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Philadelphia
Rainbow
by Chris Gossett
(Screenplay
Note: Space. 3243. We know only that the scene is from space. We do not know
if this is within a building on a planet or on a large vessel. A sterile,
white, technologically advanced room and window peering into space and we see
two suns as well as blurred planetary bodies. Nothing indicates if we are in
the Milky Way)
Year 3243. Al
woke. The light of the sun and a star peered through the convex portal, skewing
his vision. The smaller star appeared like a cousin, albeit a tenth the size of
the vast sun, and as the younger family member, looking up in a gaze of awe at
the sun, it appeared content to follow along in the larger, older relative’s
uncaring trail.
Venoitra, the much smaller, man-made, nuclear sun, would shine
for what humanity estimates could maintain the Earth for a billion years, in the
event that our sun burned out. Despite mankind’s lack of faith in the future of
his sun, the brilliance of the sun overtook Venoitra’s light.
This historic
moment began the exact time that would be memorialized; his becoming aware that
he was now breathing and becoming conscious. After a few moments of
acclimation, he opened his eyes to feel the burning sensation. Aware, now, he
opened his eyes to feel the burning sensation that this greatest portal
filtration could not shield from the victim of its light.
(Screenplay
Note: We do not yet see who is speaking.)
Dapna leaned
forward and pushed their breath out to the delight of Al. It smelled so
incredibly good and their voice was the meaning of the word “soothing”.
“Can you hear
me, Al? I have a lot to tell you. You are truly the fulcrum for what will be.
Everything balances on you. You are going to learn all the answers to all the
questions you could ever ask in your lifetime. First, we must take you through
the narrative of what has transpired, what must take place, and what your life
truly means in its root purpose. Humanity and technology merged, forever
altering what makes a person “human”. You are our reprieve. You are the
alteration back to the origin. You are the same as a man was in the 21st
century. This is now the 33rd century. For over a thousand years we have
altered the building blocks of life. We have altered ourselves into a format so
far removed from what we began as, how you are, and now we can no longer
reproduce at the same rate. Our species are dying. We hope you can start the
healing and return of humanity, unaltered. You are the most altered, to become
the unaltered.
“Time travel
experimentation that started in the 20th century, 1943 to be exact, wrought
about new technology. Over the course of the following century, human kind and
technology merged. After the merge started over time Humankind was altered
further and further to satisfy the synergistic view of “human and A.I.” Thus,
humankind has been altered to being one sex and spontaneous reproduction can
take place however ultimately, as time has passed, it has stopped happening at a
rate consistent with survival of the species. Humankind has genetically
engineered you to combine all we know, from many years of research, in order to
return to the previous, unaltered human state. To achieve this all historical
knowledge, brain power, AI, and quantum computing technology were combined.
Once the crew of 2023 space walkers started to be altered, mankind forever was
destined to try to further enhance its capabilities, forsaking all pitfalls and
potential dangers that we ultimately succumbed to. Fear of self destruction,
and alterations demanded the earthlings would be required to travel in time,
seen in many forms of craft, collection of light, organic traveling pods, and
various vehicles, often called UFOs, in order to attempt to return all of
humanity to its pre-experiment form. We took liberty to perform experiments on
abductees, perform surgeries, examinations, and sacrifices imposed upon men and
women of the many centuries humankind existed, prior to alteration began.
Humanity took upon itself the responsibility of creating a new society, in the
attempt to ultimately return our destiny to an unaltered humanity, in its
intended, previously unaltered form.”
(Screenplay
note: Fade to black.)
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2023.
Astronauts saunter outside the International Space Station in a space walk. A
Pyramid appears, inexplicably, followed by the USS Eldridge, a US Navy vessel,
captured within the bottleneck of space that is containing the ship, its
inhabitants and its surroundings. The Astronauts gasp in disbelief.
Evans shouts
out, “remain calm” to his fellow astronauts. “What the hell is going on? Does
everybody see what I’m seeing?!?!?”, asks Pamela Shelby. Everyone outside the
shuttle has stuttering, stammering and unsettled nerves at the sight of these
two craft that simply do not belong.
The Eldridge
moves along at a very slow pace, between the Pyramid and the space walkers and
ISS.
The Pyramid,
making no sound, it moved slowly away so as to appear friendly or to avoiding
appearing threatening. Finally, from the top of the Pyramid, there emits a pink
beam that illuminated the ISS craft, and all the astronauts, on all sides. That
beam is painless and seemingly harmless.
Between the ISS
and the Pyramid, five giant beings robed in white and gold trimmed robes,
appeared. They were startling in the fact that, as the first witness stated,
“there are 80 foot tall BEINGS out there, staring at us!” Five of the largest
beings ever witnessed were right in front of them. Their nature and origin and
reason for appearing were immediately unfamiliar. This is so ominous and
unbelievable in occurrence that every moment that passes makes it seem more
impossible. They gleamed extreme light but were not damagingly bright, which is
what seemed odd as they were like the sun but the astronauts were able to gaze
at their magnificence without any discomfort; they were visible and soothingly
beautiful. The one in the middle spoke and the two on each side never changed
their expression nor blinked nor uttered a syllable. The one in the middle was
obviously the leader and was the only one charged with speech.
“Throughout
history you have spit in the face of the plan for humanity. The plan is love,
it is forgiveness, and it is not ever to involve wanton murder. When those you
love die off from your existence you are taught that they continue on however
your love for them stops growing once this takes place. This is why Mother
Earth does not yet evolve, because her inhabitants must understand that death is
sleep that begins life anew when you wake from your human mind. In your tongue
you have accepted that dying on Earth implies ENDIng. Dying is beginning the
next state of being. You live so fast, when it ends on this plane, clarity hits
you hard! Clarity reveals how short this time was. If your love would continue
to grow for those who left this plane you would touch the next dimensions. Now
you must understand what you have done.” The light around them grows and it is
not noticed when the vessels departed from sight and was replaced in all
significance by the interaction with these luminous giants. The pyramid
vanished exactly as it appeared, just as instantly quick and altogether
ominous. Moments after their vanishing from sight, the giants disappear as
well.
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(Screenplay
Note: Chicago, 1931. “The Entertainer” by Scott Joplin plays. We zoom into
Chicago from above the water and zoom destination is the R.C.A. Building, to the
RCA logo, Rockefeller Center, Chicago.)
(Screenplay
Note: We fade to short dialogue with narration by text. We then see Nikola
Tesla standing in his lab working on attaching unknown hardware together)
The events that
would bring about the Philadelphia Experiment could be said to have begun in
Chicago. The goal originally was stated as the de-magnetism of USA WWII
vessels. Dr. Nikola Tesla was working as the director of the Research
Engineering staff at RCA.
1
(Screenplay
Note: We fade to a speech of indecipherable or short dialogue with narration by
text to indicate the friendship)
Franklin Delanor
Roosevelt was secretary of the Navy in 1931 and he and Tesla were friends which
made the inclusion of Tesla as an organic circumstance, of need and solution
conveniently wrapped up.
Germany has made
magnetic detonations, so while degaussing the ships would render them radar
invisible, as well as capable of passing within close proximity to the magnetic
mines, there was an added achievement not stated as the intention of, nor
experiment design function’s intended result. Early on in research there were
discoveries that would create new goals to accompany the de-magnetism by
degaussing.
(Screenplay
Note: Only show the vessel shape in the water, the hull shape, remains, in
hollow water, as the unnamed vessel begins to fade from view, but no characters
are shown.)
1936. Partial
invisibility was achieved. This new achievement vastly stepped up the research
and experimentation in priority, significance and timeline for the entire
process.
