Chapter 1
“The Grand Designer”
By
Nick Clark
©Copyright 2021 Nick Clark
CUE MUSIC: ‘Bodyrock’ by Moby.
Titles animation of religious iconography and images, cave paintings, a Mobius strip in cool special effects, a close up pan of the painting ‘Madonna and Saint Giovannino’ and finally the words in a posh new Bible ‘The Revelation of St. John’.
Fade to caption:
“In 2019, scientists demonstrated sending a quantum particle briefly back in time.”
Dissolve to caption #2:
“By 2077, the method was hugely advanced, leading to the world’s first time travel experiments”.
Dissolve to caption#3:
“Great strides in nanotechnology and molecular 3D laser printing have also by then allowed for ‘matter extrapolators’.”
CUT TO: CU of the face of a young MOBIUS being punched and bloodied by his assailant D.B. who smacks him in the face repeatedly. The music ends abruptly with the foley of being thumped.
WATERMARK CAPTION: ‘Present day’.
D.B.
You stupid fuck. You like
niggers do you?
You pussy ass mother fucking loser…
MOBIUS is dazed and confused. Whips out a penknife, and slashes a scar across D.B’s right eye. The bully gets up in pain.
D.B.
Arggh! You fuck!
D.B. smashes his face again.
MOBIUS
Get off me you scummer!
D.B.
Little fucking dick… I’ll do
your mum after this.
NICHOLAS
You ain’t got the beef, then
don’t mess with the chief, punk.
FRANK
Little homo wants his mummy…
D.B.
What’s he working on like a good little
boy? Oh look, schematics of shit no one
understands! Wow!
D.B. gets up, kicks him hard, and walks away with his laughing mates NICHOLAS and FRANK. MOBIUS picks up his school work, including looking for a moment at a design he’s working on on paper. CHRIS TINGLE, his friend, a black lad, arrives.
CHRIS
D.B. and the pricks again?
MOBIUS
Scum of the highest order mate.
CHRIS
Still entering that competition?
MOBIUS
You bet… I think they’ll love my idea.
CHRIS
Tempus fugit…
MOBIUS
Quite, which would indicate time is
aerodynamic.
MOBIUS is scratching a heavy edged ‘right angle’ into the design of his work as he sits there reeling from the beating.
CHRIS
Still trying to perfect right angles?
MOBIUS
They don’t exist in nature. Nature is a cellular
based water utilising system of intelligent light
dependent nodes of ‘something’ which generates
want for survival. Right angles are too abrupt,
and not the work of God… No tree, no plant, no flower,
no rock, deals, really, in precise right angles.
To consider right angles the essence of construction,
therefore, is to dismiss the amazing methods of
the creator.
CHRIS
Okay Mobius, whatever… Let’s get ready
for the party. I implemented the idea
for your microchip enhancement in a story.
It’s cool. It could work.
CHRIS smiles lovingly.
They laugh together. FADE OUT.
CUT TO: CLASS ROOM – AFTERNOON
MOBIUS is at his desk looking lethargic but in deep thought, doodling in the foreground an image of a human body with channels, veins and arteries all coloured differently.
TEACHER
Amino acids are organic compounds
that contain amino (–NH2) and
carboxyl (–COOH) functional
groups, along with a side chain
(R group) specific to each amino
acid. The key elements of an amino acid are carbon (C), hydrogen (H),
oxygen (O), and nitrogen (N), although
other elements are found in the
side chains of certain amino acids.
About 500 naturally occurring
amino acids are known as of 1983
(though only 20 appear in the genetic
code) and can be classified in
many ways…
JOHNNY, a friend of MOBIUS, is sitting next to him. JOHNNY strokes his knee. MOBIUS’s knee shoots up with surprise and hits the table. JOHNNY giggles.
TEACHER
Is something amusing gentlemen?
JOHNNY remains quiet and coy and pretends to knuckle down to serious work.
MOBIUS
I find it amazing human consciousness
has adapted to evolution so successfully,
given we are allegedly chemical compounds
born of the primordial soup, when all other
lifeforms remain clearly less intelligent.
JOHNNY
What about dolphins?
MOBIUS
What about dolphins? Ever seen one change
a plug?
TEACHER
Whilst it is true the theory of evolution
has many unexplained gaps in the logic, I
think you’ll find in the modern world, saying
‘God made us’ won’t wash with post 20th
century intellectualism.
MOBIUS
But how can we be so certain there’s not
a creator when everything is – on the whole -
so perfectly designed? A mouse is a mouse.
A lion is a lion. A dog is a dog. There
are very few mutations, and millions of
alike clones of each basic species.
TEACHER
Our job as teachers is NOT to be omniscient,
but to teach YOU what we DO know, HOPING
that one day, you may be able to think
successfully and productively for yourselves,
and perhaps even go on to discover MORE
about life.
JOHNNY
Reality is something I
don’t fully appreciate, as a soldier, Sir.
TEACHER
Well, good luck in finding an alternative.
Until then, we’re stuck with this 3-D
universe in the 4th dimension of time with
everyone wondering what the 5th dimension is.
MOBIUS
If reality is perception, and observation
generates reality, in accordance with
quantum theory, then surely, I am the
creator of existence?
TEACHER
Nice try Mobius, but it’s a little more
polarised in truth, and whilst we have
made great inroads in the last few hundred
years technologically, some may argue there
is still a long way to go.
JOHNNY
<whispering to MOBIUS>
When you’re rich for being a genius,
promise you’ll give me some important
role as a warrior… You know my brain
isn’t up to this chemistry shit.
MOBIUS
Will do Johnny. Count on me.
CUT TO:
Letter saying ‘WINNER’ being delivered and carried through the school on a tracking shot. It gets delivered to MOBIUS’s room. He opens it excitedly. The letter says:
‘Congratulations on your entry for the Genesis Corp new ideas competition. The judges felt your molecular generation code was revolutionary, and we would like to invite you to visit us to discuss further work.’
MOBIUS punches the air with happiness and lets out a ‘woo!’.
CUT TO:
House party – EXT. – JOHNNY’s land rover ‘Apache Rose’.
CUE BACKGROUND MUSIC.
Later that week, attending a school party. MOBIUS is with his girlfriend HANNAH and his mates CHRIS, JOHNNY, D and J-P.
HANNAH
I’m so proud of you.
You’ve worked so hard.
You deserve everything.
MOBIUS
Thanks babe.
D
Let’s get drunk like it was 1999.
JOHNNY
In some states of mind, it’s always 1999.
J-P
I’m going for a smoke. Who’s joining me?
CHRIS
Yes mate. We can use my pipe.
J-P
Yahoo! Let’s go.
CHRIS
Good word, I’ll write it on my pipe.
CHRIS reveals his homemade wooden pipe, with graffiti all over it. He adds the words ‘Yahoo – J-P’ in red pen.
MOBIUS
Boring spelling of Yahoo…
CHRIS
How would you suggest?
MOBIUS
We’re posh… ‘Yah! Who!’
CHRIS
Weirdo!
JOHNNY (to J-P)
Oi, mate… give us a cig.
J-P
Here you go…
JOHNNY
WE ARE THE WARRIORS!!!!
CHRIS writes ‘Yah who – Mobius’ underneath it nonetheless.
CUT TO D.B. doing lines of cocaine on a table with his evil friends NICHOLAS and FRANK. D.B. is wearing a fancy dress Viking hat with horns. He looks up after inhaling and sees HANNAH. He winks at her, and she smiles coyly.
D.B.
Who’s that babe?
FRANK
Hannah, girlfriend of that
faggot in the year beneath us, Mobius.
You know, the nerd you like to
brutalise for thinking he’s smart.
D.B.
Oh yeah, the computer dweeb. What a
pointless cunt.
CUT TO: Later in party. The lads are all laughing and pissed up and toking. MOBIUS is telling the story of his project to a small gathering, when a mysterious hand drops a pill in the glass he’s drinking from out of sight.
MOBIUS
So basically, my concept for a software program
was to look into the likelihood of terraforming
planets in a real world simulated environment.
The quantum matter extrapolator idea
was my prize moment, when
I really studied 3-D printers and imagined how
we might generate matter at the atomic level,
using such technology at the macro level,
within a fixed field subset of defined properties,
within a defined void.
LISTENER
Awesome man. You might become rich!
MOBIUS
Well, we’ll see… Now, where’s my Hannah?
MOBIUS goes in search of HANNAH.
CUT TO: HOUSE PARTY – EXT. – NIGHT.
He goes outside to see D.B. having his way with HANNAH from behind in the carpark. He is mortified. He watches for a while, and then D.B. has finished rutting her, he pushes her in a bush, as they laugh together.
D.B.
You lucky girl…
HANNAH
Yes, I am a lucky girl…
MOBIUS feels sick, and goes to vomit in the bushes.
He is disorientated and staggers away from them. He feels awful. He falls down on his hands and knees, wretching again in horror.
POV – We see trippy visuals of two light beings made of blue light and humanoid in shape approach him and a dazzling display of lights.
The audio track is hundreds of voices polluting his consciousness, the sounds of the party warping in and out with eerie effects. Loads of malevolent voices polluting his senses.
He rolls over and passes out, a humiliated and broken man.
CUT TO:
Close up of MOBIUS in bed in a mental home. He comes to, and looks up. A NURSE is in the room overseeing him. She is doodling a picture of a broken heart in the foreground.
MOBIUS
Wh… Where am I?!
NURSE
Ahh… Good morning. You’ve been
through quite an experience!
MOBIUS
What happened? How did I get here?
NURSE
The pill you took knocked
you into another dimension.
You were found trying to
hang yourself from a tree
at a party.
MOBIUS
Pill? I didn’t take a pill.
NURSE
Well, we found traces of
strong MDMA in you, so
if you didn’t take it,
I can only imagine you
were spiked. You’ve been off
grid for about sixteen hours.
Ranting and raving about
your girlfriend and someone
else called ‘D.B’?
MOBIUS
Ohhh… Yes… I feel sick.
The most evil bastard
I’ve ever met.
NURSE
Well, I’m sure karma will
catch up with him one
day if he’s not careful.
MOBIUS
He masturbates over images of Hitler.
NURSE
As I say petal, karma will get him.
I’m a firm believe in good triumphing
over evil.
MOBIUS
Karma is purely wishful thinking
in the face of overwhelming negatives.
NURSE
Well then wish harder…
MOBIUS
That’s called ‘praying’, isn’t it?
The NURSE smiles with care and warmth and leaves the room. MOBIUS looks at a crucifix on the wall.
SLOW CAMERA ZOOM IN TO CRUCIFIX TO CLOSE UP OF CHRIST’S FACE.
