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Daniel Burns.

HACKSAW
Contents
o 1 Plot synopsis
o 2 Back Story - HACKSAW
o 3 Back Story - THEM
o 4 Back Story - THE S.T.A.C
o 5 Storylines
o 6 External links
Plot synopsis
=============
HACKSAW, young female hacker has uncovered all government secrets is
on
the run from the authorities who are out to silence her. She is
sending
a series of messages to the world to release the secrets before the
government agencies find her.
Back Story - HACKSAW
===================
HACKSAW Transmits
Tasha, 21, science buff, uber geek and latterly fashion model. Born
and
raised in Sydney along with her younger brother Stephen by academic
parents Clary and Catherine.
Childhood achievements
o 1994 - Best Junior Showjumper
o 1997 - Winner, National Spelling Bee. Scholarship
Carter College.
o 1997 u MVP inter-school Soccer Championship
o 1998 u Principal performer, Hybrid Youth Experimental
Dance Theatre
o 1999 u Junior Dan, blue belt, Bujinkan ninjutsu
o 1999 u Winner, Rzorback Challenge, MountainBk.com
o 2000 u $2,000 winner, Sheingzu Science Prize
o 2001 u Best of Show, Savoury Scones, Blue Ribbon - Face
Painting
o 2001 u oThe Puppet Masters or How the Web Was Wonoe u a
self-created
puppet show.
A happy upbringing until the disintegration of her parentAEs marriage
when her mother developed early-onset Alzheimers. Catherine was
placed
in care and regretfully/thankfully passed away when Tasha was 18.
Clary
had been a psychological mess for the prior 8 months and skipped out
before the funeral and has never been heard of again. Tasha has cared
for Stephen since he was 16 as well as exploring her explosion as a
technological wunderkind, a foreseer and creator of innovation. Her
simple (child's play) web-software designs became cornerstone
achievements and secured her financial success even at this early
age.
But TashaAEs real spark ignited when she found an outlet for her
inquisitive energy and intelligence amongst the elite hacker
community.
Blessed with aecamera-loves-herAE good looks and a strong personality
she
was soon sidetracked by the talent agencies offering paying gigs that
lead to international invitations. Stephen had grown up quick and was
calling the shots in his own life, so, on more a devil-may-care whim
than a career choice; Tasha accepted the incessant contract
invitations
and left Stephen for Paris, Milan, Tokyo and New York.
TashaAEs life quickly became hectic, constantly in demand, fun but
frantic. Even so, her first love remained her fascination and
connection with the hacker world. Her status as grand master of her
clan a title she was competitive enough to maintain. She was of
course
aware of the constant risks but the thrill of breaking down and
owning
the Digital Machine is an addictive elixir.
But when TashaAEs l33t taskforce access a deep-cover computer
facility
they break the window into an unknown world and discover a viperAEs
nest
of deep conspiracies, cover-ups, other-worldly threats and inhuman
acts
of terror. Their hacking is detected and they quickly find themselves
running from forces they could never have imagine existed. Forces
known
only as THEM that put all of their lives in jeopardy and end in death
for most of the crew.
TashaAEs brother was one of her crew who made the fatal mistake of
believing he would not be discovered, that he was untraceable. Only
when it was too late did he realise what a miscalculation he had
made.
As her friends and family disappear TashaAEs resolve is cemented.
With
the ever-present danger of detection looming like a shadow Tasha
makes
the only decision left to her. She must champion the cause of free
will
and the right to be informed and expose her foe and their secret
installation called The Stack.
The Stack is a storage facility located beneath the desolate
wasteland
of a nuclear weapons testing ground, a vast computer core holding
everyone on the planetAEs information, everyoneAEs secrets. Her first
campaign of this digital war must be to reveal The StackAEs complex
encrypted secrets to an innocent world, a world thatAEs been asleep
and
needs to be woken. Secrets so astounding that when the world is woken
the change will be irreversible, viral.
Tasha holes up in a pay-by-the-hour dive hotel she remembers from an
heroin-chic photo shoot to develop her strategy. She prepares for a
life that is not of her choosing but one that sheAEs determined to
fulfil. A week creating false but wearable personas; creating ways of
living in the world that will keep her one step ahead of THEM.
Her life never seemed so real, so focused. Tasha Rose is gone, she is
now oHacksawoe.
Hacksaw takes the risk and catches a bus to Canada, then, using her
own
passport for the last time, catches a flight to Cuba. She charms her
way aboard a container vessel bound for Sydney. Why Sydney? ItAEs
where
she knows, where she feels safe. As the container ship enters Sydney
Harbour on a moonlit night she dives overboard and comes ashore.
Over the next week she finds a safe place in an inner-city warehouse
and sets up all the hardware sheAEll need to access The Stack, create
a
secure signal for transmission and install security surveillance. She
nicknames this core the CRAYFISH. Her incognito modus operandi is as
a
bicycle courier, ordering and delivering on behalf of fictional
companies. A busy week but sheAEs had plenty of time to develop this
plan on the ship journey. Her plan is that this safe place will house
the master core and will only be accessed by remote and that sheAEll
stay on the move for the safety of the core.
Things are going to plan, she believes her enemy hasnAEt detected her
nor have locals noticed her. Truly underground and feeling in
control,
she collates a dossier of information hacked from The Stack.
