A retired Marine Sergeant, working nights as a security guard, takes on Domestic Terrorists intent on stealing secretly stored Government Servers.

SYNOPSIS:

SYNOPSIS

ACT 1

Three buddies, GRIFFIN BARLOWE (30), MALIN SHAW (28), and JACK ROSE (33) suit up in camouflaged military gear. The mood is serious. Intense. Something is about to happen. “Lock and load” commands Griffin, a natural leader. They emerge onto an open field filled with rusty barrels, burned-out cars, and demolished stone walls, and with stealth and speed take up positions. SPLAT! POP! Yellow paint explodes onto walls and trees! “Target, two ‘o’clock!” SPLAT! Malin is hit. “Damnit!” SPLAT! There goes Jack in a spray of blue. POP POP POP! Malin, riddled all over with paintballs, continues to shoot--and they lose the game. Later in the parking lot, recapping their lousy execution, they each get a text informing them to report for duty as armed security guards that evening at Pacific Industries, a warehouse compound. They have no idea why they are being reassigned there to work with “that crotchety old bastard” who, until today, works alone at his guard shack post.

The crotchety old bastard is Carl Boone (65), always in a pressed, immaculate “Scott Security” uniform. He’s tough, and you know it. The compound, surrounded by stucco walls and a chain link gate in the middle of nowhere, is made up of four numbered warehouses that normally store refrigerators, but are now mostly empty. Boone is not pleased to see his new colleagues join him for the night shift, nor is he impressed with their whimpy firearms, and lets them know it. Soon, their mysterious assignment is revealed with the arrival of two military transport trucks containing three computer servers captured from an Eastern European country, which contain sensitive US Government information. Boone knows the night is about to get interesting when he is told that other “forces” would benefit from what the servers contain, hence this remote location. The military leaves a squad, led by SGT. PETERS (40s), to guard them. They will remain inside Warehouse One, while security patrols the compound—but not before Boone responds to the Sergeant’s rudeness by pushing his buttons until he is thoroughly pissed!

From his guard house that night, Boone overhears a radio conversation with the three guards. They don’t like him. Then he notices a strange flashing light in the distant woods – like a signal. Boon’s suspicions are correct.

ACT 2

Overhearing that Griffin, Malin, and Jack were going to go “to the range” after the shift, Boone tags along. He soon finds himself on the paintball course. It will be Boone against all three. Even without all the fancy equipment, Boone takes them out in record time and hands his rifle back to them – “Is that the general idea?”

At the start of the shift on the second night, Boone opens the tailgate to his Bronco, and reveals to the three guards a massive display of weapons – from assault rifles to grenades. He offers to take them “to my course – where we use the real thing.” The boys are completely blown away and gain great respect for their new bad-ass friend.

A rogue General by the name of Ellis arrives with two trucks – one to take the servers if needed, and the other filled with twenty soldiers. Knowing nothing about this, Boone refuses to grant entry. Without warning, the General shoots him in the heart and then the leg, as the trucks ram the gate and proceed to Warehouse One! Griffin, Malin, and Jack find Boone alive, who, having sensed trouble, wore a bullet-proof vest, but – “the prick had to take another shot at my leg! Who the fuck does that!?” Boone distributes his arsenal to the three guards, and directs the action by radio. The battle begins! The Squad in the Warehouse is soon overwhelmed and killed, but Sgt. Peters survives, and is held as a hostage.

ACT 3

LT. OGDEN (20s) is the I.T. expert with the team of traitors. He informs the General that the hard drives cannot be removed or downloaded. They are booby-trapped and will erase and corrupt if tampered with. The seething General is forced to take the servers. But… he is losing men. The three guards are creating a commotion with grenades and rifles as they take on the soldiers of the enemy. The General gloats to Sgt. Peters that the servers are filled with Communist ties to dozens in the U.S. Congress and other branches of the Government. The information will be good for “bribes and blackmail for many years.” The General calls for reinforcements. The truck arrives, but Boone has secured Claymore Mines at the gate – and BOOM - the truck is destroyed. With Malin and Jack wounded, it’s up to Griffin to stop the General as he tries to escape with the servers. But the General at last has Boone cornered at the end of his pistol, and is about to pull the trigger—BLAM! Blood drips from the General’s shocked open mouth as he falls to the ground, revealing Sgt. Peters behind him with the smoldering rifle.

The fighting is over with many dead and a burning truck at the gate as EMT’s and police arrive. As he walks to an ambulance, Boone quips to Griffin – “Tell the truth. This beats the hell out of paintball, doesn’t it?”