Project Almanac Page #5

Something that can recharge

itself as it puts out power.

(MUSIC PLAYING OUTSIDE)

It's nickel-metal hydride.

Oh, my God, how did I not...

Oh, for sure.

What did he say?

(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)

QUINN:
What the hell

is he doing?

CHRIS:
Beats me.

Why is he getting

Jessie Pierce to

park in our driveway?

Right there's good.

QUINN:
Whoa!

Jessie Pierce drives?

I assumed she just, like,

appeared out of thin air,

like most

mythological creatures.

You guys coming to the party?

Yeah. We just

gotta get changed.

JESSIE:
Uh-huh.

Stay out of my perfume.

GIRL:
Jessie, come on.

DAVID:
I'm gonna need every

jumper cable you can find.

We're going

to use her battery.

CHRIS:
I got them.

Christina.

CHRIS:
Here you go.

QUINN:
What's so special

about this hybrid battery?

Its negative electrodes uses

a hydrogen-absorbing alloy...

QUINN:
Okay, you know what?

Forget I asked.

Connecting now!

QUINN:
Wait!

Dude!

CHRIS:
That was awesome.

DAVID:
Hey, what's the hell's

taking you guys so long?

Well, maybe, you know,

if Adam wasn't

trying to kill me, then

it might go a little faster.

(CHRIS LAUGHING)

Stop laughing,

it's not funny! Come on!

ADAM:
We're good.

CHRIS:
Let's go, let's go!

Come on!

Quick! Adam,

clean off the table.

ADAM:
How long do we have?

I don't know.

Chris, how long do

girls stay at parties?

Well, dude, hot girls

don't stay at parties long.

They go to multiple ones,

like five or six a night.

What do you

know about that?

Is this gonna work?

I don't know,

there's a good chance

we're gonna blow up her car.

Chris, give me a hand. Here.

CHRIS:
What?

Look, I want you to make sure

this connection is stable.

ADAM:
So we just go, right,

David?

DAVID:
Yeah! It's cool.

QUINN:
GoPro set. (GRUNTING)

Wait, let me get my helmet.

Coordinates set, 60 seconds.

DAVID:
Come on, come on.

CHRIS:
Let me

get my goggles!

Oh, sh*t, it doesn't reach.

Guys, table, table, table!

ADAM:
Okay, one,

two, three, push.

Again, again!

ADAM:
One, two, three, push.

Whoa!

(MACHINE STARTING UP)

Everybody, back, back, back.

QUINN:
Look at the camera!

Look at the camera!

CHRIS:
Let me get

my camera! I gotta get it!

Let me get my camera!

Hold on one second!

ADAM:
Chris, come on!

DAVID:
Chris, hurry up!

(CRACKLING)

Aw. Jeez, that was loud.

(BANGING ON DOOR)

Oh, my God.

JESSIE:
David, let me in!

David, open the door!

Oh, sh*t, guys! It's Jessie.

Do not let her in! She can't

handle this, honestly!

David, what the hell? Wh...

What is going on?

What are you doing?

DAVID:
Jessie, get down!

Why? What are you guys doing?

Oh, my God.

(VOICE DISTORTED)

Project Almanac.

Experiment one, trial two.

Get that, get that, get that!

What is all this?

DAVID:
Get this! Get this!

Get down!

(EXPLOSION)

(CLATTERING)

MAN:
Oh, my God,

the lights went out.

DAVID:
Are you guys okay?

QUINN:
Yeah. Are you?

DAVID:
You okay?

JESSIE:
Yeah.

QUINN:
That scared me.

ADAM:
Good idea.

(ALL BREATHING HEAVILY)

DAVID:
Oh, God. Oh, God.

QUINN:
What the hell?

ADAM:
Wait, disconnecting.

DAVID:
Grab the camera.

Where's the...

Guys, where's the Corvette?

ADAM:
It was supposed

to be here, one minute behind.

JESSIE:
What the hell

did you guys do?

DAVID:
I can't believe

the Corvette's not there.

ADAM:
This doesn't

make any sense.

(THUDDING)

CHRIS:

Ow, ow!

