Triacs (1) Accidental Resonance

Triacs- Accidental Resonance (1)

Kirk Carter@ WGA Copyright 2014

TRIACS (1)

ACCIDENTAL RESONANCE

OPENING SCENE

INT: DOCTOR BROACHES RESIDENCE AND LAB-CULVER CITY, CA.-A.M.

DOCTOR BEN BROACH AND HIS WIFE CLARE, BEN BEING A DOCTORATE IN ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, AND CLAIRE BEING A BACHELOR OF THEORETICAL SCIENCE ARE WORKING ON A RESEARCH STUDY TO FIND ECONOMICAL WAYS OF ACHIEVING HIGH DENSITY MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES BY USING LESS EXPENSIVE LOWER FREQUENCY OSCILLATORS AND MIXING THEIR ASSOCIATED OUTPUTS INTO A MIXING CAVITY TO ACHIEVE FREQUENCY MULTIPLICATION THAT CAN BE MANIPULATED BY INSERTING A VARIABLE THIRD HARMONIC OSCILLATOR

THESE STUDIES ARE BEING PARTIALLY FUNDED BY SIEMENS, LASER TECHNOLOGIES, AND THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

THEY HAVE MANY PATENTS UNDER THEIR NAME FOR OTHER COMMUNICATIONS INVENTIONS, DESIGNS, AND CONCEPTS

THEY LIVE IN WORK IN A SMALL LABORATORY WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THEIR APARTMENT. ANOTHER DAY ON THE TEST BENCH FOR BEN, AS HE INTRODUCES YET ANOTHER OSCILLATOR TO HIS MIXING BLOCK

HIS WIFE CLARE IS IN AND OUT OF THE ROOM, TRYING TO GET LUNCH TOGETHER WHILE KEEPING AN EYE ON BEN'S ACTIVITIES AND SAFETY

AS HE PULLS TOGETHER A SUBSET OF FREQUENCIES, SUDDENLY A VIBRATIONAL RESONANCE IS SENSED BY BEN, THE WHOLE BENCH STARTS TO MILDLY SHAKE

BEN

"Hey Claire, I think something is happening here...come here.

SHE WALKS OVER AND LOOKS AT LARGE SPECTRUM ANALYZER, NOTICING A NUMBER OF HARMONIC SPIKES EDGING OFF THE TOP OF THE SCALE

CLAIRE

"That's amazing how you can acheive so much potential from so little input power...it looks like two hundred times in amplification, what study is this one on?"

BEN

"Well, I'm suppose to be looking for the baseline frequency's of hydrogen, since this occurs in three separate areas of the total bandwidth starting at 7.2 hertz, then we have mid-band, which looks to be 142.6 megahertz, and finally we've synthesized a cavity at 62.720 gigahertz in the microwave sector, this creates a sonic cluster where the progressive log causes kind of a triaxial feedback between the three frequencies which create the amazing amount of gain you see there...see?"

CLAIRE LOOKING LIKE A DEER STARING INTO HEADLIGHTS

CLAIRE

"Yea, right Ben, whatever you say...this stuff is way beyond anything I've ever messed with, but it looks like your on to something...I'll hand it to you there!"

BEN

"I have'nt really locked the frequencies up yet, I'm still on the outside perimeters of one of these guys...it must be my mid, because it keeps drifting...but it could be the oscillator I'm using."

CLAIRE

"Why don't you try bringing up the amplitude on the middle and see if that does anything?"

BEN STARTS TO SLOWLY BRING UP THE VOLTAGE ON THE MIDDLE FREQUENCY GENERATOR, BENCH STOPS RATTLING, AND THE INPUT FEEDS ON THE FREQUENCY MULTIMIXER START TO GET HOT, INSULATION ON WIRES START TO MELT SLIGHTLY, THEN FROM THE HALLWAY CLOSET, A DOUBLE-BARRELED SHOTGUN THEY STORE IN THEIR HOUSE FOR PROTECTION, JUST GOES OFF BOTH BARRELS, BY ITSELF

BEN AND CLAIRE JUST STARE AT EACH OTHER

BEN

"What in hell was that...that's not what I think it was, huh?"

GOING TO HALLWAY, HE SEE'S WHITE PUFFS OF SMOKE COMING FROM TOP OF HALL CLOSET DOOR

CLAIRE

"No, don't open it Ben, your just going to give it oxygen, let's check outside in the back first!"

BEN

"Good thought, hope the wall's still there!"

BOTH OF THEM RUNNING AROUND BACK, THEY SEE HUGE 3 FOOT OPEN GASH WHERE SHOTGUN HAS DISCHARGED

CLAIRE

"Well, my little mad sceintist, I'm not sure if you hit the resonant frequencies of hydrogen, but there's one thing you may have invented here?"

BEN

"What brillance did I manage to stumble upon this time, my Love?"

CLAIRE

"The remote shotgun!"

BOTH LAUGHING

BEN

"Come on, let's get some plywood over this hole before the neighbors notice anything..."

CLAIRE

"Not much more you can do now, most of your project is just about melted...yea, I'm going to have to go back later and see what the data is saying.

BEN

"Who would buy a remote shotgun anyway?"

CLAIRE

"I don't know Hon...maybe someone who likes to hunt ducks from their car?"

