Logline
In a sterile, futuristic interrogation room, a brilliant but disgraced quantum physicist must convince a relentless government agent that the seemingly harmless cube she is holding is a stable, four-dimensional object—and the only way to save a missing child trapped within its shifting reality.
Character Descriptions
DR. ARLO FINN (40s): A once-renowned scientist, now paranoid and desperate. Driven by guilt over a past accident, she clings to logic and physics to explain the impossible.
AGENT ELIAS VANCE (50s): A sharp, pragmatic government agent from a shadowy agency. He is skeptical, firm, and believes wholly in empirical evidence and the rules of the three-dimensional world.
Setting
A cold, brightly lit interrogation room. A single metal table and two chairs. The only other object is a small, geometric, black cube resting in the center of the table.
Sample Scenes
Scene One
SETTING:
The interrogation room. Bright, sterile overhead lighting. AGENT VANCE is seated, reviewing files. DR. FINN sits opposite him, hands clasped tightly.
VANCE
(Without looking up)
You've been charged with multiple counts of scientific negligence, unauthorized experimentation, and the disappearance of seven-year-old Lily Parker.
ARLO
(Voice steady, but slightly strained)
The charges are bureaucratic. The physics is sound. And Lily... Lily is alive.
VANCE
We found trace organic matter, Dr. Finn. Just outside your lab's containment field. We found the girl's shoe. We found blood. We found a highly unstable quantum field generator running at maximum capacity. We didn't find the girl.
ARLO
The generator stabilized the field, Agent Vance. That's why she's alive.
VANCE
(He finally looks up, closing the file)
Alive where? In the "fourth dimension"? We've been through this. There is no fourth dimension, not in any practical, physical sense. It’s theoretical math.
ARLO
The cube on the table is proof of concept.
(Vance picks up the small black cube. He turns it over in his hands. It looks and feels like a normal, solid object.)
ARLO
It’s a Tesseract. A static representation of a four-dimensional hypercube. The interior space is folded.
VANCE
(Scoffs, puts the cube down)
Nonsense. The girl fell into a machine, Arlo. She’s gone. You just need a better story to keep your mind off the fact you killed her.
ARLO
I didn't kill her! She was playing outside my lab window. A squirrel knocked a rock loose, it hit my stabilization unit, the field opened for 1.4 seconds. She was pulled in.
ARLO
It has an infinite inside! You just can't perceive it with three-dimensional eyes.
VANCE
This is delusional.
ARLO
(Desperate)
Agent Vance, I can hear her. Sometimes. When the light hits the facets just right, the dimensional fold thins.
VANCE
(Stands abruptly)
This interview is over. I need you to sign a confession of liability.
ARLO
No! If you just listen... I know how to retrieve her. We need to interact with the Tesseract in a specific sequence.
VANCE
(Exiting the room)
We're done talking about fairy tales, Doctor.
ARLO
(Whispering)
Lily? Can you hear me?
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