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recordings.
    The follower returns with a projector, that he puts
on the table. He starts it playing.
    The man is seen entering Nihil's room, rummaging in
his drawers.
    NIHIL
    to the followers
    Hold him tightly!
    Nihil seizes the novice's arm and wrings it behind
the back. Then, with a single blow, he rotates it upward.
    The novice screams, bends sideways. His keepers work
hard to straighten him.
    Nihil goes to the window and stares outside.
    The sky is clear, but sudden gusts cut into the thin
jet of the fountain in the middle of the square.
    He turns. He is apparently calm.
    NIHIL
    Fetch me the traitor's possessions.
    His assistant goes out and when a few minutes later
he comes back, he has a sack under his harm.
    Nihil scatters the contents onto the table, searches
frenetically till he finds a micromemory.
    He unloads the e-mails and cross checks in his visual
field the addresses against the Elects' ones.
    The name of a councilor appears.
    NIHIL
    purple in the face
    I'll be back soon.
    Nihil goes downstairs and outside, slamming the
door.
    EXT. EARTH NIHIL'S VILLA -- CONTINUOUS
    Nihil rushes into a path of the villa. A child runs
up to him, but he pushes him away.
    EXCITED SHOUTS. Three mothers are gathering up their
children scattered over the lawn.
    A little red hat flies away, pushed by a blast of
wind.
    From the mountains, a boiling front of black clouds
is approaching fast.
    NIHIL
    talking to himself
    The novice works for Wing. He may have transmitted
some information. I will get rid of both!
    Nihil searches in a list and sends a message to his
contact of the Wonderful Islands. The councilor's personal details
and the sentence "price in not a problem", appear in his visual
field. The rest of his request remains hidden.
    Then he orders his company of the Cayman Islands to
make a fund transfer.
    He returns home.
    INT. EARTH NIHIL'S VILLA -- CONTINUOUS
    Nihil steps into the room. The youth is lying stark
naked, surrounded by his torturers.
    NIHIL
    Have you forced his neural chip open?
    ASSISTANT
    He withstood even torture.
    NIHIL
    Make him kneel.
    The followers seize the spy by the arms.
    NIHIL
    This is the last time I will ask you. Who has sent
you?
    The novice keeps silent.
    NIHIL
    It doesn't matter. I already know him.
    The novice's eyes become moist with tears.
    Nihil places himself behind him. He caresses his
neck, takes the novice's head gently between his hands.
    He stands still for a second. Then, a single
blow.
    A DULL NOISE. The head smashes like a ripe melon.
    The body falls with A THUMP.
    NIHIL
    Burn him and don't speak about it to anyone!
    Nihil runs down the stairs. Large drops are pounding
the windows of the landing.
    From the gutters, A DEAFENING ROAR.
    He flings open a glass door, and enters a hall
adorned with garlands.
    Busy people. Smiling faces.
    NIHIL
    How are preparations going?
    EXT. net wonderful islands atoll -- AFTERNOON
    A WOMAN is swimming some meters above the coral reef,
towards the white sandy shore.
    A shoal disperses at her arrival, while a moray peeps
out from its hiding-place.
    She rises from the sea showing her athletic shoulders
and a shapely pair of legs, walks gracefully across the beach.
    Her ivory complexion and platinum blond hair make her
look like an angel, but her eyes are icy.
    The woman makes her way along a path winding through
orchid bushes.
    She passes through a palm grove and arrives at a lawn
with a spotless bungalow in the middle.
    In the shade of a porch, she lies down on a deckchair
and half-closes her eyes.
    Background of CARIBBEAN MUSIC. A waiter dressed in
white lays a fruit cocktail on a bamboo table.
    She calls her secretary. A smiling face appears in
her visual field.
    WOMAN
    Did instructions arrive?
    SECRETARY
    Here they are. Do you need anything else?
    The woman has a look at the contents.
    WOMAN
    For now that's all, thank you.
    She examines the request, remains thoughtfull for a
while, than she enters the bungalow.
    INT. NET WONDERFUL ISLANDS ATOLL --