A wedding day to remember
Characters:
Jude
Detective William Murdoch
Dr. Julia Ogden
George Crabtree
(Jude a girl about 16 with dark brown hair walks through the Ontario Science Centre and into an unmarked door where she comes across a path surrounded by a blue spiral. The room spins and the lights turn off. She walks out of the room and looks around to see 1902 Toronto.)
Jude: (She looks around confused) What? where am I? what is this? I think…I think I've seen pictures of this, this looks like an old Toronto, early 1900's maybe? but that's impossible, time travel isn't real. How did I get here? Where's the museum?
(She notices a police station nearby and heads in. Inside she is greeted by a constable)
George Crabtree: (Shocked at what she is wearing) Welcome to station house number 4 how may I help you?
Jude: Uh…well…I guess I need help… yes yes I need help (She takes a long breath) I'm not from here-
George Crabtree: Well there is a hotel a few blocks west of here, there might also be some boarding houses available down there (he points east down the road full of houses)
Jude: Uh no not like that… I'm not from this...uh…time.
George Crabtree: Well you know none of us are from this time we were all born at a different time
Jude: (flustered) No…not like that… I'm from the…the future… the year 3002 actually.
George Crabtree: Ah I see I've heard of people like you, they call it method I believe you must be a method writer, you know I'm a writer too. My book is cal-
Jude: No not like that I'm not a writer and I don't care about your book I just want to go home (She starts slightly crying) please just help me get home.
George Crabtree: (skeptical) Alright well why don't I set you up with our detective and you can explain your situation to him and he will do his best to get you home (whispers to jude) but Miss you must be honest with him about where you're from(yells out behind him) Detective Murdoch I have something for you
William Murdoch: (William Murdoch walks up to the two) What have you George?
George Crabtree: Well this young lady says she's from the future, the year 3002 to be precise.
William Murdoch: Alright why don't you follow me to my office, Miss-
Jude: My name is Jude, Jude Murdoch
William Murdoch: Well Miss Murdoch why don't you follow me and you can tell me about the future (aside to George) and George call at the asylum.
(George nods and heads to the telephone to call while Detective Murdoch and Jude head to his office. Once there they begin talking, Detective Murdoch leaves the room when arrives)
William Murdoch: Julia, would you be able to speak to this young lady, she claims to be from the future
Julia Ogden: And you don't believe her?
William Murdoch: Well Julia look at the science there is no proof that science can ever get there.
Julia Ogden: Well William I'll speak to her but look at all the things you've invented and tell me it's not possible in the future
William Murdoch: And Julia do you remember what happen last time somebody claimed to have a time machine, it was all a hoax and waste of time. I should warn you she is a little different.
Julia Ogden: How do you say William?
William Murdoch: Well her way of speaking is quite different
Julia Ogden: She might me American?
William Murdoch: she's wearing trousers and her shirt exposes her shoulders
Julia Ogden: Well maybe she is from the future and that is the style in that year (She giggles quietl) it would be quite exciting.
(Julia walks in and William follows her and they begin questioning the girl,they leave afterwards)
William Murdoch: Well what do you think?
Julia Ogden: She does seem very convince of her story, even more than one with a delusion of being from a different time. What I do find strange is that she claims to have the same last name as you; it is not a very common surname.
(A couple of hours pass and William and Julia leave from their wedding. Before George leaves he notices Jude is still there)
George Crabtree: Miss Murdoch? Do you need any more help?
Jude: Ugh…well I don't really know what to do, I need to get back
George Crabtree: Well I'm about to leave for the detective's wedding, why don't you assist and the detective will help you figure it out after, he's a very smart man you know, a man of science.
They exit
Scene 2
(The scene opens with Jude sitting at a table alone at a wedding reception. Julia approaches)
Julia Ogden: May I sit?
Jude: Of course it's your wedding
(She sits down beside Jude)
Jude: You think I'm crazy right? Everybody here does, I should get used to it because I'm never getting home
Julia Ogden: I don't, William might not believe you but I do, it could happen one day, time travel I mean. However that's not why I'm here, William...detective Murdoch thinks he's found a way to get you home. Follow me.
(They walk over to Detective Murdoch standing outside the tent in a field with George Crabtree)
William Murdoch: Welcome Miss Murdoch (he nods at her and looks at Julia) Julia (He nods at her) George has just return from doing an errand for me at the station house and while there he's found this outside (shows them a digital watch) it appears to be some sort of advanced pocket watch
Jude: It's a watch…a wrist watch…a digital one
William Murdoch: Yes well my thought is that it came with you and with moving the nobs right here (he points to the button on the sides) you could theoretically return home
Jude: Well let's give it a shot!
William Murdoch: I believe shooting it would have contrary effects to what we are attempting to do, as well as of us are carrying firearms.
Jude: It's an expression (She begins playing with the nobs and changing the numbers for 07/02/3002 but before finishing Julia interupts her)
Julia Ogden: Wait before you leav (She hugs Jude) now, now you can go
William Murdoch: In case you really are my ancestor (He hands her a small necklace with a little silver cross at the end) to remember our encounter
Jude: Thank you both of you (she turns to look at George) all of you
(Jude hugs Julia and William, Julia hugs back and after a few moments of hesitation he hugs back as well)
(She finishes adjusting the numbers and crosses her fingers as the watch begins shaking, a blue light surrounds her and all the lights go dark)
Scene 3
(The scene opens with Jude alone lying on the floor of her bedroom, slowly waking up)
Jude: (confused) What, where am I? (She looks around) I'm home, did it work…did detective Murdoch's invention actually work? Or was it all a dream?
(She reaches in her pockets and removes a necklace with a small silver cross at the end, remembering a previous thought she rushes out to her attic and finds an old family album. She sits down and looks for a certain page)
Jude: There it is, I knew it, they are real (She's looking at a page with the two people she met only hours prior.) William and Julia Murdoch… my great-great-great-great-grandparents.
The lights fade to black with Jude smiling at the book