Partly as test transmission, partly as announcement, Hacksaw
repeatedly
sends out several 10-second sms and mms messages to millions of
random
recipients world wide stating oHacksaw. Now weAEre watching THEM.
Countdown to live signal aoe She does not detect any signal capture
or
attempts at interception and so believes that the sub-network she has
set up is secure.
But regardless, as a failsafe, she sets up a mirror, a sham
transmission station with the plan to start that transmission source
first and monitor it during her actual broadcast - a red herring to
gauge her enemyAEs tactical response and to give her some escape time
if
needed. She will never underestimate THEM again nor forget what they
are capable of.
Hacksaw is the director, but a new system a self-aware intelligent
programme written by Hacksaw is the packet editor. Every live shot
seen
by HacksawAEs audience will be from a camera source controlled by
Hacksaw u laptop camera, handy cam, mobile phone, captured security
camera footage, 24/7 web cameras etc.. Stock footage played by
Hacksaw
will be sourced from The Stack. At the start and end of each mobisode
bandwidth interference imagery will signify carrier leeching u
Robin-Hooding pay-per-view bandwidth to capture transmission. Her
broadcasts will always be battling disruption and reacquisition of
signal.
Back Story - THEM
=================
THEM
Born from the perceived need by the US Government to control a
no-questions-asked elite killing force, the first recruits into this
secret force were drafted from POWAEs rescued at the end of the
Korean
War.
These subjects, already mentally unstable, were deemed perfect for
the
inhuman experimentation they were about to endure; an experiment that
would backfire terribly in the following decades.
Known only as RECALL ONE this Top Secret study set out to implant in
the subjectsAE minds a false outcome to the Korean conflict and
indoctrinate a different world, a world reality that would only be
visible to them. They were brainwashed to believe they were engaged
in
a clandestine, unseen war.
To purge and reformat the subjects took almost a year but the outcome
was deemed a resounding success. These drones performed perfectly and
their fanatical belief that anyone could be an enemy of the state was
absolute. They lived for their orders and a chance to fight.
Insulated from the outside world these new drones were fed a constant
diet of manufactured propaganda. Allowed to interact only with each
other and their handlers the intensity of their belief structure
became
obsessive. When sent out for missions there behaviour was faultless,
they could calmly interact with the public secure in the fact that
they
believed they were the only ones who knew the real truth. Their
targets
would never know they were coming and after a mission the dronesAE
memory of their role would be wiped away. They would revert to a safe
state of control.
Throughout the 50s and 60s their numbers slowly increased to evolve
into a secret army called THEM. THEM contained three types of
operatives; Handlers, Drones and Sleepers. Handlers would recruit,
indoctrinate and manipulate subjects; Drones were the proven
workforce,
the soldier assassins (several notable assassinations have never been
traced back to them) and Sleepers, who were now part of the community
living a normal life oblivious to the secrets locked away inside
their
brains until triggered.
But when one of THEM starts to suspect his indoctrination and
glimpses
a hidden agenda inside the orders heAEs been given, he incites a
chain
reaction, a viral revolution amongst other THEM members. These
disaffected align to a new fanatical belief; that inside everything
they know lays conspiracy. They coup and create a breakaway faction.
The now rogue THEM start to amass information on everyone and
everything in the world via clandestine control of the underground
packet switching network known as ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects
Agency Network).
Entirely unknown to the outside world due to their extraordinary
training in the covert arts the new THEM quickly grow in numbers and
power. They insert a sleeper in the Government, a Special Liaison
officer answerable to no one.
The Special Projects Construction Bill is passed inside the masking
bureaucracy of a paper flood and a monitoring station is built
underground, surrounded by 60ft of concrete and steel. A monitor
screen
and loud speaker surrounded by lexan encased in a circular steel
vault
encircled by THEM Drones accessible only by the sleeper agent
(Special
Liaison) through a secure door labeled ANNEX ZERO underneath the most
secure building on the planet, the Pentagon.
No government knows directly of the existence of THEM, only of the
consequences of their power, a power that has been proven must be
feared and respected at all costs.
THEM are now the hidden leaders of the planet, a military sect
answerable to no one, a collective of fanatical protectors of the
worldAEs secrets and power and to all intents and purposes they
donAEt
exist.
But inside THEM their dark secret is unraveling. Years of
brainwashing
are taking its toll and a new thought process is evolving inside a
few
of THEM, a thought process ignited by a rouge hacker sharing her
secrets to the outside world.
This seed of free thought, this leak must be stopped at all costs.
Back Story - THE S.T.A.C
========================
THE S.T.A.C
[THE S.T.A.C (Subterranean. Tactical. Analysis. Core)]
The STAC is a gigantic storage facility located beneath the desolate
wasteland of a nuclear weapons testing ground, a vast labyrinth which
at its centre contains a massive computer core holding the planetAEs
information, everyoneAEs secrets. HacksawAEs mission, the first
campaign
of her digital war, must be to reveal The STACAEs complex encrypted
secrets to a naive world.
