Tarl Telford

Humpty Dumpty Tarl Telford

The year is 2003. Dial-up connections are still common. Hackers are mythical beings that can change the world with a keyboard, and anonymity is still the World Wide Web's greatest resource. BEHIND THE SCREEN, EVERYBODY IS A SUSPECT. The first rule of Fate Club is that you do not talk about Fate Club. Their so-called doomsday project is going to change the world. Anonymity is key. Anonymity is power, but nobody who is pulling the strings. This game of shadows becomes deadly when one of their own goes missing and nobody notices. Behind the screens, a mysterious figure guides the destinies of the remaining programmers as the stakes grow larger and Humpty's Wall nears completion. The final confrontation removes the masks and strips away the protection of anonymity, leaving the monsters to face themselves and what they have wrought. Humpty Dumpty is a thriller screenplay from the early days of the new millennium, where anything was possible and the name on the screen was all that mattered.