A/N- The following is the trailer for my upcoming story Letting Me Go. It is inspired by an abandoned concept that Stephen Anderson discusses on the DVD commentary and powered inside my imagination by the song Letting Me Go by Jessie Daniels. So without further adieu, here's just a little glimpse of what's to come.
Bold-Voiceover
Plain Text (in and out of parenthesis)-dialogue and action
Italics (in and out of parenthesis)-background music
The camera shows Wilbur staring at an assignment as the camera zooms in and shows a C- stamped in red ink.
"I'm sorry, Wilbur, but you knew the assignment…"
The camera fades to a frustrated Wilbur slamming the door behind him and throwing his book bag on the ground before fading into Wilbur standing behind Cornelius, barely visible over his shoulder as he works on something in his lab.
"Dad, do you ever regret your decision? I mean, you had the chance to just reach out and ask her why. You didn't have to stop her, just find out the answer."
"I never regret my decision, but I can't say it doesn't haunt me sometimes wondering why she gave me up. But maybe knowing the reason would have been something to regret."
The camera morphs into Cornelius' bedroom as he and Franny sit on the edge of their bed and zooms into Cornelius' distraught face.
"I know that I need to keep moving forward, but everything that's happened…it just brings back old memories. I feel like the helpless little boy I was up on the rooftop, marking off the number of times I'd been rejected, wondering why my own mother didn't even want me."
"You can still find out. You know who you are now. Maybe it's time to find out who she is."
"I…I can't. I promised myself that I wouldn't. I don't need her."
She Was A Woman Who Had Nowhere Else To Turn…
The camera shows a woman cloaking her head with her jacket hood before stepping out into the rain with her baby close to her and then cross fades to Wilbur landing the time machine in the park nearby his father's old orphanage.
"If dad's not willing to find out, then I will."
The camera follows Wilbur as he walks through the rainy park, suddenly stopping when he hears crying coming from a nearby park bench.
"You."
"Excuse me?"
"I know what you're about to do."
The camera shows Wilbur sitting down beside baby Lewis, smiling at him, and then looking up at the mother before fading to the same woman lying in her bed, staring at the ceiling as Wilbur's voice echoes:
"You have to let him go. But someday, please, let him know why."
The camera cross fades and zooms in on a picture of baby Lewis as a hand picks it up and fades out to show the same woman holding it before her, tears in her eyes.
"I can never let you know."
Both Thought They Knew The Secret To Letting Go…
The scene cuts to Cornelius opening the door and revealing an older woman.
"I'm from Tabors Law Firm. All of Joseph Michaels' clients were handed over to me upon his retirement and so I have some legal things to discuss if I could just have a moment of your time."
"Not a problem. Won't you come in?"
The camera shows Wilbur staring at the lawyer in disbelief and attempting to hide his face before the camera zooms in as he reveals his identity.
"You!"
"Hi, uh, grandma?"
The camera quickly cuts to Cornelius' bewildered face as he spins from looking at Wilbur to looking at the lawyer, the camera also spinning to reveal the woman's equally bewildered face.
"It can't be…6th Street Orphanage?"
"How did you know?"
"Because I think I left you there forty-two years ago…and he-he was there too!"
The camera pans around to show Wilbur's guilty face before panning back to Cornelius' confused face.
"Mother?"
Both Were Really Running From The Past…
The camera shows the mother admiring all of Cornelius' plaques and awards that are hanging on the walls of Robinson Industries and then turns as she looks at Cornelius with motherly awe.
"I've missed so much. I know I don't have the right to even look at these and feel the pride of knowing that they're for my son. My smart, wonderful, inventive son."
"Your son? Before Lucille and Bud, I was nobody's son. They adopted me. They've loved me all this time. I'm their son."
"But, Cornelius, you are my son. I'm the one who had you."
"You're right. You did have me. But then you let me go."
The camera shows Cornelius throw up his hands in frustration as he walks quickly up the Robinson's drive, leaving his mother behind him, and then pans to show the mother reaching out to go after him.
"You can't just show up after all of these years and expect me to say everything is okay between us."
"Everything happened on its own. I never planned on just showing up but I didn't know…"
"And you didn't know because you never planned on ever showing up!"
This Winter…
The camera zooms in on Cornelius tear streaked face as he enters the lab and then zooms in on his memory scanner as he rips off the covering before turning to show Wilbur walking in behind him, a confused and almost fearful look on his face.
"Dad, you didn't find her. She found you. Why won't you give her a chance?"
"Because she didn't even want to find me, Wilbur. It was an accident. I'll always just be her accident."
The Journey Of A Lifetime…
The camera cuts to Wilbur firing up a larger scale prototype of Cornelius' original memory scanner and cross fades to the worried looks on Cornelius' and his mother's faces as papers fly all around them from the breeze created by the machine's fan.
"Wilbur, what are you doing!?"
"You only said I was grounded from the time machine! The two of you are going to find out what you missed and didn't miss."
"Wilbur, what are you talking about?"
"You're going to have to see for yourself, dad."
The camera shows a holographic image of the night that Cornelius was left at the orphanage and quickly cuts to Wilbur pushing both of them into the holographic image where they both disappear. (And I wonder…)
Will Bring A Mother And Her Son Back Together…
If I could fall into the sky (shows Cornelius and his mother landing in the orphanage yard, and getting up to see Lewis making his way slowly over to his mother on the doorsteps of the orphanage)
Do you think time would pass me by (cuts to the mother wanting to reach out and touch Lewis as he walks by her at his college graduation, but she is stopped by Cornelius)
Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles (fades to a sunny day as the mother's younger self walks to the orphanage, stops and stares up at the door, and then hangs her head and walks past)
If I could just see you (shows the mother turning quickly to see Cornelius standing behind her)
Tonight(cuts to Cornelius, reaching out and touching his young mother as she leans against a door in tears)
Letting Me Go
"Moving on isn't the same as moving forward."
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