Thoughts & Prayers (2025) Movie Script

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-[robot whirring]
-[unsettling music plays]
[music swelling]
[thud]
[woman] When you're ready.
So...
imagine there's an emergency
at a school.
[unsettling music playing]
This is Shelter Shutters.
And it is a...
lockdown window cover.
The Swift shield
is a patrol-ready,
foldable, ballistic shield.
We have our Go1 Unitree robot
here today.
It's a quadruped
that's been designed
around the anatomy of a dog.
Now, this device,
it's easy to apply
in case of a mass casualty
incident.
When it unfolds, it gives you
a total coverage
of about three and a half feet
by five feet.
And as you can see,
it's a very small
limb circumference.
A kid at an elementary school
would be able to pick this up,
and run the rest of the students
out with coverage.
[alarm blaring]
When flipped,
provides instant cover,
literally catches the bullet.
It's just a matter
of that, flip.
Who ever thought we'd have
an active shooter
in a grocery store?
Do you see a weapon?
Who ever thought we'd have
an active shooter
in a... a theater?
-Yes, I see a weapon.
-[dings]
If you wanted to add
a flash-bang
or if you wanted to add
a smoke screen,
as well as run directly
at the intruder,
causing that distraction.
[thud]
Our systems are installed
in schools,
in colleges and universities,
airports, seaports.
The fact there's such a rise
in active shooters
in schools nowadays,
we're seeing a...
a great interest in the product.
[music swells]
[intercom beeping]
[indistinct chatter]
[bell dinging]
-[soft ambient music playing]
-[laughter]
[siren blaring]
[man over PA] There is
an active threat on campus.
Lock down, and prepare to evade
or defend.
The emergency response system
has been activated.
The 911 Response Center
has been called.
Law enforcement officials
are now on their way.
Please lock down, and prepare
to evade or defend.
There is an active threat
on campus.
Lock down and prepare to evade
or defend.
The emergency response system
has been activated.
The 911 Response Center
has been called.
Law enforcement officials
are now on their way.
Please lock down, and prepare
to evade or defend.
There is an active threat
on campus.
Lock down and prepare...
I believe, honestly,
as long as I can remember,
we've been doing
lockdown drills.
Has been activated.
-The 911...
-Sometimes, if it is a drill,
I get a little too scared.
And then I don't, like...
I'm like, "Oh, my God."
And I don't actually, like,
do what we're supposed to do,
like stay quiet,
'cause I'm, like, overwhelmed
and everything.
Yeah, it's-it's scary.
I think it's really scary.
[student] I know there's
a saying, like, you practice
like you play for sports,
which I think
that is very similar to, like,
what is happening for lock downs.
Honestly, my current best idea
is stand next to the door.
I'm a pretty big dude,
so I'd stand next to the door
and try and overwhelm the guy
with a couple other guys.
My water bottle, if I have it,
something that you can throw
at them to distract them.
[marching band music]
If not, I just grab something
biggish out of my backpack,
like a book or a binder.
[marching band music]
Just run.
[chuckles] What people say a lot
around me is,
you hear something,
you see something, run.
Oh, the sprinklers!
Oh, where are they?
Where are they?
[tense music playing]
[man] What is going on?
-[music intensifies]
-[man 2] What's happening?
[man 1] I have no idea
what's happening.
[screaming]
[man 1] What is going on?
We've got people shooting.
-Oh, my goodness, where?
-I don't know.
People are down on the field.
Excuse me, folks, we just had
about ten gunshots
that went off over here.
We'll go to break.
[music abruptly stops]
Have you turned to stone
[applause]
Yeah? You think so?
Why are you doing Idol?
[exhales] Um, in May 2018,
um, a gunman
walked into my school.
Uh...
[sighs deeply]
I was in Art Room 1.
And he shot up Art Room 2.
Uh, e-eight students
were killed.
Two teachers were killed.
[sobbing]
What you doing, Katie?
Our country has [bleep]
failed us! [echoing]
[dog barking in distance]
[Quinn] I remember, like,
halfway through
my eighth-grade year,
a school shooting happened.
And I couldn't tell you
which one,
but I just...
Like, I spent the night
just looking at what you need
to have prepared
in case there's
a school shooting.
I-I-I look up on the internet.
Like, I go on TikTok or on...
And I just look,
like, I just research.
Again, thinking outside the box.
Look up.
Do you have access
to the ceiling?
Are there panels
that could be moved?
So I'd rather get hit,
let's say,
in a wrist or an ankle,
as opposed to the bullet
passing through my lungs,
-heart, or my head.
-[Quinn] I just look at things.
I look at other people's
experiences.
I know what to do
if I'm in the bathroom alone.
I know what to do
if I'm outside.
I know what to do
if I'm in a classroom.
I know what to do... I know
what to do in any situation.
And I don't like that.
It's almost like, like you said,
how we're almost
being taught
to think like adults.
[Quinn] It's become...
honestly, more like
a tornado or a hurricane.
-[gunfire]
-[woman] Oh, gosh.
[wind howling]
[woman] Oh, my God!
-Get down now!
-Oh, man!
[reporter] A kindergarten
student showed up today
at Faison Elementary School
in South Homewood
-with a gun in his book bag.
-An investigation is underway
after a student reportedly
brought a gun to...
-a loaded gun on campus.
-Not the first time this week.
-Senior high today.
-[Quinn] It's not something
that even crosses my mind.
-It's become natural to you.
-It's just natural.
It's just like, oh,
if there's an emergency,
if there's a tornado,
if there's a hurricane,
it's just like, if there's
a shooter that comes in
and wants to kill you
and your friends,
same thing.
-[rumbling]
-[glass shatters]
[upbeat music playing]
We're not safe in our schools.
We're not safe
in our workplaces.
We're not safe at the grocery.
What are we doing?
-What are we doing?
-You wanna keep kids safe?
The single best step you can do
is have police officers...
Ban Rambo-style assault weapons.
Discriminating against some
of the most popular weapons.
-What are we doing?
-Gun violence is the single
leading cause of death
for children.
Actually, more people
are killed by knives
-than they are by guns.
-What are we doing?
We should take away all
the butter knives in America.
You guys are worried
about banning books?
Dead kids can't read.
Protecting our children
the same way we protect
our president.
-Why are you here?
-They're smarter than us.
They're better.
And they don't trust...
the highest levels of
government, doing nothing.
Do something.
I agree, do something.
But do something that works.
[dramatic vocals playing]
[music intensifies]
[man] Ladies and gentlemen,
nice, we have a big class today.
Let's start out.
My name is Francis Brooke.
I am an instructor
with the ALS training program.
I started working with them
in 2018,
following a 32-year
law enforcement career.
I was also the school guy,
which means
that I did everything
from teaching kids
in schools all day
to coming back at night
and doing a drug raid.
Chris Taylor.
I'm a retired Major
from the Sheriff's Office
in Greenville, South Carolina,
and worked real close
with the Secret Service
about the last six, seven years
of my career.
