Treatment
Act 1
Jabari , a man of 35, is watching television with his family one night. He hears the sound of a troop carrier outside. He thinks nothing of it, but soon his door is broken down and a dozen troops storm into his house. A soldier zip ties Jabari and tells him to get on his knees. The general, Omari, walks in.
He questions Jabari and asks why he killed his brother Idir. Omari is insane with rage. He only wants blood tonight. Jabari explains he is only a doctor and points to a framed photo of him and his staff. Omari doesn’t care. The case of mistaken identity only enraged him more.
Omari’s soldiers round up his family, zip tie them, and bring them together. Before he dies a furious Jabari looks at Omari and swears he will exact a bloody revenge in this life or the next. He is quickly executed by Omari with a shot between the eyes.
The soldiers pour gasoline around the house, and then set it on fire. They leave. In minutes the house will be fully ablaze.
Act 2
Three months later Amari is born. He is born with a pale, circular birthmark on his forehead. It is about the size of a nickel.
Amari struggles with bad dreams. When he is five years of age, he goes to the market with his mother. While his mother, Hibo, examines produce Amari excitedly tells her a woman of about 60, Imani, is his past mother. He points to her matter-of-factly. Hibo is noticeably disturbed, and quickly leaves the market.
After consulting with her husband Chima they decide to see a child psychologist. Amari is able to open up to her. He tells Zuri, the psychologist, everything he remembers. After the session, Zuri calls his mother and says he has a vivid imagination and may be experiencing a form of dissassociation. She notes one area of concern. She says that Amari told him about his former mother, Imani, and that he even remembered her number, which she called and confirmed. She refers him to a psychiatrist, who prescribes two medications: Clozapine, an anti-psychotic, and Trazadone, a sleeping medication.
Act 3
By the time Amari is ten the country is still ravaged by war and there are many child soldiers. While walking to school with friends a truck in a long line of military vehicles pulls off the road close to them. He is abducted by the militia. Troops tell them to get in, firing in the air. Amari gets on the back of a Toyota truck with a .50 caliber machine gun mounted in the back. The passenger disembarks and heads to the back of the truck. He smiles at Amari. It’s Gen. Omari!
Soon, however, Amari gets used to life in the militia. He gets hardened after several close calls with death. After several battles with a rival militia, Amari is an experienced, fearless killer. Having killed grown men made him bolder, but he is still haunted by nightmares of his past life and still obsessed with thoughts of revenge.
One day in the base camp Amari notices Omari has become ill and has diarrhea. He is running back and forth to the latrines right in the middle of an attempt to overrun the camp. The sound of gunfire fills the air. While everyone else is rushing to battle, Amari sees an opportunity. He pretends he is sick too. He follows Omari to the latrines and as he is relieving himself, and before Omari could grab his weapon Amari stands in front of him, aiming straight at him. No one is with them as all the men are fighting. He reminds him of who Jabari was and what he did ten years ago. He asks Omari if he remembers the promise. He shakes his head. Amari tells him detail by painful detail before he tells him that as Jabari, he would kill him, in this life or the next. Omari now remembers and tries to excuse it as mistaken identity.
Amari is in tears of rage, and now channeling the full voice of Jabari, he shakes his head and opens fire.
Act 4
Weary, Amari makes his way out of the jungle and can now go home. He boards a bus. When Amari arrives home he comes inside and his family celebrates his return, but he tells them that he really needs to go to sleep. When he wakes the next day he can’t recall what he did in the last night or the past three months. He stops telling everyone he lived a previous life, because he honestly can’t remember it.
