The Capture (Part 1)

"Nobody moves! This is a national security operation."

(Scene: Robot Blending Section of the Robot Recycling Plant, early morning. A team of 100 masked Police Officers floods in, their heavy boots echoing like thunder. The exits are swiftly barricaded.)

Officer: Nobody moves! This is a national security operation. You’re all under investigation.

(The workers freeze, their faces pale with shock. Whispers ripple through the group.)

Worker A: What the hell is going on? Why are they here?

Worker B: They’re after Po. If you’ve even looked his way, you’re marked.

Worker C: God... we’re done for. They’ll round us all up. No one gets out of this alive.

Ms. Linq: (hissing) Quiet! Keep your heads down. Don’t give them a reason to notice you.

(The group falls silence. TWO OFFICERS, their faces unreadable behind their masks, break off from the main group and approach MS. LINQ.)

Officer M: Ms. Linq, line manager of this section?

Ms. Linq: Yes. I am. What’s the meaning of this?

Officer M: We’re here on official business. Everyone in this section will be taken in for questioning.

Ms. Linq: Everyone? That’s absurd! We’re workers, not criminals.

Officer M: Workers? Is that what you call yourselves? Or maybe informants? Harboring fugitives? Hiding a certain... humanoid?

(Ms. Linq stiffens, her eyes darting toward the workers. The officers begin rounding them up, securing their wrists and shoving them toward the exit.)

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