(Screenplay
Note: Fade to New York, slowly zoom in on 1937 New York, to over head and zoom
down to pan side to side from the view of a pedestrian crossing the street. A
Model T ford, black, is seen, too late from the corner of our view while
crossing the street, implying impact with the pedestrian. We see it is Nikola
Tesla because his face comes into view as he falls down).
In New York, in
the fall of 1937, Nikola Tesla, 81 years old at the time, was hit, crossing the
street. To avoid being away from his work, he refused long term hospitalization
and treatment. He broke three ribs but the extent of his injuries is unknown,
and his back was subsequently noted as being a persistent painful issue for him,
until his passing.
(Screenplay
Note: he is seen in hospital recovery for a brief period and then shown limping
away after checking himself out of the hospital. He wears a brown suit.
Narrator reveals his following fascinations).
Tesla lived at
the New Yorker 33rd floor, Room 3327. This was not out of character, and,
likely, requested. His well known fascination with the numbers 3, 6 and 9, an
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, according to today’s standards, entertained those
who knew him as well as those who knew the myth. It was chalked up to simply
being eccentric in Tesla’s time. 3327 was significant to Nikola and translated
to his rational as this: 3 and 3 add up to 6, the 2 and 7 add up to 9, thus it
was the best possible number available in a four character format. For this and
a variety of other reasons, and because was seen as eccentric by most, he was
greatly misunderstood.
Of his unique
habits was the act of walking the block he lived on three times, prior to
entering. Also he requested stacks of three folded napkins, and did things with
the numbers 3, 6 and 9 as his conscious decision to tailor his intentions
according to those numbers and all the denominators associated with them. He
made everyone, staff included, remain 3 feet away from him. He lived as a
vegetarian and had all meals from the chef at the New Yorker. He did not make
his own food.
(Screenplay
Note: Brooklyn Naval Ship Yard in 1940, zoom in with narration expressing the
following) 1940. Brooklyn Naval Yard. Full Invisibility is achieved! This
was on a mine sweeper vessel without a crew of any form.
(Screenplay
Note: Fade back and forth between the images of Tesla and Einstein speaking in
concerned overtones without other characters revealed. Imply only. Narrator
explanation ensues) 1942. Tesla is informed a new vessel would be commissioned
for manned experiments which Tesla was very opposed to. Despite vehement
protests, with his cause for disdain at the mere concept, clearly laid out to
the US Navy, Tesla was circumvented entirely and his warnings went unheeded.
His assertion
was that without a “zero time reference point” the crew would face
disorientation, the likes of which had never been seen. This unprecedented risk
to our own personnel had been of least importance to the men who oversaw the
experimentation at White Sands. The Manhattan Project would bring about the
atomic technology and the destructive force that was displayed for the world on
the stubborn Japanese, twice. This would become a precursor to nuclear
technology. Prior to that however was the Philadelphia Experiment. Nikola
Tesla had created designs of which the world would be changed as a result of his
achievement.
Additionally,
future technological innovations would be realized by other researchers who had
used the premise put forth by Nikola Tesla. Einstein was as critical in many
respects, to the success of each of these clandestine operations.
(Screenplay
Note: Narrator states the following and we see the representations of events)
Another, supposed invention, was the rumored “Death Ray”, which was said to be
potentially capable of taking down an aircraft, or a building, and turn it to
ash as it free falls, similar to a planned implosion, however it makes much
dissolve before hitting the ground. While rumored to be many things unknown are
how many applications it could pertain toward and be used in experimentation or
as a destructive weapon.
His Dynamic
Theory of Gravity was never published. While we speculate what the “ray”
actually was, just as intriguing is the lack of understanding of what his
gravity theory was. OR is it unknown? The creation of craft that would
potentially defy gravity is something many conspiracy theorists have ascribed to
knowing as “fact.” It is a fact that they say it. It is an unknown anomaly and
instead of being lore it is potential fact being concealed by many parts and
pieces of factions of the government and dark operations, clandestine as
possible.
(Screenplay
Note: showing the two scientists intermittently, we see them thinking, writing
on paper, writing on chalk boards, we see the clock showing time ticking away.)
Nikola Tesla had been critical of Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. He
said scientists did not support it, but only metaphysical believers did.
Einstein always claimed imagination was more important than intelligence. Tesla
and Einstein had a greater understanding of Quantum Physics and Mechanics than
scientists before them, potentially more than our current scientists could
ascribe to today. Their effort toward achievement utilized insight and
understanding, of the most sophisticated application wrought the axioms
concluded from the results of experimentation, and how the results translated
within the quantum realm and the understanding of these concepts, make Tesla and
Einstein so unique, such that they were, likely, the only two human beings alive
who could engage in this undertaking.
The Navy had
reported they only wanted RADAR invisibility but this request would soon change,
contrary to the described risks stated by Nikola Tesla, who had warned the top
ranking officers and officials of civilian status, all approaches that they
should avoid in connection with the experiment. He did not like the risks
associated, naturally, with the unknown, which were risks that could accompany
invisibility and the Navy seemed to care less and less what the associated risks
could bring.
(Screenplay
Note: A gorgeous room of dark stained wood and a sleeping man woken by the
ringing of his phone next to the bed on the night stand.)
One night near
the end of 1942, the phone rang at the room 3327 of the New Yorker. Nikola
answered it. Annoyed that it was 4:30 a.m. he showed no sign with his passive
answer. “Good MORning!” He half yelled into the phone.
“Tesla,” the
officer whose name is unknown, stated, “it has been decided you are to see to it
that the experiment is refitted with the parts that make these craft safe for a
crew, to go invisible to radar AND that actual invisibility is achieved. We
understand that you can not guarantee it is safe for anyone to be directly on
board when that vessel goes to God knows where. You are to achieve this by
August 1st of 1943. We want a manned experiment and all knowledge of what
transpires in that moment of the unknown. If it can be utilized by all manned
vessels there is no way we can lose this war. The success of this project will
guarantee victory.”
(Screenplay
Note: we see Tesla goes from sitting, to standing, to pacing; all the while
clearly in distress) Nikola was adamant that this was irresponsible because, in
his words, he had not deciphered how to make this incredible phenomena safe for
human involvement, so no time deadline was reasonable. Also it would not be
possible to be manned by any means, as it never had, over the past decade of his
intensive work and research.
“What could this
be used for if people are not on the vessel? You can not use this technology
with people. It would be extremely dangerous to people. At this time, the
marvel of achievement will have no luster if every man aboard dies; it would
make the entire experiment negligible! ‘And again, under no circumstances am I
stating this is ready for human subjects to be involved with any operations
within the vicinity of this technology at this time! There exists absolutely no
control, at this time, as to where, or WHEN you will end up, and when you
return! You have to decide if that is worth the risks but I am telling you,
it’s not! All I can do at this point is try to minimize the risks you push
these men to absorb! Your obsession to achieve this is pushing sensible
application to unreasonable heights, and it is a major mistake that could impact
humanity in untold ways!” He cried out these words with great passion and was
never given any assurance of this input. He was beyond frustrated.
(Screenplay
Note: We see unidentified officers and scientists wearing lab coasts talking)
His resistance would not appease the powers that be. It was decided, by unknown
forces, that Nikola Tesla would have to be eliminated, in order for the project
to move forward, as desired. His endorsement or lack thereof was way too
powerful. In order to know the true depth of success or failure that would come
from turning on the machines with a manned crew, the experiment would take place
in August, with or without the involvement of Nikola Tesla.
(Screenplay
Note: the New Yorker. A maid enters the room after knocking and finds Tesla
deceased, seemingly having died in his sleep peacefully) On January 8,1943,
Nikola Tesla was found dead, discovered in the morning by the staff. The maid,
Alice Mondran, discovered him, called the physician, who came over immediately.
