Time After Time II ...
A movie I'd like to see, and will never get the chance to write -- JNS
Back to the Future IV /
Time After Time II
By J. Neil Schulman
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776090/
While traveling through the American southwest, Sherlock Holmes(1) is
hired by the railroad to investigate the hijacking and destruction of a
locomotive that was deliberately crashed, apparently senselessly, off an
unfinished railroad bridge into Shonash Ravine(2), Hill County, California.
During his investigation Holmes sees a flying locomotive engineered by a
white-haired man and a dark-haired woman(2), which Holmes initially
attributes to a cocaine-induced hallucination(3). However, further
investigation of forensic evidence leads Holmes to the inescapable
conclusion that his UFO sighting was real, and that the flying locomotive
could be nothing other than a machine that had traveled from the future(2).
From his hotel in Hill Valley(2), Holmes cables London to his friend, writer
H.G. Wells(4), to tell Wells what he's discovered.
Several weeks later, H.G. Wells and his wife, Amy(5), arrive in Hill Valley,
along with several large crates of belongings.
Holmes is surprised when he discovers that Wells' wife, Amy Robbins, is a
twin(6) of the woman he saw in the flying locomotive … and even more
surprised when Wells tells the great detective that Amy was born in the next
century, traveled back in time with Wells in a time machine of Wells'
invention(7), and that Amy's great-great grandmother, Clara Clayton
Brown(2), lived briefly in Hill Valley, where she married Amy's great
grandfather, a white-haired blacksmith named Emmet L. "Doc" Brown (2).
Amy's grandfather, Dr. Verne Brown(2), had told Amy fantastic bedtime
stories when she was a little girl about how when he was a boy he had
traveled through time with his brother, Jules (2), and his father, "Doc"
Brown, who was secretly a scientist. It wasn't until she had made her own
time journey that she realized these forgotten bedtime stories could be true.
The townspeople of Hill Valley assume from her appearance that Amy must
be Clara Clayton Brown, and the saloon keeper gives her the keys to Emmet
Brown's blacksmith shop, where Holmes, H.G. Wells, and Amy find
evidence of Doc Brown's time experiments.
When H.G. unpacks his crates in the same barn where Doc Brown had once
housed his first time machine, Holmes sees the contraption that, when Wells
reconstructs it, is the time machine that Wells had used to chase Jack the
Ripper into the 1970's(7), where Wells had met his wife, Amy.
Given operating instructions by H.G. Wells, Sherlock Holmes takes Wells'
time machine(7) back to the future in search of Amy's time-travelling great-
grandfather, Emmet L. "Doc" Brown, with the intent of arresting Doc
Brown for the hijacking and destruction of the crashed locomotive(2).
Footnotes:
(1) Character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236279/
(2) Back to the Future Part III, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/combined
(3) The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075194/combined, written by Nicholas
Meyer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583292/
(4) Author http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920229/ of The
Time Machine http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/combined,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/combined
(5) H.G. Wells first wife, Amy Catherine Robbins (1895 - 1927).
(6) A time-travelling Amy Robbins is played in Nicholas Meyer's Time
After Time http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/combined by
Mary Steenburgen http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005460/, who
also plays a time-travelling Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part
III.
(7) Time After Time
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/combined, written and
directed by Nicholas Meyer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583292/