The Guider

Written By

Jacob Ayers

1FADE IN

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

The GUIDER stands in front of an open window and looks out upon a cyberpunk style mega-city. He admires a car that flies by the room.

One of the buildings shows the date: 23 September 3015.

The INTERROGATOR enters the room. The Guider hears him and turns around. As the Interrogator enters the tiles on the floor shift and a dinner table for two rises from the ground.

THE GUIDER(With a smile)

I love this part.

The Guider looks towards his left and watches as a strange device comes out of the wall and seems to create a plate of spaghetti out of thin air. The machine retracts leaving the dinner plate on top of a shelf that is raised off of the floor.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)Oh that never gets old.

The Guider brings his dinner plate and utensils over towards the table and sits down.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)Did you know that the same technology that is in that device that feeds the population originated as a way to print out plastic and metal in terrific ways?

The Guider twirls some of the spaghetti onto his fork.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)The way that you are looking at me, I am going to assume that you have something important to say. Now I must admit that so many things run through my mind at a single time that I simply let them out every once in a while. More often than not when I have company such as yourself.

The Guider takes a bit of the spaghetti and looks very pleased.

2INTERROGATORWhat is your name?

THE GUIDERWow these really do taste like tomato cells. Score one for stem cells! In response to your question I shall ask another... Why are you asking me boring and unimportant questions?

The Interrogator pulls up a hologram keyboard from the table that he is sitting on. He takes note that The Guider is refusing to give his name. The Interrogator puts the Guider's face through a data bank that starts searching for his identity.

While he does this the Guider starts tapping on a force-field that separates the room in half. The force-field ripples like water and greatly amuses the Guider.

The Guider's face doesn't have any matches in the database.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)Well... Then again you not knowing who I am means that you wouldn't know what some proper questions for me would be. I have a few things to get off of my chest to be honest. Every once in a while I like to tell my life story to some fellow's path that I cross. Would you be interested in being on of those lucky fellows?

The Interrogator leans back in his chair and crosses his arms.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)I will take that gesture as either a yes or you assessing me on the decision to send me to special care. Either way you get to hear it... Or as long as you allow me to speak. Anyways -

DISSOLVE TO

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - DAY

The Guider appears to be roughly forty years younger. He is making making a few tweaks to a small machine on a

3workbench. There is a similar device on the other side of the workbench.

THE GUIDER (V.O.)For the sake of time I will start where my story gets interesting. You see, I was sponsored by a rich entrepreneur that had made his fortune in underwater transportation. He gave me a fortune to master the science of teleportation. He never specified a deadline and never held me under close watch as I was researching, giving me as much leeway as I needed. I finished within a year and during his monthly check-ups I acted as if I was still actively working and making consistent progress.

The Guider finishes his tweaking and puts a pencil inside of the device. He types a few things into a keyboard that is connected to the device. He sees that the pencil is now on the other side of the workbench. He looks towards the SPECTATOR that was observing his progress and acts overly enthusiastic. The device that he was tweaking begins to smoke.

The Guider continues to smile.

DISSOLVE TO

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - 5 YEARS LATER

This time the Guider is working on a metallic device that is about four feet long and is slightly arched.

He hears knocking on his door. He quickly hides the device under random junk below his workbench.

The Guider walks over and grabs the leash of a small beagle on his way to the door.

He opens the door for the Spectator. The Guider leads him into a long hallway.

INT. LONG HALLWAY - DAY

There are two devices that appear to be larger versions of the previous teleportation device. They have been placed on opposite ends of the hallway. The Guider picks the beagle up

4and places him into the device and closes it up. He then presses a few buttons on the machine.

The Guider directs the Spectator's attention towards the device on the other side of the hallway. The door opens on the opposite machine and the beagle comes running back over towards them. The Guider picks the dog up and it begins licking his face.

The Spectator looks impressed.

DISSOLVE TO

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - 1 YEAR LATER

The Guider presses some buttons on the side of one of his devices. He then sets a ripe apple into the machine.

He makes his way over towards the other end of the workbench where he sees that the apple has changed from being ripe to being small, green, and unripe.

THE GUIDER (V.O.)Now with the close relationship that space has with time and an accidental miscalculation while testing my theories of teleportation I managed to also have a better understanding of time. So in my previously mentioned spare time I took to building a device of which any adjective would completely undermine.

DISSOLVE TO

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - 2 YEARS LATER

The arched device is now completed.

