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Journals: Book 1, Entry 10 “Marker 262” "Their doom was sealed at the gate / steel chariots vanished in still clear nigh / Glorious terrain left undefended / 'till the river changes course" What did this Nostradamus quatrain have to do with Ash Grove, Missouri, a small Midwestern town that billed itself as "Hot Rod Heaven?" Crazy Eddie heard the news of the mysterious disappearance of one Jason Coleman, drag-racer and car mechanic, who vanished as he crossed the finish line. Was the disappearance of Jason Coleman and his Corvette part of an alien experiment? With some bogus credentials from the Transportation Safety Board, I was gonna find out. Gentlemen, start your engines. Met the hot-rod gang that Jason ran with. Rodder Tommy Cranston drove against Jason the night he disappeared, said he figured Jason got scared and took off after the race. Darcy, Tommy’s girl, directed me to Jason’s house. She said she had a bad feeling about Jason’s vanishing act. Paid a visit to Jason’s brother, Danny, who seemed less than interested in what happened to his brother. Danny didn’t believe the town myth about the ghost highway and missing people. He figured his screw-up brother took off for the next town. My meeting with Danny was depressing. The guy couldn’t care less his brother had disappeared. If people didn't give a damn about each other, why the hell should I? I gotta admit, I was ready to give it up and end this fight, head up north and spend the time before the Second Wave fishing my days away. Eddie brought me back to reality. Nostradamus, twice-blessed man, all that stuff didn’t really matter. Eddie cut to the quick – this was about Hannah. He was right. I owed it to her. Danny came into the bar where Eddie and I were. Said he’d found Jason’s pocket knife, a good luck charm he’d never leave home without. Danny was getting worried. He gave me some newspaper clippings about other disappearances. Eddie and I traced them out on the map, they all coincided with a stretch of mile near marker 262. The same stretch of highway where Jason vanished. I checked out the marker, and chipped a piece off of it. Suddenly out of nowhere, Tommy Cranston’s Chevy came straight at me. I dodged, and he drove off into the night. One thing for sure, Tommy was aiming for me. Was it something about this marker he was trying to protect? The chip from the marker seemed to work like a reverse magnet. Eddie found it emitted an electromagnetic pulse. It was identical to the pulse rate of only one other place on Earth: Cat Island, the center of the Bermuda Triangle. Eddie theorized this marker led to something called a quantum pocket, another dimension with only one way in or out. Was Jason stuck in this alien engineered other-world? Was Tommy keeper of the gateway between these dimensions? It was time to jam into high gear, and bring this alien operation down. “Marker 262” Writer: Chris Brancato Director: Shawn Levy Executive Producers: Francis Ford Coppola, Larry Sugar Created by: Chris Brancato Guest Stars: Brennan Elliott as Danny, Kavan Smith as Tommy, Ingrid Kavelaars as Darcy, Tobias Mehler as Jimmy. |
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