Scare Team

Written By

Peter Hughes

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INT. OFFICE KITCHEN

A group of people are standing around an office kitchen area. It would look like an office team having a break except that all the people are transparent.

A young man (NEWBIE) enters, also transparent.

NEWBIEScare Team (looks at page) 1138?

HIFIVE BRO 2Yep.

NEWBIEI am looking for the team leader.

TEAM LEADERThat would be me

Team leader heads over to NEWBIE and NEWBIE hands him the piece of paper.

NEWBIEI have been assigned to you.

TEAM LEADER(looking over the paper). Have you worked on a scare team before?

NEWBIE(scoffs) no!

TEAM LEADER(unimpressed) Do you have a problem with being on a scare team?

NEWBIE(realising he has offended)No....I mean...well...I mean, you know, this a scare team. People don't get scared anymore. I thought it all ended when the guy said "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself".

The whole room goes silent and then one of the HIFIVE BROS comes at him.

HIFIVE BRO 1Hey, if you want to lose your job

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that's your business. But some of HIFIVE BRO 1 (CONT'D)

us take this seriously.

TEAM LEADERCool down, he didn't know what he was saying.

The other HIFIVE BRO comes and pulls him away.

HIFIVE BRO 1(poking him in the chest) Don't say it again.

NEWBIEO..K..

TEAM LEADERYou were saying?

NEWBIEI mean what do you do here? Shake some chains and go Ooooo (imitates a ghost). That doesn't work. You have seen the movies and books and stuff.

TEAM LEADERYou really don't know what we do here do you?

NEWBIENo.

TEAM LEADERLook, what we do is use the most powerful force in the world. We...

RADIO(interrupts) We have a job boss.

Everyone goes quiet as RADIO touched her ear to hear what is being sent.

RADIOIt's subject 316.

HIFIVE BROS(Hi five each other) Catherine!

TEAM LEADERContext?

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RADIOShe is finishing work. (Listens and then smiles) She has nothing in the diary.

HIFIVE BROS(Knunkle pump) Boo-ya!

TEAM LEADEROk everyone, listen up. This is a subject we know and it is an easy context. Newbie, just watch this one and see what we do. Everyone else, let's show Newbie what we...Kowalski!

HIFIVE BRO 2(With a face full of food) Sorry, I didn't have lunch.

TEAM LEADER(frowns at KOWALSKI) Anyway. Let's show Newbie what we do. Remember, work as a team. Don't over do it and let's do what we do.

Everyone gets into action and begins to file out of the room. NEWBIE and TEAM LEADER are all that is left.

NEWBIEYou are going to scare her at the office?

TEAM LEADERYep, (winks)

They leave.

INT. OFFICE SCENE

A woman, CATHERINE, is sitting at a desk looking like she is wrapping up for the day. She is doing the final filing. The scare team come in and surround her as she is doing this. As they speak to her, she becomes more and more agitated.

TEAMYou are finishing up for the day, you should go home and have a rest, watch TV, have a glass of wine.

TEAMNo, you really should be at the

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gym, who knows maybe Mr Abs will be TEAM (CONT'D)

there.

TEAMYou should head out with the others and go have drinks. Who knows who will be there.

TEAMYou haven't rung your mother for ages.

CATHERINE runs out distressed.

INT. OFFICE SCENE

Same office scene. The team is now celebrating the distress of the subject.

NEWBIEHow...What...You...What the heck just happened?

HIFIVE BROS come and talk to him. One of them puts their arm around him the other sits in Catherine's chair and puts his feet on the desk.

HIFIVE BRO 1You have to understand. People used to be scared of all sorts of things.

HIFIVE BRO 2Like dying

HIFIVE BRO 1And being cut up by a chain saw

HIFIVE BRO 2Ghosts

HIFIVE BRO 1Being buried alive

HIFIVE BRO 2Chickens.

HIFIVE BRO 1 and NEWBIE look at him.

HIFIVE BRO 2It's a thing!

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HIFIVE BRO 1Anyway. The thing is that people are now more afraid of something else. Something more powerful than any of these things.

HIFIVE BRO 2FOMO

NEWBIEFoam - a?

HIFIVE BRO 2FOMO - the fear of missing out

HIFIVE BRO 1The fear of missing out. People have this fear that something else is happening and they are missing out and their life won't be the same now.

NEWBIEThat's a thing?

HIFIVE BRO 1Very powerful. All that needs to happen is that the subject gets overwhelmed with a number of options and they go into a panic. All that needs to happen is that they need to see the options.

TEAM LEADERAnd that's what we do.

THE END