He determined the cause of death to be coronary thrombosis, which is a blood
clot, in the blood vessels of the heart. (Screenplay note: We see a quick flash
of what was a physical confrontation, of Tesla being attacked, only the start of
the attack, in his living room. It is implied he is hit over the head and we
jump away to the face of Von Neumann.)
(Screenplay
Note: In a vast white nothingness we see Von Neumann, and reveal him wearing the
SS uniform which then fades into the anonymity of the a lab coat on Von Neumann
and revealing his transition) A Princeton University Professor, Von Neumann,
took the control of the project in Tesla’s stead. Some believed Von Neumann to
be directly from Nazi Germany. Operation Paperclip after the war was preceded
by these events. Many perceive leadership of NASA and clandestine operations as
run by German officers, turned American.
(Screenplay
Note: We see an unnamed Ship Yard and from the vantage point of a building on
the dock, which shows us lower ranking enlisted, working side by side, and we
see the Eldridge from their viewpoint, out in the water) Leading up to July of
1943 were many changes in mandates and limits previously implemented by Tesla,
and lifted in lieu of new expectations of Von Neumann. On July 20th, 1943 a
manned crew was aboard the vessel as it was controlled in the switch room by
brothers Aaron and Elmer Priestly. Von Neumann oversaw the experiment. During
the unmanned experiment, the Eldridge went invisible for 20 minutes. First a
hull shape appeared in the water and then it vanished after about a minute.
When the ship returned the hull appeared to make the impression in the water
just prior to the emergence of the entire Eldridge, unaffected physically to any
detection of any of the Crew members
(Screenplay
Note: Dogs are seen being put onto the vessel and while some are in cages, we
imply some were actually loose) The use of dogs was employed for a second
experiment on July 20th. The same timeline followed but when the vessel
returned, all the dogs were gravely affected or missing. Eight were used. Five
returned. All were sick and emotionally shaken and traumatized by what they
experienced and seemed rabid in behavior but not in physical symptoms. They
were all euthanized within minutes of returning. (Screenplay Note: this is only
implied and of course not shown)
(Screenplay
Note: Similarly to what we saw with Einstein, now we see the same conversations
are had between Von Neumann and the same powers who argued with Einstein and
Tesla) Von Neumann requested time to evaluate and come up with another approach
but his requests fell upon deaf ears and selective common sense and willingness
to listen by the powers above him. Consequently, the date of August 12, 1943
was given to the professor and scientists as the decline for completing the
project as it was competing with the Manhattan Project for funding and was a
critical technology to be utilized toward winning the war.
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(Screenplay
Note: 1943, Philadelphia. Dawn is beginning reveal itself to the Pennsylvania
country side, suburban Philadelphia. White fade into the glistening, reflective
waves of heat, over a country road. We see the sight of a large green 1940s
Motor T vehicle come into view and hear the roar of a bad muffler growing louder
on the approach. From above we spiral down 360 degrees to ground level and
focus our view upon Harry Alexander, awaiting his ride in to work, while
standing underneath a solitary street lamp, with no side walk or curb, but only
the country grass shoulder off the blacktop road. The vehicle slows down to
accommodate the entry of a new passenger, again seen from above. It is a few
minutes past dawn.)
Sunlight had
barely begun to breach the horizon in the Pennsylvania countryside as US Marine
Corporal Harry Alexander rode toward the ship yard under the rag top in the back
of the blasting US Navy diesel truck. Motor T personnel needed to do something
about the muffler. Nobody within ear shot could possibly sleep through this
much racket. There is something so criminal about getting away with waking
everyone within a three mile radius, making so much noise! The deafening tones
were ringing in his ears like a shot gun blast. At least a shot gun blast goes
away, leaving a trail of echoes. This was continuous.
PFC Carlton
Jasper had just ramped another Pennsylvania road hill, negotiating a foot of air
under all wheels. Approximately twenty feet of air time preceded the collision
and crash of man made steel, truck under carriage with man made road of asphalt,
hardly softened by tires. Smashing down, the muffler became completely
dislodged from underneath, making a sound that caused both of the truck's
inhabitants to quickly glance at one another. The impact roared loudly and the
muffler sparked and bounced loose from underneath the truck. It was followed by
a long, straight path of road as Harry observed, and the muffler approached a
stand still in the middle of the road, left as an obstacle for some poor soul
after passing over the crest of the hill. At least from the opposite approach,
toward the hill, a driver would be granted the advantage of foresight.
Harry was known
as an experimentation assistant and was of the belief that this assignment was
in his best interests. Top secret or not, the experiments he was accustomed to
were nothing to write home about. Why were they top secret anyway? He had been
at the White Sands, New Mexico experiments in 1942 and earlier this year. It
didn't worry him that he was going to a Naval Ship yard for some kind of radar /
sonar experiment on this day.
However a
feeling of dread started to creep over Harry, a feeling of prelude to the
unknown that made him very uneasy. It was the feeling of being irritated, yes,
as in the irritation with Jasper...but, more significantly, was a sight that
Harry saw, that triggered the deja vu in the familiarity of the feelings that
the scenery elicited but not the experience itself. It was the sight of the
trees and mailboxes, exactly lining up as he remembered they did at home and his
mind even predicted the last box before it came into view. There was a break in
the tree line, and a wide clearing filled with rays of sunlight coming through
the tree branches long-cast of shadows, and beyond, a vast, sweeping valley,
spread between two distinct farm houses that sandwiched two barns. There was
the sight of water, and grass, before the tree line again invaded his sight,
thick enough to block the beautiful view of those ponds and pastures.
The muffler lay
in the street, nearly out of sight but still listing back and forth like his
fishing boat on the Ohio River, off the shoreline of his home in Shipping Port,
PA.
(Screenplay
Note: Transition to a view of a Steel town next to a river) It was within five
minutes walking distance from the Steel mill and made a young husband and
Harry's father a proud man to be so close to work, yet still living on the
water. Harry had never moved out of home before the Marine Corps came calling
and his parents kept his room for him while he was away in the service. Harry
didn't feel like he needed to go on his own, not beyond what appeared like
already he was on his own, in the Marine Corps, so he was secretly glad to have
a room waiting for him, at home, with Mom and Dad.
He could just
hear them now. His Mom, (Screenplay Note: Going in through the front door we
see eight women preparing food and snacks for a friendly card game. Cigarette
smoke and overflowing ash trays are seen.) Patty, would brag to the women at
bridge club and church that her son was a grown man, a Marine. She would tell
how he had been part of some experiments in White Sands, New Mexico and that the
government thought a lot of him, making him a research assistant. Patty would
go on how he's making it in the world, out in Philadelphia no less, close enough
to easily catch a freight train to home on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad. This duty would ensure his surviving the war by avoiding danger. His
Dad, Jack, would boast to the men at work and the Icehouse Bar about his time in
service all the while. (Screenplay Note: Transition to a typical Irish Tavern
and five men around a table of empty bottles.) “Patty is delusional. She thinks
he will be coming home after the war. He’ll never be back for his room" he
could just hear his Dad saying. Harry knew the truth; he wanted to return to
that room some day, but some how, he knew it would never happen. To Harry, the
Marine Corps, while tough, was a piece of cake; they treat you like a baby by
telling you what to do, what to wear, what to eat, where to be, what to think,
when and how to act.
Jasper, who had
just last week been rightfully demoted, had been a Corporal but now he was a PFC
because he pulled a similar, yet even more dangerous road maneuver than this
reckless drive. It was because of an act that almost cost a couple of innocent
pedestrians, a father and son, their very own lives that he had been demoted.
