bomb trigger, smiling an evil smile. The story cuts to the desert where at the top level, The UN soldier holds on to the rope and is trying to tie it properly to the branch. At the second level, Bush gets distracted when he notices that Kim Jong Il has broken free of his bonds. The three man tower loses its balance. The soldier holds onto the rope firmly. Bush grabs onto the soldiers feet in a desperate attempt to stay up. The story cuts to the OBL, who starts hacking at the tree with Musharraf in it. Musharraf gives up his place on the branch. Jumps down from the tree and starts running for his life. The Terrier runs after him at his heal. Condi looks at him smiling, while OBL's axe cuts a huge gash in the side of the tree. He drops his axe and pushes at the tree. Musharraf's profile gets engulfed with an ever growing shadow of a tree. Musharraf stops and turns.
The story hits an "OH F**K!" point across all the scenes (This O F**K scene is a series of realization expressions). The suicide bomber realizes that the thing rolling at his feet is a grenade, O F**K! The US soldier realizes his fate as the second suicide bomber presses the trigger, O F**K! Kim Jong Il looking through his glasses up at the entire scene realizes that Ahemin Ejad has had it, O F**K! Ahmedin Ejad watches the three man tower collapse and the UN soldier fall with the other end of the rope, O F**K! Bush falls towards the pile of camel dung on the ground, O F**K! Musharraf looks up, O F**K!
The story cuts to the first scene. There is a huge EXPLOSION and the camera gets caught in it. The camera tumbles up through the air, debris and forms that hinted at being attached to whole bodies whizz past. The camera continues to tumble through the clouds overhead, and starts to stabilize. Pans out from the clouds to reveal a chess board with wooden pieces on it shaped like the characters of the whole scene, a tiny explosion can be made out on one of the checkers. The scene reveals two men dressed in black suits, ties and shades sitting at opposite at ends of a small park table playing a game of chess, one of them smoking while the other one thinks over his turn. The scene reveals the men sitting in a public park with people going about minding their own business. No one even as much as noticing the two men sitting amidst them… playing chess.
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