Chris Morris, I am the owner
of Active Shooter America.
I am also a Border Patrol agent
in San Diego.
[Andy]
Look, I'm a-a very positive,
upbeat, optimistic guy.
So as much as I, you know,
am talking about topics
that are kinda horrible today,
we're gonna have as much fun
as we possibly can, right?
So the big thing is,
their goal is to come in,
and they wanna kill
as many people as they can,
as quickly as possible.
Do y'all believe in all honesty,
if you've got an active shooter
running around here,
a mobile gunman,
it's a good idea to climb
under your desk and hide?
But that's what's been taught
for 25 years.
What if lockdown doesn't work?
What if you're in an area
of the school
where you can't lock down?
You guys are a first responder.
You're there before we are.
[dramatic choral music playing]
-[gunshot]
-[yelps, grunts]
-Quick, quick.
-He's coming, he's coming.
[Francis] Lock those joints out.
No muscle.
Ready? Go.
Safety, safety. Good.
And I can just use
my body weight
and the friction between me
and the carpet
to stop that door from opening.
Take your injured arm,
put it through the hole,
and then pop it out.
-Oh my God!
-He's bleeding like crazy!
You're doing great.
Massive bleeding.
Oh, it hurts! Oh, it hurts!
-Oh!
-massive bleeding stopped.
[horn blowing]
Come on!
[horn blowing]
Out came the sun
and dried up all the rain
-[door banging]
-Itsy-bitsy spider...
[woman] This is my first drill.
[Andy]
Well, you did an excellent job,
and it only gets easier
from here.
[music continues]
[Francis] Folks,
you have to get to the point
where you're no longer
the baby bird in the nest.
You are now the hawk
trying to eat the baby bird.
Right now, you're still
the baby bird, aren't you?
You're like, how do we keep
the hawk out of our nest?
But if you... when you pull
in that parking lot,
I want you to start thinking
like the hawk...
because our goal, ultimately,
is to have people
really participate
in their own survival.
-He's got a gun!
-[alarm blaring]
[objects clattering]
-[indistinct yelling]
-[alarm blaring]
-[knocking at door]
-Let me in!
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me! Look at me!
So I went through. I shot people
methodically down each row,
and yelling at them
the whole time.
-[device beeping]
-This noise,
this noise represents gunfire.
They've decided to use this.
Now it's a trigger for me...
[laughs]
every time I hear it.
[device beeping]
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me!
Look at me!
[whirring stops]
I think the only thing
that really kind of shook me
was how real it feels
when you're doing these drills.
You know, this... this is a big,
old hunk of plastic.
But honestly, it feels powerful
when you're...
when you're running down
the hallway,
and people are running from you.
And that's terrifying, um,
and really gross.
Wow.
[choking up]
This is making it real.
Sorry.
[sighs]
[soft ambient music playing]
[officer] So right now,
take a second.
I want you guys
to close your eyes.
I want you to go to a time
and a place
that you
can perceive as something
very calm,
relaxing,
happy.
And that is where we wanna be.
[birdsong]
Close your eyes for a second.
[gunshot]
-Okay. Okay.
-A little bit longer.
The reason why is,
I can see your eyelids
-fluttering like this.
-Okay.
So that tells me that you're
pretty tense right now.
[gunshot]
Alright, deep breath,
in through your nose,
out through your mouth.
[gunshot]
Okay, look down at your gun.
-I want you to focus right here.
-[gunshot]
-Okay?
-Okay.
Nice and easy, nice and slow.
[gunfire]
Live-fire target practice
at the Lee Kay shooting range.
But these are not soldiers
or police officers.
They're teachers and principals.
[gunfire]
Come on over to this side
a little bit.
-[gunshot]
-How many of you guys have
some firearms experience
with a handgun?
So how many of you guys have
zero experience?
Is this the first time
you're ever gonna shoot one?
Okay, cool. That's perfect.
-I like that.
-Yay, Rachel.
[laughter]
So all I want you to do,
without even looking at it,
right, is just pull
that trigger.
-[gunshot]
-Okay? But remember that...
that happy place
that he was talking about?
Just real slow
-and let that gun go off.
-from behind...
Okay. So nothing, right?
-Uh... Yeah.
-I mean, a little bit.
It's probably more
the anticipation
that you're feeling
than anything else.
-[gunshot]
-Okay?
[Rachel] I wanted to teach
AP Chemistry
from my junior year
in high school
-when I took AP Chemistry.
-this right hand. Okay?
-Just keep it down.
-I was that much of a nerd.
And I said, "This would be
the best class to teach.
I wanna do this!"
Thought, squeeze,
happy thought, squeeze.
Happy...
You can feel it, right,
when you're getting
to the end there right before
you pull it. Just...
-I can.
-I want you to take a nice,
deep breath,
in through your nose,
out through your mouth.
Let all that tension
come out of you.
Any kind of nerves you had
coming here, just let them go.
This is just me and you here.
There's nothing else going on
around us.
You have your firearm
in your hand here.
That's all we're worried about.
You're in control.
[Rachel] I've been teaching
for 25 years.
The number of teachers
who have left education
in the past two years
is enormous.
You know, those of us
who are in this course,
that last straw hasn't broken
the camel's back yet.
That's not to say
that we won't get there. But...
we're not there yet. [laughs]
[man] What's the name
of this course?
[Smith] Teacher's Academy.
[man] What made you decide
to create the Teachers Academy?
[Smith] We support everything
that the schools are teaching
as far as lockdown procedures
and all the things
that they have them do.
We teach them to do that.
But in the end of the day,
if it doesn't work,
what are you gonna do?
And that's kind of where
the instruction for teachers
just stop.
I'll tell you guys
right now, um,
we take heat
for offering this class.
You know,
we take criticism for, um,
involving teachers
to this level.
And again, you know, you'll
hear me say this a couple times,
we are not training you
to take our jobs.
-We're not.
-Just realize this is a tool.
This isn't something scary
that's gonna blow up
in your hand.
[Rachel] I don't really want
to own a gun.
I don't want to have a gun
in my house.
We're gonna work on something,
just overcoming
your reaction to the...
[Rachel] I don't want every day
that I'm working
to start with thinking about,
"What am I going to wear?
And where am I going to put
a weapon?"
Alleviate some of that as well.
Are my fingers
in the right place?
-Oh, yeah, 100%. So...
-But you know, the whole reason
that I signed up
to take this class
is because I want to be
better prepared
to protect my kids.
You hear from some people
this isn't a good idea.
-What do you hear from people?
-[Smith] I'm sorry that
the answer of "lockdown",
and that's it,"
it's just not good enough.
So you're telling them
that they should shoot?
We're telling them
they have a right to fight back.
They have a right to choose.
I do not want you to go chase
somebody down through a school.
I want you to follow
your procedure,
follow your lockdown.
Do what you're supposed to do.
There comes a time and a place,
and this is
a very, very personal thing.
And this is something
you need to...
you need to decide
within yourself.
And it's not for everybody.
