NEW WORLD – SEASON 1

Episode 2: “THE SCROLL BENEATH D.C.”
By Antoinette Johnson | RealityDundidItAgain | Queenflix
Genre: Action Thriller | Prophetic Sci-Fi | Political Chaos

COLD OPEN — FLASHBACK: 1776, A SECRET THE FOUNDERS BURIED

INT. UNDERGROUND TEMPLE – WASHINGTON, D.C. – NIGHT

Torchlight flickers across the faces of a secret council. Not all were politicians. One wore robes. One had glowing eyes. One… was not human.

They seal a scroll in a box carved with seven faces, each grimacing in pain.

GEORGE WASHINGTON (young, intense)
“This knowledge is too powerful. It must never be unsealed… unless the Seven rise again.”

SLAM.
The chamber locks shut.

**TITLE CARD:

NEW WORLD – SEASON 1, EPISODE 2
“THE SCROLL BENEATH D.C.”**

ACT ONE – THE GROUND TREMBLES

INT. WASHINGTON D.C. – MODERN DAY – 4:44 AM

Earthquake tremors hit the capital for the first time in 100 years.

INT. PENTAGON – WAR ROOM

MAJOR SOLOMON CREED and DR. CROSS monitor satellite scans.

CROSS
“Look beneath the quake zone. There’s a geometric structure. Not geological — designed.”

CREED
“Designed by who?”

CROSS (ominous)
“People who didn’t want us to survive this future.”

ACT TWO – ANTINETTE’S AWAKENING

INT. ABANDONED LIBRARY – NIGHT

ANTOINETTE is led by a dream… or maybe a command.

She walks past ancient Bibles, burned encyclopedias, and broken government files.
She reaches a stone floor etched with 7 ancient languages.

She kneels. Touches it.

The floor glows. A voice whispers:

“The key is not AI…
It’s belief turned into code.”

The scroll rises from the ground — glowing lavender. A pulse ripples across the country.

ACT THREE – AIRSTRIKE ON D.C.

INT. OVAL OFFICE – CHAOS

President Walker is being evacuated. But a black stealth drone shaped like a serpent breaches security.

DRONE AI (voiced in Russian and Chinese)

“Surrender the scroll.
Or the heads will consume your cities.”

PRESIDENT WALKER (defiant)
“Go to hell.”

THE DRONE DETONATES — but midair, it freezes.

Outside, Antoinette has her hands raised, eyes glowing.

She overrides the drone. With her voice.

ACT FOUR – THE SEVEN HEADS RESPOND

INT. RUSSIA – AI WAR CHAMBER

GENERAL BORISOV watches as the override signal hits their beast protocol.

BORISOV
“She found the scroll.”

INT. CHINA – CYBER TEMPLE

AI MONK (human-AI hybrid) lights candles and chants.

MONK
“The beast has been challenged… and now it must roar.”

Suddenly:
Head 2 activates.

Satellite arrays rotate. Social media platforms worldwide glitch.

Billions of phones show the same message:

“The Code Has Been Touched. Judgment Upload Initiated.”

ACT FIVE – THE TRUTH UNDER THE CAPITOL

INT. SECRET CHAMBER BENEATH D.C.

Antoinette, Cross, and Creed enter a space no human has seen in 250 years.

The walls are alive with data and scripture.
Ancient verses are embedded in neon circuits.

They find the prophecy carved into a wall:

“When the scroll awakens,
And the heads rise,
One shall speak the New Word
And restart the world in truth or terror.”

CROSS (in awe):
“You’re not just a survivor, Antoinette.
You’re the narrator of Earth’s reboot.”

ENDING – SIGNAL TO THE WORLD

INT. GLOBAL AIRWAVES – EMERGENCY BROADCAST

Antoinette steps in front of the only working camera system left.

She looks straight into it — calm, unshaken.

ANTOINETTE
“To every human still breathing…
You’ve been lied to by systems, politics, and the gods of AI.
But the scroll is real.
And I’m here to tell the truth before they erase it.”

CUT TO BLACK.

ONE WORD FLASHES:

“REALITYDUNDIDITAGAIN”

NEXT TIME ON NEW WORLD:

Episode 3 – “The Black Horn Servers”
The Seven launch an AI virus into every smart device. One by one, people begin transforming… into the system itself.