CONNECTING FLIGHT
A cutthroat tech entrepreneur must confront faces from his past, present, and future in a busy airport, where he's forced to reconcile prior misdeeds and reforge alliances, as he races to thwart a catastrophic time-space anomaly.
One fine morning, he finds himself sitting at the West Deerfield Airport, waiting for the boarding announcement for his connecting flight on Trask Airways Flight 818 to Portland, the site of the World Technology Symposium.
The conference is seen as a proving ground for breakthrough technologies and global innovators, and where Rollie and right-hand man Nick Scanlon, hope to pitch the patents of Rollie's uncle, physicist Mel Kirkendal, for a potential megadeal with billionaire tech magnate Milton Trask.
Rollie’s already had a rough morning. While racing to the airport, he gets into an argument over the phone with his uncle about how the particle accelerator prototype is to be tested, crashes his car, bumps his head, and wakes up by the side of the road. Ignoring the advice of paramedics, Rollie continues on to the airport, determined to make his flight.
Little does Rollie know that Kirkendal’s colleague, Professor Brogdon, has been attacked while testing the particle accelerator at Deerfield University, by a mysterious assailant, who has sabotaged the experiment, setting the device’s parameters to dangerously unstable levels.
Rollie sits by the boarding gate, finalizing a presentation for the conference, when he draws the attention of a janitor, Artie Gonzalez. Artie’s the uncle of Rollie’s old school mate Theo, who 20 years earlier was struck in the eye by a rock on a school field trip after Rollie and Nick had engaged a rival school into a dispute in the parking lot.
Theo lost the sight in his eye and never recovered emotionally, and spiritually, suffering a fall in college which left him crippled for life. Theo was the smartest kid in class, bound for greatness, and has now become a reclusive, eccentric black hat hacker with a dark, alienated world view. The fateful day has haunted Rollie for years, and still provokes nightmares, for his role in altering Theo’s destiny, from potential valedictorian to a shadowy cyber-menace.
But Artie’s not the only face from the past who recognizes Rollie. Soon old science teachers, Mrs. Schultz, and Mr. Faraday, who were chaperones on the fateful field trip are there. Rollie is roused from his routine, forced to acknowledge his surroundings, and soon makes a startling discovery... every other passenger waiting for his flight, is a former schoolmate who was there that day 20 years ago!
All signs point to a karmic intervention for Rollie, to finally face his role in what happened to Theo. Bradley, an old high school adversary, and head of airport security riles the group to see Rollie as the main culprit in Theo’s demise. When an eye-patched Theo ominously arrives, hunkered down in a mechanized wheelchair, Rollie cannot believe his eyes. As the flight is delayed by a series of odd lights in the sky above the University, it seems the universe is giving Rollie the go ahead to finally reach out to Theo.
But when a connecting flight brings faces from his present world, including, inexplicably Nick, and Kirkendal, Rollie's pulled off course once again. Nick all too eagerly intercepts Rollie’s rendezvous with Theo and forces him to focus on completing their presentation to Trask.
More passengers disembark the connecting flight, and flood the terminal, including Jenna, a one-night stand from the previous night, and Danielle, a girl from high school who for Rollie, was the one that got away. Rollie reconnects with Danielle and realizes she's maybe the only woman who's ever really seen him for who he really is, but she's catching a connecting flight to San Francisco instead.
Kirkendal accesses data on Rollie’s laptop which confirms that the experiment at the University with Brogdon has gone seriously awry. As Rollie attempts to approach Theo again, again he’s interrupted and pulled off course by an arriving flight, this one, a private plane belonging to Milton Trask himself.
Rollie is caught off guard when Trask seems to know him already and wants to be brought up to speed on a presentation for a technology conference, but one from the future! It seems Rollie is on a path where he becomes Trask’s right-hand man, and future son-in-law, engaged to his daughter Miranda, and set to close a major international business deal.
As Danielle heads for her connecting flight, Rollie has the opportunity to change his flight, and is forced to make a choice, which could affect the rupture in the time-space continuum triggered by the failed University experiment, which threatens the nature of reality itself. Rollie must reconcile prior misdeeds, reforge alliances, and reshape his destiny, as he races to catch the right connecting flight to avert a catastrophic time-space anomaly.
CONNECTING FLIGHT...
Connect with the right passengers, align with your future path.
Copyright 2022 by Brefni O'Rourke. All Rights Reserved.
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"I picked this up as the logline drew me in as there looked to be quite a fair bit packed into this. Time-space disaster, operating in a sort of parallel realm of reality, something dark in the protagonist's path which has been bothering him, all in an airport terminal... I was intrigued by the setting, and I think you made a good choice. I find airport terminals quite disorientating place, personally, with crowds of people all going in different directions and soon to be displaced right across the world! This story has a similarly disorientating effect.
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