Enter A Stranger
Part 14: New Generations
Notes: 1.) I made the project a large part because it involves a lot of the cast. 2.) I wrote the project in present tense because it makes it easier to write. 3.) The song that seperates some of the scenes of the project is "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel (I don't own that either.)
"Ok, here it is, finished," said Mykalla coming down the stairs. She put the video tape down on the coffee table in front of Elizabeth and Rob.
"You going to tell us what this project was about?" Mark asked enetering the living room.
"You wanna watch?" asked Mykalla.
"Give me one minute to put Ella down," said Elizabeth starting to stand up.
"I'll take her," she replied taking Ella from her. Mykalla went upstairs to put Ella in her crib. She came back down and pushed the tape in the VCR. She sat down on the couch next to Rob, who put his arm around her. (Much the same position as Mark and Elizabeth.)
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As the countdown ends the title screen comes up, 'The Next Generation', with Lousi Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" playing in the backgroung. When the song ends, a video of Ella sleeping comes up. "The next generation has so much to look foward to," says the voice over, Mykalla's voice. "But they have missed out on some of the most important events of history. I asked different people what they think the upcoming generations have missed out on."
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China Johnny Rae, South Pacific, Walter Winchel, Joe Dimagio.
Joe McCartney, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.
The first scene is of Kovac. He is in the lounge sitting on the couch. "Well, I think they will miss out on... living through the events that shaped their parents's lives. Like my future children won't know what the war in Croatia was like, how we all lost everything... and everyone, everyone we loved."
The next person is Dave in Exam 6. "Future generations? That's easy they'd miss out on the oppertunity to date me... Seriously, they'd miss out on all the media statements that are made. The things that make everyone stop and think about what's going on. Right now you have people going into the middle of the wilderness with a bunch of strangers to win money, and people blaming music for acts of violence. You learn a lot about the way our society is from what we watch and listen to."
Rosenburgs, H-bomb, Sugar Rae, Pan-Mun-Jong, Brando, The King and I, and the Catcher in the Rye.
Eisnehower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen, Marchiano, Liberaci, Santane good-bye.
The scene goes to Romano in his office. "Well, they don't see the consequences of rising to power the wrong way. They missed out on seeing what happened to Hilter, Communist Russia, Cuba, and all the other power grubbing loons."
"The next scene is Elizabeth on the patio. "Umm... they'd miss out on the technology evolution. They will have access to things we could hardly dream of, yet they could never believe how it started. With everything being run electrically run, it's hard to believe how things used to be."
Joseph Stalin, Malencov, Nasser and Prekofiev, Rockefella, Campanella, Communist Block.
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron, Din Din Fu Falls, Rock Around the Clock.
Interviews start again with Rob leaning against the hood of his car in the school parking lot. "Well, the heros of today are forgotten about. The sports stars and actors and musicians that we look up to today, but next year they are old news. And ten years from now they're unknown to everyone. Right now we still remember Charlie Chaplin, and Duke Ellington, and Hornus Wagner, but thirty years from now they may be forgotten names."
The next scene is of Lydia in the storage room. "Watching events that their parnets, grandparents and teachers talk about. Not just the historical facts behind them, but the way they effected people."
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Preistly, Disneyland.
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez.
Dr. Anspuagh is in the prep room of one of the OR's. "They don't realize the consquences of their actions, even young people now. Growing up, I saw the reaction the World Wars had on my parents. I served witht he NATO forces in the 60's and we saw the consequences of war and battle. We saw what VietNam did, mentally, to the boys who fought. There hasn't been something that big in a long time. As good as it is, people don't realize how good times are until they aren't good anymore."
The scene goes to Chleo outside in the ambulence bay. "They miss out on seeing how they got to where they will be. The people like Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks, who struggled so that we can be excepted to every aspect of society. They miss out on knowing how people fought for the idea of freedom and equality."
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnick, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai.
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkwether Homicide, Children of Thalidomide.
Mark is in Trama 2 leaning on the gurney. "I think that they will know a lot of things that their parents didn't. They learn form the mistakes that have been made in the past. They can see the errors that have been made, and can avoid making those same mistakes again."
Peter is in the lounge with Reese in his lap. "There are so many new options of treatment. Future generations are not exposed to some of the debilitating diseases. We've eradicated small pox, controlled polio and hopefully soon will have cures for cancer and AIDS."
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia, Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go.
Us, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Cheaker, Psycho, Belguims in the Congo.
