Gravity Falls: Time Stands Still

by GFJBR1982

Sequel to Five Years On. As the Fourth of July approaches, Dipper, Wendy, Mabel, and Jay have all settled into the summer. But after a seemingly harmless incident, Dipper begins to have strange experiences that begin to alter him physically and puts the whole town at risk. It then becomes literally a race against time to find solution and avert tragedy. Screenplay; complete.

1. Chapter 1

Gravity Falls: Time Stands Still

Gravity Falls created by Alex Hirsch

Act 1 - Scene 1

Fade in:

Monday, July 3rd – 8:00am

The Mystery Shack

Dipper Pines is standing on the back porch of the shack looking off, apparently waiting.

View over Dipper's shoulder

down the drive lane

A brown pick-up truck is driving toward the Mystery Shack. The truck pulls up and stops in front of the porch.

Cut to a view slightly behind the truck

Wendy Corduroy opens the door and steps out. On the porch, a smile creeps onto Dipper's face. Wendy greets him playfully.

WENDY

Morning, Dork.

DIPPER

Hey. How'd you sleep?

WENDY

Not well enough.

She walks up and kisses Dipper passionately. Dipper grins like a fool.

WENDY

That'll help. You ready for work?

DIPPER

You bet.

A creaking sound is heard as the back screen door opens. Mabel Pines and Jay Fields come out onto the porch. Mabel is wearing a new knitted pink sweater that has the atomic model as its picture.

MABEL

Hey Wendy.

WENDY

Hi guys. So what are you two gonna do today?

MABEL

We're gonna go into town and buy Jay a rollout mattress.

JAY

Yeah, sleeping on the floor of the attic is starting to do a number on my back.

MABEL

When we get back we're gonna help Soos around the shack.

JAY

And Ghost Eyes needs a hand with some work in the boiler room.

DIPPER

That's good. You could stand to get your hands a bit dirty.

Jay raises an eyebrow and smiles.

JAY

What're you trying to say?

DIPPER

Oh nothing. But you're not exactly the handiest guy on the planet.

Mabel looks up at Jay and smiles.

JAY

Fair enough.

WENDY

Well we'd better get moving. We open the line at 10:00 am. Monday's always busier than you'd think. Could get nuts.

DIPPER

Awesome. But remember, I hope you guys are ready. I'm finally taking you to see the crash site tonight.

MABEL

Right, major nerd stuff.

WENDY

I'm sure it'll be fun in a very nerdish kind of way. Alright, bye guys.

MABEL and JAY

See ya.

Dipper and Wendy get into the pick-up.

View over Jay and Mabel's shoulders.

Wendy backs up and turns to drive away. Dipper waves out the window.

Cut to in front of Jay and Mabel

JAY

He thinks I'm mechanically useless.

MABEL

Well, you're definitely handy with me.

She grabs him by the shirt and kisses him.

JAY

You're awesome.

Mabel giggles.

MABEL

I know.

JAY

So what's this spaceship like?

MABEL

Not sure. I've never been in there either. But from what Dipper and Grunkle Ford have said, it's been there so long that there's nothing to worry about.

JAY

We'll see.

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Cut to the opening theme from the series

The scenery and music begins the same. The major change is the obvious difference in Dipper and Mabel's age. Soos replaces Stan in the order. The campfire scene has Jay in it, with Soos in the Middle. Melody sits at the cash register, with a smile on her face. The post card has Dipper, Wendy, Soos, Mabel, and Jay. Gravity Falls displays like normal. A shape resembling the Sun flashes at the very end in the place formerly showing Bill Cipher.

Scene 2

Crashed spacecraft mound – 7:00 pm

Darkness

A small rush of air is heard as the hatch opens from the outside. Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Jay are looking down in to the dark shaft. Everyone is holding a flashlight and Dipper has the Magnet Gun. Jay immediately expresses his concern.

JAY

You're sure there's nothing alive down there, in the dark?

DIPPER

Never seen anything. And after thirty million odd years... well you know.

Jay still sounds nervous.

