Click to load or right-click to download full-size image.

INT. A COLLEGE SEMINAR ROOM – DAY

…

TOOZIE

Okay. Scenario Two: Just like Scenario One except that this time the terrorist hands you a revolver.

FANTASY VERSION OF THE CLASSROOM

Action follows Toozie’s narration of her scenario. Everyone has their hands on heads, watched over by subordinate terrorists. The TERRORIST hands Chad a revolver.

TOOZIE (V.O.)

One chamber out of six is loaded, but you don’t know which one. Let’s assume further that our terrorist has well-armed confederates who have the drop on you so doing a macho-man stunt like, shooting him and rescuing everyone is out of the question. He demands that you play one round of Russian Roulette by spinning the cylinder, putting the revolver to your head, and pulling the trigger.

Chad spins the cylinder and puts the revolver to his own head.

TOOZIE (V.O.)

If you don’t, he’ll kill everyone else in the seminar. If you give in, he lets everyone go.

BACK TO SCENE

TOOZIE

Assume further you know that he is telling the truth — perhaps he is a world-famous terrorist who does this all the time and always keeps his word. Would you do it?

CHAD

Um…

TOOZIE

I’ll take the burden off you. Suppose that he gives me the revolver and demands that I play the round of Russian Roulette. Do I have the right to spin the cylinder and pull the trigger?

CHAD

It seems pretty marginal to me.

TOOZIE

It doesn’t to me. I would hope I could find in myself the courage to do exactly that.

MIRANDA

Toozie!

PROFESSOR LEE

Interesting. Just out of curiosity let’s see a show of hands. Who here thinks Toozie would have the right to pull that trigger?

Most of the seminar, Chad excluded, raise their hands.

TOOZIE

Now suppose we have cases where we add more and more bullets to the revolver. Two bullets — still play the game? Three? Or what about six?

CHAD

Look, even if I were to concede that you had a right to play the game with one bullet — which I don’t, but I guess many people don’t agree with me — six is just plain suicide.

TOOZIE

Where does the magic happen, Chad? Between Coal Road and one bullet? At two bullets? Three?

CHAD

I find this math game inappropriate.

TOOZIE

That’s a cop-out.

CHAD

Your life does not belong to you to throw away.

TOOZIE

I submit my life is not the sort of thing capable of belonging to anyone.

Please do not reproduce this storyboard or its associated screenplay text without permission from Faustus, who may be contacted here.