Rissa sits on a desk in an empty classroom. "Future generations miss out on everything. They sit in a classrrom and learn about history, but they don't really understand what it all means. they read about events that happened two hundred, or a hundred, or even fifty years ago, but the impact of them isn't the same. With the success of the market, it's hard to imagine the effect the Great Depression had. The Revolutionary War, Civil War, Lincoln, FDR, they don't hold the same greatness that they did. Reading about history carrys on the facts, but future generations don't feel the same awe and pain that those people who lived through these events experienced."
Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger In A Strang Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Lawerence of Arabia, Brittish Beatle-mania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Paterson.
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex, JFK blown away what else do I have to say?
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After the credits rolled Mykalla asked, "Come on you guys. What do you think?"
"I liked it," replied Rob, wrapping his arm around her a little tighter. "And if Barnes doesn't give you an A, he's nuts."
"Great job, Mike," added Elizabeth. "it came out really well."
"Wow," said Mark. "This should put you over the top with him."
"You really think he'll like it?" asked Mykalla.
"Totally," replied Rob as Mykalla stood up to take the tape out of the VCR.
"I'm gald you guys think so," said Mykalla. "I'm going to give it to him tomorrow."
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Mykalla pushed the door to the hospital room open, only yo find it empty. She went to the nurse's station to ask why. "Mr. Barnes was discharged yesterday," replied the charge nurse. "Are you Ms. Quince?"
"Yeah why?" answered Mykalla.
"He left a message for you," she said handing her a foldedpiece of paper.
"Thanks," said Mykalla as she started to the elevator. WHen the doors closed, Mykalla opened the note and read it. She smiled when she finished and slipped the paper into her pocket. She got off the elevator in the ER and went to look for Mark. Not seeing him around she went to the ad mit desk.
"Hi MYkalla," said Abby as Mykalla leaned on the desk.
"HI Abby," she replied. "Do you know where Mark is? He's supposed to give me a ride home."
"I'm pretty sure he's with a patient. I can double check for you." Abby went over to the board, not finding his name she went to check the trama rooms. "Yeah, he's with a patient," she said when she came back.
"Thanks," replied Mykalla. "Can you give him a message for me?"
"Sure thing."
Mykalla took the paper out of her pocket and wrote the address on another piece. SHe gave it to Abby. "Tell him I'm going to Barnes's to give him my project. I'll take the EL and meet him at home."
"No problem Mike. I'll see you later."
"Thanks a lot Abby. See ya later." Mykalla walked out of the ER and to the EL station.
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Mark opened the door and found the house unnaturally quiet. He put his stuff down and called, "Elizabeth?!" Not hearing a responce he began searching the downstairs rooms. Finding it empty, he looked into the garage to see if her car was there, which it was. He ran upstairs tot ry to find her. He looked into the nursery where Ella was sleeping and then went into the room he shared with Elizabeth. He found her asleep, taking advantage of the fedw moments of silence. He took the blanket off the foot of the bed and pulled it over her, trying to to wake her. He went intot he bathroom to take a shower.
By the time he had finished Elizabeth was awake and had turned over to face him. "Hello," she said as he sat down on the bed next to her.
"Hi." He pushed a few stray curls back away from her face and kissed her softly. "How long have you been asleep?"
Elizabeth glanced at the clock on the nightstand. "About three hours. I was only going to lay down for twenty minutes but... Where's Mike?"
"She didn't come home yet?" asked Mark surprised.
"No. I thought you were giving her a ride home. She went to give Barnes her project."
"II know. He was discharged yesterday. We got hit with a huge trama ten mintues before my shift was over, so Mike decided to go see him. She said she was going to take the EL and would meet me here."
"When was that? I thought you shift was over at two."
"I got the message at about one. It's six now. I don't think she'd still be there." Elizabeth got up and went to the desk in the corner. She began flipping throught th phone book. "Lizabeth, what are you doing?"
"I'm looking for Mr. Barnes's number. I'm going to see if she's still there," she replied not picking her head up. "here it is." She dialed the number and waited for him to answer. "Hello, Mr. Barnes?"
"Yes, this is John Barnes. How can I help you."
"Mr. Barnes, this is ELizbaeth Corday, Mykalla's sister. Is Mykalla still there?"
"Mykalla? No she hasn't been here yet. I've been waiting for her to drop off her project."
"She's not there?"
"No, not yet. Is somethign the matter?"
"Ummm, no. If she does show up can you have her call us."
"Of course."
"Thank you. Good-bye." Elizabeth hung up the phone and turned towards Mark.
"Elizabeth, what's wrong?" asked Mark noticing the look on her face.
"She never showed up at Barnes's."
