“2080”

by

Jennifer

First Draft

Copyright © 2013 This screenplay may not be used or reproduced

without the express written permission of the author.
FADE IN:
The date is 26th October, 2106. Bella is sat clinging to a
chair in a dark forest. There are people around her
stabbing each-other with knives. From the darkness, a man
lurches forward towards her with a knife. Bella screams,
and presses a button on the side of the chair. The scene
freezes. Bella catches her breath.
BELLA
Stop!
COMPUTER VOICE
Thank-you Bella for enjoying another
JA&P Holo-TV experience.
A light flickers on and we see Bella sat on the chair
inside a small cylinder shaped object made of screens, with
a door behind her. She gets up and goes out of the door,
into her lounge. She looks back at a screen on the outside
of the Holo-TV which has the words ‘The most terrifying
experience this year, truly bone chilling’ scrolling across
it.
BELLA
Didn’t scare me.

Suddenly there is a high pitched noise.

BELLA
Oh no!

Bella covers her ears and falls to the

ground as the noise increases in
frequency. There is a ‘reverse
lightning’ effect outside as daylight
flickers to night-time for a couple of
seconds. The sounds gradually fade out.
Bella takes her hands from her ears and
grabs onto a near-by chair, bracing
herself for something. Then, the ground
shakes like an earthquake for about 5
seconds.

BELLA
What the hell is causing that?

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Once it’s over, Bella rushes to the window and looks across
the road. The building opposite has a huge crack almost
splitting it into two. People begin running and screaming
in the street. A chunk of the building falls to the ground
crushing some people below.
BELLA
Oh god, the crack’s got bigger! What’s
going on? That building won’t survive
many more.
Bella walks across to a flat plate shaped object on a table
and swipes her hand above it.
BELLA
News.
A 3D holographic picture flickers up above the disc. It is
a newsreader woman sat at a desk reading the news.
BELLA
Larger.
The projected image grows in size. The newsreader is now
the same size as Bella as if she’s sat in the room.
NEWSREADER
The reward had now gone up to 10
Million pounds for information leading
to the whereabouts of the two males in
question.
A video is shown of a young man running and pointing at
something, his friend behind the camera shooting the film.
It is very grainy, and his face can’t be made out. The man
in front of the camera falls to his knees and points ahead
of him.
MAN ON CAMERA
Look man, it’s bloody Elvis! It’s
really him!!
MAN BEHIND THE CAMERA
No WAY! Why is he acting like that?
What’s wrong with him?
BELLA
(Mimicking) What’s wrong with him? God,
I’m sick of these two idiots.

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Just as the camera zooms in to Elvis, the newsreader re-
appears and the video is cut off.
NEWSREADER
We are just getting news coming in of
more unusual weather disturbances in
the city of London. There was another
small earthquake, and an electrical
interference of some kind.
Bella walks closer to the image.
BELLA
Weather disturbance? Bullshit.
NEWSREADER
There have been no official
explanations for the incidents so far,
despite the effects of the disturbances
seemingly becoming increasingly worse.
The Mayor of London, Marcus Doheny, has
advised people not to panic and not to
evacuate the city, as some have already
started doing.
MARCUS (ON THE NEWS)
Please be advised, we are doing all we
can to investigate the cause of these
disturbances. Once we have found it, we
will do all in our power to stop them
and return the city back to normal.
There is a knock at the door.
BELLA
Off.
The Hologram TV flickers off. Bella approaches cautiously.
From her side of the door, it appears see-through. We see
one man and one woman who look as though they are peering
at her. Bella approaches the door and stands up close to
it, studying them suspiciously. From their side of the
door, it appears totally wooden and not at all see-through.
Bella cautiously ‘answers’ the door, (she presses a button
and the door becomes see through on both sides, but the
door still separates them. The man is wearing quite a lot
of make-up.
BELLA
Yes? Can I help you?

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 MAN
Bella Marosa?
BELLA
Who are you?
MAN
Please come with us.
The man holds up a badge showing he is a government
official. Bella presses a button and the door slides open.
BELLA
What’s going on?
MAN
Please, you must come with us.
Immediately.
BELLA
Who are you?
Bella becomes afraid and tries to close the door. The man
sticks his foot inside the doorframe to prevent it from
closing. Bella reaches to a button on the wall by the door,
which says ‘security’ above it, and a force field appears
in the doorway. The man quickly pulls his foot away,
grimacing in pain.
WOMAN
Bella, please be advised that you do
not have to do anything, it is entirely
your decision as to whether you come
with us or not.
BELLA
Why the hell would I? I don’t even know
who you are! What is this about? Is it
someone in my family? Dad?
MAN
Your Father is fine.
BELLA
So, it’s someone else in my family?
MAN
… yes. A distant relative.
BELLA
Have I come into some money or
something?

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 WOMAN
You won’t be in any danger if you come
with us, and you will be free to leave
whenever you want. But your life will
never be the same again.
Bella notices a badge on the woman’s coat, which says
‘Chief Counselor’. Totally intrigued, confused and scared,
Bella flicks the security force field switch off and steps
out of her door.
BELLA
Let’s go.
The man and woman lead Bella out of her building and into a
hover car parked outside. The car, like all other cars, is
a pyramid shape. It is parked in a round parking space,
many of which line the streets. They all sit inside, the
man and woman looking straight ahead with a serious
expression. The man looks into a retinal scanner and the
car starts up. It is a very quiet engine, barely audible.
The song ‘Rock with you’ by Michael Jackson begins playing
quietly in the background. The car moves out sideways and
then forwards along the road.
MAN
Work. Building 16.
The car sets off down the road, hovering just above the
ground on a smooth plastic looking road. It joins a main
road, where all the cars (which look the same) are driving
back to back at very high speed. It comes off at a junction
and slows down, driving towards a mass of buildings. There
are many security gates as they go further into the
buildings, the first ones requiring retinal scanners and
finger print IDs, the final ones having actual people on
the gates checking who is coming in and going out. They
arrive outside a building with ‘JA&E’ written above the
door. They get out of the car. Inside, they go through a
maze of passages and finally arrive in a dark room with 2
other men inside sat behind a desk, who are wearing black
suits.
MR. A
Bella Marosa. Well well. We meet again.
Please, take a seat.
Bella doesn’t move. Mr. A glances at his watch.

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 MR. A
Sit!
Bella promptly sits on the single chair in the middle of
the room in front of the desk. Mr. A. get some face powder
from his inside jacket pocket, and touches up his face with
the powder. He returns it to his pocket.
MR. A
You may refer to me as Mr. A. My
colleague here is Mr. B. I expect you
are wondering what you are doing here?
BELLA
Yes?
MR. B
First thing’s first.
Mr. B produces a wad of paper with tiny writing on it. He
throws it onto a table in front of him making a loud bang
which echoes around the room. There is a gold pen on the
table.
MR. B
Sign it.
BELLA
What … what does it …
MR. B
(interrupting) Don’t breathe a word,
blah blah blah, national secrecy, etc
etc, you’ll be gotten rid of if you
talk, that kind of thing. Get the
drift? Even if you don’t do it, you’ll
still know too much at that point so
you have to keep your trap shut anyway.
BELLA
Don’t do what?
Mr. A angrily gets up from the chair and points at her, Mr.
B. stops him before he can speak and pushes him back down.
MR. B
There’s a good girl. Sign the form, and
you will understand.
Totally confused and a little scared but excited, she picks
up the pen on the table and signs the form. As soon as she

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has done so, 4 other men enter the room. Bella is led by
Mr. A through another corridor, the 4 men closely
following, (Mr. B and the man stay behind, the woman goes
with Bella). They enter a room full of computers, strange
equipment, and wires. There is a humming sound in the room
from all the equipment. They stand around a table.
MR. A

Good. We’re on schedule too. You might

be aware of some, how shall we say,
disturbances of late.
BELLA
Disturbances?
MR. A
Electrical … weather phenomena. The
press have been making a big fuss over
it.
BELLA
Oh, the noises and flashing? Oh god, is
that what this is about? What is
causing it? It’s so awful isn’t it?
MR. A
It’s just a side effect. We’re working
on it.
BELLA
Side effect? Of what?
MR. A
You know in all those silly science
fiction films when they write
storylines about things that’ll never
happen? Like, say, when they invent
something like time travel?
BELLA
Yes
MR. A
Well, it’s not silly. They invented it.
It was always going to happen sooner or
later, of course. But it is happening.
Now.
BELLA
Sorry, what has? A film?

