The Mockingjay and the Quarter Quell
from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Written by Simon Beaufoy, Michael Arndt
President Snow and Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee discuss the growing threat of Katniss Everdeen and the other victors. Snow demands her destruction to prevent a full-scale uprising, while Plutarch proposes a more calculated 'wrinkle' to ruin her image before her execution.
SNOW: We created that Jabberjay as a weapon. An organic spy mutt. After the program was shut down an extermination order was issued but was carelessly executed.
PLUTARCH: I understand that.
SNOW: And not just her. Her entire species will have to be eradicated.
PLUTARCH: Her species, sir?
SNOW: The o
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