TO BE CONTINUED
Part 14: New Generations
Notes: 1.) I made the project a large part because it involves a lot of the cast. 2.) I wrote the project in present tense because it makes it easier to write. 3.) The song that seperates some of the scenes of the project is "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel (I don't own that either.)
"Ok, here it is, finished," said Mykalla coming down the stairs. She put the video tape down on the coffee table in front of Elizabeth and Rob.
"You going to tell us what this project was about?" Mark asked enetering the living room.
"You wanna watch?" asked Mykalla.
"Give me one minute to put Ella down," said Elizabeth starting to stand up.
"I'll take her," she replied taking Ella from her. Mykalla went upstairs to put Ella in her crib. She came back down and pushed the tape in the VCR. She sat down on the couch next to Rob, who put his arm around her. (Much the same position as Mark and Elizabeth.)
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As the countdown ends the title screen comes up, 'The Next Generation', with Lousi Armstrong's "What A Wonderful World" playing in the backgroung. When the song ends, a video of Ella sleeping comes up. "The next generation has so much to look foward to," says the voice over, Mykalla's voice. "But they have missed out on some of the most important events of history. I asked different people what they think the upcoming generations have missed out on."
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China Johnny Rae, South Pacific, Walter Winchel, Joe Dimagio.
Joe McCartney, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe.
The first scene is of Kovac. He is in the lounge sitting on the couch. "Well, I think they will miss out on... living through the events that shaped their parents's lives. Like my future children won't know what the war in Croatia was like, how we all lost everything... and everyone, everyone we loved."
The next person is Dave in Exam 6. "Future generations? That's easy they'd miss out on the oppertunity to date me... Seriously, they'd miss out on all the media statements that are made. The things that make everyone stop and think about what's going on. Right now you have people going into the middle of the wilderness with a bunch of strangers to win money, and people blaming music for acts of violence. You learn a lot about the way our society is from what we watch and listen to."
Rosenburgs, H-bomb, Sugar Rae, Pan-Mun-Jong, Brando, The King and I, and the Catcher in the Rye.
Eisnehower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen, Marchiano, Liberaci, Santane good-bye.
The scene goes to Romano in his office. "Well, they don't see the consequences of rising to power the wrong way. They missed out on seeing what happened to Hilter, Communist Russia, Cuba, and all the other power grubbing loons."
"The next scene is Elizabeth on the patio. "Umm... they'd miss out on the technology evolution. They will have access to things we could hardly dream of, yet they could never believe how it started. With everything being run electrically run, it's hard to believe how things used to be."
Joseph Stalin, Malencov, Nasser and Prekofiev, Rockefella, Campanella, Communist Block.
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron, Din Din Fu Falls, Rock Around the Clock.
Interviews start again with Rob leaning against the hood of his car in the school parking lot. "Well, the heros of today are forgotten about. The sports stars and actors and musicians that we look up to today, but next year they are old news. And ten years from now they're unknown to everyone. Right now we still remember Charlie Chaplin, and Duke Ellington, and Hornus Wagner, but thirty years from now they may be forgotten names."
The next scene is of Lydia in the storage room. "Watching events that their parnets, grandparents and teachers talk about. Not just the historical facts behind them, but the way they effected people."
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Preistly, Disneyland.
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez.
Dr. Anspuagh is in the prep room of one of the OR's. "They don't realize the consquences of their actions, even young people now. Growing up, I saw the reaction the World Wars had on my parents. I served witht he NATO forces in the 60's and we saw the consequences of war and battle. We saw what VietNam did, mentally, to the boys who fought. There hasn't been something that big in a long time. As good as it is, people don't realize how good times are until they aren't good anymore."
The scene goes to Chleo outside in the ambulence bay. "They miss out on seeing how they got to where they will be. The people like Martin Luther King, and Rosa Parks, who struggled so that we can be excepted to every aspect of society. They miss out on knowing how people fought for the idea of freedom and equality."
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnick, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai.
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball, Starkwether Homicide, Children of Thalidomide.
Mark is in Trama 2 leaning on the gurney. "I think that they will know a lot of things that their parents didn't. They learn form the mistakes that have been made in the past. They can see the errors that have been made, and can avoid making those same mistakes again."
Peter is in the lounge with Reese in his lap. "There are so many new options of treatment. Future generations are not exposed to some of the debilitating diseases. We've eradicated small pox, controlled polio and hopefully soon will have cures for cancer and AIDS."
Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia, Hula Hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go.
Us, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy, Chubby Cheaker, Psycho, Belguims in the Congo.
