Pushed - Alex Broun

3PushedRILEY, SOREN, DAN AND JENNA APPEAR IN SPOTLIGHTS.FAST AND INTENSE.RILEY: We have to do it !DAN: What you are talking about –JENNA:It’s us or him.DAN: It’s against everything -SOREN:DAN:RILEY:Us or him.We believe in.There is no other way.SOREN: He’s brought it –JENNA:On himself.RILEY: He’s endangered –SOREN:DAN:All of our lives.There has to be another way.JENNA, RILEY, SOREN: There isn’t.LIGHTS CHANGE. THE CLIMBERS ARE GETTING READY TOCLIMB, PREPARING THEIR EQUIPMENT, GETTING DRESSED.DAN:JENNA:People die on Mount Hood.It’s just what happens.SOREN: People talk about K2.DAN:RILEY:JETT:SOREN:DAN:EverestAnna Purna.Nanga Parbat in KashmirThe Man EaterBut Mount Hood is a killer as well.

NOUS AVONS CHOISI NOTRE OPERATEUR, QUE SE PASSE T'IL ENSUITE?...Nous pouvons distinguer trois phases : une phase d'étude technique durant laquelle le prestataire choisi par l'opérateur étudiera toutle cheminement du réseau fibre depuis son entrée dans l'immeuble jusqu'au local del'abonné. Cette étude sera matérialisée dans une proposition détaillant toutes les modalitésd'installation, une phase de fibrage proprement dite se décomposant en fibrage vertical (raccordement dechaque abonné au point de mutualisation situé en pied d'immeuble, ou à proximité pour lestous petits immeubles) et en fibrage horizontal (raccordement entre le point de mutualisationet le NRO). Attention !!!... ces deux opérations devraient être consécutives maiscertains opérateurs utilisent le fibrage vertical comme un moyen de "faire patienter"les copropriétés quand ils ne peuvent garantir le délai de six mois…. Opposez-vous àce genre de détournement de la loi dès la signature de la convention initiale…. une phase de raccordement / essai durant laquelle l'opérateur recense les résidants désirantêtre raccordés et procède aux raccordements individuels. Attention !!!.... un raccordementultérieur est toujours possible sans pénalité financière et ceci dans un délai de 30jours (convention ARCEP - article 2 § 2).QU'APPELLE-T'ON MUTUALISATION ?...La mutualisation est un principe absolu édicté par la L.M.E. par lequel tout opérateur peut seraccorder au réseau implanté par un autre opérateur afin de proposer son offre de contenu. Ceraccordement se fera au niveau du PMI (Point de Mutualisation Immeuble) ou,exceptionnellement, au niveau du NRO. A l'origine, l'article 29-V de la L.M.E. prévoyait que cepoint de mutualisation serait situé hors immeuble (situation ayant l'avantage de limiter les accèsaux parties communes) mais les dernières études de l'ARCEP prévoient d'implanter ce point demutualisation dans l'immeuble dès lors qu'il y aurait 12 ou 24 prises à relier… la règlementationévolue bien vite….Si, en théorie, la mutualisation ne devrait poser aucun problème, ce n'est pas le cas enpratique, notamment quand un abonné demande à l'opérateur ORANGE de mutualiser sur unréseau implanté par FREE…. Contraintes techniques ?..., nullement, d'autant que l'utilisationpar FREE d'une bi-fibre pour chaque abonné devrait au contraire faciliter les choses, car unedes deux fibres aboutit au point de mutualisation situé en pied d'immeuble…. En fait, il ne s'agitque de la conséquence la plus voyante de la rivalité opposant les opérateurs, notamment ceuxn'employant pas les mêmes technologies….Nous le disons très fermement : il est inadmissible que les abonnés "fassent les frais" deces rivalités commerciales et nous invitons nos adhérents à nous signaler touteanomalie de ce type afin que nous puissions mettre les opérateurs face à leursresponsabilités et engagements….ET LA MULTIFIBRE… EST-CE LA MEME CHOSE QUE LE "POINT-A-POINT"?....6

8JETT:DAN:JENNA:DAN:JENNA:DAN:I’m the King of the World!I look over to Jenna. She’s fumbling for something in her pack.What she’s doing ? She’s gotta knife. (TO JENNA) Jenna – whatare you doing ?I’m gonna fall.You’re not gonna fall. Riley’s got you and Soren.I can’t hold him.Everything’s okay. Just put that back in your pack.BEAT. JENNA PUTS THE KNIFE AWAY.DAN:JENNA:DAN:JETT:DAN:JETT:DAN:JETT:DAN:Now gently swing yourself over to the wall. Try and find a foothold.I can’t. He keeps swinging me out.(CALLS) Jett, Jett.This is amazing man. Greatest buzz ever.Jett – I need you to float nice and gentle for me now. Nice andgentle. Can you do that?(FLAPPING HIS ARMS) Like a bird.Nice and gentle. Just float.(HOLDING HIS ARMS STILL) Float, float.Okay Jenna – can you reach the wall now.JENNA FINDS A FOOTHOLD.JENNA:DAN:JENNA:I got it.Good girl. Now lock yourself in nice and tight.I’m doing it.DAN: Okay – you good ?JENNA:DAN:RILEY:I’m good.Riley – you got your lovely wife?I got her.

