Posted: 01/25/2014
EXT: PAY BY THE HOUR MOTEL -- AFTERNOON
GUARD 528491 leads M_____ to a motel three blocks from an abandoned warehouse that had been gutted and remodelled inside to resemble a twenty-third century prison complex -- complete with all manner of unfurnished piping and electrical wiring.
M_____ (V.O.)
You were a prison guard with a bar code tattooed on the back of your neck -- a number without a name, like they did in so many pre-Matrix dystopians that tried to prove how edgy and like Neuromancer or Snow Crash they could be without actually understanding what made either so iconic.
(Beat)
Tomorrow you were scheduled to die, to be thrown over the railing of the prison"s second floor and into a waiting sea of thugs and villains with genetically enhanced bodies and c