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 MR. A
Time travel. It’s a reality. And you’re
the protagonist in this storyline.

BELLA
How, how, how, what’s, I mean, how …
MR. A
There’s already a library full of laws,
of course. And a book full of
loopholes.
Mr. A slams a heavy folder crammed with papers down onto
the table. Scientists and lab technicians begin scurrying
around in the background, preparing things in the
laboratory.
MR. A
The only way we can legally send
someone back to interact with someone
from the past, is with the permission
of the person from the past.
BELLA
Well surely that’s impossible!
MR.A
You’d think wouldn’t you? That’s where
you come into it.
The Counselor puts her hand onto Bella’s shoulder.
WOMAN
You don’t have to agree to anything.
MR. A
Will you stop saying that – it’s highly
irritating. You’re another legality we
could frankly do without.
BELLA
How do I come into it?
MR. A
At present we are only able to send
people back to interact with either
themselves or colleagues.
BELLA
This can’t be happening! It can’t be

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 true!
MR. A
Unfortunately most people’s brains
can’t cope with the concept. I was
hoping you’d be different. That you
think outside the box. At least you did
when you cheated on that maths final
exam.
BELLA
Eh? That was ages ago and I … hang on,
how did you know about that? And anyway
I didn’t cheat, there was nothing to
actually state that you couldn’t bring
the notes into the exam.
MR. A
Creative and sneaky. I love it.
BELLA
How do I know this isn’t all some sort
of joke?
MR. A
So predictable. ‘It’s a joke’, why do
they all say that. Here’s the proof.
The doors automatically lock and a red light comes on above
all the doors flashing ‘Do not Exit, shift I in progress’.
A strange noise starts whirling up and there’s an odd
breeze in the room which becomes more of a wind. The lights
go off and flicker on again and a strange almost musical
noise resonates through-out the room which sounds like high
pitched out of tune violin strings. Suddenly, from inside
what looks like a big hula hoop, a strange distortion
forms, and another version of Mr. A steps out onto a
platform in front. Mr. A 2 is wearing a different suit than
Mr. A 1 and looks rather disorientated for a moment. He
looks around and takes a while to focus on his
surroundings. Mr. A 2 eventually smiles and steps off of
the platform onto the floor. Mr. A 1 turns to Bella.
MR. A 1
Tell him … me … which exam you cheated
on.
Bella’s mouth is open and her eyes wide.

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 BELLA
Eh?
MR. A 1
What you just told me
BELLA
Uh … I cheated on my Maths exam. Maths
final.
MR. A 2
No idea why I need that info, but
thanks Mr. A.
MR. A 1
Right, that’s it, back you go to five
days ago.
MR. A 2
See you soon, Bella. Glad you agree to
this meeting.
Mr. A 2 promptly steps back onto the platform and stands
before the hoop. The same process as before happens with
the noise and wind, and when a loud beeping noise can be
heard, Mr. A 2 steps into the hoop and is gone. Bella
rushes round the other side of the hoop and looks right
through it. It looks like a normal frame now that she can
see right through.
BELLA
Oh my! How did that happen? That’s how
you knew about my exam – I told you!!
But then – I told the other you which
wouldn’t have happened if the older you
hadn’t of told me to say it – it
doesn’t make sense.
MR. A
These paradoxes are the very thing we
want to research.
BELLA
Surely, it must be dangerous?
MR. A
Bella, just imagine. No more war. No
more famine. Eradicating future
criminals. A perfect world. I am going
to go down in history as the man who
created utopia!

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Bella looks worried and squints suspiciously at Mr. A.
BELLA
But these things are supposed to
happen. It’s nature. It’s written,
surely? There can never be a perfect
world …
MR A.
You are NOT here to think or have the
audacity to tell ME what you think! You
are here for one reason only. Not
because you are special. Because of
this.
Mr. A walks over to a safe and enters a combination code to
open it. Inside there is a piece of scorched paper bound
inside a plastic sleeve to protect it. He picks it up and
hands it to Bella. Bella cautiously takes it. She holds it
as if it were the most delicate thing she had ever handled.
She reads it aloud.
BELLA
My name is Becky. I am 12 years old. I
love science fiction and especially
time travel. I was thinking that if I
write a time and place to meet someone
from the future, and then give the
letter to my future child and make him
or her promise to hand it down to their
children, and keep doing that until
time travel is invented, then someone
from the future could come back and
meet me! I’d really like to meet you
and talk about the future, and maybe
even visit the future! I think I would
be a bit too scared to do it yet, but
when I am older I could. I will pick a
date when I will be older – let’s say
2015, I will be 24 then! Meet me on,
let’s say, 2nd June 2015. We could meet
inside Newtown church, because I think
the church will be there in the future.
We could meet at midday. I promise I
won’t forget to go! From Becky Green.

Wow! Oh my goodness, that is amazing. I

guess she did hand it down to her

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 children, that’s why it’s here! My gran
was called Becky! Her and my grandad
died the same year I was born, their
house was bombed in the air raids that
year, 2071. Hang on … it can’t be …

MR. A
The penny’s finally dropped.
BELLA
… is this letter written by my gran?
When she was 12? But it can’t be!! Hang
on – is this – are you asking me to go
back and meet her? I mean, I can’t do,
because if I was going to go back and
meet her, she would have told my dad
about it and he would have told me!
MR. A.
You haven’t gone back to meet her yet.
It hasn’t happened yet.
BELLA
How did you get the letter?
MR. A.
Your father must have inherited it
amongst the few boxes of her belongings
that remained in the cellar of the
house after it was bombed. Evidently
your mother must have come across it at
some point, read it, and sent it to the
‘ministry of defence’ for some reason.
They sent it to us, and we kept it. It
is the oldest permission letter we have
which states a time and place for a
meeting. The letter states that the
meeting must be with a direct relative
of the author. That’s you.
Bella’s eyes almost pop out of her head.
BELLA
I don’t understand, what’s …
MR. A
Oh god, I thought you were a bright
one. YOUR nan wrote the letter stating
she wants to meet her future relative.

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At this time, that is only you or your
father.
BELLA
Whoa! Unreal. I can’t believe this is
happening. Is it a joke?
WOMAN
Have a glass of water, Bella. Are you
feeling alright?
BELLA
So why me? My Father is only 85, he’s
fit as a fiddle, have you looked him
up? He might know about the letter too
if mum showed him when she was sorting
through the boxes! Dad’s new liver
should be ready in a week or two.
MR. A
You nan meeting her own son before he’s
been born could be too much for her to
cope with. Meeting you is different
because she dies before you are born
and so never actually meets you as her
grand-daughter. It’s less mentally
traumatic. There is one catch, Bella.
Something you must understand from the
start and something you will be
learning about in the following months
WOMAN
Only if she agrees to the experiment …
MR. A.
You can tell her you are her relative
from the future, but not that you are
her granddaughter. It’s too much
information on her own personal future.
You must not give any information to
her about her future son – your father.
And most importantly – you must never,
ever, interfere with the future. Your
Grandparents die when they die, for the
reason they die, and you must not try
and change what happens.
BELLA
So what would my actual mission be?
What do I need to go back for?

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 MR. A
We need to do some early experiments to
observe and record people’s reactions
upon encountering a time traveller; see
how these sort of meetings effect
people mentally – how they cope with
the reality of time travel. That’s all
you would be doing. We would train you
to record your findings and note how
the meeting psychologically effects
your ancestor. And how it effects you,
of course. To prepare you, you would
need to complete a three month
intensive training program, beginning
immediately.
WOMAN
Bella, you must understand that it is
entirely your decision and you can walk
away from this now if you choose.
A smile creeps across Bella’s face. She turns to Mr. A.
BELLA
Let’s do it!