Storylines
==========
Episode 1
Hacksaw is in direct communication with the penulitmate hacker
located
high in the building adjacent to hers and is feeding him Intel on
approaching soldiers which we see via security cams. She pleads for
him
to get out but he knows itAEs too late oGet the signal out! Tell
everyone about the STACoe. Hacksaw spins to see the adjacent
buildings
floor explode out into a fireball oNO!oe
We realize the preceding sequence was pre-recorded when Hacksaw
appears
on screen stating she doesnAEt have much time, she is the last of her
kind and that they will now stop at nothing to prevent her exposing
their secrets to the world.
As the signal degrades Hacksaw appears one last time to state oThis
is
Hacksaw, now we are watching them!oe
Episode 2
From a skyscraper rooftop Hacksaw sets up a red herring transmission
station to gauge her enemyAEs response time (she guesstimates 2
mins).
She then reveals, a secret underground computer core known only as
The
STAC, the incredible library of conspiracyAEs and cover-ups it
contains
and the little she knows about its fanatical protectors who will do
anything and everything to stop her sharing itAEs revelations weekly.
By the time Hacksaw makes it to the street below she looks up to see
her pursuers encircling the buildings rooftop in Blackhawk choppers.
She makes her escape.
Episode 3
As Hacksaw races to the airport she reveals another conspiracy hacked
from The STAC.
For centuries hidden beneath the Vatican is the most unholy of sites;
a
giant vault filled with the worlds possessed. And now itAEs full.
Outside the airport Hacksaw sees herself in a sniperAEs sights, the
laser target clearly locked on her forehead, she is staring down the
barrel of an unseen gun. A bus enters frame and a bang is heard.
Did Hacksaw survive?
Episode 4
Hacksaw still on the run reveals another conspiracy from her files.
Top-secret NASA footage of the Mars Rover uTime lapse film reveals
unknown shadows falling over the Rover but each time the on-board
camera spins around only strange marks in the sand can be seen but no
evidence of what caused them. What the hell is it? Then The Mars
Orbiter circling the planet, captures some footage of the Rover and
under extreme magnification something can be seen in the pixelated
image, emerging from under the sand behind it. It looks human, infact
it looks like an astronaut .
Hacksaw reveals that this footage is only a week old and signs off.
Episode 5
Hacksaw reveals more classified footage from The STAC. Black and
white
documentary footage from the end of WWII of an underground v2 missile
factory near the blockhouse in France, the contents of which would
have
changed the outcome of the war.
Inside this factory, hidden in an anteroom, lays an Atlas
intercontinental ballistic missile with the letters U.S.A clearly
visible along itAEs length. One of the techs in the room is clearly
overheard saying oThe plans say Vandenburg Air Force base and
theyAEre
dated 1967, thatAEs 20 years in the future!oe As this discovery is
documented on film, the missile suddenly disappears into a frenetic
lightning Time Storm.
Hacksaw states that the true conspiracy of this film is that not only
was a missile from the future was there in 1945 but that no one knows
why and who brought it there and then made it disappear Somebody is
toying with history.
Episode 6
City Streets night
Hacksaw on the run describes that for the first time a mysterious
someone from outside her controllable Network, is feeding her THEM
intelligence transmissions.
She patches through the hacked THEM intelligence footage so her
audience can see.
The broadcast starts with black-clad soldiers ransacking HacksawAEs
hotel room, her clothes on the bed, dinner tray on the bedside table
and scrawled on the mirror in lipstick, PWNED!
The Soldiers who are watching the broadcast live realise itAEs their
own
footage being transmitted. Hacksaw taunts, oCome and get me.oe
Hacksaw eludes her pursuers by exposing the fallable floors in their
training.
Episode 7
Filming with a night vision camera whilst hiding at night in a forest
Hacksaw reveals the existence of ghosts with this weeks captured
footage from The STAC.
A team of scientists investigating an abandoned asylum with infa red
cameras interview a co-operative ghost who was once a patient.
Suddenly
the tables are turned and they are set upon by the insane spirits
that
inhabit the most haunted place on earth.
Cut back to Hacksaw who this time whispers her sign off line.
Episode 8
Hacksaw filming herself using a handy cam inside an aeroplane
bathroom.
The plane is hit by extreme turbulence. The engines howl. Hacksaw
introduces this weeks story hacked from The STAC, which illuminates
the
existence of aliens far more real than the American cold war paranoia
from the 50AEs.
An investigation into a downed Blackbird SR71 spy plane in North
Korea
will turn into a fierce battle as a troop of soldiers flee for their
lives from dark alien creatures.
Back to extreme turbulence in an airline toilet.
Hacksaw states that what weAEve just witnessed is just the tip of a
much
darker iceberg.
oThis is Hacksaw. Now weAEre watching THEM.oe
Episode 9
Hacksaw walks the City streets as she delivers this EpisodeAEs story.
A Top Secret North Korean film. North Korean voiceover and text
documenting the creation of an human/alien hybrid army. The aliens
killed in the fight in the forest in the North Korean forest seen in
an
earlier transmission and their victims have been taken by North
Korean
secret police to a subterranean hospital on a military base where
geneticists have successfully cloned up a controllable human hybrid.
TheyAEre creating a super lethal army.
Episode 10
Hacksaw, hiding inside a nightclub, describes that her pursuers are
tightening the net, but in the past few days she has been in direct
communication with a shadowy informant.
