ARCHAEODUS (First Journey) [5 acts] 'Jehovah In Eden'

project 'lambhorn'

"ARCHAEODUS"

-JEHOVAH IN EDEN-

Story and screenplay by

Raymond Kenneth Petry, Trustee
The Son Dey School of Christ Science

(Based on his published exegesis of Genesis)

Sesquatercet@Lanthus.net
% Honolulu HI 96830-7250

Reg. # WS-1ARCHAEO-1 (2008 Lanthus Registrar)

#To be revised per 'lambhorn's "The Archaic Primogenitors" and Lanthus' "planet Mars: human corpse, paleontology..."

PRELUDES AND FANFARE:

(2:59 - music sync'ed - 'marquee')

(2:24 - music sync'ed - 'admissions')

(4:06 - music sync'ed - 'reception')

(3:36 - music sync'ed - 'introduction')

(4:01 - music sync'ed - 'fanfare')

SUPERIMPOSE FOREWORD, watery-blue on black:

Accurate portrayal being paramount to good story telling, a reasonable deduction has been made to secure a plausible redaction of Scriptural texts and archaeological datings. Contemporary dangers in the region render finer result impracticable.

- the Trustee for project 'lambhorn'

FADE IN:

EXT. EAST OCEAN HORIZON - STARS RISING FAST - PREDAWN CLEAR

(00:00 strings - music timestep-sync'ed)

(00:06 whistle)

SUPERIMPOSE TITLE CREDITS progressive indigo…red…orange:

The Son Dey School of Christ Science

(00:13 piano)

-in conjunction with-

(00:15 "we have heaven")

project 'lambhorn'

-presents-

a Wision--Sesquatercet USA production

(00:28 "moonlight")

MOON RISES;

screenplay by Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry

Trustee-Director for project 'lambhorn'

(00:32 "comet")

TAILED-COMET RISES;

inferred and translated in American English

(00:35 "tears")

Horizon-radiant METEORS STREAK-BURST; scintillating text:

THE FIRST JOURNEY

(00:41 +harpsichord)

MORNING HORIZON PEEKS rich orange beneath purple:

-Jehovah in Eden-

(00:44 "break of morning")

HORIZON ENLARGES … to SUN-YELLOW half-banner on pink sky:

ARCHAEODUS

With green subnote:

SCIENCE AND DOCUDRAMA REDACTED OF GENESIS 1-3

(00:54 "cloud in crimson")

SKY BRIGHTENS BLUE, CRIMSON CLOUDS; beach trees, DAWN;

Stereo'eyes'ed - PG-17 Ultra Vivid

(01:05 ooh, strings lull)

DOUBLE-IMAGE: "ARCHAEODUS" OUTER EXPANDS, OBLITERATING RED except the ocean horizon steams and lowers to Off-Screen.

(01:15)

MULTIPLE-IMAGES: Small white "ARCHAEODUS" INNER IGNITES and expands to midsize … Holds: A tiny blue-white "ARCHAEODUS" CORE IGNITES in blooming fiery brilliance (a giant pre-nova star nuclear-fusion-burning its silicon to iron within its oxygen…neon…carbon fusion layers, and helium and hydrogen fusion layers billowing its giant red outer photosphere) …

(01:29 -stop before voice-)

A mere stellar day contemplation to go …

CUT TO REALIZE:

EXT. ECLIPTIC PLANE - RED GIANT - STARRY COSMOS (SEQUENCE)

(00:00 string, cry - music timestep-sync'ed)

At 50 AU deep center sits bright red giant sun Sirius C.

(00:12 piano)

Thousands of distant ROCKETS IGNITE, to escape its demise …

(00:26 rhythm clacks)

Neutrino ratchet-BURST-FLASHES! HEARD! FELT! 4 cps 10 sec.

(00:33 +voice)

A ROCKET APPROACHES … GIGANTIC … 10 mi.-long pavis-sheathed tri-fuselage space-city-ship, DUST FLASH-STREAKS its sides…

LUMBERING-BY … a cuneiform name "PfNX" … passing … onward …

Nuclear-power-driven, three raspy tenuous exhaust trails …

(00:~~)

POV: With Rocket: approaching A GIANT GAS PLANET …

(01:02 sticks, contemplative arguing chant)

CHASE: Rocket gains in rapid dive …

SPEEDING CLOSE over the Planet under rings and moons …

(01:17 zoom, voice reemphasizes)

NUCLEAR-DRIVE-BURST-- PULLS AHEAD …

2ND … 3RD … ROCKETS CHASING … narrowly, as a subfleet …

(01:31 huff exertion)

And hyperbolically gradually upward … for deep space …

POV: -First:- Leading a line from the yet-passing planet …

(01:45 rhythm, voice)

Receding very-rapidly … till uneclipsed behind all,--

A BLUE-WHITE NOVA, rapidly beginning, captures the center …

(02:~~)

POV: With Rocket: approaching a splendorous small red sun…

(02:15 drum chant contemplative arguing)

CHASE: Rocket gains in hyper dive, AEROGLOW …

SPEEDING CLOSE over Sun-spicules under flare-loops, comae horde … OCCASIONAL BRIGHT-STRIKES … ships parallel-cross …

(02:30 zoom, voice reemphasizes)

NUCLEAR-DRIVE-BURSTS-- PULL EACH AHEAD …

(02:44 huff exertion)

And All hyperbolically gradually upward … for deep space …

POV: -First:- BRIGHT AEROGLOW HUGGING its forward sides, Leading A SLOWLY-SPREADING LINE from the yet-passing sun …

(02:59 rhythm, voice)

Receding ultra-rapidly … and behind all still,--

The whitening-white Nova, filling half the sky, enlarging …

(03:~~)

POV: Among Rockets: racing for deep-deep outer-space …

Rockets, preceding … EACH OPENING ITS PAVIS to Nova wind …

(03:28 drum, chant, voice heightens)

FAINT-CREAMY-WHITE NOVA-WIND GLOW OVERTAKES ALL …

The Rockets spread, separating, disappearing in the haze …

(03:52 fade)

BRIGHTEST STARS FADE LAST in the glowing HAZY … WHITEOUT …

(03:55 -out-)

CUT TO BLACK

FADE IN:

EXT. DEEP SPACE - LONE TRI-FUSELAGE ROCKET - SUPERNOVA EDGE

(00:00 windwhistle - music timestep-sync'ed)

Stars, new comets, leeward; faint blue Nova-bloom haze lit from behind by its 0.5 sec. PULSAR FLASHING FAR-BEHIND …

(00:06 cry)

ZOOM-IN: A Rocket creeping leeward … nova-plasma-wind wakes against its rear and 4-stage space-ram pavis fully expanded 10 mi. radius, its tri-fuselage open on 1 mi. pylons …

(00:15 +drum tap)

Rolling slowly axially 60 deg./60 sec.… the "PfNX"…

(00:24 +voice)

DETAIL FORE TO AFT: Comet dust flares-aft from the lead Whipple-umbrella onto the second; Occasional flares-aft from the second … its three featureless tube-cities …

A SPACECRUISER PARKED in the rear …

(00:56 guitar)

The Nuclear-power-drives now Off … coasting …

CUT IN TO:

INT. SPACECRUISER - VARIOUS LIT

N.B. SPACER VOICES TIP-OF-MOUTH WHISPER-QUIET BASS-ALTO; Spacers inbred-twins, ages 2-2000, male and female.

(01:01 talk)

COLLAGE:

PERSONNEL activities, maintenances; NAVIGATION DISPLAYS track deep space comets far ahead lit by the Nova wind: markings are high-tech-cuneiform …

WATCHER ROOMS: MONITORING all other rooms, corridors …

(01:16 voice)

TRANSITION: INTO A CORRIDOR … Personnel at-ease in-and-out…

AN OBSERVATION DECK - SOCIAL LIT (AS CONTINUOUS)

POV: SLOW THROUGH, PASSING BETWEEN: SENIOR PARENTS sitting vis-a-vis at a secluded table near OUTER WINDOWS FLASHING:

(01:30 cry, piano exult)

A SPACE-WINDOW: The bluish Nova-bloom flashing outside:

(01:38 cry)

Lit from its pulsar flashing in deep space, far behind….

(01:44 -stop before voice-)

FADE TO FAINT RED:

INT. STUDY CUBICLE - FAINT RED LIT (EONS LATER)

CU: A flat video wide-screen REFLECTION OF spacer boy ADAM (2) (REFL) watching AN ANIMATION of solar system planetary creation; Mr. GABRIEL (VO), small senior muscle, narrates:

SUPERIMPOSE:

2.5 MILLION YEARS LATER

[GABE] (VO)

(reads aloud)

VIDEO TITLE:

Chapter One: Living Planet Genesis; Time-scale: Seventh-order, cycling.

ANIMATED: Flattened pre-solar nebula glowing in Bode-bands; blazing planet-quadruplets, co-orbiting, coalesce to twins; a few asteroids collide, flashing light that echoes abroad;

We begin at this condensed planet spinning through the dusty nebula orbiting its central sun not yet lit to star-brightness … Only the Spirit of God watches.

ANIMATED: Dark spinning planet, continual meteor storm adds dim glow; occasional fireballs streak across;

This planet has removed to an orbit far from its pair-mate and begun to cool in cloudy darkness … Rocks and dust still crash onto the planet.

ANIMATED: Tempest winds scour boiling-water seas covering glimmering magma flows;

Deep water covers its crusty lava and boils-away heat into scouring winds, high into its atmosphere … Lavas still glimmer below.

ANIMATED: Red sky light blooms to a bright-dim day-cycle;

As the faraway sun ignites to star fire, its suffuse light illumines the thinning nebula blanketing the spinning planet with its first day light … Lighter and darker are the first type of day; and God counts this improvement, Good.

ANIMATED: Tempest-winds subside to a global rain storm beneath back-lit cloudy reddish haze mottling the sky;

As the planet cools, its atmosphere slows to let vapor gather as clouds precipitating rain water, cleansing the air for vegetation to breathe … And God counts this, improvement, Good; This is the second day-type.

ANIMATED: Magmas harden, crack, weathering into fine dusty soils, green vegetation proliferates, blackish in reddish-orange sky-glow;

Cycles of sunlight, warmth, and wet and dry, accelerate the microscopic crumbling of hardened lava rock, to gravel, sand, dust, soil, clay, and dirty seawater,- greatly increasing its availability to microbiological slime and mold developments,- which also increase the crumbling. Larger vegetations luxuriate and the third day-type is dominated by sightless, greenish land-plants basking in the reddish-orange daylight, making the air good for animals and mankind.

ANIMATED: Sky clears to day and night, to detect the sun's spot, moons; distant planets, colored stars at night: The mountains are patched with snow;

While vegetation and tiny insects develop and flourish on the planet, in its air and its seas, the nebula blanketing the planet clarifies to let direct light show the spots of the sun and moon and other planets, and stars, in their colors…. Nights and winters and pole regions become colder; climates specialise. Larger plants, that grow fruits to nurture their own seeds, develop … On this fourth type of day the point of seeing and science becomes good.

ANIMATED: Fish swimming, jumping … then add fowl flying;

As animals develop and specie-fy in the buoyant water seas, they follow the changing seasonal direction and currents flowing around the planet: These are the first fish; And from these, lighter-weight birds develop flying by flapping the less-buoyant air … And day-type Five, is good.

ANIMATED: Cattle, sheep, roaming, lion resting, aboriginal idyllic mankind walking;

Land-creatures, including mankind, dominate the planet and its seas in day-type Six. This is the finale of known life-soul manifestations on living planets, but mankind needs a further distinction from the animal creatures….

ADD TRANSLUCENT SPOT-OVERLAY of [Gabe] face:

We put aside this idyllic scenery to understand generic man and his ascendency over all the planet and its seas and skies and outer space around: It is also to be seen and counted, Good, and felt constantly: It is the altitude, the orbit, the vantage of thought watching calmly confidently with God: It restfully sees all good unfolded undiminished before it contemplates point, line, place…. This elevation of authority brings us to eye our present day-type, the Seventh, and its ultimate conclusion in your responsibilities here and wherever you count good….

ADD TRANSLUCENT SPOT-OVERLAYS of individual [STUDENTS] faces at 2-4 years; Adam sees his own video-echo:

Adam, you may ask a question.

Can people go outside a planet? in their spacesuits?

Planets are bigger, so they don't have to; but they can.

Will we visit a planet to see these development phases?

Most planets are finished;- We will visit a sixth-day planet.

What is soil like? Do we have any in the laboratory stores?

Soil is like your toy-modeling clay.

What do planet-people do during the nighttime of day?

The same as you do when you turn-off the lights, and sleep.

Why don't we have animals in our spacecruiser?

Animal communities do not fit in spacecruisers; And do not need to: They will already be on any planet we will visit.

How many planets are there orbiting a sun?

Each sun may have several pairs of planets, and some, smaller suns.

Are all day-type-six planets inhabited by men?

PULL-BACK TO: (MCU) real Adam in his plush study-cubicle:

One or two, sometimes three planets at each sun, are just right for us.

Can planet-people see us? Where are they going?

Only when we come near or visit them: Then they follow us.

FADE TO:

INT. SPACER BOY CHILD'S BEDROOM - LOW LIT

ROOM LIGHT AUTO-DIMS; Mommy TFNI, small pretty senior 250, tucks-in Adam; exotic stuffed animal-shape toys abound.

And what was the inspiring class discussion today?

We learned about seven day-types phases in living-planet genesis.

Can you name the seven phases?

The first is after the planet already exists inside a nebula.

And what do you know about such a planet?

It's round, and it spins, and it's dark but also really hot and messy.

And what happens to that planet? Do you remember?

The first phase is where the light makes a type of day and night.

And where does the light originate? Is it on the planet somewhere?

It is sunlight and its nebula wears thin and lets the sunlight through.

And then what? What does light do?

Mommy? What is a nebula blanket?- It's very dusty.

And that is all that it is: dust floating uncollected about the sun.

How does it keep the planet warm?

The dust catches sunlight and heat, and gets warm itself; but darkly.

There must be a lot of dust to keep a whole planet warm.

Yes, a very lot: enough to make the sun and planets first,- and more.

Then, the planet gets quiet and the wind turns into clouds and rain….: (yawns)

And that is the second type of day? What is the next phase?

Yes; Then the seas and lands cool, and make soil, and grow plants.

Can you grow plants without soil?

We have the hydroponic flowers; but they need nutrients….

And what happens when the planet is full of plants?

The plants make air and grow fruits and the sea animals become fish and birds when they follow the moon and stars. There are land-creatures too and mankind. Mr. Gabriel said we will visit a sixth-day planet … but, Mommy, How do animals get to a planet?

The Life-Principle we call, God, forms its manifestation everywhere in concert harmony:- All things reflect Life, together and diversely.

And then God approves, and gives us things to do and learn….

(00:00 ukelele - music timestep-sync'ed)

Yes, And that's the seventh phase to think about…. Good night, dear one.: (kiss)

They finish, hug-and-kisses … And she exits via--

The status-control-panel:-- ROOM DARKENS; DOOR CLOSES …

ADJOINING ROOM - WARM LIT (AS CONTINUOUS)

(00:17 +voice)

DOOR CLOSES: TfNi exits the bedroom … and welcomes-embraces her prince-son-twin TEFEN 200, in a hug turning together:--

FULL-TURN on spacer room possessions around them….

CUT OUT TO:

EXT. SPACE - OUR KNOWN STARS - PULSAR AT STELLAR DISTANCE

COSMIC ZOOM FROM: Their now-remote pulsar and pole-jets so-distant that the sky is clear but for a myriad stars …

The lead Whipple is tattered, The second excessively worn.

(00:44 -fade out-)

CUT BACK IN TO:

INT. OBSERVATION DECK - SOCIAL LIT

AMUN-RA, TfNi's 7000-year-old-twin father, withered small but handsome, straw-drinking at the counter with Tefen:

(cheers his drink)
For I, am Admiral Poop-or-dinkle of this 3-million-year-old boat … And, 'til I say otherwiser, I'm 35-times older than you-'re…!

(looks in Ra's drink)
What did you put in, that drink?

(looks in it)
The usual Zirconium-96 nuclear poo.

You mean Zirconium-96 nuclear pie…?

(and to Tefen)
Poo … is present-perfect, Pie:-- I pie; I pied;- I have, Poo…!

(2 beats)
Safe-enough 'til you plug a finger into the deuteron-accelerator …: (a beat)
How would you know you're 35-times, older?-- The Nav-computer resets at every gamma-ray-burst that zaps the local galactic arm-- thrice a day….

(erudite shrug)
I… just divide the number of resets by three…!

(a beat, subdued)
The only longer-lived, time-keeper, is your brain,-- which I think too, resets at every gamma-ray-burst….

(his best puzzled beat)
Wait till we reach a livable planet Earth, and I'll prove-- it, to you.

(sips-ponders a beat)
How is a planet going to help you?

Planets rotate with long periods-- And around planets there are moons and other planets-- to count time.