But if the time comes,
if you are ever, I hope never,
face this type of situation,
what are you gonna do?
Are you gonna lay down
and play dead?
-Or are you gonna fight?
-[gunshot echoes]
I really wanna be a teacher,
elementary school teacher.
I really like little kids.
And I like working with them.
I like letting them
express themselves
and teaching them
to help them succeed in life.
But again,
that will be frustrating
because of school shootings.
I have to do a bunch of
trainings for them, get ready.
And especially if I'm a teacher,
and one of the kids get hurt,
I will be very guilty
even if it's not my fault.
It would just be like, I could
have done this to protect them.
And I would be really...
I'd feel guilty.
["Come Back To Me"
by The Strikes playing]
-[pins clattering]
-My baby told me please
-Stop it.
-But always leaving
-She said...
-Okay.
I can't stand
when you leave
Oh, yeah.
My Cadillac gun...
Charlie, you better run
before I take a turn.
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
Come on home to me
-She said, I don't...
-[song ends]
[student] Um, I went
to the doctor two days ago.
And like, she was just like
asking about school and stuff.
And she literally asked me
if I felt safe at school.
And you know, it's just like,
I don't know.
That, like, actually was
a really hard question for me
because, like,
you wanna say yes,
but then you actually
think about it.
And you're like,
do I feel safe at school?
-Like, I genuinely...
-We're not safe.
-No.
-Not safe.
Like, it's just sad
that she even has
to ask you that.
I'm, like, what? Why are we
allowing this to happen?
Even with like Kristopher Clay,
I was like, he...
So he already had, like,
a messed-up background,
but like, not that messed up.
Like, he had, like...
-Who's that?
-Kristopher Clay?
-The janitor?
-Oh, okay.
But like, there's so many times
I literally walked past him,
I can't even get, like,
a certain amount.
-Well...
-And, like, how many times...
This janitor,
he was working here
for I think...
for a couple years.
And then, like, a week
before school even started,
he was like,
I'm gonna shoot up the school
on the first day of school,
which is the freshman day.
[somber ambient music playing]
[male student] He turned himself
in to the police.
And when the police
raided his house,
they found tons of guns
and ammunition,
and, like, blueprints
of the school.
Like, I knew about
school shootings beforehand,
like, but I didn't take them
as seriously as I should have
until, like, I heard
about the janitor. I'm like,
well, crap, now it's here too.
It was also someone
that was a staff member here,
so it wasn't the normal threat
that the school would suspect,
that someone on the outside
was gonna hurt us.
It was someone
actually from inside
who has the keys to every room,
knows the layout of school,
knows our drills.
And I remember reading
news articles about him
and I tried not to.
And, um, his name was...
Can I say his name?
The suspect on July 20th
went into the Medford
Police Department,
and said that he was having
homicidal thoughts,
and plans to act on them.
Police investigated
the situation.
And they say he gathered guns,
ammo, tactical gear,
and say that he had
written material
for a planned massacre.
He was found guilty
except for insanity,
of attempted murder in
the second degree on Thursday.
[student] It could have gone
way bad than it, you know, was.
If-if there was an intruder,
what was I gonna do? [sniffles]
[music fades]
Alright, so just right now, introduction?
-[clears throat]
-Say who you are.
Alright, I'm Ron Havniear,
Director of Security
for Medford School District.
[intercom beeping]
We see the full spectrum
of incidents in the schools.
And a lot of them
are on the lower, middle level.
But we have had a very near
real-world miss
in our district.
We did have a staff member
that was planning
a large-scale massacre
of students and staff
and was, um, close
to executing that, you know.
And he had access
to the schools.
He had the keys to the schools.
Uh, he was, without going
into too much detail,
taking active steps
to commit an atrocity.
You know, he was building
a weapon.
[somber music playing]
It rattled the community
and, uh,
brought that sense of urgency
to the people that work
in the safety and security realm
that, um, this can happen here.
And, uh...
And we need to be prepared
for that.
You know, complacency kills.
[somber vocals playing]
The Medford School District
is partnering
with multiple agencies
in the Valley
for its safety drill this week.
[reporter] Hundreds of people
participating
in a massive
active-shooter drill here
at Oakdale Middle School,
including volunteers acting
as parents and students
as if it was the real thing.
We have had hundreds
of school shootings
across this nation.
We've had more than 20
this year.
We've had very near misses
in our own district.
And it's not if or...
I-it's more of when
it's going to happen,
and to what level.
[music intensifies]
These shooters
will jump over the fence.
And the four shooters
will gain entry
to the building right here.
Two shooters are gonna go down
this hallway.
One's gonna go in here,
take a hard right,
and immediately start to cause
casualties in this area.
[sirens wailing]
We're leveraging our resources
with the county,
the city, our first responders,
our hospitals.
The other one's
gonna go upstairs.
He's gonna go over to this part
of the building.
And he will be firing
at first responders
-as they approach the building.
-[gunfire]
How many deceased
do you want in each area?
If we can, let's do five.
So five in each area.
This is the culmination
of six to 12 months
of work and preparation.
Do you have any bodies?
And we're gonna put
the final touches on it
that morning.
I got into education
after the military
because I wanted to continue
to have a job
that had a higher-level purpose.
Once you train yourself
to see these type of things,
you can't...
you can't stop seeing it.
[music ends]
-Good morning, everybody.
-Morning!
I see a little nervous faces
on some folks.
I get it. I get it.
I'm Bret Champion.
I'm the proud
superintendent here
in the Medford School District.
Thank you for making time
to-to do this exercise.
And we know
that to do exercises well,
it takes a little bit
of rehearsal.
The reality is
that once we start talking
about things
like active shooters,
we're gonna feel those emotions.
This is stuff
that makes people nervous,
not just being in large groups,
but then actually acting out
our worst nightmares.
What does a massive event
feel like,
look like, sound like,
smell like?
All the things.
And the reality is,
some of us are going to get
freaked out about that,
and need to step away.
I wanna be the first person
to say to you
that it's okay
if you need to step away.
Just step away.
Come, come to the gym
at seven o'clock.
We'll have some music going.
We'll have donuts,
$500 of donuts.
I'll eat...
I'll eat 600 of those $500.
-[laughter]
-If you don't know your role,
check these big signs.
They have your positions.
Okay, find your table.
We'll go up on the building.
Don't leave
if you have a question.
[indistinct chatter]
Layla, you're not gonna...
Nothing's gonna happen to you.
It's a once-in-a-lifetime
experience...
-It is.
-to be a part of this.
-Yeah.
-What's your injury?
-Waiting over here.
-Gunshot wound
to upper thoracic spine.
-How many shooters are there?
-There's four.
-Okay.
-But you're...
You shouldn't run across them.
And if I do?
You're not gonna run
across them.
I shouldn't. Okay.
Thank you.
You just need to remember
that it's just practice, right?
And the reason why we do it
is so that we can have it in...
our brains
and how we might handle
the situation, right?
-You got the phone, right?
-[indistinct chatter]
Four shooters.