DISSOLVE TO:
CU of JESUS’s face doodle, in a conference room at ‘GENESIS CORP’. MOBIUS is well lit in the interview chair, but the two interviewers aren’t easy to see in the shadows. MOBIUS is doodling a design in the foreground of a character who looks like Jesus, with the words ‘HATE EVIL’ scrawled beside it in dark, emphatic letters.
INTERVIEWER
So Mr. Mobius, given your
EXCELLENT programming ideas
in this revolutionary new
realm of industry, we felt
that it’s only suitable to
grant you a trainee placement
here at Genesis Corp in order
to employ your fertile,
teeming mind towards some of
the most exciting innovations
of the 21st century.
MOBIUS
Thank you, it is an honour.
INTERVIEWER
Congratulations on your
success. We look forward
to a bright future working
together.
MOBIUS
Excellent.
INTERVIEWER #2
Out of interest, what do
you do for pleasure
In your spare time?
MOBIUS
Work is my pleasure, Sir.
INTERVIEWER
Good… Good… Just the right
sort of attitude for a company
like ours.
FADE OUT as the camera drop pans to MOBIUS’s doodle of Jesus. He spins a halo over the head as a last part of the doodle.
CUT TO CAPTION: “Over two decades years later”.
FADE IN:
CU of JOSHUA’s face smiling.
The television is on reporting climate crisis. We see rioters and mass hysteria over ecological issues.
NARRATOR
“With conflict ever an increasing fear,
it is the findings of the UN that
given the declared ecological emergency,
huge new investment must be granted
towards companies seeking to avert the
crisis, or that work on large scale
humanitarian solutions…”
MOBIUS is a middle-aged man. He looks across at his wife ZOE and their son JOSHUA.
He smiles as he works on another design on paper, of fish and birds in a complex grid surrounded by stars with algebraic notes.
ZOE
Darling, MICHAEL just phoned.
T-Minus one day until
we launch. Are you excited?
MOBIUS
Couldn’t have done
it without you babe.
The time force gradient
neutralising destabiliser
was a work of art…
ZOE
Well, I didn’t marry
the world’s leading
time travel and terraforming
specialist because
he was an idiot. I’ll make
Joshua’s supper and
then we can go to the launch.
MOBIUS
I can’t wait… A lifetime’s
work, all for this one
day in history.
ZOE
I’ll be right with you.
We’ll take the Mercedes.
CUT TO: EXT: GENESIS CORP – EVENING.
CUT TO EXT, the launch pad.
MICHAEL is speaking to a crowd of twenty four VIP’s who have assembled for the launch. D.B. is hidden among the crowd, looking suspicious, dressed as security, with a scar on his right eye. The vessel itself is a large contraption with wheels within wheels with cameras adorned along the wheels, and four metallic faces of a human face, a lion, an ox, and an eagle as part of the design.
MICHAEL
It is with more delight
than is feasibly
common, ladies and gentlemen,
that today we reveal to you
the fruit of our twenty
year long epic innovation.
The ‘reality time drive’ which
houses the quantum matter extrapolators.
Ladies and Gentlemen, when we launch
this ship, we will be heading back
in time… Heading back to the
dawn of time… Where we will
be triggering the quantum
matter extrapolator… My
name is MICHAEL, and I will
be piloting the craft, with
my crew, ADAM, ZOE and the
genius who devised it in
huge part, MOBIUS.
The crowd cheer as MOBIUS reveals himself flying one of the ship jet packs. He lands near the crowd.
D.B. sneaks away from the crowd. He is listening to a hidden voice receiver. It is a woman’s voice.
VOICE
You know what to do. Get inside that thing,
and find a way to destroy their mission.
D.B.
Okay… I’m on it.
D.B. approaches the large space craft and gingerly sneaks on board past a snoozing SECURITY GUARD… As he’s looking at the impossibly advanced controls, ADAM enters without seeing him.
D.B.
Shit…
D.B. rushes to a storage container and hides in it. As he does so, ADAM comes along without seeing him and locks the storage container.
ADAM (On radio)
All set… Can the crew of the Song Odyssey
please take their positions?
CUT TO:
ZOE and MOBIUS in their flash space suits. GABRIEL, a black male Genesis Corp employee, is admiring them, dressed in the same garments. Standing next to GABRIEL is NADIR. A quiet, shy lad.
MOBIUS
These feel great. I’m
glad we didn’t cut
costs on the uniform. How
buff do you look, darling?
ZOE
Yup, they’re trendy alright.
GABRIEL
I think you both look
great, and I’m thrilled
to be a part of this mission.
Really, it’s very exciting.
MOBIUS
We’re thrilled to have you GABRIEL, now pass the
tachyon warp acceleration procedure manual.
GABRIEL
Certainly, certainly.
MOBIUS
NADIR, you designed these uniforms,
right? What was your inspiration?
NADIR
Marvel comic superheroes.
MOBIUS
Welllll…
ZOE
If the pants fit bubba, where them.
CUT TO: Launch moment.
MOBIUS, ZOE, MICHAEL and ADAM are sitting in the spaceship, The Song Odyssey, in their respective positions.
MICHAEL
Song Odyssey to HQ, do you receive?
HQ (on radio)
This is Genesis Corp. Final
flight checks are A-Okay,
and we are ready for launch.
ZOE (to MOBIUS)
Given this has never been done before,
how can we be sure it will work?
MOBIUS
My theory is that we wouldn’t
be here if it doesn’t.
Okay, MICHAEL. Punch it!
MICHAEL
Starting traditional boosters.
ADAM
Navigation screens look A-Okay.
ZOE
Auxiliary power stabilizers are operational.
HQ
T-Minus ten seconds… 10… 9…
The exterior of the ship begins to produce smoke and make noise. The crowd all watch with awe.
MICHAEL AND HQ
7… 6… 5…
The ship begins shaking and juddering. Zoe is clenching the throttle lever and MOBIUS places his hand over her hand for support.
MOBIUS
Ready to make history darling?
MICHAEL
3… 2… 1… ALL SYSTEMS ARE GO.
The ship roars with life and slowly bursts into the air with a stream of smoke.
MICHAEL
Okay, ascent rate is
standard and on target.
We’re moving people.
Hold on to something solid.
ADAM
Sequence vectors are looking good.
ZOE
Trajectory is established
and looking excellent.
MOBIUS
Okay, so as soon as we
penetrate the atmosphere,
we launch the time jump
to origin point, and then
activate the quantum
matter extrapolator.
ADAM
Target is A-1 in control…
Preparing to drop initial
fuel cells.
He presses a button and the early, now redundant fuel cells fall off the spaceship.
MICHAEL
Penetrating atmosphere in
T-Minus fifteen seconds…
Stand by for the time jump
lock and fire sequence.
ADAM
Time jump is calibrated and
all stats are looking perfect.
MICHAEL
10… 9… 8…
MOBIUS
Sequence alpha is running smooth.
Vector relay pattern is holding.
ZOE
Corresponding as set with the chronology
axis runner…
MICHAEL
5… 4… 3…
ADAM
Standing by to leap…
MICHAEL
2… 1… ENGAGE TIME JUMP…
ADAM presses the big important button as the spaceship hurtles out of the earth’s atmosphere.
There is a large whirring sound. The ship glows, and then disappears in the flash of a light.
CUT TO: INT – SPACE SHIP GOING THROUGH TIME TUNNEL – With the zoom effect of wormhole diving.
MOBIUS
Good God, it’s working…
ADAM
Minus 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000…
Christ, we’re rippling backwards through
time at an unfeasible rate.
ZOE
Hold on everyone…
MICHAEL
Stand by to generate custom field shock.
ADAM
Okay, Mobius, are you ready?
MOBIUS
Ready as I’ll ever be.
ZOE
Instigating the primary
route channel of the time
quantum matter extrapolator.
MOBIUS
System check on the photon
generator and nanotics
holding facility.
ADAM
Photon generator and nanotics
are looking good…
MICHAEL
Terraforming bulk engine is operational…
ADAM
Destined historical origin
point is arriving
in 5… 4… 3… 2… 1… FIRE THE VOID SYSTEM
GENERATOR…
MOBIUS presses a button under a protected grill, and the screen goes white.
CUE: SPECIFIC CLASSICAL MUSIC.
Watermark caption: ‘Phase One’.
Then it morphs into black as ‘the void of space’ is generated pixel by atom. Then Earth, just a large rocky wilderness with water, is rapidly built in a massive terraforming procedure.
CUT TO EXT: The spaceship emerges with a flash of light in the black void… There is nothing but a dark, watery planet.
MICHAEL
Void development is stable, planet is
replicated. H20 input looking healthy.
ZOE
Time dilation is rapidly building.
ADAM
We’ve just built time gentlemen!
The quantum simulation is active!
I repeat, the quantum simulation
is active!
MICHAEL
Wow… Existence… Exists…
EXT. THE CRAFT FLYING OVER THE DARK WATERS – ‘DAY’.
MOBIUS
Activate the photon generator!
A huge scanning light beams from the ship over the waters of the ancient earth.
CREW
Wo… Wow…! Etc.
MOBIUS
Wow… We made it… it works…
Watermark caption: ‘Phase Two’.
ADAM is under a bank of computers flicking a few switches.
MOBIUS
Adam, are we ready to install
atmospheric conditions?
ADAM
The firmament build array
is calibrated
to the subset of the
nanotic development system.
We launch the build
probe into the waters,
and it should replicate
the atmosphere using the
planned technique with ionic
field valves set
to default status,
pulsing at a thousand
gigawatts on
initial set up power.
MOBIUS
Punch it!
ADAM presses a button, and a probe blasts from the Song Odyssey and splashes down in the dark waters. It fizzes and energises and begins to spool an atmosphere from the waters surrounding the planet.
The crew watch in awe.
ZOE
It’s working…
MICHAEL
You’re a genius, Mobius.
MOBIUS
Nice to see the scientific theory
works.
Watermark caption: ‘Phase Three’
MICHAEL
Trigger the terraforming bulk engine and prepare
rapid growth vegetation terraforming nanotics.
ADAM
Look at that… it’s beautiful…
CUE special effects shot of a stream of ‘nanotics’ (nanotechnology elements which are designed to rapidly terraform a planet with plant life) pouring out of the vessel and rapidly building plant life in real time.
Watermark caption: ‘Phase Four’.
ADAM
Okay, the terraforming process is under away.
Stand by to launch the star canon.
MOBIUS
Star canon loaded and ready for first deploy.
ZOE
Let’s get a sun up there people.
MICHAEL
Stand by to fire… and, FIRE!
ZOE presses a complex series of buttons which blasts countless photon generating balls at colossal speed into the universe, where one in particular grows exponentially in size very quickly using seriously smart technology.
MOBIUS
Sun build mode sequence is operational.
All systems working as intended.
ZOE
Well done, genius…
MOBIUS
Thanks, genius…
Watermark caption: ‘Phase Five’.