1st June, 2015, sunrise. Michael, a young good looking

Scientist, and 4 other scientists, are stood in a field
looking very nervous. They are stood around what looks like
a large hula hoop (similar to the one in the lab in 2105
but slightly cruder; not such a polished and
technologically advanced version). There are masses of
wires and computers everywhere. Nearby there is a small
laboratory, which is where the wires and computers are all
coming from. Michael switches on some switches and presses
some buttons on a computer. A loud humming sound begins
emanating from the hoop. As Michael slides a switch higher
up on the computer, the humming noise goes higher in pitch
and the hoop begins vibrating slightly. The scientists all
look increasingly nervous. The hoop begins to spin.
MICHAEL
We’ll get the bloody funding now. JNE
will take us seriously this time!
Tension mounts as Michael, his hand trembling, slowly

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reaches out towards a big red button. The other scientists
take a few paces back.
SCIENTIST 1
Do it Michael!
MICHAEL
Count me down
SCIENTIST 1
Three …
SCIENTIST 2
Two …
SCIENTIST 3
One …
Michael plunges his hand down on the red button. As he does
so, a wormhole opens inside the hoop. An infinity of
blackness inside is broken by a tiny white dot in the
centre, which rapidly grows in size until it overpowers the
blackness and the inside of the hoop is now a dazzling
white colour. The scientists all look at each-other.
Michael wipes sweat from his brow with his sleeve. The high
pitched noise now sounds like some violin strings being
played at different pitches. The computer makes a beeping
noise. Michael presses some buttons and his mouth drops
open.
MICHAEL
It’s working! It’s detecting some
particles! Some matter coming through
from the future!
Scientist 1 faints. The other two scientists rush over to
the computer and begin making calculations and recording
the findings. Suddenly, the musical noise and loud humming
noise stops. There is now silence for a couple of seconds.
The scientists all stop and look at each-other. They then
all look towards the hoop. Out of the silence they hear a
distant noise which sounds almost like a train approaching.
It gets increasingly noisy very quickly. A wind rushes out
from the hoop.
SCIENTIST 2
Turn it off!
MICHAEL
No!

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Suddenly a black car comes hurtling out of the wormhole and
zooms off through the air, flying. It’s so fast it’s a bit
of a blur. The noise stops and there is silence again,
apart from the breeze still emanating from the hoop.
MICHAEL
What have we done.
The backwards lightning effect happens very briefly, but
not as bad as the one from 2106. Stunned, Michael flicks
the power switch off and the portal stops spinning and
closes leaving a see through hoop again.

2003. 12 year old Becky is sat in her bedroom with a pen

and piece of paper. Behind her on the bookshelves there are
many science and science-fiction books. She reads aloud a
letter as she is writing it.
BECKY
My name is Becky. I am 12 years old. I
love science fiction and especially
time travel. I was thinking that if I
write a time and place to meet someone
from the future, and then give the
letter to my future child and make him
or her promise to hand it down to their
children, and keep doing that until
time travel is invented, then someone
from the future could come back and
meet me! I’d really like to meet you
and talk about the future, and maybe
even visit the future! I think I would
be a bit too scared to do it yet, but
when I am older I could. I will pick a
date when I will be older – let’s say
2015, I will be 24 then! Meet me on,
let’s say, 2nd June 2015. We could meet
inside Newtown church, because I think
the church will be there in the future.
We could meet at midday. I promise I
won’t forget to go! From Becky Green.

1st June, 2015. 24 year old Becky is walking though a busy

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shopping mall loaded up with shopping bags. She glances at
her watch. A woman approaches her through the crowd. The
woman has a pink scarf wrapped around her neck and part of
her face making it hard to see her features properly. She
hands Becky a card.
BECKY
No it’s OK thanks
WOMAN
This is for you
BECKY
I don’t want a god-damn leaflet
WOMAN
Becky!
Becky stops in her tracks.
WOMAN
If you want your life to change
forever, call this number.
Becky looks spooked. She turns around and cautiously takes
the card. The woman immediately turns and walks off,
disappearing into the crowd. Becky looks at the card, then
puts it into her pocket. She looks back up but can’t see
the woman. She slowly continues on her journey, not in such
a rush this time, but in deep thought.

Later that evening, Becky is moving from her flat (ground

floor with patio doors leading onto a small garden). There
are boxes everywhere. She is sorting through piles of old
books etc. Some of the books are the same ones we saw on
her bookshelf in the background when she was 12. The TV is
on in the background. The news reader mentions the strange
weather phenomena that occurred that morning. Becky looks
up at the screen. It also reports on the news that there
was a power cut which lasted about an hour, and that there
seems to be no official explanation for it as yet. Becky
picks up the card which the woman handed to her that
morning. It is written in handwriting and says ‘Phone this
number to change your life! 23259 47336.’. In the garden,
Becky’s 2 friends Mark and Joseph are sat around a lighted
chiminea, drinking beers and throwing bits of paper on the
fire from a box labeled ‘rubbish’.

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 MARK
I’d just want to keep going, you know?
Once I’d started travelling and seeing
the world, I’d never want to come back.
Just keep going, forever.
JOSEPH
You’d find a home eventually, somewhere
where you feel like you belong.
MARK
Yeah, but if I didn’t. If I never found
somewhere that made me feel I wanted to
actually stay there, make a home there,
then I’d just keep travelling.
MARK
Well, there is a lot of the world to
see. A lot of places out there to be
discovered. A lot of adventures to be
had!
JOSEPH
Yeah man. Here’s to adventures!
The boys hold their beer cans up and have a drink.
BECKY
Hey guys, check this out. Some woman
gave it to me earlier at the shopping
centre.
Mark takes the card from Becky.
MARK
Change your life forever – it sounds
like some con. One of those high rate
phone numbers probably. Shall I throw
it onto the fire?
JOSEPH
Hang on – why is it hand written? She
just gave it to you? Was she giving
loads out?
BECKY
Just me, the weird thing is, she knew
my name.
Mark and Joseph look up.

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 BECKY
It was like she knew who I was. She
just gave the one card to me and then
disappeared.
MARK
Didn’t you ask her who she was?
BECKY
… no!
JOSEPH
This number – it’s not like a normal
phone number, is it? There’s no zero at
the start, and it’s a strange number of
digits.
MARK
It’s probably a foreign one, a high
rate one like I said. Just chuck it.
JOSEPH
No man, wait. This is intriguing! How
did she know your name? Hey, it looks
like your handwriting, Becky!
The three friends laugh, but as they look closer, their
faces drop.
MARK
Shit, it does, it is your writing isn’t
it?
BECKY
How can it be? Don’t be silly, how
could it be my writing! It must be a
co-incidence.
JOSEPH
Well you’ve got to do it now. You’ve
got to call the number!

Becky picks up her wine glass and downs the remaining bit
of red wine in the bottom. Joseph throws the last couple of
bits of paper from the rubbish box onto the fire.
JOSEPH
Do it!
Becky gets her home cordless phone and brings it outside.

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Mark and Joseph bring their chair closer to Becky’s, one
sitting each side. Becky puts the phone on speaker and
dials the number. The three friends excitedly look at each-
other and listen carefully. There is a few beeping sounds
and then a recorded message begins playing.
WOMAN ON PHONE
Becky – do not burn the letter! You
have the choice, this is the moment
where the universe could split, but you
can choose your path.
MARK
It’s your voice!! Is this a joke? Becky
that’s you!!
BECKY
Shh!
WOMAN ON PHONE
If you let it burn, you’ll never know.
You’ve made the call. The rest is up to
you.
The phone message cuts off. Becky throws the phone across
the garden.
BECKY
Who would do something like this? It’s
a joke! Someone must be trying to scare
me.
JOSEPH
Well it’s freaking me out! Unreal! What
letter anyway?
BECKY
Do not burnt the letter …
She turns to the chiminea. She spots something on the fire,
about to burn. She squints to see what it is and steps
closer. She sees the letter that she wrote when she was 12
to her future relative. She rushes to the fire and grabs it
just in time. It’s parched but still readable.
MARK
What is that? Is that a letter? The
letter the woman on the message meant?
BECKY
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 little … I’d forgotten about it … oh my
god, is this, I mean, is this what the
message meant? How did the woman know I
wrote it? Or that it was on a fire
about to burn?! I don’t understand …
Becky is very scared. Joseph takes the letter from her and
reads it out. Mark is stunned. After, there is a silence.
MARK
Is this really happening? Does your
letter actually survive into the
future, and someone has come back to
find you?
BECKY
Just burn it! Stop all this! It’s
frightening me.
JOSEPH
You know what you have to do? You have
to go to the church and see if anyone
turns up. Becky – look at the date you
wrote on the letter when you were a
little girl – it’s tomorrow!
MARK
OK – this is getting spooky. That can’t
be a co-incidence.
JOSEPH
Let’s phone the number again, listen to
the message again.
Becky gets the phone from across the garden. She dials the
number. This time, a message comes up saying the number
doesn’t exist.

