"Ordo Draconis - (K) Kopyleft 2016." "All Rites Reversed..." "THE VISITORS" "The 25th century." "The Central World Brain signals an incoming comet which might impact the Earth." "Academician Filip makes a strange suggestion." "He quotes Adam Bernau, a 20th century scientist, who'd discovered the mathematical laws behind continental drift at age 11." "This could make it possible to avoid the catastrophe." "Filip is entrusted with leading an expedition back to the year 1984." "Due to the high level of technology, such a feat is actually possible." "They choose the Adam Bernau House as training site." "The crew of the Expedition is getting ready for the trip here." "Episode 2" "EXPEDITION TO THE PAST" "And this, here, is the puritan office of the genius." "Where I myself am going to sleep." "Only the most important things can be found here." "A writing desk, a bed, some books, paper and pencils." "To think the discovery of the millenium was born in such humble circumstances!" "We're going to jump back 500 years during our time travel." "Therefore we can meet with Adam Bernau himself, at the moment when this house was engulfed in flames, and when his first notebook burned to dust." "It'll be quite a sight!" "Of course we'll put out all the fires." "I've more than enough F1 with me!" "No, out of the question." "We've no right to alter history." "Are you saying we'll go there, then just watch as the house burns down completely?" "Yes." "We'll let it burn, but we'll build it back right after, with complete historical accuracy." "Our task is, without attracting attention, to find the book which, according to the Memoirs, was hidden here, at the time of the fire." "At this spot." "This very same place was used by him later on as well, when he was already a world-famous, Nobel laureate scientist, hiding documents here which he didn't wish to share with the public or with his wife." "But please, what are you doing?" "I told you not to touch anything, and be careful sitting there, too, if you can!" "We'll talk about the knack of the hiding place later." "The dress is most likely authentic." "The exhibited items are only used for exercises." "So, see you 30 minutes from now, at the dinner, changed." "From tomorrow on, our catering will be taken care of by a special unit." "As for today, we'll just have some eggs." " How many would you like?" " Eggs?" "One half." " One quarter for me." " One half for me too." "I want a whole one." "And I'll cook it myself." " I live in the kitchen." " Watch out!" "I warned you to hold on tight to the rails!" " This is not an escalator!" " Did you hurt yourself?" "No... err... just a little." "Notebook No. 1 is all very well." "In the Memoirs, he mentions two more besides this one." "And what if the important stuff is in those?" "I'm glad that you seem to remember something from my lectures after all." "Your room." "You can change now." "Perhaps I'd even..." "Pardon!" "They wore such rags!" "Okay now." "Looks good on you." "I trust this will do for the eggs." "Look what I found in the storeroom." "What a cool little gadget!" "You just push the button, and it's burning already." "It must have been quite the thing, back then." "Just think, in their time, eggs were only as big as a medium-sized radish." "Really?" "Must have been cute." "But how many did you need to eat to get full?" "And what about these?" "These are forks." "They used them for eating." "But we're going to bring some food pills with us, just to be on the safe side." " Are you there?" " We're just watching you, Dad!" " On the News!" " Seriously?" "What happened?" "You can guess." "The stairs." "And now, here they are." "The best of the best." "They were chosen for the trip using data from the Central World Brain." "Their names will go down in history." "Professor Filip, Emilia Fernandez," "Leo Kane, Dr. Jacques Michell." "The desperate human race's only hope:" "Expedition Adam 84." "We cross the street and stop at the fence." "The Bernaus' house is in flames." "Most likely a great crowd is gathered round the house, neighbours, firefighters." "We mingle among them without attracting any attention." "And the house keeps burning." "The house is burning!" "Yes!" "Burning!" "Excellent!" "The doctor runs ahead." " Where?" " Well, what do you think?" "To the first floor, for the notebook." "We'll cover you from the back." "Quickly!" "Every second counts!" "Take cover." "The fewer people notice us, the better." "There really is some fire here!" "You don't say!" "I remind you that you went there to collect Adam Bernau's notebook!" "Damn it!" "This wasn't part of the deal." "The dog?" "It was here from the very first minute." "Run up to the room!" "And throw down the notebook through the window!" "I'll be waiting for you in the garden." "There is nothing here." "And absolutely no notebooks." "I forgot to put it back." "But we did just fine