Oh … But, How is that going to help you tell how old you are now…?

(blows bubbles into his)
Just you wait:-- I'll show you….

(shrugs)
I, suppose I've waited long-enough to find-out … Or many short-waits…

(00:48 -fade in-)

INT. CONTROL-ROOM - NORMAL OPERATION LIT

(00:52 +choral)

WALL DISPLAYS: Ship-diagrams; Status on chrysalis modules, 2 under reconstruction; Telescopic planets; OFFICER-CREW computes navigations for swing-deceleration at the PLUTON STAR-POINT, and JUPITER, and OUR MOON, to arrive at Earth …

DISSOLVE TO WHITE:

INT. WHITE SUIT-UP-ROOM, REBEL SHIP - BRIGHT (MONTHS LATER)

N.B. TECHNICIAN VOICES MAN-NORMAL; Soldiers younger men.

(01:09 voice)

AT THE PROBE PORTAL: White-suit ASSISTANTS help 6 assault-team CROAKERS suit-up breathing heavy green-gas: umbilical oxygenator connection, headgear, helmet, weapon, equipment.

A Croaker joker geysers-up heavy green-gas. Coughs. grins.

His Assistant refits his green-gas lung-loading tube.

Croakers and Assistants enter the Probe Portal to a dark …

INT. CROAKER-MANNED PROBE - DARKER (CONTINUOUS)

(01:44 +choral)

TECHNICIANS adjust lit control-panels; Assistants web-strap Croakers into goo-beds stacked vertically, 4 on outer ring, 2 deeper mid-ring, around the hollow center-tip probe-exit.

Technicians, Assistants, exit as done….

PORTAL HATCH SHUTS to--

(02:02 -stop before ukelele-)

DARK: Panel lights only, COUNTING TIME … to reconsider …

CUT IN:

EXT. REBEL SPACE-CARRIER - PROBE DOCK - FAR BEYOND JUPITER

The tiny ASSAULT PROBE ready to go, still attached,

(00:00 clacks - music timestep-sync'ed)

BLOWS CLASPS,-- floating off …

VERNIERS-ACCELERATES, gliding directly away …

(00:03 huff)

TESTS ITS REACTION-VERNIERS: Spins left. Spins right. Spin-shifts through a figure-infinity (horizontal-8) …

(00:07 zoom+huffs)

POV: LEADING-ZOOMING OUT … MAIN THRUST ON coming away from the carrier-ship … which is gigantic …

Three more tests again: spins and figures …

(00:21 glide)

And glides, coming …

(00:24 talk)

POV SWINGS WITH: Passes close by (CU) …

(00:38 voice)

MAIN-THRUST ACCELERATES,-- preceding down for Jupiter …

(00:50)

Space-city-ship APPEARS NUCLEAR-DRIVE-BURST-DECELERATING out from behind Jupiter … PROBE THRUST RE-AIMS for it …

(00:57 eee, voice eery whine)

CUT TO:

INT. SPACECRUISER - COMMAND CENTER - BATTLE-RED

N.B. DISPLAY VOICES SOFT BASS-ALTO.

Consoles, walls, voices, displays: WARNINGS, ALARMS;

(01:~~ builds)

Crew scrambles, weaponry, armory suits …

VOICE-DISPLAY: Progress diagrammed, Alerts flashing:

TRAJECTORY (prompt white)
CONVERGENT (flashing white)
NON BALLISTIC (flashing yellow)
ETA 121 SEC. (countdown orange)
* EVASIVE * (flashing red)

(01:19 talk "voyager")

INT. CONNECTING CORRIDORS

HOP-SCAN: Armoried Crew positioned, advised repositioning …

(01:32 voice)

CUT TO:

EXT. PROBE - NEARING JUPITER - ABOVE RINGS

DIVE-THRUST BLOOMS,-- leading a bit more …

Space-city-ship out from Jupiter, GYRATES; THRUSTS AGAIN …

(01:50 eee, voice)

CHASE: Probe down through Jupiter's asteroidal belt:

DUST BLAZE-STREAKS on forward shield;

(02:11 lull)

Probe SPIN-THRUST-JOCKIES, AVOIDING NUCLEAR FLARES from the city-ship, But takes VAPORIZING HITS OF LASER-FIRE-SWEEP …

(02:28 clack)

A RAILGUN-SHOT STRIKE FLARES on the Probe.

(02:32 clack)

A SECOND STRIKE FLARES.

(02:35 voices, double-clack)

A DOUBLE STRIKE FLARES.

(02:38 double-clack)

A SECOND DOUBLE STRIKE FLARES.

(02:41 triple-clack)

A TRIPLE STRIKE FLARES, on Probe converging rapidly …

(02:43 eee)

ITS FINAL-THRUST WILD-SPIRAL DIVE PRECEDING-IN …

A FULL BARRAGE BLAZE BATTERS the Probe …

(02:56)

CUT IN TO:

INT. PROBE - DARK WITH PANEL LIGHTS

BATTERING RESONATES …

Croakers await, set tight in their goo-beds …

(03:11 abrupt stop -reverb, fadeout-)

PROBE IMPALES: JERK-COMPRESSION, FRONT BURSTS OPEN TO light, debris splattering, venting … smoke wafting …

BEDS UNCLASP;-- They dodge through to the light;

Except the Croaker joker, expired, drops from his goo-bed.

INT. HALL BREACHED BY PROBE TIP - LIT (CONTINUOUS)

N.B. REBELS-ABOARD GASED-VOICES KRYPTON-HEAVY DEEP BASS.

Some Croakers take off outer-helmets, spew-coughing heavy-settling green-gas … Last climb-through, Split away 2+3…

LIGHTS FAIL TO EMERGENCY-RED …

GROUP OF 3 ARRIVES AT--

A CONTROL-LOCKED DOOR

-Demolition- sets thermite sticky-cord.

All hide behind paves or behind-behind …

DOOR BLASTS OPEN.

Two rush in, -Third- watches then departs:

INT. WATCHER CONTROL-ROOM - DIM RED LIT (CONTINUOUS)

Large display screens, control panels: ship diagrams include chrysalides modules, maintenance status.

The-2 -Guess Experts- manipulate WATCHER-VIEWS [halls, rooms, crew, personnel] … gaining experience …

Headgear their inter-communications …

[Advised Croakers crash halls; gunfire on a few crew]

[Tefen armed in armory suit walks a PERIPHERY corridor]

Guess-Expert orders to confront: Inter-communications …

[Tefen flip-turns air-prone at their sound, FIRING SHRIEKS]

INT. CORRIDOR - PORTAL TO PERIPHERY - RED (CONTINUOUS)

Outside this Portal-hatch 3 Croakers gunfire-in; one dies …

A Croaker gun-launches a grenade,-- BLASTING OPEN A HOLE in the floor and SHOVING EVERYONE BACK. They rush to close the hatch but OUT-WIND CATCHES AND SUCKS one through, into the periphery corridor … and out the hole after Tefen …

Hatch closed, One, runs the corridor … and into, through--

THE CHRYSALIS PODS ROOM: intelligent, dog-like humans …

INT. CHILDREN'S ROOM - RED

ADULTS HUDDLING CHILDREN, ADAM (3) on the end, whispering, hearing the FIREFIGHT APPROACHING outside the closed door …

EXT. - DARK; MULTI-RANDOM-DISTRACTION-PURPLE-POINT-STROBES

Firefight VOLLEYS EXCHANGE between corners and some prone …

POV: RANGER-GOGGLED TfNi in armory suit, prone, forefront, FIRING SHRIEKS at a Croaker who leap-rolling to the closed door, erects, grins … gunfiring on it, sinking back, dead …

INT. - (SAME INSTANT)

SHOTS THROUGH THE DOOR-- RIP-UP THE FLOOR about Adam …

Momentarily the frightful firefight ceases.

Crew enter, reassure them; assist injured Adam.

DISSOLVE TO:

INT. COMMAND OFFICE - NORMAL LIT (MINUTES LATER)

Large Displays loop watcher-angles of the [Rebel invasion]; CMDR MICHAEL, muscular, Gabe, TfNi, THREE MORE, debrief:

Who are they? How did they know where to hit us? Where is their carrier? Why are they suicidal?

Probably suffered a revolt in the eons since our star went supernova.

Sir, They are in this sector here …: (at Jupiter-Trojans map)
They are not following us, -or were not,- but we won't know, until they break-out of ballistic trajectory:- if they're in tracking range.

Mike, They were approaching the children almost directly.

We've had no contact in 3-million… years:-- Why the children?

Sir, From the watcher-control-room they could find empty corridors.

Psychology? TfNi;- following a buffer-zone to the children?

Sir, Their mental tones were dark and mechanical: All kill.

Kill in empty corridors? What is their target purpose?

I think they want the children:-- the threat of a future.

But suicidal! Gabe, What chieftain risks protection against children?!

Information, Sir: what we do to avoid space-comets, they amplify to murderous thievery for raw information: to release it.

(turns)
You mean, they've lost their ability to dodge space-rocks?

Could be, Mike: Then they'd kill for tidbits of information.

An inferior mentality? Gabe;- enslaved to a superior technology?

Comparable to children, Mike, they don't see us in charge.

Run an adaptability-profile on the children. Thank you, all.

Others exit; Mike, Gabe, remain.

Mike, you were hard on TfNi: We lost her husband Tefen; and her boy is…

(clips)
And both she and Adam took hits:
I'm focusing on this, Gabe.

You suspect Adam is their only, target?

What do you think of Adam? Is he tractable for spacer living?

He excels at spatio-temporal relations; As bright as any of the children in a thousand years: He's foresightful.

You mean, self-involved,- could be projective, even useless.

Too soon to ascertain, Mike, and we'd continue to teach him.

Not under duress: not here. Thank you, Mr. Gabriel.

Gabe exits.

CUT TO:

INT. SCIENCE-INFORMATION ROOM - MEDIUM LIT (ONE YEAR LATER)

7 days to Earth. One glass-wall views a chrysalis terrarium pod; chrysalides sometimes passing, pause and look-through.

Mike, Ra, PTAH, 8700-year-old-twin grandfather, withered smaller, study Earth Spectral Compu-maps: springtime North snow; IR evidences 4000-BC civilizations in river-valleys: eg. Nile, Euphrates, Ganges, Amazon, Mississippi; Epochal shows tectonic drift, a seamount-continent west of Europe:

Iron spectrum: red-Earth lands dark; forests, sands pale.

(a beat)
Okay. Next.

Chromium spectrum: splotchy hazy here and there.

(a beat)
Chromium reflectance spectrum.

(a beat)
Okay … Next.

Silver spectrum, lines including Africa's dry rivers.

(a beat)
Silver reflectance spectrum,- looks specular along the rivers …

Good….

Malleable; Could command a premium.

(a beat)
Okay … Next.

Gold spectrum, lines including Africa's dry rivers.

(a beat)
Gold reflectance,- also along the rivers, and out here in the desert.

I, thought so … Ripe for picking….

Malleable; Could command a premium.

(bemused a beat)
Next.

Tungsten spectrum: blooms hazy here and there.

(a beat)
Tungsten reflectance spectrum.

(a beat)
Okay … Next.

Zirconium spectrum: nil.

(a beat)
Zirconium reflectance.

(a beat)
Oh, Poo…. That's going to take us several millennia to extract.

(politically creative)
Still, Maybe facile: We start local mankind picking-up the silver … and the gold … Add copper, iron … build great competing civilizations … And after they begin hoarding strategic metals we exchange our keep for the right to extract 3-percent-96 … and return pure-depleted … By time they figure it out, we're long gone…!

(a beat at Ra, smiles)
Ra, You're brilliant half the time.

Gabe enters.

(defensive)
Excuse me, Mike: TfNi's in trouble: She's doing it again: She's blaming herself.

Did?- What?- What's troubling her?

(holds a broken Watcher)
This is the third broken Watcher.

Then she's fixed her blame on open-intelligence technology.

Under incursion-strikes, she'd better secure internal operations.

Open-intelligence always ranks the highest respect for performance.

But, Mike, Open-intelligence also exposes individuals:-- Adam!

Priorities, Gabe: Adam is not suited to spacer-living.

(a bit upset)
The adaptability profile is relativistic grading, not absolutistic:- Don't be hard.

You believe Adam is their target,- and he's consular lineage….

(detects incongruity)
They can't know that-- eons ago…!

And, open-intelligence should have erased it among us.

Open-intelligence mollifies,- but can't subvert motherhood.

Doesn't need-to:- It shows us what we must do promptly.

(yielding)
… Finding a suitable space-refuge, for him, means we need a temperate planet similar to our former Earth.

Live-Earth map: atmospheric gases absorption-spectra.

The target planet is a feasibility: We can put them down near the space seed implantation …: (to Ra, Ptah)
Excuse me, guys …

This is their solar system, Mike: They'll go after him down there.

(admits but)
Safer than with us … We'll have to put them down without the spacer habiliments.

Ra, Ptah, chickle-chuckle.

(barely amused)
That's extremal … Should I go with them?

A separated mother is more common among suicidal male cultures….: (resumes at map)
Atmospheric composition parametrics are similar to a minim-suit plus a nitrogen burden, -useful for plant-life,- slightly deranging for men, animals,- but Adam will survive it.

(involved too)
Nitrogen, matrix … Nitrogen Two…?-: (chuckles)
No heavy molecular oxidators?-- They're going to chirp like birds!- Not to mention feeling ill all day.

Ra, Ptah, mutually mock-sick-burps, hands to lips.

(stifles a nod Yes)
Significant gravity, They will rest supine. Helium spectral absorption suggests underground gases and oil reserves in valleys and near seas:- eventually useful resources….

This is severe … Have we any choice of ground location? Harvest-season?

Take a look:- Infra-red especially.

(examines Earth-IR map)
Appear to be several long rivers in luxuriant temperate zones … Here--: (points at major rivers)
… though we'd better take straight, rivers, for the straightness of our cargo-freighters, we know so well.

Several amid the larger continent …: (at S Euphrates)
And this confluence of four plain-rivers in a mid-northern temperate zone … is present target choice.

(at S Persian gulf)
Gulf is constricted:- Northern top-water could be fresh….

Planet rotation on 24 degrees tilt: Usable day; Quadrature mild seasons favoring warm northern springtime….

Do you have nightside, infra-red: Is it populated?

Mike switches map: black+red-enhanced night-views of Earth.

(sweeps down Euphrates)
Northward is, but practically none southward.

Unsettling, Mike:- A spacer-ideal locale with no settlementation….

It's drier; Fertile, but few trees for building … Maybe the ground is unstable for tall structures?

Maybe it silt-floods seasonally: There may be no exposed stones.

(at westward W Batin)
They can set-down on higher ground out here on the plain … Trade-route travelers will follow larger rivers and the mountain-range foothills.

(summarizes hope)
Polluted morons, spacer-profile-rejects, disillusioned political-losers: all manner of defilements, disloyalties … Dangerous: What can we provide them?- We're hundred-percent spacer-typed!

Nothing, but the information of where they are: where they can go.

Ptah leans subtly forward--

Tell him about the sunset beaches.

(grins at Ptah)
You've been dreaming again, Ptah: You've never seen a beach up-close.

Dreams must count for something: If poops feed plants, Dreams respite …

(grin cools, to Mike)
I'll prepare TfNi;- How soon do we arrive at… new-Earth?

Seven days… We final-correct-swing-decelerate at its large moon … and arrive at the planet nightside as the moon enters sunlight-umbra …: (points out 30S Pacific)
Several will be taking leave, this, side: where islands dot the ocean….: (points mid 0N Atlantic)
We detonate the space-ram nearing the rim … to make land midmorning …: (points along 30N Arabia)
Across this main subcontinent … and against this ridge, as backstop.: (emotes unto chrysalides)
I'll be glad to unload this space-seed cargo;- In dreams I smell its stench of rottage;-- I've tested for cracks: There are no leaks, But it almost has me believing in extra sensory communication … or dreams.

This is profound, Mike: Where will we, go then-after?

(points to N Nile)
Ptah and Ra are landing due-west …

Ooh, Nice.

We, may have no choice, Gabe: We've got non-ballistics paralleling at tracking distance…. We'll drop our cargo, return to third synchronous orbit, and find the scout ship … We can watch over Earth day and night.

I'll shuttle them down at maximum angle just before orbit-dawn:- With the lunar eclipse behind us and the other shuttles coming down onto the first ocean, and this cargo coming down over us, it'll give us the best disguise into the daylight.

And then return directly:-- We may have to leave Earth-orbit entirely.

Mike, We have no agenda to abandon them forever.

Venus-Solar map; Ptah, Ra, join interested.

I'm looking at this planet inward:
Ample resources for us to reform;- Cloud cover and thermal inclemency should deter incursions.

(at sun-data chart)
Billion-year sun-stability,- Good.

Any further discussion? We remain on Yellow-Alert, henceforth.

Thanks … This will be a very long planetary exploration for TfNi.: (turns, exits)

(to Ptah)
Ptah, A sunset beach faces the west: That means you'll have to take the east, shore.

