into a half-gallon pitcher.
Dressed for heavy construction work, Quaid makes the POWER
SHAKE to end all power shakes. He grinds up fruits,
vegetables, buts, wheat germ, leftovers, several kinds of
powder. He pours in a dozen shelled eggs--glubglubglub--from
a carton. Then he mixes it all together in a forty-horsepower
blender. ZEEEEEEEE!
Meanwhile, The NEWS drones in the background.
NEWSCASTER (O.S.)
On the war front, Northern Block
satellites incinerated a shipyard in
Bombay, starting a fire that swept
throughout the city. Civilian
casualties are estimated to exceed ten
thousand. The Chairman defended the
attack, calling space-based weapons
the only effective defense against the
Southern Block's numerical superiority.
Quaid gulps down his breakfast directly from his jumbo pitcher
and walks over to the flat, wall-sized HIGH DEFINITION
TELEVISION.
NEWSCASTER
And more violence last night on Mars...
Quaid lowers the pitcher, watches with attention, and walks
over to the table.
ON TV, FIREFIGHTERS put out a blaze at a MINE as ARMORED
SOLDIERS brutally beat back a crowd of MINERS. The Mine is
enclosed under a glass "DOME".
NEWSCASTER (O.S.)(CONT'D)
...where terrorists demanding
independence once again halted
extraction of turbinium ore.
Lori comes out of the bathroom and walks behind Quaid to the
kitchen. She tensely watches the news as she makes her
breakfast.
In a small corner of the TV screen, we see a STILL PHOTO OF
VILOS COHAAGEN, a middle-aged man of commanding presence and
obvious intelligence.
NEWSCASTER (CONT'D)
With one mine already closed, Mars
Administrator Vilos Cohaagen vowed that
troops would be used, if necessary,
to keep production at full capacity.
At the press conference, he emphasized
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