Rissa sits on a desk in an empty classroom. "Future generations miss out on everything. They sit in a classrrom and learn about history, but they don't really understand what it all means. they read about events that happened two hundred, or a hundred, or even fifty years ago, but the impact of them isn't the same. With the success of the market, it's hard to imagine the effect the Great Depression had. The Revolutionary War, Civil War, Lincoln, FDR, they don't hold the same greatness that they did. Reading about history carrys on the facts, but future generations don't feel the same awe and pain that those people who lived through these events experienced."
Hemingway, Eichman, Stranger In A Strang Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Lawerence of Arabia, Brittish Beatle-mania, Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Paterson.
Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British Politician sex, JFK blown away what else do I have to say?
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After the credits rolled Mykalla asked, "Come on you guys. What do you think?"
"I liked it," replied Rob, wrapping his arm around her a little tighter. "And if Barnes doesn't give you an A, he's nuts."
"Great job, Mike," added Elizabeth. "it came out really well."
"Wow," said Mark. "This should put you over the top with him."
"You really think he'll like it?" asked Mykalla.
"Totally," replied Rob as Mykalla stood up to take the tape out of the VCR.
"I'm gald you guys think so," said Mykalla. "I'm going to give it to him tomorrow."
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Mykalla pushed the door to the hospital room open, only yo find it empty. She went to the nurse's station to ask why. "Mr. Barnes was discharged yesterday," replied the charge nurse. "Are you Ms. Quince?"
"Yeah why?" answered Mykalla.
"He left a message for you," she said handing her a foldedpiece of paper.
"Thanks," said Mykalla as she started to the elevator. WHen the doors closed, Mykalla opened the note and read it. She smiled when she finished and slipped the paper into her pocket. She got off the elevator in the ER and went to look for Mark. Not seeing him around she went to the ad mit desk.
"Hi MYkalla," said Abby as Mykalla leaned on the desk.
"HI Abby," she replied. "Do you know where Mark is? He's supposed to give me a ride home."
"I'm pretty sure he's with a patient. I can double check for you." Abby went over to the board, not finding his name she went to check the trama rooms. "Yeah, he's with a patient," she said when she came back.
"Thanks," replied Mykalla. "Can you give him a message for me?"
"Sure thing."
Mykalla took the paper out of her pocket and wrote the address on another piece. SHe gave it to Abby. "Tell him I'm going to Barnes's to give him my project. I'll take the EL and meet him at home."
"No problem Mike. I'll see you later."
"Thanks a lot Abby. See ya later." Mykalla walked out of the ER and to the EL station.
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Mark opened the door and found the house unnaturally quiet. He put his stuff down and called, "Elizabeth?!" Not hearing a responce he began searching the downstairs rooms. Finding it empty, he looked into the garage to see if her car was there, which it was. He ran upstairs tot ry to find her. He looked into the nursery where Ella was sleeping and then went into the room he shared with Elizabeth. He found her asleep, taking advantage of the fedw moments of silence. He took the blanket off the foot of the bed and pulled it over her, trying to to wake her. He went intot he bathroom to take a shower.
By the time he had finished Elizabeth was awake and had turned over to face him. "Hello," she said as he sat down on the bed next to her.
"Hi." He pushed a few stray curls back away from her face and kissed her softly. "How long have you been asleep?"
Elizabeth glanced at the clock on the nightstand. "About three hours. I was only going to lay down for twenty minutes but... Where's Mike?"
"She didn't come home yet?" asked Mark surprised.
"No. I thought you were giving her a ride home. She went to give Barnes her project."
"II know. He was discharged yesterday. We got hit with a huge trama ten mintues before my shift was over, so Mike decided to go see him. She said she was going to take the EL and would meet me here."
"When was that? I thought you shift was over at two."
"I got the message at about one. It's six now. I don't think she'd still be there." Elizabeth got up and went to the desk in the corner. She began flipping throught th phone book. "Lizabeth, what are you doing?"
"I'm looking for Mr. Barnes's number. I'm going to see if she's still there," she replied not picking her head up. "here it is." She dialed the number and waited for him to answer. "Hello, Mr. Barnes?"
"Yes, this is John Barnes. How can I help you."
"Mr. Barnes, this is ELizbaeth Corday, Mykalla's sister. Is Mykalla still there?"
"Mykalla? No she hasn't been here yet. I've been waiting for her to drop off her project."
"She's not there?"
"No, not yet. Is somethign the matter?"
"Ummm, no. If she does show up can you have her call us."
"Of course."
"Thank you. Good-bye." Elizabeth hung up the phone and turned towards Mark.
"Elizabeth, what's wrong?" asked Mark noticing the look on her face.
"She never showed up at Barnes's."
TO BE CONTINUED