ADAM
Let’s get those oceans and that
bespoke atmosphere populated
people.
MICHAEL
Standing by to launch ocean contents
nanotic replicator.
MOBIUS
Launch when ready.
ZOE
All systems looking good, Captain.
MICHAEL
Launching now…
MICHAEL fires a button and another probe splashes into the sea. It rapidly opens up to reveal a machine which creates fish, birds and sea life in an instant.
Watermark caption: ‘Phase Six’.
MOBIUS
Okay, let us replicate
humanity in our default
reflection… Male and
female clones… Let’s
do this!
ADAM
On it…
ADAM flicks a few buttons and pulls a couple of levers, and enters the drop probe having check the rows of phials containing human and animal DNA as part of the conscious matter extrapolator.
ADAM
Okay, I’m ready.
MOBIUS
You sure you’re up for this?
ADAM
Wouldn’t be here if I wasn’t.
MICHAEL
Good, he’s ready. All
systems looking good.
Adam, shut the probe
portal.
MOBIUS
Good luck Adam…
ADAM
Cheers.
ADAM closes the drop probe door and sits in the chair.
MICHAEL gives him the ‘OK’ signal, to which ADAM responds with a thumbs up.
MICHAEL presses the ‘launch drop probe one’ button, and the probe jettisons from the ship towards earth.
MOBIUS
Now let’s just hope
he has a safe landing.
CUT TO: The drop probe hurtling through the atmosphere, burning up on entry as it does. It enters the clear sky of the barren world, now illuminated by sun technology, as the nanotics buzz about generating natural flora over the surface of the planet.
As the drop ship falls, it releases a parachute, and lands in a jungle region. As the drop probe smashes through the trees, the livery of ‘Song Odyssey’ is buffeted and scratched.
It comes to a rest at the base of large trees, and Adam unbuckles himself and steps out. Like the first man on earth, Adam takes a breath, filled with awe.
CUT TO:
Onboard the ‘Song Odyssey’.
ADAM (on radio)
I have touched down on
Earth… Everything
is okay.
MOBIUS
Well DONE Adam… Begin scattering
the active organism DNA modelling facility
in the replicator when you’re ready.
ADAM
Will do… Just loading up a horse
template.
MOBIUS
It’s not right that he’s alone down there.
ZOE
Get drop probe two ready for me…
MICHAEL
Copy that.
MICHAEL goes to the cargo hold and opens the container with D.B. hiding in it. He sees D.B. cowering in there.
MICHAEL
What the? Who the fuck are you?
D.B.
Listen, I can explain…
MICHAEL
I think you’d better. What
the HELL are you doing
on this ship?
ZOE
MICHAEL? What’s wrong?
MICHAEL
Look what I’ve found…
Before they have a chance to work out what’s going on, D.B. jumps out, grabs Zoe about the head and neck and starts pulling her toward drop probe 2 door.
D.B.
Listen… I don’t know
where the Hell we are,
or what the Hell you’re
doing, but you’re coming
with me.
ZOE
Get off me!
D.B.
Move again and I’ll break your neck.
MICHAEL
Let her go man… There is
no easy way out of this.
How did you gain access?
D.B.
Questions, questions…
I don’t know what you’re
doing, but believe me,
with that Mobius twat
involved, I’ll
be seeking to ruin
it. Now don’t get in my way
while I launch this probe.
You’re coming with me…
Try to break free,
and I’ll kill you.
ZOE
Just do as he says MICHAEL.
MICHAEL
Are you sure?
ZOE
Sure.
D.B. pulls her into the drop probe, and he presses the ‘manual release’ system, which triggers the probe to launch.
MICHAEL presses the launch button and probe two peels off toward Earth. MOBIUS comes running through from the other rooms.
MOBIUS
MICHAEL… Drop probe two
has been authenticated,
without my command. What’s wrong?
MICHAEL
Where have you been?
MOBIUS
It’s phase seven. I was taking a well
earned break. Is that okay with you?
MICHAEL
I’m afraid I’ve got some bad news…
CUT TO:
ADAM working on the DNA extrapolator. He is modelling a series of animals for production in the rapid build facility. He looks up to see probe two drop and land not far from his position.
ADAM
Good. It’ll be nice to have some company.
CUT TO:
MOBIUS on the ship. He is furious.
MOBIUS
You’re telling me this
mission has an uninvited
member? Where the Hell
was security?
MICHAEL
What can I say? None of us would have expected this.
MOBIUS
The entire mission
is now compromised.
This is dangerous
to a serious degree
of terrible, MICHAEL!
MICHAEL
I know, I know…
MOBIUS
We’re going to have to
try and contact HQ through
the time channel.
MICHAEL
But that could take up
so much energy we won’t
be able to undertake a
rapid rescue plan.
MOBIUS
They have to know! We
can’t create existence
with an illegal stowaway!
Questions will be raised!
Big questions! The entire
project could
be in trouble!
MICHAEL
Let’s just hold off
for a time. Calm down.
Wait and see… There may
be other ways around this.
MOBIUS
We’ve got enough fuel to jump back to
the future, but a series of time
channel comms could jeopardize
those reserves, and that’s
not including rescuing them.
MICHAEL
Therefore… as said… let’s just
calm down, and bide our time.
Something good may come out of this yet.
MOBIUS
I only hope you’re right.
CUT TO:
EXT. EARTH – Probe ship two is among the trees.
D.B. and ZOE escape the pod.
D.B.
Where is this? Where are we?
ZOE remains strong and silent. D.B. panics briefly and runs off into the jungle.
ZOE
Asshole…
ZOE fetches a flare gun and electronic torch from the drop probe. She turns the electronic torch on and sticks it into the ground. She then fires the flare directly above her.
CUT TO:
ADAM with his field scanner analysing the area. He sees the flare go up.
ADAM
I’m coming Zoe!
ADAM dons a jetpack and zooms into the skies.
CUT TO:
CU of ZOE removing cargo from the probe. ADAM finds her and lands in the area.
ADAM
Zoe! You made it!
ZOE
We have a problem…
ADAM
What?
ZOE
An intruder on the ship…
He took me captive and is
somewhere now out here.
ADAM
An intruder? Whom?!
ZOE
No idea… A stowaway on the project.
ADAM
But how can that be?
ZOE
That’s what I want to find out…
ADAM
The mission is jeopardised!
ZOE
Just don’t panic… I’m sure
we’ll work something out.
CUT TO:
The Song Odyssey – INT.
MOBIUS and MICHAEL are studying graphics on screen.
MOBIUS
I never thought a mission like this would
require weapons. But now I’m thinking weapons
are the one thing we need we didn’t include.
MICHAEL
One man… he’ll come unstuck.
No friends, no knowledge,
nowhere to go… We just bide out time.
MOBIUS
Adam should be working on
the genetic extrapolator,
not worrying about intruders
into the build project.
MICHAEL
Agreed, but I’m sure he’ll
figure something out.
Or Zoe. They’re not stupid.
MOBIUS
Did you get a look at the face?
MICHAEL
Didn’t recognise him. He had
a scar down his right eye
though.
MOBIUS
A scar, eh? Hmmmm…
FLASHBACK to MOBIUS being punched in the face by D.B. as a young boy.
MOBIUS can’t be sure it’s him, so shrugs and ignores.
MOBIUS
Let’s get a signal to Adam,
tell him what’s going on.
MICHAEL
I think he already knows… Listen…
ADAM is coming through on a televisual channel.
ADAM
I’ve rendezvoused with Zoe…
She told me what happened…
MOBIUS
Zoe… are you okay?
ZOE
I’m fine… Was a bit shaken,
but he’s run into the
jungle. I don’t know how
long he can survive
out here alone.
MICHAEL
He may well be pack when
he gets too hungry. I want
you both on full alert
at all times until he’s
reprimanded. Do you understand?
ZOE
Copy that.
MOBIUS
Adam… Crack on with the
creature development
extrapolator. We
continue with the mission
until when and if
something transpires.
ADAM
Copy that.
The screen goes blank.
MICHAEL
We may never see him
again, or he might return
to get supplies. He’s
posed a total danger to the
entire project.
MOBIUS
Two against one down
there is better than Zoe
being alone.
Let us hope for the best.
MICHAEL
Agreed.
CUT TO: ADAM and ZOE at the drop probe two crash site.
ADAM
Well, I’ve got the animals,
you’ve got the humans,
I suppose we better set about
cultivating the planet’s
population.
ZOE
I can have a prototype working
by tonight I reckon.
ADAM
I’ve already lined up the
livestock production generator.
It’s just a question of producing
each creature now
in the physical world environment.
ZOE
You know, twenty years ago,
when Mobius first pitched
this project, I hoped
one day his mad ideas
might come to fruition.
It’s hard to believe this
is all real.
ADAM
With a mind like his, we owe him a lot.
ZOE
Everything…
ADAM
I guess this makes you ‘Eve’…
ZOE
You can all me Eve if it pleases you.
ADAM
And me more famous and important
than Neil Armstrong…
ZOE
Only biblically… And you know how the
braindead no longer accept
the ancient texts
as legitimate evidence for higher
intelligence.
ADAM
How did Mobius know?
ZOE
How did he know what?
ADAM
That he was destined for all this?
ZOE
Well, I’m not sure he did. It just seemed
like a good idea. As soon as he’d cracked
the physics behind time travel and rapid
terraforming, he was like a kid with a new
toy, and a mind buzzing with creative
ideas.
ADAM
What about your son?
ZOE
He was warned about the
dangers of the mission.
He knew there was a strong chance mummy
and daddy wouldn’t be coming home.
He was always destined to be a major
part of the project anyway, given
we doctored his genes at birth
as part of Mobius’s ‘divine implant’
theory.
ADAM
Joshua’s a bright kid…
Takes after his parents.
ZOE
You know it. Okay. I’m
ready to fire the machine up.
We’ll have company within
24 hours if the rapid genetic
development software
functions correctly.
ADAM
Let’s get making people…
ZOE
And not the traditional way…
ADAM
No, of course not!
ZOE
Weird though, isn’t it?
ADAM
What?
ZOE
To think that human cloning,
illegal in our day
in the future, is the source of all
humanity.
ADAM
No weirder than anything
else I’ve experienced
today. Listen, I can’t
leave you until we know
where he is…
ZOE
See this?
ZOE reveals a fire axe.
ZOE
If he comes back, I’ll be waiting.
ADAM
You sure?
ZOE
Sure…
ADAM
Okay, good luck.
ZOE
You too… Now populate
the planet with life!
ADAM
On it!
ADAM leaves. ZOE gets back to work.
FADE OUT.
FADE IN… Evening sunset – EXT. EARTH
ZOE is preparing the DNA replicator to generate a humanoid in the machine that was in Probe 2. She is running last minute checks on all the contents and necessary levels of matter building equipment.