-You're okay.
-[laughs]
[insects chirring]
[Chip] Now, the only way
this drill works,
I'm not going to lie to you,
is you have to play your part.
You gotta play your part.
If I tell you to sit there
and scream, "I want my mom,"
you're gonna scream,
"I want my mom."
If I sit there
and ask you to scream,
"I don't want to die, help me."
"Don't let me die.
Why aren't you helping me?"
That's what you're gonna say.
August 19th,
that's when it's gonna happen.
Right up the road here,
there's gonna be
multiple people shot.
We're looking at 50 of you shot,
laying around on the ground.
There will be some...
some children that are dead,
portrayed as dead.
Um, some hard things
to see for you.
The wounds are one thing.
You're gonna see
a bunch of stuff here.
It could be a little disturbing.
Some of youse love it.
Emma's about...
She thinks it's the greatest
thing since sliced bread.
Lainey thinks it's great.
But I mean,
everyone's a little different, alright?
But the sounds... And I'll let
Kim describe the sounds to you
because unfortunately,
over time,
I've kind of become
impervious to it.
Um, but you-you... It's...
That's the hardest part
of the drill.
[Kim] One of the things
that I cannot prepare you for
is to understand the level
of screaming you will hear.
And the hard part is not
the wounds, not the blood,
because you know
that they're fake.
But it's the noise
that tends to create
a little bit of a headache
for some or start to...
You know, people hear that.
And that becomes
really important
for you to know going into it.
[Chip] Alright, parents,
you're more than welcome
to come.
I have an observation area
to sit and watch this.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
We had parents
that were sitting there, crying.
It's real.
Now, don't freak out too much
because I'll tell you,
everyone who's done this,
they have a blast.
You guys are gonna joke
beforehand.
You're gonna joke after
and stuff.
But when a drill is on,
you gotta play your part.
It's gonna be a reenactment
of a shooting.
And there's gonna be
some volunteers
who are gonna have
makeup on them,
which are basically
like gunshots.
And we're all gonna be
in different scenarios
where someone is screaming,
someone's, like,
holding on to somebody.
My sister actually
used to do this before...
when she was like 16 or 17.
And she said it was like...
For some people, it was actually
traumatizing in a way.
[Chip] This could happen.
These type of events,
unfortunately, are happening
all the time now,
way too often.
And you are
the most important person
to help stop this,
believe it or not.
[Kannon] Yeah, I think
it might be a bit freaky.
It's insane that we're having
to learn this at this age
just because there's a probable
chance it could happen.
You're friends with people
on social media. Read it.
If they sound like they're
going off the rails a little,
-tell somebody.
-It's gonna be a simulation
of the real thing.
But I think it will be
more beneficial for me
than anything else.
I think, honestly,
it won't faze me.
[laughs] I mean,
I don't wanna say that
because like,
it's really intense.
It's really like a big deal.
But...
[soft vocals playing]
Honestly, it'll just...
It will just kinda be
what I expect
'cause, like, you know,
I'm so prepared for it.
I'm constantly worrying
about it.
I wanna go to school
and I wanna learn science.
I wanna learn art and music.
And when I'm out of school,
I don't wanna worry either.
I wanna go to Sephora
and try on makeup
and have fun with my friends.
I just wanna feel safe
everywhere
'cause right now it's like
I'm worried all the time.
I have a bag in my backpack
that's full of things.
I don't touch it
'cause it's, like,
got a bunch of things in it
that could help me
if there was a school...
Help my class,
help whoever I'm with.
So it's kinda just like
at this point,
there's not-not much I can do
except for protect myself
and protect the people that...
I might be with when...
if it happens.
-[producer] That's horrible.
-Yeah.
-I didn't know that.
-Well, I didn't tell you.
I didn't wanna tell
anybody, so...
'Cause I didn't
wanna worry anyone.
-Yeah.
-So it was just kinda like,
if it happens,
I have the things to...
maybe help some people.
And if it doesn't happen,
then...
it's just another pound
in my backpack.
[exhales] That is bad.
[somber music playing]
When I walk into school
every day, I wanna feel safe.
Because any day,
anything could happen.
Their education
is important to me,
but what's even more important
is their safety.
Remember me?
We previously showed the world
the safety features
of our bulletproof backpacks
by shooting them up.
But what you may not know
is all the amazing features
our custom-made Guard Dog
Security ProShield backpacks
have to offer.
[dramatic vocals playing]
[robot tapping]
-Whenever you're ready.
-Yeah, just thinking through.
Okay.
Introducing Revolution Shield,
a portable flip-flop table
designed as a ballistic barrier.
So this is the Nightlock
lockdown system.
Um, I'm Joe Taylor
with Night Lock,
one of the inventors.
I've got a twin brother.
We developed ASR Alert Systems,
which is basically
a panic alarm.
-[laptop dings]
-Person brandishing firearm
-detected.
-So immediately,
we pull up the live-view.
Flip top,
this particular table
has been shot.
So no need to buy new cameras.
We can tap
into all your existing ones.
Lockdown 1
is by far our most popular.
It works on any door.
-Sirens and strobes...
-[alarm blares, stops]
throughout the organization
are now initiated.
It can move. It has handles.
And you literally could move
with the table
if-if so desired.
Right after Sandy Hook happened,
teachers and schools
started calling us.
When Sandy Hook happened,
and we realized
that the children were at risk,
we said, we've got
this great technology.
And now we're in 4,000 schools
across the country.
Hundreds and hundreds
of thousands of dollars
have been spent
in the last several years.
And the death rate
just keeps climbing.
Because unfortunately, um,
there's a lot of companies
that will come out with apps
and different things.
But have they been
really thought through?
All I have to do
is grab it off the wall.
It is actually a full-size,
exceptionally light,
bulletproof shield.
My little baby girl right here,
this is why I do what I do.
Um, we will put any image
on a wall-hanging piece of art
that then becomes a shield.
[gunshot]
Four years ago,
when I started this,
this wasn't an industry.
And we see a quadrupling
of business,
basically month over month.
This skateboard will outperform
any other skateboard
in the market.
But it's also...
a self-defense shield.
Or, you know, for kids...
Every time there is a shooting,
we see...
-[gunshot]
-An uptick in business.
Every time there's a tragedy,
it economically benefits
my family.
That's not what I wanted.
We could be
a $300 million company
by the time
this documentary airs.
Bullet-proofing your child
at school with a backpack.
That's what companies
across the nation
claim their product can do.
But do they really protect
your child?
Or are these companies
making money off parents' fear?
[dramatic ambient music plays]
Eyes and ears. Alright.
This is plain glass,
9-millimeter handgun.
What would happen if somebody
comes to your school?
So you reach in, you can unlock
a door. This is failure.
That's one punch after one round
from a 9-millimeter handgun.
If one company's coming in
and telling you,
"I will fix all your problems
and save lives,"
you better turn the other way
and never work with them.
They are lying to you.
So 16 rounds
coming through this right now,
-and I'm punching.
