September 11th, 2001
EXT: PUGET SOUND - YACHT – DAYTIME
Henry Bear is reading the Nine Chapters by Liu Hui while he and his family sit in folding chairs listening to a shortwave radio on their yacht.
WIFE
Enjoying your new book? Cost a pretty penny.
HENRY BEAR
Yes, the information is fascinating. Liu Hui said she’s a direct descendant like you and Henry Ford. You guys have greatness in common. I’m just a dumb Indian.
WIFE
Native American dear, your pride in your culture has given you a strong spirit to help solve climate change.
HENRY BEAR
Ha, ha, if climate change even exists. Glad we’re making progress on both Hemp engines, the biofuel one with Liu Hui and our top secret Hemp graphene.
WIFE
You love being top secret don’t you? If it wasn’t ground breaking and possibly illegal, I’d call you a fool.
HENRY BEAR
Only fools fall in love dear. Maybe when our babies get a little bigger we’ll sail this yacht all the way to Hong Kong!
WIFE
Might as well. We’ve nothing better to do.
HENRY BEAR
Did you hear that? The BBC’s reporting that a plane has crashed into one of the World Trade Center buildings.
WIFE
It wouldn’t surprise me. You’ve been in my uncle’s plane. If the wind kicks up it can be hard to control. Someone must have been flying around taking pictures of the Statue of Liberty and got knocked off course.
HENRY BEAR
You’re right, it’s not important, what’s important is the joy I feel in having the family here on the yacht. It reminds me of our honeymoon, when I sat in the dark watching you sleep, and thought to myself how the two of us were joined in the bond of marriage, and from that moment on, we would share all of each other’s experiences.
You know you never actually touch anything. It’s all molecules, connected by gravity, and space moves through us as we spin around in circles through the day, orbiting the sun, and the solar system itself is going hundreds of thousands of miles through space, and space is traveling through us all the time. We don’t know how we got here, or where we’re going, yet we need to be able to live on Earth for as long as possible.
And so as our Captain turns the yacht starboard to avoid a storm, so must we . . .
WIFE
Beautiful. It’s like poetry; the two of us sharing this eternal bond into the future and beyond.
And how do you propose we avoid the storm of a dying Earth?
HENRY BEAR
Energy policy. Once we get this Hemp motor operational we’re going to need political support to make Hemp legal.
WIFE
I know. Look at them, our darling twin girls, and our handsome son; the five of us sitting in the sun on our yacht. We have so much to be thankful for and so much to look forward too. We’re trying to help the world so that our family can continue to prosper. This faith in our mission will create the opportunity to make it all possible.
HENRY BEAR
Yes, only something about that plane crash has me worried. Something didn’t sound right with Tom Wilkins. If it was a plane like your Uncle’s why would they broadcast it worldwide? It would be a regional story.
WIFE
That’s a good point. Do we have any investments there?
HENRY BEAR
Just some gold under the trade centers; it should be safe down there.
WIFE
Then let’s not worry about it now. We should just enjoy ourselves for the time being. We can look into it when we resume our business affairs.
Thank you,
Cyrus Emerson
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