"THE FORWARD OBSERVER"
A Script That Should Be Made...Because It's So Darn Good
"An injured soldier returns from the Afghan War and finds that his family,
the house he grew up in and his life pre-deployment don’t exist...and never have."
THE FORWARD OBSERVER” is the story of a wounded American Army officer, Captain Rob Mullen, who has returned from the Afghan War to find a different world. Not just figuratively but literally. After months of recuperation from a serious war injury, he leaves a Military Hospital and returns to his family homestead in Rhode Island only to find the house empty. He then learns that, even though he has memories, he has never lived there. Accepting this reality is difficult for Mullen. He is determined to find out what’s going on. While investigating the abandoned Rhode Island home, he suddenly finds that he’s the target of, what appears to be, an organized attempt to silence him. He makes his escape with the help of an attractive young woman who, seemingly out of nowhere, drives to his rescue and takes him away from the danger. She's someone he had a relationship with during his recuperation: Kate Briggs. She confesses that she had worked for the ‘other side’. It was her job to ‘handle’ Mullen. She arranges to take the young Captain to a ‘safe location’…a place where he will never be found. After a circuitous and initially dangerous hour-long ride, they arrive at an abandoned, run down, hundred plus year old State Mental Hospital. The campus is in total disrepair, which seems to magnify the hospital’s horrific history. They bypass the main gates and she takes Mullen to a secret portal that leads to an underground complex. It’s surprisingly high tech, and staffed with researchers and armed guards. Kate then introduces Mullen to Professor Larson, the man who runs the facility. At this point Kate reveals that she had actually been tasked to retrieve Mullen and bring him to the location. Larson explains that he’s been running a paranormal research project and that Mullen had been it’s primary participant. He tells him that, when he had arrived at the other hospital, he was physically alive, but that even though his body was alive, the IED explosion had ‘driven his soul from his body' and that he was actually dead spiritually. He continues by saying that the reason he was alive now was because they had performed a paranormal experiment on him, but then had adds that the experiment had gone bad. His spirit hadn’t returned to his body. What actually happened was that the soul of another long dead soldier had taken occupancy. During the course of the explanation, Larson displayed to Mullen a device that he and his staff have created; an instrument he calls the Interlink. It allows people on ‘this side’ to communicate clearly with the ‘spirit' world. The operative word being ‘clearly’. He proudly proclaims that the Interlink is completely unique, a ‘one of a kind’ discovery. All predecessors would be primitive, children’s toys. Then, almost casually, Larson finishes his explanation by saying that the ‘experiment’ has to be terminated and that Mullen would be 'deactivated' the the following day.
At this point, the script kicks into overdrive. Mullen becomes Larson’s prisoner. He finds that the Professor has unknowingly left one of the Interlink devices in his room. With the help of an entity from the other side, Mullen breaks out of his room, takes Briggs hostage and the two of them, three if you include the spirit, escape into the decaying Mental Hospital. It doesn’t take long for Larson to discover them gone and, with the help of his armed henchmen, take chase. While all this is happening, unbeknownst to the Professor and his staff. at the other end of the hospital complex, a TV crew is preparing to shoot an episode of Ghost Chasers, which features famed TV paranormal investigator Dan Foley. As the crew readies the production equipment, Foley decides to investigate the facility alone, to prepare himself for the show and to get the lay of the land. It’s a huge, dark and dismal place. Everything about it is falling apart. And the thunderstorm that’s moving in, only adds to the foreboding atmosphere.
The pursuit is intense and filled with twists and turns. Mullen continues to be aided by the entity on the Interlink. It culminates in a dank and decaying clock tower, the highest point at the facility. Surprisingly, the most intense battle isn’t between Larson and Mullen, although they do fight, but rather it’s between the helpful entity and a dark, sinister spirit that inhabits the building. Finally, Mullen finds himself being rescued by Foley who happens to be in the right place at the right time.
And just when you thought that the story was over ... let's simply say that it takes an interesting turn.
The pursuit is intense and filled with twists and turns. Mullen continues to be aided by the entity on the Interlink. It culminates in a dank and decaying clock tower, the highest point at the facility. Surprisingly, the most intense battle isn’t between Larson and Mullen, although they do fight, but rather it’s between the helpful entity and a dark, sinister spirit that inhabits the building. Finally, Mullen finds himself being rescued by Foley who happens to be in the right place at the right time.
And just when you thought that the story was over ... let's simply say that it takes an interesting turn.
