the michael jackson song ‘thriller’ fills the air on the anniversary of lehman brothers investment bank’s collapse demonstrators have gathered in the plaza beside the bank’s former offices at canary wharf this is all done with permission from the company that owns the land a firm the majority of whose shares are owned by the qatari royal family there are fifty or sixty protesters all angry about how government money has been diverted away from public services to prolong the lives of failing banks ‘zombie bank’ is a term in the financial press to designate these undead corporations half the demonstrators are dressed as public sector workers nurses in uniform teachers with mortarboards whatever a librarian looks like the others are clad in bankers’ pinstripes but also in zombie makeup they shamble after the public servants and try to consume their brains but this subversive necromancy is contained in one section of the plaza not blocking anyone’s access to the nearby underground station the zombies are bound by the landowners’ more powerful sorcery reduced to spectacle for entertainment of genuine bankers you need to undo the binding spell and set the undead free so that the carcasses of zombie banks themselves might be consumed how will you release them
• unleash the forces of nature against the authors of the binding spell
• edit the narrative so that the problem is solved in moments through montage
