Taking Back Jamie
All across the United States, an unknown organization has been taking kids away from their families abruptly, sometimes violently, and always without explanation. While a full blown government-run investigation is underway, the kidnappings have been happening for almost a year. Mariel Leight, a teenage girl, had her younger brother, Jamie, “stolen” from her three months ago. She is fed up with waiting for the government to find her brother, and decides to take matters into her own hands.
Mariel musters her courage and goes to a place where kidnappings often occur, children’s playgrounds. She is there at night, so it is empty. Sure enough, she finds an agent for the organization idly waiting for a kid to show up. Mariel has a flashback and remembers the agent taking away her brother. She becomes enraged, and attacks the agent. They struggle and fight, she is constantly asking where the agent took her brother, the agent never responds. Finally, she unsheathes a knife and stabs the agent.
She rests for a moment, calms herself, and begins to look through the agent’s jacket. She finds a small notebook with pictures of children in it, and flips through it, clearly looking for her brother’s picture, while still remarking on all the poor kids that have been wrongfully taken away from their lives. She lands on a page with her brother’s photo and a number next to it. She exclaims his name and swears to find him.
Mariel is then shown at her home, looking through the notebook. She looks at all the children, and begins to cry. She doesn’t understand how something so cruel could happen. As she looks through the images, she has an idea. She pulls out a newspaper and looks through the missing person’s section and starts calling the numbers of people who lost their younger siblings.
Mariel and three other teens she contacted decide to band together to not only save their siblings, but all the kids who have been taken. The group realizes that the numbers next to the kids in the notebook have to do with the area they are being held in, because all their little brothers and sisters have the same number. They look around town, interrogate agents they find, and try to figure out where this place is.
Finally, they figure out where the kids are being held and head there. It is a desolate warehouse, and the teens use brains and brawn to save their siblings. As they are leaving the facility, something goes wrong and they are being chased by a myriad of agents. They are all scared, but run for their lives with confidence. Mariel scoops Jamie into her arms as they run away. He looks at her, afraid and in need of reassurance. Mariel smiles slightly, and she runs even faster. The screen then turns to black, and the viewer can imagine they escaped to safety.
I plan to make my film opening the scene where Mariel confronts and kills the agent on the playground and finds the notebook with the picture of her brother. The flashback will be included.
The scene begins with the sound of a playground swing as the production company graphics flash onscreen. Then, a close up of feet is shown, and the camera tilts up to reveal an agent from the organization, clad in black barely swinging on the swing. The agent looks like they don’t belong there. A shot of their face is seen on the left third, which becomes a focus pull, and a very angry person is now seen clearly. The angry person is Mariel. A close up is then shown of her eye, which cuts to a black and white scene. She is on the same playground with a little boy. She is pushing him on the swing. Suddenly, the same agent appears and takes the boy, Jamie, away from her with force. The flashback ends, and Mariel runs to the agent, and attacks.
They fight, mostly shots of silhouettes and close ups. Finally, Mariel takes out a pink comb. This confuses the agent. Mariel reveals that the comb is a knife, and stabs the agent in the stomach. The agent falls to their knees, blood pours out of their mouth, and they die.
Mariel rests in a dazed shock, sitting sweaty with her makeup and hair a mess, blood on her face. She then composes herself, gets up, and begins to dig through the agent’s jacket. She finds the notebook, and close ups show her flipping through it. The notebook is full of pictures of children, and she is saddened. Finally, she sees Jamie, and declares her mission to find him. The screen then turns black, with the title, Taking Back Jamie, filling the frame.
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