Treatment

It is mayhem on a street in San Francisco. The Bay Bridge has just exploded and people are frantically running and screaming. A man is calling out for his son, Marcus. He keeps screaming and screaming and screaming--until he wakes up. George finds his son Marcus and his wife Patricia around his bed, consoling him after his bad dream. Marcus has been back for a couple of weeks now, but George is still having terrible dreams about what he thought had happened to his son who had been missing for a few days after the terrorist attack on the bridge. He goes through his new routine to getting to work, which entails passing through security checkpoints, metal detectors, and ID checks, as he narrates the events that led up to this occurrence. Back at home, he finds that Marcus has been suspended from school for talking back to a teacher in a class discussion. Marcus and George end up getting into an argument about the security measures and the government, each holding his own stubborn views. Marcus tells his dad he doesn't even know the whole truth. George ponders what his son meant by that for the rest of the night. Later while he is trying to sleep, Marcus approaches him and tells him the whole story of what the DHS did to him. George is shocked and upset and decides that the story must be revealed. They prepare to take the story to a family friend journalist.