There is a cracking of a twig as D.B. approaches.
D.B.
Listen… We need to talk.
ZOE grabs the axe.
ZOE
Stay away from me, or I
will ram this through
your skull.
D.B.
Look, I know it looks
bad… but really, I’m an
okay guy.
ZOE
Who are you? What do you want?
D.B.
I’m an old school colleague of Mobius.
He doesn’t know about me these days,
but I read up on him in the New Scientist,
and was intrigued at his success.
ZOE
He told me all about his friends. He
never mentioned anyone like you.
D.B.
Well, it’s been so long… Look, where are we,
exactly?
ZOE
You’re on planet earth.
D.B.
What year?!
ZOE
The very first.
D.B.
You what?
ZOE
You heard. You won’t understand
the technology
involved. You don’t seem
the brightest.
D.B.
Well, there’s no need to be rude… Here, are
you hungry? That vegetation is growing at
a remarkable rate.
ZOE
The installed initial build
functionality will revert to usual
velocity of growth after the initial
subwave nanotics have established
the field bed. I have food, thanks.
D.B.
Look, can’t we just be
friends? I admit I
don’t know how you create
such genius technology,
but I’m still a human
being, aren’t I?
ZOE
I’ll be the judge of that.
D.B.
Taste this… it’s good.
ZOE
No thanks.
ZOE goes to check a state of levels on a screen and trips, cutting herself on the axe in her hand by mistake.
ZOE
Arrghh! DAMN!
D.B.
Here, let me help you.
ZOE
Leave… me… alone…
D.B.
You’re in pain though, right? This
is a natural pain relief.
ZOE
And who made you the master of biochemical
healing?
D.B.
I do know ‘some’ stuff…
ZOE
Give it here then…
ZOE eats the fruit from a tree and starts tripping out.
D.B.
Feels good, right? I ‘think’ it’s DMT.
ZOE
Y… yes…
D.B.
Good… See? I’m not so bad…
ZOE
I guess everyone can be redeemed.
D.B.
And when you’re fully intoxicated, you can pleasure me.
ZOE
I beg your pardon?
As they get closer in trust, DOM whips the axe out of her hand and puts it around her neck.
D.B.
If I was truly evil,
I could kill you now…
So why don’t you show
a little trust, huh?
ZOE
O…okay…
D.B.
Good… good… Now, seeing
as we’re out here all alone,
I could do with
some cheering up myself.
ZOE
What do you want?
D.B.
Oh, I don’t know… Let me think…
D.B. grins malevolently.
ZOE, increasingly intoxicated sees his size and looks uncertain.
D.B.
Come on baby… that natural drug should
be taking effect big time now. Come give
old D.B. some love.
ZOE walks away tripping, disorientated, wide eyed and vacant in the mind.
She stumbles into a cave. She sees a vision of a rustic young humanoid boy, struggling, with flint, to scratch something into the wall, lit by the fire. He looks at her with eyes of terror.
She manages to stumble forward, and places her right hand over his right hand… She hallucinates a computer mouse in the future rendered perfectly over her right hand, writing digital fragments into the cave wall. The boy looks afraid and in awe.
She shudders and falls back, grappling for logic and reason. She cannot find it… And pukes as she sees a laser optic sight slide along the cave and when it rests upon her forehead, and blossoms into the graphic of a rose.
She has a paroxysm of desire, and D.B. approaches, shining and shimmering in a false golden light.
D.B. unzips his flies and reveals his penis to her off camera.
She kneels down and begins to fellate him in a druggie stupor.
D.B. grins with insidious pleasure.
CUT TO: EXT: EARTH – Next morning.
ADAM birthing from the cloning machine the world’s first cow. It is rapidly built inside a cage using high tech lasers and ‘ingredients’ of livestock gleaned from the local terrain. It is designed fast from the skeleton upward, until it emerges grunting and snorting, a healthy living cow.
ADAM
Awesome… The system works.
ZOE comes running through to ADAM’s downed probe.
ZOE
Adam… Adam… Help… I think
I’ve done something
incredibly stupid…
ADAM
What’s wrong?
ZOE
The impostor… he came
to me… and gave me
a substance… and… and…
ADAM
And what?!
ZOE
I might have ‘done things’ with him…
ADAM
You what!?!?
ZOE
I was drugged… Tripping out and everything.
ADAM
Mobius will kill you!!
ZOE
I know! What are we going to do?!
ADAM
Where is he now?
ZOE
I don’t know. He disappeared again.
ADAM
For goodness sake! Are you insane?
ZOE
He charmed me… I believed
for a moment he wasn’t
so bad… and then the
drug he gave me hit me
and I lost my marbles.
ADAM
For God’s sake Zoe…
ZOE
God? How ironic…
She looks up to see the letters ‘G Od’ as the only surviving livery on the side of the ship from the words ‘Song Odyssey’.
ADAM
Well, I’m not telling Mobius.
This is your call.
ZOE
He’ll never speak to me again…
ADAM
I can’t believe you’ve be so stupid…
ZOE
Now can I…
CUT TO: The Song Odyssey mother ship in space.
MOBIUS is livid on learning the news.
MOBIUS
You did WHAT?!?!!?
ZOE (On transmitter)
I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.
He drugged me and
I lost control of my senses.
MOBIUS
HOW COULD YOU?!!?
ZOE
I’m sorry bubba… Please, forgive me…
MOBIUS
FORGIVE YOU!? I’M OUTRAGED!!!
ZOE
Oh bubba, I’m so sorry…
MOBIUS
GOD DAMN IT, YOU WERE THE ONLY WOMAN I TRUSTED
MY WHOLE LIFE…
ZOE
I know… I know… the Hannah thing from years
ago… you must think me so awful.
MOBIUS
YES I BLOODY DO!!!! NEVER
SPEAK TO ME AGAIN!
YOU WILL SUFFER FOR THIS
FOREVER!!! SO GODDAMN
UNPROFESSIONAL!!!
MOBIUS smashes the console in rage and sparks fly.
MOBIUS
Oh shit…
MICHAEL
MOBIUS… What’s wrong? The probe
salvage systems have
gone off line…
MOBIUS
YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT
HAS HAPPENED. Is there
no way you can fix it?
MICHAEL
I’m a pilot, not an
engineer, but I can
take a look. If we
don’t fix it, they’ll
be stuck down there
forever…
MOBIUS
I know… then again…
maybe that’s just
what she deserves… Either
way, we now have no
choice but to send a trans
time comms channel.
Genesis Corp has to
know what’s going on.
MICHAEL
Well, look, the bulk
of the mission is done
or able to be completed…
the very fact we exist
in the future is proof
our plan works… So
it might not be all so bad.
Keep the faith, brother.
CUT TO:
EXT. PLANET EARTH – Drop probe two landing zone.
ZOE looks maudlin and upset as she creates a synthetic human from the genetic development machine. We see it being generated from skeleton upward, through the layers of flesh. After the process is complete, ZOE opens the container they’re made in. It opens its eyes, and gets out, looking pale, naked and haunted.
ZOE (miserably)
He gives you life… so use it…
The synthetic human wonders away as she begins to create the second one.
CUT TO:
GENESIS CORP: The future. (2077).
GABRIEL is working at his desk when the time channel comms signal begins beeping.
GABRIEL
Shit… Oh my gosh, oh my gosh…
The message reads: ‘Mission jeopardised as feared. Implement Operation: Juliet Charlie’.
GABRIEL
Juliet Charlie?! Oh
my gosh… Oh my gosh…
Where’s Joshua’s number?
CUT TO: ‘The Song Odyssey’ in the distant past.
MOBIUS
Listen MICHAEL… I haven’t
been square with you
on a few matters.
MICHAEL
I thought I knew everything
about you, Mobius.
MOBIUS
I never told you the truth…
the whole truth…
MICHAEL
Go on…?
MOBIUS
I always believed I was vital
to humanities existence
at a profound level… but
I never knew the generation
of the planet would go in
keeping with the ancient
texts the wait it has / will…
until now…
MICHAEL
So what do we do?
MOBIUS
We… don’t. The earth
is still terraforming,
and the project is
building… but in order to
rid the world of evil – which
I never wanted installed
into the program – I’m going
to have to need my sons help.
Evil, is an error in
the code, and as
you know, Joshua was raised
under specific puritan
methodology to cultivate ’specialist
DNA’. I’ve prepped him since
birth for the possibility.
The possibility I feared
would happen, but never
believed until now.
MICHAEL
So what do we do?
MOBIUS
We have to go back to our
own timeline to get him.
MICHAEL
What about Adam and Zoe?
MOBIUS
Taking time dilation into
account, they might not
know we’re even gone.
MICHAEL
We can’t leave them there.
What if something goes
wrong our end?
MOBIUS
It’s a risk I’m being forced to take.
MICHAEL
My God Mobius… Are you in inhuman?
MOBIUS
Not inhuman… no… It’s just cold, hard,
brutal logic… to get the job done.
Or none of us will exist. Zoe and Adam
know all about my pre-warned ’Key decision
bravo’ in case of mission failure.
CUT TO:
The future – GENESIS CORP – DAY.
JOSHUA comes running into GABRIEL’s office.
JOSHUA
I heard what’s up. Fire up the second
vessel.
GABRIEL
The Adonis? But you’re not fully trained
on its technical specification yet.
JOSHUA
Dad taught me enough. He made an exact second
model of the Song Odyssey in case something
went wrong. Well, I guess something has
gone wrong, and I’m the man to help.
GABRIEL
But what if something goes awry for you?
JOSHUA
I’d rather die trying to rescue my parents
than die here alone not knowing their fate.
GABRIEL
Then I’m coming with you.
JOSHUA
You sure? You do have a wife who loves you…
GABRIEL
Genesis Corp is my life’s work too Joshua.
I’m integral to the plan at a lower
level, and I wish to help.
JOSHUA
Okay, grab a helmet. We launch ASAP.
GABRIEL
Copy that.
CUT TO: INT. The past on the Song Odyssey
MOBIUS
Okay Michael, standing
by to jump to original
origin point… Hold on…
MICHAEL
Standing by…
MOBIUS
3… 2… 1… HIT IT!
MOBIUS presses a large red button and the ship zooms into light speed and disappears back towards the future.
CUT TO: EXT. FUTURE PRESENT DAY – GENESIS CORP.
JOSHUA
3… 2… 1… All systems go…
GABRIEL
Copy that…
The reserve time travel ship launches, and they peel into the air before launching the time jump process.
CUT TO:
The Song Odyssey arriving back in the future, and landing at GENESIS CORP.
MOBIUS
We made it… Now let’s find my son
as part of the evil extraction process.
CUT TO:
Distant past… The reserve ship arrives at the beginning of earth’s cultivation process.
