The Hole is Your Home.
INT. OFFICE - DAY
The camera cuts from black to an aerial view of numerous cubicles. They are not quite columned but are somewhat sporadic in organization. From this angle, they look like some sort of rat maze. The cubicles themselves are grey, while all of the walls, flooring, and any other part of the building are white. There are windows on only one side of the building, and the light coming through is so bright it is almost blinding. This light makes it impossible to see what is outside the windows.
Also from this aerial view, we notice that nearly every cubicle is empty. From the thirty or so that we see from this first shot, roughly ten are occupied.
The camera begins to pan downward and follows a man going through the maze. In the simplest description, he is an average looking man; average in every way.
Once the man stops, the camera moves just past him, making it visible as to which cubicle he has stopped. The man residing in this particular cubicle is the man from the opening scene. There is a camera behind the man in the cubicle.
AVERAGE MAN
Good Morning, Iden. How are you?
As they discuss, it is hard to really catch a clear glimpse of either person, as the windows’ glare is rather violent.
IDEN
(Exasperated)
Good.
AVERAGE MAN
Excellent.
There is a pause.
IDEN
I’m kind of in the middle of this one report, sir.
AVERAGE MAN
(Pretending to be interested)
Which one is that?
IDEN
The one involving tank deployment in South Quarters.
AVERAGE MAN
Mm, yes. This is actually what I came here to talk about. This week’s reports came in, and your production has decreased again. You are now at the bottom of the barrel.
IDEN
But, sir, this is a complicated report.
AVERAGE MAN
If it was just this week, it would be different. You have been the least sufficient for a week and a half.
IDEN
Is that kind of a time frame really relevant to my actual work ethic?
AVERAGE MAN
No reason to be upset, now. This is out of my control. I could, quite frankly, get in trouble for being so lenient on the corporate guidelines. We’re going to have to let you go.
IDEN
(Looking outside cubicle)
No offense to you, sir, but, there’s only nine of us left. Without being inconsiderate…may I ask who will be running this company?
AVERAGE MAN
Well, in theory, since the importation of all those robotic devices, this work has really been meaningless. The machines completely the reports, the work we are all assigned just gives us purpose.
IDEN
So, will they all be fired at some point?
AVERAGE MAN
(Chipper)
Oh, it’s inevitable. We crawl together to the bottom. There’s comfort in that.
IDEN
Reassuring.
AVERAGE MAN
Before you go,
(The man hands Iden a small bag of white powder.)
Here’s your government supplied consolation.
IDEN
What happened to methamphetamines?
AVERAGE MAN
After going into the conflict with South Africa, they’ve started handing out heroin instead. It’s supposed to be more healing than methamphetamines.
IDEN
Well, we’ll find out.
The camera stays in the hallway and watches Iden walk out of the nearly empty building. There is a noticeable black ball above the doors Iden exits, where a camera obviously lies.
-Matt