-[object clunking]
We're doing about 2,500 windows
a week here at Armored One
that we're securing
across the United States.
[gunshots]
Imagine in Uvalde,
if his first hundred rounds,
instead of being inside
the classroom like he was,
over a hundred rounds fired
in the first minute,
imagine if they were fired into
the door and into the glass,
and those kids were able to
hide or get out?
And this isn't for you
to say here,
I want you to buy my film,
I want you to buy my glass.
I could give a flying...
sorry, Pastor...
fuck if you buy it or not.
I don't care. You need to do
real security across the board.
You need blue lights,
lockdown systems,
notification systems, SROs.
You need all the different ways
to come together
to actually save lives
and do something.
[grunts] One more.
[sighs]
So I don't know, 20? 22?
Somebody was counting? 23?
I don't think you are here
by chance.
I think you're here
for a reason.
It's not through our government.
It's not through a president.
It's not through Congress
and Senate or your governor.
It's through you.
Whether you're a company
sitting here,
you're with politicians,
you're with schools,
you're an SRO, there is a reason
you are in the job
that you are in,
that you can make
a huge difference.
You can help end the story
of active shooter.
[otherworldly vocals playing]
[faint cheering]
[whistle blows]
[crowd applauding, cheering]
Hey, dude. Okay.
So you're gonna get fired.
Dude.
I'm gonna fire you.
I'm not taking you out
to dinner then.
[laughs] I mean,
this would have been off
-25 minutes ago.
-You wanna be tooken out?
I get this off in about...
-12 seconds.
-You wanna be...
-You wanna be a princess?
-Where are we going?
Yeah, I want Applebee's.
-No.
-I'm paying for you, so...
-I thought Applebee's...
-Do you see the ash?
Holy shit,
there's a close fire then.
-Whoa, whoa, whoa.
-[indistinct chatter]
[student] We're taking
our poster picture.
Oh, can I get a kiss?
-[smooches]
-See you later.
Actually, I'll wait. Yeah?
-Thanks, guys.
-[indistinct chatter]
Hey, money! Money, money, money.
[hollering]
[student] I've been dying
to tell you about this.
I had my casualty pre-run today.
[clears throat]
There's four school shooters.
-Four?
-Four.
Like a group?
Not a group. They come in
at all different entries,
I believe.
I think it's two downstairs
and two upstairs.
-Wow.
-And actually,
one of the school shooters,
the third one,
is gonna come up the stairs
right by our classroom.
-Yeah.
-And then one of them
shoots a police officer,
and then one of them dies
'cause of the police officer.
And then the other one
kills himself.
Jeez.
That's what I said.
-Ah...
-I was like, what the f...
Four is crazy.
They said that there's
a possibility of me seeing,
like, a dead body
and, you know,
a shooting happen.
So what? Like, you're
in a classroom upstairs,
and, like, someone runs by it?
I don't know. I've been kind of
feeling overwhelmed about it.
-Not overwhelmed, but nervous.
-Right.
[inhales, coughs]
You did your preparing.
You should be good.
You wanna hear about football?
Not really, 'cause that's all
I've been hearing about
-for the past couple of days.
-How?
[otherworldly vocals playing]
I'm really glad that...
we're doing this.
I always thought about
the mass shooting in Las Vegas,
of that older guy
at that country festival.
I always think about that.
I mean, I will be nervous.
I'm going to think it's real.
But it's fake.
And I know it's fake.
And I know that
there's a good outcome.
You know there's gonna be
a good outcome.
[whirring]
[Daniel] These products
are a line
of our self-adhesive wounds.
They're used
in mass-casualty drills
or other active-shooter drills
for simulating
gunshot-wound victims.
So these would peel off
and be applied to an actor
to simulate a casualty
in a scenario.
[David] Ever since Columbine,
there's been a real concern
about the civilian
emergency response
to school shootings,
workplace violence
where they realize that
the training could be better.
[jaunty music playing]
This is our Wounds in a Box.
The gunshot through and through
to the neck.
This is the multiple gunshot
wound abdomen.
[David] If we could have
more realistic injuries,
it would help get over
the psychological trauma
of seeing this
for the first time.
The damage to the penis
and the testicles
are not life-threatening.
It is this entry
going into the thigh
right where
the femoral artery passes.
We've been at libraries.
We've been at schools.
We've been at camps,
to summer camps.
Uh, one of the worst days
ever was, uh,
my daughter came out
to one of the classes
and was one of the role-players.
And it was the first time
she ever worked
as a role-player for us.
And she let out
this blood-curdling scream,
"Daddy! Daddy!"
And that just...
It was just heartbreaking.
[Daniel] Society has changed.
And we're building new products,
different products,
which can be...
It's a little bit distressing
because there is a need
for pediatric wounds,
uh, which is something
that we're gonna be addressing
-in the near future.
-Yeah.
[teacher] Everybody have
your listening ears turned on?
-[kids cheering]
-Go... Good job.
And everybody catch a bubble.
Go... [inhales heavily]
Great. Oop, stay on your bottom,
please. Okay?
So...
we're gonna start
doing this thing.
And it is to protect us, okay?
-Okay.
-So we all stay safe.
-Mmm.
-Okay.
So we're gonna have a code word.
-You know what that means?
-What?
-[kids chattering]
-Okay. Okay.
I'm going to explain.
A code word is gonna be like
our safe word
or a phrase, like a sentence.
Whenever I say it, like,
you have to be paying attention,
babe. Okay?
-[kid coughs]
-Whenever I say it,
we have... There's gonna be
a spot in the classroom
that we go hide in, okay?
We're not gonna use it often,
but whenever we do,
you have to know
it's important, okay?
So that we all go home safe.
[kid] Okay.
Okay?
[kid] Okay.
[Andy] So when we do start to
bring children into the drills,
you know, I'm a big believer
that we don't use
the words "active shooter,"
right?
As the parent of a two-
and-a-half-year-old kid,
I don't want her to know
those words.
I don't want her to go
to her program
and come back this afternoon,
and say,
"Daddy, someone with a gun
was trying to shoot
and kill me."
Right? What are things
that little kids know?
So I said, "Hey, kids,
we're gonna pretend today
that there's a big,
hungry dinosaur
outside of our classroom.
And we don't want that dinosaur
to get in here, do we?"
"Oh, no, Mr. Andy.
No, of course not.
We don't want that dinosaur
to come in."
So I said, "Alright, kids. Well,
what do you think we should do?"
"Oh, shut the door!
Shut the door!"
"Okay, we're gonna shut
the door.
Do you think
I should lock the door?"
"Yeah, Mr. Andy,
lock the door."
I said, "Okay." I said,
"Boy, what if that dinosaur
figures out
how to unlock the door?"
"Oh, my gosh, Mr. Andy,
push the bookcase
in front of the door."
"Push the bookcase?
Well, do you think the dinosaur
could maybe see us
"through the classroom windows?"
"Oh, Mr. Andy,
cover the windows!
Cover the windows!"
I said, "Alright, come on.
