A Dry White Season Page #5

Without warning, SHOOTING STARTS.

Children drop, wounded; friends trying to help the dying

and seriously wounded, others helped away.

Some boys appear with dustbin lids as protection and they

pelt the police with stones.

The police in the 'hippos' are jumping off and pursuing

Students, some SHOOTING.

Woman grabs two of the running children age about 9/10

and hustles them into house.

Jonathan and Wellington are running with a group. In the

distance the sound of an AMBULANCE SIREN. A Jeep cuts

off their escape, they turn back running as SHOTS are

FIRED towards them, a little girl drops, shot in the

back. Jonathan shouts to Wellington who is ahead of him.

JONATHAN:

Wellington! Wellington!

Wellington looks back, sees Jonathan trying to help the

little girl. He runs back to help. Another girl, aged

about 17 years, is also trying to help.

Two policemen suddenly appear from behind a house, they

are about 18 years old.

The girl straightens up and confronts the two policemen

shouting hysterically.

GIRL:

Shoot me! Come on, shoot me!

Shoot me!

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11.

CONTINUED:

She slumps to the ground crying.

Jonathan, Wellington and the Girl are hustled into a

crowded van amid punches and kicks from the police. The

van drives off leaving the injured Girl on the road,

neighbors run to assist the Girl.

As the van is passing, see a burning car, in the distance

a building on fire; another AMBULANCE SIREN.

CUT TO:

MONTAGE:

A) EXT. AFRIKAANER SCHOOL

B) The screams, the laughter of white kids playing at

their school, massed in conviviality, Johan one.

C) Behind, aboard a mower, motors Gordon, in the blue

overall of a groundsman, intent in his task.

OVER this white pacifist content, hear...

... GUNSHOTS, SCREAMS, TERROR.

D) EXT. SOWETO -AFTERNOON

The carnage, the dead, the wounded. The stunned

bewilderment of blacks and police alike... even the

latter unnerved by their own brutality.

END MONTAGE.

EXT. JOHANNESBURG SUBURB -LATE AFTERNOON

Soweto train rushing through suburb of Johannesburg.

REVERSE SHOT FROM train.

INT. SOWETO TRAIN CARRIAGE -LATE AFTERNOON

The third-class carriage is crowded with African

commuters returning to Soweto. The passengers represent

all the social and economic strata of Soweto: laborers,

factory workers, domestic servants, clerk secretaries,

the unemployed, etc. In the carriage, Gordon, returning

from work, standing.

A LARGE middle-aged WOMAN is standing in the crowded

aisle at one end of the carriage. She suddenly shouts:

(CONTINUED)

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