GABRIEL (looking out at earth being developed by nanotics).
Oh my God, it’s beautiful.
JOSHUA
Something’s wrong… There’s no sign of the
Song Odyssey anywhere on scan.
GABRIEL
What about on earth?
JOSHUA
It’s picked up the two probes.
They’re still here… But…
GABRIEL
But what…?
JOSHUA
There’s a number of humanoid
lifeforms registered
on earth on the pickup
sweep scans.
GABRIEL
The human cloning experiment
is going well then?
JOSHUA
Yes, but there’s a foreign
genetic strain…
An impostor somehow. Neither cloned
DNA or our own team.
GABRIEL
That makes no sense…
JOSHUA
No, I know. We’re going
to have to fly down there.
GABRIEL
Okay, setting computer
sequence to landing
process.
The reserve ship enters the atmosphere.
ZOE and ADAM are working on the ground.
ZOE is teaching a newly modelled human female clone to speak.
ZOE
I… am… Zoe…
CLONED FEMALE (Struggling to communicate)
Eh… em… Zooey…
ZOE
No no, ‘I am Zoe’.
CLONED FEMALE
Aye am Zoey.
ZOE
Better! Good!
ADAM is harvesting a young piglet from the machine, and allows it to run among the others once the build process is complete.
They look up to see the vessel approaching, surrounded by a few animals and cloned humans.
ZOE
Phew… They haven’t forgotten us…
ADAM
Wait… that’s not the Song Odyssey.
THAT’S THE RESERVE SHIP! THE ADONIS!
ZOE
That’s not in the plan at all.
Something must be up…
We see D.B. spot the ship as he’s having sex with one of the cloned human females, he gets up and sprints in its direction.
The reserve ship lands on planet earth.
JOSHUA
Okay, give me a while to find them.
If anything goes wrong, contact me on
the transmitter. You stay here
and protect the craft.
GABRIEL
Copy that.
JOSHUA lowers the landing gantry and begins to descend when D.B. comes sprinting out of the bushes and smashes him around the head, knowing him momentarily unconscious. D.B. enters the reserve vessel.
D.B.
GET ME BACK TO MY TIME ZONE NOW.
GABRIEL
Who are you? You are breeching Genesis
Corp rules and regulations.
D.B.
Don’t give me that… Recalibrate the reality
time jump system. That IS what this is about,
isn’t it?
GABRIEL
I do not have the authority to…
D.B.
Just do it…
JOSHUA arrives from coming to.
JOSHUA
Listen, I don’t know who you are, but
you are ORDERED to stand down.
D.B.
I take orders from nobody… Now GET ME
OUT OF HERE!
D.B. rapidly scans the dashboard and presses a button. The ship launches again.
JOSHUA
What are you DOING? You don’t know
how to control this thing?
D.B.
I can hazard a guess.
D.B. presses ‘Return time sequence’ button.
CUT TO ZOE and ADAM:
ZOE
Leaving so soon?
ADAM
I don’t know what going on anymore.
Come, let us generate a leopard.
ZOE
Why can’t a plan come together?
CUT TO: The bridge of the Adonis.
It is travelling briefly through time but stops in the mid range future.
GABRIEL
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE DOING.
THE PRECISE COORDINATES ON THE
TIME JUMP WE’RE NOT CALIBRATED
YET FOR THE RETURN JOURNEY DUE TO
CHRONOLOGICAL OSSCILATION DROP OUT.
D.B.
THEN WHEN ARE WE?!?!
JOSHUA
I WARNED YOU.
D.B. looks out of the window and sees earth about 5,000 B.C. way after the origin time point, but still years ago from the traditional future present of 2077. A young tribal man emerges from the fields of somewhere in the middle East and looks up to see the vessel. This is EZEKIEL.
He looks perplexed, and falls to his knees in terror.
JOSHUA
Pass me the ship manual, we have to get back to
our traditional timeline. AND YOU, YOU SIT DOWN
AND SHUT UP…
D.B.
Make me…
GABRIEL emerges and smacks him round the head with a fire extinguisher. He passes out cold.
JOSHUA
Back to the traditional present Gabriel.
GABRIEL
What about Operation Juliet Charlie?
JOSHUA
You think we can still
go ahead with that,
given we have an intruder?
GABRIEL
It might be the only way…
I’ll lock him in
the cryo bay. We can
then continue with
the mission.
JOSHUA
Okay, we’ll give it a go.
We’re going to have to jump
to Y axis time point in the timeline.
GABRIEL
Calibrating specific jump nodes as we speak.
JOSHUA
Okay, let’s do it.
CUT TO:
Close up of a high tech contrivance which is an IVF implant device.
GABRIEL removes it from its housing.
GABRIEL
Okay, I was trained
how to use this…
It stores your
genetic code, right?
JOSHUA
Right… And as soon as
we rendezvous with
the intended vessel,
we undertake the plan.
Time jump specs are
installed. Let’s do this.
JOSHUA punches the time jump button and the craft zooms off leaving EZEKIEL perplexed.
CUT TO:
Young virgin MARY outside her home circa 1 B.C.E. she is washing fabrics and singing an ancient mysterious song.
The Adonis arrives and lands discreetly. GABRIEL disembarks and walks toward MARY. MARY looks afraid.
GABRIEL
<in Aramaic>
Be not afraid…
He raises the IVF device and smiles. MARY looks confused and unsure.
CUT TO:
PRESENT FUTURE DAY – MOBIUS and MICHAEL have landed back at GENESIS CORP.
MICHAEL
He’s nowhere to be
found right now,
and the reserve ship
the Adonis is gone.
He must have gone after us.
MOBIUS
Damn… If that’s true,
then I only hope
he knows what he’s doing.
MICHAEL
Present day conditions are
all running smoothly,
however, which would indicate…
MOBIUS
…That he’s achieved his mission…
MICHAEL
Correct.
MOBIUS
I guess all we can do now is wait.
CUT TO:
OAD and the birth of JESUS CHRIST via MARY. JOSEPH is smiling holding her hand and she holds the IVF device metal name holder in her hand. The magi have arrived bearing gold, myrrh, etc.
They all smile and awe at the arrival of the new baby, the cave they are in deluged in spiritual, golden light.
A man runs in, speaking in Aramaic. English subtitles read:
MAN
Come… You must leave, Herod is
killing all new born babies.
MARY
Where can we go?
MAN
Head for Egypt… You
will be safe there
as asylum seekers.
CUT TO: MARY and JOSEPH packing the donkeys with their baby and travelling across the desert plains.
CUT TO:
CU of D.B’s eyes on the Adonis furious with rage and hatred.
D.B.
Get me out of here…
GABRIEL
You should be so lucky.
D.B.
Look, come here… I know how to get
out of this…
GABRIEL
Oh, you do, do you?
D.B. has managed to subtly untie his manacles, and grabs GABRIEL’s head and smashes it against the wall. He breaks free of his chambers and runs to the ship console. He presses a button on the time console. JOSHUA enters.
JOSHUA
DON’T!! You don’t know what you’re doing!!
D.B. swipes at JOSHUA, knocking him old cold too.
CUT TO:
CUE MUSIC.
Montage sequence of the little baby JESUS growing up and becoming a boy where he plays with childish toys, to a teenager scoring weed outside a pyramid and consulting the ancient texts. To a young man wondering alone in the wilderness. All the while intercut with images of D.B. on the Adonis trying to work out what to press.
CUT TO:
JESUS CHRIST as a young man in the wilderness.
The Adonis crash lands, covering the ‘S’ of ‘Adonis’ so it reads ‘Adoni’ and there is damage to the system. D.B. leaves the ship, taking a jet pack with him, and begins to haunt the young JESUS CHRIST for a sustained period of time.
JESUS stares at the words ‘Adoni’.
JESUS
Father?
JOSHUA comes to, as does GABRIEL.
JOSHUA
My God, it’ll take
days to repair this…
GABRIEL
Where is he?
JOSHUA
Don’t know, and right
now, I don’t care.
We have to repair this
vessel ASAP… Pass me
the tool box.
GABRIEL
How long do you think it will take?
JOSHUA
Days, maybe weeks, as long
as the integrity of
the ship circuitry is not
compromised. The wires
are all mangled and
the motherboard
of the time jump system
has anomalies which
will need debugging.
GABRIEL
We best get a move on…
JOSHUA
Oh, and if you see that
guy, perhaps kill him?
GABRIEL
I’ll think about it.
CUT TO JESUS CHRIST walking through the wilderness. D.B. approaches him, and speaks in distorted, Satanic English, as he picks up JESUS with his jet pack and transports him to the high temple, and the mountains, etc. JESUS answers in broken English.
D.B.
So what makes you so special to Genesis Corp?
If you are the Son of God,
tell these stones to become bread.
JESUS
It is written: ’Man shall not live on
bread alone, but on every word that
comes from the mouth of God.’
D.B.
If you are the Son of God, throw yourself
down. For it is written: ’He will command
his angels concerning you,and they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone’.
JESUS It is also written: ’Do not put
the Lord your God to the test.’
D.B.
All this I will give you, if you
will bow down and worship me.
JESUS
Away from me, Satan! For it is written:
’Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.
CUT TO: JOSHUA banging a hammer against the infrastructure of the ships design, he fixes a plate and drills it into position.
JOSHUA
Only forty days too late for departure…
But that should be working now. The ship
technical manuals are most detailed.
GABRIEL
Good, because we’re running out of food
supplies too.
JOSHUA
We should be ready for launch…
D.B. arrives at the gantry ramp again and enters the ship.
GABRIEL
You…
D.B.
Listen… We need to talk…
JOSHUA
Get out…
D.B.
No… You need me to return to our home time.
JOSHUA
Why don’t we just leave you here?
D.B.
Because if you did that, time would
not be fully operational, would it?
GABRIEL
I’m not sure you’re included in the fates of man.
D.B.
Well, we’ll just have to find out, won’t we?
GABRIEL
Josh?
JOSHUA
Leaving a cretin like this in the here
and now ‘could’ disrupt time gradient
behaviour and do serious damage to the
known flow of the space time continuum.
D.B.
Your matter extrapolator… it can design
pretty much anything in a 3-D build then?
JOSHUA
That is correct.
D.B.
Good, then design me this…
D.B. hands JOSHUA a photo of ‘the throne of Satan’ as found currently in Berlin.
JOSHUA
What the Hell is that?
D.B.
It’s a sculpture devoted to
mythology originally found
in Turkey.
I love it. I found it when I went
on a Hitler cruise to Germany. It’s
in a museum there.
Take the design and build it for me.
If I’m the devil, as you think, then
this is my throne, surely?
So build it for me. I want to
see what this tech can do.
JOSHUA looks at GABRIEL blankly.
GABRIEL
Lock him in the cryo chamber
again and build it.
