Project Almanac Page #12

(BOTTLES CLATTERING)

(GASPING)

(RAPID KNOCKING ON DOOR)

QUINN:
David, it's Quinn!

Open up!

Yo, dude, Jessie's missing

and no one can find her.

Is she here?

I screwed up.

I screwed up.

I wasn't trying to

hurt Jessie, I swear.

I was just trying to keep Adam

from getting in this accident.

Dude, Adam's fine.

Adam's not in the hospital?

Jesus! How many times

have you jumped?

It doesn't even

matter anymore.

The timelines, you know,

they can, like, crisscross.

I just need to get

more hydrogen.

I'm going back

to the beginning.

Why would you need

to go back that far?

Because that's the only way to

stop all this from happening!

I need to stop this machine

from ever being built, Quinn.

(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)

David, think about

what you're saying!

The machine has

given us everything!

We can't just

get rid of it!

It's bigger than just us!

Don't you see that?

DAVID:
I'm going.

You are not thinking clearly!

We can't go back to

the way things were before!

DAVID:
Quinn,

don't you get it?

The only way to fix this

is to destroy everything.

Dude, people know who we are.

I've never had that.

(PANTING)

DAVID:
Quinn, I need

you to trust me, okay?

(TIRES SCREECHING)

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

OFFICER:
This is the Atlanta

Police Department.

Open up, please.

DAVID:
Quinn.

Okay.

OFFICER:
We're looking

for David Raskin.

QUINN:
Just be careful, dude.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

OFFICER:
Open up, please.

You guys go to the back.

(POUNDING ON DOOR)

If anybody finds this,

I want you to know I didn't

mean to hurt anybody

and I didn't kidnap anyone.

I was just...

I just wanted a second chance.

(PANTING) My name

is David Raskin.

And I built a time machine.

(BANGING ON DOOR CONTINUING)

OFFICER:
Police Department!

Break down the door.

DAVID:
Oh, sh*t.

Come on! Come on!

OFFICER:
There he is!

Stop him!

David Raskin, Atlanta PD!

DAVID:
Oh, sh*t!

(DAVID PANTING)

(SIRENS WALING IN DISTANCE)

Oh, sh*t!

Oh, sh*t!

(TIRES SCREECHING)

Oh, sh*t!

OFFICER:
I see him!

David, stop!

Get on the ground, David!

(DAVID PANTING)

(SIRENS WAILING)

(MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)

OFFICER:
The suspect

was last seen headed

towards the school.

You guys take the front.

Stevens, come with me

around the back. Let's move!

Take the other side.

Let's go.

(DAVID PANTING)

(ALARM RINGING)

DAVID:
Oh, sh*t!

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

(GRUNTING)

OFFICER:
Suspect inside.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

Kick down the door.

Kick down the door. Go!

(WHOOSHING)

(OFFICERS SHOUTING)

Don't shoot! Don't shoot!

JESSIE:
So you take my keys

and you disappear forever.

DAVID:
I need to go back

to the beginning.

The timelines crisscross...

Ten years total.

You look just like him.

I won't be gone long.

DAVID:
Promise?

You think you'll go

back to save him?

Save him?

(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)

(DAVID PANTING)

(KIDS SHOUTING)

(DAVID SIGHING)

DAVID:
Guys, I'm so sorry.

Christina.

Sweetie, I have to go.

I have to go.

(DOOR OPENING)

(THUDDING)

What are you doing

in my house?

(DAVID SIGHING)

David?

Hi, Dad.

You figured it out.

Yeah.

I don't...

(STAMMERING) I've got

so many questions.

We can't.

I can't.

We were wrong.

There are no second chances.

Are you okay?

I'm going to be okay.

YOUNG DAVID:
Hey, Dad.

Dad, are you down there?

I think it's time for you

to say goodbye to your son.

BEN:
I'm proud of you.

YOUNG DAVID:

Who were you talking to, Dad?

BEN:
Just a friend.

He's here to fix something.

YOUNG DAVID:
Where are

you going? It's my birthday.

BEN:
You caught me, pal.

You know I wouldn't be leaving

unless it was real important.

I won't be gone long.

YOUNG DAVID:
Promise?

BEN:
Of course I promise.

I'll tell you what.

Uh, why don't you...

Time me.

BEN:
Time me.

(KIDS SHOUTING)

You guys ready for this?

JESSIE:
What is this?

Whoo!

Did you just check out my ass?

Uh, yeah.

DAVID:
It's yesterday!

SINGER:
This song goes

out to Jessie Pierce.

He is pretty smart, huh?

JESSIE:
Stay out

of my perfume.

I'd go back

and meet you sooner.

"Before the world ends,

I have to fall in love."

JESSIE:
I love you.

(VIDEO CAMERA BEEPING)

CHRIS:
(LAUGHING)

What are you, sulking?

DAVID:
God! You scared

the sh*t out of me.

(CHRIS LAUGHING)

DAVID:
I'm not sulking.

CHRIS:
Why are

you up here?

Uh...

It's dumb.

You know,

there's this one last

scholarship where I have to

submit a proposal for an

experiment and I thought

maybe if I got it,

Mom wouldn't have

to sell the house.

CHRIS:
Huh.

Dad must have a million ideas

lying around up here.

I don't know, Chris.

I mean, I thought there'd be

something up here.

I can't find anything

I can use.

CHRIS:
Hey, what is this?

When did we get

a video camera?

Oh, it's right here.

This is Dad's old camera.

Did Dad have two

old cameras?

Uh, I don't know.

Yeah. I guess.

They both say

"Property of Ben Raskin."

Yeah, let me see.

Weird. Do they work?

Yeah, it's playing.

C HRIS:
(ON CAMERA) When

did we get a video camera?

DAVID:
Oh, that's Dad's

old camera. Remember that?

CHRIS:
Yeah .

Hey, look, it still works.

QUINN:
I mean, what the hell

is he supposed to say to her?

He can't just walk up

to her and be like...

CHRIS:
(SHUSHING)

Would you just be quiet?

Are you trying to

communicate with me...

Telepathically.

How did you know

I was gonna say that?

This is gonna sound crazy,

but I think we're about

to change the world.

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