We can share the river, And I'll boat over with Sekhmet to your eastside for the evening sunsets.

(a beat bemused)
Okay, That's amenable, I guess.

QUICK FADE TO:

EXT. THE ONCOMING ROCKET - CLOSE PASSING MOON EAST - DARK

The space-ram pavis, -two layers blasted, third tattered,-

FORE-ENGINE IGNITES BRILLIANT WHITE-- illuming the moon …

And oncoming … INTO THE SUNLIGHT … AND THE MOON IS SUNLIT …

And onward … for Earth westside, 240Kmi. ahead …

QUICK FADE TO:

INT. COMMAND - 4000 BC EARTH NIGHTSIDE - LIT (DAYS LATER)

Hyperbolic approach: CMDR Michael watches Display-enhanced nightside Atlantic ocean, African continent turning-toward; diagrammatic-red-footprint-targeted Persian Gulf north end;

Gabe enters, carrying leaf-sack bundles on a vine garland:

Mike: TfNi and Adam are ready to shuttle down.

It'll have to be quick, Gabe: We have non-ballistics approaching within quick-strike range.

(subdued)
And one other thing, Mike: TfNi has impregnated herself from the marrow stem in Adam's broken rib….

(acknowledges)
That's fine, Gabe: Without Tefen to husband her, she's right, to do it…: (looks askance)
Their lineage is, full-well-inbred.

She programmed for a girl.

(deliberate smile)
Figures: Right choice.

Gabe motions: TfNi, Adam, enter sans spacer-habiliments; indications of surgery: Adam, at a rib; TfNi, inner-thigh.

(holds out leaf-bundles)
Can they have these gene-adapted fertile-seed pouches? And rolled thatch-leaf mats?

(peruses)
Yes,-- those look Earth-ordinary.

(garlands TfNi, smiles)
These seeds are bitter-coated with a dry fertilizer-primer….

(continuing)
But, what about their rifle-scars?
Can we cover that better?

No: Flesh accelerants leave uneven fill without persistent tending.

(resolute)
Commander Michael:- Are there any last instructions? Any idea who's upon us?

None, TfNi, and I can't risk exposing you and Adam to find-out.

TfNi: We do know their speech is by tongue, but with unknown, isolated, million-years, insular development, since the echelon diaspora … Earth-technology languages will deviate further;- We'll ask our century scouts when we arrive, And begin teaching when we reach land.

(turns to Adam)
Adam, Are you ready to go explore a day-type-six planet?

(looks at Gabe)
Yes.: (looks at TfNi)
Is this how they dress?

Yes:: (looks at Gabe)
They are fairly primitive mankind,: (to Adam)
among a variety of land-animals.

Ra peers-in, and enters:

(smiling pretence)
Someone looking for me…?

(bursts tears to hug)
Amun…!

(hugging, patting)
He'll be all right, dear Mwt: We've got spacepods out there looking for him now … a few years recuperation… and meanwhile you've got family….

(sobering)
Can you, come down, and visit…?

(comforting, to a grin)
Now young one: We've been away from planets 3-million years: An old god like me can't do much with gravity: If I sit on one corner of a planet, my head spins one way, and if I sit on the other corner, my head spins the other way: It's very confusing for an old god like me …

(giggles in tears)
But … If you can, someday, we would love to have you visit …

I'll think about it: The gravity of thought eventually outweighs most …

KLAXON doublet;-- Mike quick-checks status:

E-T-A: 3-87:--
Non-Ballistic Convergence!--: (CONCURRENT); (countdown 2-sec. per)
E-T-A: 3-85 …
E-T-A: 3-84 …: (etc.)

(attentive)
We'd best get going …: (to Adam)
Say goodbye to your granddad, Adam.

(to Ra)
Good-Bye, Granddad Amun, Rrrrah...!

Good-Bye, young Adam Gjeb: You take good care of your mother TfNi….

Yes, Granddad Amun.

(assures TfNi)
I'll see you again, TfNi:- Mike has located silver … and gold …

(smiles)
Of course, Ra….

(calm urgent to Mike)
We'll leave now, with your order.

Mike nods Yes,- and resumes controls; They turn to leave.

One other thing, TfNi, -should any ask:- You and Adam will be the gods of water vapor, and earth;- I'll be the Sun-god; Ptah is Grand Creator: We agreed…. Thoth is still figuring one out: He wants to be the man of technicolor flowers, and Maat wants bird feathers … We're yet trying to convince him, to be something more substantial,-- like, moon-man.

I'm goddess of water vapor? Clouds?

(single-nods Yes)
… till we recover Tefen and send him down…. If you make a change, keep it consistent in the places you have been … Try.

Did you pick one for me, Ra?

Ahh!- We forgot all about you, Gabe … Just tell them you're one of the gods' messengers: an archangel….: (to Mike)
Same, anytime any of you visit….

Okay … But I'm going to relocate to one of Ptah's sunset-dream-beaches.

Gabe, TfNi, Adam, leaving Mike, Ra, mutually grinning …

(calling after)
And say goodbye to Ptah … He's in the Trampoline Room….

INT. HALL - TO TRAMPOLINE ROOM - LIT (CONTINUOUS)

Hurrying along …

What's Ptah doing in the Trampoline Room one hour before planet-impact?

Oh, You know Ptah,- always creating some new invention:- He says he has a new way to prepare for gravity.

I thought the centrifuge exerciser…

EXT. TRAMPOLINE ROOM - LIT (CONTINUOUS)

Ptah is bouncing in a translucent enclosed spring-slung web-sack trampoline …

(watches 5 bounces)
Bye, Ptah!

(between bounces)
Bye, TfNi … See you … down below! …: (a beat)
How many … is that … now?

One thousand, one hundred, ninety-two, half-bounces….

They hurry on; Ptah's twin wife SEKHMET has been monitoring:

Sekhmet … What's a … half bounce?

From the middle of the sack to the farthest stretch,- or back again … the same way you count bumps and un-bumps and then count un-bumps as bumps from the other side, dear.

(a beat)
Okay … dear … Half … bounces …

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. SPACECRUISER FLANK - OVER ATLANTIC - RED MOON NIGHT

20W 1N 100 mi. high atmospheric deorbit level-forward E-NE 5 mi./sec. 550 mi. to the nearing west coast of Africa 12W 7N faint in the red glow of lunar eclipse 40W 70 deg. high.

(00:00 blocks - music timestep-sync'ed)

SHUTTLE DETACHES … VERNIERS … LIGHT-THRUSTS west-aftward …

(00:06)

Passes the impaled Croaker Probe … and beyond aft, pitches down toward Earth's ocean reflection of the lunar eclipse …

(00:11 "mmm")

Undershield eastward, MAIN-THRUST 50 ft./sec-sec. 0.5 mi. …

(00:21 clanks)

EXHAUST DWINDLES to idle as it recedes down 1 mi./10 sec.…

(00:31 voice, sinks)

EXT. SHUTTLE - OVER WEST AFRICA 20E - (RED MOON PREDAWN)

75 mi. above Earth, 30 deg. nose-down bottom-forward E-NE …

POV BEHIND: Idle exhaust blows straight back-westward …

BOTTOM AEROGLOW begins pale red … with yellowish streaks …

Slow conic roll to 30 deg. nose-up upright …

POV FRONT: Red Moon at 40 deg. above a red horizon trace …

(01:13 exalt bursts)

BOTTOM BLOOMS BUSY-BLUE WHITE AMID STRONG AEROGLOW AURA …

POV ABOVE: Illuminating the Earth nightside mid Africa …

POV BEHIND: 450 mi. west of approaching mid-lower Nile …

CUT TO:

EXT. MID-LOWER NILE SHORE, THEBES 32E - (RED MOON PREDAWN)

4000-BC-Egyptian spearfishermen pole in round basket boats;

(01:24)

West BLUE-WHITE NOVA CROSSES into the red moon at 15 deg. …

One fisherman points hushed attention to it, "Mul-gi" …

1 deg. souther the trailing space-city-ship-engine NUCLEAR-FLASH 1 SEC. BLUE-WHITE;-- eliciting excitement, "Mul-ki" …

3 sec. later the LIGHT-ECHO WHITENS THE RED MOON, 1 sec.…

(01:35 fades, settles, glide)

CUT TO:

INT. SHUTTLE, 38E 40 MI. UP - AEROGLOW THINNING, DAWN 05:25

Leveling, 3 mi./sec. dropping 0.3 mi./sec. below sunrise …

TfNi controls; Gabe monitors. Adam is seated behind.

An orange dragon-curve draws on the communications console.

Aeroglow dims to clear: MORNING STARS RISING FAST …

(01:45 voice)

Communications sweeps for acquisition … and decimates … and again … and communications acquires….

(02:00)

The display refreshes to [Mike face] repressing worry amid alarms, warnings, data, diagrams, re city-ship separation …

Gabe talks with him ad lib … passing over the HEJEZ RANGE …

(02:10)

COLLISION-AVOIDANCE INDICATORS;--

AUTO-BANKS-DODGES-BOBS-ABOUT FIREY METEORS SHOOTING AHEAD …

Ahead 100 mi. 75-MI. CEILING GLOWS ORANGE OF PLASMA-PLOWING ROCKET ENDS, 3, pirouetting heady 6+9 deg. apart, preceding 1.5 mi./sec., cleaving-off mile chunks storming and hordes of freed meteors chasing showering the sky, lagging …

[Mike face] IMAGE-STALLS repeatedly … then only telemetry …

06:00 AM daylight burns on the horizon …

(02:27 exalt bursts)

SUNRISE BREACHED: A SUN-OUT-SPOT solarizes in the window as the Shuttle 20 mi. high glides over the Hejez east slope …

(02:48 knocks, settled)

E-E-NE, 100 mi. north of Pishon … WAKES POP AND BUFFET …

(02:59 voice, piano, resumes)

CALMS to hypersonic cruise across a wet-desert mid-Arabia …

Rocket Storm 3 sections fully broken, tumbling, 90+140 mi. apart (6+9 deg.), extending 250-650 mi. ahead … lowering … METEORITES BEGIN PEPPERING the landscape diffusely below …

And a SLOWEST GRAVEL CLUSTER BLASTS THE LAND 29.7N 45.4E … And a FIRST CHUNK PLOWS a 3-mi.-wide furrow 31.5N 45.5E …

CUT FAR AHEAD TO:

EXT. WET DESERT, PALMS - EARLY PLOWER ONCOMING - FIERY SKY

Fast approaching, PLOWS: SPLASHING-UP mile crests of dirt …

PASSES-- BLASTING THE LAND BARE … to ZERO-VISIBILITY DUST …

CUT BACK TO:

INT. SHUTTLE, 45E 5 MI. UP - MORNING BECOMING EAST-OBSCURED

(03:40 exalt bursts)

STORM PLOWS 46.5E E-E-NE: 30.2N, 31.7N: FLAMING, LIGHTNING; DUST BILLOWS 300 mi. across, obliterating morning sunlight; 28N STEAMS the Persian Gulf … and FLASHES UP THE RIDGE …

The spreading pavis caps the mountain range 31-32N 51-53E …

A LAST HEAVY RAMS MID-MOUNTAIN BELOW-- PLUMING-UP A SPIKE …

(04:06 fade, settles)

Shuttle 5 mi. high 1 mi./sec. approaches first impact zone 150 mi. west of the Euphrates to Pishon-Batin north bend …

TfNi, Gabe, exchange concerned looks.

(04:12)

(04:14 end -out-)

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. SHUTTLE - OVER PISHON NORTH BEND - DENSE HAZE 06:30 AM

Looping subsonic 2 mi. above thick billowing dust, as TfNi, Gabe, search for a site along the north bend 30-30.2N 47.2-47.4E impact zone 100 mi. west of Euphrates; a flame-tinged dust shroud across the east; forest fires up the mountains.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. SHUTTLE LANDING - PISHON NORTH-BEND - OBSCURE 07:00 AM

N.B. SPACER EARTH VOICES TIP-OF-MOUTH QUIET TENOR-SOPRANO.

Persian range looms in smoke, dust, forest fire; Foreground is rubble-razed, tree stumps shattered, trunks scattered, bashed; Pishon-Batin muddy riverbed is at walking distance.

ENGINE SHUTS DOWN….

Mr. Gabriel, TfNi, Adam disembark.

Gabe gives TfNi a hug … And kneels to Adam--

(neon high voice)
Adam: You and your Mother have a long assignment here on this Earth-planet:- Be obedient to every word she tells you: She's a Lieutenant Commander; She's the only commander you will have on this planet;- And there is much to learn about this day-type-six planet: It's not like our spacecruiser: It's much bigger, and you can explore…. I must return to the cruiser; And I'll come visit you again when you've established your homebase with the staple seeds I've given you in these leaf-sacks;: (holds up a garland-sack)
You have ample resources around you to multiply and build, ten, cities.: (a hug … stands to TfNi)
TfNi, Go west, upriver, along the bend where it nears the city-ship atterrissage,- until you find fish and vegetation surviving, to feed you and Adam while you seed your farm; Eastward, the razed land will be barren and the river muddy for a season…. And, Take these with you.: (holds 3 broken watchers)

(surprised)
They're broken,- and Mr. Michael said it's best I shouldn't.

Actually these are repaired, but look broken: to disguise them. Take them with you, TfNi: We can monitor your progress…. Mike agrees, but we had to be sure you'd get-away clear from suspicion here so we left them damaged in case anyone challenges you: Bargain one for three measures of grain-meal: That will make any simple man smile at the thought of reciprocal multiplication.: (to both)
God-be-with-you, TfNi, and Adam;- I must tend to space-city-business.: (returns to the Shuttle)

TfNi, Adam, retreat …

Shuttle EXHAUST … Lifts and accelerates eastward into haze.

(~~:~~ - more: music time-sync'ed)

They turn, take hands, and walk away to the river …

EXT. PISHON RIVER NORTH-BEND - MILE-WIDE SHALLOW - HAZY SUN

TfNi, Adam wading warm muddy water, walk westward upriver …

(~~:~~ -subsides-)

A CAT hiding dusted behind a snapped tree stump banded by a straplike fragment, awakes and watches them pass near;

(points west-to-east)
… and the rain washes down the slopes of the mountains and hills and the land itself, and gathers into streams; and the streams run-together into rivers and cross the plain; and from here, flow to fill lakes and bigger seas and oceans….

(switches subjects)
Mommy,-- Where's the toilet?

On unbuilt planets, we improvise.

She leads him to a bush spared behind another tree stump.

And behind the bush, Adam squats,-- and leaves it.

And back to the river: to clean-up.

She soil-covers his leavings while he returns to the river.

And she catches him at the river shore … and both wade-in.

The Cat rises, sneezes dust, and comes inspects the toilet.

And watches TfNi clean Adam with a handful of river sand …

AT THE SHORE:

And she shows him how to clean his hands using river sand--

(works sand under water)
And wash your hands in the sand and water.: (sniffs hand; withholds)
And wash thoroughly.: (reworks with fresh sand)

They come out, and walk the shore upriver; Cat trailing …

Mommy, Can we dry-off?

It's warm today:- Let's walk;- We may swim some more.

MILES FURTHER - MIDMORNING (MILD-HAZY SUN ABOVE-BEHIND)

The river is gradually clearing; trees stand barren here …

Adam, Can you identify the types of day, here?

(ponders, points)
There are plants, and trees:- Those are day-type Three.: (looks up, around)
This river of water is day-type Two … And the daylight, and the clouds earlier are day-type One … But the sun is clearing:- That is day-type Four … Can we stop and look for fish in the river waters?

She nods Yes.

They stand at the water's edge, talking quietly--

Do you know what a fish looks like?

It's gray, long, smooth except its fins stick-out … There,- Is that a fish?- They live underwater.

Could it be a dark rock?

(watches a moment)
There, It moved … I think … See?

Yes, That is a fish:- a small fish.

And fish are day-type Five;--: (looks up, around)
But I don't see any birds;- And we won't see stars until nighttime,- except a moon sometimes: A moon and stars are day-type Four … But … Are we the mankind of day-type Six?

We are visitors to this planet: We may find mankind;- And we will see animals too.

(peers about the horizon)
Not right here:- This planet must be mostly day-type Four or Five.

Actually this planet is bigger than we see here,- which is already much bigger than our spacecruiser…. We may have to go far to find animals and mankind,-- but they are here.

(a beat)
Mommy, Where does this, river go?

It flows a long way down the slope of the land, to the ocean.

(looks around)
Are we on a slope?

THE VIEW IS FLAT;- the mountains are still in smoky haze.

Yes, a very gentle slope,- enough for shallow water:-- Come, watch:

She finds a bush-stick … and tosses it into the river …

(squats with him)
See: A stick of wood floats, and goes with the water current, which itself is flowing down-slope….

(watches the stick)
Can we make a river-ship to carry us?

(quick looks about)
We may,- with a lot more wood.

They continue walking;

Where are we going?

We will go to our select base-camp, and set-up there.

