Outline Draft 1

He drives. He sees a man and woman kissing passionately at the edge of the park.
He does a double take.
What?! Fuck!
He cant stop because of traffic.
He drives around to the parks entrance.
His phone rings, we see a girls profile pic. He answers:
Girl: (phone) Happy birthday!
(to himself) Bitch
She doing an errand near the park, shes just finished and is walking over to meet him. She
says. Shes got a surprise for him!
(to himself) Guess whos early. Surprise.
Hes fuming but he hides it from her. He parks and gets out.
He walks and talks. He sees a couple up ahead. Its her, same as in the profile pic. He does
another take: howd they get over here so quickly?!
Hes still talking to her on the phone as shes walking in front of him with the other man, the guy
she was kissing as he drove by. Hes now stalking her as shes lying to him over the phone.
Girl: (phone) Park and wait by your car. Ill meet you there. See you soon! Love you!..... Hey
youre supposed to say it back.
Ill wait to say it to your face.
Hes about to run up on her and call her out when hes hit hard on the head with a rock.
He falls and when he comes back up, the couple is gone. Hes sad, (time ripple) he heads back
to his car, its gone
Fuck!
He throws his phone into the pond in a fit of rage and flops onto a bench, head in hands.

He sits, depressed that the world is shitting on him in every way possible. A couple walks past,
he barely notices. He sees a new version of himself pull up in his car and park in the empty spot
where his car was.
What?! He hides in the bushes. He stalks new version from cover for a bit. He cant believe it.
A rock hits new version just as the couple new version is stalking ducks away. He follows the
couple. He wants to see the mans face but he cant. He moves fast and quiet to close them but
only manages to eavesdrop on them a little before they leave the brush and run across a lawn
toward the edge of the park.
Girl He said we cant get out of this unless we go now!
Why should we trust him? How do you even know him?
Girl Nevermind, I trust him. We have to do what he says or be trapped forever.

He cant follow them anymore without being seen. Our guy then notices something weird about
the jacket the man is wearing. Something clicks in him.
(time ripple)
He returns to the lot just as his gf walks up with a birthday present. His car is gone again.
Girl Hey you. Whered you park?
She kisses him, he snatches away the present and tears it open shes taken aback by his
brusque manner.
Its the jacket the man in the couple was wearing.
Just what I asked for
He runs his hand through his hair in wtf amazement, making it stick out every which way.
Girl Yes! So try it on! (off his shock) Jesus you ok? Im glad you like it but its just a jacket. Is
that blood? Are you bleeding? Are you ok?
sfine no its... product. not blood...
He puts it on like hes in a dream doing things he doesnt understand.
Girl ...ok. Looks good! Well! Lets take it for a spin!

She drags him onto the path, they walk arm in arm, she tries to fix his hair but it only makes it
worse, hes in a daze. They walk past a man sitting on a bench with his head in his hands. Her
phone beeps. She checks it.
Girl Thats weird.
She answers and begins talking Hello. Who? ...what? ...what? Hes still in shock. It finally
starts dawning on him who he is and what hes doing. He looks over in the bushes, eyes only,
without turning his head. There he is hiding in the bushes. He cocks his head a bit pretending
to look at the girl, swiveling his eyes to looks behind them covertly. There he is following them.
He looks at the girl. She has a scared look on her face as she listens to the caller.
He hears a thud and Unph! behind them and pulls her off the joggers path into the bushes.
He hustles her along.
Come on!
Shes still listening on the phone, mesmerized as they hurry through the bushes .
Who are you talking to?!
Girl: Someone who knows whats happening to you. To us.
He stops at the edge of the bush line.
What? How? Who?
He says we cant get out of this unless we go now!
Why should we trust him? How do you even know him?
Girl Nevermind, I trust him. We have to do what he says or be trapped forever.
She drags him across the lawn at a run as she listens on the phone. Ahead, at the edge of the
park by a busy street., they see the Girl drop her phone and step away from them and vanish
(time ripple) They get to the edge of the park.
Girl He told me to tell you to go there. The very top. Youll find what you need to fix this.
She points to a low wooded hill in the park.
Girl He said everything will be alright if I cross out here and you go to that spot and read the
help instructions.

