This is my first time doing the purge series but with people from my town

MAN:

Who are you angry at?

Everyone.

Everything.

MAN: What do you do

when you get angry?

I pipe up!

(INHALES DEEPLY)

- (SLAP)

- (GRUNTS)

Fuck my lungs with smog.

Do you have an outlet

to release this anger if you...

- can't get high?

- No.

I want to lash out.

Release this...

this deep fucking hate

I have for everyone,

everything!

- (THUMPING CHEST)

- Just to fucking purge

all this shit that eats me up!

- (MAN PANTING)

- (CLOCK TICKING)

"Purge."

Interesting term.

You may have a chance

to purge soon.

REPORTER: Unemployment rising

across the nation.

REPORTER 2: Stock market down

another 2,000 points

in the largest drop

in its history.

REPORTER 3: A subprime mortgage

crisis worse than 2008.

REPORTER 4: Neighborhoods

across the country

destroyed by

an opioid epidemic.

CROWD: God shed

his grace on thee...

REPORTER 5:

Protests across the nation.

Americans are looking

for a necessary change

in these tumultuous times.

REPORTER 6: Citizens

growing angry as they face

a collapsing economy.

REPORTER 7:

A new party is arising

as a substitute to

the Republicans and Democrats,

calling themselves the New

Founding Fathers of America.

REPORTER 8:

The New Founding Fathers

rising in polls with

the NRA now endorsing them

and supporting them

financially

with large donations

to the NFFA war chest.

REPORTER 9:

Can the NFFA seize control?

Will Americans fall

for their fear mongering?

As your elected president,

with my fellow

New Founding Fathers,

we make this promise.

- We will revive this country.

- (CROWD CHANTING "USA!")

The American dream is dead.

We will do whatever it takes

to let you dream again.

CROWD:

USA! USA!

Whoa, whoa, whoa

Whoa, whoa, whoa

P-P-P-P-Play somethin',

bitch

I'm rallyin' in this bitch

They like, uh-oh

Carryin' on some shit,

they like, uh-oh

You mad 'cause I'm rich,

nigga, uh-oh

Fully loaded clip,

better duck low

I'm rallyin' in this bitch,

they like, uh-oh

- Carryin' on some...

- (TURNS ON TV)

REPORTER 10:

We are now only days from this

controversial experiment,

this night of legalized crime

that people are now

calling the Purge.

And there are protests

all over.

Conflict between

anti-Purge protesters

and Purge supporters broke out

early today in North Carolina.

REPORTER 11: Yes, Susan,

I'm here in Charlotte.

There's been about

20 arrests so far,

and we'll keep you informed

as protests

are continuing.

(DISTANT SIREN WAILING)

LA, the chosen site,

has become the focus

for the entire world.

We have reporters

across the island

who will be giving live updates

for the next several days.

Let's go now to correspondent

Van Jones, who's in Beverley's hills.

VAN: Yes, James. I'm here

outside the Beverley hill Towers,

a high-income housing project,

and I can see citizens are...

Mich, our tower

made the news.

Mich:

Are you serious?

(GROANS) Goddamn it.

(GROANS)

(SIGHS)

Nina. Good morning.

Have you seen Tony?

My sink is leaking again.

Good morning, sweetie.

I'm so sick of this

piece of shit building.

The damn elevator's

down again, too.

As bad as my asthma is, got me

sweating like a fucking snitch.

We need five or six supers

in this raggedy motherfucker.

I'll let him know what's up

if I see him.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome, sweetie.

Hey.

This bullshit experiment

really happening,Wesley?

- Talk to you later, okay?

- All right, sweetie.

The Pope has continued

his condemnation of the Purge.

And France's president,

Lemercier, has called upon...

I'll see you later, bro.

I'm out.

- I'll see you tonight.

- A'ight.