How far is our base-camp?

It is about two miles from here:- We did not want to land the Shuttle right on top of the base-camp;- We should scout-around first, and see what's near and far;- See, Here are some berries, in bushes.

She leads him quickly to her discovered berry bush still intact and viable behind a small clump of barren trees …

And gathers sprays of berries, mid-high;

(blows dust off)
These may be edible….

She heads back to the river; He follows, interested …

AT THE SHORE:

She washes the berries … and lets him try one--

(eats … smiles)
It's tart, and sweet!--: (and eats more)
Why didn't we have these on the spacecruiser?

(eating too)
We had the giant Balaustine berries you liked … I think Mr. Gabriel has included some in the seed pouches…. There are too many kinds of fruits, to grow them all onboard a cruiser.

They treat on the berries while she fashions two spears of stiff water reeds: fitting a splinter of rock in each tip.

(holds-up a spear)
This, is a spear for catching fish.

She leads to the water's edge….

Stand still and be quiet while we fish with a spear.

He quiets…. She strikes the spear into the water … a couple times … and finally spears a fish;-- He smiles.

Fish are food for mankind:-- fish from clean fresh river water….

She stands her spear upright; kneels and scoops handfuls of water two-handed-tipped-forward to her mouth, drinking …

He kneels and imitates … but has a hand-sieve …

And leans down prone, mouth to the water, And slurps …

(wiping mouth)
Yes, it's fresh water.

Plants that grow fruit right at the ground are unclean on Earth but are clean in outerspace;-- Do you know why?

Planet soil is unclean … And we use hydroponics in the spacecruiser;-- But, Mommy, The plant nutrients are not for people….

Hydroponics are finished and wash freely;- But soil is unfinished and does not wash off readily;- It gets wet in the rain but leaves a stain. Plants that grow tall, are clean.

How high do they have to grow?- Like trees?

Trees are high enough; Clean plants have elevated fruits, higher than…: (squats with him; quiet)
Do you know about the very small animals?

You mean the worms and bugs?: (TfNi nods Yes)
They crawl on everything.

(nods Yes again)
Yes, Elevated fruits must never sway to the ground.

So, the berries are clean?

Yes, Berries are clean,- but, Leave those near the bottom, near the ground:- Animals must eat, too.

(considers admittingly)
What do fish eat?

(smiles)
Not berries, but very tiny plants, and bugs.

And worms?

I suppose they can, but worms bury into the dirt out of reach. And big fish may eat tiny fish:- there are so many fish in all the waters…. This fish will be our dinner, with these berries;- the fish-tail is for children.

They walk-on, with speared fish and sprigs of berries.

(00:00 windwhistle - more: music timestep-sync'ed)

A DAYTIME FIREBALL MEANDERS tightly in the W-SW sky …

(00:06 cry)

(looks, pauses)
Wait a moment, Adam.

It descends … to the due-west horizon …

But just stillness on the horizon….

(00:15 +drum tap excitement beat)

Let's keep going.

They walk-on in the midmorning blazing sun.

(00:24 evaporates -stop before voice-)

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. NILE SAND BEACH - OTHER SHUTTLE - LANDING - MIDMORN

DESCENDING NEATLY vertically … Inside are Copilot Ra, Pilot THOTH twin-100, Ptah and the twin-WIVES in back …

TO THREE-POINT atop a groved hill. N.B. No pyramid 4000 BC.

ENGINE SHUTS DOWN….

The men disembark … and independently look about …

Last out--

(foot out gingerly)
Well, well … So this, is a planet!- Haven't seen one of these in aeons…: (a beat; one-foot stomp)
Terra … Solida … Cognita….: (one step out, to feet)
One small step for the younger gods … One giant leap of faith, for me …

(fast-flatfooting away)
There's a beach … a beach! … Gabe is missing all this…!

(follows less-enthused)
Not-too easy to miss a whole beach-front planet … Just takes good aim.

Thoth walks-after for the shore … where Ra slides in sand:

(watching Ra slide)
Terra, not-so-solida….

Ra flops full in the water,-- and splashes right back out--

(jumping soaked)
Eigh-yigh-yigh … this is cold…!

(stoops to touch sand)
The sand is hot: Dry-off on this.

(tests; sits; lies back)
Ooh… Ahh…!- This is warmer…!

Ptah takes tentative steps … but more-downhill accelerates flatfooting … sideways … and flops on the sand near Ra.

(laments loud)
Sekhmet…!-- We forgot, to simulate gravity with, hills,…!: (calms, to Ra)
Should be in the sun for a while …: (supine a beat, leans up)
And easier … too … Like zero gee….

All-three lying on the beach … spread-eagle …

So, Which are we going to do first?

I think we go for the gold … first.

Silver, will beat gold … It was rarer on Mike's spectral map….

But gold has sunnier color….

(trying to sit up)
Only looking at a pinhole-obscura …: (flops back)
And, We have to sit, up, first….

(tries to sit up)
Aah … yuh … Later--: (flops back)

Thoth swim-scrapes a 'sand-angel' … props and looks about …

This could get real boring real fast.

Is that any different than on-ship?

I … suppose not … But we could do things better than lying around….

We could do lying-around, better….

Think of this planet as a larger ship … What would you do?

I'd start, by finding-out where we're going….

Did we know where we were going on the ship?

We knew we were going to land one of these planets, eventually….

Then we know where this planet is going:- Same direction as the ship.

(a beat)
So we've upgraded to a bigger ship?

(a beat)
Long as we don't land this planet, ship, on a bigger, planet … ship….

Thoth and Ra look mutually--

(confides quieter)
You'd better, find-out where we're going….

Sekhmet calls-out from the shuttle--

(loud)
Any of you men going to come retrieve us women…?!

The men in unison "Aah!"--

Chivalry, is the universal, cosmic, timeless, ageless, interstellar, interplanetary, constant….

FADE TO:

EXT. PISON - NEARING GOOD GROVE - WEAK HAZE, LATE AFTERNOON

Parallel beyond the river is the raised entry lip of the first miles-long impact crater. Tfni, Adam, water-frolic …

(breaks off)
We've played long-enough, Adam;- Let's go rest.

And come out … a LIZARD scampers, stops … and runs again …

(pointing to lizard)
What's that?

That's little more than a snake with fully developed legs.

It's fast;- Does it live underground too?

When the days are cooler it spends more time beneath.

Will we build a camp underground?

(looks at Adam, smiles)
I hope it doesn't get that cold….

A BIRD SWOOPS DOWN passed … and grabs-away the lizard.

Oh!- What was that?!

That's the bird you didn't see earlier:-- They fly in the day.

Where do birds go in the night?

They find a safe place high in the trees;-- maybe here.

EXT. THE GOOD GROVE, LARGELY LOW DATE PALMS - (CONTINUOUS)

The Cat, approaching the grove, chases the taunting BIRD.

(points)
What's that?

A land-animal;-- What would you like to call it?

(pauses)
Does it have a name?

Every planet has its own types of animals;-- We can name them here.

(watches)
It's trying to catch a bird:-- Let's call it a, Catcher.

How about if it only tries?

Okay, a cat: It's a small, -maybe- catcher.

(nods Acknowledging)
And how would you describe a cat, to me?

It's long; it has four legs, and a longish tail, and short ears; it's brown.

And if there were another that were white?- Would that be a cat?

(considers)
… Yes;- This is a brown, cat.

And if it had a short tail,-- Would it be a cat?

(considers)
… I don't think so…. Do you think there are any?

This is a small base-camp;-- We'll see what we find. But, Adam: Don't you chase wild animals;- Do you understand me?!

Yes.

And don't squeeze your pet animals hard, like you do Mommy and Daddy…. Let's prepare dinner:: (takes dangling branches)
Let's gather dry brush and sticks for a fire.

(helps gather dry brush)
Okay.

She rubs or flints a fire …

We will make our fire of sticks tonight,- but we must find more tinder soon: Sticks grow in season and in place,- and have other uses.

And prepares the fish …

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. NILE SAND BEACH - SHUTTLE LANDING - LATE AFTERNOON

All tanned: They're busy unloading about the shuttle …

(loud from Shuttle Comm)
Mike says they've found Tefen!- And he's very alive,- Sneezing wildly…!

Good…! We should hide the shuttle…!

(gets out leisurely)
Spinning, cooling evenly just above freezing … suit intact … breathing, slowly, on spare heat and air … But four, days, still, is a long time …

… After we figure-out where we are!

(joining)
He'll be up-and-about presently:-- They're sending him right down….: (looks-about)
Frightened clean out of his wits …: (a beat, resumes)
Stiff hangover of proton radiation.: (a beat, about)
Hmmm … Could sink it in the river … Or impact it in the hillside … Bury it deep, unseen that way….

Excellent … As soon as we unload.

(a beat)
And they've renamed him …: (enunciates)
His most-excellent-majesty, King, Khon-Shw …

King, Khon-Shw…?- Tefen?-- King…-- Shw…?-- Why…?!

They're convincing him he has died and taken a magical ferry boat ride to the third planet of heaven: and received his eternal-secret name.

Ptah lets out a goodly cackle.

(as Ptah eases)
And here he will rule over the gods and the wo-gods of the whole world.

(abruptly sober)
Does he believe, it…?!

And Thoth cackles-up laughing…

We will send him east, at the first opportunity.

FADE TO:

EXT. PISON GROVE - LATE DUSK - DARKENING (A THOUSAND STARS)

Soft desert BREEZE RUSTLES the trees; CRICKETS CHIRP.

They finish dinner.

She prepares a bed of fronds-leaves while he tosses bone-scraps to invite the Cat….

She takes him in her arms to rest.

An occasional meteor streaks across the sky …

(quietly)
Do you know the stars in the sky?

Mr. Gabriel assigned us research to learn them…. There's Sirius:-: (points)
It's bright red …
And Adara …
And there's Rigel …
And Betelgeuse …
And Aldebaran:- it's red too …
And there's the 'cluster-of-seven', but that's not their name …
And there's Capella …
And over there's Procyon,-
And Pollux …: (looking around)
The stars appeared on the fourth-day-type …

A METEOR STREAKS …

(surprised, points)
And a meteor!: (a beat)
There are also lots of stars we can see from the other side….: (a beat)
Mommy, Will we get to visit the other side of the Earth?

Not very soon, Adam; but eventually we may…. We'll see how we like living on this side;-- But, you remember what you told me about the planets revolving around the sun?

(ponders)
Yes… Oh: We don't have to go to the other side, to see the other stars!: (exuberates on discovery)
When will we see them…?!

In a hundred and 83 days: about two times it takes for fruit to grow.

(figures)
Then we will, see the other stars….

Yes, many times,-- maybe a thousand times again.

Okay.: (redirects)
But, Mommy, There were more stars on this side, before.

From our spacecruiser, in space the sky is clear to see dimmer stars that on a planet, the deep sky hides…. Most stars we see are very near our sun, in this galaxy arm … yet during the day the blue sky obscures even those…. Do you know which lights we see during the day?- and which of them are stars?

The sun is the star nearest this planet,- but, What other stars?: (pauses)
And we see the moon too, and maybe other planets.

We may see comets and supernovae sometime.

Mr. Gabriel said, a supernova is a big star that burns like a billion suns, in six hours, and then glows brightly as it blows-away in space; And these are rare now.

Rare, yes;- but when the universe began there were very many.

(a long beat)
Are there people, like us, living near every star?- Or are they like the sixth-day-type mankind?

Sixth-day-type planets abound in the galaxy; But Adam, We must never endanger their peoples with our technologies. Do you know why?- or where their technology comes-from?

It comes from partial knowledge of planet surface physics.

Right, you are:-- a thousand times too slow and too shallow for us.

Will they ever become like us?

In a thousand times as long before your adult-teeth come-in.

(2 beats thinking)
How long is that?

Six thousand planet years, they'll get their spacer-teeth;- But only if you help them and never hurt them.

(drowsily)
They'll be adults for a very long time.

They quiet, to sleep….

FADE TO:

INT. SPACECRUISER - CHILDREN'S HALL - RED (DREAM FLASHBACK)

(00:00 'hee, hoo' - music timestep-sync'ed)

POV: TfNi ranger-goggled walks amid personnel scattering …

COLLAGE: Assault at Jupiter: LIGHT FAILS TO GOGGLE VIEW …

(00:08 +rhythm, grinding strains)

Goggle DATA, FAINT STROBES;-- EXPLOSION INTO HALL, Croakers enter GUNFIRING, Armoried Crew return LASERGUN-PATTERNS …

TRANSPARENT DANIELESQUE Tefen, white robe, golden sash, standing amidst, arms raised to the sky, long hair blowing, ruby eyes, and as-it-were-water dappling about his feet …

(00:17 string, smooth-wipe-spread)

RESOLVE TO:

EXT. A NARROW RIVER, SANDBAR AMIDST - (CONTINUOUS LAST)

Two loin-clothed, oiled MUSCLE-GUARDS: Mr. Michael on this side, Mr. Gabriel the other, facing opposite, arms crossed; TfNi seated unclad (BACKSIDE), breathing hard, reaching up;

(arms high, prophesying)
By His irrefutable Word created the Almighty the sun and moon and every star and planet in their courses, and set the heavens in motion; … He spreadeth His understanding before the foundations of the Earth … He weigheth His wisdom upon the scales of the sky … His truth divideth the minds of the nations …

(00:35 cry, tinkle)

that it should be counted two times and weighed for a time and parted for half a time … and then shall it be parted again for half a time and weighed for a time and counted two times … 'til all be fulfilled….

(00:45 -stop before voice-)

MELD TO:

EXT. GROVE - DARK NIGHT, STARS (PRESENT AWAKE)

MELD: TfNi breathing excessively … wakes,-- calms …

Adam remains sleeping, breathing quietly.

Good night, Adam.

FADE TO:

EXT. GROVE, PISHON RIVER - DAWN

TfNi rouses;

Takes palm fronds and half the remaining berries;

Walks to the mile-wide river shallows;

Washes the berries and eats, looking across at the crater;

Looks back at Adam sleeping … and around … and crosses …

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. ALONG THE NILE - SANDY SHORE - EARLY DAWN

They're hiking with spacer backpacks, Ptah wading …

(looks about)
We're going to have to change to local clothes … plaited leaves … or sewn-up fishskins….

Fishskins:-- I can wear that…!- Get me one of those deep sea creatures: Something bloated and terrifying…!

You're supposed to be Sun-god … not terrifying.

Think there are any golden sun-fish with radial spines … at least?

(stoops and picks up)
Regard … a gold, fleck … See: Gold is the first, rarest to be found….

That makes silver rarer … when we find it….

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. GROVE - RETURNED - SUN UP AN HOUR

PAN TO JOIN: Wearing frond-slippers, she washes the last of the berries in a frond-plate at the shore …

(approaches carrying Cat)
Mommy, The cat likes me.

Speak to the cat: Tell it the truth, You are the master.

(to Cat)
You are one, cat, on this planet, in the cosmos: Your place is here.

Adam, Come see the things I found at the river.

Adam comes close, loosing the Cat …

(handling pitch lumps)
This is oil-sludge: We can use it for our cooking fires: instead of dry twigs and leaves.

What is oil-sludge?

Cat circumspects TfNi;

Wash your hands in the water, and eat some berries.

He rubs his hands in the water and sand, to wash.

She gives him the frond-plate of berries: He eats while she demonstrates oil-sludge that floats;

This oil-sludge is a blend of deep-Earth carbons, plus the slick gooey remains of plants and animals that lived long ago and got stuck in it. It makes a sludge underground where it collected thousands and millions of years:- Oil-sludge is not clean; It comes to the surface because it floats above the water table here;-: (tosses it on the river)
Oil and water can seep through tiny cracks in the ground, and ooze-up, and collect. And oil burns in fire.

How do animal remains get underground?

Everything the animal leaves of its body adds to the soil and is washed with rain, and mixed with the dusts of Earth and outer-space, settling from the wind…. Plants grow in the soil, and everything a plant leaves that the animals don't eat, adds to the soil until it is very deep, in tens of thousands of years. We will plant a garden, with trees, in soil like this, of the seeds we brought.

(touches oil-sludge)
Will we make oil-sludge too?

Not for ten thousand years … But we may find more things that have oil: The seeds of many grain-plants are rich in oil clean for making food.

(sniffs finger)
This doesn't smell like food.

Eating-oils must be made fresh, and used fresh, and eaten fresh…. This sludge is very old, and was made of already-eaten foods…. We'll collect this for our cooking fire, and keep it in pots made of clay…. Would you like to help?

Okay…. But where do we get clay on this planet?

(scoops deeper clay)
The kind of clay we will use here, is very fine, soil, thick and damp; and is found deeper under the sand.

Oh:- Mr. Gabriel said, Soil is like our toy-modeling clay….

(works and shapes clay)
Yes, but we have lot's of clay-soil here … And we will bake it very hot till it's very hard and dry,- after we fashion-out pots.

A BEE buzzes-by Adam "vv…vv" … and alights on a flower bud.