2nd June, 2015, 10.30am. Becky, Mark and Joseph are walking
along a long road with a church visible at the end. Mark
has a video camera.
BECKY
It’s a set up of some kind, I’m telling
you, a god-damn set up. Someone found
the letter. If this is one of you two
behind this, I’m disowning you.

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 MARK
This is just unreal.
Among the few cars which pass the group as they walk
towards the church, chatting, is the black car that emerged
from the wormhole the day before.

26th January, 2106. A fully trained and prepared Bella is

ready for her mission. Dressed in a black suit with several
gadgets and badges adorning it, she emerges from behind
some curtains into the laboratory. All the staff clap.
MR. A.
Your vehicle is finally ready. Please,
reveal it.
A sheet covering the time vehicle is pulled off and a
futuristic and fast looking M3 from the year 2015 sits
gleaming in front of her.
BECKY
What the hell is this piece of crap? I
thought I was getting something new! I
can’t be seen driving this – no matter
what century I am in!
MR. A.
Trust me, where you’re going, they will
think this is the bees-knees. Now, you
aren’t here to go joy-riding. You’re
here to complete one of the most
important scientific experiments ever
in the history of man.
Mr. A. touches up his lipstick.
MR. A.
OK, everyone, gather round.
All the people in the room excitedly congregate around Mr.
A and Bella, who are stood by the car, which is in front of
the hoop in the centre of the lab on a raised platform. In
the corner of the room there are some men in suits looking
concerned.
MR. A.
This, everybody, is possibly one of the
most significant experiments in the
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 of M15, and the government members
today, to witness this momentous
achievement. Bella Marosa has been
fully trained and briefed on her
mission. I will now hand you over to
Marcus Doheny, the brains behind the
science, who will take it from here.

Marcus, who we saw on the news earlier (the Mayor of

London), walks into the room. Bella looks shocked.
BELLA
You’re the Mayor! I didn’t know you
were behind this? Why aren’t you doing
something to stop the effects of time
travel? You’ve seen the destruction it
is causing?
Marcus looks furious. He is just about to begin shouting,
when Mr. A rushes over to try and defuse the situation.
MR. A
Marcus, Marcus, it’s OK! She’s just a
little fiery that’s all …
MARCUS
Stop this experiment now! I told you
not to pick someone who thinks! Do you
not realize how lucky you are my girl,
to be in this position?
Mr. A glares at Bella. Bella thinks quickly and then smiles
sweetly.
BELLA
I’m sorry, Marcus. Uh, Mr. Doheny. Of
course I understand how lucky I am.
There’s bound to be consequences of
time travel, isn’t there. Ignore me.
I’m fully trained now, I know what I am
doing. I won’t let you down.
There is an awkward silence.
MARCUS
This is the first ever time travel
experiment to send a human being so far
into the past. 91 years into the past.
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 meet with her Grandmother, Becky Green,
when she will be aged 24. Bella will
never know her Grandmother as an old
lady, as she dies before Bella is born,
in the year 2071. This will not be
altered. The trip will be monitored at
all times, and the knowledge we will
gain from this will be invaluable and
contribute towards all future
travelling.
The Government men in the corner look twitchy.
MARCUS
The purpose of the mission today, is to
observe the physical and mental effect
of time travel on the traveler, and
observe the mental effect the meeting
has on the person in the past. We will
also observe the effect of the travel
on our present day, amongst other
things. We hope to be fully funded by
the government once we have the results
of this trip. Please, Bella. Enter the
craft and begin proceedings.
Suddenly, a young girl from the crew leaps forward and
grabs Marcus.
GIRL
No, please, wait! This could have
terrible consequences! Please
reconsider your decision to do this!
The girl is frantic. Marcus takes a device from his pocket,
and puts it in front of her face. He presses a button and
it emits a laser. The girl collapses.
BELLA
Oh my god, have you killed her?
MARCUS
She’ll be OK, it’ll keep her
unconscious and quiet for a few hours.
Bella thinks quickly.
BELLA
Do you think I could take that with me?
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 precaution?
MARCUS
I don’t think …
MR. A
That’s a good idea. Marcus, give it to
her.
Marcus looks annoyed. He reluctantly hands it to Bella.
Bella steps into the car and starts setting up various
computers inside. The car has dark windows making it hard
to see inside. Bella leaves her door open as she prepares
for her journey.
MARCUS
Of course, we cannot travel back to
before the first wormhole was opened.
The quantum computers inside the
machine will make contact with this
first wormhole and use it to propel the
car from now to then. We’ll let Michael
know he will be successful and is on
the right track. Remember rule 1,
Bella.
BELLA
I will not inform Becky who I am. I
will not tell her that I am her Grand-
daughter, just that I’m a distant
relative.
MARCUS
You have pleased me greatly, Bella.
Now, are you ready to make history and
see history?
BELLA
Ready, sir.
MARCUS
And now, ladies and gentleman, I invite
you to watch history. Are we recording?
One of the scientists nods and glances up. There is a red
light flashing in the corner of the room. Bella closes the
car door. Once she has done this, she grins to herself and
moves the car forward.
BELLA
This is it Bella. Down to you now.

