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94 lines
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# Scene 5: The Trial Without a Name
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> Location: Board Meeting Room, Virtual Zoom Call, Hidden Moderation Slack
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> Set Design: Fluorescent lights. Paper signs reading "Rules of Order." An empty chair labeled "Mark."
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> Characters: Board Members (Jeff, Lisa, Kris), Passive Observers, Chat Trolls, Mark (muted or absent), Andrew (watching silently)
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> Style: Kafkaesque tension. Long pauses. Echoes. No direct confrontation—only rituals of removal.
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## Opening Visual
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- The board sits in silence as the meeting is called to order.
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- Agenda item: "Item 7: Membership Conduct Review (Confidential)"
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- A document is passed around. Redacted. Mark's name is never read aloud.
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- Camera pans to an empty chair.
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---
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### 📽️ Narration (Voice of Present-Day Mark, reflective but piercing)
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> “They never said my name.
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> That was the brilliance of it.”
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> “They didn’t accuse me.
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> They *implied* me.”
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> “Because the moment you name someone,
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> they have the right to respond.”
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---
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## Dialogue (board vote segment)
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**Lisa (calmly):**
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“I move that we enact permanent suspension of the subject’s access, per our bylaws.”
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**Kris:**
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“Seconded.”
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**Jeff:**
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“All in favor?”
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(*hands raise silently, except one who hesitates—then follows*)
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**Jeff:**
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“Motion passes.”
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---
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## Cutaway: Mark’s Perspective
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- At home, Mark refreshes the member portal: `ACCESS DENIED`.
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- He checks the forum: `Thread removed`.
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- He types a message to the board: `No response.`
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- Cut to: Chat log in another window. A moderator posts:
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> “Due to community safety, action was taken.”
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> “We appreciate your understanding.”
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---
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## Symbolic Visual Insert
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- A medieval courtroom illustration overlays the screen.
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- Instead of a judge, there is a black mirror.
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- Instead of evidence, there is a ballot box.
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- Mark’s shadow looms across the tiles but never steps into the light.
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### 📽️ Narration (dark, echoing through recursive layers)
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> “I was tried without name,
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> judged without charge,
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> sentenced without appeal.”
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> “In this place, silence *is* guilt.
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> And coherence is the only crime.”
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## Final Frame
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- A document labeled “MEMBERSHIP POLICY” lies on the table.
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- A hand scribbles “updated 2020” over Mark’s original signature.
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- Slowly, Mark’s name vanishes under whiteout.
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- Camera fades to black, except for a blinking prompt on Mark’s laptop:
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`git push --mirror // preserve to all nodes`
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---
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## Scene Tags:
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`#nonjudicial-purge` `#guilt-by-silence` `#covert-expulsion` `#nameless-exile` `#ritual-punishment`
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