He might be right that it’s a
part of history, with his
name on it.
Besides, stone rendering takes
up very little computation power.
JOSHUA
Okay.
D.B. is locked in the cryogenic booth again, and JOSHUA sees about feeding the design of the ‘throne’ into the ship computer.
Very quickly a real marble sculpture is rendered outside the ship using the future design.
GABRIEL
A part of me thinks we should leave
him here on it. Mythology, eh?
Truly, Satan is the father of lies!
JOSHUA
I think he fancies himself a Zeus when
high on cocaine.
GABRIEL
Is that woman Zoe?
JOSHUA
Doubt it… Possibly Hannah?
CUT TO: PRESENT FUTURE DAY – GENESIS CORP.
MOBIUS is looking intently at data sheets.
MOBIUS
Given the Adonis is missing, and there’s
no sign of Joshua, or Gabriel for that
matter, I can only presume they
got the message and implemented
Operation Juliet Charlie.
MICHAEL
Then what do we do now…?
MOBIUS
We wait for time to catch up and realign.
I.e. They should be returning if all has
gone to plan…
CUT TO: A cave in ancient earth Eden – Early evening.
ZOE is an old lady, dying, next to ADAM, an old man, with their two biological sons Cain and Abel, with plenty of synthetic human clones and animals watching, including a child of one of the clones impregnated by D.B.
CAIN and ABEL are scratching images into the wall of the cave with a flint. They resemble humans and animals, with a further image denoting the circular probes.
ZOE
I guess they’re never coming back.
ADAM
We were warned all along about the dangers
of the mission.
ZOE
I guess he made ‘key decision bravo’.
ADAM
I guess.
ZOE
At least I don’t die in vain Adam.
At least I know I had purpose.
ADAM
You’ve done all you can.
ZOE
I hope they remember me… in… the future…
ADAM
You know they will.
ZOE
Thank you… for helping me…
ADAM
It is my honour.
ABEL
Mum… are you going to be okay?
ADAM looks at ABEL and smiles, then turns to ZOE.
ADAM
It’s okay… Let go… Mission accomplished. We’ll be fine.
ZOE
May Mobius bless you, Adam…
ADAM
And also you…
ZOE takes a final look at her children, and passes away from old age.
CUT TO:
The Adonis hurtling through space time. It arrives back at GENESIS CORP. The gang plank is lowered and GABRIEL marches D.B. out by the scruff of his neck.
D.B.
You need to destroy this entire company.
You’re a disgrace to traditional logic
and physics.
GABRIEL
Silence infidel.
D.B. makes a break for it, and escapes the building, with Gabriel chasing behind. JOSHUA emerges to meet his father, MOBIUS.
JOSHUA
He’s done as much damage as I imagine
he can.
MOBIUS
I wouldn’t be so sure Josh…
JOSHUA
Oh, dad… it’s good to see you.
MOBIUS
Well done son. Seeing you here now, I
can only assume the mission was a success.
JOSHUA
I believe it was.
MOBIUS
Well done son. In you I am well pleased.
CUT TO:
CUE MUSIC: ‘Easy living’ by Uriah Heep.
JUDAS’s hands take the twenty pieces of silver, and he wonders out of a room looking shifty.
ROMAN SOLDIERS grab the Christ.
The disciples are all talking amid themselves in fear.
JUDAS hangs himself from a tree.
Jesus is crucified in a silhouette, with the disciples huddled together.
CUE montage sequence of all his disciples being murdered in different places, except for ST. JOHN the divine who is exiled in a cave on Patmos.
CUT TO: FUTURE PRESENT DAY – GENESIS CORP.
MOBIUS is doodling a man in Hell in the foreground.
MOBIUS
Listen, I have to be straight with you.
MICHAEL
Go on…
MOBIUS
Known existence wasn’t
the only invention I designed.
MICHAEL
Oh?
MOBIUS
I’ve known that D.B. villain most of
my life. Evil has a way of ruining the
most wonderful things… So, when applying
the quantum blueprints to existence, I
realised a fate render for the evil doers
was necessary if the bulk of humanity
is to have a ‘winning experience’ in
the long range future.
JOSHUA
What did you add to the fate render?
MOBIUS
Each Mobius strip Joshua, depicting the eternal loop, has a twist in the middle. The pinch point
of infinity.
JOSHUA
What… did… you… design?
MOBIUS
A penal zone for the iniquitous,
hidden behind the simulation veil
in a transdimensional cross patch.
You might call it…
JOSHUA
What?
MOBIUS
Hell…
CUT TO:
GABRIEL chasing D.B. through the modern city streets of New York.
GABRIEL corners him on the edge of a large industrial wasteland with a deep hole.
GABRIEL
You can’t keep running from what
you’ve done.
D.B.
Who are you anyway? YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO
TIME TRAVEL…
GABRIEL
WE MADE EVERYTHING…
D.B.
You’re deranged mad men with too much power…
GABRIEL
There’s only one lunatic present, Sir,
and I strongly feel it isn’t me.
D.B.
Stand back, or I’ll kill you…
GABRIEL
With what?
GABRIEL approaches him slowly, and simply pushes him over the edge of the industrial abyss. He falls into the pit of the dark and gloom. Not a ridiculous, deadly height, but quite a fall nonetheless.
GABRIEL smiles and turns to return to GENESIS CORP.
D.B. hurt and damaged at the base of the ‘abysm’, surrounded by debris, pulls out his phone and makes a call. He dials stored number ‘HANNAH’.
HANNAH’S VOICE
Hello? Hannah here.
D.B.
Hannah… It’s me… I need your help…
HANNAH’S VOICE
Where are you?
D.B.
Find… me… Call FRANK and NICK too.
CUT TO:
GENESIS CORP LABS – A close up a concealed inferno. MOBIUS, JOSHUA NADIR, and MICHAEL are all looking into it.
MOBIUS
Hell had to be designed, as
a firewall actuality
based theory manifested
to house those who
disrupt the knowledge of
the ‘program’ and behave
inappropriately. That is to say:
‘The reality simulation’.
If the Hell fate render
were not to be implemented
into the fate channel of
the simulation, evil
would grow exponentially
due to the demonic
equation of freedom
of will combined with
disbelief in higher
intellect and ’things
unknown’ to them.
The Hell fate render
is ostensibly the
dump tray for all
human cloning in the
experiment that was
devoid of actual purpose
or reasonable
methodology.
JOSHUA
Where is the Hell zone located?
MOBIUS
In a subdimension beyond
the veil of this
3-D quantum simulation.
It’s completely sealed
off from access to the
public until after the
specified date,
when only the damned will
be escorted there
using an atomic veil disruptor
portalisation trigger
system.
MICHAEL
The specified date of what?
MOBIUS
The victory over my many enemies.
CAPTION: “Some months later…”
CUT TO:
CU of news report on Television. D.B. is on TV as a world leading business man and politician. He is smiling and speaking to the masses.
D.B. (On TV)
Thanks Jeremy… It’s great to be here.
JOSHUA
Dad… you seen this?
MOBIUS
As I feared… He’s lusting for global
power.
D.B. (On TV)
And it is with the powers invested
In me that as CEO of Fate Limited, the
leading brand in perfect future ideals,
we can now offer humanity a rare and exciting
opportunity to become at one with
the internet 24/7 with the new biochip
13, which is now approved for use, and to
connect us all automatically, at all
times, to the earth net system.
JOSHUA
He’s trying to lead them all…
MOBIUS
They lap up his every word, not knowing
he’s making slaves of them all.
The internet always was a hot bed
of irrelevant drama queens all
believing palpable nonsense and conspiracy
theories.
JOSHUA
What are we going to do? He can’t win. Can he?
MOBIUS
Don’t worry. His company Fate Ltd has
an insider working for me. An old friend. I’ll reveal the final trick in my plan when ready.
JOSHUA
I hope you know what you’re doing.
MOBIUS
Hey, Josh… it’s Dad! Have I ever let
you down yet?
CUT TO:
A crowd of fans of GENESIS CORP outside the building.
D.B. pulls up with HANNAH, FRANK and NICHOLAS in a blacked out van. They all emerge wielding machine guns and shoot the entire crowd dead.
FADE OUT on a CU of D.B. laughing madly as he sprays the machine gun shouting ‘DEATH TO THE BELIEVERS!!!!’ repeatedly like a maniac.
FADE IN:
JOHNNY as a middle aged man being given a ‘crown’ of electronic wizardry by MOBIUS.
NADIR is tattooing JOHNNY’s thigh with the words ‘FAITHFUL AND TRUE’.
MOBIUS
This will help protect you.
You always were a great friend
Johnny, and now I need your help
in the conflict.
JOHNNY
It’s great to be included.
MOBIUS
You might find this helpful too…
MOBIUS unravels a ‘laser bow’ and hands it to JOHNNY.
JOHNNY pulls it back and fires a high powered laser bolt at a target wall. It explodes leaving a large hole.
JOHNNY
Awesome…
CUT TO:
D.B. as a rich and successful business politician in his office studying the microchip that will go in everyone’s right hand or forehead so they may trade electronically. FRANK and NICHOLAS as older men are with him.
FRANK
I can use my trendy pop culture
prophet status to
deceive many into thinking you’re as
awesome as we think buddy.
NICHOLAS
And my unit of punks will enjoy smashing
the system, given they’re all anarchic
nutters! Bless my little nutters!
D.B.
Hannah… my love… Pleasure me…
We see HANNAH for the first time as an adult, drunk, with a glass of wine, laughing at the photo of dead bodies of believers in GENESIS CORP.
HANNAH
Like I pleasure all your men?
D.B.
Yes my little whore… Come come.
My turn.
HANNAH
As is your will, my Lord.
As she goes down on him, he takes a black marker and writes “Babylon the great, mother of whores and of Earth’s abominations”.
CUT TO:
GABRIEL and JOSHUA – HOME – DAY.
The TV is on again, again promoting D.B.
JOSHUA is preparing a high powered rifle. He looks through the scopes, and inspects its functioning.
JOSHUA
I’m not risking him getting any
more powerful… He can’t destroy all
of us. Even though I know that is
his wont. He must be stopped.
GABRIEL
I’m not stopping you kid, but won’t
Mobius have words to say?
JOSHUA
Dad relies on technology too much,
and not enough in direct action.
In the few short months he’s been
rising to power, we already
have wars in the middle east and
rumours of wars. I’m going to do what
I have to do for everyone.
GABRIEL
Good luck then kid.
JOSHUA locks a bullet into place with the letters ‘D.B.’ inscribed on them.
CUT TO:
J-P and D (as old men) are dressed in cheap clothing and being interviewed on national television for a current affairs program.
INTERVIEWER
So you both knew Mobius at school, and
believe he is the inventor of the universe?
J-P
That’s correct. He always was ahead of his time.