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One of the scientists presses some buttons on the lab
computers and the hoop begins spinning. The high frequency
humming sounding like violin strings can be heard getting
louder and louder. Bella stops the car at a white line
about half a meter before the hoop. On one of the computer
screens inside the car, a countdown flickers on. It is also
shown on a screen in the lab. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 …
Bella flicks a switch and puts her foot on the pedal. The
car jolts forward and seems to be sucked into the hoop. The
hoop seems to go into overdrive, spinning and making a
screeching noise. Some smoke seems to emanate from around
it. As the car moves into the hoop, it disappears. Inside
the car, Bella sees a blackness encase the car. Looking
forward, she sees a small white dot ahead of her which
grows in size rapidly. The sounds of the violin strings is
almost deafening. She sees a picture in the white dot
ahead. As it gets bigger, she sees some people in a field
looking at her. It is Michael and his scientist friends, in
the field in 2015. Behind Bella’s car, the picture of the
laboratory she has just left in 2106 seems to freeze. It
gets smaller and smaller, until it becomes a tiny dot and
then disappears. The picture in front of her opens up
rapidly (as if she is in a tunnel. It seems to be running
backwards like a tape being re-wound. As she approaches it,
it gets slower, until she enters the picture, at which
point it plays at normal speed and she flies out of the
hoop across the field, as in the scene we saw earlier, 1st
June, 2015. We see Michael and his friends looking stunned
as she flies overhead very fast and out of the field.
BELLA
Woo-hooo!
Bella flies the car rather bumpily across to the nearest
road and lands it carefully like an aircraft landing. She
looks exhilarated.
BELLA
Single carriageway – 60 miles an hour.
Oh my god. Oh my god. I did it! It
can’t be happening, I’m really here in
the past! This is it, I can change
things now! I can do it! Shit I can’t
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The following morning, 2nd June, 2015. Bella has changed
into 2015 looking clothes. She drives passed Becky, Joseph
and Mark as they walk on their way to the church. We saw
Bella’s car drive passed them earlier as they walked. Bella
does a double take as she goes by.
BELLA
Oh my god, that’s Mark and Joseph!
Bella looks amazed and begins thinking.
BELLA
I can’t believe it! Mark and Joseph.
Bella stops the car in a car park behind the church at the
end of the road. She takes a book which is on the passenger
seat, opens up the inside back page, thinks for a moment,
and then scribbles some co-ordinates down on the front
page. She stares out of the window, her eyes wide, deep in
thought. Suddenly, the backwards lightning effect happens
briefly. Mark, Joseph and Becky, while walking down the
street, stop in their tracks. They look around them,
wondering what that was. There’s a strange silence. Bella,
in the car, also looks concerned and glances up.
JOSPEH
Did I just imagine that? What was that
flickering?
BECKY
Oh god. I have never felt like this
before. I feel as though I am at a
turning point, like something major is
about to happen. Can this be real? What
if it’s some weirdo, it might be a
pedophile who found the letter, and,
and …
MARK
You’re about to find out.
BECKY
I should go in on my own. You two stay
outside.
They reach the church. The three friends stop outside and
look up at the door. Eerie music is being played inside.
Becky looks at her friends.
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 JOSEPH
It’s time. Do it!
Becky takes a deep breath. She steps forward into the
church door. She takes one last look back at her friends,
and enters the church. Slowly she walks down an aisle to
the end. It is dark and cold inside. She sees a girl with
her back to her, facing a stained glass church window.
Becky approaches slowly, not able to take her eyes from the
figure. Once she gets near, Bella slowly turns and faces
her. Becky stops. The two girls study each-other for a few
seconds before Bella smiles. Becky looks petrified.
BELLA
Nan!
BECKY
What?
BELLA
You – you’re my Grandmother!
BECKY
It can’t be possible. I don’t believe
it.
BELLA
Neither do I. But here I am. I don’t
think this is a dream, but I can’t be
certain.
BECKY
Where are you from?
BELLA
The future.
BECKY
The letter – I didn’t really think it
would work … I was just a kid, it was
just a stupid thing I wrote when I was
a kid …
BELLA
Yes. And now it’s one of the most
significant pieces of literature in
history.
BECKY
I’m scared. I, I don’t believe it. It’s
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Bella looks twitchy. She keeps looking around the church
suspiciously.
BELLA
They told me I would have to prove
myself. Your reaction is, apparently,
quite normal. I have bought some things
to help your mind come to terms with
what your eyes are seeing.
Bella opens up her bag which she had placed on the floor.
She takes a clear sheet from the bag.
BELLA
This is something which people from my
time use regularly. It hasn’t been
invented yet here. Look. Try and lift
this statue here.
Becky tries to pick up a heavy statue. She has no chance of
lifting it, it is so heavy. Bella takes the clear plastic
looking sheet and seals it around the statue. She inserts a
small tube into a hole inside the sheet. The sheet inflates
like a bubble, then reduces down to same shape as the
statue like vacuum packaging.
BELLA
Pick it up!
Becky reaches down and picks up the statue. She expects it
to be extremely heavy but it’s light as a feather.
BECKY
How, how, how does …
BELLA
Anti-gravity. You’ve got a few years
yet until it becomes commercially
available. Of course, it has already
been invented, you just don’t know yet.
What else. Oh – here, check this out.
Bella rolls her sleeve up and exposes what looks like a
watch to Becky. She presses a couple of buttons and
whispers ‘news’ into it. She shows Bella the picture. It’s
a hologramatic TV news recording. Becky is amazed.
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 the future. This is a news clip of the
future. Watch.
NEWSREADER
The death count is now estimated to be
around twenty thousand just this year
alone, which is why it is astounding
that the only official explanation that
can be given is that it is an unusual
weather phenomena
Bella flicks the watch off. Becky looks shaken.
BELLA
It isn’t a weather phenomena. You know
the funny flickering that happened
before, when you were on your way here?
A bit like backwards lightning?
BECKY
Backwards lightning! That’s exactly how
I’d describe it, yes!
BELLA
Well, it isn’t backwards lightning.
It’s a symptom of time travel. And it’s
going to get a whole lot worse in the
future.
BECKY
The future …
Becky seems like she is in a daze.
BELLA
You’ve got to listen to me Becky. These
experiments will become even more
frequent. Not only do the scientists
end up in power and corrupting the
government, they’ll end up destroying
the planet. Space time is disturbed so
much when there is a travel that …
well, it doesn’t matter how it works.
The thing is this. I am here on a
simple mission. But I am abandoning
that mission, Becky. You and me, we’re
going to save the earth!
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 I marry? My god, my letter really
worked!
BELLA
Becky - you have got to listen to me. I
know it’s hard to take in, but you have
got to try to listen to what I’m
saying, do you understand?
BECKY
Yes, yes I do.
BELLA
The real reason I have come here is to
stop time travel from happening and to
save the earth. And I need your help.
BECKY
Is it my fault? Did I cause all this
trouble?
BELLA
Absolutely not. It would have happened
anyway. They just chose the wrong
person to send back. I’m going to put
the future right. We don’t have long
though, do you understand? I need you
to do as I say or we could be in
trouble. Now you really must follow me.
Bella takes Becky’s hand and leads her cautiously out of
the church, hiding behind pillars and trying to mingle in
with a small crowd of people while they sneak out of the
church. She rushes over to an old stone wall near-by and
they crouch behind it. Becky holds a small make-up mirror
out and moves it around. In the mirror, she sees Marcus
approaching the church.
BELLA
I knew it! Marcus has come back to stop
me from interfering with time travel
being invented.
BECKY
Are we in trouble?
BELLA
In a word – yes.
BECKY
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Bella looks at Becky and Becky looks scared.
BECKY
Oh my – my friends …
BELLA
Mark and Joseph? Oh, don’t worry about
them! They will be fine!
BECKY
How did you know who they were?
Becky laughs.
BELLA
Everyone on the planet knows who they
are! I’ve no time to explain now.
Follow me.
A bus stops at a stop by the wall, and Becky takes Bella’s
arm and leads her to the bus, running to catch it. They
jump on it just as it drives off. Marcus appears at the
door of the church looking sinister. He looks up and down
the road.
MARCUS
I’ll get you, wherever you are.
Mark and Joseph, still with the video camera, are around
the back of the church.
MARK
We really should go inside!
JOSEPH
Hey – check this out!
Joseph approaches the time machine.
MARK
Cool, nice wheels.
JOSEPH
Look, the door is open! Whoa, look at