(searching delighted)
What's that?!

It's smaller than a bird….

Let's call it a, Vee: It sounds,: (enunciates)
'Vvv…vvv'.

Where does the Vee, go?

(watches it crawl buds)
It is stopping on little plants and inspecting the flower buds, before these open.

It is a worker-insect:: (joins, watches)
A pollinator.

What does work mean among insects?- What work is pollinating?

It means, It doesn't eat the plants but tends and promotes the fruiting for seeding by collecting grains of flower-pollen and leaving specks on other flowers of the same species…. It keeps most of the pollen for its own food,- as flowering plants have much extra.: (appends)
We, will tend the plants we, grow.

Will we pollinate the flowers?

We can let the Vees do that:- there are many more…. We will water and feed the plants:- the whole plants.: (new subject)
Now, Would you like to help, gather the oil-sludge, and the pot-making?

Yes.

(presents frond-slippers)
Put-on your shoes,- and let's begin this day's work.

He puts on the frond-slippers.

COLLAGE: A DAY'S ACTIVITIES:

MORNING HOURS

She teaches him to fashion pots of moist clay-soil …

While she makes a larger kiln of clay in a place for it …

And they set the pots out aside to sun-dry …

We will let these dry thoroughly,- And then bake them all very, dry….

She builds an open fire of oil-sludge-dipped-pebbles, while he watches, alternately petting and playing with his Cat …

NOON

She finishes cooking fish and vegetation-stalks on wet leaves steamed over the remaining fire and hot pebbles …

And they eat, with a side-order of palm dates….

AFTERNOON HOURS

She teaches him to fashion frond-baskets …

And they scoop river-pebbles and-clay for the next task:

LATE AFTERNOON HOUR

They pour a large fire-hearth of clay and pebble filling … smoothing it with fronds … And leave it to dry….

This will dry in a few days….

She tries fashioning several clay spear heads, and chipping a few -softer- rocks, for knife-like tool pieces.

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. RIVER, SHORE - EARLY EVENING

They frolic and splash in the river ad lib until dinner …

(stops from play)
Adam. Before our evening dinner, It is time for the special discovery of today:- Let's cross the river.

Can I take the cat?

Do you remember what I said?

You said to not squeeze it.

(purses a smile)
Yes.

He retrieves the cat … and They cross the shallows to the far side … Adam holding his Cat high in waist deep water …

And beyond … until they come to:

POV: 100 PACES DOWN THE STEAMY-MISTY BARREN CRATER SLOPE … They appear and stop at the lip … He lets Cat loose….

SURVEYING the 3 mi. wide 10 mi.-along 100 ft. deep crater …

Is this, the special discovery?

Yes: See how far it is, across.

But it's plain:- There's nothing growing down there….

It just started today;- This will be your garden:- You will grow it.

(surprised)
The whole garden?!

Yes, With the seeds we brought, we will plant it,-- and we will divert the river to water it when the rain does not…. This is all yours: You will tend it,- And later in the year, its harvest will feed us.

Adam marvels the extent …

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. NILE - SANDY BEACH - MIDDAY (MONTHS LATER)

All in fishskin suits, Ra welcomes SHW (Tefen), except who is still spacer-suited, sullen, exiting from a shuttle--

(a hand support)
Welcome to … the third, planet, of Heaven, Shw….

(looks at him funny)
Et tu, Ra…?- You guys have turned all weird, since I got back….

You've joined-up with the gods…!

Shw out and away, Ra waves-off the Pilot;-- Shuttle rises …

You'll get use to planet living … And you'll have to change to one of these fishskins suits … unless you prefer scratchy leaf loincloths …

Ptah is careful-footing along wet beach above the water:--

(watching his feet, loud)
Look at this … Look, at, this…!

Ra, Shw, walk over …

(quiet to Shw)
Say, Hi.

(coming near)
Hi…. What did you find?

(occupied: to his feet)
I step on wet sand and it instantly oozes-up water … We can channel wet sand and run flat-bottom barges and transport tons of gold: A thousand-man army can build magnificent gold temples … for worshipping us….

Oh.

Ra knows what's coming, with just a smile:

(looks at last: taken)
Ahh…!-- Shw…!: (a hung beat)
Shw,- You've got, to keep your mind active, down here … You know why we called you, Shw:- You were one air-headed little baby….

My birth name was, Tefen.

And a typhoon, you were! -Lord!- We were amazed, at the abundance we'd achieved:-- We could hear you from one end of the ship to the other …: (A FOOT-TEST BEAT)
Ten miles, away … We were going to call you, "Echo" … but you quieted down when you married Tefnuit…!-- But we were prepared for worser …: (careful-foots away)
And you can't go puttering across the cosmos blowing wind 9-thousand years like Ptah, Shw … You'll go nuts…!

FADE TO:

EXT. CRATER GARDEN, PISON - SUMMER EVENING (FIRST HARVEST)

Flourishing nursery-size trees; berry bushes; wheat field;

Adam routes slope-stream water by pick-hoe, to tend trees;

TfNi, near term, sings ad lib, occupied at a potter wheel;

Watering done, he spreads compost …

A hungry WOLF creeps stealthily amid bushes … Cat scats …

She notices each … Reaches for a frond-sling and stone …

Wolf approaches behind Adam … She turns, smoothly slinging the stone --the wolf looks-- into the wolf's forehead;--

The wolf drops.

Resolutely, she takes the wolf by the scruff and drags it away … up-slope to the river whence it came….

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. CRATER LIP, GRASS FIELD ALONG RIVER

Walking a ways … she HEARS HUNGRY CUBS … and approaches …

Finds a den of 4 wolf cubs;-- Looks at her limp wolf,- and places it amid the cubs,- which suckle….

(00:00 - music timestep-sync'ed)

SUN GLINTS IN THE RIVER, in her face … Tears welling, she breaks to sob, face in hands, wailing …

(00:14 sad sax reed)

Standing, showing fully pregnant herself….

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. GARDEN

'WING FOG' GROWS DOWN from the far W-NW lip of the crater.

TfNi brings the Cubs by the scruff 2x2, to Adam.

(01:00 -melt away before reed-)

What are they?

These are cubs, the children of an animal:- Their mother is no longer available to them;- We'll take care of them till they are grown.

Can we name them?- They have short tails;-- They're,: (enunciates)
Dockts.

Alright, we'll call them, Dogkts.

He plays with the cubs while she invents cub mash …

And they feed them … [Note Adam's prior surgery belly scar]

Adam, I want to tell you a special secret.

What is a secret?

A secret is something you didn't have to pay attention-to before I tell you.

What is the secret?

The secret is, You are going to have a little baby-sister.

What is a baby-sister?

A baby is someone who is like you now, and when your sister grows-up she will be a mommy like me;- You will be a daddy.

How will she be like me?- I am I … You are like me….

She will start little and quickly grow to your size, and then you can play together.

Where is the baby-sister now?

The baby is in my belly.

Inquisitive, he looks at her, her belly, but unsure where …

(taps his belly)
Below the rib-bone…. But you are never to poke your sister! You may play with her, but never, animal-play with her: not like playing with your cats and dogks: She is the same flesh as you.

(thrusts-out his belly)
Will I have a baby, too?

(laughs)
No, Only mommies have the baby in the belly. But you will have to help me take care of your baby-sister. Do you think you are ready to help me by doing what I tell you, when I tell you?

I think so.

Good. Your baby-sister will come soon: I will tell you when.: (begins away)

Mommy …: (a beat)
When will Mr. Gabriel come again?

(staying)
Adam:- Mr. Gabriel has his own work to tend; --as you have yours;-- He will visit when he has the season…. But we always have what we already know of him….

Yes.

The fog rolls past; he watches it flow and fill about him …

What is that?

That is fog: a cloud on the ground.

(grabbing at it)
It feels wet….

It is, water, finely misted in air.

(dunks under, a beat)
I can breathe in it….

The fog covers him, and the plants …

(a long beat)
Adam,- Where are you…?

I'm still right here….: (a Ptah-cackle-laugh)

The fog spreads across the crater-depression-garden floor …

[N.B. TfNi dresses in wolfskin-fur hereafter]

FADE TO FOG

EXT. MOUNTAINTOP POOL - SUNBEAMS BUT NO SUN (DREAM)

Secluded, fed by waterfall, shallow sloped, sand bottom.

(00:00 windwhistle - music timestep-sync'ed)

TfNi underwater long-glides … breaststroke … approaching …

(00:07 guitar)

Breaks the surface … walking gracefully slowly up out … and up the easy shore slope; sunlight on her back …

(00:09 voice)

Sweeps-grabs a lace-sheer robe hanging on a bush … blots her face … slips-in arms …

(00:30 +rhythm)

Continues dance-walk up; BREEZE tossing her hair forward …

(00:49 rise, voice, faint huffing)

Stands at the ridge-top; strong WIND pushing her hair …

POV: BEYOND THE RIDGE, ZOOM-IN: TfNi-front:

(01:24 slow, crunch -begin meld-)

She gasps in a slow body-centric convulsion …

(01:26 -stop before voice-)

MELD TO:

INT. SPACECRUISER - CHILDREN'S HALL - RED (DREAM REPEAT)

(00:00 heehoo - repeat: music timestep-sync'ed)

POV: TfNi ranger-goggled walks amid personnel scattering …

COLLAGE: Assault at Jupiter: LIGHT FAILS TO GOGGLE VIEW …

(00:08 +rhythm, grinding strains)

Goggle DATA, FAINT STROBES;-- EXPLOSION INTO HALL, Croakers enter GUNFIRING, Armoried Crew return LASERGUN-PATTERNS …

TRANSPARENT DANIELESQUE Tefen, white robe, golden sash, standing amidst, arms raised to the sky, long hair blowing, ruby eyes, and as-it-were-water dappling about his feet …

(00:17 string, smooth-wipe-spread)

RESOLVE TO:

EXT. A NARROW RIVER, SANDBAR AMIDST - (CONTINUOUS LAST)

Two loin-clothed, oiled MUSCLE-GUARDS: Mr. Michael on this side, Mr. Gabriel the other, facing opposite, arms crossed; TfNi seated unclad (BACKSIDE), breathing hard, reaching up;

(arms high, prophesying)
By His irrefutable Word created the Almighty the sun and moon and every star and planet in their courses, and set the heavens in motion; … He spreadeth His understanding before the foundations of the Earth … He weigheth His wisdom upon the scales of the sky … His truth divideth the minds of the nations …

(00:35 cry, tinkle)

that it should be counted two times and weighed for a time and parted for half a time … and then shall it be parted again for half a time and weighed for a time and counted two times … 'til all be fulfilled….

EXTENDED VERSION:

(00:45 voice)

Windblown Danielesque, arms still raised (cf Moses in battle); TfNi is breathing hard, wordlike apologetic, reaching up as climbing the near guard …

(01:01 +piano)

B.G. The farside PLAIN FLOODS-UP to mirage-smooth …

B.G. COLLAGE: History-footage, reconstructions, overlaps:

B.G. A lone ark floats on the flood … a dove flies …

(01:10)

B.G. A long caravan crosses …

(01:19 bark, yell)

B.G. Abraham's army battles-chases unto Dan … rescues Lot …

(01:28)

B.G. Fire and brimstone fall: Sodomites flail, fall, sink …

(01:37 piano clash)

B.G. LIGHTNING STRIKES-- distant gold-capped Pyramid, with rivulets of electricity running down-about all sides …

(01:39 clash)

AGAIN, a flash-bolt of lightning … but Pyramid stays while:

B.G. Hebrews Exodus crosses ahead of Egyptian chariots …

(01:47)

B.G. Solomon's wooden oars+sails ship fleet meanders …

(01:57)

B.G. Pyramid is Masada: Roman Legions battle Jews atop …

(02:07)

B.G. Cross-icon horseback Crusaders battle across below …

(02:17 lull, ease)

B.G. Open sea: World War I flotilla battles across …

(02:27)

B.G. Open sky: WWII aircraft fleet bombing raid crosses …

(02:37)

B.G. 1952 Nov. Mike nuclear fusion test … mushroom-cloud …

B.G. Cloud stays; Shuttle-launch spires up through center …

(02:46 shriek -meld-)

MELD TO:

INT. GARDEN-SLOPE CAVE - DARK NIGHT, STARS (PRESENT AWAKE)

MELD TO NEWBORN CRY …

TfNi breathing excessively, wakes-- and comforts infant Eve with word and breast in the dark … calms …

Mommy … Are you alright?

(comforting suckling Eve)
Yes, Adam, I'm alright; I'm sorry I woke you.

Why were you crying?

I wasn't crying, Adam: I was working hard, and got loud; I'll show you what I was working-on, in the morning…. You can go back to sleep now; Thank you. I won't wake you again: I'll work quietly.

(sleepily)
Okay, Good night.

Good night, dear one.: (coos quietly to Eve)

FADE TO:

EXT. FLOURISHING GARDEN - SUMMER HARVEST EVENING (7TH YEAR)

PROPERTY: large grove of fruit trees, one pine; vegetables field, wheat field, irrigational canals; sheep corral;

ANIMALS: a flock of sheep, a tethered Goat; dogs, cats;

CLAY-STONE: oil oven, worktable, benches, potter's wheel;

PITCHED-THATCHED: roofed windbreakered fruit-drying racks, teepee cooler, compost pile; boat-raft up at the river;

TOOLS: spears, long-poles, slings, bow-and-arrows;

CLAY: ceramic pots, pans; Adam's spaceship toy, cuneiform;

THATCHED: frond aprons, Eve's step-stool; mattress bed;

FUR: TfNi's clothes, straw-bed fur sheet, Eve's doll toy;

ODDS AND ENDS: clay-wood whistle-chimes thatch-string-hung in trees; reed whistle-flutes; shiny snailshells; toys;

B.G. ADAM (8) (BACKSIDE), tends in the garden, counting fruits, logged on a clay-tablet, long-poling birds, pruning 'V' branches, watering, composting around trees; some fruit is bird-eaten, one particularly mushy on a near low branch;

INT. CAVE

EVE (6), plays on the fur-covered bed with her doll …

Pauses … runs outside:

EXT. - (CONTINUOUS)

TfNi is busy cooking; Doll in hand, Eve runs to her Goat …

Takes the leash and leads it down … to--

Adam … and watches …

(a few beats)
Do you have to count the fruits again, Adam?

Mommy says we don't forget to count the fruitage with gratitude every harvest season.

(points doll at a mushy)
Ooh … I don't count that one:- It's mushy … The birds ate it already.

We don't eat the mushy fruit, Eve;- Mommy says we count all, the fruit, the trees make so we know what good we did the trees by tending them.

I count only good fruit.

Mommy says we need to know how much more fruit is on the trees we tend, compared to the tree we did not….

Why do you count the mushy fruit?

Mommy says … Eve … The trees grow the fruit they grow which is good … The trees do not grow fruit mushy … The birds do that … Mommy says we count the same fruit on the trees we tend as the tree we do not tend.

Why do you count the fruit I am not going to eat?

(a beat)
Eve, We are not eating any of these fruits until I count them….

How many fruits are on that tree?

A hundred and forty-four;- And that is three-and-a-half times better than the tree I did not tend with water and composted dung and leaf.

Is that enough?

Mommy says it is a good amount.

Is the fruit ready to eat?

Soon … maybe tomorrow some and next week. I must finish counting these.

Okay. Don't let the birds eat them any more before next week:- I'm hungry.

Adam, Eve: It's time to finish-up and be getting ready for dinner.

(to Eve)
Be sure to feed my animals before dinner time.

(draws Goat away)
Come-on, Go-at: It's time for you to go-at your dinner.

She bring Goat to--

FOREGROUND: TfNi is at the oven.

Eve gathers animal food from yesterday's-basket …

Are you feeding the Go-at?

Yes.: (considers a beat)
Mommy?

Yes, dear?

Why does that tree in the middle of Adam's garden, grow without fruit when he tends it?- It doesn't look broken….

Eve: Each tree has its own God-known purpose for man: That pine is a tree that lives only and produces seeds to grow more pine trees…. It has some qualities useful for cleaning, too.: (again)
Many things grow without fruit, Eve;- And many with very small fruits; And we keep some of each, to remind us to prove that we have Godly work to do … Not everything we do is for feeding man.

Okay.

She returns with Goat and food to--

MID FOREGROUND WATER: Feeds it, pets it … and other pets …

TfNi near-steps on Adam's clay toy spaceship by the oven.

Adam: I've told you to keep your toy spaceships away from the oil-oven, so we don't step on them.

I did;- Eve took it: You told me to not stop her.

Eve: Did you leave Adam's spaceship near the oil-oven?

(frustrated)
It's just a clay-toy: It doesn't really fly through space.

Eve: Come here.: (awaits)

Eve leashes Goat to post … comes to TfNi …

(continues close-softly)
Eve: We must appreciate our ability to be watchful of the desires of each other,- to care as we would have our own desires cared-for …: (a beat)
Can you do this, Eve?

(ponders)
Yes.

