Phase 4: Unification

Phase 4: Unification (Part I)

-3 months ago-

The Girl has not seen the Prodigy since she told him to leave
She reaches out to his Mother comfort
Wondering if there wasn't more she could have done

Girl:
I feel his shadow
Looming over me
Leaving me defeated
And confused

His eyes still haunt me
If only I’d done more
Maybe I gave up on him too soon

Mother:
I share your sorrow
But we are not to blame
His heart has always been a mystery

Girl & Mother:
We’ll nеver fathom
We’ll nevеr understand

Did he ever need us
Were we real
Or mere reflections
In a mirror of dreams?

Girl:
What holds his future
How will he survive
Without us to save him from himself?

Where has he run to
Will he return?
I hope he knows
I wish him well

Mother:
It’s up to him now
There’s nothing we can do
I fear we cannot
Give him what he needs

Girl & Mother:
Are we but phantoms
Inside his tangled mind?

Will he ever need us
Are we real
Or mere reflections
In a mirror of dreams?

Phase 4: Unification (Part II)

After being rejected by the Girl
The Prodigy turn to his only friend, the Teacher
The Prodigy needs a safe place where
He can work on the Theory of Everything
And take time to sort himself out

The teacher knows of the perfect place
There's an old renovated lighthouse up for sale
After pulling off the bank scam with the Rival
Money is no object:

The Prodigy buys the lighthouse and retreats there
Virtually going "off the grid."
The teacher is the only one who knows his whereabouts
And checks on him every day

Teacher:
It’s time to put things in perspective
Find your way again
Let me take you to the lighthouse
Where you can hide away

Prodigy:
I only want to be alone
To work the numbers on my own
I need to show my father
I need to show them all...

I am the one!

Teacher:
Your time has come...

Prodigy:
...to unlock the equation

Prodigy & Teacher:
The Theory of Everything!

Teacher:
If you’re troubled by the visions
The chaos in your mind
If the voices start to whisper
Call me, day or night!

Prodigy:
Don’t worry
I’ll be fine!

Teacher:
Don’t underestimate the danger!

Prodigy:
I’m gonna make
The theory shine

Teacher:
You’ll regret it
Sooner or later

Prodigy:
I need to show my father
I need to show them all...

I am the one!

Teacher:
Our time has come!

Prodigy:
I will find the equation...

Prodigy & Teacher:
The Theory of Everything!

Phase 4: Unification (Part III)

The tension between the Mother
And the Father comes to a head

Father:
Without him it’s all over
We’ve got to bring him home again!

Mother:
He doesn’t want to see you
Can’t you get that through your head?

Father:
But you can make him listen
All I need is one more chance

Mother:
No, I can’t take anymore!
You never gave a damn!

Phase 4: Unification (Part IV)

-Yesterday-

After months of fruitless arguments with the Father
The Mother finally takes action

Mother:
And so it ends
It’s time to let go
My spirit is crushed
Forsaken and cold

I’m leaving you
No tears left to cry
You’ll never change
I’ve made up my mind

This is goodbye!

Father:
So this is the end
How can I go on?
My dream’s unfulfilled
And now I’m alone

I let them down
I pushed them away
No reason to live
I’m ending this pain
There’s no other way!

Only one thing left to do...

Phase 4: Unification (Part V)

-Last night-

The Prodigy has been working on the Theory of Everything for months now
He's totally exhausted, but is sure that the final missing piece
Is just around the corner

Then one evening he gets an unexpected visitor

Father:
I’m down here on my knees
Feeling the weight of shame
How could I have done this
To you, my son?

Prodigy:
I can’t believe my eyes
Is it really you?
Why should I forgive you
After all you’ve done?

Father:
I was driven and blind
Not so unlike yourself
We can still work together
If you allow me

Prodigy:
Why should I give you a chance?
Why should I trust you now?
I bet you are helpless
Without me

Father:
If we join our minds
Then together we can do this

Prodigy & Father:
We both want to be the first
We both want to change the world

Father:
We can work all night
Until we find out what the truth is

Prodigy & Father:
We’ll solve this mystery
Be a part of history

Prodigy:
I’m so damn close!