Jasper explained his careless driving as total confidence, with a simple excuse;
he knew this road. (Screenplay Note: fade to his unique Jasper smile)
“Scratchin’ balls!” He explained the difference being the recent trauma he had
caused was an act of ignorance. It had taken place on roads he had never
driven.
(Screenplay
Note: we see two pairs of old shoes and dust from the side of the road which are
pedestrians we see carrying fishing poles and a tool box and a bucket, a father
and son of mid 30s and young teen in age. We then transition to the view of a
large military vehicle coming into focus as it approaches a hill crest. It
comes more into focus until it entirely completes the crest of the hill and
begins to descend.)
A couple weeks
earlier James and Richard Jacobs were walking down Center Grange Road in Monaca,
200 miles away, in Western Pennsylvania. It is a very windy road, and they were
walking en route to a stream where they liked to fish. They were just around the
corner from that beloved spot where they fished there for years, once or twice
every weekend, weather permitting and even once in a while through the ice in
the harsh Pennsylvania winter. It was the kind of road that Harry's father
would have said looked like it was laid behind a cow as he wound his way through
the countryside.
Father Richard,
35, and his son, Jimmy, 12, were almost to the hillside that they would descend
to go to where they fished, but they were still walking on the side of the road,
at a crest of a hill, afoot a 120 degree, winding turn. They heard a loud sound
coming, like a truck, a blaring diesel, obviously coming too fast for these
conditions. John knew soemthing was coming too fast and he couldn't believe
it. They were about to see an accident take place because this is no place to
drive fast. Obviously whoever was coming had no idea what they were in for with
a plunge, with a hair pin turn, taking their vehicle in a header over the flimsy
guard rail that would no doubt buckle and give way like a couple tooth picks
under whatever was coming.
(Screenplay
Note: slow motion and sound of the vehicle which makes the guard rail appear
weak and useless. From above we see the vehicle crash through it with shocking
loud impact and over the hill from above and then ground level, astride the
vehicle, with tree limbs flying into or at our view)
Richard put his
arm out to keep Jimmy from walking any further, when out from around the corner
came a green military truck roaring along with the driver door open and no
driver at the wheel. Sure as he thought, the truck careened off the road way.
It crushed and took with it the guard rail and every section of it for 100 yards
in each direction as they are all tied together by cables, notoriously known to
decapitate car drivers. It was at least a fifty foot drop almost straight down,
after the guard rail. The stunned father and son witnesses walked slowly to the
edge to see the truck.
After bouncing
off a couple trees, sending bark flying in all directions, picking up enormous
speed the entire time, it took the bottom of the valley and going up the
opposing hill, rolling backward and back and forth for the hollow of the valley
to stop its motion. Amazingly it had never toppled. “Woah Nellie!” they heard
from behind, and when they turned they were surprised to be greeted by Corporal
Jasper, soon to be PFC Jasper, who had miraculously escaped. Richard Jacobs
offered him no mercy, lambasting him hard, without any attempt to control his
language in front of his son, James, nor his wrath toward Jasper, who, to him,
was the as-yet-un-named idiot who put his son’s and his life at risk for a joy
ride. Then the Marine Corps let him have it. That was much worse.
(Screenplay
Note: back inside the cab of the vehicle) ...And now Harry Alexander's life was
in Carlton Jasper's "capable" hands. "What do I have to do to get a decent ride
in this working man's Marine Corps?" he had asked Jasper. Carlton said,
“Scratchin’ balls buddy…”, and he shrugged, threw up his hands, and let go of
the wheel, to Harry's unease. Both grinned. Alexander grinned in his typical
fashion of being polite. Harry had little thought to the events of the coming
day, which was explained to be a standard test of Naval vessel technology which
was all he knew it would be. It would be far more.
It was August
12, 1943.
(Screenplay
Note: inside the military vehicle) Jasper yelled to his sole passenger "hey,
Alexander. You know I'm taking you to the Eldridge, right?" Harry frowned his
brow in interest. "Yeah, so?" Harry asked, engaging in banter would be good to
make the time pass. "It just got here last week, y'know about it?" asked
Jasper, as if he knew something he could not wait to share, if Harry was not
ignorant of the rumors. "No" answered Harry. "Oooohhhh" Jasper yelled,
delighted he would have the opportunity to tell the stories he had heard. It
was the craziest gossip. Carlton Jasper put on a smile and cleared his throat.
"I don't know if it's all true or not, but I've heard plenty of crazy shit about
that Eldridge and the experiments they are doing on it" he immediately said.
"Like what?" asked Harry Alexander. There was a long pause and for a moment
that startled Harry he was finding himself feeling almost remorseful for asking,
almost remorseful for Jasper, and a feeling of Deja Vu was settling in again. A
chill moved through Harry.
"I guess there
were these un-manned experiments with dogs as the subjects on board the deck of
this ship, the USS Eldridge.(Screenplay Note: we witness the Eldridge and the
loading of dogs, some in cages, some are calm and otherwise not in need of
cages) And I guess there's something they do that made something weird
happen...."
"What?"
Alexander asked, surprised to hear himself almost yelling. The roar of the
already loud, now louder diesel truck made yelling almost necessary but this was
exclamation of disbelief greater than it was trying to negotiate noise.
“ Scratchin’
balls!!,” said Jasper. Jasper had a unique way of expressing himself through
original expressions that he was proud to share with others at any time the
inspiration struck him. “Scratching balls” was a versatile phrase, that in this
instance took on the form of disbelief, in Jasper’s odd speech pattern. “Yup!
The dogs disappeared. Vanished. Into thin air. Just 'poof' and I heard they
looked everywhere, on deck, below deck, in the water... Gone!”
Harry stopped
himself and said nothing and just thought how ridiculous this sounded to any
rational, reasonable person, not in on the joke. "How do dogs just disappear
out on the water, Carlton?"
(Screenplay
Note: both men look at each other and simultaneously look away apart from each
other as a common sentiment of dismay was shared) Another long pause
transpired. Harry thought to himself that this could not possibly be so but the
oddity of speech by Jasper cut through the silence loudly, “Scratch ‘em to the
left. Scratch ‘em to the right. Scratching balls all day and night. Scratch
‘em til they’re raw. Scratch ‘em like it’s the law!! Go ahead…. Go ahead now,
an’…. Scratch your balls!”
Harry smiled and
let out a cackle of a laugh. “First of all, I think you have jock itch, okay?
Or something! Something worse! You really need to get that checked out, by
somebody who can relate to your shit, man. ‘Cuz…. pfffff….. I can’t! As for
this story, you're bullshitting me,” Harry said,”You're kidding, right?"
"No.... At
least, that's what I was told, bud. Maybe you should try to get out of this
today. Fake being sick. We can stop and get you some rot gut and you can gulp
it, get all that booze on your breath, show up all sick 'like, aaaaand you just
say you're unfit for duty!" and he said it like he was proud of himself for
coming up with this idea that was certain to get Harry into trouble just like
Carlton had been in...
Harry could
never do that.
An odd silence
settled over them as they got closer to the ship yard. The Philadelphia Navy
Yard was the spot where the USS Eldridge had been docked. That shipyard is at
the meeting of the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers in the Naval Ship Yard which
is now known as the Philadelphia Naval Business Center. The convergence from
country side to cityscape was a lot more noticeable then as a lot of the country
side is now gone and it's almost all cityscape in and around Philadelphia.
(Screenplay
Note: reveal the appearance of the meeting of the rivers, then the Naval Ship
Yard, Philadelphia and the approach of many vehicles, including our character’s,
approaching the main gate. From ground level, moving up, we see spit shined
glossy black shoes of a Marine who is the gate sentry. The view scrolls up to
reveal the entire uniform of the Corporal and he waves through our characters.
