forklifts_stop.mdwn
1 INT. HUGE WAREHOUSE - DAY 2 ========================= 3 4 Inside a huge central warehouse with packaged foodstuffs, everything 5 from flour and sugar to tins of SPAM and bottles of soda, on big crates 6 piled on shelves, up to thirty feet high, several dozen forklifts are 7 busily moving things around. 8 9 At the strike of noon, the forklifts stop, all within a few seconds. 10 Some crash against a shelf, or a wall, a couple against each other. 11 12 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 1 13 >> What the heck? 14 15 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 2 16 >> Hey, what's going on? 17 18 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 1 19 >> My forklift won't start. 20 21 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 2 22 >> Mine either. They can't all be broken, can they? 23 24 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 1 25 > <br> (Shouting to people some distance away) 26 >> Hey, do you know what's wrong? Why did all forklifts stop at the same 27 >> time? 28 29 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3 30 > <br> (Shouting back) 31 >> We don't know either. I'll go call the supervisor. 32 33 FORKLIFT DRIVER 3 runs a short distance to a wall phone, and dials a 34 number. The call is soon answered. 35 36 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3 37 >> Hey Mike, our forklifts stopped and won't start again. 38 39 > SUPERVISOR 40 >> What do you mean? 41 42 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3 43 > <br> (Slowly) 44 >> Every forklift has stopped. They do not start again. 45 46 > SUPERVISOR 47 >> Stopped? What do you mean they stopped? What did you do? 48 49 > FORKLIFT DRIVER 3 50 >> We didn't do nothing, OK. They just stopped. Come look for yourself.