Episode 1: Darklight

Starring: Richard Downing, Bibliothekar Henry Hase, Alien Anführer Klei, NSA Agent Jimmy Jackson, Hotelangestellter Keil Klemmens

Guest stars: Alien Kommandant Brei

Original Writing date: 6. Dezember 2004
Publishing date: 23. Dezember 2018


Broken Bow, Nebraska – several million years ago:

We are in an ice age on Earth. Two Stone Age people stand by a small fire as they are suddenly caught by a white beam of light and disappear. Moments later we see a lounger in a white room. A glaring white light floats above them. Their faces show panic and fear. But they can neither scream nor move. To hear the two people voices. Alternating also sounds of medical equipment. Both are cut in full consciousness to implant something. After their bodies are closed again, both are beamed back into the ice of Broken Bow…

Today – Broken Bow 2004 US state of Nebraska:

The sleepy little nest Broken Bow has always been a place to hush the kidnapping stories. The 20-year-old reporter Richard Downing took this opportunity to visit the city. He drives into the city with his little beetle from the 80’s. His editor-in-chief tries to expel him by telephone still the story for which Richard Downing would like to research here. It does not help though. Richard Downing is determined to devote himself to the alien abductions in this place and to make a report on it. Our young reporter starts his search for information in the library of the city. In a search lasting several hours, Richard Downing finds some newspaper and magazine articles that have already dealt with the alien abductions in Broken Bow. Besides, the librarian is a bit grumpy to tell him something about the subject. He seems to be trying hard not to discuss the topic. It’s like a shell of silence. Also the questions to some older visitors of the city library lead to nothing. When Richard Downing finally leaves the library and makes his way to his hotel, he is watched by a man. At the hotel he gets his room and a meal brought to the room by the clerk Keil Klemms. In the evening he works off the information material from the library. Between the magazines, he finds an old photograph of the city festival from the 80’s on which a white light can be seen in the background. Suddenly the window of his hotel room lights up. He goes to the window and looks outside. He sees a white-brimmed round object hovering over the road. Then he loses consciousness. Some time later he wakes up lying on the floor and is quite confused. What happened? In addition, at one and a half hour passed by which he does not know what happened. He has such a bad headache that he drags himself to bed and sleeps through. He wakes up at 8:45 the next morning. Still slightly confused by the events of the previous night, he gets dressed and goes to have dinner. First, he asks the waitress for the white object over the street last night. But she does not want to have seen or heard anything. Ironically, you did not hear anything except a hum. Then he starts talking to two older people, but they also did not want to see anything. But say that they are very tired and have a headache. Richard Downing is also buzzing a bit of his skull. When he leaves the dinner again, he discovers the man who had already watched him yesterday, and now stares at him again. Richard Downing decides to approach him. But the man goes away and tries to escape him. But Richard would not be Richard if he gave up so easily. So he follows the man to his car. Fortunately this has a malfunction and does not start. Richard can ask the man and also puts him to speech. Richard Downing quickly gets the impression that the man is from the government, and in fact he turns out to be NSA agent Jimmy Jackson as he discusses his disguise. Richard Downing advises Agent Jackson not to interfere in his research. He would otherwise call him by name in his reportage. After that, the paths of the two separate for the time being. In the late afternoon, Richard Downing walks down the street to his hotel. He relaxes when he suddenly pulled back and is caught by a white beam of light. Then he disappears. A little later Richard Downing finds himself in a white room again. But he is not alone. A man is also there or something that looks like a man. Shortly thereafter, Agent Jackson appears in the room. The man says in a dark voice, „We are now complete.“ Richard Downing: „What shall we do here and who are you?“ The unknown man: „Who thinks you who we are?“ Richard Downing: „You are not from this world. „The unknown man: „That’s true. We come from a world that is far away. But that’s not the reason why I brought you both here.“ Agent Jackson:“ Why are we here then? „The Unknown Man:“ We know of the many people who have been abducted in recent centuries and returned without any memory. You must know, we are not all like that. Not everyone wants to study people by kidnapping them. So we have decided on another way to examine your species. An intervention you would call Human. „Agent Jackson:“ How did you intervene in our development? And since when? „The unknown man:“ We the oppositionists, we decided in 1983 to send several of us to the earth, which should live in your own under you. They should start families, find a wife. A year later, children should be born. Children with a human appearance, but genetically mixed with our species. „Richard Downing:“ Oh my god. And that’s what you call Human? „The Unknown Man:“ If we had expected what would go wrong, we would never have conceived this alien-human hybrid. The mothers all died during childbirth. The other alien group found the fathers and killed them. But the fathers had succeeded in bringing the children to safety before. Unfortunately, the information about where the children are also died with them. We only know that they were adopted children and full orphans. „Richard Downing:“ What does all this have to do with us? What do you want from us? „The unknown man:“ I need, we need your help to find these children again. Part of our species is dying. A deadly disease is spreading. These children are the key to healing. Please help us…“. Then he sends them both with the words: „We are all somehow caught!“ Back to the places where he kidnapped her. Richard Downing and Agent Jackson meet shortly afterwards in Downing’s hotel room. They talk about what they should do now. Richard Downing believes that he wants to get to the bottom of this mystery. Agent Jackson prefers to tell the story to his supervisor, so he admits he’s not in Broken Bow for work. But what leads him here, he does not betray. Richard Downing wants to at least look at the list of orphanages in Broken Bow. Agent Jackson can not refuse. Because he’s basically interested in finding out what’s going on here. Fortunately for her, Broken Bow has only one orphanage, which she visits the next day. There, with the help of Agent Jackson’s badge, the complete directory of Broken Bow orphans can be found. When they look at the years 1984/1985, they discover something. There is an interesting entry for a child named: Jennifer Jackson. It is the only entry of a child where it says that she is unknown. But a few lines below makes Richard Downing yet another discovery that makes him cold down the back. Under the seldom filled section parents is the name of his mother…

TO BE CONTINUED

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
SVEN NEMETH
HANS KOHLBERG
JENNIFER STAR & YVONNE STEILER