ENTER THE COOLEY COMPOUND
EXTERIOR WIDE:
Camera is road level and centered behind TERROR, ZACH and COLE. As they walk away from the camera it jib cranes up and over them to reveal their destination, the COOLEY COMPOUND.
MONTAGE JIB CRANE & FLY OVER SHOTS OF THE COOLEY COMPOUND:
The Cooley Compound a few short years ago was a thriving Upstate dairy farm. Now the farm house, the two main red barns, their accompanying silos and three other small outbuildings are surrounded by a makeshift fortress wall. One of the out buildings was the hired hands living quarters and the other two were used for equipment storage.
The Cooley’s all lived in the house, Terror and a couple of the hired hands lived out in their own small building since before all this shit went down and the rest of the community lived out in one of the barns that they had converted to accommodate people instead of livestock.
Elijah had ordered all new steel roofing just before the power went out. When the first reports of "Monsters" in the area came to the farm he decided to build a safety wall around the farm with the roofing and barbed wire. As the months dragged into years they continuously fortified it and built look out towers near the corners of the fencing.
Family and a group of the people from the surrounding community eventually ended up living there for safety. The Cooley family had farmed this land since the 1800’s. They had cows for milk and meat, chickens for eggs and meat and pigs. After the first winter, they had planted a huge vegetable garden between the farm house an the barns. The farm was huge, about 300 acres. They had an apple orchard about three-quarters of a mile to the south of the compound that had four different varieties of apples. About a half a mile to the east was a black berry patch that stretched almost a quarter mile along the pasture, and it made great natural defense line. Everyone who lives at the Cooley Compound has a job (Sometimes several) and plenty work to do in order to survive.
After two waves of Army soldier and the second winter had passed, the threat from these monsters diminished and the threat from near by men seeking power and position in this new world has become the real threat to humanity. The wall had been breached several time this past winter. A couple people at the Cooley Compound were killed in the first raid. The Cooley’s got their revenge the the second time. Terror killed two of them with an shovel and his bare hands as they were trying to escape back out of the hole that they had cut in the wall.
After two waves of Army soldier and the second winter had passed, the threat from these monsters diminished and the threat from near by men seeking power and position in this new world has become the real threat to humanity. The wall had been breached several time this past winter. A couple people at the Cooley Compound were killed in the first raid. The Cooley’s got their revenge the the second time. Terror killed two of them with an shovel and his bare hands as they were trying to escape back out of the hole that they had cut in the wall.
Elijah had added a second layer of protection after the raids. Now there are a half dozen "Rangers" surrounding the farm about 150 to 200 yards out from the fence 24 hours a day. They all are heavily armed and night shift carries flair guns.
STEADICAM
POV of walking along with men, Cole, Zack and Terror are almost home.
The trio stops abruptly as they hear movement in the near by brushes and a dirty faced man in his late twenty’s in camo overalls and sporting shorty spiky jet black hair and an AR-15 with a night vision scope steps out of the woods. He is DEREK.
What the hell happened to you?
Turner
Damn
Turner's guy is dead.
Bastards - we owe you Zack
Remmy been through?
Nope, haven’t seen him come through this way.
Zach grins at Cole and they exchange cold glares as the oblivious Terror head towards the gates of home and they follow.
The jib crane rises over them to capture the last rays of sunset and then it turns around and lowers to capture the long shadows cast by the men as they pass through the front gates and into the compound and it closes behind them.
What about Jimmy?
Came home about a half hour ago.
Zach grins at Cole and they exchange cold glares as the oblivious Terror head towards the gates of home and they follow.
JIB CRANE RISE
The jib crane rises over them to capture the last rays of sunset and then it turns around and lowers to capture the long shadows cast by the men as they pass through the front gates and into the compound and it closes behind them.
INTERIOR COOLEY FARM HOUSE
The three men walk quickly through the house to the King’s study and Zack knocks loudly on the closed pocket doors. After a short pause the doors slide open and the King appears with a serious look on his face.
Come in ... we have a lot to discuss.
The King quickly turns and heads back over to the fire place where Jimmy is sitting. Zack and Terror follow the King as Cole turns to close the doors behind them. Cole is staring blankly back at the camera as the doors slide close and his face disappears behind them.
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