INT. CBC STUDIO – NIGHT
The familiar set of George Stroumboulopoulos’s show glows under soft red and black lighting. George sits across from a shadowy figure, dressed in tactical gear, with a bandana tied across his forehead: SOLID SNAKE.
GEORGE STROMBO
Snake, thanks for being here. You’ve fought in jungles, deserts, and against private military corporations. But today, you’re talking about Greece. Why?
SOLID SNAKE
Because the battlefield isn’t always fought with bullets, George. Sometimes it’s fought with banks, with debt, with families that pull the strings from the shadows.
GEORGE STROMBO
You’re talking about the so-called “deep state”?
SOLID SNAKE
That’s right. The Greek deep state. And at the center of it—families like the Onassis dynasty. People think Aristotle Onassis was just a shipping magnate, a playboy who married Jackie Kennedy. But if you read Fritz Springmeier’s Bloodlines of the Illuminati, you’ll see he was connected to something far bigger: one of the thirteen bloodlines pulling global strings.
GEORGE STROMBO
That book is controversial, to put it mildly. Critics call it conspiracy theory.
SOLID SNAKE
Conspiracy theory or battlefield intel—it doesn’t matter what you call it when people starve. Greece has been crushed under austerity, pensions gutted, wages slashed. Meanwhile, the Onassis fortune sits offshore, bloated. It’s obscene.
GEORGE STROMBO
So what are you saying? That austerity wasn’t about economics, but control?
SOLID SNAKE
Control through scarcity. Keep the people desperate, and you can make them accept anything—sell off their ports, their power grids, their sovereignty.
GEORGE STROMBO
But isn’t it too simplistic to blame one family?
SOLID SNAKE
Maybe. But symbols matter. The Onassis yachts, the family myth—they embody a system where wealth piles up in the hands of a few while ordinary Greeks throw Molotovs in the streets just to be heard.
GEORGE STROMBO
You’ve fought mercenaries and despots. Do you really think the fight against debt is the same?
SOLID SNAKE
A war is a war, George. This one just doesn’t use rifles. It uses ledgers, contracts, and false hope.
The camera zooms on Snake’s weathered face, his eye burning with conviction.
SOLID SNAKE (leaning forward)
The question is—how long will people let the bloodlines bleed them dry before they rise up?
Silence. The audience shifts uncomfortably. George sits back, thoughtful, the weight of the question hanging heavy in the studio air.
FADE OUT.