Good Fire

Establishing - 
 
Camera coasts over a large crowd. Thousands of people are cheering and waving flags & signs. We see signs like MAGA, Lock Em Up, Make America Great Again, etc.
 
Ext. National Mall, DC - Day
 
At the edge of the crowd. A Native American woman is being pushed in a wheelchair. She's wearing traditional garb: a long flowing robe, and a headdress. She's being wheeled by a young man, who's in street clothes. Based on age, this could be her grandson. When she reaches the edge of the crowd, he leans close to her and they speak to each other, but we don't hear it. He locks the wheels on the wheelchair and she stands up. They embrace. 
 
Then, he turns and walks away quickly in the other direction. She begins a traditional indigenous dance. Her appearance, the dance, and her singing draw the attention of people in the crowd close to her. They become upset that she would dare to be there. Two dozen or more people break off and start to move towards her. They form a semi-circle around her with her at the center. They're shouting slurs and threatening her but she continues her dance. 
 
More people see the distraction and move towards her. The circle closes around her with dozens of people shouting over her and making threats. Finally, when she's completely surrounded by this crowd, she stops and begins a prayer. She raises her hands and face to the sky.
 
WOMAN:
Grandfather. grandmother. We seek the wisdom of the seven generations past and the seven generations to come. We need to teach. Today, we take action, not with hate in our hearts, but with hope. 
 
The word 'hope' seems to set the crowd off reminiscent of a former president, and they begin to close in around her.
 
She begins chanting in another language, eyes looking at the sky. The crowd finally closes in and reaches towards her. People getting more brave and more bold, throwing items and getting directly in face. 
 
She looks to the ground and whispers to herself as they scream. She tucks her hands into the folds of the robe. The circle around her has grown as more and more attention is drawn towards her. 
 
She looks back skyward and pulls out her hands, holding them up to the sky. And we see that in one hand is a cylinder, the size and shape of a hotdog, with wires running back under the folds of the robe. Following the lines of the robe, the wire continues over the ground and back to the wheelchair just behind her.
 
At the top of the cylinder is a button. Her thumb is hovering over the button on top and she screams something in another language and presses the plunger. 
 
Establishing -
 
We cut back to a wide view of the entire national mall and a fireball erupts at the edge of the crowd. From our angle, we see the fireball and a burst of smoke. As the smoke quickly clears, mayhem breaks out as people try to get away from the explosion. The crowd starts going crazy. 
 
As the smoke fully clears, there is a circle of dead and maimed bodies surrounding a burnt patch at its center. The circle is much bigger than we would anticipate.
 
Ext. National Mall, DC - Day
 
Cut to the streetside again and the wheelchair is a mangled mess. The woman is nowhere to be seen. 
 
Pan over the crowd. Bodies lying in every direction, torn up in unfamiliar ways. There are people bleeding. Beyond the mangled inner circle, at varying distances from the center of the circle, there are people injured, and people are calling out for help. Anyone mobile in the crowd is crawling, hobbling or running away. The uninjured outside of the circle are ignoring the calls for help and moving in the opposite direction.
 
Pan over some debris that is burning on the ground. 
 
Moving up. We see that it spells out: "Good Fire".
 
 Cut to black. 
Opening credits. 
 
As the credits roll, we see a news story playing about the incidents that we just witnessed. The Voice Over explains that, the terrorist act has been claimed by a group calling themselves “The Council of Three Fires.”
 
It was a previously unknown group. The report is heavy on the terrorism language and hate language. 
 
And as the credits finish…
Fade to Black.
 
Ext. Desert - Night
 
Sand, rocks and desert brush grass are everywhere. There are some barracks-style buildings in the distance, lit by small outdoor lights. Closer, a group of a dozen people is huddled around a more traditional indigenous lodge and a campfire is burning in the middle. As we move towards the fire, we see three groups standing around the fire, each directly behind a single figure sitting at the fire.
 
The three at the fire are speaking in low and solemn tones. One is an indigenous tribal elder. He is in his late 30s or early 40s but wearing the chief’s garb. We see the younger man from the protest in the background behind him, amongst a group of indigenous men and women.
 
Another of the men at the fire is white, but he is backed by a diverse group of people in their twenties and thirties. The third man at the fire is Hispanic, backed by his own group of people.
 
Superimpose: Tohono O'odham Nation, Arizona/Sonora Region
 
This holds on screen below superimposed: The Council of Three Fires
 
The entire group at the fireside has a solemn energy, but there is also a sense of unwariness. Respect keeps them standing in place, but their anxiety is shown in restlessness.