Ep. 4 –  “I believe this belongs to you” — Disconnected in 2050

Scene 1

[ellipse – scooter in the street]

EZRA (studio-voice)
And so here I was.
Going out for the second time that week.
Before that, I hadn't gone out in the street for months.
I mean, there wasn’t any reason to.
And it’s far from being pleasant.
The streets are deserted, squalid.
With only a few disconnecteds wandering around.

//here i wonder if there can be any works in the street, or other sounds (drone, vehicles for
delivery) something that infinity would implement as infrastructure, nothing we need to
explicit though but give food for the ears

I finally reached my destination.
What I believed would be Adrien Samson’s home.

[doorbell sound]

Scene 2

We hear the voice de l’interphone, pour le tournage, prendre mon 60hp avec le micro
CB pour faire cette voix en live.
OLD ADRIEN
Who is this ?

EZRA
Adrien Samson ?

OLD ADRIEN
Who’s asking ?
Scene 3

EZRA (studio-voice)
It wasn’t an easy affair to get Adrien to talk to me.
Scene 4

EZRA (in situs)
I found something which I believe belongs to you.

OLD ADRIEN
Not interested, please leave

EZRA
Please just a moment !

(Adrien closes the door – she stomps on it loudly)

I have a tape of you from 2022.

OLD ADRIEN aggressively

A tape ? What tape ? Where ?

EZRA
I…I found this recorder in Rue des Tanneurs

OLD ADRIEN
Hold on…

adrien se déplace, on passe du son de l’interphone à un son reel
We hear door opening

OLD ADRIEN
So ? Show me the recorder !

EZRA
Here !

[ADRIEN grunts and takes it out of her hand]

OLD ADRIEN
How much did you hear ?

EZRA
Not, not much. Just the first minutes. It turned off afterwards.

OLD ADRIEN
Yeah.
Battery’s dead.
That’s not surprising.
Last time I changed the batteries was a few months…
What were you doing there ?

EZRA
Sorry ?

OLD ADRIEN
You’re a hyperconnected if I’ve ever seen one.
And from the latest generation.
So I’m asking you : (he pauses) what were you doing sniffing around there?

He says this sentence because he knows Sacha is
doing weird thing for Infinity, actually he seems
always grumpy and pissed, but this is because he
protect someone

EZRA
Sniffing around !?

OLD ADRIEN
(Annoyed) Rue des Tanneurs ! where you found the recorder. You’re a spy for Infinity
or what ?
Scene 5

EZRA (voix studio)
He got closer to me.
He was shaking.

Why was I even here ?
I could only remember what Jyn said just this morning,
And what I frequently heard on the news about disconnected people.
That they were violent, dangerous… mad.

Scene 6
EZRA
What ? no ! (a bit shaken) You know what, maybe I should go.

OLD ADRIEN
No, no! you’re not going anywhere before you’ve told me what you were doing there.

EZRA (takes back courage / boldly)
Nothing okay ?
I was sitting on the front stairs, figuring out my way home because my infinity glasses
broke and I noticed the door was open and I heard something.

OLD ADRIEN
(suspiciously) and you just decided to go in like that ?

EZRA
It’s not like I forced the door open…
There was a stone blocking it.
I don’t know, at first I just wanted to take a glimpse inside.
(Pause)
But listen, if you don’t trust me, I’ll just go home.
I was just hoping to get answers…

Starts walking out and then stops

Plus if the police are after you, they would already have all they need…
Why would they bother sending human staff ?
Anyway… Thanks for your time, I guess…

Start walking again…

SACHA (sick of adrien suspicion, we can hear coming from further away)

Oh common ! let her in !

Ezra stops walking/listens
Sacha’s voice is coming from the inside of the house / Antoine and him are almost
whispering now :

OLD ADRIEN
Sacha, stay out of this ! You bring me enough trouble by yourself.

SACHA
Adrien, It’s been years since Infinity used human staff in their operations.
Why would they send this kid now ?

OLD ADRIEN (realising he might have make a mistake)-
grunts
Hey kiddo, wait…
Come back here,
Come in, quick… but lose your Iittle gadgets.
No infinity nothing past that door.

EZRA
You can’t be serious, why ?

OLD ADRIEN
Hey – you come in or you don’t, I don’t care – these are my rules.

EZRA
(sighs of exasperation) //

we here some stuff put in a basket, don’t need to explicit just hearing some stuff

Okay then…

[We hear footsteps, old wood floor squeaking and door closing]

ADRIEN
Just know that if you screw us over, there are people who’ll make you pay.

SACHA
Don’t pay attention to Adrien, he’s just a grump.
Now…
This black stone you found holding the door of our old studio open.
It’s a sign for disconnected people like us looking for a shelter, a refuge, a hide out.

EZRA
A hide out ? from…(timidly) the authorities ?

OLD ADRIEN
From what you’ve been told, we’re what ? all criminals ? bad elements?

EZRA
No, I mean…

SACHA
It’s partly true.
People who get locked up lose permanent access to their Infinity account and can’t
retrieve it, even after purging their sentence.

SASHA
And that means they can’t find a job, or only precarious ones, can’t socialise either.
This system creates misery and criminality.
And then it points at them to justify its policies : increasing security, increasing control
: facial recognition, CCTVs, psycho-acoustic…

OLD ADRIEN
Which is also what allowed you to find me so quickly by the way !

EZRA
Sorry about that…

OLD ADRIEN
And then they muddy the waters by constantly distracting the crowd- so that they
avoid asking questions.
So that nobody tries to understand what’s happening around them.

EZRA
What about those things you talked about on your recording?

OLD ADRIEN
That’s a very long story, Ezra…

SASHA
That’s fine. We don’t have any plans.

EZRA
I have plenty of time.