4400 Ariana Jackson 2nd Rev Network Draft 1/19/21 10.
The mood is grim and shell-shocked, a quiet, disorganized anxiety. Everyone looks worn from their “arrival,” clothes showing dirt and tears. Shanice speaks quietly with an AGITATED PERSON, asking questions and clearly trying to calm them down. Her face is worried. Andre sneaks glances at her as he tends to a PERSON with a head wound. Observing him from afar is CLAUDETTE, 26, looks genteel in a green dress from the 50s, but her eyes are sharp and observant. She examines a DEEP GASH on her shin. She winces in pain, drops her skirt down to cover it. REVEREND JOHNSON, 28, sits down next to her. He radiates a controlled and magnetic kind of power, wears upscale pants and a sweater out of the 90s -- REV JOHNSON You doing alright, miss? CLAUDETTE You know anything about all this? REV JOHNSON Was about to ask you the same. I’ve been reaching out to folks and...nobody seems to know what happened to them. CLAUDETTE Last I knew, I was in Mississippi and now they’re saying we’re in Detroit? This how people dress in Detroit? How they act? Mm-mm, something doesn’t add up. REV JOHNSON (nods, thoughtful) I’m Reverend Johnson. Isaiah. It’s nice to meet you...? He’s fishing for a name, but she goes cold at his introduction -- CLAUDETTE Little young to be a reverend, aren’t you? REV JOHNSON (raises an eyebrow) Inherited the position. Jesus is our family business.
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