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Column by Bradley Keyes, posted on October 19, 2012 in
Column by Bradley Keyes.
Exclusive to STR
The Department of Homeland Security has apparently been too clever for its own good. They put together a Terrorist Interdiction Field Manual in the form of multiple scripts as an aid to their field agents to help them get into their undercover roles properly. It appears that some poor soul within the Department mistook the highly-classified document for a hopeful Hollywood script. The unknown soul shipped the manual to a well-known Hollywood agent who happens to be an acquaintance of mine.
My acquaintance, seeing that the script had little entertainment value, called me immediately. While faxing the contents of the manual, my acquaintance began to give me an overview of the contents. Unfortunately a concussive grenade and loud, angry voices interrupted my first question to him. The phone and fax went dead.
I have not heard from, or of, my contact since.
Only two pages made it through the fax machine. I am posting it here in the hopes that it will spread before it disappears, or I do!
————— TIFM – The Basic Script—————
Our scenes play out with two primary actors.
Heroic Agent (HA) – That’s you, the good guy
Mastermind Terrorist (MT) – The cold-blooded genius you will face, and ultimately defeat
Note: This script can easily be adapted to more than one MT. Detailed stagings of other alternatives are presented in subsequent chapters.
ACT 1 – Laying In Wait
Direction to Heroic Agent: Canvas the local mosques, cultural centers, student groups, online chatrooms, and forums. Pinpoint one or more angry young males (AYMs). Strike up a conversation with them. Here you’ll need to use your improvisational skills. Often the best response it just to feed their own words back to them.
Mastermind Terrorist: Damn those drones. The bastards just hit another village by mistake, killed at least a dozen women and children.
Heroic Agent: Damn drones. Bastards shouldn’t be allowed to fly ‘em.
Mastermind Terrorist: Damn right. I wish we could stop them.
Direction to Heroic Agent: Here’s your opening. Plant the seed.
Heroic Agent: Would you stop them if you could?
Mastermind Terrorist: Hell, yeah!
Direction to Heroic Agent: Now and over the next weeks and months, provide verbal support and encouragement. Also provide inflammatory material in the form of writings, videos, etc. Again, improvise.