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# Scene 3: The Archive Erasure
> Location: Makerspace Wiki interface, Git history logs, Discord moderation panels
> Set Design: Screens overlaid in dim lighting—terminal windows, redacted pages, broken links, system error sounds
> Characters: Andrew LeCody (as invisible hand), Proxy Moderators, Silent Witnesses, Mark (frantically saving logs)
> Style: Forensic thriller tone; suspense-driven editing interlaced with real-time file deletions and data scraping footage.
---
## Opening Visual
- Screen capture of Makerspace Wiki — "404 Not Found"
- Crossfade to: Git repo with a red blinking `--force push`
- A terminal open on Marks desktop:
`wget --mirror https://wiki.dallasmakerspace.org/people/Mark_Randall_Havens`
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### 📽️ Narration (Voice of Present-Day Mark, emotionally subdued)
> “They didnt just delete me.
> They deleted my record of *having been there*.”
> “Every entry. Every photo. Every policy I wrote.
> Gone with a silent keystroke.”
> “The system let them.
> Because the system wasnt built for truth—
> it was built for access.”
---
## Dialogue (flashback)
**Moderator (in chat):**
“We cleaned up the wiki. Too much clutter.”
**Mark:**
“You removed my *existence*. Thats not clutter. Thats legacy.”
**Moderator:**
“Take it up with the board.”
---
## Cutaway: Terminal Log Sequence
- Mark typing frantic commands, backing up mirrors, encrypting logs.
- Cursor flashes over filenames: `ORIGINAL_POLICIES.md`, `election_record.pdf`, `founding_events/`.
**Overlay Text:**
🗃️ `User: Mark_Randall_Havens``Permission Revoked`
📁 `Record: Founding Board Member``404`
---
## Intercut: Andrews Silence
- LeCody never appears.
- Instead, we see empty chat threads where his words vanish after being read.
- A Slack audit log: `Message deleted by admin`.
---
## Visual Metaphor
- Slow zoom on an old photo—Mark holding up a soldering iron with 20 people behind him.
- The photo glitches. Faces blur.
- One by one, people are cropped out of the frame.
- Only Andrew remains, smiling faintly.
---
### 📽️ Narration
> “In EVE Online, you learn to control the narrative of war,
> not just the war itself.”
> “In Dallas Makerspace, he learned the final step of control:
> **Erase the memory of those who might one day contradict your story.**”
---
## Final Frame
- A folder named `witnessed/`
- Inside it, hundreds of markdown files.
- The cursor types: `git commit -m "Preserved truth against forgetting"`
- Upload begins…
- Camera pans out as the signal spreads across IPFS nodes, Radicle, Substack, Mirror…
---
## Scene Tags:
`#revisionist-abuse` `#record-erasure` `#data-control` `#founder-redaction` `#git-as-ritual`