In THE REPUBLIC, Pam Alden
gets her first sense of something wrong when she goes to refill a
prescription for birth control pills.
Click the pic to see the scene. The Director reminds everyone this is raw footage. He needs to clean it up, add music, boost the audio, and more. Quicktime movie, 2 minute 30 seconds Pam Alden is played by Claudia Perea. |
Pam Alden hands over her prescription, expecting it will be filled.
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But under the new Freedom of
Religion laws, a health care worker doesn't have to administer aid or
medicine that violates his/her beliefs.
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The male pharmacist is played by Matt Jones.
The pharmacist accesses Pam's health record and asks if she's married. He enters the data into her record. Then refuses to fill the prescription for birth control pills. |
Fortunately, another pharmacist who's still doing her job fills Pam's prescription steps in - and fills it.
The female pharamacist is played by Chihiro Kawamura. |
While waiting, Pam gets a call
from her mother, who's discovering other weird events in the day.
Such as, the kids are mysteriously out of school.
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Pam finally her pills, but they're the wrong color. And as we'll see, not the right medicine...
So does life become a gamble in... The Republic. |
