A Plague

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STEVEN:I'm sorry. You're--
EVER: No, no, no.

Look. The radio. The radio.

STEVEN: What? What?
EVER: Come on. Come on.

MAN ON RADIO:
...these are combustible villas.

I feel like I need a doggone--
EVER: I was right.

FEMALE VOICE:
...tensions in the DMZ

are finally beginning to calm,
as a once-torn nation...

This isn't everywhere.
(CHUCKLES)

(RADIO BROADCAST STOPS)
(BUZZING)

FEMALE VOICE:
This message is transmitted

at the request
of the United States--

EVER: I was fucking right.

It's a tape.

Someone set this up.

(STEVEN QUICKLY AND CAREFULLY PULLED OUT A SYRINGE AND STUCK IT IN HER BACK)

(EVER GROANS)

STEVEN: I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm so, so sorry.

EVER: Steven?
STEVEN: You weren't supposed to

find out about any of this.
None of this

was supposed to happen.
EVER: You--

STEVEN: I'm so, so sorry.
(EVER GASPS IN PAIN AND FALLS)

STEVEN: Please believe me.
You're gonna be okay.

You'll be okay.
It's just a little bit.

Okay? Just a half dose,
and you're gonna

wake up, and it's gonna be okay.
It's gonna be fine.

You-- you'll forget
about all this,

and we can start over.
It's okay... (VOICE FADES)

(RANDALL THEN WALKS ON THE BUS)

RANDALL: Good job, Steven.
Good job. You had to.

-FLASHBACK-

COACH: (SHOUTING)
That's no hustle! That's a nap!

RANDALL: (ON THE BLEACHERS) I'm not talking
about changing the whole world.

I'm talking about changing
a few people for the better.

You know who? People who
make our lives a living hell.

What if we gave it back in a way
that actually made a difference?

STEVEN: What kind of difference?

RANDALL: Remember the Scared Straight
program?

Convicts and drill sergeants
yelling at kids,

showing them prison life,
awful shit, you know,

until they cry
and promise

they won't grow up
to be assholes?

STEVEN: Yeah, but Danny, Hunt
and all those guys are popular.

They're not considered
at risk, dude. We are.

RANDALL: Exactly.
Nothing ever happens to them.

We can fix that.

They'll be our perfect audience. (POINTING TO EVELYN, EVER, AND TAMRA)

We'll look like heroes
for a day.

We'll save the day.

The assholes will respect us
for once and we can get the girls of our dreams.

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