193. Sacrifice - Leslie

• FADE IN:


• INT. CONCERT HALL - NIGHT


• The audience is packed with well dress attendees and dignitaries.


• A sharply dressed MASTER OF CEREMONIES in a a top hat stand at the center of the large stage.


• The audience stares slackly at the stage.


• EMCEE
• Presenting Sergeant Eric D. Hare, hero!


• SGT. HARE strides onto the stage.


• The audience perks up, cheering.


• He stands, bemused by the accolade.


• The MC waves him gently off the stage.


• Hare exits and seconds later, a gunshot rings out.


• No one in the audience reacts.


• EMCEE
• Presenting Private Emily Archer, hero!


• Pvt. Archer strides out, the audience cheers, she leaves, and there is a gunshot.


• Soldier after soldier is presented, the audience waiting expectantly for the next hero.


• INT. CONCERT HALL BACKSTAGE - NIGHT


• EMCEE (VO)
• Master Chief Arlen Wright, hero!


• A SOLDIER exits the stage and find himself facing A FACELESS MAN with a gun.


• Fear and betrayal fill the soldier's eyes.


• The gun is fired, the soldier's body falls, and the man kicks the body over into a uniformed pile.


• EMCEE (VO)
• Captain Ryan Vasquez, hero!


• FADE TO BLACK.