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The sight drains Beth’s adrenaline. She reaches down,
lifts a leg of her jeans. BLOODY PIN PRICKS.
The YELPING of a DOG.
The SEARCH LIGHT BEAM STREAKS across the Monument.
Beth instinctively hits the deck, sprints away as the
light focus disappears behind her.
EXT. MOUNT VICTORIA LOOKOUT - BARBED WIRE FENCE
The Handler picks up his Dog. It continues to YELP. It has
been caught up in a COIL of RUSTED BARBED WIRE.
Another Police officer pulls a piece of FABRIC from the
wire. From Beth’s ANORAK.
EXT. MOUNT VICTORIA LOOKOUT
Descending a brow, Beth hits a flooding ditch flowing down
hill and topples over into MUDDY WATER.
HELICOPTER ROTORS can be heard in the distance.
EXT. MOUNT VICTORIA LOOKOUT
Keeping pace behind the S.T.G. Leader is a tall man
dressed differently to the rest of the unit.
He is a government INTELLIGENCE AGENT. He wears a DARK
GREY TRENCH COAT. His black BOOTS are bulky, STEEL PLATES
running the length of his shins. His coat’s EPAULETTES
have grey and white BRAIDS of rank.
A deep scar runs down the man’s face, what remains of a
severely broken cheek bone.
EXT. MOUNT VICTORIA LOOKOUT
The SEARCH LIGHT BEAM catches hold of Beth. Furiously she
runs.
The light loses Beth momentarily, but she trips, tumbling
over roughly on broken ground, and it finds her again.
The Helicopter descends, ROTOR BLADES get louder and