BOTH LAUGHING

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Triacs (2) Sensing The Data

Triacs (2) Sensing The Data

Kirk Carter@ Chew Bear Productions@ Copyright 2014

TRIACS (2)

 SENSING THE DATA

ENT: BEN BROACHES HOUSE-LAB-WEDNESDAY-10 A.M.

HIS WIFE CLAIR IS CHARTING AND GRAPHING BEN'S SET-UP PERIMETERS

BEN IS BUSILY REPLACING MELTED PARTS ON FREQUENCY MULTI-MIXER

BEN

"You know Honey, I've been thinking..."

CLAIRE

"You do enough thinking for a good portion of the western culture, what bit of intuition are you insisting on now?"

BEN

"No, nothing extravagant, just a bigger place to work, what do you think?"

CLAIRE

"You know we've been through this before...we could use the staff facilities at USC or we could maybe contract with Siemens, but we simply don't have the budget to be packing up and moving somewhere, it's just not going to work!"

BEN

"I was thinking about a trailer, you know...one of those commercial things, we could just stick it in the back yard." 

CLAIRE

"Your not sticking a commercial trailer in our back yard, I Love my little view, my roses, my patio...I have enough trouble with those darn d.c. transformers on the side of the house...humming all day and night!"

BEN

"Just a thought...but your probably right, if I had too much room..."

CLAIRE

"You know how you are Ben, if one has too much room, they tend to grow into it, it's inevitable, just keep one project, maybe two tops going at a time...otherwise it gets too cluttered, not to mention dangerous!"

BEN

"How's the data collection coming along anyway?"

CLAIRE

"Well some of it is not graphing correctly, like the sensors weren't calibrated correctly, it's either that or I'm simply losing my mind here..."

BEN

"Nothing new there my sweet...I Love it when you lose your mind, makes me look better!"

CLAIRE

"Anything to help Dear...now I just ran these through the compiler, and the second and third harmonics are showing a real destabilization right before you brought the mid-band up, what's going on here?"

BEN

"May I also remind you that there was no filtering, so side bands were present also...might I add that it was your idea to bring the mid up in the first place...leaving us with that pretty hole in the back wall!"

CLAIRE

"I'm just too good to you, hope some of that Love spreads back to me?"

BEN

"Oh, it will...I was thinking about that trip."

CLAIRE

"Which one Sweetheart, you've mentioned so many?"

BEN

"Does Saint John's ring a bell?"

CLAIRE

"Oh Dear, that would be fantastic...like what decade might this be happening?"

BEN

"Right after we complete this study and the funding gets reimbursed, sound good?"

CLAIRE STARTS DOUBLE TIMING HER DATA GATHERING

CLAIRE

"Don't bother me now Dear, I've got data to collect.

(next day)

ENT: BEN BROACH'S HOUSE-HALLWAY-9 A.M.

CLAIRE AND BEN ARE LOOKING AT THEMSELVES IN THE HALL MIRROR

CLAIRE REACHING OVER AND REDOING BEN'S TIE

CLAIRE

"I swear, I'm going to just buy you clip-on's, your like fumble fingers when it comes to getting these things right!"

BEN

"And I'm getting you dresses with Velcro back fasteners, who ever's idea is was to put a back zipper on a dress..."

CLAIRE

"Personally, I think we look marvelous, what a fetching couple we make!"

BEN

"I agree, shall we board the ship?"

CLAIRE

"With all that gear you have hooked up on that Jeep, it does look a little shippish!"

(1 HOUR LATER

SHOWING UP AT USC'S SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, THEY MAKE THEY'RE WAY DOWN TO THE ADVANCED NUCLEAR STUDIES WING TO DOCTOR BILLING'S CONFERENCE ROOM

GOING INTO THE ROOM SCIENTIST, PROFESSORS, AND SEVERAL SPONSOR REPRESENTATIVES FROM SIEMENS ENCIRCLE THE LARGE TABLE

BEN

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of my lovely wife Claire and myself I wish to thank you for our rather hurried status report, but we have achieved some major findings within our the context of our outlined experiments."

DOCTOR BILLINGS (DEPARTMENT CHAIR)

"Mister Broach, from our discussions...you seemed confirmed that you have located the three exact frequencies in the bands you had identified previously, if I recall...you were in the process of isolating the harmonics and you apparently achieved a great deal of success with your experiments, am I correct here?"

BEN

"By all means Doctor, through a lot of overly persistent fiddling, it figured itself out!"

LIGHT LAUGHTER AROUND TABLE 

CLAIRE

"As my husbands chief statistician, I was able to chart the results of our experiments...now if you will go to your tablets and put in your security passwords, you will see our site at Harmonic Test Review three-sixteen, this will show our test result and findings.

EVERYONE PUSHING IN THEIR PERSONAL INFORMATION

AFTER ABOUT THREE MINUTES, EVERYONE STARTS TALKING AMONG THEMSELVES

BEN AND CLAIRE JUST SIT QUIETLY AS THEY STUDY THE RESULTS

FINALLY A SIEMENS SPONSOR STANDS UP TO ASK A QUESTION

DALE CLEVER

"Yes, this is Dale Clever with Siemens Investment Group, a what you have uncovered here, if this data is correct, could be of immense use the military community, assuming that certain guidelines are followed...do you have any doubts Doctor Broach?"

BEN

"Well, we have a large shotgun hole in the back of our house to prove it's authenticity..."

CLAIRE

"What he is trying to say, is that the gun went boom the moment we hit cyclical resonance!"