Now, How about returning Adam's spaceship, and thanking him for letting you play with it for a while?

(picks-up his spaceship)
Okay, Mommy.: (cradles it … to him)
Thank you, Adam: I liked playing with your spaceship.

(stops, and takes it)
Thank you, Eve … for refueling it …: (a quick flight-of-fancy)
Shooh … shooh … shooh …

Eve: Would like to help me make dinner?

Eve brings a wooden step-stool and her body-apron to TfNi …

Yes.

And sets it … and steps-up … TfNi ties her apron …

(positions stirrer)
Nothing should ever become over-done:- Keep stirring the whole pot while it is over the stove-fire,- and stir into the corners, so that the whole cooks evenly….

(cooperates, stirring)
How much is over-done?

Food is cooked only so that it yields quickly to man's desire: Never waste your resources cooking.

What's a resource?

What God has already provided, and men have located and gathered.

So, the fire-oil and sticks in the oven are resources … and the fish. Is clay a resource?- It's everywhere.

Not all clay is good for making pots, so, yes, pot-clay is:-- A resource must be recognized, too.

Is fire a resource?

We use it, -and it requires our resources,- but it has no place but what we give it … so we call it a technique, and we must apply our techniques to use our resources efficiently and not waste anything.

Okay. How much fire do we apply to cook dinner?

We control the oven-fire by placing more or less oil-and-stick-resource in it … and we adjust the oven-air-vent to control how well it burns:- We don't want hot smoke from the oven: That's not fiery hot and it's not fully burned:- so it will waste our resource sticks and oil to make smoke.

Why doesn't the sunlight-beam cook our food for us? It's brighter than this hot oven-fire, and it doesn't smoke.

The chemistry of cooking is heat, not light, and the sun is so far away from the Earth that it cannot give us much heat but what warms our day. If we could gather more sunlight to focus on our pot we could cook, but we'd also have to stir it because the light stops at the surface of the pot, and does not cook inside….

(pondering)
Is the sunlight-beam a resource? It has a place it comes-from. How can we gather it?

Yes, sunlight is a resource; But it's not easy to gather: We'd need a reflector like the surface of the water in the river-pools where you see your face looking back at you.

(recognizing)
Oh!

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. DRY RIVER GULLY - WAY TO NILE - LATE SUMMER AFTERNOON

Ra, Shw, apart, watch as a HUNDRED LOCALS search for gold bits … gathering to the half-full barge on a wet-sand path along a row of full water vessels … Ptah comes uphill …

(nearing Ra, loud)
Shw…!

Ra.: (points to Shw)

Shw comes over …

(puzzled to Shw)
Ra…?

Shw.

(to Ra)
Ra…?

(nods Yes)
Ra.

(to Shw)
Shw …

(nods Yes)
Shw.

(a beat between)
Shw … I think, Ra and I can handle this river and west from here-on … There's not a lot more we can do until we get more collectors….: (a beat eastward)
We had assigned you the east of the abyss sea … should be plenty there; plenty more mankind … They're easy-enough to train:- Just watch-out if they start killing and eating each other … Can't say that's useful….

(thinking aloud)
Yes … We need find better ways of feeding them, and, keeping them docile … They're good at fighting-off intruders, but they don't know their own, differences, sometimes.

We should train, them, farming, for themselves … But, they are most all subsistence-meat-eaters: hardly few will touch a fruit, even if you eat right facing, them…. It might take generations, to start…. Meanwhile, there aren't many animals; And goat herds will need grassland … They're not skills-ready to farm fish….

Well, Sleep on it, Ra: Find a way … You always do … before the morning.: (a beat, turns)
Right now, I think we best call it a day for an evening … It's too hot to work, And they need watering …: (loud waving)
Hoy…! Hoy…!

The Hundred workers hoist and bring their last gold trays …

Those nearest start watering the sand path … And with a heave-jerk, several push the barge down the wetted path …

The rest faster-walking hurrying to catch-up and unload …

FADE TO:

EXT. CAVE, PISON - BEDTIME EVENING STARS, NEW CRESCENT MOON

The north polar sky displays a BRIGHT, SMALL-CIRCLED NOVA.

(00:00 vowels, talk - music timestep-sync'ed)

Eve, Adam, TfNi, ready for bed, file-in easy-pace quietly …

INT. - (CONTINUOUS)

(00:06 doodles, stirs)

Eve climbs onto the thatch-sheeted bed, by herself …

But Adam first tends to his scratch-clay moon-record tally:

(watching Adam)
You remembered by yourself…?

(finishes tally-scratch)
Yes.

How many new-moons do you have now?

(counts 46: 2x2x2x5+6)
One, two: score … plus five and its sixth plus the two Ners you counted before … Four score, and six.

Stows it; And climbs onto the bed … and--

TfNi tucks them under the fur cover-blanket …

Mommy?: (waits for attention)
What kind of star has a circle around it?

Where did you see that, Adam?

(looks up; points north)
It's there, outside:- where it was every night, But it didn't have a circle around it: It was just big and round, and very bright.

Let's see it, Adam.

Adam slides out, down, and leads TfNi back outside …

Eve slides out, down, by herself, and follows out …

EXT. - (CONTINUOUS)

Adam is pointing north at the Circled Nova; TfNi looking …

(gazing)
Dear God of all harmony: What have you planned for us…?: (a beat, resumes)
Adam: How long have you seen that star?

(00:51 ahh)

About a month, and it was getting brighter than all the other stars: But it doesn't move like a planet or comet.

What is it, Mommy?

It's a supernova, Eve:- A star that was, ten times bigger than our sun, burning ten-thousand times faster and hotter, than our sun:- Then it burst-open with the brilliance of ten, billion, suns.

(ponders 2 beats)
How much is a billion?

A huge, whole galaxy of stars…!

(01:31 low vowels)

Remember how we practiced counting to a thousand by counting ten tens of ten?!

Yes.

If we practice counting to a thousand, again and again until we've practiced a thousand times, we've counted a thousand thousands, which is a million…. Then, counting to a billion is doing all that, as many times practiced again….

(01:52 second vowels)

Will there be people coming from the supernova to visit us?

It's far away, Adam, --but not too far away:-- They know what planets are reachable; and may be thousands of years, to get as far as we are.

(02:14 exult)

Mr. Gabriel said we came from a supernova long ago, before we lived on our spaceship:- How did we find this planet?

(injects)
Adam: Stop telling stories about Mr. Gabriel.

There are planets and stars in every direction, everywhere, Adam; This planet was on our path;- And it was thousands of years ago that we lived at the other sun.

(to Eve)
Mr. Gabriel was my teacher: He told everyone the truth.

Adam, Hush: Eve would have loved Mr. Gabriel, too.

(02:54 fade)

They admire the sky of its stars….

(03:02 -out-)

FADE TO:

EXT. GARDEN HARVEST - DENSE BUSHES - MIDDAY (13TH YEAR)

Early harvest, expansive, flourishing, not all ripe yet.

O.S. DISTANT: TfNi searches all directions, walking across;

(calling)
Eve,- Adam!?

(00:00 chimes - music timestep-sync'ed)

PULL IN GRADUALLY …

ADAM (14) speaks senatorially-deliberately; EVE (12) quick-responds sweetly, emotion-ranging; they descant:

Snakes do not talk: You do the talking for them.

Mr. Gabriel doesn't talk: You do the talking for him….

I've seen your snakes: They don't really talk.

I've never seen your Mr. Gabriel: He isn't real.

He is, too, real: He was my teacher;- He was like Daddy.

Mommy told you about Daddy: I believe her, not you.

(00:20 double chime)

You don't always do what she tells you: You believe yourself.

I'm a child: I don't know how to do what Mommy tells me all the time.

PULLING IN: A patch of trees … Adam, Eve, hid amid bushes;

(calling)
Adam!

You are trying to be disobedient: You might die if you don't grow-up.

(calling)
Eve!

(places a leaf-cloth)
Let's make clothes:- You can grow-up first.

(00:40 +high chime)

Mommy makes clothes from animal furs, not from tree leaves.

(retorts)
We do not have any animal furs: You grow only leaves on your trees.

Mommy assigned me responsibility for tending the fruit trees too.

You can't wear fruits: You can't even touch the forbidden fruit.

The trees I tend grow more, better fruit, than the forbidden tree.

(01:00 voice dahdah, horn)

The forbidden fruit looks just as good as yours: And it's real….

Mommy says death is just as real for the disobedient.

(elucidates)
You'll never know what is real, until you try it.

Mommy says we must never tempt death with our lives,-- nor evil with good.

PULL IN: Adam, Eve, wearing hand-fashioned leaf-clothing; half-eaten fruit scattered on the ground.

(calling)
Adam!

(exasperates)
You're always repeating Mommy: Be a man, not a mommy.

(calling)
Eve!

Mommy says we grow-up most rapidly by being obedient.

How did you prove that?- Did she compare you to a forbidden man…?!

Mommy says we are not to harm the men of Earth, and their children.

(whimpers)
That leaves only me and Mommy: You should repeat me, too.

(ponders)
You're only my little sister, right now.

(pouts)
How do you think Mommy got to be a mommy…?!

Adam kisses her cheek to quiet her;- the fantasy fades …

(01:59 fade to quiet "mmm", strings)

(arriving yet calling)
Adam, Eve: Where are you?!

(whimpering loud)
Mommy: Adam is bothering me again!

Eve is telling stories about talking snakes.

(present, treading)
Adam, Eve: I've been calling and looking for you!

We were here,-- hiding.

(notes leaf-clothes)
Why were you hiding?

(dejected)
Because we don't have clothes like yours, Mommy.

We don't have animal furs to make clothes.

And tree-leaves don't make very good clothes:: (self-examines)
See…?!

(considers)
And, What is this talk about snakes?

Adam doesn't believe me!

Doesn't believe you about what, Eve?

That the snake answered me when I spoke to it.

What did you tell the snake?

(02:39 quieter)

I told it … I spoke the truth, to the snake: like you said I must.

The truth about what, dear?

That God created it to understand His untrembling resolve.

What was the snake doing, Eve?

(imitates shivers)
It was, shivering, and jerking about … It was very afraid.

And what did the snake answer you?

(03:00 oomph, end -out-)

It's voice informed my thought: The broader the idea, the calmer is the understanding … Mommy,--: (whimpers again)
What does that mean?

(ponders)
It means, Eve: You can cherish the idea of loving good.

Mommy: Eve also took some of the fruit from the forbidden tree.

(to Adam)
And did you eat some of it?

She gave it to me: She said it was good fruit.

(begins lecture-review)
Adam, We discussed this thoroughly: You must eat only of the fruit of your own tending: You must prove to yourself that tree-tending is good: that the trees you tend make more fruit than the untended tree; Never eat of the tree of laziness knowing both good times and evil,-- though that is right in the midst of your own tending:- That tree is there to show you that a tree already grows by itself, and you must tend, your, trees, to improve their yield: lest you die in the evil times…. You do not eat seeds, like the bird in the tree of life without fruitage,- And you can't eat Life itself, like the Creator…. You cannot have abstract immortality, Adam: You must live … now first completely: And, you must teach your children, to prove for themselves…. I cannot forever pick for you the fruits of Truth:- I can give you the seeds of the garden of Truth, And you must plant, nurture, and tend, forever and your children after you: Do you understand me, Adam…?!

Yes, Mommy.

(a beat, stern)
Now you know the fruit tastes the same …

Adam looks placidly admissive, as the truth sinks in …

(a beat, realistic)
And you also know the difference between the good way to tend the fruit, and the evil way …: (a beat, to Eve)
Eve: How did you know it was good fruit?

It looks good, the same as from the other trees; And it tasted good.

But, dear one, Obedience is also good, and much more for you to do: The fruit is obedient to its tree, and yields to Adam's tending …

(cries)
Yes, Mommy: I'm sorry.

You'll want to keep your obedience forever, after you've eaten.: (a beat, relents a bit)
I'll show you how to make clothes of fish skins….

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. GARDEN BASE, NORTH RUN - WARM EVENING (NO MOON)

[IVO is nebulous contra-phase 'stereo-inside']

All is calm; TfNi is occupied …

(00:00 wind, wave - music timestep-sync'ed - IVO)

She pauses … listening …

(00:08 +string builds an exordium)

Looks away …

The GROUND SLIGHTLY SWAYS ONE WAY,-- AND BACK,--

Wood-knocker WIND CHIMES TINKLE politely on vine-strings …

(00:14 +throb build)

TfNi, alert to the chimes,- looks about …

GROUND SWAYS more intently thrice: TREES SWAY, TfNi braces, watching LONG-POLES TOPPLE, pottery falls, SMASH, CLATTER …

TfNi removes, searching the horizon …

(00:30 voice)

The GROUND HEAVES SLIGHT-SLOW;--

(calls)
Adam! Eve!: (listens)
Eve: Where are you?!

(00:41 dark string)

EXT. FAR ALONG NORTH RUN

Adam, Eve, in fishskin cloths, meandering, noticing about …

The GROUND moderately HEAVES-SWAYS, TREES and all …

O.S. TfNi calls in the distance--

Adam! Eve! Answer me!

(calls back puzzled)
Mommy!?

EXT. PART WAY NORTH RUN

TfNi turning about, hears behind her, distant:--

(calls worried)
Mommy…!?

(00:52 voice)

(hurries towards them)
Eve!-- Where are you?!

(01:04 dark string)

(again)
Mommy!

(01:25 voice)

THE GROUND SLOW-HEAVES;- TfNi steers against the sway …

(01:36 second voice)

THE GROUND SLOW-HEAVES BACK … ROCKS, ROLLS …

PRECEDING: TfNi, half-sprinting, half steering …

SMALL GROUND-VENTS SPURT GASES AND DUST:

(01:58 crash clash)

SHORT RIFTS OPEN … GROUND SOFTENS,-- TREES TILT …

(02:10 crash)

RIFTS MULTIPLY … OIL POOLS, GROUND LIQUIFIES, TREES FALL …

(02:12 voice)

OIL SPURTS … SOME GAS VENTS FLAME-UP …

(02:24 crash, big clash)

A SINUOUS ROARING GAP OUTRUNS TfNi, with

A RIPPING SHEET OF FLAMES …

Heaving Ground finally tosses TfNi stumbling shy of--

(02:37 chime, voice, lull)

Adam, Eve, stumbling-about to hands and knees amid the collapsing garden, as TfNi slides to--

A BROAD GAP BETWEEN.

(breathing refrain)
Eve! Adam! Are you all right?!

(crying on all four)
Mommy!…

The ground calmer, Adam stands; TfNi to one knee.--

Adam! Take Eve! Leave the garden! Run to the north!- Stay back from the river tonight!: (points north forward)

Adam grips Eve's shoulder.

(wailing)
Mom-my!!

Eve! Stay with Adam!- Go now!

Mother: We can't leave you alone.

Adam! Take care of Eve! She'll be your mother now. Go!- Run! Now!

Adam considers Eve quizzically.

(03:26 strum, rebuilds)

THE GROUND SWAYS;-- TfNi braces.

(03:31 voices)

Adam grips Eve's arm, hand, pulling-up, taking steps away …

CHASING: Both stumbly running onward: [northward]

(03:53 choruses)

GROUND HEAVES-THROWS Adam, Eve, about to hands and knees …

(04:-- clash)

GROUND RIPS; TREES FALL; GAS VENTS, FLAMES; Adam, Eve, dodge about,- resume stumbly running, avoiding;

(04:20 high voice)

GROUND SHAKES, QUIVERS, ROARING VIBRATIONS increasing …

(04:-- big clash)

A GIANT ERUPTING GAS-VENT BLASTS;-- they briefly wary of it … IT TORCHES, GLEAMING … towering above the trees …

(04:33 dark voice)

GROUND TILTS as, Adam, Eve, run on beyond the giant torch …

(04:37 fade)

(04:52 -out-)

FADE TO RED

CUT IN:

EXT. TOPPLED GARDEN, SOUTH WAY TO RIVER - SUNSET (NO MOON)

N.B. EARTHER VOICES MAN-NORMAL.

TfNi walks through the toppled garden broken grounds …

(00:00 strings - music timestep-sync'ed)

Many trees are fallen; Broken irrigation water flows-about.

(00:10 down stir)

The compost-pile is spilled.

(00:23 pluck up-well)

Goat, still tied, is crushed under its fallen palm tree.

(00:39 piano, "mmm")

Other pets are gone; Drying crockery is smashed on the ground; She approaches the fruit hut now spilt open …

(00:54 over)

Tables are tossed, teepee-cooler toppled, stores broken and scattered about.

(00:59 +ahh)

She picks-up Eve's doll, and ponders her childhood …

(01:09 boom forte, chorus)

Breaks to full cry … and leaves the grove …

Up the slope … into the sunset … to the river's edge …

(01:24 aah, harpsichord)

The boat-raft is impaled on rocks.

