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[First comes the video, with Walter in his usual labcoat with a makeshift laboratory in the background. It's obvious he's converted his living room into a lab with the sofa and table pushed up against the wall. He has taller tables arranged around with various types of equipment on it and he's looking down at some notes before he starts speaking, clearly reading what he's written.]
Hello, Luceti. My name is Doctor Walter Bishop. If you are seeing this, which I hope you are, then you are entered into candidacy for a new position as lab assistant. I am looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which--
[A microwave beeps and he stops reading, hurrying off excitedly.]
Ooh, popcorn's done!
[He comes back with a freshly popped bag of popcorn a few moments later and plops back in his seat, emptying the contents into a bowl off screen as he rereads his note.]
Where was I.... Open mind...lab....experiments... Ah! Yes, here we are.
To see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored. It also helps if you can cook well or have an EZ-Bake Oven. Has anyone seen one recently? Such shame not to have one.
Oh, and yes here--
[He holds up his note, written in a careful left-handed slant to the camera so people can read it.]
Position: Lab Assistant
Hours: As necessary
Description: Looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored.
Extra Skills: Ability to cook, access to technology (EZ-Bake Oven), love of music, ability to work well under stress.
[He drops the notice and grabs a handful of popcorn.]
Please inquire within. O-or here, I suppose. I can answer any questions you may have since you'll be working for me.
Hello, Luceti. My name is Doctor Walter Bishop. If you are seeing this, which I hope you are, then you are entered into candidacy for a new position as lab assistant. I am looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which--
[A microwave beeps and he stops reading, hurrying off excitedly.]
Ooh, popcorn's done!
[He comes back with a freshly popped bag of popcorn a few moments later and plops back in his seat, emptying the contents into a bowl off screen as he rereads his note.]
Where was I.... Open mind...lab....experiments... Ah! Yes, here we are.
To see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored. It also helps if you can cook well or have an EZ-Bake Oven. Has anyone seen one recently? Such shame not to have one.
Oh, and yes here--
[He holds up his note, written in a careful left-handed slant to the camera so people can read it.]
Position: Lab Assistant
Hours: As necessary
Description: Looking for individuals who are at least somewhat familiar with a laboratory setting and it's procedures. You must have an open and willing mind to see beyond that which modern science calls "conventional." Those with mechanical expertise or degrees in physics or biochemistry are highly favored.
Extra Skills: Ability to cook, access to technology (EZ-Bake Oven), love of music, ability to work well under stress.
[He drops the notice and grabs a handful of popcorn.]
Please inquire within. O-or here, I suppose. I can answer any questions you may have since you'll be working for me.
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[...He knew the reason now, too, and it made it even harder to accept, but this familiar stranger doesn't seem to know them so it wasn't important.]
If you ever find a record - vinyl - with that name, please give it to me right away.
I haven't heard of the Pinheads - are you released?
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Released? Ah, no. [Not yet, he'd like to say.] But we have an audition tape ready. I was actually gonna mail it to the record company; I just... never really got the chance. [...Orrrrr he might have actually had a great deal of time but waffled on it, and then decided he'd give it a try just before he was plucked right out of Hill Valley. Excellent timing.]
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But it's a pity you haven't the chance yet. Perhaps here you could? Not record, of course, but find new bandmates?
Oh and what inventions did your scientist friend make? Would I have heard of him?
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Uh… well, he’s made an automatic can opener. [Does that count? It works without having to be fiddled with, so that's something, right? Marty purses his lips, trying to remember the names of some of the cool thingamabobs and unfinished doohickeys Doc had shown him. But he’s coming up short and he feels bad. Well, up until he reflects on Doc's greatest invention, which is quite possibly also the coolest invention in the history of forever.] And he might of, uh… kinda figured out how to travel through time.
[It was insane. Hell, it is insane and he's still reeling, now that he's had the time to think on his week in '55. Marty doesn't think he'll ever stop being in awe of what Doc has accomplished and he flashes a little smile that's almost apologetic-looking, wondering if the doctor will take him seriously. This is the first time he has tried mentioning time travel to anyone and would rather not be thought of as nuts.]
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Oh.
My.
God.]
Time travel?! He was able to realize the ability to travel through time as a dimension?! How? When?!
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He, he built a time machine out of a car, a DeLorean, and he told me to meet him at the Twin Pines mall parking lot at a quarter past one. He showed me how it works and said the flux capacitor is what makes time travel possible and that he came up with the idea when he was hanging up a clock and slipped and hit his head on the sink. All it needs is, is just a little plutonium or a bolt of lightning, something that can generate a ton of gigawatts. He was supposed to go first, but then... something happened...
[The crackle of gunfire echoes through his memory and he feels a dull pang in his chest, briefly shutting his eyes against the swelling sense of fear and sickness. He lets out a quiet, unsteady breath and swallows before pressing on, wearily.]
...and I was the one who ended up traveling through time. Except I went back thirty years to nineteen fifty five by accident... to before I was even born.
[That's even weirder now that he's actually heard himself say it. Blinking out of his daze he looks to Walter expectantly, completely unsure as to how it'll be taken.]
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Holy God, this boy is real and talking to him and he's fairly certain he was supposed to take Peter to see this movie but he had been too ill. This makes him wonder if the theory that movies are actually windows into different worlds is true. He stares for a long time and then grabs the journal, bringing it closer as if that would bring this boy closer.]
Emmett Brown. Doctor Emmett Brown? Is that who built this machine?
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I'm from 2012 and tell me, boy, how much do you know about the concept of separate realities?
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Separate realities? [Give him a second to take that in. Or five. Although let's be real, you can give Marty ten minutes and he'd still be furrowing his brow in a pathetic attempt at figuring things out.] Wait a minute, what's this got to do with Doc, doc? [What the hell does even mean?]
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[He takes out a piece of paper and holds it up to the screen, drawing three separate lines on it.]
Each of these lines represents a universe - separate, but evolving upon the same plane. On occasion and through very specific circumstances, these universes can interact -- [He draws one line from the top to the middle] -- for brief periods without creating too much instability in either universe. Often people have said they glimpsed a foreign world in a dream, for example. These glimpses into other universes can sometimes lead to a bleeding effect, wherein, something from your universe may come to be known in another universe despite not actually existing in it.
Do you understand?
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Are you telling me that you saw me and Doc... in a dream?
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Tell me, do you enjoy milkshakes?
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Uh, yeah... [He surfaces from his thoughts, shrugging his shoulders.] They're alright. [Then, frowning:] Why? ...What's this about?
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Decisions? What're we deciding? [But he doesn't have too long to think on what that might mean because he's already interrupting himself.] Wait, Doc! ...sir! -- Dr. Bishop! [Dammit.] Hold on - does this does this mean I get to be your assistant?
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[He speaks with the precision of a scientist rather than the excited energy of a child like earlier.]
Now! Do you want a milkshake or not? I'm about to get the blender out.
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Yeah. Yeah, okay, alright. I haven't had one of those in a little while. Just... don't put any sugar in it, okay?
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I don't know, [He shrugs a little, carelessly.] people just do to make it taste better. Strawberries can be pretty sour sometimes, and that's not so great for a shake.
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I see I have much to teach you, boy. Come to the lab immediately. We'll start with fruit.
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the worlda machine to get them all back home where they belonged.]You’re the doc, Doctor Bishop. [He chuckles weakly, his smile faltering.] So where is your lab? Is it on the map somewhere?
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sure!
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