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tailgate and pulls out a JERRY CAN. He is greeted by a
Orphanage worker. They walk over to a GARDEN SHED.
The Orphanage worker unlocks a PADLOCK on the shed door.
Inside is a DIESEL GENERATOR CHUGGING away.
INT. OLD WOODEN CHURCH - LAUNDRY
In large concrete TUBS, boys and girls scrub away and
wring out clothes putting them into WILLOW BASKETS. The
effort involved is clear from tense muscles and tired
brows.
EXT. OLD WOODEN CHURCH (EVENING)
A stalwart woman (60s) stands by a BELL, looks out, RINGS
it vigorously.
This is The Matriarch.
Children come running inside from the garden, and the
various outbuildings.
INT. WELLINGTON CENTRAL - COURTENAY MALL COMPLEX
A PUBLIC MONITOR displays news broadcasts.
ANCHOR
...48 hours of vicious close
quarter fighting between Georgia
and Chechnya has seen at least
87 killed. Al Jazeera’s Josh
Rushing reports from Samsun in
Turkey...
IMAGES of cluster bombs being dropped over rugged passes.
An Amputee Veteran, Maori, sits on a MOBILITY SCOOTER,
watches the monitor. The BASKET up front holds a cracked
PAINT BUCKET. This is PATU.
A FLAG on the scooter has the old logo for the N.Z. Army -
Sword crossed with a Taiaha, attached to a well-crafted,
polished TAIAHA.
An agricultural RESPIRATOR hangs off one handlebar of the
scooter.
The LOGO on the Vet’s T-SHIRT is the BERET BADGE of the
R.N.Z.I.R. [ Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment ], over
white issue THERMALS, the slogan says: ‘Operation Free