She picks up pieces of Adam's broken clay toy-spaceship …

(01:38 boom forte, chorus)

Breaks again to cry, staring across into reflected sunset …

(01:54 grind -fade-)

Noisy MERCHANTMEN approach along the shore, intoxicated, angrily jabbering arguing their losses, courtlike as JUDGE, PROSECUTOR, DEFENDANT wearing shell necklaces of several strands, carrying a jug, and CODEFENDANT TURNED-WITNESS … articulate, consonantal, rapid, slurred, emphatic, abutted:

(01:56 -stop grind-)

Y' lft th rp un-td.

(points Turned-Witness)
H', drpd th oar.

(hand on his shoulder)
Y' tpd th bt ovr.

(exasperated)
I ws hldng th ls bxs …: (holds-up jug)
I svd th brly-brw …: (flashes a brave grin)

(cockily)
I ws hldng th dnky;-- W'd stl hv, th dnky: if th rp ws td.

(cockily)
Th dnky wld hv drwnd whn th bt snk: if th rp ws td.

Th bt wld hv fltd n th bxs: if th rp ws td.

They notice TfNi watching them from a clearing near the water's edge, And approach her:

Wh is ths wmn?

Prtty ct wnch.

(serious)
Th mn rn wy.

(more serious)
Th mn cldn't kp hr.

(most serious)
Th rp ws un-td.

They guffaw and bust a coarse-laugh …

(to TfNi)
Wr is yr hsbnd?

(fully voiced match)
Hello, gentlemen.

(aside)
Ls wmn:-- nt gd.

(shirks blame)
Hw dd y' gt hr?

I live here, This is my home, thank you.

No bdy lvs in ths plce.

Wht is ths ncklce,- Ths is nt a wmns ncklce?

It is my necklace;- I have worn it many years.

Tis wrth hlf a bx of swt spce.

(snide)
Unls sh wrs, the spce, dncng fr us!: (laughs rudely)

(rebukes)
It's broken: It doesn't do anything for you: It's not worth your spice.

(argues)
I cn b th jdg of tht:-- Sh m' yr ncklce.: (grabs, examines watcher)

(fingers cheap necklace)
Th wrth is one strng of shl ncklce.

(strives for harmony)
My necklace is not for bargain, thank you,: (emphasis)
Gentlemen.

Mn dnt brgn wth ls wmn:-- Lt us brgn wth yr hsbnd.

(reemphasizes)
Thank you, again, Gentlemen:: (backs away to taut)
The necklace is not your bargain.

(ires red to her face)
W' thnk w' cn brgn fr a ncklce:-- Gt yr hsbnd, wmn!: (free hand pushes her)

But her necklace holds taut;

Surprised at its strength, He shoves her backward with both hands while gripping the watcher tight;--

She stumbles back, down,-- her necklace pulling him atop….

(vis-a-vis fiercely)
I wl gv y' wht a wmn dsrvs.: (glares-grins)

He squirms on TfNi,-- She struggles …

Fingernail-scrapes his cheeks bloody,- but he ignores the abuse,- checking her arms …

She top-head bashes his nose;--

He withdraws uncertainly, begrudgingly loosing the watcher,

Hand-and-knees back, face and nose oozing blood, free hand nursing his nose …

She stands … He crouches, backing away stooped toward the others, wiping his cheeks, nursing his nose …

(exasperated)
Stupid mankind, doesn't know which side of a woman they're on:-- How will they ever know which side of the planet-Earth, they're on?!

Except wounded Judge, They grin and guffaw mutually,--

Tp-sd, I hp;-- Nd lvng it….

All slightly laugh.

They back away … and at a distance, saunter-on, following the stream, Judge tending his wounded face …

TfNi waits 'til they are gone …

And resorts to the water's edge …

EXT. RIVER BANK - EDDY POOL - SUNSET (CONTINUOUS; NO MOON)

Self-inspects blood on hands, face, fur clothes …

Tries to rinse-wash …

Pauses … Breaks to tears, and

Cries, staring across the waters into the sunset,--

(implores to next music)
Why?…!: (grimaces … cries)

She remains at the waters' edge, crying tears to the sunset as though the sun blocks her progress …

She removes and tosses her furs into the shallows.

Examines and throws the watcher into the shallows.

Begins to wash herself again …

(00:00 - music timestep-sync'ed)

She cries,

Face-up, tears welling …

Calms …

Weeps into hands …

Calms …

(00:06 voice dahdah)

Stoops,-

Scoops water to face,-

Washes down …

Stands …

Breaks to wail….

(00:39 +oompah)

Tries again:

Stoops,--

Scoops water to face,-

Erotic wipes down chest …

Breaks to empty wail …

(01:18 strain)

Slowly sinks-stoops … to sit curled before the sunset, face down on knees, sobbing …

(01:21 -stop before violin-)

TIME LAPSES - SUNDOWN PASTEL HUES, MOONRISE (CONTINUING)

TfNi is still sitting huddled the same.

(00:00 aah - music timestep-sync'ed)

(00:12 voice, cello)

PULL-OUT slowly up-bank …

Between CROWDING CURTAINS of Officer-dressed legs …

(00:42 ahh -stretch-)

HOLD; I.V.O. Officer NARRATOR reviews TfNi's credentials:

(vital statistics)
Lieutenant Commander Ra-Tefnuit:-- InterSpace Forces: starcruiser detail: planet surface, Earth … Commendations: Twelve-Pleiads star-cluster diadem, Royal purple-and-gold sunburst epaulette … Recognitions: Rogue Moon Dawn Rendezvous knee-patch, highest class-honors … widowed on active duty….

(00:48 voice, strum -resume-)

RISE still on TfNi, slowly up legs … DROPPING-CROPPING CURTAINS of dressed elbows, up shoulders …

(01:18 clang -stretch-)

HOLD; Officer reviews TfNi's depiction:--

Height: 5-9; Erect form; Complete outline; Mass: 160; Normal build. Eyes: Blue; Hair: Brown …

O.C. Mike's COMMUNICATOR TWINKLES-IN: [COMM] (OC) reports--

Sir: We have one of the watchers; Another is three miles northward, leaving four miles per hour; Third is telemetry-non-respondent.

TfNi rousing …

O.C. COMMUNICATOR TWINKLES-OUT,--

She shrieks, leaps-turns-backs-away half into the water, hands on shore-mud, cowering crouched, glaring back …

Then, hesitantly, recognizes--

(puzzles-exasperates)
Mr. Michael…?!

RISE, CLEARING shoulders to between heads:

CMDR Michael standing also nearby-right, watches her …

(01:23 voice -resume-)

FORWARD, CLEARING heads as TfNi runs up …

But halts just before his visage, bleary-eyed …

HER MUDDY FINGER, touches the reality of his chest,--

And she lunge-embraces him,-- hugging, sobbing …

(01:41 clang)

Hanging on him, mouthing almost words …

(02:06 shift)

ZOOM-IN: Their faces (MCU) …

(02:09 twang -stop-)

(teared articulate)
I'm sorry … Mr. Michael … I understand, now.

TfNi: Dear one: It's alright: We've been watching for an opportunity …

(surprised lean back)
How long, have you been watching?!

(leans back too)
A few years, while we parametrized the planet surface….

(checking her beliefs)
Years!?- And you didn't … Where did you go?!

We regrouped and rebuilt at Venus, next planet sunward, in the clouds on its sunny side, beyond easy view from this planet…. The cruiser was damaged after separation from the space-city-freight-ship….

That's what I felt … Oh, I'm sorry. Did Mr. Gabriel get back all right?

(shakes No a beat)
We haven't seen him;- We thought he might be staying with you and Adam.

(shakes No)
He didn't … He didn't return …: (winces worried)
Where could he have gone? We loaded the Shuttle with enough Zirc-96 for ten launches and decades of flying: more than a kilogram … just in case … But, Didn't he radio you?!

(shakes No)
No … No distress-beacon, no crash-beacon…. We've waited and monitored every frequency around the Earth … daily … for years … But we couldn't detect him … which is one reason we stayed-off.

(hesistant)
But he could have returned to help us:-- We haven't had trouble here with the native inhabitants;-- and no run-ins with spacer-types.

He was bent on finding a beach. And we, were being extremely, cautious, TfNi,- to avoid any possibility.

But do you suppose … Could they have … Was he captured?

No indication, TfNi: We had our own troubles with them,- but we found them highly fragmentatious and in need of cohesive leadership.

You've met them…?!

Yes, and joined communities in this solar system out beyond the Pluton watering-hole: They are compliant with reason, to the extent of their trust in their better sciences.

Why did they hit us when we came? Were they at war?

Not really…. They suffer a general autism: a fast-planetary mind-set … much as Adam did … We learned that, gradually:- he wasn't suited for spacer-living: Earth is really the best choice for … him….: (pauses)

Eve, is adaptable to any mental regime…. I do wish we had more interbreeding for them, but they'll survive: They're children: This planet is their home and school.

You can visit them anytime you wish.

(eyes sparkle)
I shall…. And we will scour, the wilderness, for Mr. Gabriel….

… Speaking as much,-- We recovered Tefen…. He's well, a bit neutral, dry-air-headed, calm-eye-centered, quieter, these days … We nicknamed him, Shiuwe … He's taken the land of the abyss between here and Ptah and Ra's river out-west: They're all busy gold-digging these days.

(kisses his cheek)
Thank you: I'm glad he's alive….: (reflects)
Shiuwe … Shiova … Sounds good … Gold?

Yeah, Gold, --more than silver:-- They've got plans for building a great civilization of mankind….: (brightens)
Would you like to resume your duty, presently?- Lieutenant Commander.

(nods, stands back erect)
Yes, Sir!

She eyes down his shirt-front … and grimaces:--

He self-inspects the mud-smear,-- and flicks it …

Oh,-- Mister Michael!- You've never seen dirt…!: (takes his hand, gleeful)
Come! I'll show you how we clean in water, on a habitable planet.

She pulls-leads him down to the waters' edge …

And releasing his hand, runs-dives-in and under….

She comes back up clean, hair swept-back …

And wades to the water's edge …

Scoops a double-handful of water …

And he washes his shirt mud-smear: both giggling happy …

Did you see the supernova in the north six years ago?

It's 3 light-years away:- Blueshift says a thousand years till its dust wave arrives and seeds global rains and mutation-plagues…. Adam's sons should be alright till then:- Local species have survived these …: (confides, draws on sky)
Should be dramatic when it arrives: Dawn a horizon across the night sky and change the solar photospectrum; raise several feet of moisture from the oceans and deluge for a month…!: (a brave smile; resumes)
We've parametrized ten nearby dwarf stars for novae over six millennia: Closest is a cloaked-dwarf that'll blowout last: We might leave before its nasty radio-nickel'ide arrives.

Mike's COMMUNICATOR TWINKLES-IN:--

(advisory)
Sir, We're finishing loading…. And, Sir: This region is still unstable: Leisure-time has been canceled:- Geosciences-scan estimates local subground activity within the hour.

(into voice-link)
We're coming:: (looks to TfNi's eyes)
Presently.

(nods Yes)
Directly.

Yes, Sir: Very well; End-out….

COMMUNICATOR TWINKLES-OUT.

TO LARGE GROVE, CLEARING - SUNDOWN DARKER SKY (CONTINUOUS)

(00:00 ehh, chimes - music timestep-sync'ed)

Mike, TfNi, stroll up from the waters' edge, arm around her shoulders, free hand gesturing Shuttle-flight operations:

(00:07 clang, strum)

The Shuttle control-surfaces,: (hand wing-dome-wing)
are much the same as we had before…: (checks, points ahead)

(00:11 twang)

They pause to ponder a 'shiny-dark-teardrop-on-a-pedestal',

And resume strolling in, toward THE NEW SHUTTLE …

(resumes)
We rebuilt and reprogrammed their stabilization routines: (palm flat down)
for improved compensation and freer handling: Less function, More flow:: (winds hand)
You'll have no trouble operating:- It can fly itself out of a tumble,: (wobbles hand)
--if you let-go the finger-reins,: (wiggles fingers)
or palm-saddle….: (lifts heel, checks)

(00:22 twang)

The Officer Crew, FIVE, are gathering, loading equipments.

(resumes)
It'll cargo twice what we're loading,: (two fingers up)
Or fly in half an atmosphere,: (same two fingers down)
For ten thousand hours--: (open hand up)
Before the Zirc-96 fission-fuel needs be super-reprocessed,: (snap fingers)
And the mechanicals inspected and overhauled;: (thumb-finger'o's)
We've been flying this one: (flat palm down-away)
Here for the last three years:: (three fingers)
It's one of the newest of seven …: (thumb, two fingers)
The Venus-cloud fleet: (finger+fist to sky)
Harbors a dozen more, And has logged a million hours.: (hand sweeps circles)

(00:29 voice+doo)

Concluded, They proceed silently …

(00:39 +doo enhancement)

INSPECTOR with log-puter, near the Shuttle, and extra package under arm, notices them and comes …

(00:50 twang emphasis)

And meeting them,-- they stop:

(hands log-puter to Mike)
Sir.

Thank you.: (reviews it)

(offers package to TfNi)
Lieutenant Commander.

Thank you.: (peeks-inspects)

(01:07 twang off, strum-lull, lightens)

Mike returns log-puter; looks to TfNi as Inspector leaves--

Thank you.

(01:12 voice)

She slips-on the inner-oxy-pressure-suit, torso-wide neck …

And they fit the arm and thigh collars …

She stretches variously, and they recheck, till fit right …

(01:42 clang)

They look for mutual readiness,

(01:46 twang)

And stroll to the Shuttle …

(02:04 voice+doo, resume enhancement)

IN THE NATURAL CLEARING AROUND IT:

Mike approaches and helps load, while TfNi surveys about …

(02:24 clang)

Inspector speaks into his communicator:--

(02:28 clang)

Crew quickens, concluding loading …

(02:33 clang)

And file into the Shuttle …

(02:37 clang)

Mike escorts TfNi in … and enters himself;

(02:41 clang+boo)

Inspector enters last.

(02:45 clang+refresh)

Shuttle door closes … and seals.

(02:49 clang+fade, pause)

Its 'teardrop' sits wholly incongruent among trees: a last moment of Earthly ponderance under dimming late evening …

(02:52 end -out-)

EXT. BACK FROM SHUTTLE, AND LIFTOFF - (MOMENTARILY)

TfNi, Mike, inside its dark view shine, prepare to launch …

(00:00 organ, builds - music timestep-sync'ed)

'Teardrop'-mid-neck turbine collar extends up … blowing air downward, which aerodynamically sucks about the sides …

A STRONG DOWNDRAFT FOGGING below the wide girth and out …

(00:06 +chimes)

Increasing to DOWN-BLAST, FOG dissipating instantly away …

(00:10 pluck-roll -stretch-)

Shuttle elevates … to the tree tops …

And glides northward …

SHUTTLE - CROSSING THE GARDEN FLAMES

Approaching two figures running below …

EXT. GARDEN, NORTH RUN - CLEARING - SCATTERED FIRES

Shuttle descends clearing … behind Adam, Eve, running …

And gliding-out low, darkly quietly chases them …

Its down-draft fog blowing them;-- Eve looks back and--

Grabs Adam's arm, pulling him aside … Both stop….

The Shuttle hovers at a few paces, breezily chilling them …

(pulls-holds, shivering)
It's cold…!

(stays; smiles confident)
It's a space-shuttle…!

Eve considers what it might be … then surprised at inside--

(recognizes in window)
Mommy…?!

(looks about, at Eve)
… Where?

Mommy!- There!: (points into Shuttle)
Where your reflection looks-back!- That's Mommy! … And …: (hesitates, cognizes)
A man…?!: (a beat, calls)
Mommy!…

Adam pulls into the blasting fog, Eve shivering in tow …

Reaching a hand-- to touch the front at its widest girth …

But then, feeling his early-childhood memories intense,--

He abruptly two-handed HEAVES its girth up-and-back--

INT. SHUTTLE, SHOVED FRONT-UP-AND-BACK - (CONTINUOUS)

TfNi recovers the tilt-backing and jostle …

And looks again at them amid the flaming toppled garden …

(resolves)
Earthers….

(looking in, calls)
Mommy!…

(00:15 voice, resumes soothing)

TfNi controls:--

DOWN-BLAST INCREASES, FOG blowing them stiffly …

Shuttle ascends; Eve crying after--

Mommy! … Mommy! … Mommy!