DIGNITARIES LAUGHING

BEN

"It was an extraordinary achievement which occurred quite unexpectedly, due to a little suggestion from my devoted wife Claire, who I owe all my thanks to!"

CLAIRE

"Oh Dear, I'm sure you would have found it eventually...that is until the equipment started melting down!

SUDDENLY ROOM GOES QUIET

DOCTOR BILLINGS

Ben, the equipment melted down...I wasn't informed of this...what says you?"

BEN

"Well, actually it was the connections between the waveguides, there was some leakage of R.F. and the level of refraction had occurred right before the resonant had stabilized and balanced out.

CLAIRE

"From what I could tell, the S.W.R., the standing waves were not balanced, and things were vibrating pretty briskly, if you want to call it that...and that's when I saw an off balanced spike on the mid band, the one forty-two point six megahertz lock precisely and..."

BEN

"And that's when she suggested increasing my amplitude and bingo...there it was!"

CLAIRE

"A hole in the back of our house...almost blew my Rose bushes away...we might have hit a Crow, but I can't verify that!"

EVERYBODY LAUGHING

"So, at this time I am requesting to the panel and our illustrious sponsors to consider a real time trial for packaging and field testing...the sooner we get these test into the proofing stage, the sooner you can get to the Beta phase, and ultimately to your marketing, and our success of another fine Siemens's engineering marvel!"

EVERYBODY APPLAUDING

DOCTOR BILLINGS APPROACHES BEN AND CLAIRE AND ESCORTS THEM OUT INTO HALLWAY

DOCTOR BILLINGS

"Ben, I don't mind telling you how much of a scare you put into me when you started talking about experiments melting and everything!"

CLAIRE

"Well, actually...it was my fault, but the original devices are being replaced, so we will have another prototype up and running in no time...sorry about that!"

DOCTOR BILLINGS

"No apology necessary, this little discovery of yours will be a great boost to the departments operating funding, as well as a great morality stimulate to our Phd. undergrades...once again Ben you didn't let me down...I just want to sincerely thank you for all your timely hard work...and to you to Claire...you guys are quite the team!"

BEN

"Well, thank you sir, I'm glad that we could come through for you and on behalf of your department here at USC, I was happy to be of service."

DOCTOR BILLINGS

"Oh Claire..."

CLAIRE

"Yes Doctor Billings?"

DOCTOR BILLINGS

"Wanted to thank you for helping Ben with his tie's, he just fumbles those things on when he comes in, but he's looking really dapper today, very neat...obviously a woman's touch there, thought for a while we'd have to get him some clip-on's!"

BEN

"That's just what Claire said before we left the house."

DOCTOR BILLINGS

"Practice my boy, practice I say...don't make poor Claire visit the Sear's Little boy section now!"

BEN

"Alright you two, I'll practice...but maybe Claire, you could buy me an emergency back-up?"

DOCTOR BILLINGS

"Good idea, just to be on the safe side!"

ALL THREE LAUGHING

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Triacs (3) This Is Only A Test

Triacs (3) This Is Only A Test

Kirk Carter@ Chew Bear Productions@ Copyright 2014

TRIACS (3)

THIS IS ONLY A TEST

ENT: MILITARY MUNITIONS FACILITY-PALMDALE, CA.-MONDAY-8 A.M.

BEN AND CLAIRE ARE WAITING FOR THEIR SECURITY CARDS TO BE CLEARED AS THEY WAIT IN ENTRANCE HALL

BEN (To Guard)

"Certainly seems like a nice day to do a little testing, don't you think?"

GUARD

"Couldn't say, they're testing stuff all the time...what makes this anything special?"

BEN

"Oh nothing (eyeing the guards handgun), just thought that it was a good day for a little reality check?"

CLAIRE

"Ben...would you stop it, your sticking out with your purpose here, just hush now!"

BEN

"Your probably right, I'm just so excited to get our own lab...even if it is just a loaner..."

SUDDENLY DOCTOR BILLINGS FROM USC'S ADVANCED SCIENCE LAB AND DALE CLEVER EMERGE FROM THE SECURED AREA

BILLINGS

"We'll take it from here guard...good morning Ben...Claire, how was the scuttle on the I-Ten?"

BEN

"Well, it was crowded, but all those people coming back from Vegas...man!"

CLAIRE (pointing to two pallets of boxes)

"Here is all our stuff, we have already been marked, touched, and felt up..."

BEN

"And so has our equipment..."

CLEVER

"Well, all the prelist request have been furfilled, so I hope everything is in order?"

BEN

"The main thing is the R.F. cage, we can't allow this mixed bag of radiation to leak out and contaminate anything else you've got going on around here!"

BILLINGS

"Yea, that has us a bit concerned...but those power levels, I mean your not even pushing a watt of power and your effecting things I can't even explain!"

BEN

"Yea, that's good...keep them guessing, just the way I like it!"

CLEVER

"Shall we go to the lab...it's down by about three floors...guards, do you mind helping with the floor dollys?"

GUARD

"No sir, will everybody follow me?"

EVERYONE LOADING INTO HUGE FREIGHT ELEVATOR, WITH THE GUARDS FOLLOWING BEHIND WITH THE TWO PALLETS OF EQUIPMENT

LEAD GUARD STARTS ASKING QUESTIONS AS THE ELEVATOR GOES DOWN

"So sir, is this some earth breaking technology?"

