SC1. EXT. CARDIFF BAY HARBOUR - NIGHT - 2014
[BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE WATER, A SUNK
WW2 GERMAN SUBMARINE IS SETTLED IN THE
SILT.
THE TOP IS PROPPED OPEN.
A DIVER HOVERS ABOVE THE OPENING.
THE DIVER ATTACHES AN HOURGLASS SHAPED
OBJECT CONNECTED TO VARIOUS WIRES AND
EXPLOSIVES TO THE INSIDE OF THE OPENING.
ON THE WATER‘S SURFACE, A RED MOTORBOAT
IDLES IN THE DISTANCE.]
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SC2. INT. PRIVATE HOSPITAL ROOM - SAINT PAUL‘S HOSPITAL -
DAY - VANCOUVER - 2014
[JONATHAN AETHERS; 35, LIES IN A COMA IN A
HOSPITAL BED.
WEARING HOSPITAL PYJAMAS, JONATHAN’S
HOOKED UP TO VARIOUS LIFE SUPPORT
MACHINES AT THE HEAD OF THE BED.]
COLE JACOB BILLINGTON(V.O.)
“Jonathan Aethers has lain in a coma in an Isolation Ward since
nineteen twelve. His body, it’s like it’s frozen in time. He doesn’t age,
he won’t die, but he’s not really living, either.”
[DOCTOR BAILEY O’BANNION ENTERS.]
COLE JACOB BILLINGTON(V.O.)
“A bit more then a century ago, Jonathan set out to prove the
existence of dark energy. He was laughed out of all the major British
research institutions. The University College of London thought him a
lunatic; he was anything but.”
[BAILEY TAKES A LOOK AT THE VARIOUS LIFE
SUPPORT MACHINES.
BAILEY MARKS DOWN THE RESULTS IN A SMALL
NOTEBOOK.]
COLE JACOB BILLINGTON(V.O.)
“In nineteen ten, signals got crossed; Jonathan was under the
mistaken belief he’d been offered a position with the CPB; that we
were setting up a lab for him. We’d never even heard of him as far as
I knew. Jonathan spent the next two years working the docks of Bute
for passage to Canada, arriving in Vancouver in nineteen twelve. Poor
guy, there was no job for him.”
[BAILEY PERFORMS A PHYSICAL EXAM ON
JONATHAN.]
COLE JACOB BILLINGTON(V.O.)
“I thought Jonathan may have been on to something, so I did what I
could to help him out. I was able to get a granting agency to provide
funding for a private lab. I helped Jonathan set it up in a warehouse
on the corner of West Cordova and Richards Street; where the
Harbour Centre is now.”
[BAILEY EXITS, CARRYING A SET OF PHYSICAL
SAMPLES TAKEN FROM JONATHAN.]
