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Our story begins, as these stories often do...

Rookwood's conspiracy story · V for Vendetta (2006)

Our story begins, as these stories often do...

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...with a young, up-and-coming politician.

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1Our story begins, as these stories often do...
2...with a young, up-and-coming politician.
3He's a deeply religious man and a member of the Conservative Party.
4He's completely single-minded and has no regard for the political process.
5 The more power he attains, the more obvious his zealotry ...
6...and the more aggressive his supporters become.
7Eventually, his party launches a special project in the name of national security.
8At first it's believed to be a search for biological weapons...
9...and it's pursued without regard to its cost.
10However, the true goal of this project is power.
11Complete and total hegemonic domination.
12The project, however, ends violently.
13But the efforts of those involved are not in vain ...
14...for a new ability to wage war is born from the blood of one of the victims.
15Imagine a virus, the most terrifying virus you can...
16...and then imagine that you and you alone have the cure.
17But if your ultimate goal is power, how best to use such a weapon?
18Well, it's at this point in our story that along comes a spider.
19A man seemingly without a conscience...
20...for whom the ends always justify the means .
21He suggests that their target should not be an enemy of the country...
22...but rather, the country itself.
23Three targets are chosen to maximize the effect of the attack:
24A school, a tube station and a water-treatment plant.
25Several hundred die within the first few weeks.
26Three Waters has, in fact, been contaminated.
27Authorities are attempting to control its deadly spread.
28--sent destruction through the Underground.
29Fueled by the media, fear and panic spread quickly...
30...fracturing and dividing the country until, at last...
31...the true goal comes into view .
32Before the St. Mary's crises...
33...no one would've predicted the results of the election that year. No one.
34And then not long after the election, lo and behold, a miracle.
35Some believed it was the work of God himself.
36But it was a pharmaceutical company controlled by certain party members...
37...that made them all obscenely rich.
38A year later, several extremists are tried, found guilty and executed...
39...while a memorial is built to canonize their victims.
40But the end result, the true genius of the plan, was the fear.
41Fear became the ultimate tool of this government.
42Through it, our politician was ultimately appointed...
43...to the newly created position of high chancellor.

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