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INTERVIEW”

FADE IN:

INT. INTERVIEW ROOM – TWILIGHT

Man is shown into room where man is sitting at a desk

                           HR

               Welcome Mr Ahh…

                          KHAN

               Khan.

                           HR

               Yes Mr Khan, please have a seat.

                          KHAN

               Thank you.

                           HR

               And you’re here today regarding your

               application for leader of the world.

                          KHAN

               That’s right.

                           HR

               Good, Good, well, as you know, we’ve

               received a lot of interest in the post

               and, looking at your work history you

               are clearly a strong candidate of the

               role, we just wanted to bring you in

               to discuss some suitability issues.

               Dot some eyes, cross some tees, put

               some flesh on the bone so to speak.

                          KHAN

               Of course, I completely understand.

                           HR

               Any trouble finding the place?

                          KHAN

               There was a bit of traffic.

                           HR

               Sure, Sure. Well, now, if we can begin.

               Can you tell me, in your own words,

               why you feel you are right for the

               role?

                          KHAN

               Well, I’ve always been a go getter,

               ever since I was a child; I knew I was

               right. I understand that, in terms of

               subjective reality, everything alive

               with a brain feels exactly the same

               way; when a bird eats a worm, the bird

               feels it is right to do so. Had the

               worm had a say in it, it would have

               most assuredly disagreed.

               The world spins around, the bird has

               the responsibility of explaining to

               the worm what is fair.

               I have always been the bird.

                           HR

               U’huh. Can you give me an example of

               that?

                          KHAN

               Sure, sure, take my brother, for

               example; a few years older than me,

               I can see why he thought he might

               have naturally presumed he would just

               inherit the role, I tried to tell him

               that, in this case, he was wrong but

               he persisted in the argument of

               succession while espousing a more

               equal and just society.

               He could not see the hypocrisy in it.

               In the end, I found it was not

               sufficient to just explain what it is

               to be the bird. I had to demonstrate.

                           HR

               I see. With regards to your future

               plans for…

                          KHAN

               (interrupts)

               It will come to me.

                           HR

               Good.

               Excellent.

               You are, of course, aware that this

               position does not come with a pension.

                          KHAN

               I am.

                           HR

               Very well, it seems like everything

               is in order. This is marvellous, I

               hope you knew that for me this was

               always just a formality.

                          KHAN

               I do.

                           HR

               Please go on through, your father has

               been expecting you.

 

FADE OUT.