Help me out.
Let's cover these windows.
I think we should turn off
the lights.
And I think we should try
to stay quiet
"so the dinosaur doesn't see us
or hear us. Right?"
"Yeah, that's right."
"And I might have to go back
in the corner here..."
-[wind whistling]
-[clock ticking]
[all sounds end abruptly]
[distant screaming]
-[door slams]
-[device buzzing]
-[man] Good.
-[screaming]
[screaming continues]
[somber ambient music plays]
[air soft gun firing]
[man] Find an exit!
[Thrasher] It's kind of fun.
The kids tend to enjoy it.
But basically,
I act like the active killer.
This is an air soft gun.
It only fires an eye-safe laser.
So I'll get this out,
so you get that idea of shots
being fired at them.
To get them amped up after they
get a couple runs through that,
I like to use this.
It's a shock knife.
So it definitely
adrenalizes them,
and it won't really hurt them,
but it seems like
it's gonna really hurt them.
-[man] Find an exit!
-[screaming]
[Thrasher] They tend to run
a little faster
with the shock knife.
-[shock knife buzzes]
-[screaming continues]
All last week, I trained
elite SWAT teams
how to do close-quarters battle.
I might be involved
in a special operations team
in the next week.
That's one of the fun
aspects of my job.
I just never know
from day to day.
From special forces
to soccer moms,
like, hey, I got you covered.
[Thrasher] Find an exit!
[shock knife buzzes]
How many people have ever had
butterflies in their stomach,
or felt very nervous
when they had to do something?
So you've experienced
that fight-or-flight,
what happens to your body,
alright?
So it's a reaction
to threats or fears.
And what it does,
it sends some chemicals
and hormones into our body
that help make us stronger
and faster.
I've traveled the world
as a Green Beret
and doing
counter-terrorism operations.
And what people
don't understand,
the base-level human being,
the average, base-level
human being in this planet,
is violent, superstitious,
and savage.
That people think
they're somehow like,
"Oh, I shouldn't have
to do violence.
What makes you think
you're so superior
to everything else in nature?"
A guy comes, a gun...
and he gets in your room.
-You do this.
-You grab over here,
pull him to your arm, and go...
You should grab it here
and here.
And you should hold on tight
and scream "Help."
[Thrasher]
Ask for help. Ask for help.
Alright, the rest of you,
come on in. Take, oh...
-Help me!
-Miguel.
My default is, when in doubt,
I go towards the side
of reality.
So how are you gonna prepare
a kid for reality
if you're afraid to show them
what it truly is?
Well, that's pretty good.
But I measure it a little bit
based on the audience's age.
You know, I'm a reasonable
human being.
But, yeah, you definitely have
to monitor that a little bit.
But at the same time, if you
shelter them so much from it,
how are they ever gonna be
prepared to deal with it?
Keep going until he's down.
There you go. Good job.
Good job, guys. Again, why...
[producer speaking]
[Thrasher]
Absolutely not related
to the number of guns out there.
We've had greater exposure
to firearms in the past.
That has not changed at all.
The tool,
the semiautomatic rifle
that people fear so much
has been around
for over a hundred years,
for crying out loud.
It is absolutely not the tool.
The one thing
that has definitively changed
is the person. And again,
it comes to family structures,
number one,
uh, the lack of tribalism
or the feeling
of-of community worth is gone
because people are narcissistic,
uh, they believe they're
the center of the universe,
they should get a trophy
no matter what they do.
Everything's about themselves...
[Quinn] I don't think
that a lot of adults
care about our opinions.
We go through this
every single day.
We go through, like,
being afraid of going to school
because we might get shot
or we might lose a friend
or we might lose a teacher.
And a lot of people
care more about their rights,
I guess,
more about, "Oh, well,
I wanna have the ability"
to own... to own a gun,
"so I don't care if you get shot
in your classroom."
It's just kind of disheartening
'cause it's like,
oh, you care more about
yourself than...
all the students in America.
Mm-hmm, especially
when it's the number one
killer of kids in this country,
-which is insane.
-Yeah.
Like, that should
not be the case.
It's not the case anywhere else
in the world.
I remember hearing that
as a statistic.
And I was like, "Oh."
-Okay."
-Great.
And it just... I-I...
It wasn't even a surprise to me.
-No.
-It was like, oh, well,
we're gonna get here someday.
So here we are.
So...
-[intercom beeps]
-[indistinct chatter]
[indistinct chatter continues]
-[chatter halts]
-[clock ticking]
[indistinct chatter resumes]
You're a... you're...
[screaming]
Stop.
[ominous music playing]
[overlapping chatter]
-[gunshot]
-[groans]
-[alarm blares]
-Get out of my way.
[gunshot]
[alarm blares]
[woman] Get out! Now!
[gunshots]
There is a gun. Lockdown.
Lockdown immediately.
-[gunshots]
-Lock down immediately.
[alarm blares]
[Tabitha] The body can't go
where the mind's never been.
[otherworldly vocals playing]
We talk about preparedness,
but that...
those lines,
the body can't go
where the mind's never been.
You don't think about
what would happen,
you're not gonna have
the reaction you expect
when stuff actually goes down.
In the commercial world
of video gaming,
these are what we call
sandbox games.
Um, Grand Theft Auto
is probably the one
that most of you recognize.
This is a multiplayer,
multi-scenario.
But I'm not here to teach you
what you do in your school.
I want to, as an instructor,
present you with some kind
of critical incident
that's gonna make you
think and react.
And then if we make mistakes,
this is where
we wanna make them.
You have sports games
and commercial games.
And you have
first-person shooters.
We have the same.
We did, initially,
start with the Army.
When we shifted to the school,
it became readily apparent
that the school educators
and the staff
are the first responders.
Now remember,
if anything happens,
I want you to play
how it is in real life.
Alright, let's go
and get started.
[static crackles]
[clears throat] Alright.
What's up, Martinez?
[Martinez] What's up, homie?
Uh, I'm gonna go
walk around now.
Where's the coffee at?
I don't know.
Let's go look for it.
Alright.
Can you hear me?
[woman] Yeah, what do you want?
-I wanna talk to you.
-Please.
I saw you with Johnny.
[woman laughs]
Please, you did not.
Yeah, I did. Well, alright.
Billy told me that he saw you
with Johnny.
Get out of my face.
You're not worth my time.
You were never worth my time.
Maybe I should have been
with him.
Yeah? Maybe you should
not be with anybody.
[woman laughs] Please.
Oh, no, wait. What?
Hey! Hey, he's got a gun.
He's got a gun. That kid
down there has got a gun.
-[gunshot]
-[screams]
-[dings]
-Guys, do you hear
some loud people talking?
Hey, he's got a gun!
He's got a gun!
-Where are you going?
-[gunshots]
-Ahh!
-[indistinct radio chatter]
-Get on the ground.
-Yeah, okay.
There's an active shooter
at the school.
-Oh, no!
-How's that feel, huh?
-How does that feel?
-Get away from me.