She verbally cuts to a package that includes conversations sheAEs had
with this figure, and vision of what little she can see inside the
camouflaged noise and electronic voice of this well-connected but
untraceable informant.. How can they know so much about her and the
STAC? Can Hacksaw trust him, her, whatever? Or is this an elaborate
trap?
With the noise inside and out flooding her mind Hacksaw sign-offs .
Episode 11
Hacksaw reveals the secret footage of Apollo 18 the only mission to
never have been made public.
As seen from inside the LEM we descend to the surface of the moon.
Mission control, with a skeleton crew and the astronautAEs voices can
be
clearly heard. Everything is going to plan then a giant hanger door
splits open on the moonAEs surface revealing a technological world
beneath. Panic ensues and then Statica
Hacksaw signs off.....nothing more to add to what we have seen.
Episode 12
Hacksaw has started direct communication with someone who says they
are
with THEM and that they no longer believe. Believe in what?
They show her an internal security report to gain her trust that
shows
just how much intel they have amassed about her, from a surveillance
folder located in The STAC. This is just one of billions of folders
relating to every human on the planet. What they know about you all
is
frightening, your privacy is a thing of the past. The STAC is much
bigger than Hacksaw ever imagined.
The informant then shows her autopsy photos of her dead Hacker Clan
and
states that they personally were in charge of accessing and the
elimination of this threat. Only now does this informant understand
the
importance of HacksawAEs message.
But this language is abrupt and clouded in secrets. The mystery
figure
says there is a much greater conspiracy that Hacksaw needs to know.
Episode 13
Underground car park
Hacksaw has received no new communication from her mystery informant
in
fact all activity at The STAC seems to have stopped.
As Hacksaw is transmitting all power goes out and screeching tyres
can
be heard as a van pulls up and out rush a squad of THEM soldiers
screaming oGet down on the ground NOW!oe They surround Hacksaw and
have
her pinned down there muzzle torches dance over her trapped body. One
soldier lefts her head by her hair to say,
oDo you know how much trouble youAEve caused LITTLE GIRLoe.
Episode 14
The transmission starts with static and the super HACKSAW SIGNAL
OFFLINE replaced by SIGNAL CAPTURE. aSOURCE UNKNOWN. aSHUTDOWN YES /
NO
NO is mysteriously clicked and an image from security cameras reveal
a
clearly panicked HACKSAW inside a dark room strapped to a vertical
surgical gurney. Multiple cameras, and a cacophony of voices surround
her, she is covered in sensors and IV drips. Strangely they only ask
her simple questions about herself oDid you have a happy upbringing,
what is your favourite colour?oe etc.. The questions tumble over each
other with no obvious point, or reason, slowly wearing her down.
Hacksaw pleads for them to stop then in unison they ask, oWhy are you
doing this?oe
The medical gurney is then lowered to a horizontal position. From
above
we see her head thrashing back and forth wildly until a surgical
gloved
hand grabs her chin to restrain her, her eyes widen as a bite block
is
forced between her teeth. Stroboscopic lighting ignites.
Episode 15
Escape
Action episode.
Again,the transmission starts with static and the super HACKSAW
SIGNAL
OFFLINE replaced by SIGNAL CAPTURE. aSOURCE UNKNOWN. aSHUTDOWN YES /
NO. NO is pressed.
From inside the depravation cell a dazed Hacksaw can hear the echoes
of
shouting and gunfire. Security cameras record her cowering tightly on
the floor in a foetal position then she slowly stands and takes up a
defiant stance. The door is breached to her cell and a THEM soldier
enters to drag her out. After a short struggle down corridor the
soldier draws a gun and places it against her head to subdue her.
They
exit that security cameras field of vision.
A blinding white light floods frame as an emergency siren wails. A
voice shouts oRUNoe as, Hacksaw gets hurled through a security door
and
into the outside world. An external security camera picks her up
running as fast as her dazed body can deep into the forest beyond.
Episode16
Static is broken by images from a flying surveillance drone. We see
an
unconscious Hacksaw lying in her underwear in a clearing by a forest.
Medical information races past frame, heart rate, body temperature
etc,
something is monitoring her.
The image degrades to a flashing super ACTIVATE CEREBAL IMPLANT REC
1.
This super is replaced by anotheraONLINE. In a series of image
flashes
and vignettes we see Hacksaws journey, including the various
conspiracies revealed from The STAC, leading up to new subliminal
images of an ethereal cell suspended in space inside a cavernous
room.
Then an unknown face appears under strobing text that reads HACK
ANNEX
ZERO.
From the security drone we see Hacksaw physically affected by this
invasion on her brain then in a start Hacksaw wakes up. Her first
words
are owhatAEs ANNEX ZEROoe.
Episode 17
In a dingy Truck stop bathroom dressed in a cheap summer dress,
Hacksaw
transmits via a mobile phone while recording herself looking into a
mirror. She explains that it has taken two days just to find a road
and
still she canAEt comprehend the recent past. oWhy did they let me go?
oe.
The transmission is interrupted by images flashing in HacksawAEs
brain.
In the mirror we see this transference physically affect her. oWhat
is
happening to me?oe
As she splashes water on her face and eyeballs the cameras she states
oShow stored packetoe.
A top-level internal CIA film showcasing the contents of a hidden
hanger, containing captured U.F.Ooes, not just one but many.
