The Community, Issue 2: Part 2.3
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Panel 1: Close-up on the Lieutenant and one of the others standing next to him, watching as the crowd comes toward the barricade.
FONTE
(thought bubble, translated from Portuguese)
The entitlement...it sickens me!
Panel 2: Cut to a shot of a section of the crowd as they move ever closer, screaming at the top of their lungs; masks on every one of them seen.
Caption
(Cont., Fonte)
"So used to the freebies of the Socialists they don't see all the good Sousa will provide them."
Panel 3: The layout shifts to another part of the rally, engaged in the same actions that we saw in the previous panel. They also are all wearing masks, save for a rare few.
Caption
(Cont., Fonte)
"If only the virus mutated and started taking more of them out."
Panel 4: We move to a close-up on the officer's face, stone-faced as if he were a general exhibiting a battlefield.
FONTE
(Cont., thought bubble)
Maybe then they'd understand that what dear Sousa is the true utopia. The one that'll truly make Brazil great once more.
Panel 5: From a side shot, we see a line of protesters stretched out in front of the police barricade. Some of them are chatting with the officers, but nothing threatening and with a gap between them for good measure.
Caption
(Marta, translated from Portuguese)
"Remember, don't engage with them...!
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Panel 1: Cut to a shot of Marta a little deeper in the line, trying to speak as loudly as she can to the whole of the group. You can see the other ladies standing at either side of her as she speaks.
MARTA
(Cont., translated from Portuguese)
Trash talking's fine. But don't lay hands on 'em.
CELIA
(interjecting connector, translated from Portuguese)
You wanna do so afterwards back home, that's perfectly okay.
MARTA
(Bubble 2)
Exactly...!
(Bubble 3, to Amelia)
Lia, if you wouldn't mind spreading the word to the peeps in the back.
AMELIA
(to Marta, translated from Portuguese)
Aye-aye, boss!
Panel 2: We move to a wide shot looking down from the sky, showing Amelia pop up at different points in the shot over the course of minutes saying the same thing.
AMELIA
(Point 1)
Don't engage the officers physically.
AMELIA
(Cont., Point 2)
Trash talking is fine, but nothing to go against our message.
AMELIA
(Cont., Point 3)
We are the future of this nation, and we will--
Panel 3: Standing in front of a few similarly aged protesters, she stops her train of thought courtesy of a loud "BANG!" popping in from the left of the panel view.
PROTESTER
(scared, translated from Portuguese)
What was that?!
AMELIA
(to the protester)
Sounded like a car backfiring.
Panel 4: Going on at the same moment as Panel 3, we see the officer Fonte was chatting with earlier next to a colleague reacting to the same noise.
OFFICER #2
(to Officer, translated from Portuguese)
What was that?!
OFFICER
(to Officer #2, translated from Portuguese)
Sounded like a gun.
Panel 5: Back to Amelia and the protester; the setting and layout similar to what we saw in Panel 3, a short time later. The two of them are more cautious, looking around for definitive evidence of the noise.
PROTESTER
...Should I go get Jo? In case it wasn't.
AMELIA
Not yet. Let's wait to see if anyone comes crying for help. Rather not bring her in for a false alarm--
Panel 6: Back to the two officers from Panel 4; the setting and layout similar to the aforementioned panel. There's no realm of doubt with either of them; tense, locked in attack mode with their weapons raised in the direction of the protesters.
OFFICER
(yelling)
FIRE!!