BEN

"Oh yes, this will make the world a much..."

CLAIRE ELBOWS HIM IN THE RIB

CLAIRE

"Please Ben, this is top secreto you know, no speculative conversation, please!"

CLEVER

"I agree, sorry guys...we must refrain from chit-chat here?"

GUARD

"Sorry sir, but we are always curious on new inventions and such!"

CLEVER

"Totally understandable, let's follow protocol if you don't mind..."

(3 HOURS LATER)

AFTER SETTING UP EQUIPMENT, BEN HAS ALREADY STARTED CALIBRATING PERIMETERS FOR SEPARATE BANDS

CLAIRE IS MEASURING TRUE AND REFLECTIVE PEAKS OF VOLTAGE AND AMPLITUDES OF SIGNALS COMING INTO MONITORS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE TWELVE BY TWENTY R.F. CAGE THAT BEN IS IN

CLAIRE (ON INTERCOM)

"Did you want results in R.M.S. too...cause my resistive summary will graph differently in the microwave spectrum?"

BEN (ON COM)

"Might as well, we've got an extra voltmeter, don't forget the current draws on the D.C. supplies, too...we my dear are in the driver's seat from here out!"

CLAIRE

"It does make a bit of differance having a little extra room..."

BEN

"Okay, I'm loading the low band, zero point seven hertz, you confirm?"

CLAIRE

"Confirm, did you want to use the centers first and then bring in the subsets?"

BEN

"Claire...this Tektronics has preset memories on the oscillators, wish I had the budget for one of these guys, this is like driving a Mercedes..just sweet Dear!"

(30 minutes later)

IN FRONT OF BEN'S WALL OF GLASS LOOKING THROUGH A GROUNDED GRID CAGE, HE HAS PLACED A SIMPLE SAUCER OF BLACK GUNPOWDER ON THE WOODEN LAB TABLE

GOING BACK INTO HIS CONTROL ROOM, HE ACTIVATES SEVERAL HIGH SPEED CAMERAS, THEN STARTS THE PRESETS ON THE BASELINE OSCILLATORS

CLAIRE SITS BESIDE HIM IN THE DATA ROOM

CLAIRE

"Okay Ben, I just went to seven point two hertz...lock...showing 2 millivolts, okay?

BEN

"Okay Hon, engaging one forty two point six, are we good?"

CLAIRE

"Affirmative, showing one forty two point six megahertz...ah pull it up...there...I've got 3 mills!"

BEN

"Okay, bringing up current on TWT into cavity...microwaves cooking..."

CLAIRE

"Should have brought some burritos..."

BEN

"A little much for burritos, they would burst into flames at this frequency...okay, do we have a lock?"

CLAIRE

"Yes we do my Love, ready to bring up the power, showing sixty-two point seven-twenty gigahertz at one millivolt...hope the presets are balanced?"

BEN

"It's just like a recipe at this point, power coming up!"

AS BEN BRINGS THE OSCILLATORS UP, THE TABLE SHAKES FOR JUST A SECOND, THEN THE BLACK GUNPOWDER ON THE TRAY BURST INTO A PUFF OF SMOKE

THE AUDIENCE IN THE VIEWING ROOM ON THE OTHER SIDE OF BEN'S OPERATION CENTER BURST INTO CHEERS AND CLAPPING

BEN JUST LOOKS THROUGH THE WINDOW AT THEM SMILING AND WAVING HIS HAND

BEN GETTING ON INTERCOM

"And for my next trick, please remain focused..."

BEN REACHES INTO HIS BAG AND PRODUCES A SINGLE TWENTY-TWO STARTER PISTOL BLANK BULLET AND WALKS INTO THE CAGE, CLEANS OFF BURNED RESIDUE FROM THE BLACK POWDER

(SCENE SWITCH)

INT: LARRY DAVID'S CAR-SPEEDING DOWN INTERSTATE TEN TO THE MUNITIONS SITE. LARRY'S A CHIEF SECURITY GUARD WITH THE MUNITIONS PLANT, AND IS RUNNING LATE BECAUSE OF AN EVENING OF WINE AND WOMEN

HE HAS NOT BEEN INFORMED OF TODAY'S TEST, AT LEAST NOT SPECIFICALLY 

TO AVOID GETTING INTO TROUBLE, HE'S ALREADY DEVISED A PLAN TO COME DOWN STAIRS INTO THE BACK OF THE TEST BUILDING, THEN BLEND INTO THE FRONT OFFICE

SINCE HE HAS ALL THE PASS KEYS AND PROPER PASS CARDS, HE'S DONE THIS BEFORE

PULLING THROUGH THE GUARD GATE, HE IS QUICKLY WAVED OFF BY UNDERSTANDING GUARD, WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT LARRY LIKES TO PARTY

AS HE PULLS AROUND IN BACK TO THE SECURED PARKING AREA, HE STRAPS ON HIS GUN BELT AND GRABS HIS THIRTEEN BULLET GLOCK AND SNAPS IT INTO HIS HOLSTER

REACHING THE BACK OF THE BUILDING, HE RUNS DOWN THE THREE FLOORS OF STAIRS GOING UNDERGROUND, BUZZES THE PASS CARD ON THE BACK DOOR INTO THE CAGED AREA