this! All these computers!
MARK
Let’s see, what’s … hey, check this
book out. ‘Major historical events of
the past 50 years’! Joseph, look at the
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 JOSEPH
If this is a hoax, it sure is an
elaborate one.
Mark and Joseph get in the car and close the door.
MARK
Look here, on the back page there’s
some numbers written! At the top
there’s a code – 776659. Try typing
that in there!
In the middle of the steering wheel there is a large panel
and screen. Mark types the code in and the car starts up.
Both boys gasp.
JOSEPH
What do we do?
MARK
Drive!
JOSEPH
We shouldn’t be doing this!
MARK
I know!
JOSEPH
Could this really be a time machine
that you and I are sitting in?
Mark leans forward onto a switch by accident and the car
lifts up and starts hovering.
MARK
Whoa!
Mark is so scared he jumps out and lands in a heap on the
floor. Joseph is incredulous.
JOSEPH
I just can’t … get back in, quick!
Look, this controls it!
Joseph slowly lowers the switch and the car lands itself
gently. Mark gets back in.
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 JOSEPH
Where’s that book …
Joseph flicks through it.
JOSEPH
Look, someone has written a number on
each page for each event, see!
MARK
They look like … co-ordinates?
Joseph looks more closely.
JOSPEH
They could be! Look, three co-ordinates
in space, and the fourth number, at the
end, could be the time one.
MARK
We have to try this out.
All of a sudden, above them, a second copy of Mark and
Joseph sat in the black car bursts into existence from what
resembles a rip in the air. There is a high pitched noise
and a lot of wind which lasts a few seconds. Mark 1 opens
his car door. As he does so there is a warning beeping
noise. Mark 2 and Joseph 2 scream with excitement. The
backwards lightning effect happens slightly.
MARK 2
It was meant to be! No way!
JOSEPH 2
Let’s go, that was it.
Mark 1 slams the door again. The car hovers above for a few
seconds and then disappears again as a rip seems to open
out in front of them. Mark and Joseph just sit in stunned
silence glaring into space.
MARK
Someone say something.
Joseph takes the book. He looks at the first co-ordinate
written down on the front page and types it into the
keypad.
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 JOSEPH
This co-ordinate must be here for a
reason. Look, this must be the co-
ordinate in space for where we are now.
Look, when you type it in, it comes up
on the map! A 3D map on the computer in
the car flickers up and zooms in to the
destination of the co-ordinates that
Joseph has just typed in.
MARK
Yes! Look, that’s where we are! And the
last co-ordinate? It’s the time – about
1 minute ago according to the time on
the computer.
JOSEPH
You know what this means? What we just
saw, that’s us, what we’re about to do!
MARK
Do it!
Mark types the final co-ordinate number in and presses a
button. The car smoothly moves up in to the air and hovers.
The high pitched noise begins. They see a rip open up
before them. The car jolts through and they appear in the
same place, but 1 minute in the past. They see a copy of
themselves 1 minute ago, gasping up at them. Mark in the
car below opens the door to see better, and Mark and Joseph
in the car above scream. The flashing lightning effect
occurs as before.
MARK
It was meant to be! No way!
JOSEPH
Let’s go, that was it.
Mark slams the door.
JOSEPH
That was all we said! It was just as it
happened! This is messed up! Type in
the next number!
Mark types in the co-ordinate below the first one and
presses the button, and the car jolts off again through a
rip in space time. They re-appear in the same place but
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 MARK
Why here again? Maybe to give us time
to think. Do you think this was meant
for Becky?
JOSEPH
Think about it – we can travel where
ever we want!
MARK
But, Becky might need the car! The
relative she met might need it! To
complete their mission or whatever. We
should go back – now …
JOSEPH
Think about it! We’re in a time
machine! We can go where we want for as
long as we want – as long as we return
the car to the same time and place as
we left it, they won’t even know we
have left!
Joseph and Mark look at each-other and smile.
MARK
This will be the adventure of our
lives!
JOSEPH
This last co-ordinate must be the one
to return it to … it’s like someone
left the car for us to find!
MARK
To joy-ride in time!
JOSEPH
Maybe it was supposed to be for Becky
to find?
MARK
Maybe – but we can use it first! She
won’t even know we’ve gone!
JOSEPH
So – where shall we go?
MARK
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Mark and Joseph fight over the book, flicking through
various events in history. The book flicks open on a page
entitled ‘Elvis was the first celebrity to be bought back
to life! But did a cloned Elvis live up to the hype?’. The
boys stare at eachother and smile.
MARK AND JOSEPH
Elvis!
Back to that morning: Becky and Bella get off the bus.
BELLA
I’m starving, let’s grab something to
eat.
The girls walk into a McDonalds on the high street they are
on.
BELLA
(to the girl behind the counter) What
is the burger in a bun made of?
LADY
Excuse me?
BELLA
The burger – what is it? Protein?
LADY
Uh … there is protein in meat I
suppose, yes. It’s beef.
BELLA
(gasps) meet as in a dead cow?
LADY
Are you being funny?
BELLA
I know it’s wrong, but I’ve gotta try
it. I’ll have one!
BECKY
Uh, make that two.
The confused waitress goes off to prepare the food.
BECKY
Don’t you have meat in the future?
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human meat too?
BECKY
Urg! Of course we don’t! That’s
disgusting!
BELLA
And this isn’t? I just can’t believe
you can go into a shop or restaurant
and buy meat! Actually eat it? You
actually eat dead animals still! That’s
so … wrong! So – taboo! It’s only the
aristocrats who still see it as some
sort of right or tradition where I come
from. Only the aristocrats who can
afford it too, come to that. Mind you,
we have the cloned animal parts.
Chicken legs that have been grown in a
lab. It solved world hunger, but
really, how disgusting …
BECKY
Where do you come from?
BELLA
Well … here! Just a different time. I’m
not supposed to say the exact year.
The food arrives and the girls take a seat at a table.
BECKY
Do you think we look alike?
BELLA
Yes!
BECKY
What do you do in the future?
BELLA
Well, for fun, I play football. That’s
my hobby I suppose.
BECKY
Really? We have that too. Not many
girls play it though. It’s more of a
man’s sport.
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 BECKY
Yeah, but men and women don’t play on
the same team?
BELLA
They do in my time! Man, this place is
so weird! I can’t believe you guys are
so … sexist!
BECKY
Do you have to go to school still in
the future?
BELLA
Well, that’s all changing at the
moment, with the nano-stuff.
BECKY
Nano-bots? I have heard of them!
BELLA
Things are really going to change soon.
People will never age. Everything will
be virtual reality, our whole lives.
There is a big back-lash starting about
it at the moment. I just can’t get my
head round it really. People will be
150 but still mentally and physically
be 30 thanks to nanos re-generating
everything.
BECKY
Am I a good Nan when I’m old?!
BELLA
Yes - I don’t know …
Bella quickly changes the subject.
BELLA
Anyway, we need to focus on our
mission. We need to track down the
person who first invented time travel.
He’s called Michael. A scientist.
BECKY
He’s already invented it? Surely it
hasn’t been invented yet?
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time before time travel has been
invented. The first wormhole was opened
up on the very day I arrived from the
future. Yesterday. The gateway has been
opened, but we must close it again,
Becky. Before it destroys everything.
Now, where are the chip records held,
do you have those public libraries here
still?
BECKY
The what?
BELLA
The micro-chip records, they’ve always
been public haven’t they?
BECKY
I, I’m not sure. What micro-chips?
BELLA
Of course … you don’t know yet that
you’ve been chipped!
BECKY
Chipped?
BELLA
At birth. You’ll find out. Everyone is
micro-chipped at birth, it started a
few years ago. OK, this is going to be
tougher than I thought.
BECKY
Do you want to stay at mine tonight? Or
we could stay in a hotel – I could go
and book one now if you like?
BELLA
Uh, I need you to stay with me. You
have to meet Michael, it is very
important.
BECKY
Why do I have to meet him?
BELLA
Otherwise – my future could be in
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 BECKY
Huh? What do you mean?
BELLA
… look, never mind. We don’t need a
hotel. We don’t need sleep. It’s nearly
lunch-time. Take this.
Bella produces a bottle of pills from her bag.
BELLA
It means we can work through-out the
night tonight if we need to, you won’t
need to sleep.
BECKY
What? Surely that’s dangerous! You need
sleep!
BELLA
Do you? It’s standard practice where I
come from. Why waste time sleeping when
you can be doing other things? Why
waste half of your life in bed?!
Becky holds her hand out and takes a pill from the bottle.
Bella and Becky swallow a pill each and smile.
BELLA
Where is the local library?
BECKY
Not far from here.
BELLA
Oh god, please tell me you have the
internet here? That has been invented,
hasn’t it?
BECKY
Yes of course!
BELLA
Thank goodness for that. OK, let’s go.
Keep your head down, your hood up, and
follow me.

