Incident Response

1. FADE IN.

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3. Act 1

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5. INT. STUDY - MORNING

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7. Holding an invitation card, PETER reads.

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9. PETER (V.O.): It's a Speech Day invitation from my alma mater secondary school.

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11. Pausing.

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13. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): HKUST has recently invited me to a virtual congregation online to minimize risks that might be brought about by large-scale events.

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15. Pausing.

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17. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): Why my alma mater is celebrating the Speech Day in person?

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19. Peter reads the details of the invitation.

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21. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): It's a Speech Day of Classes 2019 and 2020. It didn't hold one last year, and couldn't wait this year.

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23. Recalling.

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25. PETER (V.O.) (Cont'd): First, the human disruption, and then the natural pandemic. Should I accept or decline?

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27. Art 2

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29. INT. SKYLINE TOWER - LATER

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31. Peter in suit is standing and turning around in front of a smart sanitizing station.

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33. PETER (V.O.): How convenient it is to disinfect myself, at least on the surface! What a welcoming facility!

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35. Then, Peter is excited to see a moving robot disinfecting the carpet tirelessly.

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37. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): I believe it's driven by artificial intelligence. The world needs robots to deal with public hygiene chores.

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39. Peter takes a few photos of the cleaning robot.

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41. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): The management here makes a real difference!

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43. Recalling.

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45. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): If I was still working in the housing management sector, I won't hesitate to provide such customer-friendly services.

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47. INT. MALL - LUNCH TIME

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49. Peter and his SON arrive in a Chinese restaurant. A RECEPTIONIST greets them.

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51. PETER: Do you have a table for two?

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53. RECEPTIONIST: Yes!

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55. As they're being led inside, Peter and his son walk past tables and tables of customers.

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57. PETER (V.O.): It's quite crowded.

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59. SON: Coming here once is enough...

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61. PETER (V.O.): Oh, my son respects my choice. But one mistake can be too much in these pandemic days!

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63. Immediately, Peter signals to the receptionist in front that they want to walk out.

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65. PETER: It's embarrassing. But we've to act timely to respond to our health concern.

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67. SON: When I see the crowd here, I recall the news that Chinese restaurants could be venues of super-spreading events.

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69. PETER: Yes, I can also visualize how unhappy and uncomfortable if we stayed put, eating in a rather exposed and risky environment.

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71. Exiting the Chinese restaurant, they walk past a fast-food chain restaurant with few customers.

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73. PETER: Is this one OK?

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75. SON: Looks good.

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77. PETER: If it's OK with you as a doctor-to-be, it must be OK for me.

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79. Passing through a temperature-check machine, they do their orders and find their socially-distanced seats.

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81. INT. PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL - LATE AFTERNOON

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83. Peter swims towards the pool wall. Seeing other swimmers resting there, Peter turns around.

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85. PETER (V.O): It's my incident response in the social-distancing context.

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87. Peter continues to swim to the other end of the pool where there're fewer souls.

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89. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): Whereas robots need artificial intelligence, mine is inherent.

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91. Resting in a corner, Peter stares at the pool water.

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93. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): The 4th wave of COVID-19 infection has arrived. Hong Kong's travel bubble has already burst.

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95. Pausing.

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97. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): I still hope that public swimming pools won't close again. I swim 1000 meters everyday to keep fit.

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99. Act 3

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101. INT. STUDY - EVENING

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103. The TV is telling stories about COVID-19 vaccination.

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105. PETER (V.O): After getting regulatory authorities' approvals of the vaccines, the next hurdles are their production and distribution.

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107. Picking up the Speech Day invitation card, Peter reads.

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109. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): While there's a notice at the bottom about the unlikely Red/Black Rainstorm and Typhoon Signal No.8 incidents, the 4th wave of COVID-19 infection isn't foreseen.

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111. Pausing.

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113. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): From the public hygiene perspective, there's no reason I should support it, particularly as a senior citizen.

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115. Peter surfs the web with his phone.

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117. PETER (V.O) (Cont'd): Oh, there're 80 new COVID-19 cases today. I'd better help prevent any COVID-19 spreading incident from happening.

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119. Using QR Code to fill in a Google form, we see Peter checking "No" in an option.

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121. FADE OUT.

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123. THE END