BEN HAS ALREADY BEEN GIVEN THE ALL CLEAR AND STARTS TO POWER UP THE OSCILLATORS

EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION FOCUSED ON THE SINGLE BULLET SITTING ON TABLE, AS IT EXPLODES, LARRY HEARS GUNFIRE AND REACHES FOR HIS PISTOL WHICH IS NOW WITHIN THE DYNAMIC RANGE OF THE RESONANTING FREQUENCIES

ALL THIRTEEN BULLETS GO OFF, TWELVE IN THE CLIP AND ONE IN THE CHAMBER

INSTANTLY BLOWING LARRY'S RIGHT LEG OFF AND HIS LEFT HAND

BEN SHUTS DOWN OSCILLATORS

LARRY SCREAMS AS EVERYONE COMES RUNNING INTO ROOM

NOW LAYING ON FLOOR, BLEEDING PROFUSELY, HIS PELVIS LAY OPEN, LEG AND HAND LAYING ON OTHERSIDE OF ROOM, LARRY QUICKLY GOES INTO SHOCK, AS THE PARAMEDICS QUICKLY COME IN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO BEST HANDLE THIS

PARAMEDIC ONE

"His complete lower cavity is opened up, he has..."

PARAMEDIC TWO

"Man, just shut up and roll him into the sheets as tight as we can, put that plastic bag around there, let's go, let's go...

PARAMEDIC ONE 

"Where are you going?"

PARAMEDIC TWO

"To get his hand and leg, he might be wanting them back...assuming he lives!"

PARAMEDIC ONE

"You know, you don't have to yell at me cause I'm new...you gotta give me a chance!"

PARAMEDIC TWO

"And you might just get that chance too...assuming..."

PARAMEDIC ONE

"Assuming what?"

PARAMEDIC TWO

"Assuming I let "you" live and don't kill you myself, now let's get moving!"

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Triacs (4) Unauthorized Disclosure

Triacs (4) Unauthorised Disclosure

Kirk Carter@ Chew Bear Productions@ Copyright 2014

TRIACS (4)

UNAUTHORIZED DISCLOSURE

INT: BEN BROACH'S HOUSE-MASTER BEDROOM-10 P.M.

BEN AND CLARE WHO RARELY DRINK, ARE LAYING IN THEIR BED HOLDING EACH OTHER AFTER CONSUMING A BOTTLE OF WINE, WATCHING THE NEWS

NEWSCASTER

"...and in other news, a long time security guard with the Palmdale Munitions Armory was reportedly killed this morning during an unusual experiment, best described as ground breaking in the area of advanced military devices. Although the details are sketchy, they do say that he apparently interrupted the test and was somehow affected by his intrusion. The victims name has not been released at this time...and here's Tony with the Sports!"

CLAIRE MUTES SOUND

"They weren't suppose to say anything about anything, what's going on over there?"

BEN

"I don't know, but I'm having my doubts as to how long we can keep this under the table...I feel so bad for that poor man...I feel like a murderer!"

CLAIRE

"Well, remember the laser project over at Twenty-Nine Palms, all those soldiers getting zapped, and those chip implant experiments at Cleveland Clinic...how were we to know those would be mishandled?"

BEN

"By other people Claire, by other people, that was the first time I was actually at the controls...right there as it happened...by the time I saw the alarm it was too late!"

CLAIRE

"Well, we had our pity party...there was nothing you could have done about it, so get over the incidence and focus on your achievements, nothing we can do or say is bringing him back!"

BEN

"Your right...it's just that I would like to make good things...instead I just develop things that kill people, quicker, faster, more efficiency...when in the end, I'm just making it easier for us to eliminate the masses, and this security breach?"

CLAIRE

"Get some sleep, we've got work to do...I Love you, goodnight!"

BEN

"Good night Love!"

(NEXT MORNING)

INT: PALMDALE MUNITIONS-BRIEFING ROOM-9 A.M.

GENERAL WELSH HAS GATHERED WITH DOCTOR BILLINGS AND BEN AND CLAIRE BROACH FOR A DISCUSSION

GENERAL WELSH

"Well, thank you for coming, but it is paramount that all this be placed in proper context...I can't tell you the sensitivity of a project like this and although the media had a speculative breech, I don't think it's anything to be too concerned about, anyway I was..."

BEN

"Sir, with all due respect...I'm familiar with many of your black-op programs, the one's you've managed to keep out of the public's eye, but because of what this design does, I have decided that it will not be released under any license that has my name associated with it!"

CLAIRE

"Ben, have you lost your..."

BEN GRABBING HER BY THE HAND AND LEADING HER TO THE DOOR

BEN

"Look Claire, it's no use, I've decided to cancel the project.

DOCTOR BILLINGS APPROACHES BEN

DOCTOR BILLINGS

"Look Ben, you are way to into this just to cancel, the test results, the millions of dollars in fees that Siemens has ponyed up, it's too late for that!"

BEN

"So, that's it...no recourse...I'm stuck?"

CLAIRE

"It was an incident you witnessed Ben, get over it...General Welsh has seen it all, he understands what your going through."

GENERAL WELSH APPROACHES

"Look Mister Broach, we already have early toxicology that shows the Larry was under the influence of Zanex and alcohol, he wasn't cleared properly and his actions were completely misguided...on his own, it had nothing to do with you, so I'm asking you to please just get over it!"

BEN STARES OUT WINDOW, THEN TURNS TO GROUP

BEN

"Well, okay then...we go forward, cause I already have memos regarding the next step..."