Father:
I’ll fill in the blanks...

Prodigy:
I could use a hand!

Father:
Just give me this chance...

Prodigy & Father:
For we’re on the verge of a breakthrough

Father:
The meds help me to see!

Prodigy:
It's too late to stop now...

Father:
I'll take just a few more!

Prodigy:
Just 'til the answer is found...

Prodigy & Father:
We can make it
We'll find the truth

Let’s join our minds
It’s our destiny to do this
We’re going to be the first
We’re going to change the world

We’ll work all night
Until we find out what the truth is
We both know we’ll never sleep
Until we make this quantum leap

We are in this way too deep!

Phase 4: Unification (Part VI)

Together with his Father
The Prodigy works feverishly all through the night
He takes a far greater dose of the drug than usual
Thinking it will help him see the solution."

Prodigy & Father:
Isolate the graviton
Verify the Higgs-Boson
Photons, hadrons
Gluons, fermions

Demonstrate the tachyon
Find the missing baryons
Neutrons, protons
Nucleons, electrons

Ride a wave of gravity
Unravel super symmetry
Position X, sparticles
Momentum P, dark energy

Einstein’s relativity
Meets Heisenberg’s uncertainty
Causality, eternity
Singularity, infinity!

Eureka!
We found it
We broke it

Eureka!
We solved it
We did it!

Eureka!
We made it
We cracked it

Eureka!
We nailed it
We got it!

Phase 4: Unification (Part VII)

The Prodigy is exhausted by his mental efforts
And, on the verge of collapse
Summons the last of his strength to write a note for his friend
The Teacher

Prodigy:
Dear friend
My work here is done
Science has evolved!

As the sun set
On father and son
The mystery was solved

I’m broken
I’m falling apart
Slowly fading away

I’m sorry
I took it all too far
Thank you for your faith...

Phase 4: Unification (Part VIII)

-8:03 this morning-

On his daily visit to the Lighthouse
The Teacher is stunned at what he finds:

The Prodigy is slumped in a corner, totally unresponsive
His hand clutching a crumpled note
The Teacher reads the note and immediately phones the Girl
Who rushes over to the lighthouse

When she arrives, the Teacher can hear her hurriedly saying goodbye
To someone as she bursts into the room
Fumbling to put away her phone

Her eyes are already red from crying
But a flood of new tears erupts whe she sees the Prodigy
She turns to the Teacher to find out what happened...

Teacher:
His mind took flight
And his eyes have lost their light
All we have to go on is a note

They changed the world last night
Working together, side by side
His father is the only one who knows

Girl:
You haven’t been told?
That was his mother on the phone
There was a tragedy last night

His father can’t have been here
It had to be a ghostly dream
For at the fall of day he took his life!

(Instrumental)
Phase 4: Unification (Part IX)

The Prodigy clearly believed that his Father helped him
But how is this possible?

Phase 4: Unification (Part X)

-9:46 this morning-

Upon her arrival at the Lighthouse
The Mother breaks down at the sight of her catatonic son
She desperately needs to understand what happened there the night before

Mother:
They were seduced
By the mystery
Something forbidden
Was uncovered here

My husband!

Girl:
My love!

Mother:
My son!

Girl:
All lost!

Mother & Girl:
Our world is not ready to know
The Theory of Everything

We need a future to build
A new role to fulfil
We’ve got something to give
We’ll find a reason to live

Phase 4: Unification (Part XI)

-The present-

Everyone has left the Lighthouse but the Teacher
He stands staring at the blackboard
Trying to make sense of the tangle of equations
Then he makes a startling discovery...

Teacher:
Will we ever understand
How two different hand styles
Came to grace this blackboard?

What unseen forces did conspire
Uniting a father and his son...