JAY

Ok then.

WENDY

Take it easy man. Dipper knows what he's doing.

MABEL

Besides Sweetie, you helped defeat the Shapeshifter without batting a eye.

JAY

At least that monster was outside.

Dipper chuckles.

DIPPER

You know dude, performing in front of a school is way scarier than this. Just pretend it's a show.

MABEL

Ok. Ready?

Jay waves his hand in a "lead the way" gesture.

DIPPER

Alrighty then.

Dipper heads down the ladder into the dark.

DIPPER

Turn on your lamps.

Just like Ford, he pops his head back out of the hole.

DIPPER

And of yeah, if we activate the security system, just relax, it feeds on your fear.

WENDY

No problem.

JAY

Security system?

Cut to the group stepping down onto the landing

JAY

Why didn't you mention the security system before?

Dipper grins and responds sarcastically.

DIPPER

Oh, did I forget that?

JAY

Dude!

DIPPER

Ok, ok. The security droids are activated by certain sensors around the ship. I'm not sure where they all are.

Jay goes to respond, but Dipper cuts him off.

DIPPER

But if they don't see us as a threat, they'll leave us alone.

MABEL

So really we just need to relax and have fun.

Wendy is staring over the edge into the dark by the anti-gravity nacelles.

WENDY

This place is wicked creepy. But we've seen weirder stuff than this. Should be easy.

Jay takes a deep breath.

JAY

Ok, let's go.

MABEL

So how do we get down?

DIPPER

There are two options. You can continue climbing down the wall, using the carved out cipher markings as ladder rungs...

All three of them look at Dipper with raised eyebrows.

DIPPER

Or, you can slide down the nacelle with me and the magnet gun. It's way faster, and oddly enough safer as well. Wendy do you have the harnesses?

She pulls two climbing harnesses out of her brown backpack.

WENDY

Right here.

Jay is looking over the edge at the wall.

JAY

Faster and safer huh?

DIPPER

Yup. Trust me, if you like Wendy's zip line, you'll like this too.

WENDY

Let's go

Wendy and Dipper set up their harnesses and connect them.

DIPPER

OK, get on my back.

Wendy jumps on Dipper in a piggy back.

WENDY

Oh I like this.

She kisses Dipper on the neck. He squirms playfully.

DIPPER

Hey now, focus. Just you wait.

Mabel looks at Jay smirking. Dipper turns on the magnet gun.

DIPPER

I'll take Wendy and come back for guys. Ok babe, hold on tight. Three, two, one, go!

Dipper activates the gun and two of them are pulled to the nacelle. Holding on, they slide down into the dark.

Cut to Mabel and Wendy standing

at the bottom of the nacelle

There is a scraping sound as Dipper and Jay slide down the column. As they come into view, Dipper increases the power so they slow to a stop just before the ground level. They unhook the harness.

JAY

Alright, I admit it. That was fun.

MABEL

There you go baby, piece of cake.

DIPPER

So what do you guys want to see first?

WENDY

Whatever you want to show us. This ship is huge.

Jay and Mabel nod in agreement.

DIPPER

Ok, follow me.

Dipper leads them along the corridors up to bridge. As they look over the controls and remains, Wendy comments on the ship's circumstances.

WENDY

So why do you think they crashed?

Dipper is looking at the helm's control panel.

DIPPER

Not sure. Grunkle Ford and I talked about it. Whatever happened, either the weirdness caused the crash or vice versa. Grunkle Ford and I were desperate for answers from that alien that night with the Shapeshifter, but he wouldn't tell us.

JAY

So all this stuff doesn't work right?

DIPPER

As far as I know. Ford built his portal with parts from the ship, but the systems on board seem like they haven't functioned since the crash. Probably best not to mess with anything though.

Cut to a time lapse montage

The group continues moving through the ship, going past the armory, specimen wing, crew quarters, the probability drive engine, and then a large open area the size of a basketball court that looks like a laser tag course at an arcade.

WENDY

Wow, it's easy to see how someone could lost in here.