-Help!
-Ahh!
-[shooter laughs]
-The 911 thing's not working.
Where you going?
You scared yet?
-Where you...
-[gunshot]
[crying] Somebody help me.
[screaming]
[Tabitha]
It's always this debate.
Video games are immersive.
And at what point
is the immersive, um,
you know, corrupting the minds
of the people
that are playing them?
If you think about that
from the other side,
when it's immersive,
you're also having
the opportunity
to enhance the mind
in ways that maybe
we didn't think we could before.
Okay, how many different ways
could that have gone,
two kids arguing
over a boyfriend in the hallway?
Did you expect a handgun
to come out?
-No. No.
-No.
Okay. So what was your...
-first reaction?
-Here's my question though.
And let's just play
that same, exact...
exact situation.
I don't have a gun,
don't have a taser,
don't have mace.
What am I doing?
[Tabitha]
Well, let's talk it out.
-Yeah.
-Right? Now, we know
what that was like.
What would have happened?
You make contact
with those kids.
You remember Tiffany.
You remember Jordan.
So when they do get heated,
and you put yourself
in front of them,
and be like,
hey, we're stopping.
-Not today, not today. Yup.
-Stop.
Like, when I get firm
with the kids,
even though my voice is squeaky,
and I'm still talking to them,
they do stop.
It was a situation...
I don't have a problem
with that.
-I do that all day long.
-Yeah.
-I have no problem...
-That does de-escalate.
-That was me and some...
-I have no problem with that.
I'm saying, a middle school kid
pulls out a gun,
like the situation you just had,
I-I can't... My words against...
What other options do you have?
-I don't know.
-So you have a knife?
-No.
-Do you have a billy club?
-No. No.
-Do you have a crowbar?
So the only thing
that you've got...
-Is my word.
-Is your ability
-to communicate.
-Yeah.
How about your relationship
with the kid?
I just don't like guns.
Yeah, well, this is the absolute
worst situation.
[somber music playing]
I've been places where
the answer would've been,
well, what if we just gave
that teacher a gun?
I've only done it once
as an experiment.
And...
um, and we just had somebody
shoot at the suspect,
but they missed.
And we traced it
in the after-action review
video file.
And the bullet went through
the window
across the quad
through another window,
and it killed a kid
on the other side.
And I went... [inhales]
Okay, I'm just gonna
tuck that away.
I'll tell that story later.
[laughs]
[dramatic vocals playing]
[inaudible]
-[gunshot]
-Oh! Crap! I hate these kind.
[laughter]
I do. I don't like these.
-Oh, my gosh.
-So you guys...
Sorry, that made...
My heart is like racing.
-[laughter]
-You guys will...
-You guys will be great...
-You'll be fine.
-I just don't like...
-You'll be fine.
-You'll be fine.
-You're fine.
You'll be fine.
So let me just take this
for a minute.
-I'll be fine.
-No. No one's cried.
[reporter] More than
40 educators are taking
the six-week-long
Teachers Academy.
On this day,
the educators go into
a vividly-realistic
shooting simulator.
You will see actors playing
the students and perpetrators.
It's easy to forget
it's pretend.
-Can we work together?
-Yeah.
Just-just no Charlie's Angels.
-No Charlie's Angels.
-No Charlie's Angels.
-[intercom beeping]
-Shots fired.
All units, we have shots fired.
-Shots fired.
-Woo-hoo.
Okay, don't hold hands.
Don't hold hands.
Remember, no Charlie's Angels.
[screaming]
-Go!
-Remember, you have a big
field of view
you're gonna have to look at.
-Go!
-Look around.
Look around. Keep looking.
-Hey! Stop!
-[gunshots]
[gunshots continue]
-They're over there.
-Shooting, shooting.
[gunshots]
[man] Okay.
Aim. Let's aim. Aim.
The simulator
was really intense.
My heart rate, 133,
I'm not kidding you,
when I came out of there.
-Right there!
-[gunshots]
-Go!
-Get down!
I played it several times
in my head,
how to come around the corner
and shoot him and take him out.
When he said to us, don't think
about anything, he said,
you just need to think about
right now,
where you are
and what you're gonna do.
And he had us take
a deep breath in,
and just let it out.
And he said, okay, here we go.
[dramatic music playing]
Ow! Please help us!
They went to the library!
[gunshots]
[dramatic vocals playing]
[woman shrieking]
[panicked chatter]
[screaming]
-[gunshots]
-Stop! Get down!
-Focus on the last place you...
-[gunshots]
There you go.
-Okay, look everywhere else.
-Who's in there?
Let's go. Guys, stay there.
Stay right there.
[gunshot]
Right there, right there.
-Whoa.
-What's that?
Okay, back to back. Come on.
Yup.
[Rachel]
When we did the scenario,
that was...
the simplest shooting practice
that we did all day.
I tend to overthink everything.
But if you put me in a room
and they call a lockdown,
and I know that unless I hear
a key in the door,
anybody who manages
to get my door open
is coming after my kids,
that changes everything.
[inaudible]
-[gunshot]
-[music fades]
[man] Good.
What'd you think?
Um...
I didn't... [sighs, laughs]
I thought that I would be
nervous to shoot someone.
I'm not nervous
to shoot someone, sorry,
if it means it's gonna keep
my kids safe.
-There you go.
-Ha.
There you go.
You gotta be the mother hen.
[dramatic music flourishes,
fades]
Today, Medford School District
hosted a multi-agency drill.
Major mass casualty...
mass-casualty drill.
Mass-casualty drill.
Full-scale,
active-shooter drill.
Largest exercises of its kind.
Community members
as young as 12...
face to face
with a pretend active shooter.
It took months
to plan this drill.
Up in the morning
and out to school
The teacher is teaching
the golden rule
American history
and practical math
-Good morning.
-Good morning.
You studying hard
and hoping to pass
Workin' your fingers
right down to the bone
And the guy behind you
won't leave you alone
[indistinct chatter]
Oh, my God.
Ring, ring goes the bell
The cook in the lunchroom's
ready to sell...
At first, the stuff didn't mix
that well, believe it or not.
Mix it together a little bit.
Yeah. See how that's turning
a nice red now?
Back in the classroom,
open your books
Keep it, the teacher
don't know I made you look
[Bret] This morning,
I got out of bed,
and my first thought
was what those people in Uvalde
would have given
to be part
of something like this
a year or six months
or a week before
the tragedy that happened
in Uvalde.
[camera shutters clicking]
They would have given anything
to do this.
And so I wanted for us,
just for a moment,
to recognize the tragedies
that have led
to this moment for us.
We can't control
a lot of things,
but we can control us
being ready
in case there's an emergency.
Our thoughts and prayers
go with anyone
who has experienced this
for real.
And so we will not waste
this opportunity today.
Alright, go [indistinct].
Restrooms.
-Thanks, everybody, for today.
-[applause]
[indistinct chatter]
[foreboding music playing]
Okay.
[foreboding music continues]
-Mic check.
-Check, check.
