Quantum Project

1INT.A BIOCHEMICAL LANDSCAPE1 A violent electrical storm.Veins of light pulse outward, branching off into a spidery network of GLOWING INTERCONNECTEDNESS We are inside a human brain.A pack of neurons FIRE OFF to the left, and rocket their way across synapses to the optic nerve.Passing the eye socket, they speed toward a silky, curvilinear membrane (the retina) on which we see an image projected: AN UPSIDE DOWN COMPUTER SCREEN Neurons PING into the membrane: the picture suddenly FLIPS RIGHT SIDE UP and we follow the light, flashing in a blur through the iris and cornea until, exiting the eye we reverse POV and 2EXT.THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT - DAY2 CLOSE ON A PAIR OF EYES Deep deep blue.Radiating more intelligence than wisdom.Inside each pupil is the reflection of a COMPUTER SCREEN.A deferential VOICE sounds from off camera. VOICE Professor Pentcho? 3INT.ATOMIC LABORATORIES(PROFESSOR PAUL PENTCHO) - DAY3 Twenty-nine, athletic, owlishly handsome. VOICE (ARLETTE) Multi-tasking again? Pentcho raises his blue eyes from the computer screen and up at ARLETTE (50's), his mannish Swiss assistant. ARLETTE We can start the descent now. 4INT.THE LABORATORIES (MOVING) - DAY4 A SERIES OF SHOTS as Pentcho and Arlette stride through the facility.They pass a group of green-tagged VISITORS and their Swiss-accented GUIDE. GUIDE Two hundred feet below us is the world's largest particle accelerator... His VOICE continues on overlap as they reach a hallway.