Narration
explains the circumstances of capture and ends on revealing a tiny
engine with the extraordinary statement u oIf connected, this
infinite,
inexhaustible engine could power the planet for ever.oe
Finishes with Hacksaw leaning into the mirror to deliver her
signature
sign-off.
Episode 18
Inside static we see the image of aethe unknown manAE that has
appeared
in her mind previously. The static clears to reveal Hacksaw filming
herself walking the streets in the rain. oIAEve discovered this man
is
called the Special liaison officer, liaison for and to what? IAEm
sure
heAEs one of THEM but I am still investigating now that some of The
STAC
is back on line. As soon as I know who he and why he is important so
will youoe
The next stored packet abruptly starts. Black & white film lit by
torches from the 40AEs of a secret anteroom in the great pyramid of
Cheops showing the original plans for the construction of the pyramid
in hieroglyphics. These highly complex and detailed diagrams clearly
reveal the original architects had help from the future
Again this footage proves that history has been tampered with,,,but
by
who and why is the real conspiracy.
Episode 19
Hacksaw seen via web cams slides between terminals inside a vast
server
room as she multitasks across systems in an attempt to hack Annex
Zero
this hack is the hardest sheAEs ever attempted. She has discovered
about
the origins of THEM, the terrible emotional abuse of their sordid
past,
how much control they have amassed on the planet and the fact that
anyone anywhere could be a sleeper agent just waiting to be activated
into one of THEM.
Then she discovers aeliveAE where Annex Zero is, and in a sequence of
shots revealed by satellite imagery we see it is buried under the
center of the most secure building on the planet the Pentagon. She
sermises that while the STAC is the core that contains everything,
this
must be the Network hub through which all information passes. While
this is an extraordinary discovery there must be a still a larger
reason that Annex Zero has been placed in her subconscious.
As her signal is traced and honed in on she says aeIAEm in!oe it goes
to black.
Episode 20
HacksawAEs eyes appear through static in a series of shots. She
informs
us that she received this packet from her mystery informant.
The film reveals, via headcam, somebody walking around showing the
inner workings of The STAC
The enormity of this underground facility is revealed in detail for
the
first time from the surgical suites and operations rooms to the
legions
of troops based there. But the real horror lies inside the STACAEs
central core. As data storage plates are removed the true inner
workings of the stack are revealed. Sectioned living human brain
tissue. Over loudspeakers the announcement of a Security breach in
section 1 of the main core complex puts an abrupt end to the
transmission.
Hacksaw signs offanow we know what THEM do with people they donAEt
need.
Episode 21
Hacksaws brain transmits images of a Cell suspended in air. Her
unknown
informer says THEM are in the midst of revolution, the STAC is in
lockdown all external lines are being severed and that she must
expose
the danger of the Cell, before all is lost and everything becomes
secret again. What is the Cell? He tells her that her mind already
knows and so will she when she getAEs final access to Annex Zero. She
shows us inside the enormity of the security surrounding Annex Zero
and
explains why she has been told to hack it ait can get a signal to
every
communication device everywhere on the planet at the same time.
Leading up clearly and decisivele to a payoff.
Episode 22
Hacksaw is in an elevator sheAEs been told to get out of the building
fast when suddenly the lift stops and is plunged into darkness.
The image switches to infa red, a clearly distressed Hacksaw trapped,
scans through the building security cameras. THEM soldiers appear to
be
everywhere, on everyfloor. She sees a group approach a lift exterior
and the power starts up again. SheAEs descending into their waiting
arms, ding the door begins to open soldiers weapons drawn ready to
fire. Out of shot gunfire is heard and the soldiers fall to the
ground
revealing a soldier removing her helmet oIAEm the mystery voice in
your
head thatAEs been helping with your signal. oCAEmonoe together they
run.
(As seen via security cam) BANG! a final shot from one of THEM takes
out her informer.
Hacksaw cradles this informer for her last words as seen through her
discarded helmet cam. oUse Annex zero you must tell them about the
Cellaoe Hacksaw looks directly at the helmet cam and with that the
image
degrades with the super OPERATIVE DECEASED.
Episode23
ANNEX ZEROa ONLINE. Reveals a clean image of Hacksaw as she uses
Annex
Zero to broadcast everywhere on every system across the globe the
secret of the Creation Cell, the fact that it is one half of the
original cell that created the universe and that it was buried here16
thousand years ago to protect it, (Protect it from what?) but now
because of THEM scientists probing inside it, its active and sending
out a signal they cant understand but know is dire for if it combines
with its other half everything we know and understand will cease to
exist.



ON A COMPUTER SCREEN. HACKSAW logo.
The screen breaks up with distorted static and text, a digital jigsaw
of images.
Text appears - SIGNAL SEARCHING
INT. SKYSCRAPER 34th FLOOR - NIGHT
Finally the broken images form a concise picture. A YOUNG WOMAN
glares
down the screen, an undisclosed city of lights glitter behind her.
She
yells, static overshadowing her voice, until-
One sentence becomes clear...
HACKSAW
(degraded audio)
C... Car... Carter... They're closing in!

CUT TO:
Scrambled vision, audio. Signal finding strength -
Text Appears: SIGNAL LOCK.
- revealing CARTER, sweat drenched, anxious, breathless. He wears a
military style headpiece with camera and microphone, talks into his
laptop's webcam.