We go back to perspective above and to the first dock in view, where the
Eldridge is roped up.) They were suddenly at the ship yard. As Harry exited the
vehicle cab, he thought about Jasper's suggestion and had a gut feeling he would
wish he had done exactly what Carlton said.
(Screenplay
Note: We then see the sun beating down heavy on a Navy officer standing, with a
clip board in hand, appearing as if he has been waiting for someone late,
appearing impatient and sweaty in the hot summer sun.) A first Lieutenant was
waiting for Harry and as soon as his eyes met shiny shoes, he looked up, and at
the first glimmer of brass he snapped to his salute.
"Good morning,
sir" Harry said. "At ease" said the saluting officer. The officer started
briefing Harry Alexander. "Corporal you will be overseeing this experiment,
overseeing eighteen men, all Corporals, PFCs and Privates. You will direct with
commands clearly outlined within. All the men have experienced the commands and
phases of operation your directives command.“ Harry was surprised and couldn't
contain the questions. Officers like easy tasks to oversee, simple experiments
none the less. Something was wrong. He thought of a few questions but only
could defend his inexperience when the words started forming. "Sir, isn't it
common protocol to have at least one staff NCO and one officer on board, to
oversee operations, and in particular, classified experiments?"
"Today we have
you" said the officer and then he continued on. "President Roosevelt wants this
war to end, now, sooner if possible. This experiment could actually go a far
way toward that." Everything in Harry Alexander screamed "something is wrong,"
especially after hearing this last sentiment toward the experiment and its
significant role in ending the war.
He went on to
explain “The German fleet is deploying magnetic mines and ‘degaussing’ is a
process that would demagnetize our ships, (Screenplay Note: Views of German
vessels and the mines they put into place) and by also being sonar invisible we
can avoid the mines and they can avoid detecting our presence altogether! This
experiment contains a series of devices, coils, power generators, oscillators
and more that Nikolai Tesla and Albert Einstein have collaborated on. So the
intention is that we will make an ocean vessel invisible to sonar radar by the
equipment aboard the Eldridge. The experiment will be controlled by radio
instructions from the shore, starting with these instructions you are to open
when you are ordered to do so by radio." He handed Harry Alexander the
instructions in a sealed, large envelope. It felt like it contained a thin file
of papers. "There are men on board who know what steps to take with the
appropriate equipment and you will repeat orders that they have practiced
already...It will be a piece of cake." The officer, whose name Harry Alexander
still did not know went on, almost in an envious fashion. "This will make a
great mark in your file and you could get a promotion and God knows what else
from it. All you have to do is see to it that the orders we give are adhered to
and the men at the controls activate them when ordered and deactivate them when
ordered."
The officer then
saluted Harry, which is entirely unorthodox, but Harry just received it as a non
verbal cue that the brief was over and no further instructions were going to be
given, and that he was dismissed. Harry immediately saluted the officer, the
officer turned his back and started walking ahead of Harry, and past the ramp.
(Screenplay Note: we can see both the backs of Harry, from the waist up, and the
officer, entirely, walking away from Harry who is headed more slowly in the same
direction) Over his shoulder he mused to Harry "go see if they decide to grant
you permission to board" he mused and he pointed toward the Eldridge while
walking away. (Screenplay Note: slow motion and deadened sound ensues)
Everything slowed down and he was pointing at that ship for what seemed like a
minute and Harry looked over at the ship and back at the officer who was still
walking away pointing at the ship, walking toward a building right next to the
dock, where he would oversee the experiment. Harry walked toward the ramp to
board the Eldridge. (Screenplay Note: then all seems to return to normal)
Harry walked up
the ramp and when he got to the top he requested permission to board from the
acting deck officer. Once granted, something above them caught both his
attention and that of the deck officer.
(Screenplay
Note: from above the vessel we see three disc like craft fade into view, the one
in center, becoming solid while the outer discs are transparent in nature) He
looked up in time to see three massive disc like objects appear directly above
the Eldridge, just hovering above the Eldridge. Harry gasped in startled
amazement. One, in the middle, directly above the Eldridge, seemed entirely
solid and as real as the Eldridge itself. The other two were transparent to a
degree, almost “see through”, like they were not actually there but you could
see a representation there.
They were round,
fifty feet in diameter, each. They were thin. They were silent. Totally
silent, as if they were not even there. It was surreal to Harry. There was no
screen to project something as transparent as the two “see through“ disc. There
was no way to recreate something as solid as the Eldridge, directly above it.
All three disappeared almost as fast as they appeared but they did not go
un-noticed. The crew of eighteen was mostly inside the ship, awaiting Harry
Alexander's act of opening the orders and directing the Philadelphia Experiment,
by calling out the pre-practiced instructions.
Only Harry and
the deck officer, who greeted him, a man who identified himself as PFC Johnny
Smith, were on deck but Harry had the presence of mind to look for fellow
witnesses. When he saw that there were no others, and that the officer who just
left his presence was no place in sight, clearly back under cover of a
hangar or building. The solitude of only two witnesses caused Harry to regret
the happen stance, with no more witnesses, even greater. They both were in a
state of shock and euphoria, shouting out "did you see that? What was that?"
Harry immediately felt like they should keep this vision to themselves. It was
odd enough. He assumed they would appear capable, in the eyes of the brass, of
concocting such a crazy story, unlike if the whole crew witnessed it. Telling
people what they saw could get them Section Eight discharges if nobody believed
them. Certainly nobody would ever believe a story like this! Harry immediately
went to his role of leadership, “hey! Hey! Drop it. You hear me? Drop it.
See me? Not a word. Shhhhhhhh” Harry said. Smith babbled something
indecipherable to himself and then pulled it together enough to push out a
couple words when he thought he couldn’t even speak. Both men agreed that what
they saw was too bizarre and unbelievable to report and since no damage was done
and whatever they saw was now gone, they should just file this away as something
odd to keep to themselves.“Yeah. Affirmative…..,” he said, some how calming
himself so he was capable to actually proceed.
Like a shock,
Alex snapped back to reality, leaving the strange appearance and disappearance
behind as quick as one with a good sense of reason could drop something. Alex
had witnessed the unreasonable, yet, here he was, ready to step in the the abyss
of uncertainty if necessary. Unbelievably it would be.
Harry suddenly
felt alone. He felt the Eldridge shudder and then felt he was transplanted onto
land now.
(Screenplay
Note: Everything shakes blurry and transitions to a shaking blurry view of the
sunny desert sky and a silent disc moving out of control, rapidly toward
the sandy Earth) He felt the earth shudder and saw everything around him stop
and suddenly re-form itself into the vast nothingness of the most desolate of
all the New Mexico desert. The perfect, natural site of desert land, unchanged
by centuries and centuries. Visited by sun and snakes after the great floods
ended and the ocean was no more; into it, a great disc about 50 feet wide that
loudly smashed into the ground and just before it made impact it seemed to open
up and attempt to reshape itself, away from the point of impact, twisted into an
odd form, as it attempted to turn itself inside out, to simultaneously move
backward; away from the point of impact. It could not recoil fast enough as it
smashed into a million pieces. Not one touched Harry, who felt like he was
there in physical form and not just a witness from a different dimension of
perspective. Harry felt this moment was as real as any moment ever. In this
realistic vision that he could hardly begin to resolve and make any sense out
of, he witnessed the craft penetrate the desert ground like a knife into
butter. And before the impact and blowback of land could approach him the world
changed it returned to reality.