Across the other side of town, Michael is in the laboratory

that we saw earlier, with piles of books and papers
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notes. Michael picks up a piece of paper, a letter, and
looks at it. It is addressed from the JNE and confirms a
meeting he has with them that evening. Michael puts the
paper down and nervously smiles. He seems relieved. He
looks over at the hoop time travel/wormhole device which is
now in the laboratory. He almost can’t believe he has got
that far with his project. There is a large window at the
back of the lab. We see through the window, across the
field outside where the experiment took place, behind some
trees at the other side of the field, Marcus. He is
watching Michael through some binoculars, which are from
the future and extremely powerful. They can also form a
(slightly distorted) image through the wall of the lab.
Marcus is watching Michael, as Michael gets up and wanders
over to the hoop. He looks at his invention, still shaking
his head in disbelief at what he has managed to achieve.
MARCUS
That’s it my friend. You just carry on
and take your little invention to the
JNE. That’s all you need to do Michael.
Then it’s out of your hands – and into
ours!
Michael’s computer makes a noise. An instant message has
come up. Michael clicks on it to read it. The message says:
‘Michael, you are being watched. Do not look out of the
window. Carry on reading this and do not look alarmed’.
Michael looks alarmed and looks out of the window. The sun
shines off of Marcus’ binoculars and Michael sees the
sparkle. He notices Marcus and turns back to the computer.
Marcus isn’t sure whether Michael has seen him or not and
looks a bit concerned. The instant message continues:
‘Michael, this will seem hard to understand, but I am your
grand-daughter here from the future’. Michael looks very
shocked.
Becky and Bella are sat in a library on a computer. Becky
is watching Bella type the message. When Becky sees what
Bella has just typed, she leaps out of her chair.
BECKY
You’re his GRAND-DAUGHTER?
Everyone in the silent library turns to look. Becky
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But that means …
Becky thinks for a second. Then she jumps up again.
BECKY
You’re his GRAND-DAUGHTER?
BELLA
Shh! Sit down Becky. Yes, I am. Sorry,
should have mentioned it.
BECKY
But I am your Grandmother!
An old lady browsing books near-by looks around at the two
girls and raises her eyebrows. Bella laughs as if it is a
joke. The lady carries on, on her way, and Bella and Becky
huddle close to the computer and lower their voices.
BECKY
Are you telling me that the person I am
going to marry and have a child with …
BELLA
My Dad …
BECKY
Is Michael? This scientist guy?
BELLA
Well, strictly I haven’t told you that,
you have worked it out for yourself. I
need to concentrate.
Bella continues typing. Becky watches over her shoulder. We
see the words Bella is typing onto the library computer,
and then the words appearing on a still shocked Michael’s
computer. ‘The recent weather disturbances – they are a
result of your experiments. And they get a lot worse in the
future. I am here to stop time travel from destroying the
planet. In the hands of the JNE, time travel will end up
destroying the earth. We must not let that happen. You
cannot allow your invention to go any further. It must be
destroyed, it’s the only way. The person watching you is
also from the future. He is here to ensure you will take
your invention to the JNE. You must lead him to believe
that you still intend to and everything is OK. Do you
understand?’ Michael, his hands trembling, types ‘yes’. He
wipes the sweat from his brow. ‘You want me to corrupt the
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MICHAEL
Hello?
VOICE ON PHONE
Michael Marosa? This is Simon from the
JNE. Just to confirm your appointment
at 4.30?
Michael isn’t sure what to do. He thinks desperately for a
few moments.
MICHAEL
I … Uh, I’m afraid I haven’t made the
progress that I expected during the
last few days. I’m sorry. I will have
to cancel the meeting.
VOICE ON PHONE
Mr. Marosa, we do not take kindly to
being messed around like this. We are
running out of patience with this whole
situation. How much more time do you
need?
MICHAEL
I am sorry.
Michael puts the phone down. He glances in the mirror at
the reflection of Marcus across the lawn. Marcus is going
to the loo behind some bushes. Another message pops up on
the computer. ‘Meet us in the field in an hour’.
BELLA
Before I return to my time, I need you
to do something.
BECKY
You’re going back already? But what
about …
BELLA
Once I know everything is OK I must
return to my own time.
Bella produces what looks like a small make-up mirror from
her bag. She presses the screen and some flat buttons
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You need to record a message.
BECKY
Message? Who for?
BELLA
For you, Becky. Tell yourself not to
burn that letter. If you do, this whole
thing won’t ever happen and …
BECKY
Whoa, this is too complicated for me. I
can’t take it all in, it’s like a god-
damn dream! OK, here goes. (Coughs).
Becky – do not burn the letter! You
have the choice, this is the moment
where the universe could split, but you
can choose your path.
Becky looks at Bella, who smiles and mouths ‘go on’,
BECKY
If you let it burn, you’ll never know.
You’ve made the call. The rest is up to
you.
Bella stops the recording and smiles.
BELLA
Well done my love.
BECKY
This is just so strange. I, I heard
that message!
BELLA
One more thing.
BECKY
Yes?
Becky produces a card from her bag.
BECKY
I know what you want me to do.

She picks a pen up from a table in the library. She writes

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23259 47336

Becky continues to write: 23259 47336. Becky hands the card

back to Bella. Bella puts it in her bag. She takes a pink
scarf from the bag and wraps it around her face. Bella is
wearing the same outfit that she was wearing when she met
Becky in the mall and gave her the card.
BECKY
I have just realized who you are! From
the mall – that was you?
BELLA
Before I go back to my time, I need to
go back to yesterday and give you the
card in the mall.
BECKY
Oh my god, what about your time
machine? Where is it?
BELLA
Come with me!
Marcus, still behind the tree, receives a phone-call.
Looking shocked, he puts his sunglasses on and answers
cautiously, pressing a button and looking at the screen.
MARCUS
… Yes?
Bella, now walking down the street with Becky, holds her
phone up to a device. It is the device Marcus used to stun
the girl in the future; the one he gave to her. Bella
presses a button on the device which emits the rays.
BELLA
Come on …
The device seems to be running out of power. Marcus can’t
make out what the picture on the screen is. He takes his
sunglasses off and holds the screen closer to his eyes to
see.

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Come on please …

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Finally the laser blasts from the device in a short burst.
Marcus, looking closely at his phone, falls backwards
unconscious.
BELLA
Yes!! I just hope that was enough.
Let’s go. We need a fuel station on the
way … what are they called … petrol
station. Come on, quick!
Bella rushes off down the road, Becky closely following.

Michael is still in the lab. He casually puts the blinds

down, still thinking Marcus is watching, and then
frantically starts gathering all his important papers and
laptops, and shoving them into his safe. He then pretends
to go to the loo, in-case Marcus can still see, but in fact
sneaks out of the building. Once out of the back door,
Bella and Becky arrive, rushing from the road down to the
lab by the field. Bella is carrying a canister full of
petrol.
BELLA
Michael?
Michael smiles, amazed.
MICHAEL
Wow, this is … surreal!
BELLA
Uh, this is Becky.
Becky holds out her hand to shake Michael’s
BECKY
Nice to meet … you …
There is an obvious instant attraction between Becky and
Michael as they shake hands.
MICHAEL
Well, what an amazing co-incidence that
you come back in time and turn out to
be my Grand-daughter!
Bella smiles
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Bella winks at Becky.
MICHAEL
I just can’t believe you are from the
future! I am so sorry for all the
damage and destruction I have caused.
BELLA
You haven’t caused it yet!
MICHAEL
But I had no idea my invention would
end up destroying the planet! I would
never have gone through with it if I
had known.
BELLA
Michael, your invention is
extraordinary. And perhaps it will be
invented in the future anyway, who
knows. But we cannot let this go ahead
at this time and end up in the hands of
the JNE. They are morally corrupt and
their own financial gain is more
important to them than leaps forward in
science.
Bella looks at her watch.
BECKY
What happens now?
MICHAEL
What about that man, he’s behind a tree
over there across the field, the other
side of the lab.
BELLA
He’s been taken care of, for now. We
don’t have much time though. First of
all, I need my car back.
BECKY
So why are we here? Is this where the
car is?
BELLA
You’ll see … just a few more seconds …
Suddenly the flashing and noise begins that we now
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stronger and stronger, until Bella’s time machine appears
from a rip in the air, and hovers above them. Everyone
gasps. The car slowly lowers until it rests on the ground.
The car looks worn now, old and tatty. The door of the car
opens. Everyone waits in anticipation to see who gets out.
Two men slowly emerge from the car, looking old (about 60).
BELLA
Hi boys. Right on time! My god, I
didn’t think you’d last that long!
Usually just a few weeks is enough to
drive people mad!
BECKY
Who are you guys?
MARK
Becky, you still look the same! So
young!
JOSEPH
It’s us! Mark and Joseph!
BECKY
Don’t be stupid! You’re not old! I only
saw you two this morning … it can’t be?
MARK
This morning for you. About forty years
for us!
Becky’s mouth falls open.
JOSEPH
Becks, the things we have seen. We’ve
seen the …
BELLA
Uh! One shouldn’t know too much about
the future.
JOSEPH
Bella, something happened in the
future, we are so sorry. It was because
of our video camera …
BELLA
It’s OK. You are safe here. It hasn’t
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So it’s all OK?
BELLA
It’s fine.
Mark and Joseph looks relieved.
BELLA
I actually thought you’d be older when
you decided to return!
JOSEPH
Why did you give us these return co-
ordinates?
BELLA
This is the end of the road for me
here. I need to go back and give Bella
the card in the mall next.
MARK
I told you that was Bella!
Becky’s mouth is still open in disbelief. She is looking
Mark and Joseph up and down, unable to quite believe it’s
them.
BELLA
OK guys listen up. As soon as all the
documentation for the machine is
destroyed, the future will change as
time travel will not be invented. Time
travel will not be a reality in my
time.
BECKY
What are we waiting for? Let’s do it
now! Burn the lab down!
BELLA
Well, that would be nice, but it would
mean I would be stuck here! You have to
wait until I am back in my own time.
Then time will adapt around me.
BECKY
What about Marcus?
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never have been invented and Marcus
will not have travelled back in the
first place.
MICHAEL
I understand what I have to do. I
regret having invented this.
BELLA
It is an incredible invention.
Unfortunately, your name will not go
down in history along with Newton and
Einstein, but at least you will know
that your actions have saved the world.
If you had invented your machine in
another time, maybe it would have
fallen into the right hands and been
used for good purposes. Right now – it
just wasn’t meant to be.
There are sad goodbyes as Bella leaves the group, hugging
everyone and getting into her car. The inside of the car is
quite dirty from Mark and Joseph, and is covered with
litter and food/drink wrappings from various stages of the
future. She finds a piece of rock under the seat.
BELLA
What’ this?
MARK
Oh! That’s a gift for Becky!
JOSPEH
I forgot about that! God, we got that
about 10 years ago!
Mark takes the rock from Bella and hands it to Becky.
BECKY
What is it?
MARK
It’s a piece of earth from right here!
Right on this spot! The co-ordinates we
had for coming back here – except it’s
not from this time
JOSEPH
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Becky takes the rock.
BECKY
Wow! …
Bella has the card in her hand to give to Becky in the
mall. She wraps the pink scarf around her face. She puts
the petrol canister on the ground.
BELLA
You’ll need this. It’s been unreal
guys. Just remember, there may be no
free will, everything may be written,
but you must live your life as though
you are free. No-one knows the future,
and I don’t know the final outcome of
the story, but I know we are doing the
right thing. The right path will open
up before you in the end.
Bella closes the door. She opens the window.
BELLA
One last thing – do not move to
Reinholt Road!
Becky and Michael look confused. Bella puts the window back
up, and then she is gone. The car quietly starts up and
lifts off the ground, and moves through a rip in space
which opens up before her. She is gone. The noise and wind
dies down and the friends are left stood in silence.
BECKY
Come on, we need to go back to the lab
now and destroy everything.
MARK
What happened that we have to destroy
everything?
BECKY
It’s a long story. Basically – time
travel ends up in the wrong hands and
ends up destroying the planet and
corrupting the government! Let’s go!
Joseph, Mark, Becky and Michael all head back to the lab.
As they open the door to the lab, they find Marcus, now
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MARCUS
I am taking these papers to the JNE
myself, and you will not stop me.
29th January, 2106: Marcus is just leaving the lab in his
car through the wormhole. Behind the car, the blackboard
has written on it: ‘Mission – destroy Bella before she
interferes with time line and prevents time travel from
happening’. Just as he leaves and disappears through the
wormhole, Bella arrives back. Everyone in the lab walks
over and surrounds her car. Bella opens the door and gets
out.
SCIENTIST
What have you done?
BELLA
I’m sorry. I had to do it. For human
kind.