Behind him, office cubicles.
CARTER
Get me the hell outta here!

CUT TO:
Hacksaw, pounding at her laptop keys. Intense concentration.
HACKSAW (VO)
Hold tight, I'm searching...

CUT TO:
SECURITY FOOTAGE, MULTIPLE ANGLES. BLACK CLAD SOLDIERS, guns poised,
storm the office tower stairwell.
HACKSAW (VO)
They're everywhere. Twenty-sixth
floor and climbing.
CUT TO:
CARTER. He looks up to the floor number - 34.
CARTER
Which way?!
CUT TO:
A 3D Wire Image of the office skyscraper. Carter, stationary on floor
34, shown as a green dot. Black Clad Soldiers, racing up all four
exit
staircases, shown as red.
HACKSAW (VO)
Thermals show all four exits covered.
CUT TO:
HACKSAW, searching her screen with determination. Finally she sees a
way...
HACKSAW (VO)
Take the elevator shaft! Free and clear!
CUT TO:
CARTER
Show me out...
Carter slams his laptop shut.
HEADPIECE POV. He bolts down the office hall.
HACKSAW (VO)
Left at the end ...
CUT TO:
SECURITY FOOTAGE, MULTIPLE ANGLES. Black Clad Soldiers continue to
storm upward.
SFX: Intercepted radio transmission from the soldiers.
RADIO
TRANSMISSION
Alpha 7, 28... Clear!
Bravo 5, 28... Clear!
Copy all units. Aerial support on route...
BACK TO:
Carter, racing past cubicles...
HACKSAW (VO)
Second right...
....turning into a hall.
CUT TO:
HACKSAW. Perspiring, adrenaline pumping, she works her laptop like a
seasoned pro.
HACKSAW
Right again and you're there
sweetheart...
CUT TO:
SECURITY FOOTAGE, MULTIPLE ANGLES. Black Clad Soldiers still rising.
RADIO TRANSMISSION
Aerial support is on approach...
Cease at 30...
Copy that...
CUT TO:
CARTER, racing through the office hall. He takes a hard right.
CUT TO:
SECURITY FOOTAGE, MULTIPLE ANGLES. The Black Clad Soldiers suddenly
stop dead at level thirty. Guns raised, they don't take another step.
CUT TO:
Tracker dots on Hacksaws screen. The red dots, the soldiers, stop
rising.
CUT TO:
HACKSAW. She stops typing. Her eyes widen...
HACKSAW
They've stopped.
CARTER (VO)
Where?
HACKSAW
Thirtieth floor.
CUT TO:
HEADPIECE POV. Carter reaches the elevator. He try's to pry its door
open. Useless. He hits the button, looks to its floor number. It
starts climbing from level 10.
CUT TO:
HACKSAW.
RADIO TRANSMISSION
Aerial support on target...
Weapons hot...
Sudden realization slams across her face.
HACKSAW
Take the shaft Carter. Now!
CUT TO:
HEADPIECE POV. Carter try's to pry open the elevator doors but they
won't budge. He looks t the elevator numbers - 16... 17...
He turns to his laptop, opening.
RADIO TRANSMISSION
Green to go Black 7...
Copy that. Firing...
Fox 2 away...
(SFX: rocket thundering)
HACKSAW
Carter. Take the shaft!
WEBCAM POV. Resolve washes over him...
CARTER
No time...
He begins to type.
CARTER (cont.)
Log onto the server, there's an
encrypted packet. You must get the
signal out, tell everyone about the STAC.
It's up to you now Hacksaw and
whatever you do - don't forget
Tunguska.
CUT TO:
HACKSAW. Fear washed over her, she's powerless.
SFX: Woosh!
She spins to the window. A missile flies past and-
Hacksaw slams her hands on the window, grasping -
HACKSAW
Carter!!!
CUT TO:
SECURITY FOOTAGE. The entire top floor of the office tower blows up!

BACK TO:
HACKSAW. The window blows out in front of her, shattering, throwing
her to the ground.
The fireball overexposes the frame. Flash to white then -
Static.
Vertical lines scan across screen.
Hacksaw's eyes appear. Tired but determined.
HACKSAW
They killed fourteen of us...
CUT TO:
Autopsy photo's flash on screen of dead hackers.
Text reads : DECEASED.
HACKSAW (VO)
Fourteen of my friends. I'm the last
of the informed. Hunted by an agency
that doesn't... shouldn't exist.
BACK TO:
Hacksaw, multiple shots - eyes, lips...
HACKSAW
We hacked their mainframe, stole their
secrets. Now, they want them back.
CUT TO:
Half an image downloads on screen, the other half distorted,
destroyed.
HACKSAW (VO)
All I have is what Carter sent me -
The image is somewhat organic; diamond like, with many surfaced
angles, inside it contains what looks to be static...
HACKSAW (VO)
A corrupted image. Garbled data. And
his final words. Tunguska.
BACK TO:
HACKSAW, again - flashing grabs of her eyes, her lips...
HACKSAW
I won't let THEM win. They're
going to pay. Every last one. But I
need your help. I'll leech another transmission in seven days when I
know
more.
Hacksaw's face, full frame now...
HACKSAW
Watch for my signal. Knowledge is
our power. And the ultimate power
is truth.
Vision degrades, static.