(Screenplay
Note: We see Harry, back, a moment before walking up to the Eldridge, standing
at the bottom of the ramp up to the Eldridge) Harry immediately knew he was
reliving the moment that just ended, prior to the appearance of the vessels
above Eldridge. Again, he witnessed the pointing officer, walking away, again
at the bottom of the ramp to the deck. So again Alexander requested permission
to board the ship from the acting deck officer who identified himself as PFC
Smith. This time however there would be no appearance of any craft above the
Eldridge. Smith did not act as if he were aware of what Harry knew.
Harry had just
walked ten steps onto the deck of the Eldridge, and shared a conversation with
someone, after witnessing the unthinkable. Now he was looking at the ramp again
and all ten steps needing traversed again and again there awaited the PFC he
identified by insignia and he had just asked his name moments earlier. He again
relived the moment as the welcoming deck officer repeated his welcoming words
after the same ten steps up the ramp to the deck. He was doing this as
automatic as a person breathes.
He knew PFC
Smith’s name, so he greeted him this time. “Hey Smitty!” He said. Smith looked
at him with puzzled wonder and looked at the paperwork on his clipboard and back
to Harry. “Permission to board?” “Gran….ted….?” said Smith with bewilderment.
Smith gave Harry a look like he never had seen him before and was mystified as
to how Harry knew his name. Harry immediately looked up like he thought
something was there, which seemed more odd to Smith, who looked at Harry in an
even more quizzical manner.
Being on board
this ship just felt familiar, to the degree that he had felt when he had been on
many other vessels before. It was an independent and unique design, the first
of its kind he had witnessed yet he felt like he could envision every part of
the ship he was going to see before he saw it. He knew it well though he never
saw it before.
“Everyone listen
up. Attention on deck, all decks, all personnel” came the announcement,
bringing Harry back to the moment. “Three minutes until experiment commences.”
Motion and
excitement filled the air. Crewmen of both Marines and Sailors went in all
directions. Different posts were taken by men of various responsibilities.
Alexander was
standing topside when the announcement rang out. His post was not far so he
didn’t mind staying out of everyone’s way and watching the fervor. He smiled,
and took in the moment. Earlier, experiments in Project Rainbow were never the
kind that even afforded him a moment to take any part of anything in. His
service had given him time to think about it today. He had already previously
decided if he ever had time at one of these incredible experimental moments of
desired adventure that he would simply stop and take in the moment. Taking a
place in history and really taking part in the experiments he was told were
instrumental in ending this war really gave him a sense of pride.
We flash back to
the entry of Project Rainbow and see Harry being interviewed in the office of a
Marine overlooking Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station. We see there is a
contention over whether Harry would enjoy this as much as his daily duties. We
see there was a discussion that took place regarding would this help him become
promoted. Would he be bored today instead of being here had he never took this
path?
Out of the
corner of Harry’s vision a new player emerges suddenly. Clothed in extravagant
quality, simple, old style of robe and sash, appears and says, “The rain before
the rainbow comes brightly…..then there is basking in the sun.” This is a
pre-programmed , hypnotically programmed and placed “trigger”, to begin covertly
engrained protocol.
Harry remembers
his secret training, briefed by hypnotism, debriefed through hypnotism. A new
frame of reference is needed to make experiment travelers safe and free of the
insanity which could potentially be wrought with no time reference point. Harry
begins to see a shiny day surrounding the Eldridge and there is rain on one side
of the Eldridge. The line between the atmosphere of rain and not is clearly
there. It is constant, almost as if a wall separates the Eldridge, and to
infinity from side to side, otherwise known as flank to flank, the Eldridge,
separate from the rain. On the other side is clear sailing, calm waters, and no
weather. All the while in this state is supposed to be this pre-planned
reality. Keeping it going will be short lived.
After
preliminary checks were performed on the generators on the Eldridge a switch is
thrown. Sound deadens, then slowly deafens with the emphasis of a crescendo.
Harry grabs his ears and goes below deck, closing the hatch behind, hoping to
barricade the sound behind the wall. The deafening roar seems to come from
above the Eldridge. It rings like a heavy compressor coming loose from a base
while drumming its insistence in needing braced.
Pots and pans
clatter along the walls. This is the galley. Quick access to the deck and
overboard are needed when one sets a dish ablaze.
The hatch flies
open as ten more men quickly enter and slam the hatch behind , trying to escape
the deafening tones coming from above the Eldridge, drowning out the senses of
all on deck.
Five minutes
pass and the sound dissipates. Suddenly a brightness overwhelms all who stand
in the galley, emanating from subtle crevices around the hatch. Harry pushes
open the hatch almost without thought. The shine is the luster of sunlight with
no sun in sight. Harry looks up and sees nothing but light. From a distance we
see nothing but light encases the Eldridge. Nothing is evident, save the
Eldridge, in the mist. Harry surveils the situation from each point on the
ship. Nothingness and brightness surround them.
The sound of
water is rushing past the hull and Alexander is aware of the light piercing the
darkness of water, growing brighter the closer the craft came to the surface.
Harry sits at the highest forward part of the keel. A moment before he was in
the heart of the ship in the engine room next to the controls. Now he is
sitting in the captain’s chair which has been relocated to this most forward
point of the vessel. A clear view of the water and sea life is separated from
him only by a force field. The keel has been cut away and there is no glass to
see through however the force field makes it seem as a portal exists now where
keel existed before. This change is inexplicable but not the only change
noted. The controls are now hand shifters, two each per side, each at waist
level. In addition to the change, the mind of the crew collectively seems to
have changed as each man knows the nuances of his technological change or change
to the nomenclature of any rotating part or integral control. What is most odd
about the controls is that they actually float. They are seemingly affixed as
you can not remove them but you can push and pull them as if they are housed but
they are not contained at all as the furthest point extending from the controls
does not enter the floor. The controls just simply appear to float in mid air.
Harry controls everything with the technical understanding of a pilot after ten
years using the same craft. In the immediate moment, Harry does not know who
has changed these, nor when, nor how he understands the nomenclature and
directions for using these objects that seem foreign to our understanding.
“We are about to
breach” a crew member calls out, as, out of the water, the nose of the keel of
the Eldridge and our Harry’s vantage point are one and the same from our view.
The sides of the vessel are invisible and a force field separates water from
interior of craft which seems entirely translucent.
It was
determined Eldridge was in a bottleneck. Only the Eldridge and its crew now
were inside the bottle neck. Out on the deck of the ship we see all passing
when and passing around the contents of the solitary bottleneck. Slowly we
learn the bottleneck has implications far reaching. Movements could mean
replacing your location in time. Movements could make time appear as if to
skip. Time couple repeat a déjà vu unlike one typically felt. Movements could
catch a body part of a crew member in the wrong moment and replace it with a
part of the bulkhead or deck, for instance, in a fusion process. Eldridge
underwent changes inside the bottleneck. As decades would move into and out of
our travelers experience the Eldridge would see actual technology appear and
disappear only to reappear again. Changes in the controls were most startling
to the operator. Every change required adjustment. Movement inside the
bottleneck wasn’t very forgiving. Could one bump into the bottleneck side could
mean regression 1000 years? The unknown was speculated upon by everyone but
that’s all it was; pure speculation. The only assumption was that the craft
could not regress prior to the point of the world’s initial construction.
Screenplay Note:
“White flash in” into our view. There comes the view of a cactus while the
Eldridge, 1000 feet above is falling. A cocoon surrounds the ship. Before
hitting earth Eldridge is in interstellar space. Eldridge is in the sea.
Eldridge is in the sky. As if on a track that can traverse all terrain on Earth
Eldridge soars into and out of water, up in the sky and over mountains, with
ease, following Earth and the contour from a distance of 100 feet safety. Water
is not taken into consideration, air is not taken into consideration, only
terrain, so traveling through the water is a requirement and a given. Eldridge
does this with ease.