Mic check.
[machine hissing]
[Chip] You guys ready?
Like we talked about,
loud, crying.
I want my mom! I want my dad!
Call. Where's my brother?
Where's my sister?
Why aren't you helping me?
Help me!
I don't wanna die!
Don't be nice to the EMS!
-Know your routes, right?
-We know our route.
It's time.
If you can't tell,
we're all smiling right now.
Yeah, I... Kinda.
[laughter]
-It's open.
-It's open. Alright, go ahead.
[birds chirping]
[foreboding music continues]
[music intensifies]
[clicking, cocking]
[door clanks]
[foreboding music continues]
[gunshots]
[rapid gunfire]
[somber music playing]
[crying]
[dramatic vocals layer over
somber music]
Help!
Please. Please, help me. Please!
911, what is the address
of the emergency?
Yeah, hi, this is Chip.
I'm looking
at the softball field.
-Please help me!
-Some guy just ran by her,
two explosions, and some guy,
it looked like a rifle
or something,
running by,
shot a whole bunch of kids.
They're all over the place
out there.
[screaming]
No! Mom!
-Please help me.
-[screaming]
I don't wanna die!
[man over PA] The 911 Response
Center has been called.
Law enforcement officials
are now on their way.
Teachers, please secure
your classrooms
for a direct-threat lockdown.
The emergency response system
has been activated.
The 911 Response Center
has been called.
Law enforcement officials
are now on their way.
[dramatic music continues]
So let's-let's just huddle up
here for a second.
We... [sighs]
We can find an empty classroom.
I'm not sure what's going on
in the hall right now.
I see that down...
the-the floor below us,
there has... there's been people
that are hurt.
Um, I don't see anything
that's happened
on our second floor yet.
But we need to start thinking
about what we're gonna do,
'cause we've got a fire
that's coming close to our room.
And we can smell the smoke.
-[music turns ominous]
-[indistinct PA announcement]
I think we need to go.
We're gonna run, okay?
I'll make sure
that you're all with us.
-Do you remember where to go?
-Yeah.
Okay. We're gonna run
to the left.
[over PA]
Center has been called.
Law enforcement officials
are now on their way.
Yeah, I'm gonna poke
my head out real quick.
Classrooms
for a direct-threat lockdown.
-Emergency response system...
-Go back.
Has been activated.
Response Center has been called.
[pounding on door]
For a direct-threat lockdown.
The emergency response system
has been activated.
Law enforcement officials
are now on their way.
Teachers, please secure...
Okay, our fire is too hot.
We can't stay in here
any longer.
We have to run no matter what.
Okay, zigzag runs.
Has been called.
Law enforcement officials
are now on their way.
[PA announcement continues]
You guys ready to go?
[music intensifies]
Run, run, run, run, run.
This way. Let's go.
Follow me. This way.
[gentle, otherworldly
vocals playing]
[teacher] If you see police,
please put your hands up.
[on PA] Law enforcement
officials are on their way.
Lockdown and prepare to evade
or defend.
There is an active threat
on campus.
Lock down and prepare to evade
or defend.
The emergency response system
has been activated.
The 911 Response Center
has been called.
Law enforcement officials...
[teacher] Okay, there's still...
There's an active shooter
still in there.
[faint birdsong]
[music fades]
[low droning builds]
[door thuds open]
[gunfire continues]
[gunshot echoes loudly]
[Rachel] You know,
I don't understand
the mentality of someone
who decides
to go shoot up a school.
In most cases,
it's a way for them to feel...
seen, a way for them
to feel like
they affected the world
in a way,
a negative way, but a way.
[somber music playing]
If we could
take them all, and...
wrap our arms around them,
sing "Kumbaya,"
convince them that they matter,
that someone cares...
but that's really hard.
You know, I have 200 kids.
It's really hard.
And I'm tired.
They're tired.
We're having a long day.
I snap at them.
They snap at me.
And I'm sure that students
leave my room
feeling like...
"I'm not the adult in the room.
Who cares?"
And that's hard.
But I'm just a regular person.
And I'm going to work every day,
and trying to survive, and...
I wish that I could do
a better job at connecting,
but I guess I'm just doing
what I can to hang on to myself
and try to hang on
to as many of them as possible.
[otherworldly vocals playing]
[officer] This morning at 9:02,
our dispatch center received
an emergency response
button notification
from the Oakdale Middle School.
Shortly thereafter,
we started receiving
additional calls
and text messages
regarding an active shooter.
-[air soft guns firing]
-[indistinct radio chatter]
-Get down!
-Suspect down!
Hands up! Hands up!
Show us your hands!
Two doors, Rhymer.
Jay, is that a gunshot wound
in the back?
-Hey, boss.
-[indistinct chatter]
Hey, doctor, what am I
seeing here on the face?
What's that?
Is that a gunshot wound?
[officer] We have suffered
a loss of life today.
And we ask for the consideration
of the families
and all those involved
to please give us time to work
through this investigation
and make those notifications.
[alarm blaring]
What occurred today is tragic
and truly unimaginable.
It will have a deep impact
on this community.
But this community is strong.
And this is something
that we will work through
and get behind us.
[somber music continues]
[woman] You're gonna be okay.
We're gonna call your parents.
Take a deep breath.
Try to breathe in.
[panicked chatter]
This will all be over soon.
-Mom!
-Try to keep your eyes closed
and focus on your breathing.
Just take a deep breath
in and out.
We're gonna call
your parents soon.
Deep breath.
-[indistinct yelling]
-[crying]
Deep breaths in and out.
[music fades]
In and out.
In and out.
[alarm continues blaring
faintly]
[birdsong]
[alarm fades]
[woman] You guys took your jobs
really seriously.
[indistinct chatter]
-Good job, Chief.
-Green slip.
-Good job.
-Wow.
[laughter]
-Drilling.
-Yeah.
We'll switch this one out here.
-Yeah.
-Get ready for number two?
Thank you, Chief.
I-I started an earlier
press conference, saying,
as if-as if this were...
these were real...
this was a real event,
that it was a heartbreaking day
in the Medford School District,
and playing that role.
That was true.
But I'll tell you,
as I stand here today, I think...
I think right now,
it's also a heartbreaking day
for all of us who have students
in public schools,
that-that this is something
that is necessary,
um, that we need to do.
That said, we need to do it.
The reality is, this is where
we are in this country,
where we are right now
in this valley.
And I will... I make no apologies
for the event
that we just did together.
And what I reminded
the crew today
is that what we are doing here
in the Medford School District
is building muscle memory
and thinking through
and trying to ensure that
we minimize the loss of life
in the event of such a thing
happening here.
And so I'm so pleased
that we were able
to do that today.
But I do not want
to lose the fact
that it is still a sad thing
that we have to do this.
[dramatic vocals playing
over somber music]
I don't know what I'm gonna do
with the rest of my day.
I mean, that was pretty jarring,
so I'll probably do something
to get my mind off of it.
[somber music continues]
[inaudible dialogue]
[somber music continues]