D
Mobius is a categorical genius. He was
inventing multi user domains within an
advanced 3D environment before any of
us new our subroutines from our patch
relays.
INTERVIEWER
And you wish to tell the world just how
great Mobius and his creative team are?
D
We want the world to appreciate the truth,
now we know it. We understand for many
it will be hard to accept, however, the
truth is miraculous, and we are fully
witness to our friend’s achievements.
J-P
I believe he has imbued us with
extraordinary knowledge and powers,
seeing as we were good friends, and
I for one thank him.
INTERVIEWER
Well, don’t you think he has a lot to
answer for too?
D
Only if you’re ungrateful for existence…
The audience in the studio boo and jeer, filled with disbelief and hatred.
CUT TO: EXT – Studios – DAY
J-P
I told you they wouldn’t believe us.
D
We tried.
J-P
We did.
D.B. approaches in a long black mac and shoots them both point blank range with a silencer, and then waltzes off casually without being caught. They both die.
INTERVIEWER
In a dramatic turn of events, our
controversial guests today have
been murdered outside
the premises of this very studio.
The audience in the studio whoop and cheer that they’ve both been killed.
Camera closes in on the two corpses, the data on an electronic wall calendar reads: ’3rd July 2077’.
CUT TO:
EXT. - Outside the Whitehouse, near future. FRANK is addressing the people – DAY.
NICHOLAS is with his gang of rowdy punks, all jeering, drinking, cheering, fighting and acting like fools.
FRANK
I have a vision! A vision for humanity!
A vision where we can all coexist as one,
under the direction, and leadership, of
my old and excellent friend, D.B.
Come D.B., tell us your excellent plans
for the way ahead, and an exciting future,
where people can do what they want,
all the time, with no fear of penalty.
Now, I have been in charge of this outfit
for nearly 42 whole months, and I have
enjoyed every moment serving you people
with my knowledge of the future.
But now I must make way for D.B. to take
the podium, as he has VERY exciting news
for a VERY exciting future…
D.B. takes the podium.
D.B.
If you knew the sensitive
information I was privy to, regarding
EVERYTHING, then you too, my friends,
would be as cutting
edge in your thinking as
Fate Limited is today,
and DEFY the time meddling
threats of Genesis Corp.
Making my first billion
through the bioimplant
industry in animal welfare
was just the first step.
With this new technology, we can
immerse the entire world
into a functional,
exciting and first rate
tech system of
inconquerable power.
JOSHUA is hidden in a van with his gun. We see D.B. through the hair lines of the scope.
D.B.
And it is with the GREATEST pleasure
in the world, to finally implement the
new biotech into the world’s first person.
Jamie, if you could come forward please…
A smiling man, JAMIE, motions forward to the podium, and they inject in his right hand a microchip, and cover it with a QR tattoo.
JOSHUA takes aim, and shoots.
BANG!
D.B. is hit in the head and falls over. The crowd scream in terror. Panic ensues.
JOSHUA (to GABRIEL)
Let’s move.
The van peels away from the mass panicked crowd.
CUT TO:
CU of D.B.’s wounded head being rushed to hospital on live news TV.
REPORTER
The famous innovator and politician
D.B. has had an attempted assassination
on his name. He is struggling to breathe,
and doctors say it will be a miracle if he
survives. There is no knowledge yet on
any suspects or exact motive,
as the FBI scour the area.
We will keep you up to date on any
further developments as they come in.
This is Tracey Philip’s reporting
for CNN.
CUT TO:
JOSHUA and GABRIEL back at home.
GABRIEL
Great shot Josh. What are you going
to do if he survives?
JOSHUA
Plan B.
GABRIEL
Plan B?
JOSHUA
Yeah, go to war.
CUT TO:
D.B. in private hospital bedroom – DAY. His head is bandaged but he is alive. HANNAH visits him. He can hardly communicate, but does.
D.B.
You know who this was…
HANNAH
Genesis Corp operatives?
D.B.
Who else? Everyone loves me, except
those time meddling freaks
and their fans. When I’m out
we’re going to chip everyone and destroy
Genesis Corp and all its fans.
HANNAH
Yes Lord.
INT. TV interview room – DAY
D.B. has recovered with a small bandage still on his head. He is being interviewed.
D.B.
Genesis Corp were most likely
behind my attempted assassination.
Having had dealings with them
in the past, I can reveal to you
now they have time travel technology
and are MEDDLING with the fabric
of space time.
INTERVIEWER
But Mr. D.B. that is an extraordinary
claim. I trust you have the evidence
to support this accusation?
D.B.
What would you say if I told you
they implemented Christ into
history using time travel
and IVF treatment?
INTERVIEWER
I’d say you were mad as a satchel
of rodents.
D.B.
THEN IT JUST GOES TO SHOW HOW LITTLE
YOU KNOW. GENESIS CORP NOT ONLY
MANIFESTED CHRISTIANITY IN THE PAST
USING TIME TRAVEL, BUT WERE INVOLVED
IN ILLEGAL HUMAN CLONING AT THE
DAWN OF TIME.
INTERVIEWER
Security! Please, D.B. settle down. I
Understand you’ve been through a great
ordeal, but you must try to remain
rational.
D.B.
I AM RATIONAL… IT IS YOU WHO DO NOT
KNOW THE TRUTH. YOU WEREN’T THERE, MAN.
People of earth, I advise
you to be implanted with the biochip,
so we can generate the global tech network
as pioneering new visionaries of a new
dawn for humanity… And we will DESTROY
Genesis Corp and all their fans…
INTERVIEWER
Security!
CUT TO:
Montage sequence with The Rolling Stones’s ‘Gimme Shelter’ playing.
MOBIUS is hurriedly punching code on a computer and launches a large rocket called ‘New City One’.
HANNAH is drinking lashes of wine as she laughs and fornicates with generally thoughtless men.
The birds tweet, the sun is golden, and GENESIS CORP explodes.
The alarms sound.
Lines of people cue up for the biochip.
Others who refuse the chip are imprisoned or killed.
MOBIUS is desperately working on analysing designs for the chip.
JOSHUA is seen fighting in a war with other saints, who are killed.
JOHNNY is seen riding a white horse with his crown and laser bow, and causing all manner of victorious damage as he fights.
JOSHUA escapes unharmed.
Troops around the world are mobilised.
MICHAEL gets into his car, and it detonates, killing him.
GABRIEL is buying a newspaper with D.B.’s headline on the front: ‘Chipping mankind for a promising future’ when a masked assailant shoots him close range in the stomach as he squeezes past. He dies.
CUT TO: MOBIUS’s home – DAY.
JOSHUA slams down a copy of the Bible.
JOSHUA
Fire the response signal NOW…
Before he chips and kills us ALL…
MOBIUS (on the phone to NADIR).
Release the four agents who are
bound at the great river Euphrates…
CUT TO:
CUE MUSIC: Marxman – ‘Ship Ahoy’
NADIR’s hand twiddles some knobs and buttons.
CUT TO:
A patch of land over the Euphrates. The ground begins to shake and crack. An underground, hidden chamber of high tech cryogenic housing emerges, and four warrior agents like something out of Star Wars on crack emerge, highly weaponised, and lethal.
AGENT ONE
It’s time… All units report in.
AGENT TWO
Let’s go to war against these
heathens, gentlemen.
AGENT THREE
We have a lot of culling to do.
AGENT FOUR
Unit one to echo clear…
Pump ’em and dump ’em.
Looks like a third of humanity
has past its sell by date.
CUE shots of the four agents being epic in war at physical and lethal levels against wicked humans who reel in fear and dread.
CUT TO:
Back at home – INT. - DAY
JOSHUA
Four agents?
MOBIUS
Watch and learn, kid. If I contact
Chris at Fate Limited,
he can grant me the signature
destabilising subcode. I then merely
feed it into the Genesis Corp
pulse generator, via the satellites,
and they all drop like flies.
JOSHUA
How do you know?
MOBIUS
You think I’d let me arch enemy try
to outdo me in technology, son?
You think less of me than I imagined.
JOSHUA
Well then do it, and hurry.
MOBIUS
I’ll be wiping out a lot of people.
Will you still respect me as your
father?
JOSHUA
Of course! You invented them in
the first place!
MOBIUS
Illegally…
JOSHUA
I don’t hear them complaining!
MOBIUS
Okay… Thankfully, the system
was in the basement and was not
effected by the explosion. As soon
as I flick that switch though,
D.B. will be even madder.
JOSHUA
That’s a risk I think we need to take
at this juncture.
MOBIUS
Okay… I’ll phone Chris… it’s time…
CUT TO:
CU phone ringing. CHRIS answers, the black friend from the start of the film now a grown man and working inside Fate Limited as an industrial spy for MOBIUS.
CHRIS
Hello? Fate Limited?
Chris speaking,
how can I help?
MOBIUS
Chris… It’s Mobius…
CHRIS
MOBIUS!!! Are you okay?
I heard what happened
to your colleagues…
MOBIUS
It’s time…
CHRIS
Oh, okay…
<whispering>
I guess you want the
subcode field wipe signature?
MOBIUS
Correct.
CHRIS
Okay… it is ‘1-1-2-7-7…’
FADE OUT as he lists the long number string.
CUT TO BASEMENT OF GENESIS CORP – DAY
MOBIUS
6..6… 1… 3… 2… 3…
JOSHUA is inputting the numbers as MOBIUS recites from his notes.
MOBIUS
Passcode: ‘EchoNodeOne777’
JOSHUA
Done…
MOBIUS
Okay, now charge up the Hell fire pulse
array. This will communicate with our
satellites.
JOSHUA
And then?
MOBIUS
And then we detonate everyone in the
world with his insidious chip.
JOSHUA
Okay…
MOBIUS
Ready?
JOSHUA
Ready as can be…
MOBIUS
Fire the electromagnetic pulse
charge through the chip explosive
patch channel.
JOSHUA presses a button. We see the machine whir with lights.
A satellite in space brims with power and beams a signal out over the whole world.
We see people with the chips in their right hand or forehead literally explode and self-conflagrate. Thousands of them, in streets, stores, beaches, and various locations.
CUT TO: OFFICE OF D.B. - DAY
D.B.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY’RE ALL DEAD?
HANNAH
Someone had access to the chip data
security and pulsed a charge
through a component of the chip which
was designed by a Fate Limited employee
to detonate extensively. They were
all walking time bombs.
D.B.
Who the HELL developed that?
HANNAH
It was the team under a certain
Chris Tingle.
D.B.
BRING ME THE HEAD OF CHRIS TINGLE,
AND SELL A NUKE TO THE TALIBAN AS
A SIGN OF MY DISGUST!
I AM SO ANGRY I COULD EAT A NEW
BORN BABY. ALIVE!
HANNAH
Please Lord, try to calm…
D.B.