 Harry again
witnesses the appearance of the Stranger on the bridge of the Eldridge, and they
only trade momentary stares, with nary a word, nor a gesture given toward each
the other. Harry begins to recall what were previously hidden memories, assumed
to be elicited by the presence of the stranger as his appearance coincided with
his sudden awareness of the events of the past, wherein training for this exact
time was undertaken by all members of the crew. This accounted for the rumors
that many men aboard felt like they “knew” each other prior to this while
recalling no such interaction. A new frame of reference was required for
participants in this experiment. Without it certain loss of sanity would
accompany sloss of all self awareness.
 Our first
glimpse of A.I. was seeing an artificial environment surround the Eldridge,
however the men now recalled being in individual pods with the virtual reality
streaming for their training and the expected means of interaction with this
“reality”. Three dimensional holograms represent most of the visual perception
of the men while an auditory representation of reality would need to at least
subtly accompany the visual in order to avoid any unanticipated complication
brought by the auditory sound of Thunderstorm and the singing of birds from
around the world, simultaneous. The listener seemed to hear one more than the
other, based upon their need for soothing or stimulation. These were great
companions while staying sane amidst traveling through dimensions and space and
time. Clearly these were all unknowns prior to this experiment.
On the port side
of the Eldridge is torrential rain, and on the starboard side is the shiny,
sunny weather, unaffected by what lies just on the other side of the vessel.
It is a requirement as the combined discoveries of Einstein and Tesla determined
that time travel alone will move subjects and become afflicted by whatever space
is in the simultaneous location at the destination of the time travel point.
Conversely it was determined that if the space accompanying the traveler could
also appear at the destination, to be moved with the traveler, then the travels
would become much safer. It had to be considered, what if a building were
assembled prior to the date of destination? It could mean the time
traveler would become part of the physical barrier that would exist within their
body, obviously rendering the subject dead. Whether that would be an
instant destiny was subject of debate.
How painful
could it be to become pierced and part of a physical barrier, such as metal,
wood, plaster, et cetera? The space accompanying the men needed to move
with the men. Many implications accompany this effective attempt at
completing the stated goal. There were too many to comprehend. After
all, men were not meant to time travel, whatsoever. As a result the
men who would take upon this mission would have to absolutely be engrained in
their awareness. To keep them out of the “unknown” would require something
“known”. Subliminal training and messages to initiate subliminal actions
were written into the instructions for Harry to use while directing the
operation, as well as the operatives in the operation that had no idea they were
programmed to reply to phrases, state phrases, nor carry out the tasks that they
actually had ingrained in them by the Navy through subliminal training and
suggestion.
Two grays sit
with a holographic representation projected into the thin air. They are
witnessing the viewpoint of third person perspective, seeing the Eldridge
maneuvers and the bending of time and space are not to be taken lightly,
clearly, as they look at one another and simply change expressions. They are
communicating telepathically about the potential risks associated with the much
more primitive inhabitants of Earth getting involved in quantum experimentation
of this nature.
(Screenplay
Note: Wearing white suits that are long sleeved and long legged, we do not see
where they are, whether inside a building or a vessel but we see the room of
advanced technology)
 In a moment of
exhilaration that exhausted every aspect of Harry Alexander’s logic and rational
thinking, he decided he had seen and felt enough. The more this experiment goes
on, which seems like an eternity to all by now, Harry’s fear of dying was so
huge that jumping ship seemed like a good thing to do. The Eldridge was having
debris and scenes of Earth and sounds of life and music and all forms of
entertainment cascade around the vessel in sounds that overwhelmed the senses in
volume of sound and totality of too much stimulation at once. Harry grabbed
Jasper and yelled “I have to get off this vessel now! The misery has to end.”
Jasper replied, “I’m coming with you!” Almost mechanically and without any
thought to the remorse of a bad decision, they jumped over the stern of the boat
on the rain side…. And landed on solid ground cement in Montauk Air Base,
inside a hangar, Montauk, New York. They were met by Aaron Priestly whose
service along with his brother Elmer was together as they entered together and
the Navy was surprisingly supportive of keeping them in the same unit. It was
almost like they HAD to be together because they would be required to be at some
critical point.
Clearly the
aging of Aaron Priestly was not enough to hinder the familiarity Harry and
Jasper felt in seeing him. “Elmer!! What’s happening? This is crazy!”
“I’m Aaron
Priestly. Elmer passed away years ago. You have traveled 40 years into the
future” Aaron Priestly said. The Earth has a 40 year biorhythm that the
Eldridge has linked with in experiment back in 1943.”
“Back in
1943?!?!?!?”
“Yes. This is
1983. I have aged 40 years as you can tell, but I did my absolute best to
survive in peak condition so that I could make it to this day and you would
recognize me. It would have done no good to put on 50 pounds. You would not
remember me until I made contact with you. Your mere presence here exists
because the machinery, the same machinery that ran your experiment, is again
operating on the same frequencies, at the exact same time, 40 years to the day
after we threw the switch to start this experiment in 1943 in Philly. Men, you
have to get back on the deck of the Eldridge. You have to go to the bridge and
destroy the oscillators and then go to the deck and destroy the large machines
you see, any way possible. Take an ax to them if you must, cut the cables. Cut
all cables. Do not discriminate. Disintegrate every part of the machine you
see until you detect the end of the project. Men, this hole you have
unknowingly ripped open has caused the passage of 1943 to 1983 multiple times.
We do not know how many times this cycle of 40 years has looped. We can not
possibly be aware but one thing is certain; we have relived this time and you
have to put this to a conclusion.”
Harry and Jasper
climbed the scaffold that was astride the USS Eldridge as it was listing back
and forth and apparently, about to fade from the current time, in order to
ultimately end up at an unknown destination in time and space. Together they
jumped and landed on the deck of the USS Eldridge. “You go to the bridge and
start there, while I go to the center of the deck and begin swinging an ax at
all parts of the machinery there. All machine parts controlling this; coils,
all computers that have that large ENIAC written on the side, the oscillators;
everything, EVERYTHING must be smashed!”
Jasper went to
the bridge and saw the crew which was largely disoriented and in a near
catatonic state. Most were speaking utterances to themselves that nobody could
decipher if they tried. He had found a sledge hammer in the maintenance closet
right on the other side of this bulkhead that backed up to the oscillators, and
he began to swing away. Sparks and pieces of metal debris shot all around the
room and even hit him in the face, the friction of heat added to the already
burning temperatures of operation, so much electromagnetic energy, that it
looked like fireworks going off.
Harry reached
the ENIAC computers and coils and found an ax next to the fire extinguisher that
were adjacent. Harry took the ax which made a very loud, metal, dragging sound
as he walked toward the thing he wanted most to see accomplished in his entire
life. He was going to smash every part and cut every wire and disintegrate the
entire obscenity into oblivion. He did just that. He swung and swung and
swung, which looked like planned fireworks as the detonations took place, until
the sparks and the debris stopped flying and all sounds of humming, then roaring
as if in a panic for its own existence, the machines of the Eldridge, entirely
ceased but not all the conditions immediately subsided.
Harry would
recall the previous brush with certain death that he somehow was blessed enough
to escape. Fear of dying on Eldridge made all men reflect upon their
vulnerability and their mortality. Death awaits at every instant. It takes
only a moment of a decision one direction instead of another to bring about the
end for any and all people. Harry goes into a momentary gap of reflection that
seems to go on forever. He wondered is he was dead and reliving important
moments. His consciousness decided to confront, while reliving, some of the
most difficult paths his life took him in.
