Montauk Project
Montauk Children of Colstrip Montana by
Clinton R Siegle
It's a snowy Montana day. The school bus is packed with children from Lame Deer Montana:
A few varsity jackets, coats that are used and old. The kids are dressed in such drab colors that everyone looks like a rock band groupie, except one student
Who is reading a fantasy book.
The bus slows to a stop to pick up a student. As As all the kids are frozen in time. The door opens and the
men take the native americans kids off the bus through whirling tunnel. As fast as the kids are taken off they are returned without almost a minute delay even the kid reading a book. We see his face for the first time.
This is Clint Siegle. He is fourteen, skinny, a bit hungry looking.
His hair is a little messy, his school clothes are old and his pants are what they called high water due to not having pants that fit him. His book about time travel is now removed and in its place is a fantasy book about faes, the title Faires .
2 EXT. Colstrip school - DAY 1
Clint talks to himself. The snow howls around him. He
tries to shield the face as he talks. His speech is a
self-conscious mumble, especially difficult to hear over the
elements.
Clint
Hi, Clinton. It's Clint. Clint. I'm not
feeling well this morning. No, food
, I think. I had traveled to another place. New Worlds!
I'm sorry it took me so long to call in a report,
but I've been traveling a lot. I've been
Parallel world traveling! Yes, that's right, a lot!
3 EXT. snow covered hillt op over looking Lame Deer - DAY 2
Clint wanders in the snow, empty hilltop, with his book. He
passes a snowman that he built the day before. He stares at the snowman having a flashback seeing that the snowman nose and arms have changed from when he remembers building the snowman.
4 EXT. Lame Deer town changes color and size - DAY 3
Later: Clint looks out at the town.
5 EXT. Lame Deer again changes a fire has burnt down parts of the town - DAY 4
Later: Clint sits on a rock on top of the hill top and pulls a tattered notebook from under his arm. He opens it and reads his last entry roof top green now red and movie theater burnt down.
Clint (V.O.)
January 6, 1985. Changes noticed today the neighbors dog is brown not white. Clinton mind
and I coexisting. He cries a lot. I must stay in my mind.
Will it go on like this forever? My best
guess? Yes.
(CONTINUED)
2.
4 CONTINUED: 5
Under the entry is a doodle drawing of a paranoid, wild-
eyed ziggie reading a book on time travel looking around at a book titled Time Traveler in the corner of a library. Clint notices something awkward: the book he has brought up to read say Faires. He
Wonders about it for a moment, then writes on the next page:
Clint (V.O.) (CONT'D)
February 5 1985. First entry in about a month. Where did those days go? Clinton,
Stay within your mind.
Being not careful, well this is a different life. You will just end up dead. No one will remember you even existed?
(flashback)
Swirling tunnel, opens from the bus on Jan 6. He remembers military people picking up all the students and placing them through the tunnel
(thinks)
Really snowie. Forsyth air base a room is opened up with clocks on the wall showing different worlds, and times on monitors. The personnel are talking and laughing at what they are doing to the kids.
(Clint thinks some more)
Must stay within your Mind. I saw Clinton
On a table an exact double. A soul changing machine is hooked up. Memories of Clint spelling dilemna 50 times floats into a monitor then exchanges with Clinton dilema 50 times both marked incorrect- today's world word dilemma is correct.
up. Then the military forced sex on the Clint and Clinton. It was gross and awkward Clint is heard praying.
Like no time has passed. Suddenly they're
Both back on buses on different worlds. Clint thinks I
guess that's good.
His thoughts go to the notebook which he describes the experience. He glances up, sitting on the rock he sees that the dog which was brown is now white again. The dog stands out
against the blue on the trailer house which the dog belongs.
The dog wonders from the yard up the hill. The dog is fluffy. Clint
watches the dog for a bit, then as dog nears, he goes back to his
drawing in the notebook. Once dog has passed, he
watches dog walk away. Clint writes.
