Opus 40: The Master-Work of Environmental Artist Harvey Fite Page #4

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- Hello, Peggy.

Nice to meet you.

And congratulations.

PEGGY:
- Thank you.

- Freddie Quell.

- Freddie... Quell.

(MUMBLING, INDISTINCT)

- Elizabeth, my daughter.

- Yes.

- Hello. How are you?

- Clark, my son-in-law.

- Hello, Clark.

CLARK:
- Lovely to meet you.

- Lovely to meet you.

- Norman Conrad.

- Yes.

NORMAN:
- How do you do?

- Cliff Boyd.

CLIFF:
- Good evening.

- Val, my son.

- Oh, yes.

How are you?

I can see the resemblance.

- Yes, yes. So can I.

- Why don't you come with me?

I will introduce you to...

- Oh, well, here's Poppy.

MASTER:
- Poppy!

- Very nice to meet you.

POPPY:
- Nice to meet you. Yes.

MILDRED:
- And the lovely Brigitte.

MASTER:
- Brigitte!

(INDISTINCT CHATTER)

(INDISTINCT CHATTER CONTINUES)

- Here you are.

- Good evening. Scotch.

- Scotch, OK. Neat or on the rocks?

- Neat.

Neat. Two fingers?

Yeah, it's fine.

- Beautiful.

- Thank you.

- Thank you, Clark. Thank you.

- Thank you.

- Would you like something?

- We have some delicious treats inside.

- In the back? Those sandwiches?

- In the back. Yes.

- And an Old Fashioned.

- Old Fashioned for me.

Do you want to stay together

or do you want to come with me?

I'll join you.

All right, come with me, Peggy.

- Thank you so much.

- This is my friend I want you to meet,

- Michelle.

- Hi. How are you?

Open your eyes, come back to me.

What is your name?

Margaret O'Brien.

What is your name?

(CHUCKLING)

Well...

Now that you mention it...

(STAMMERS, LAUGHS)

...I think I was a man.

Laughing is good.

- My neck feels much better.

- Oh, that's good.

What I just experienced,

was that me?

MASTER:
What was you, darling?

That man in the armor,

was that me?

MASTER:

Yes. That was your spirit.

Our spirits live on

in the whole of time,

exist in many vessels

through time.

This is the vessel

you're existing in now, in 1950.

- Excuse me.

- As you all may recall,

during the trauma that you went through

while we were processing...

MARGARET:
Yes.

...It was of the utmost importance

that you experience every detail...

...every specific detail

through all of your senses,

of that memory,

and that we go over it again

and over it again

and over it again

until it loses its power.

This is very...

- Excuse me.

- This is very important.

- Why it is important...

MAN:
- Excuse me.

...Is if you bring someone

out of a traumatic event,

back to the present time,

- no matter how carefully you do that...

MAN:
- Excuse me.

...If you have not

gone over the memory...

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Some of this sounds

quite like hypnosis, is it not?

This is a process of

de-hypnotization, if you will.

Man is asleep. This process

wakes him from his slumber.

I still find it difficult

to see the proof

with regards to past lives

that your movement claims.

MASTER:
Would you care to

submit yourself to processing?

"Look through the telescope,"

as my friend said.

Oh, perhaps another time.

You've also said that these methods,

Cause Methods,

can cure leukemia,

according to your book, and...

Some forms of leukemia.

In being able

to access past lives,

we are able to treat illnesses

that may have started back

thousands, even trillions of years.

MAN:
- Trillions?

- With a sir.

(CHUCKLES) The earth is not understood

to be more than a few billion years old.

Even the smartest of our current

scientists can be fooled, yes.

MAN:
- You can understand skepticism...

- Yes!

- ...can you not?

- Yes, yes.

For without it, we'd be positives

and no negatives, therefore zero charge.

- We must have it.

- Good science by definition

allows for more than one opinion,

does it not?

Which is why our gathering

of data is so far-reaching.

Otherwise, you merely have

the will of one man,

which is the basis of cult, is it not?

'Tis, 'tis.

And thankfully, we are, all of us,

working at breakneck speeds

and in unison towards capturing

the mind's fatal flaws

and correcting it back to

its inherent state of perfect.

Whilst righting civilization

and eliminating war and poverty,

and therefore, the atomic threat.

(CHUCKLING) Well...

I find it quite difficult

to comprehend,

or more to the point, believe,

that you believe, sir,

that time travel hypnosis therapy

can bring world peace

and cure cancer.

I have never been

to the pyramids, have you?

- No.

- And yet we know that they are there

because learned men have told us so.

May I ask, what is your name?

- John More.

- Mr. More, if I may,

is there something frightening to you

about The Cause's travels into the past?

- Frightening? No, no.

- Yes.

What scares you so much about

traveling into the past, sir?

- I'm not frightened.

- Are you afraid that we might discover

that our past has been reshapen?

Perverted?

And perhaps what we think

we know of this world

- is false information?

- Time travel does not

frighten me, sir,

because it's not possible.

What does frighten me is the possibility

of some poor soul with leukemia

- coming to you...

MASTER:
- There are dangers

of traveling in and out of time

as we understand it.

But it's not unlike traveling

down a river, you see?

You travel down the river,

'round the bend, look back,

and you cannot see

around the bend can you?

But that does not mean

it is not there, does it?

But certain clubs would like us

to think that a truth,

I say truth, uncovered

should stay hidden.

I belong to no club, and if you're

unwilling to allow any discussion...

MASTER:
No, this isn't a

discussion, it's a grilling.

There's nothing I can do for you

if your mind has been made up.

You seem to know the answers

to your questions. Why do you ask?

I'm sorry you're unwilling

to defend your beliefs

- in any kind of rational...

(STAMMERING) - If you already

know the answers to your questions,

then why ask, pig f***?!

We are not helpless.

And we are on a journey

that risks the dark.

If you don't mind,

a good night to you.

(WOMAN GASPS)

(CHUCKLING)

MASTER:
- Freddie, stop!

This is not the time. Stop.

- And this is where we are at.

(TYPEWRITER CLICKING)

At the lowest level to have

to explain ourselves, for what?

For what we do

we have to grovel?

The only way to defend ourselves

is to attack.

If we don't do that, we will lose

every battle that we are engaged in.

We will never dominate

our environment

the way we should

unless we attack.

And this city,

city is just noise.

I know this city.

I know its rotten secrets,

its filthy lies and secrets.

They... invited us here

and welcomed us.

Only to throw us down

and kick us out.

It's a grim joke.

You got the names and information

of the people at this party, right?

- You invited them?

- Yeah, what for?

All right, Clark.

Get up, you're coming with me.

Hey, I need some help. You want to put

on a good show or no? Let's go. Come on.

JOHN:
Yes, who is it?

Mr. More, this is

Freddie Quell from The Cause.

I'd like to have a word.

JOHN:
Mr. Quell,

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