(Fade In.)

(Bouncy music plays as the video fades in on a cartoony forest background.)

ANNOUNCER (VO): Hey kids, he's been gone for a long time, but now he's back by popular demand! Who's your favorite big green rabbit?

CHILDREN (VO): Benny!

ANNOUNCER (VO): That's right, after a five year absence, three time Emmy award winner Benny the Bunny in association with The United States Justice Department: Entertainment Division is proud to bring you...

(In he bounds all perky and as full of mirth as ever. He's still green, he's still got a sickeningly cute face, and he still talks like Barney would should he partake in acid. Children cheer uproariously as he bounds into frame.)

BENNY: Hey kiddies!

CHILDREN (VO): Hey Benny!

BENNY: I am so glad to see you all again!

CHILDREN (VO): Yay!

BENNY: Did you all miss Benny?

CHILDREN (VO): Yes we did!

BENNY: Then Benny has good news for you! Due to some super-specialness on behalf of our wonderful justice department and some last minute mega-happy contract negotiations, your favorite Bunny will be hosting the 8th Annual United States Battle Royale! Isn't that great?

CHILDREN (VO): Yay!

BENNY: Now I'd like to say more, but that'd ruin the surprise, wouldn't it?

CHILDREN (VO): Awwwwwww!

BENNY: But Benny can say this! Next year fifty-two new contestants will be brought into the funnest and bloodiest and gutsiest Battle Royale yet!

CHILDREN (VO): Yay!

BENNY: All right kiddies, now Benny has to go, but he'll see you all soon!

CHILDREN (VO): Yay!

(Flash cuts:)

(Someone jumping off the back of a bus.)

(A backlit, half-naked girl hanging by her feet from a noose attached to a tree-limb. The snow beneath her is stained in blood.)

(An army sniper shoots at someone offscreen.)

(A thin boy confidently smiles as he flips out two butterfly knives.)

(An African-American with thin glasses standing at a pulpit extends his arms to the cheers of more than 20 people sitting before him.)

(A teenager throws a Molotov cocktail against the shield of a riot cop.)

(A bloodied and terrified girl pointing a Kris sword at someone offscreen.)

(A boy pounding on the door of a small dark room and screaming as a white gas fills the air.)

(A large man with a burlap sack covering his face and wielding a double-headed woodsmans ax kicks down a door.)

(Cut back to Benny. He waves bye bye to the camera, looking directly into it.)

BENNY: He'll see you all reeeeeeeeeeeeal soon...

(He chuckles to himself as the camera fades down.)

FIFTY-TWO PICKUP

The Official Sequel to 72 Hours

Coming May, 2008

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