4400 Ariana Jackson 2nd Rev Network Draft 1/19/21 16.
ANDRE (CONT'D) I’ve done what I can for now. But you need to be seen. (distracted, looks around) There’s white folk in here too. You’d think... CLAUDETTE (nods, thought the same) All this talk about the future... My husband and I’ve been jailed and worse for organizing the vote for negroes. If it was really 2021? I’d have hoped we’d made more progress. That it didn’t feel the same.
They both look around. So many scared and confused people -- mostly black and brown. And the guards blocking the entrances -- mostly white. This all does feel eerily familiar... INT. BOIS BLANC HOTEL - INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY A penthouse suite that’s been converted into a makeshift interrogation room. Keisha, in a full HAZMAT SUIT, walks in to find Jharrel, wearing only a FACE MASK. He’s intently looking through CASE FILES, but closes them as she walks in, smooth -- JHARREL You must be Keisha. I’m Jharrel. We didn’t get to meet at the briefing earlier, but they tell me we’re partners. This is wild, huh? She’s distracted by WORKERS taking down a PLEXIGLASS BARRIER -- KEISHA
Excuse me, the plexiglass should remain for the duration of the interviews.
The workers stop, look to Jharrel -- JHARREL
Ah, I might have asked them to take it down. (turning on the charm) I know they explained the quarantine protocol, but I work with immigrants and refugees every day and have found it’s hard to connect through suits and walls.
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