"PHILADELPHIA RAINBOW"
THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT aka PROJECT RAINBOW



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.
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(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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