2015: Michael frantically pours petrol all over the lab,

including the machine. Marcus is throwing papers aside as
Michael covers them in petrol. Joseph and Mark try to grab
Marcus, but they are now old and Marcus is young. He fights
them off. Becky begins fighting with Marcus to get the
papers he has got off of him.

2106: Bella has been arrested in the lab and is led away
roughly in handcuffs. Suddenly, the time travel effect from
her trip back to the lab happens, and it is the worst one
yet. The ground shakes violently, and the piercing noise
ringing around the room makes everyone fall to the ground
in agony. It lasts a long time, and we see the noise is
heard not just in the lab, but in the whole of the country.
We see the building opposite Bella’s flat that we saw
earlier with the crack in it, collapse completely, killing
many, and crashing into Bella’s building, destroying her
flat.

2015: Mark and Joseph manage to get hold of all the papers
from Marcus, and throw them into the centre of the room as
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Everyone out – now!
Joseph grabs Becky, and Joseph, Becky and Mark all manage
to bundle outside. Michael rushes back to the door, before
throwing the match inside. As it he throws it, it goes out.
His hands trembling, he reaches for another match, his
last. Marcus takes his chance and leaps at Michael. Michael
manages to light the match and throw it, just as Marcus is
about to land on him.
MARCUS
Noooooo …
Marcus disappears in mid-air above Michael as the fire
erupts, destroying everything. Joseph reaches into the
doorway and grabs Michael, dragging him out before the fire
engulfs the room.

2106: The scene of Bella in handcuffs and everyone on the

floor in agony from the noise pauses, like a DVD being
frozen. Everyone starts fading away. There is an odd noise
like a fax machine receiving a fax. Things in the room
disappear and re-appear as time re-orders itself. The
wormhole is no longer there. The time machine Bella arrived
in fades from existence. The lab morphs into a public
library, and Marcus fades in, working as a security guard
in the library. The noise of the hustle and bustle of the
library slowly fades in. Bella comes to, lying on the floor
of the library. Marcus is standing over her.
BELLA
Marcus!
MARCUS
How do you know my name? Are you OK?
Did you faint?
Bella gets up, confused. She looks around.
BELLA
They did it! It worked! This is an
alternate reality!
MARCUS
Huh? I think you’d better go home and
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Yes! Home!
Bella rushes from the library in a euphoria; people look at
her oddly. We see Bella walking home, looking around her at
her town which is now a lot different, a better place,
cleaner and safer, with no cracks in the buildings. She
arrives back to her flat.
BELLA
Why do I remember what has happened? I
should have no memories of it. Strange.
She puts the TV on. The TV comes on
‘The Vintage’ channel and the film
‘Back to the Future’ is on.
BELLA
Time Travel! …
Bella looks out of the window and smiles. The crack in the
building opposite isn’t there and the building looks good.

2015: Mark, Joseph, Becky and Michael all sit in the field
in silence, watching the lab burn down. The sun is setting.
The machine is visible amongst the wreckage, just a
smoldering outline of what it was. Becky and Michael look
at each-other. Michael takes Becky’s hand.

2106: Bella is walking around her flat, noticing little

differences such as photos in different places than they
were before. She takes a photo from the kitchen and puts it
on the window sill, where it was in the first reality.
BELLA
It belongs there! That’s better.
There is a knock at the door. Bella turns and sees two old
people stood there.
BELLA
It can’t be …
Bella walks closer to the door. She stops opposite and
studies the old couple.
BELLA
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We know you’re stood there watching us!
Open the god-damn door!
BELLA
Oh my god!
Bella flicks the switch and the door is open. Becky and
Michael walk in and stand in front of Bella.
BECKY
We’ve waited 91 years for this moment!
MICHAEL
Until you remember us again! Do you
remember us?
BELLA
I … I do! I can’t believe it! How old
are you?
BECKY
How rude to ask us that! We’re 115,
both of us.
MICHAEL
We don’t look it though, do we!
BECKY
We saw you when you were born, Bella!
We saw you grow up! And now here you
are, the girl we remember from all
those years ago.
BELLA
You did it, you burnt the lab!
BECKY
Of course we did!
MICHAEL
It’s been so hard, not being able to
talk to you about it until now.
BECKY
What was I like, before the time-lines
shifted?
MICHAEL
Exactly the same! You just had no
memory of what happened!

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The time lines must have merged! But I
don’t know why I remember what happened
before, I have no memories of the me
that was in this time line.
The three of them hug.
BELLA
So, you didn’t move to Reinholt Road?
BECKY
No we didn’t, and if we had of moved
into that house we liked … I wouldn’t
have been here. No wonder you didn’t
talk about me as an old lady – I died
didn’t I? If I had moved to Reinholt
Road, the house would have been bombed
in the raids of ‘71?
Bella nods. Suddenly, the time lines catch up. Bella holds
her head in her hands.
MICHAEL
What’s happening? Bella?
Bella falls to the ground and the ‘her’ of this reality and
the last reality merge together. Bella gets up again.
BELLA
What happened … Nan! What are you doing
here?
BECKY
You don’t remember? The passed?
MICHAEL
You must have fainted love, are you
alright?
BECKY
Bella! Do you remember us? From before?
BELLA
What do you mean Nan?! Hey, who moved
this photo?
Bella goes to the window sill and moves the photo back to
the kitchen. Becky and Michael look at each-other. Becky
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We had a few brief moments, now she’s
gone.
BECKY
It’s not fair, I have waited so long to
talk with her …
MICHAEL
Maybe she is better off having no
memory of the whole thing.
Becky and Michael put their arms around each-other.

FADE OUT:

THE END

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