I do not, nor do I claim to, own the rights to CBS's Kid Nation.
We see an aerial veiw of the desert. A big yellow school bus pulls up, stirring dust into the air as it does. TATU's love me not INSTRUMENTAL is playing. As the music swells, the camera zooms in. At 0:29, we cut to a view of the bus door. Children are walking out. At 0:53, the music fades.
JONATHAN: Hey everybody, gather up! Gather up! Pack it in! I'm Jonathan, nice to meet you guys. So how are you guys feeling?
ALL KIDS: Good!
KELSEY: Scared!
JONATHAN: Well, say goodbye to that school bus, and say hello to the middle of nowhere.
DIVAD: (faints)
KELSEY: Oh, my god, Divad fainted!
Dramatic music swells out of nowhere.
JONATHAN: (unfazed) Bonanza City is just a few miles that way...wait, what? Was that in the script?
KELSEY: (clears her throat)
JONATHAN: Um, I mean...we need a...doctor? Bonanza City is...? Forty days...? Um, but don't worry, Divad's breathing, she doesn't die 'till day twenty-three, and you're not alone. You've got eachother, and four leaders. And they've been chosen because they represent you in age, geography, emotional unbalance, everything. They're you're town council, and I think I hear them coming right now.
KIDS: (look up)
LEILA: Jonathan, I thought you told us to watch for a helecopter. Right?
JONATHAN: That's...that's...that's quite rediculous, Leila, because...(adopts British accent spontaneously) you knew nary a thing about this before it was to occur. That's how our good society works. (faints)
KELSEY: Oh my god, Jonathan fainted!
Loves Me Not swells as the words "Lives of Our Children" zooms in on the screen.
End episode one.