The Swetky Agency - The Father Machine

Submission Synopsis

The Father Machine

by A. R. Yngve

Length:
71

Genre:
Sci-Fi
Action-Adventure

Series:
The Savior Machine (in progress)

Comparisons:
The Terminator, RoboCop

Sentence:
An unstoppable, emotionless killer cyborg becomes an orphan girl's last hope for survival!

Logline:
He is "E", an experimental killer cyborg on the run - emotionless, unstoppable, inscrutable. She is Rika, an abandoned orphan child. "E" becomes the girl's protector and parent in a dangerous world... and learns to be human again.

Synopsis:
Europe, the near future:

The powerful mega-corporation Conglomerated Services is taking over entire countries. It funds experiments on prisoners, turning them into computer-controlled cyborg soldiers. The test subject "E", an emotionless warrior cyborg with a programmed mind, escapes the lab. Hunted by the corporation's mercenaries, he outsmarts and kills them - and crosses the border to a small free country.

He meets another runaway, the African orphan-girl Rika. Programmed to protect children and the unborn, "E" spontaneously becomes Rika's adopted parent. Rika becomes strongly attached to "E", who begins to grow slightly more human as he takes care of her.

The mega-corporation's chief scientist and "creator" of "E", the wily old woman Dr.Oblong, is monitoring "E" through an informer. Enigmatic and brilliant, Dr. Oblong has predicted "E's" escape, and wants to test his ability to survive in society. But the corporation wants their experiment under control, and orders her to bring "E" back...

E is hired as "muscle" by a bar owner, the beautiful and tough woman Lucky. He fights off an attack on Lucky's bar by the local mafia, and she befriends him. Seduced by Lucky, "E" is curiously powerless to resist her. When Rika finds "E" in Lucky's arms, she runs away - and is taken hostage by the mafia.

Dr. Oblong uses the hostage to force "E's" surrender. Lucky helps "E" outwit the corporate thugs, and he frees Rika from Oblong's clutches. "E" declares himself the girl's protector. It is revealed that she may be a mutant: immune to all diseases, and perhaps mankind's last hope.

Dr. Oblong uses her last resort: she unleashes a female cyborg, "F", to capture or kill "E" But Oblong has deceived "F" into believing "E" has kidnapped Rika. A climactic chase-and-fight ensues between the two cyborgs. "E" almost convinces "F" that he is right. But Oblong's remote-control forces "F" to attack.

Rika pulls a gun on herself, and threatens to shoot herself if "F" hurts her adopted "father." The conflict between programming and orders causes "F" to collapse.

"E" brings the unconscious female cyborg to Dr.Oblong, and kills her henchmen with another violent ruse. He forces Oblong to heal "F" and remove the mental control-device; "F" is now an independent cyborg like himself. She confesses that she created "E" as a personal project, a "father machine."

Epilogue:
A while later, Lucky receives a letter from "E." He and "F" are living somewhere in America as "normal" people, both of them now the adopted parents of the girl Rika. We are left with the unanswered question: what will a child raised by programmed cyborgs become?

Bio:
A.R.Yngve, born in 1969, has published short fiction and comics in the U.S. and his home country Sweden. His novel Terra Hexa was released in 2004, by the Swedish publisher Wela Fantasy (http://www.welaforlag.se). The Father Machine is a screen adaptation of his comic strip "E+", which was published by Semic Press 1992-1993.

Budget:
Low

Registration:
The characters and storyline of The Father Machine are (c) Registered A.R.Yngve 1992,1993.

Additional:
A.R.Yngve wrote, illustrated, and published the original story in comic-book form, and intends to produce himself the concept art and character sketches for the movie script.