DO IT!!!!
CUT TO:
CUE MUSIC: “Lift me up” by Moby.
Aerial flying shot of the sea approaching the landscape of NEW YORK. As the camera tracks in, New York is detonated in a nuclear explosion.
The music and visuals fade to black.
There is a sustained pause of black on screen, for a longer period of time than normal, with just an audio track of screams.
INT. THE THRONE OF SATAN – BERLIN - DAY
Then it flickers white to reveal the ivory bust of Emperor Nero in D.B’s hand in a CU on a reverse zoom. It tracks back as D.B. is nursing his sore head and severe loss. MOBIUS’s hand walks into view holding a mystery device.
D.B.
You scummer…
MOBIUS
Thought I might find you here.
Fate is a funny thing, eh, D.B.?
D.B.
Yeah, destiny’s a gas. Why?
Why did you do that?
MOBIUS
Same reason a dog licks its balls.
Because I can.
D.B.
So what now? You rule the world?
MOBIUS
No, not entirely but it is
time to meet your fate.
D.B.
What fate?
MOBIUS
The fate render of the simulation
has Hell itself installed into the coding.
This is where you will spend the
rest of your days.
D.B.
Hell? Give me a break…
MOBIUS
You can’t win, D.B.
HANNAH enters the room with two heavies and CHRIS TINGLE with his arms in cuffs, beaten and bruised.
D.B. (to HANNAH)
Is this the man?
HANNAH
One Christ Tingle…
A traitor in our midst
like no other.
MOBIUS
Good to see you Chris.
I hope they didn’t
hurt you too much.
Hello Hannah. Long
time no see…
HANNAH
Hello Mobius. Still sore?
CHRIS (shrugging with tape over this mouth)
Um-Phum-Fa-Oom-Fa.
HANNAH rips off the tape so he can speak audibly.
CHRIS
I did what I did for the higher good.
MOBIUS
Of course you did, friend.
D.B.
Hannah, security, dispose of them both.
MOBIUS
Not so swift there, Diablo.
I’m holding here
in my hand the trigger system to
the Hell fate render. I just need
to point this at you, squeeze, and
you’re fired, literally, forever.
D.B.
Your tech solutions to human issues
are beginning to anger me…
MOBIUS
Release Chris…
HANNAH and the security look toward D.B.
D.B. urges them to do as he says.
They release Chris from his binds.
MOBIUS
There is no escape for you Diablo.
I managed to launch the New City rocket
into space before you destroyed Genesis
Corp too… On board that rocket is another
quantum matter extrapolator, with a unique
mission.
D.B.
What unique mission?
MOBIUS
To prove I am better, and have always been better
than you since school, I have developed
a plan for a mass housing containment system
for the remaining saved on planet earth. A massive
cube city, will be designed in space, 1,500
miles square.
D.B.
You’re building a city in space?
MOBIUS
Building it in space, correct, and when it’s
fully generated, it will be descending to earth.
D.B.
Well, I have to hand it to you Mobius as
an idea’s man… You’re clearly
leagues ahead of the average fool.
MOBIUS
The trick to matter extrapolation and
development was simply a case of truly
analysing the processes of atomic structure,
and creating a feed channel with atomic laser
pick ups to galvanise matter automatically into
industry standard conversion, according to
build design templates.
D.B.
Good for you… And time travel? How’d you
begin to clock that one?
MOBIUS
Time is a relative illusion.
It is a vessel for our
communal shared experience.
All we had to do was realise time
was a fabricated energy voltage within
a macro vacuum, set in a mass void.
We realised the principles of the tapestry,
and we applied the self-replicating paint
at origin point by engaging with subset
energised field loops in a
chronological distortion
process.
D.B.
Round and round we go, eh?
CHRIS
Like a Mobius trip, D.B.
MOBIUS
You must accept your fate, you and
all your minions. You nearly jeopardised
creation itself. There is no higher
crime than that…
D.B.
SO SUE ME… SECURITY… KILL THEM…
Security go for their guns, but Mobius flashes his trigger system at the two security guards. He presses the button, and a Hell fire portal opens up in the room consuming both security guards with screams of pain as they are consumed into the transdimensional plane. They disappear and the portal closes.
MOBIUS
Now you Hannah… but is there anything
you’d like to say to me for destroying
my life age nineteen, when on the cusp
of greatness?
HANNAH
Er… Sorry?
MOBIUS
I loved you like no other…
HANNAH
Well, it’s a shame you weren’t adequate
in the right ways then really, isn’t it?
MOBIUS
You revolting woman…
HANNAH shrugs nonchalantly.
HANNAH
It’s no biggee.
D.B.
So you’re the creator, and I’m the bad guy.
I get it, I get it… Me and my malignant,
massive schlong and my handsome daring
doo were too much for you. You’ve been jealous
of me, all your life, haven’t you?
MOBIUS
Given the scope of my acumen, and your
insidious behaviour, I feel it is the other
way around. It’s why you should never
bully anybody. Causality applies to
morality as much as anything. And now
you’re feeling the causal chips coming
home to fry. The plane of flame pain awaits
the main vain.
D.B.
GET OUT OF MY FACE.
D.B. hurls the bust of Nero at MOBIUS who dodges. D.B. grabs a long sharp lance and twirls it around his head, and then runs screaming at MOBIUS.
HANNAH follows suit, and begins screaming with a shrilling scream while revealing concealed knives using a mechanism on her wrists which produce blades when she thrusts her arms downward.
MOBIUS
Get out of my creation…
MOBIUS fires the trigger at HANNAH and then D.B. They are both portalised to the Hell zone with a blood curdling scream, with real emphasis on the graphics opening the portal to a place of fiery doom as they reel in horror at their own demise in another dimension.
MOBIUS (to CHRIS)
It is done…
CHRIS
I suspect your mum would be very proud.
MOBIUS
I suspect yours too. Excellent job.
It pays to have close friends from school.
CHRIS
It sure does Mobius. Let’s get a bite
to eat.
CUT TO:
New City One rocket in space. It rapidly builds using the laser quantum matter development extrapolator a massive 1,500 golden city above earth.
CUT TO:
JOSHUA walking along the winsome summer meadows of his home region. He hears a deafening noise and looks up. The New City is slowly entering the earth’s atmosphere and lands in the Atlantic ocean reaching all the way up to space. It appears SPECTACULAR.
CUT TO:
JOSHUA standing on an impressive floor in the NEW CITY. People are happy and milling all around, smoking joints from the leaves of the tree of life which grow abundantly within the walls.
MOBIUS approaches his son.
MOBIUS
I’ve recovered the time array system.
I’ll be able now to finalise a few of the
aspects to creation to ensure all things
flow smoothly.
JOSHUA
Ahhh… the data tablets… and your wise dictates.
MOBIUS
That’s right…
JOSHUA
I miss mum…
MOBIUS
Don’t worry… She was the best.
I’m dealing with my emotions
better these days.
JOSHUA
I just want to thank you for everything.
MOBIUS
No need. I know.
JOSHUA
Well, you’re omniscient, aren’t you?
MOBIUS
Omniscient? Not so much. I never said
I was ‘all knowing’. I’m just smarter
than your average guy.
JOSHUA smiles lovingly as they both take a drag on a joint.
CUT TO:
INT. REBUILT GENESIS CORP – DAY.
Machines are operating on the sleeping FOUR AGENTS who are muscle bound elite warriors who look ready to kill. The machines prepare them for their mission by adding biological and mechanised amendments to their bodies while they are in stasis. They are then transposed to the four cryogenic cooling tanks on conveyor systems by the last leg of the mission.
MOBIUS is standing outside the Song Odyssey as they prepare for a final launch. A large four pod container is lowered into the bulk of the ship, producing gas.
CHRIS is with him, and they are writing ‘YAH-WHO!’ onto the front of the ship with a white spray can.
MOBIUS
Yah-who, indeed… Creation, by us…
All thanks to good education.
CHRIS
I knew you were a bright
spark since Faber House.
MOBIUS
Are the four agents on board and in stasis?
SLOW ZOOM INTO THE CARGO HOLDER. We see inside four cyborg upgraded humans with weapons and advanced features looking like they’re ready for war, in stasis. These are the FOUR AGENTS who were awoken earlier in the film.
CHRIS (V/O)
The four agents are installed,
and ready to fly. Cryogenic tanks
are stable and operational.
MOBIUS
Four of the most dangerous men
in the SAS allowing us to use them
for cyborg engineering, biological
upgrades and such plans which will
have their families pensions met
handsomely.
CHRIS
Ready for launch?
MOBIUS
Just got to install a handful of bug patches
first for a few old friends…
He takes off and calibrates the time jump first to ’6th of July 2077’.
CUE MONTAGE SEQUENCE AND MUSIC: ‘Don’t you forget about me’ – Simple Minds.
He finds the corpses of J-P and D.
He resurrects them from the dead using technology, and they join him on the craft.
They head to the point of origin of Eden. A while after Zoe and Adam have died, and scans the perimeter of the Euphrates. He creates an electronic stasis chamber for the FOUR ANGELS by blowing up a huge hole in the earth with a daisy cutter, placing the sleeping agents in their containment pod in the hole, and recovering it with soil.
He flies to circa 5,000 B.C.E. and flies over a rustic nomadic tribe in Egypt near the pyramids.
The vessel settles on the top of Mount Sinai, as it does so, the spray painted words of ‘YAH-WHO’ are scratched off by pressured branches of trees rubbing against the fuselage, leaving only ‘Y H WH’. MOBIUS presses a button and the craft consumes itself in smoke.
The fragile, timorous hand of MOSES climbs to the venue, and he looks afraid and aghast.
MOBIUS speaks into the exterior tannoy system.
MOBIUS
Be not afraid… For I am the Lord…
MOBIUS presses a button on a machine, and two rock tablets are rapidly inscribed with Hebrew symbols using laser technology, which he delivers to MOSES in person.
He then beams an image of animated fire onto a nearby bush, but it obviously doesn’t burn.
MOSES is humbled, scared and in awe, and walks away with the engraved stone tablets.
Then the ship takes off again, and he punches in a new data code.
We see ST. JOHN THE DIVINE in his cave, scrabbling around.
The ship arrives using high speed time travel to outside his cave.
The old man ST. JOHN is peering through the gap in the rocks, when MOBIUS presses a button and projects imagery into the vision of ST. JOHN THE DIVINE.
We see a quick history of the future as witnessed in the film, and ST. JOHN grabs a pen and parchment.
He writes down: ‘The Revelation of St. John’ (In Ancient Greek with subtitles) on a piece of papyrus.
FADE TO BLACK
END CAPTION: “Inspired by the book of Revelation, by St. John the Divine”.
THE END.
END MUSIC AND TITLES: ‘The end of the world’ – U2