Clint (V.O.) (CONT'D)
The dogs color changes I do not know. The other me, thinks we are parallel world travelers. His name is Clinton. He writes in my notebook in my house. I ought to read all he wrote. He loves roses, I
believe. However, his explanation on why I misspelled a word and got wrong Abe Lincoln as a senator versus a representative is explained at least now.
5 EXT. School - DAY 5
LATER: Clint walks through the school no one is there the clock shows it should be school time. He peeks in a window all students are frozen in time.
7 EXT. School - DAY 7
LATER: Clint reads a book. Memories of Clinton reading a similar book fade in and out
3.
8 INT. DINER - DAY 8
It is a local cafe. Serving fry bread and chili An old
couple drink coffee at the counter. Clint sits in a booth and
eats an Indian taco. In
his notebook he is drawing a snowman. The snowman is waving to a person a cartoonish Clinton . Clint meekly, unsuccessfully,
tries to get the waitress's attention for ketchup.
The white dog enters, looks around, and goes to the counter with a woof. Clint
glances at the white dog´s hair. The dog picks an empty booth
and sits. Clint studies the notebook with the word brown dog and looks at the white dog discreetly. The waitress
approaches her with ketchup.
A voice similar to Clint´s speaks Clinton
Hi, it's me again! My home away from
home. The voice is only heard by Clint
WAITRESS
Refil or ketchup?
Clinton
Wow, your world still has ketchup! Brrr!
The waitress gets the ketchup.
Clint
Thank you for the ketchup
WAITRESS
You know what you want afterwards?
Clint
(laughing)
Stay in my own mind and the question is how.
The waitress is not amused. Clint gets back to his notebook.
Clinton (CONT'D)
You got an Indian toca?
WAITRESS
We're having a run on it.
The waitress heads back to the kitchen. Clinton takes out his notebook from his bag, brings the hot chocolate sipping it, then turns the page and sees Clints spelling of dilemna.
Clinton (calling)
And some marsh mellows, please.
Clinton looks into a mirror. His eyes meet Clint's
before he is able to look away. He smiles vaguely noticing the different clothes and hair style. He
looks embarrassed, then starts drawing in his journal.
(CONTINUED)
4.
8 CONTINUED: 8
Clinton pulls the notebook from his bag and starts to draw a different cafe then the one he is in.
Clint glances up in the mirror, tries to see the drawings in the notebook's page. It's a drawing showing his cafe in blue
and white. He can't make out the bigger picture.
9 EXT. School - DAY 9
Clint stares out at the school from the bus. Can see another school similar to Clinton´s school
stares at it, too. Clinton glances sideways at Clint´s school then back at
Clinton´s school.
10 EXT. School bus going home - LATE AFTERNOON 10
Clint stands at a bus stop waiting for the bus. Clinton
enters his bus stop on an alternative world, sees Clint through a window that shows the other world, Clint is the only other person there.
Clinton mentally says hello, playing as if
they're old friends. Clint says I must stay in my mind , embarrassed. Clinton takes
a stand by the bus stop sign. Clint stares at his
hands, pulls his notebook from his backpack and tries to
write in order to conceal his awkwardness in seeing Clinton in the window.
Clint (V.O.)
Why do I do I hear voices in my mind? Is he real. I must stay in my mind.
11 INT. Bus - LATE AFTERNOON 11
Clint seated next to an Indian student on a full bus and watches the
Stripe mine of Colstrip. Whirling tunnel appears then Clinton. Clint looks up.
Clinton is looking at the kid next to the frozen Clint; Clinton picks a piece of dirt of the ground and puts it into the hair of the kid. Clint looks out the window. He feels Clinton watching
him. The bus is stopping to drop off a person. Finally:
Clinton
(speaking mentally)
Hi!
Clint looks over.
Clint
Must stay within my mind.
Clinton
What? I couldn't hear you.
Clint
I said, I must stay within my mind.
Clinton
Why? I just said hi.