This is a trailer for a story I am currently writing for school. This story had been on the back burner until a few weeks ago, when I found out about the assignment, which gave me the excuse to dust off the idea and write it. The full story should be in no later then January 18th, when the assignment is due.

Many parts of this story actually came to me in a dream one night, including the basic situation and several of the characters. Yes, I even write in my sleep.

Regular text is dialogue, bold are shots, and bold italics are musical accompaniment.

Anyway, on to the trailer.

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Voice, slight drawl: "Y'know, all my life I've served this Imperium, always tried to do the right thing. Tried to… make a difference, y'know, even a little one."

Shot of a ransacked office complex. Papers litter the floor and desks are overturned.

Man: "Last night our New Vistian planetary offices were broken into. We don't know what exactly's been taken yet, but we've pulled every off duty Shadow Front operative on planet to find out."

Man 2, sitting in what appears to be a submarine: "Woohoo, someone's gonna be in trouble tonight."

Fast cut shots of a battle in an underwater structure. A man is hit and falls to the ground.

Military officer: "Detective Heywood. We need you go to Blackfield and finish this fight. You have your orders."

Detective Charles Heywood: "Hoorah."

Cut of a shot of a city. Sky is cloudy and dull.

Man: "Welcome to Blackfield, detective. We hope your stay here is…productive."

Detective Heywood: "Ohh it will be."

A hand is shown inserting a magazine into a handgun. Detective Heywood, tall and brown haired, reclines in a desk chair.

Detective Heywood: "So, what do we know?"

Woman: "We think they're planning something big. They risked everything in that break in."

Heywood: "That's a start."

Cut to a shot of a two story mall in the edge of a city.

Radio dispatcher, fading in: "6.4, 6.4 calling all units. We have reports of shots fired. I repeat shots fired at Atwood Plaza mall."

A man enters Detective Heywood's office.

Man: "Detective, we have a situation."

Lay your head down child
I won't let the boogeymen come

Shot of SWAT team approaching mall. Cut to shot of large-scale firefight in food court.

Soldier, in cover, holding a handgun: "Y'ever have one of those days where you wish you would have stayed in bed?"

Count their bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Team advances up mall corridor. Cut to Detective Heywood, all by himself. He turns around. A tall albino man with piercing violet eyes, wearing a long black coat, a bulletproof vest, and urban camouflage pants strides up the concourse.

Heywood: "Clay?"

Clay (slightly drawling voice): "Thought I'd find you here."

Heywood: "What's going on?"

Clay: "Wouldn't we all like to know that sometimes?"

Blackout.

Close up of Clay talking to someone off screen, indeterminate location.

Clay: "There's never gonna be peace in this world. Not until the end of time. It just doesn't work. We pass the peace pipe. They beat the war drums. It's that simple. All you can do is try to help as many as you can, wherever you can."

Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Sound of a bolt being racked.

Silence

War Drums, by Cyber 14. Coming soon.

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So, what do you think? The full story should be along in a little while.

The lyrics are from the song "Pet" by A Perfect Circle, which partially inspired the story.

Oh, and before I get tons of hate mail about seemingly succumbing to the "Evil Albino" stereotype with the albinistic Clay. Let me say that he plays a vital and pivotal role in the story and that he will be portrayed sympathetically and not at all stereotypically. Giving away any more info would ruin the story but I can safely say that he will not be an "evil albino" It's a terrible stereotype, just like the stereotype of Wisconsinites being fat, beer-swilling slobs. (I myself am from, and live in, Wisconsin, and I am well familiar with the stereotype.) I have several albinistic friends, and they're no different from other people. However, the albino bias is far from dead; take Silas from the Da Vinci Code, or the Nightcrawler mercenary force leader from the newest F.E.A.R. expansion "Perseus Mandate"; both albinos, and both evil. (However, I thought that the albino merc from Perseus Mandate was cool. He has SloMo abilities like your character has, and is the only traditional "boss" character in any F.E.A.R. game to date.)

(In the original dream that inspired this, the man who inspired Clay was an evil albino, and was killed in the end of the dream. (Sam Fisher and I shot him while he was trying to escape through an air duct above a clothing store dressing room) I'd just read about the Da Vinci Code and it's character Silas, which is probably where the dream came from.)