GENERAL WELSH

"Miniaturisation, the down sizing is the next stage after the trials are finished, understand?"

BEN

"Yes sir, I understand...can we just do this in the morning?"

GENERAL WELSH

"Well, we have the boys standing by at the field...that's money already spent...but if you'd like to take an hour and get a bite or something from the commissary, be my guest?"

CLAIRE

"Come on Ben, let's try to get some work done today...the sooner to Saint John's?"

BEN

"Let me get a cup of coffee, maybe a bagel or something, I'll be back in thirty!"

GENERAL WELSH

"Thank you Mister Broach."

BEN

"And would you mind just calling me Ben?"

GENERAL WELSH

"Of course Mister Broach...I mean Ben, of course..."

(1 HOUR LATER)

BEN GETS OUT OF HIS JEEP WITH CLAIRE IN TOW, APPROACHES TEST FIELD

BEN

"What are we doing here?"

CLAIRE

"From what I see here, this is approximation's of the energy field, guess they want determine safe distance rules?"

BEN

With the line of site determined by the gigaband spectrum, it will probably work out to around two-hundred feet or so!"

CLAIRE

"Or so...is what they would like to document...so let's play ball and get this over with!"

BEN PROCEEDS TO SET UP MOBILE LAB TABLE WITH THE MULTI-BAND OSCILLATORS AND DRIVERS, HE CHECKS PERIMETERS WITH CLAIRE

BEN

"How are we doing honey?

CLAIRE

"Everything is just like you said, at this point it is just a recipe!"

THE EXPERIMENT IS A CAR WITH A BOMB IN IT, A BOX OF AMMO IN A BULLET PROOF PLASTIC CONTAINER, AND A PLASTIC BOTTLE WITH GUNPOWDER IN IT

BEN

"Okay gang, I'm powering up...everybody stay on that side of the earth if you don't mind?"

AS HE POWERS UP, BULLETS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY EXPLODE WHILE EVERYONE NEAR THE FIELD RUNS IN THE PARKING AREA

SECURITY PATROL

"Screw this, those are live shells there..."

FOR THE NEXT TEST THEY OPEN THE DOOR OF THE CAR WITH THE GUNPOWDER, EXPOSING IT TO THE MULTI-MIX OF FREQUENCIES, CAR EXPLODES

EVERY TEST PASSES THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS

(THREE DAYS LATER)

ENT: GENERAL WELSH'S OFFICE-9 A.M.

GENERAL WELSH MEETS WITH THE BROACHES

GENERAL WELSH

"Well, the experiments panned out textbook in nature, everyone is pleased with the results...have you any plans towards how we miniaturize a device like this?"

BEN

"Yes I do, but if it will be practical or not is completely up to the physics of the chamber itself."

GENERAL WELSH

"Would you like to detail a bit...nobody's listening?"

BEHIND WALL SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS ARE RECORDING THEIR EVERY WORD

BEN

"Well okay, I've got an idea for a grafted piece of germanium crystal with a micronized coil for the low and midband, the mid band being a series tap in the windings that can be marginally powered by two nine volt batteries in the bottom, each one will have to be made by hand, this is hardly something you could mass produce."

GENERAL WELSH

"How small are we talking about, what would be the cost to produce something like that?"

BEN REACHES INTO HIS BAG AND PRODUCES A THREE O THREE SIZE CAN OF PORK AND BEANS

BEN

"About this size for starters, further down sizing will be purely speculative...the cost...ah about ten thousand per copy...give or take the cost of the germanium...it must be pure to properly activate the gigahertz cavity."

GENERAL WELSH

"So, you have three different functions resonating and operating in device that size...have a name for it yet?"

BEN

I'm calling it a Triac, the resonator of gunpowder!"

GENERAL WELSH

"Like I say, I've been in this business a long time and I can honestly say, that something like this is cutting edge...it is vital that something like this ever get's into the wrong hands..."

BEN

"If it does, they will control the world as we know it!"

GENERAL WELSH

"Very well said Ben, let's get started when your ready, just let me know what you want, what you need...my department has no limits on whatever you request!"

BEN

"I'll bring the plans in tomorrow, have your men on stand-by, I would like to fabricate a working device by next week..."

GENERAL WELSH

"I really like your confidence in this matter Ben, thanks for coming..."

BEN

"And thank you for being so supportive, see you tomorrow, good day!"

AS THEY LEAVE ROOM WELSH HOLDS UP A THUMB TO THE HIDDEN CAMERA

WELSH TALKING TO CAMERA

"Hope you boys got all that down, this is going to be good!"

(scene switch)

DRIVING BACK TO CULVER CITY, BEN AND CLAIRE CHIT-CHAT

BEN

"You know, it's strange how all this stuff works out...I really can't figure myself out sometimes?"

CLAIRE

"Oh, I figured you out long before I married your ass!"

BEN

"My ass, really...would you like to elaborate?"

CLAIRE

"Well, your a crazy self-serving lunatic with a passion for being a mad scientist without purpose or reasoning...you are just my Lovable Ben forever and ever!"

BEN

"No Claire...you missed my question, you married my ass...elaborate?"

CLAIRE

"Okay, you have a cute butt for someone with such a geeky mindset!"

BEN

"Why thank you for the compliment, you know I do work out occasionally?"