Text on screen: SIGNAL LOST.
ON A COMPUTER SCREEN. Standard Episode Opener.
Text appears: SIGNAL LOCK. Hacksaw's eyes appear.
HACKSAW
Are you listening?
EXT. WAREHOUSE ROOFTOP - NIGHT
Hacksaw speaks into a wide-angle webcam attached to her laptop.
HACKSAW
They've been hot on my heels.
All week. Like a pack of
wolves. Tonight I find out what
makes THEM tick.
Hacksaw presses a button on her laptop.
ON THE COMPUTER SCREEN: SIGNAL BROADCASTING.
HACKSAW (CONT.)
They'll trace the signal,-
CUT TO:
MULTIPLE SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE.
Quick shots of the warehouse rooftop. Hacksaw stands next to a
computer set up smack bang in middle.
HACKSAW (VO)
- I give them three minutes till
they pounce -
CUT TO:
HACKSAW, staring into the webcam.
HACKSAW
- which gives me two to get out.
She spins around -
CUT TO:
SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE.
Hacksaw races across the rooftop, bursting through the exit door.
CUT TO:
INT. STAIRWELL - NIGHT
Down the stairs she flees, addressing her mobile phone camera.
HACKSAW
Listen closely. The mainframe we
hacked. They call it The STAC.
Vertical lines scan across screen, igniting hidden code which
shudders
to life as text: THE STAC.
HACKSAW (VO)
It's a machine.
Vertical lines scan across screen, revealing two BLACK CLAD SOLDIER
from a SECURITY CAMERA POV. A security station scans their heads,
green lasers revealing serial numbers imprinted on their skulls.
HACKSAW (VO)
'Supercomputer' doesn't do it
justice. This thing is alive.
Growing.
Text On Screen: IDENT CONFIRMED.
The security camera PULLS OUT to reveal an open caged elevator. The
doors open and the soldiers step in. The elevator descends.
HACKSAW (VO)
It holds answers to all the
worlds secrets. Conspiracy's.
Cover-up's. A machine of truth-
The security camera continues to PULL OUT, further and further, to
reveal a ginormous structure. A machine made of metal and glass,
rotating, undulating, somewhat like a crank shaft of a car. Air-
conditioning units spin, keeping it cool, while steam rises from its
joints and gaps.
It is an Orwellian nightmare.
CUT TO:
INT. STAIRWELL - NIGHT
Hacksaw races down those stairs, two, three at a time...
HACKSAW (VO)
-protected by an agency of liars.
THEM - a rogue agency,-
CUT TO:
INT. ELEVATOR
ELEVATOR SECURITY CAMERA POV.
THEM soldiers continue to descend... Level 19... Level 20...
HACKSAW (VO)
-fanatical guardians that will do
anything to protect their secrets.
The elevator stops, shuddering. The doors open.
CUT TO:
THEM SOLDIERS HELMET CAM
They exit the elevator, looking around. This machine, it's like a
skyscraper... only built underground.
They approach an archway that opens out into a mirrored chamber,
which
extends into the distance. In the middle of the chamber, what looks
something like a 600ft diamond geode. Lightning and static explodes
within it. There is power here, unimaginable power -
CUT TO:
INT. STAIRWELL - NIGHT
Hacksaw races down the last of the stairs.
HACKSAW
Whatever that is, it's the tip
of the iceberg. What they've
kept from us. Their well of
secrets. But it's just the
beginning.
She burst out the exit door -
EXT. ALLEYWAY - NIGHT
- slowing into the alleyway.
HACKSAW
I'll do everything I can
to get their secrets out.
SFX: A Helicopter bursts overhead.
MOBILE PHONE CAMERA POV. Hacksaw films a HELICOPTER as it tears
across
the sky approaching the warehouse rooftop.
HACKSAW (VO)
Well well... The boys are already
here.
CUT TO:
MULTIPLE SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE.
Black Clad Soldiers drop from the helicopter onto the warehouse
rooftop.
HACKSAW (VO)
Two minutes twenty two seconds.
Impressive.
CUT TO:
HACKSAW continuing down the dark, dank alleyway.
HACKSAW
It's time for rebellion, we
can't let THEM win.
CUT TO:
MULTIPLE SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE.
Black Clad Soldiers, guns at the ready, sweep the rooftop.
HACKSAW (VO)
I'm going to tear every secret
out of their STAC.
The soldiers, in perfect formation, close in on the computer set up
in
the middle.
CUT TO:
HACKSAW.
HACKSAW
Broadcast the truth of all their
lies. Watch for my signal. And
listen. The more we know, the less
power they have.
CUT TO:
MULTIPLE SECURITY CAMERA FOOTAGE.
The soldiers reach the computer. They stop only feet away, guns
poised at the screen.
On the screen...
HACKSAW
Now I know how you move,
how you attack. This is
Hacksaw. Now we're watching
THEM.
The computer screen flicks from Hacksaw to the security footage of
the
soldiers on the rooftop. One of the soldiers breaks from formation,
ferocious, kicking the screen. It flies across the floor.
The others turn to the security cameras and let fire-
Static.
Text on screen: SIGNAL LOST
ON A COMPUTER SCREEN. Standard Episode Opener.
Text Appears - SIGNAL SEARCHING
HACKSAW
(broken audio)
I... I have to...keep moving...