anyway." "We were 30 seconds faster than the last time." "We'll continue in 30 minutes." "Please turn off the fire." "You have entered the bathroom of the genius." "Don't touch anything!" "The house's inhabitants washed here." "You're standing in front of the so-called washbasin." "Catalogue No. 297." "On the right you can see dress No. 8." " Is it that leisure suit?" " Attention!" "Education during sleep." "The vehicle's transportation in time and space has been accomplished." "We are on the country road between Bournak and Kamenice, still under construction." "Yield at the crossroads." "Attention!" "Close it behind yourself!" "Turn the key and remove it from the lock!" "Ah!" "At last they aren't trying to tease me with some Nasper!" "Oho!" "Don't give in to temptation!" "We're not going to taste these 20th century meals now." "We'll just become acquaintained with them." "Living in such a wretched age, those unfortunates ate so much rubbish." "Roasted goose, duck, harmful pastas." "To be sure, we're going to bring some extracts with us." "Camouflaged as perfumes to avoid suspicion." "But I hope we'll take care of business so fast that we won't even need them." "It's fake." "Not real." "So, hopefully we'll reach our goal so quickly we won't even need to eat while there." "But in case we must, obviously we'll eat only canned food," " eggs and oranges..." " That's right!" " Only the kind of things that are packed or have a skin." " That's right!" " What's this?" " Your ID." "From now on, you're not a doctor, and your name is not Jacques Michell." "You are Michal Noll, qualified land-surveyor." "You can find your mother's name, time and place of your birth, and all that in this." "Please learn it by heart." "Let's forget about Leo Kane!" "You are Emil Karas, driver." " But we left you the three kids." " How kind." "Emilia Fernandez became Katya Jandova, the assistant of the Doprastav Institute." "Rudolf Filip stays as he is." "Except that he is not an academic, but an engineer." " This is not like me at all!" " But you will be." "Learn your personal data by heart." "And take a very good care of your IDs!" "One might have a lot of trouble in the 20th century without them." "I'd recall Filip." "He's very good at the Scientific Academy." " But as the leader of an Expedition?" " It's too late to worry about that." "Anyway, he's an excellent theorist." "On the other hand, that girl alongside him, this Emilia..." "She has nice, shapely legs." "I never thought that one day I'd see such a thing." "Such a sad sight." "History's junkyard." "Rockets, bombs." "It's unbelieveable that humans could do such things at one point." "Look!" "Even the fish have settled around it by now." "The dialectics of time." "Life and death." "Protected area." "It wasn't my idea." "You voted for it." "In the name of the Defence Council," "I'm asking the President of the World Council and the other members." "President." "Vice-president." "Archipenko." "Johansson." "Smith." "The 20th century." "Right at the entrance, the small arms." "Handed to the members of the Defence Council." "We need machine guns and ammunition to test the car's resistance." "Eye No. 1, Eye No. 2." "Eye No. 3." " I looked into it." " No way!" " With this as well?" " You mean, did they use this for killing as well?" "No." "Although from a certain angle, probably yes." "From a moral point of view." "Television eyes." "With a mirror system." "They gained visual access to other people's homes with them." "Later on they introduced laws against their use." "I'm calling for the old-money expert, please." "1984." "Yes, yes." "Strange, isn't it?" "Their money." "Fairly miserly slices of paper." "Emilia!" "I mean, Katya!" "Yes!" " Have you ever seen something like this?" " No." "What is it?" " Money." " Money?" " Yes." "Money." "They just sent it to us now." "Because this is what we are going to use for paying." " For paying?" " That's right." "Take a seat." "In exchange for five of these papers, you could buy yourself" " some books or an armchair..." " Interesting game." "No." "Those days people used to manufacture products, in return for money, and using this money, they bought whatever came into their minds." "And this gave birth to a certain closed system." "Which was also known as the Economy." "You're hearing the latest news from the Adam 84 Expedition's training center." "It's almost dusk, but rocketplanes keep bringing items and gifts to be reviewed." "And a great number of audio messages arrive as well." "I'm sending a kiss to Adam!" " We're proud of all of you!" " Come back safe!" " We'll cheer for you!" " Best of luck!" " We place our trust in you!" " Wishing you all the best!" "Save the dolphins!" "Thanks to Helena for the piano and the Debussy music sheet!" "The preparations for the journey have reached their climax." "The so-called automobile, with which the Expedition's