CLAIRE

"I'll give you a work out when we get home...how's that?

BEN

"We don't have time for that, we've got to have those plans ready for the morning..."

CLAIRE

"I already did the proofs and the final schematics, it's done, all you have to do is print them out, an hour tops!"

BEN

"So, we can just relax then and take it easy?"

CLAIRE

"You misunderstood my ploy, as your woman, as your best friend for life, I will relax and take it easy while you do your workout, understand?"

BEN

"So, that's all your going to do...just watch me perform?"

CLAIRE

"If you do it right, I might even roll my eyes back a few times, happy now!"

BEN

"Definitely!"

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Triacs (5) Magic Box

Triacs (5) Magic Box

Kirk Carter@ Chew Bear Productions@ Copyright 2014

TRIACS (5)

MAGIC BOX

ENT: BEN BROACH'S HOUSE-LAB-FRIDAY-10 A.M.

BEN HAS JUST FINISHED GRINDING DOWN THE GERMANIUM CRYSTAL FOR THE GIGAHERTZ BAND CAVITY AND IS NOW STARTING TO DO THE WINDINGS ON THE LOW BAND WITH HIS HOME-BUILT SPINDLETTE, HE HAS ALREADY MEASURED OFF HIS WIRE SPECIFICATIONS, BUT IT HAS BECOME TANGLED

BEN

"Hey Honey, you want to come defray me from this spool of wire, this stuff is so thin I feel like I'm in a spider's web?"

CLAIRE WALKS IN SEEING BEN TRYING TO KEEP FROM BREAKING THE THIRTY GAUGE COPPER BY HOLDING PERFECTLY STILL AGAINST THE BENCH

CLAIRE

"What in the world did you get yourself into now?

BEN

"Well, it slipped off the core as I was loading this, and the crystal caught the line and drew it in off the spool...just when I was ready to spin, too!

CLAIRE

"Your lucky cause you would have choked yourself to death once that thing got going..."

SHE UNTANGLES HIM AND THEY SET UP THE LINE FEED, THEN HE ENGAGES THE COUNTER FOR THE PRECISE LENGTH FOR RESONANCE AT SEVEN POINT TWO HERTZ

BEN

"I'm having to increase my length to make up for the capacitive flux of the mid tap, so I'm looking at about eight-hundred and twenty feet, hopefully this will compensate...we'll see!"

CLAIRE

"The physics of this size, is it really necessary to make this in such a small package, what were using as a die anyway?"

BEN LAUGHING

"How about a Vienna sausage can as a mold...I poured some Bondo and cut out the end and it looked like it might work..."

CLAIRE

"But, isn't it going to get a little heavy with all that copper?"

BEN

"Actually, I figured it will be about three pounds give or take!"

(1 Hour Later)

BEN FINALLY GETS THE LOW BAND AND MID-BAND WINDINGS SPUN ONTO THE DIELECTRIC AND TAPS THE COIL, WITH A CRIMP HE SEALS THE WAVEGUIDE THEN SOLDERS THE CORNERS AND HEAT SHRINKS THE EXPOSED PARTS

CLAIRE

"How do you plan to test this guy, it could be like a bomb if it goes into harmonics..."

BEN

"I'm just going to grid-dip it with the inductance loop, if it nulls where it should, it's probably good to go!"

AFTER BEN RUNS HIS MEASUREMENTS, HE SEEMS CONFIDANT THAT EVERYTHING IS SET, HE PUTS THE TWO NINE VOLT BATTERIES IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CANISTER AND PUTS IT IN HIS BOMB BOX WHICH CAN HANDLE SMALL DESTRUCTIVE SITUATIONS

CLAIRE

"You sure about this Ben, we should just wait and do a power up at the munitions plant?"

BEN

"Well, I'll tell you what, let me just spike it real quick and see if it's drawing current anyway.

BEN PUTS AN AMMETER COIL ON THE VOLTAGE INPUTS AND POWERS IT THROUGH A REMOTE SWITCH, LOOKING AT THE SPECTRUM ANALYSER AND SEE'S THREE DISTINCT SIGNALS OF SEVEN POINT-TWO, ONE FORTY-TWO POINT SIX MEGAHERTZ, AND A GLOWING HIGH-BAND OF SIXTY TWO POINT SEVEN TWENTY

CLAIRE LOOKING OVER HIS SHOULDER

"Well, look at that, you nailed it...you know, your really good with those numbers, you need to open a service helping people with their accounts and stuff..."

BEN

"How's that?"

CLAIRE

"Helping people balance their checkbooks, you could make a killing!"

BEN

"I'm going to go ahead and connect the power without the current limiter, might as well go for broke!"

PLACING A TRAY OF BLACK POWDER INTO THE BOMB BOX, HE POWERS UP THE TRIAC, AS SOON AS HE APPLIES POWER TO THE DEVICE THE POWDER VAPORISES INTO A CLOUD OF SMOKE

CLAIRE

"I must admit...that's pretty impressive, and it's so small!"

BEN

"Well, ultimately we will probably try to make it smaller, but I don't have the fiscal capability to do that without a micro-winder with some robotic hands or something...way out of my league!"

CLAIRE BRING IN SOME HOT TEA

"I don't think there's anything out of your league...sky's the limit with you..."

BEN

"Hey, the tea is good...as a team I think we have no limits, we are undefeatable, a force to reckon with...anyway, let me call the General up and see when it's good!