Chris, are you sure

you're okay?

CHRIS:
Yeah, I'm okay.

DAVID:
Oh, sh*t.

Hey, guys, I found it!

ADAM:
No way.

ALL:
Oh, my God.

QUINN:
What?

It's fused to

the fricking wall!

CHRIS:
No way.

Are you guys seeing this?

Yo, stopwatch.

ADAM:
My God! It went

back two hours. David?

Two hours?

ADAM:
That's what it says.

What's on the GoPro?

DAVID:
Clean off the table.

ADAM:
How long do we have?

DAVID:
I don't know.

It was there the whole time.

QUINN:
Well, dude, hot girls

don't stay at parties long.

They go to multiple ones,

like five or six a night.

DAVID:
What do you

know about that?

I can't even comprehend

this right now.

ADAM:
It works.

We sent something

back in time.

Chris...

Hey.

Hey. You okay?

Uh, yeah. I just...

I don't really understand

what just happened.

Well...

We just built

a time machine.

We built a time machine.

We built a time machine.

Smoke! Sh*t! The cables!

Get the fire extinguisher!

Oh, my God. My car!

(SCHOOL BELL RINGING)

QUINN:
So, what's

with the backpack?

DAVID:
I'm reducing

the width of frame

so the machine can fit inside

a 22-by-14-inch backpack.

QUINN:
So we could

just walk around with it?

It'd only weigh 8 pounds.

QUINN:
The whole thing?

LOU:
Goldberg! It's time

for your presentation.

QUINN:
Did that guy

just say "presentation?"

LOU:
All right,

everybody, settle down.

Quinn, you didn't study?

No, I didn't study. I've been

building a time machine.

LOU:
Let's

get this over with.

You're up first.

QUINN:
Yeah, I know.

Name the first 10 elements

of the periodic table.

(INDISTINCT BANTER)

ADAM:
All right, so, um,

I was thinking we should

start off small.

I was making a list.

Uh, bacteria, to send through.

CHRIS:
Yeah.

I can grab something

from Dr. Lou's class.

He actually really likes me.

Yesterday I was

at Petco with my mom.

And they have, like, dozens

of those little white mice,

and you could just

send those back.

Think about it.

If you were a mouse,

you'd be like,

"Damn, I'm time traveling

right now!"

Guys, I'm serious.

We need to keep this quiet.

Okay, Jessie saw me

staring at her.

That's real smooth...

Real smooth, David, perfect.

Guys, can you please not just

all look at her? Guys, stop!

JESSIE:
Hey, guys!

Smooth, guys. Nice.

Is she coming over?

ADAM:
David, game face,

put your game face on.

DAVID:
I haven't

got a game face.

(JESSIE CLEARING THROAT)

Somebody say something.

DAVID:
Okay,

thank you for letting

us use your battery.

Yeah, no problem.

What are you going

to do with it?

Well, we're gonna test it.

We're gonna...

JESSIE:
But I thought

you already tested it.

Yeah, yeah, but we haven't

tested on a living organism.

So now you're going to

test it on people, right?

ALL:
No!

ADAM:
Bacteria first.

QUINN:
Or puppies.

DAVID:
We need to start...

Puppies?

QUINN:
You've been

to Petco, right?

You've seen all

the white mice?

DAVID:
Quinn,

enough with the Petco.

We have to take

this step by step.

Be very conscious

of what we're doing.

Right, but shouldn't

the next step be, like,

testing it on us?

It's not... You know,

this is not a toy.

We need to take it

step by step...

JESSIE:
I'm not

saying it's a toy, but like...

I mean, there's a lot

of things we have

to think about...

DAVID:
Hey, what is that?

What is this?

JESSIE:
What? My keys?

CHRIS:
Oh, my God.

JESSIE:
What's wrong

with my keys?

CHRIS:

They're just really cool.

JESSIE:
You're kidding, right?

Hello?

Sorry.

JESSIE:
I don't... (SIGHING)

This isn't fake, right?

DAVID:
No.

No, it's real.

(SIGHING)

It doesn't make any sense.

You guys film everything, huh?

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