Above the trees and flames …

Above the fiery glowing expanse …

Into the smoky hazy late evening sky …

(00:24 +word)

The pre-eclipse moon rises E horizon amid hazy stars …

(00:36 chorus)

EXT. HIGH ALTITUDE - SHUTTLE RISING FAST - BLUE-BLACK SKY

EPAULE: Tilting gradually to 60 deg; exhaust trailing …

Fog quits: GIRTH GLOWS RED…ORANGE… as

Turbine collar returns to flush …

(00:52 clang, exalt, exhilarates)

Shuttle gaining, passes upward ahead …

GIRTH GLOWS …YELLOW…WHITE…BLUISH… and

EXHAUST TRAIL ITSELF GLOWS transparent below the girth …

(01:23 lull)

Preceding … till tracking scopelike far beyond …

(01:26 voice)

EXT. SHUTTLE - ORBIT - EAST SUN, WEST MOON (HOUR LATER)

AFORE: Its horizontal trail blooms wispy sheer-robe-like …

(01:52 "far in the distance")

BEACONS FLASH on the horizon directly behind,-- of the

CARRIER SHIP approaching the Shuttle, slowing relatively …

(02:04 clang, exalt exhilarates)

AHEAD STANDING-OFF: Carrier Ship: Shuttle recedes to the huge flat-black dust-pavis-shielded former Rebel ship with its axial halves fore and aft slowly contra-rolling …

(02:33 fade)

EXT. SHUTTLE - PASSING CARRIER SIDE, FOR REAR

(02:35 lull)

Shuttle exhaust off,- its girth cools to red, to black …

Glides, passing back along … to the Carrier rear …

(02:38 +flute, easy-lightens, free-easy)

And passing behind … VERNIER BRAKES … and

Crosses to its rear-center … and waits …

(02:53 un-fade)

CARRIER REAR - SELF-FLOOD-LIT (CONTINUOUS)

Shuttle synchronizes with its axial rotation …

(02:57 pick-up, resumes exhilarating)

Its guide-and-flood-lighted rear CENTER GATE OPENS …

Shuttle VERNIERS FORWARD …

(03:00 chorus, guitar)

And just enters over mid Pacific Ocean …

(03:11)

INT. CARRIER WELL (VERTICAL) - DIM LIT (CONTINUOUS)

Shuttle ascends the central bore, passing window views of personnel, head-tops, Some looking up-out to watch …

(03:31)

INT. SHUTTLE - DISPLAYS LIT (CONTINUOUS)

TfNi, helmetted, elated to be home, controls readily …

Yaws Shuttle 360 deg. while Mike checks docking-readouts….

(03:51)

Sync'ed to dock, she stops the Shuttle rise … and awaits …

DOCK BRIDGING EXTENDS from a wall-well Portal.

(04:02 dum+oompah)

DOCK ATTACHES,- and draws the Shuttle to the Portal …

(04:12 -melt before confident voice-)

CUT TO:

EXT. ELEVATOR - OPENS - GLASS WALL ON BRIGHT HANGING GARDEN

Mike, TfNi, Officer Crew enter, and--

INT. ELEVATOR, DESCENDS - (CONTINUOUS)

They admire the altitude-like view …

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. CARRIER SHIP REAR - ORBIT - 61 W SUN PRE-MOONRISE

One orbit done, above the terminator on mid Africa.

(00:00 ooh+piano - music timestep-sync'ed)

CENTRAL GATE CLOSES quickly …

(00:08 piano)

And slowly finishes … and locks.

(00:15 ooh+piano)

Guide-and-flood-LIGHTS TURN OFF IN RAPID SEQUENCE….

(00:22 piano)

Sunlit flat-black, the ship readies to leave orbit:

(00:29 lull)

MAIN THRUSTERS IGNITE RED … brightening to YELLOW … WHITE, pushing the ship ahead …

(00:34 piano high)

Farther and faster under the engulfing canopy of stars …

(00:45 piano lower)

Stars creeping up over Earth's dark horizon 1 deg./14 sec.…

(00:50 piano higher)

SYNC: Star frame, Earth's horizon lowers ibid … revealing:

(00:55 -meld to augmented-)

(00:00 piano augmented - music timestep-sync'ed)

MOONRISE, RED ECLIPSED - CENTERED (CONCURRENT)

SUPERIMPOSE HERALD TEXT QUICK FADE IN: (VO)

"I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet,…" DAN 9:2 (KJV)

Herald Text FADES OUT.

(00:09 clang)

SUPERIMPOSE TITLE:

DANIEL'S TIMES AND DAYS, BY

MOON, SUN AND MORNING STARS

(00:13 voice)

SCROLL-DOWN, ADDING PROGRAM:

70 years, 605-536 BC = THE BOOK OF DANIEL: Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus 3rd year.

7 years, 562-556 BC, Nebuchadnezzar's insanity in the wilderness field southwest of Babylon. DAN 4

Noon Nov. 1, 556 BC, a solar total eclipse raced down the wilderness southwest of Mesopotamia: "I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned…." DAN 4:34

AND--

2300 evening and mornings of Mercury 116 days

= a year of 365.25 years, 536-171 BC. DAN 8:14

(00:43 choral refrain)

JANUARY 170 BC, FULCRUM-CENTER OF MILLENNIAL TIME for Holy Biblical prophecy: 3500th of 7000 years.

HOLD LAST AS HIGH TITLE. ADD LEFT COLUMN HIGH SUBTITLE:

- THE FIRST ADVENT: THE MESSIAH -

SUPERIMPOSE TABULATE LEFT COLUMN:

BY LUNAR SYNODIC MONTHS (one moon, one man),

29.53 days … three and a half times (DAN 12:7) …

Times Venus' 584 days (REV 22:16) =

165.25 years, from Jan. 170 BC, the Fulcrum, to--

(01:02 voice, drum, crescendo)

5 BC Apr. Birth of Jesus -the Christ Man- son of the virgin Mary; A morning comet.

After 9 months gestation; (MATT 1:18)

(01:11)

14 months after a grand conjunction of Jupiter-Saturn-Mars in Pisces the fish. (MATT 2:1-2)

THEN COUNT 458 months (37 years) of Christ till--

AD 33 Apr. 3, The final cup of wine; Condemnation of Christ Jesus; An evening lunar eclipse.

= THE FIRST DEATH (REV 20:6) =

After 42 months of public teaching and miracules.

(01:27 lull, easy lightens)

SAVE TITLES, TABULATION;-- AND SUPERIMPOSE TITLE:

- SEVEN MILLENNIA AS SEVEN DAYS. II PETER 3:8 -

(01:31 ooh-ahh)

SUPERIMPOSE (MULTI-VO) SCROLL-DOWN REVIEW OF GENESIS DAYS:

MILLENNIUM #1 - FIERY LIGHT - SPACER GODS DYNASTY

3670-2670 BC: Egypt to Sumer: Ptah, Ra, Yhw, Adam Gjeb, Cain Abel Alorus Osiris; Enos Anu Anubis …

* MID-MILLENNIUM - SUPERNOVA IN THE NORTH *

Young gods kill five elders, And husband mankind…

MILLENNIUM #2 - STORMY SKY - DELUGES AND FLOODS

2670-1670 BC: Noah's ark; demigods rebuild … but, Plagues, famines, god-longevity shortens; Babel …

MILLENNIUM #3 - LAND VEGETATION - HEBREWS WANDER

1670-670 BC: Egypt, Exodus, Canaan; Lost Tribes …

MILLENNIUM #4 - TIME, DIVIDED - THE JEWISH NATION

670-170 BC, EAST: spiral comet, Babylon Diaspora…

* JANUARY 170 BC - THE FULCRUM - DANIEL REDACTS *

170 BC-AD 331, WEST: Greek, Roman control; Christ Jesus; Paul, Christianity; Peter, Church …

MILLENNIUM #5 - FISH & FOWL - CHRISTIAN TAKEOVER

AD 331-1331: Christian Empire Divided … Crusades…

MILLENNIUM #6 - BEAST & MAN - THE NEW WORLD

AD 1331-1996: Renaissance … America, Science …

AD 1996-2331: solar system rule; the "water hole"

MILLENNIUM #7 - GOD RESTS - THE NEW SPACERS RULE

AD 2331-3331: interstellar with the Jehovahn….

HOLD LAST AS TITLE TILL SCROLL IS OFF …

RESTORE TITLES, TABULATION. ADD RIGHT COLUMN HIGH SUBTITLE:

(02:05 voice, drum, re-crescendo)

- THE SECOND ADVENT: THE COMFORTER -

SUPERIMPOSE TABULATE RIGHT COLUMN, CORRESPONDING:

BY SIDEREAL YEARS (many stars, many men),

365.25 days … three and a half times (DAN 12:7) …

Times Venus' 584 days (REV 22:16) =

(02:14 castinets)

2044 years, from the Fulcrum 170 BC, to--

AD 1875. Publication of SCIENCE AND HEALTH -the Christ Science- book by Mary Baker Glover.

After 9 years gestation since discovery AD 1866;

14 years after a super-conjunction of Sun-Moon-4-planets in Virgo, Sept 4-5 1861. (REV 12:1)

THEN COUNT 458 years of Christ till--

AD 2333, The last ecumenical plaudit; Condemnation and legal purview repeal of 'CHRIST' SCIENCE AND HEALTH; Time Capsule opened, Mother cremated; A comet strikes the sea. (REV 18)

= THE SECOND DEATH (REV 20) =

After 42 years of public teaching and miracules.

(02:48 fade)

= THE END OF DANIEL'S TIMES AND DAYS =

HOLD LAST AS TITLE; Program SCROLLS OFF.

The Carrier speck is gone; the moon is re-whitening …

(02:51 -out-)

SUBTITLE POST-HERALD TEXT:

"I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star." (REV 22:16)

The Watchers.

Title, text and credits FADE OUT …

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. NILE, EAST SHORE - PICNIC GROUND - GORGEOUS SUNSET

The senior family in predynastic Egyptian royal garb: wives conversing on the beach; Ptah, Ra, Thoth, lounging spread-eagle under a palm tree … Shw joins with fresh drinks …

Congratulations, Thoth: You are now 1-hundred-20-years, And officially, One-of-the-gods!

Thoth nods Thank-you….

Ra exuberates--

I've got another, great, idea!

What is it today, my golden son?

This one is -really- great!--: (a beat, ecstatic)
When this population of workers is a million, we'll job them cut-and-stack two million granite blocks in conic pyre-amid cased in limestone: Pack a center-hollow with hard-coal and detonate the shuttle's nuclear fuel over it:-- Limestone implodes, a gold cap balances the pressures,- The fitted granite blocks compress, concentrically amplifying a hundred times itself the implosion creating instantly, A thousand-ton diamond…!: (grins to Ptah)
With your permission, we'll do the prototype on your desert out west.

(smiling broadly, to Shw)
Is-not Ra brilliant half the time?!

(smiling, salutes Ra)
Shade my eyes, Ra,- You'll set-even in history the greatest of us ever!

It's a golden sunset for a golden family …

FADE TO BLACK

EXT. AFRICA TO PERSIAN RANGE - SPACE HIGH - HIGH WHITE MOON

(00:00 ooh descent, lightly - music timestep-sync'ed)

FLOATING SCAN DOWN to Earth nightside below the stars….

(00:17 rain fall)

INT. CAVE, ENTRANCE - Elda - NIGHT RAIN (916 YEARS LATER)

LIGHTNING FLASHES--

(00:19 thunder)

THUNDER! Firelight flickers from deep inside the cave…

(00:24 horns, noble)

Laid-to-rest by sons, Seth (800), Enos, Enoch, Methuselah:

Whitehaired withered ADAM (930) enrobed in giraffe skin;

(00:41 strum)

They stoop about and kneel one-knee … their heads bowed;

SUPERIMPOSE SCROLL-UP EPITOME WITH TRAVEL-PICTURES: (VO)

930 YEARS

(00:45 voice)

'Adam' Gjeb bar Yhw,

Patriarch of ten generations of earthborn gods…

Look at Adam again, and mutually;

Centuries bereft of his sister-wife 'Eve' Nuit…

Estranged from his sons 'Cain' who slew younger-twin 'Abel' for his identity; From childless Seth who buried 'Cain' and Eve with a terrible secret…

From their lineal sons: for ancestricidal revolt…

(01:10)

LIGHTNING FLASHES: Inspired, They look out at the rain;

Home from the Tuat oases: To see home, once-more…

Mistaken for a wild animal by Lamech out hunting…

Now 'sleeps-forever' in the land he first knew…

His mother Tefnuit, once Lieutenant Commander of InterSpace Forces killed by M'Iraduk, His father Shw killed by En-Kenan on a child's fabrication…

And grandparents their parents and their people…

Whom he had not seen again these four centuries…

(01:34)

And stand… A last-ever look at Adam;

'Dreams-on' his early childhood spacer days…

Their curious equipments unknown on his Earth…

The spacer children vaguely remembered…

Ponderous… What became of them?--

Where did they go?

Why did they stay away?

(01:57 voice)

They turn out, douse the fire, and retreat;

Had they forgotten?

Where did they come-from?

Who were they?

What were they?

What had they become?

Would they ever meet again?

(02:24 "mmm")

EXT. - CLEARED NIGHT, FULL MOON, VENUS (CONTINUOUS)

And stand at the entrance, looking out;

What was Adam himself…?

Why had he been placed on Earth…?

What would he become now…?

What was this world…?

What was the world before…?

What was the void between the worlds…?

(02:49 voice)

And roll a fitted stone to cover the cave forever;

What Mind lay beyond the stars…?

What Spirit had attended him on Earth…?

What was his Principle… of reality…?

Of harmony…? Of Life…? Of Soul…? Of Truth…?

Questions mounting ever more expansive, towering ever higher: A tenuous substance filling thought, overcoming the gravity of opinion…

(03:13)

And turn away to look over the steppe;

As dully satisfying as the pale red light of that typical first day that first illumined the face of the Earth…

Or that milky smear of luminescence on the night sky… Somewhere out there had been a beginning he never knew…

Adam had passed, -yearning skyward flight again:- that eluded his brain-full of childish knowledge…

(03:35)

They walk away together.

Knowledge that seemed convincing-- yet was empty save an occasional companion conversation…

At last Adam was becoming a quickening spirit…

A God-thinker… A God worshipper…

(03:44 fade -3 sec. out-)

It would be two centuries more, 'til Noah noticed the water gushing-up from the ground in a deluge, as-if the fountains of the great deep had broken…

Evidence that something astronomical had crashed, once upon a time, Cracking the Earth underneath….

FLOATING, RISE: with the sky;

Text SCROLLS-UP-OFF.

(00:00 windwhistle - music timestep-sync'ed)

RAIN POOLS REFLECT a myriad stars;

And hundreds of sorrowful stand heads-bowed …

(00:05 piano)

GRADUALLY LOOK UP … and UP … ENDLESSLY …

A FIREBALL wanders across the clear starry night-sky …

(00:50 talk, rhythm)

FINAL CREDITS; traversing outer space … to planet Venus . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Planet Venus atmospheric entrance … TO CLOUDY WHITEOUT …

(04:12 end -out-)

FADE TO WHITE
Fade out

THEATER LIGHTS.

POSTLUDES:

(2:04 or 3:21/T-S - music sync'ed - 'exeunt')

(3:49 - music sync'ed - 'social')

(4:05 - music sync'ed - 'refreshments')

THE END.

The Son Dey School of Christ Science

in conjunction with

project 'lambhorn'

presents

ARCHAEODUS
("First Journey") -Jehovah in Eden-

a science docudrama, PG-17 Ultra vivid

redacted by Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry, Strategic Director
a Wision--Sesquatercet USA production

Of our common past, and our connected future.

[index][screenplay][music][components][budget][prospectus][roles][casting and crews]

[feature] The story of Jehovah's arrival on Earth, with Adam and Eve and their life in an Eden kindergarten, tells a plausible beginning of modern scientifically advancing society, of what actually happened on Earth about 3670 BC, north of the Persian Gulf. (Choreographed to music)

[Music specified in this screenplay is the Strategic Director's selection from hundreds of CD's of existing works by artists whose timbre and lyrics fit each onscreen activity, and is not otherwise representative of projects Sesquatercet and its purposes or 'lambhorn' Scientific Scriptural exegeses]

script

[final credits (tbd)] [sequel]

digital music [var] © [tbd; Screenwriter's selections and annotations]

The theory of measurement propounded in this work is not to be cited (as) considering contraband or corpses; Nor are the intellectual appurtenances hereïn to be used for or in the commission of crimes against persons, peoples, properties, or powers (States). May your tabernacle measure true.

The Son Dey School of Christ Science

in conjunction with

project 'lambhorn'

presents

ARCHAEODUS("First Journey") -Jehovah in Eden-

a science docudrama, PG-17 Ultra vivid

redacted by Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry, Strategic Directora Wision--Sesquatercet USA production

Of our common past, and our connected future.

[index][screenplay][music][components][budget][prospectus][roles][casting and crews]

[feature] The story of Jehovah's arrival on Earth, with Adam and Eve and their life in an Eden kindergarten, tells a plausible beginning of modern scientifically advancing society, of what actually happened on Earth about 3670 BC, north of the Persian Gulf. (Choreographed to music)

script

[final credits (tbd)] [sequel]

digital music [var] © [tbd; Screenwriter's selections and annotations]

The theory of measurement propounded in this work is not to be cited (as) considering contraband or corpses; Nor are the intellectual appurtenances hereïn to be used for or in the commission of crimes against persons, peoples, properties, or powers (States). May your tabernacle measure true.

ARCHAEODUS
("First Journey") -Jehovah in Eden-

redacted by Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry, Strategic Director
a Wision--Sesquatercet USA production