What?? Who?!
Girl He told me to give you a kiss for luck.
She kisses him.
Girl Everything will be ok.
Hes taken aback but senses something and kisses back passionately just as his car drives by.
The Girl picks up the phone the previous Girl dropped and gives it to him.
Girl: Go.
As he turns and runs back towards the pond, he looks at the phone. He listens, no one there.
Theres a text: The rock.
Rock...
Hes running up a little wooded hill on the far side of the pond when he looks across and sees
stalker himself following jacketed himself and the Girl.
Oh, right.
He picks up a rock.
Hmm.
Its way too far for him to connect by anything but dumb luck.
Guess technically I cant miss.
He throws the rock over the pond. He hits the stalker version of himself right in the head. He
watches stalker him go down and rubs the bloody lump on his head, remembering. Then he
turns and races up the hill.
He comes to something like a cell phone remote station and a microwave antenna.
Theres a countdown ticking on it. Theres a button that says Help!. He presses the button, a
display lights up. He reads.

....
Important! Do not alter or damage this device in any way unless you wish to generate a
singularity with a Schwarzschild radius on the order of 10^7 m at this location!
.
Hi! Youve stumbled upon a TACK-Eon 4.1.01 space time infold/outfold device! Dont ask how
it got to wherever and whenever you are! This is just what it does! Possibly it got away from a
previous owner! Or perhaps it was weaponized! TACK-Eon LLC cannot be held liable for either
of these circumstances! With a 99.999999% probability this device will be operate in TACK
mode: riding into and across space time at fixed (local) intervals! Very occasionally this device
will tunnel into MISS-STAY mode wherein it iterates repeatedly! On average it will tunnel back
into TACK mode after one billion iterations! Perhaps somewhat counter-intuitively, it is far more
likely that you have stumbled upon this device while it is operating in MISS-STAY mode! We will
now discuss MISS-STAY mode!
The space time distortion is contained within an orientable Boy Surface and this device will
obviously be located at the origin! Do not cross outward from the interior of the Boy Surface
(or any space time infold/outfold surface) on pain of instantaneous shunt to one or more of the
fourth to eleventh spatial dimensions (quantum smearing! aka physical dissolution!) Pressing
the red button as the iteration countdown completes collapses the surface to a very local,
iterating (but unique), quasi-spherical space time distortion around the device instead! These
two states are orthogonal rotations of the same underlying phenomenon! One or the other must
be true! Anyway! The collapse of the Boy Surface can be somewhat gravitationally disruptive
but the magnitude of any possible gravity waves falls off as 1/r^4 from the very local surface
and may be further mitigated by motion away from the origin! Therefore, as it is degenerated,
crossing outward the boundary of the Boy Surface is a fairly safe and recommended procedure
for escaping the enclosed volume! You may press the red button repeatedly as each iteration
completes to suppress the generation of a new Boy Surface! Obviously the very local quasispherical space time distortion will still exist! You may be here a while as you will iterate until a
tunneling event! Such is the nature of time travel! Well! All of us here at TACK-Eon LLC wish
you luck in maintaining your sanity until said event!
...fuck.

He dials his girlfriends number on his girlfriends phone. He looks at the display of the Boy
Surface boundary shown on the TACK-Eons display overlaid onto a map of the local terrain and
looks out over the park.
Girl Hello?

Dont scream. Its me. I love you. Act normally, stay calm. I can explain. Please just listen and
do what I ask... for both our sakes. Everything will be ok...
Cut to:
He sits next to the device and watches the countdown. When it hits zero he presses the
red button. time ripple. The countdown resets. He sits next to the device and watches the
countdown.
(insane) A kiss for luck. Happy birthday to me.