9DAN:Okay Soren – now you come over to me and throw me down arope.SOREN: (LOWERING ROPE) What are you gonna do ?DAN:I’m gonna lasso this city boy.DAN MAKES THE ROPE INTO A NOOSE.RILEY: Danny, what are you doing ?DAN:RILEY:DAN:RILEY:DAN:RILEY:DAN:SOREN:DAN:I gotta get a rope around him.That’s not our problem.Riley – he’s hanging 1000 feet above a glacier.Brought it on himself.We can’t leave him there.My wife is down there.Riley – calm down.Danny – he has a point. If he doesn’t want to be saved. Youcan’t save him.I’m not losing a man – not on my climb.JETT: Woo hoo. Woo hoo !DAN:JETT:DAN:JENNA:DAN:(TO AUDIENCE) And right then – at the worse possible moment– Jett starts to flap around again.I’m flying Dad. I’m flying.Every flap tugs on Jenna’s rope, threatening to rip her awayfrom the mountain. And my camalot starts to move, trying toease itself out the rock.I’m cutting him loose.Jenna – no.RILEY: We have to do it !DAN: What you are talking about –JENNA:It’s us or him.

10DAN: It’s against everything -SOREN:DAN:RILEY:Us or him.We believe in.There is no other way.SOREN: He’s brought it –JENNA:On himself.RILEY: He’s endangered –SOREN:DAN:All of our lives.There has to be another way.JENNA, RILEY, SOREN: There isn’t.DAN:Please ! Don’t do this. It’s cold blooded murder. I got you up thismountain and I promise to get you down. All of you.BEAT. HE LOWERS THE ROPE DOWN OVER JETT.DAN:SOREN:DAN:JENNA:Thankfully Jett stopped flapping about. If he started flappingagain Jenna might’ve cut him loose – and I wouldn’t have beenable to stop her. Took me twenty minutes but finally I got him.Hogtied him like a calf. He wasn’t going anywhere. (CALLS)Okay, I got him. Soren, you got us.I’m good.Jenna, you may cut your rope.Thank Jesus for that.JENNA CUTS THE ROPE ATTACHED TO JETT.RILEY:JENNA:DAN:I’m pulling you up babe.Can’t wait for that.And I watched as Riley slowly winched the love of his life up themountain. Slowly making her way back to her husband. But justas she reached the top she stopped securing herself with theaxe. I went to call out to her but just as I opened my mouth tospeak – it happened. Riley let go of the rope to take her in hisarms but just at that moment the snow beneath him gave a littleand he skidded towards the edge. He reached out for his wife to

11DAN:(CONT) stop himself falling but she was no longer secured andthe force of him grabbing her ripped her hand away from therope.RILEY EMBRACES JENNA. LIGHTS SLOWLY FADE ON THEM.DAN:JETT:SOREN:DAN:Soren and I watched helplessly as they toppled over the edgeand fell silently 2000 feet to the glacier floor below.Woo hoo ! Woo hoo ! You see that. They went all the way down.Amazing. Beautiful. So beautiful.Cut his rope Dan. Cut his goddam rope or I will.(TO AUDIENCE) But I didn’t, And neither did Soren. And slowlytogether we got Jett back on to the Hogsback.LIGHTS CHANGE.DAN:SOREN:DAN:SOREN:Four hours later Soren and I managed to get Jett back down toTimberline Lodge. We had to carry him most of the way.It was the hardest descent of my life. I wanted to kill him withevery single step. He had murdered two of my best friends.But we got him there. And Soren never returned to Mount Hoodagain.I still climb I just could never go back to Mount Hood.SOREN LEAVES THE STAGE.DAN:JETT:DAN:JETT:(HOLDING UP CRAMPONS) In both cases the crampons werefound to be at fault. Jett had taken his off –I wanted to feel the snow under my feet.And Riley had kept his on. The softening the snow had balled upunder his feet, leading to the fatal slip. Jett went back to NewYork.Thanks for the climb man. Sorry about your friends.JETT HOLDS OUT HIS HAND. DAN DOESN’T SHAKE IT.DAN:JETT:He never even came back for the enquiry. His fancy lawyerfriends in NYC made sure of that.It wasn’t like I pushed them.

12JETT LEAVES THE STAGE.SPOTLIGHT ON DAN.DAN:After three weeks the board rendered their decision: “We findDan Brea without fault. There were no gross errors in judgment".No gross errors in judgement. Taking a guy who’d never climbeda tree, let alone a Mountain, up Mount Hood is hard enough.Harder still when he’s loaded up on a couple of grams of a verydifferent snow. Found his backpack in my office after he’d left.(HOLDING UP PACKET) Anyone want to buy some high qualityColombian Marching powder? But then he was paying threetimes my normal fee – did I forget to mention that ?SPOTLIGHTS COME UP ON RILEY AND JENNA.IN ANOTHER SPOTLIGHT IS JETT.DAN:Justice and mountain climbing don’t have an easy kinship. Ifthey did – good people wouldn’t die on the mountain, and badpeople would. But it doesn’t work like that. Like I said at the start- people die on Mount Hood. It’s just what happens.DAN EXITS.LIGHT FADES ON RILEY AND JENNA AND JETT.BLACKOUT.