CLAIRE

"Don't you think you should let Doctor Billings handle that, he is kind of our agent after all...he did set us up with the contract?"

BEN

"You are right again...kinda stepping over the spoon that feeds us, huh?"

CLAIRE LAUGHING

"Actually, when it's all said and done it's Dale Clever with Siemens that has the checkbook...he doesn't care, he just wants that device to work...in his cold little hands!"

BEN CALLING UP DOCTOR BILLINGS

SECRETARY

"Doctor Billings office, Marge speaking...who may I ask is calling?"

BEN

"Hey Marge, this is Ben Broach over in Culver, a could I speak to Doctor Billings regarding the Siemens's contract?"

MARGE

"I thought he was over there with you or over at the munitions plant, haven't seen or heard from him all morning?"

BEN

"Really, that's odd...have you tried texting him or calling his other line?"

MARGE

"Everything at my disposal, he even missed a meeting this morning at USC..."

BEN

"Wow, that's odd...well okay, let me know if you hear anything, okay?"

MARGE

"Okay Ben, bye!

CLAIRE OVERHEARING THE CONVERSATION GETS A DISTURBED LOOK ON HER FACE, THEY JUST STARE AT EACH OTHER 

BEN

"I don't like this..."

CLAIRE

"At all!"

(scene switch)

INT: OLD WAREHOUSE-COMPTON, CALIFORNIA

SEVERAL MEN FROM THE SCORPIONS, AN OFF-SHOOT OF THE RUSSIAN MAFIA HAVE DOCTOR BILLINGS TIED UP AND ARE GETTING READY TO INJECT HIM WITH SOME MIND CONTROL SERUM

CLARICE

"Now, for the last time...where do you harbor such a device of which we desire?"

BILLINGS

"It hasn't even been developed yet, there is no device yet, it's just a design at this point!"

BREVET

"We make you find the device, you will sense it's presence, where it resides, you will guide us there...you'll see?"

BREVET PROCEEDS WITH INJECTION TO BILLINGS ARM, THEY STAND BACK AS THE SERUM STARTS BURNING INTO HIS VEINS

CLARICE

"Perhaps a little strong of a man...your height, weight too little, but results the same, we see!"

BILLINGS STARTS SCREAMING, THEY ATTEMPT TO SHUT HIM UP, BUT NOT BEFORE TWO GUYS PASSING BY ON THE SIDE WALK HEAR THE ABNORMAL SCREECHES FROM BILLINGS NEAR COLLAPSE FROM THE OVERDOSE

DUDE #1

"Damn, you hear that, somebody hurtin in there?"

DUDE #2

"Yea, that ain't right, you wanna see?"

DUDE #1

"Hell no, we just call the nine one one and drop the address..."

DUDE #2

"Yea, we got that blunt down...I don't want to lose my buzz, but you got to do something?"

DUDE #1 GETS ON PHONE, AH THIS IS ANNONAMOOSE, 

NINE ONE ONE OPERATOR

"You mean anonymous...what's your location sir?"

DUDE #1

"Yea that, uh we passin by 6723 Roberts, we in Compton by the warehouses and stuff!"

NINE ONE ONE OPERATOR

"What is the purpose of your call sir?"

DUDE #1

"We heard some screaming coming out of a warehouse, didn't sound good, maybe you should come check it out, I gotta go, later..."

HANGING UP THE PHONE, THE OPERATOR DISPATCHES A SHERIFF'S UNIT AND A PARAMEDIC, WITHIN MINUTES THEY SHOW UP AT WAREHOUSE, BUSTING DOOR DOWN, THEY SEE DOCTOR BILLINGS TIED TO A POST, POLICE SEE BACK DOOR OPEN BUT NO SIGN OF CLARICE OR BREVET, THEY IMMEDIATELY UNTIE BILLINGS AND TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL, AS THEY ENTER THE EMERGENCY ROOM HE FLAT LINES ON MONITOR, NOT KNOWING WHAT WAS GIVEN TO HIM, THEY CAN DO LITTLE MORE THAN TRY TO RESTART HIS HEART, AFTER SEVERAL DOZEN PROCEDURES, HE'S PRONOUNCED DEAD

DETECTIVE FINDS I.D. ON BILLINGS AND CALLS HIS OFFICE

MARGE

"Doctor Billings office, may I ash who's calling?"

DETECTIVE PETERS

"Yes, this is Detective Peters with the Sheriff's Department, ah we are sorry to inform you but your Doctor Billings was rushed to Saint Mary's Hospital, apparently from what looks to be an injection of a substance, and he has died from that activity, to the best of our knowledge, I'm very sorry for your loss Mam!"

LONG PAUSE

MARGE

"He's dead, just like that...what was the cause?"

DETECTIVE PETERS

"At this time Mam it's all preliminary, we still have to do a toxicology report and the investigation itself, do you know anything that might be able to help us?"

MARGE

"No, just a lot of people looking for him this morning and he didn't call or show...he's not married, I think he lives by himself...that's so sad."

DETECTIVE PETERS

"Well if you can think of anything, just call the Compton dispatcher and she be in touch with me, okay?

MARGE

"Okay sir, thank you, thank you very much...bye!"

AS SHE HANGS UP THE PHONE SHE LEANS HEAD DOWN ON TABLE CRYING

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Posted by Kirk Carter at 12:29 PM