ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD
Desperate Man Uses Time-Freezing Tech To Have Sex With Crush
SCENE OPENS on Ted (Justin Hunt), who is in his room, preparing for a dinner party for his friend Gabi’s birthday. There is the sound of a Newton’s Cradle which we see clacking in the foreground on his desk. We can also hear the faint sounds of a cityscape through his bedroom window. Ted is nervous and adjusting his clothes. He is rehearsing in front of the mirror, trying to come up with a way to express his love for his best friend Gabi and to convince her to break up with her longtime boyfriend Drake.
He retrieves a pocket watch that he got for Gabi’s birthday. He thinks it’s broken and manhandles it, accidentally uncovering a secret compartment that emits a strange effect as it opens.
The distortion effect ripples out across the screen like a shockwave. Sound and movement slow to a stop for everyone but Ted. Ted is confused, looks around the room, sees that his clock is no longer moving. He remarks that it’s weird the clock stopped. He feels something is amiss and sees that the Newton’s Cradle has stopped in mid swing. He can’t believe what he’s seeing, and pulls back a bit in fear.
Ted leans in to peer and scrutinize the Newton’s Cradle with shock and curiosity. Ted looks in wonder and cautiously reaches a hand out. He touches the Cradle. At his touch, the balls instantly start to swing again, the clacking sound whooshing back. Ted stares for a moment at the moving Cradle, then something catches his attention out the window. He goes to look out the window. ‘What…the…hell? Everything’s just…STOPPED. The birds…the people. Nothing’s…MOVING. Th-that’s IMPOSSIBLE. It’s like time is just…FROZEN,’ Ted says in stunned disbelief.
Ted looks down at his hand, only now noticing he still is idly holding the open watch in his hand. It starts to dawn on him that the watch did this. He looks out at the frozen city in awe, gazing back and forth between the city and the watch a few times. He seems to get an idea. As he stares out the window, he snaps the clock closed.
Instantaneously, the sounds of the cityscape whoosh back in and the clock hand begins moving again. Everything has become unfrozen. Ted stares, stunned into silence, for several seconds. ‘Gabi…’ he finally whispers.
