153. War Games - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• EXT. DESTROYED TOWN - DAY


• THE SOLDIER walks carefully through the town, crouching behind rubble every so often.


• The silence is total; he tries to move as quietly as possible.


• The silence is broken by the crack of gunfire and a bullet whizzing past him.


• He ducks behind a burned wall, and waits, scanning the opposite side of the street as bullets whiz down.


• He spots the ENEMY in a window of a standing building a little further down the street.


• He takes aim and fires.


• The Enemy slumps.


• The soldier carefully walks past the building, and continues down the street.


• The silence is deafening as he walks on.


• A bullet whizzes past him and he crouches behind a burned wall.


• He stares for a moment, then looks up; the same building is down the road from him, and the Enemy is crouched in the same window.


• He takes aim and fires, then walks on.


• He scans the town, then begins walking again.


• A bullet whizzes past and he doesn't even duck, he turns and fires, killing The Enemy again.


• He looks down and find that he is in front of the wall again.


• He crouches, pulls his knife, and places three notches in the wall, then walks on.


• He walks down the street, and when the firing starts, automatically turns at fires, then ducks down to notch the wall.


• There are over 15 notches now.


• He walks past and within seconds is repeating the cycle.


• He is exhausted and when the gunfire starts, he crouches to make another notch; there are several hundred notches now.


• He closes his eyes and pounds his fist into the wall, then stands, holding his arms wide, giving up.


• A bullet hits his body, then another and another.


• Relief fills his eyes; he falls, and the world goes black.


• EXT. DESTROYED TOWN - DAY


• THE SOLDIER walks carefully through the town, crouching behind rubble every so often.


• The silence is total; he tries to move as quietly as possible.


• The silence is broken by the crack of gunfire and a bullet whizzing past him.


• He ducks behind a burned wall, and waits, scanning the opposite side of the street as bullets whiz down.


• He looks at the wall, and sees the notches cut into it, and his eyes widen as everything floods back.


• He turns and slumps against the wall, his eyes void.


• FADE TO BLACK.