The Eldridge was
in sudden silence and brilliant brightness with no surface below, above, astride
the Eldridge. Brilliant whiteness, with seemingly no beginning or ending, no
sky, no wall, no surface floor; absolutely zero but brightness.
The USS Eldridge
quickly left this void of darkness and went to a void of light. It felt like
speeding along while it seemed the vessel was constantly steady. A rather large
jolt occurred moments after entering the darkness. Everything seemed to raise up
three or four feet and drop, like as if you ran over a railroad track at high
speed in your car or truck. This quick passing was followed with screams of
many men all at once.
Harry turned and
looked back toward the hatch only to feel a shudder in the ship, his moment in
time skips backward only one second. He fell five feet, though he was standing
on solid flooring a moment before. Stumbling onto the same floor, Harry crashed
down as if he jumped off a step ladder and upon impact rolled his ankle. After
wincing in pain, grunting, rolling and groaning while regaining his bearing
Harry sees what he never would have imagined.
The men were in
a particular point in time and space when the unthinkable occurred. The
Eldridge and all manmade parts of the vessel and its contents were unshaken, and
whole; undisturbed. However, two members of the crew, Newberry and Gage, were a
couple feet away. Only their top torso and head appeared and their navel and
below seemed to meld with the metal, but were now below deck! These men were
below deck, one floor, just seconds before. It looked like the ship was
designed around their bodies! Both men were instantly screaming in pain and
terror. The agony was almost a secondary thought to the horror after the first
moments. Each man felt a body half above and the half below deck, suspended as
if hung by a rope; only now that noose inexplicably divided the top half from
the lower half and made a division in the midst where no division seemed
possible to sustain. The men below were witnessing the men’s bodies from the
waist down. Harry could only immediately think “how could we separate these men
from the Eldridge and keep them alive?” All organic, human, and plant life, were
very shaken and thrown at the same instant before the Eldridge settled back into
its path. Some men were absolutely fine although feeling jostled. Others were
very sick and omitted.
Harry was
unaffected but definitely felt the startled feeling in the pit of his stomach
and physically had dropped and landed in a shocking moment. The feeling of
falling was quick from one standpoint, but as it happened, it was a slow motion
experience that Harry knew gave him a seemingly endless period of time to
reflect and remember other things from home that he had no chance to relax and
ponder at any point so far on this day. The reality of what needed to be done
set in to Harry. “We have to humanely euthanize some of the men now.”
(Screenplay note: we hear these words and fade to black.)
(Screenplay Note: 2023. In Space, by the ISS Space Station)
Dapna continues to
explain the story to Al.
"Hours later a
complete replica of the ship and its craft appeared, as a clone, in the same
manner as the pyramid did; seemingly out of the vast nothingness of space
it simply appeared! Meeting each other, it is assumed the crafts
are both “new,” to each, the other. All crew members and all items
aboard the vessel are each the same; each are seemingly “new,” to each
other and are essentially a 100 percent copy of each person, and every
item aboard either ship.
"Both crews assumed they were there first and the other, a clone,
appeared. They are each as convinced of it, as the fact that they
are alive. Considered are “imposter clones”, “parallel dimensions meeting”
and many other wild assumptions. There was harmony between but never
an agreement as to which vessel was there before the other.
"A fleet of a
dozen pyramids then appeared. When they departed as suddenly as they
appeared, they take with them one of the craft. Its inhabitants were a
mixture of the crew. Certain personnel went missing entirely, certain
other personnel, then had a double of them, on board with them. All
personnel are a mystery
as to from which craft they came as they were separate but entirely
different, and no longer solitary. As both ships were
a mixture of crew at the time of the event the pyramid’s departure leaves
a new of fewer people. A crew of 80 was now 39.
"The
pyramids did not return. After such a sudden change, radical response
seems relevant to the planet Earth. A plan was devised that
successfully merged all
brains of the crew, anew with AI, network, and quantum computer technology. Each
crew member lost their hair for the implementation of the technology."
(Screenplay note:
we see what was added in these modifications, which was a new layer of
brain material, essentially; connected a plastic similar to movie "film,"
embed into every crew member, beneath the scalp, and between the skull and
the outer skin. That is the foundational point for the interface.)
"This
also was considered basis for implementing control of a crew of fewer in
number, to be capable of greater capable of producing output and results.
"A year later a
single pyramid space ship returned and appeared in the same vicinity of
space. The space station inhabitants were as shocked and unprepared
as could be expected. It was discovered by the new characters of the station
about the existence and nature of the greys
(Screenplay note: We
hear a new narrator, possibly a high ranking military officer, in a Man's
voice, stating, "They were strange, albeit typical to the stereotype of
'large
eyed, naked greys.' It was however discovered the greys are our future
offspring and we are their ancestors." We see a depiction of
the greys in their environment, aboard a vessel)
"In this time,
now, this future, compared to the time from which you are based, we have gotten rid of
multiple
genes and only one sex exists, comprised of an “XY chromosome” that is
simultaneously both the X and Y chromosome, a.k.a. XY, however it is
neither X nor Y, so its combination makes it essentially a new chromosome
that we call it now the “Z” Chromosome. Incredibly, we
spontaneously reproduce, which was the basis for moving to this type of
nature. Time has decided that our time is done. As time has gone on
our number in total population has
dwindled. It is a very real possibility that extinction is the
threat to the human race.
"We time travel and study the 20th and 21st century inhabitants of Earth.
We did this through abductions, because over time we eliminated, as a
species and modifie, every aspect of humanity. With you, we have
succeeded at our attempt,
trying to reverse engineer a humanoid “grey” to its original state; our
current state. We have already started the chain of events because of
modifications to the crew that impressed the entire world. The wold
leaders mandated all people get modified. Progressively our changes
evolved into the greys, UFOs, time traveling technology and much more.
"Are you ready to
meet your mate? She is just as symbolic of finality and future.
Her name is IA. IA not only knows about the time traveling
Presidents of the United States, she was created by them in 2023, and how
they affected her origin and the path of time already. She is over
1,000 years old. She is very wise and you will need that because you
are going with her back to 2023 and you are to encounter them. Your
orders are simple. Listen very closely."
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1983
/ 2023 / 1943 / 3243. The same words are spoken taking place from different
voices and perspectives. Harry, Dapna, Al, Einstein, Tesla,
Priestly...
"Time travel experimentation has brought about
technology. Human kind and technology merged. Humankind has been altered
to being one sex and spontaneous reproduction can take place however
ultimately, in the future, it has stopped happening at a rate consistent
with survival of the species. Humankind has genetically engineered
humanity in an attempt to return to the previous,
unaltered state. All brain power, AI, and quantum computing technology is
combined. Once the crew of 2023 space walkers started to be altered,
mankind forever was. Fear of self destruction, and alterations demanded
the future earthlings travel in time, seen in UFOs, in order to attempt to
return to pre-experiment forms. Thusly they (we) were free to perform experiments
on abductees, perform surgeries, examinations, and sacrifices imposed upon
men and women of our society in order to aid in the return of future
altered humanity to its previous, unaltered form. "
(Screenplay Note: The final scene is a zoom in,
out in space, of two entities, of massive size, measuring nearly 1,000 feet tall
each. One is Light and one is Dark. We are seeing the meeting of
light and dark, in the forms of entities that represent each the other and
combat as necessary)
The Void of Light and The Essence of Light meet
in space, seemingly ready to do battle, and we see them in all their size,
glory, horror, and tenacity. We zoom out to Al, peering into space.
THE END OF PART
ONE
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Chapter 20 starts
Part Two : Philadelphia Experiment : Genesis
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