Broken scrambled images.
TEXT: SIGNAL LOCKED.
INT. REAR TAXI SEAT - NIGHT
INTERCUT with TAXI SECURITY CAMERA and Hacksaw's LAPTOP WEBCAM.
Hacksaw looks worn, beaten, but there's a determined fire still
burning in her eyes.
HACKSAW
They don't chase me anymore.
They wait. They know where
I've been. Where I'm going. I've
nowhere left to hide here. It's
my time to move on.
CUT TO:
Vertical lines scan across screen, lighting hidden code which
shudders
into life as text: US CLASSIFIED. TOP SECRET. SERIAL: 2264.
HACKSAW
I've dug deeper into the STAC.
More text appears: GERMANY, 1945
HACKSAW (VO)
If this is what they control,
they have more power than I
imagined.
Flash frames of stock footage; a German MILITARY BASE. The entrance
to
an UNDERGROUND CAVERN.
HACKSAW (VO)
In 1945 Hitler planned a blitz. A
relentless rocket attack on England
and Europe.
CUT TO:
A MILITARY FILM. Black and white. The camera approaches the entrance
to the underground cavern, stepping into darkness...
HACKSAW (VO)
It would have changed the course of
the war.
FROM BLACK the camera enters an enormous V2 ROCKET FACTORY.
Rockets. Lined up one after another as far as the eye can see. The
Cameraman describes the scene as he sees it through the lens -
CAMERAMAN (VO)
Chamber roughly 2000 feet long...
Antechambers along both sides...
Railway tracks transport rockets to
launch pads... Scale of production...
Enormous. There's... Thousands of
rockets here...
CUT TO:
HACKSAW.
HACKSAW (VO)
The Allies invaded before the
onslaught could begin. They found
this facility. And something else...
CUT TO:
MILITARY VIDEO CAMERA FOOTAGE.
The camera pans down a huge V2 Rocket.
MILITARY OFFICER (OS)
You. With the camera. Over here.
The camera pans to a line of high-ranking MILITARY OFFICIALS talking
quietly amongst themselves outside an entrance to another room. The
camera approaches, the officials turning away as it passes to obscure
their faces.
The camera enters a GIANT CHAMBER. A massive, polished, STEEL ROCKET
lies on its side on a cradle. The rocket is different to the V2's,
larger, modern. The letters 'U.S.A' are emblazoned along its side.
The camera films the rocket. The Officials in the room studying it,
photograph it, pour over blueprints.
We hear off-screen-
MILITARY OFFICIALS (OS)
It's called an 'Atlas'...
These plans say Vanderberg Air
Force Base...
It's dated 1967!
Suddenly, commotion. Yelling, screams -
The camera spins around to reveal a BLACK-CLAD SOLDIER sprinting into
the chamber. He's unarmed, except for a device in his hand. Like a
trigger to a bomb.
The Military Officials stand, perplexed, staring at this black
creature racing across the floor when -
He reaches the rocket, hand touching. He presses the trigger device -
And in a flash of electricity he disappears!
Silence fills the room. The sound of static. Suddenly, arcing bolts
of
electricity fill the air, surround the rocket. A thunderous noise
cracks and everyone turns on their heels, running for dear life from
the chamber.
The Cameraman remains, filming the electrical storm. It builds and
flares and surges around the rocket, until finally a blinding flash
of
white...
Vision returns. Papers float to the floor. Residual static activity
outlines where the rocket used to be. Because now, it's gone.
Silence,
then -
A sound, like turbines spinning, faster and faster, louder until-
A sonic wave explodes, knocking the Cameraman over and shattering the
camera lens!
BLACK. A LOGO APPEARS.

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INT. TAXI - NIGHT
Hacksaw.
HACKSAW
It's THEM. They're trying to toy with
history. But they can't control it.
Yet.
Vertical lines scan across screen. The logo appears again.
HACKSAW (VO)
The logo. I've seen something
like it before.
A second image appears on screen, next to the first. It's Carter's
image, half corrupted, but it looks remarkably similar to the logo.
HACKSAW (VO)
Carter's image. They're interconnected
but I don't know how. I need somewhere
safe... safer... to find out. I can't
keep running, I need time to look.
Hacksaw glances out the passenger window, checking her surroundings.
HACKSAW
Pull over.
She throws the Driver some cash, exiting.
EXT. BUSY STREET - NIGHT
The door slams behind her, Hacksaw walks to the curbside talking into
her mobile phone camera.
HACKSAW
The signal's dying, I'll be in
touch. I'm skipping the country.
Found a safer haven to hack deeper
into the STAC. If these are
interconnected, there's more....
HACKSAW crosses the street.
HACKSAW (CONT'D)
Now you know what I'm up against.
We're up against. I think we're
at the brink of a war, one we
have no choice but to fight.
This is Hacksaw, now we're
watching -
Signal interference. The vision switches from Hacksaw to that of a
sniper's scope at a distance. The rifle lens snap-changes from wide
to
an extreme close-up of Hacksaw's face.
Hacksaw looks up. She's staring down the barrel of an unseen gun.
Traffic races past her, flashing past frame.
Gunshot.
HACKSAW logo.
Static.
Creator Daniel Burns and team
Chaos Productions Pty Ltd