journey will be undertaken is finished." "You're seeing the tests of the prototypes now." "The colours of the vehicles can be changed at a single push of a button." "They can be used underground, on water and underwater as well." "Several pieces of equipment are to be hidden from prying eyes, such as the navigation system, the transceiver, the distance sensor, and the databank, which makes concentrated microrecords on crystals." "To give you an idea, all the data in the famous Strahov Library could be stored on a single crystal among the many hundred thousand." "The equipment of the Expedition serves several purposes." "These are items that wouldn't attract any attention in the 20th century." "The so-called pencil, the bracelet, the mustache-removing machine, and a contemporary calculator." "But the necessary items for the humans of our era are also built into those seemingly everyday items of the past." "For example an artificial food manufacturer, zoom camcorder, disintegrator, and of course a transmitter to keep in contact with our age." "It's great!" "This is the Mole principle!" "We developed it when we were industrializing the Moon and the planets." "What the heck!" "This is really going well!" "Not a scratch!" "Just wait until we sit in it." "Ah!" "Our constructors copied several ideas from contemporary film footage." "You're looking at 20th century firearms now." "Academician Filip, Expedition leader, is also present at the safety tests." "And I would like to grab the opportunity to ask him some questions." "Doctor, could you please tell our viewers whether this outfit you're wearing now..." "is it really from 1984?" "Forgive me, but I have no time for this." "Our technicians are working well." "The preparations are on schedule." "A horrible sight!" "Not a single scratch on the white vehicle." "Our copy, unlike the historical original, provides perfect safety to all those inside." "Emilia!" "Or Katya!" " Leave me alone!" " The human race used to live like that for thousands of years!" "Name:" "Katya Jandova Date of birth: 6th December, 1961." "Place of birth:" "Hradec Kralove." "Address:" "Same place, No. 43, C Block, Peace Housing Estate." "Good evening." "Let's continue the training." "I'm very happy that you like my new appearance." "I wouldn't say that hair-implantation is such a simple procedure, but still I undertook it anyway." "But for you, we managed to create wigs that take the skull's shape perfectly." "They are real masterpieces." "They look like the real thing." " Did you really need this hairdo?" " Unfortunately, yes." "Here, in this notebook, or whatever it's called, I have a moustache." "You'll get one of those too." "I programmed the central kinetor for our time travel to 1984, and set it for 20 seconds after departure." "And we'll place it here." "But we made a space-kinetor for the duration of the training as well," " the purpose of which is to close the..." " 15 seconds more." " What?" " Ahem." "So, I turned it on then?" "Well then perhaps..." "we should move away from here." "Everything's all right." "Hurry up, please!" "Only because... the bodies in question must be at least 1800 meters from the place, where the Council of Defence can wait in a safe area... in a safe area..." "At this moment everything is decided." "If there aren't any unexpected difficulties," "Expedition Adam 84 is due to set off in a couple of days." "No such journey has ever taken place in the history of the human race." "It seems like it's broken." "Since you're not asleep, you're not learning anything either." "But these pictures might help a bit." "A war?" "No." "This is a contemporary entertainment." "What about these?" "Gee, how strange!" "A ship is coming out of it!" "A parachute without rocket controls?" "A risky sport." "Not a sport." "A war." "It's 1942." "Europe." "These houses..." "What happened here?" "An earthquake?" "It's terrible to think that they couldn't yet control the forces of nature." "This must be some sporting event, right?" "It's a protest." "What's that for?" "Unbelieveable, the kind of things they used to do." "Bullfights were customary." "And entertainment as well." "They want jobs?" "They really like to work so much?" "I wouldn't have guessed that..." "Why didn't you show us this before?" " I've got children, you know." " This was in 1945." "And we're heading to 1984." "I checked the data on Kamenice." "Only 3 car accidents per year." "A very relaxed small town." "A sole murder in 5 years, and even that was simply because of jealousy." "Anyway, if the mission is successful, we'll only stay there for 3-4 hours." "And as soon as we've recovered the notebook, we'll come back." "Maximum 4 hours, at most." "Think that your parents have been en route to Alpha Centauri for 5 years now!" "Yes." "But it was their decision." "And not because some computer liked them." "End of Episode Two."