DISSOLVE TO

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

The Guider is still twirling the spaghetti around his fork.

THE GUIDERI delayed the release of the teleportation device to spare time to comprehend my miscalculation. In that time I completed a machine that takes advantage of space and time. My ultimate goal in life at

(MORE)

5that moment shifted from the desire THE GUIDER (CONT'D)

for riches, to the desire of creation, observation, and...

The Guider turns his head around and looks out of the large window that overlooks the city.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)Guidance. With this machine I took trial and error to an extreme level that any other human could only possibly dream of. Over the last uncountable amount of years I have morphed the society that you know. There are some adjustments that I have to make and am still not fully satisfied. And through this hard work I hope to be able to live out the rest of my days as a mere spectator.

The Interrogator doesn't appear to be convinced by the story of the Guider. He gets up to leave.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)Do you want to know why I decided to guide the future of society?

DISSOLVE TO

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - DAY

The Guider watches as a few men come in to carry off his teleportation device. He signs a few documents that the Spectator hands him. The Guider walks over towards a window in his lab that looks upon the city.

THE GUIDER (V.O.)It was the day that I finally allowed my investor to take my machine.

He looks down at his watch and calibrates the machine to take him a hundred years into the future.

THE GUIDER (V.O.)I got an urge or... Hunch to peek into the future and -

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - HUNDRED YEARS IN THE FUTURE

The lights in the building don't function. The window he was looking through is now shattered. The Guider looks in terror

6as the city appears to be in complete ruin. He sees a large billboard with his investor's face on it. The billboard has the words "You will never control us" spray painted across it. There is skeleton with a bullet hole in it's skull on the billboard. There is a rusted paint bucket next to the corpse.

THE GUIDER (V.O.)(With sincerity)

What I saw was something horrendous that I was the key to creating. And that I now had the capability to alter...

DISSOLVE TO

INT. INTERROGATION ROOM - DAY

The Guider is standing and facing the window.

THE INTERROGATORAnd where is this godly device?

The Guider turns and faces the Interrogator.

THE GUIDER (CONT'D)You're looking at it... Well technically you are. If I were to take my shirt off then it would certainly be more noticeable...

The Interrogator leaves the room. The force-field that split the room into two retracts.

A man comes in to take the Guider away. The Guider calmly looks down at his wrist and presses a few buttons on his watch. He activates the device. The moment he leaves, the city in the background slightly changes.

Now there is a spaceship launching in the distance. The man that was previously in the room also disappears.

DISSOLVE TO

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - DAY

The Guider has his shirt off and has the device fully rigged to his body. The time machine is attached to his central nervous system through his spine and brain. He has a futuristic looking computer attached to his wrist that controls the device.

The puts on his shirt.

7THE GUIDER(To himself)

Why does everyone lose interest when I tell them that the device is inside of me?

The Guider walks over towards a separate laboratory in the building.

INT. CHEMICAL LABORATORY - DAY

There he finds a wide variety of chemicals. He grabs a few of the chemicals without even looking at them or double-checking that what he is grabbing is the proper substance. He makes his way back towards his lab.

INT. THE GUIDER'S LAB - DAY

He knocks over everything inside of the office until it is in a rough pile in the center of the room. He pours the mixture of chemicals on top of everything. The pile begins to dissolve.

He makes his way towards the hallway.

INT. LONG HALLWAY - DAY

He looks at the teleportation devices and opens them both up. He pulls a handful of wires out of each of them. He then rushes towards the exit of the building.

DISSOLVE TO

INT. THE GUIDER'S HOUSE - DAY

The Guider enters his office and sits at a desk with a futuristic computer. He attaches a wire from the computer to his watch. He then turns the computer on which prompts a projection onto thin air.

He then goes to a page that has a list of names that has the title "Politicians that are willing to dedicate funds to Space Exploration." He then crosses out the next name. He flips over the next few pages to review. It reveals his plan to push a certain scientist in the right direction and convincing some famous people to promote space travel.

The Guider hears knocking at the door and toggles the settings on his watch.

He vanishes.

FADE OUT

8CREDITS

MONTAGE: EARTH EVOLVING

Lights become more prevalent in poorer nations, there are more satellites, a few spaceships varying in size leave the surface. A large amount of solar panels appear in the deserts of Africa. Pollution is reduced. And everything appears to be peaceful on the surface.