Cut to Mabel over on top

of one of the barriers

She yells to Dipper and Wendy

MABEL

Hey guys! We should get Soos down here. He'd love this part of the ship.

Cut back to Dipper and Wendy

DIPPER

Great idea Mabel.

Dipper looks around, slightly confused. He calls back to Mabel.

DIPPER

Hey, where did Jay go?!

MABEL

I don't know.

Jay's voice can be heard from a corridor off the far end of the room.

JAY (O.S.)

Hey guys! Come check this out!

Mabel looks off in the direction of Jay's voice, and then looks back to Dipper and Wendy.

MABEL

Come on guys!

Cut to Jay standing at the

far end of a long hallway

He is looking into a cracked window of a large room with what appears to have a sliding door. He looks to his left as the others approach.

JAY

Check it out.

DIPPER

Dude, you shouldn't run off like that.

JAY

Sorry, I just saw the hallway, wanted to have a look.

MABEL

So what is this?

JAY

I have no idea. It looks super cool though.

Through the large cracked window the group can see that the room is in fact shaped like the inner portion of a donut, with tiny triangular metallic panels making up the floor, ceiling, and walls. The center column appears incomplete with sections coming down from the ceiling and up from the floor, but with a large open space between them.

WENDY

What do you think?

DIPPER

It looks a lot like some of the fusion reactors that I've studied in school. But that middle section doesn't make any sense, being open like that.

Jay looks to his right and sees what looks like a control panel. He takes a closer look.

Cut to a close-up of the panel

There are several of the alien cipher symbols, along with buttons, gauges, and dials that appear to operate the unit.

JAY

Which one do you think turns it on?

MABEL

Remember we shouldn't touch anything.

JAY

What's the big deal? Everything's broken anyway right?

Jay puts his finger on one of the buttons.

WENDY

Seriously dude, you should probably leave it.

JAY

Oh c'mon, what could happen?

He presses a red button in the bottom left corner of the panel. A low humming sound immediately can be heard throughout the corridor. Through the window everyone can see that the outer edges of the cylinders begin to glow.

DIPPER

Jay?

As the humming increases in intensity, the floor, ceiling, and walls begin to glow a bright yellow. The glowing cylinders dramatically increase their brightness, momentarily emitting a blinding flash of light. Everyone puts their hands up to shield from the light. A shimmering multicolored force-field is left between the cylinders once the light fades.

MABEL

It's beautiful.

The humming increases further as the walls increase in brightness. A bright flowing wall of light begins to circle the room, slowly at first, then picking up speed quickly.

WENDY

Dipper, what's going on?

DIPPER

I'm not sure.

The rotation becomes so fast that the room appears to be singularly lit up. At that moment a crackling sound is heard as the crack in the glass expands.

DIPPER

Jay, shut it down.

Jay pushes the same button with no result.

JAY

It didn't work.

DIPPER

Try another one.

At that moment a short burst of light shoots through the crack, striking Dipper in the chest, knocking him down.

MABEL

Dipper!

WENDY

Turn it off man!

Jay quickly presses three other buttons on the panel. The machine then slowly powers down. The loud humming dissipates and the light fades leaving the group in the darkness of the corridor.

Cut to Dipper lying of the floor

JAY

Dipper are you ok?

WENDY

He told us not to touch anything. Why would you mess with that?

JAY

I didn't think...

Dipper groans and sits up.

DIPPER

Take it easy guys, I'm ok. Man that was bizarre.

MABEL

What was that?

DIPPER

Can't say. When the light hit me and I went down, for a moment I saw things differently. I can't really describe it. But it felt really warm and tingly.

WENDY

As long as you're alright. We should probably get back.

MABEL

Sweetie, you've got to be more careful.

Jay takes a deep breath.

JAY

I know, I know. Dipper I'm sorry.

DIPPER

It's all good dude. Let's get going.

View from behind as the group walks off back down the corridor.

JAY

How could that machine still work after all this time?

DIPPER

Not sure. But I hope that's the only surprise we get from this place for a while.

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