Step Outline

Establishing shots

Scientist in his room, smoking and listening to his radio. In voiceover he describes what has happened.

Flashback to scientist working at his machine, sees his 'vision'. A radio broadcast/song is playing through his radio. Flicks the switch.

Describes the aftermath, the rest of the scientists leaving etc.

Walking around the bunker, describing his loneliness. MADNESS.

He's built a time machine. He talks about how he will go back and fix everything, even implying he will murder his past self if that is what it takes.

He gets the message on his radio, but its gone again. (whilst he is making repairs in tunnel)

He's in the corridor, frantically tuning his radio, trying to find a signal. Hears a banging on the outside door. THINK HE CRAZY

He runs away down the corridor to his machine, plugs himself in and travels.

He finds himself in the past. He sees somebody in a lab coat at the end. He hears the same radio broadcast/song which is present during the initial flashback.

He looks through a window into a room, where he sees his past self, working on the machine. He tries to signal through the window at himself, but as he and his past self look at each other, he disappears in a flash of light.

Back in the present, he realises that it was his time machine that doomed the world.

He sees his pre-time travel self disappear through a door, and lock it behind him. Frantically trying to signal to his past self, he uses his radio, but it breaks halfway through his broadcast.

He picks up a fire extinguisher and tries to break the door down. He gets through and begins to run down the corridor.

He makes it to the time machine room, just in time to see his past self disappear through time.

In a rage, he smashes the time machine, but triggers the mechanism, sends him hurtling uncontrollably through time.

He finds himself in a cave, the site of the laboratory. However, it has long since crumbled to dust, or has yet to be built, it is not made clear.

He ventures outside, and walks away through the barren wasteland.

He comes across a group of primitive humans, dumb, ape-like and seemingly unintelligent. They watch him approach warily, jealously guarding the dead animals they are eating raw. He smiles and holds out his cigarette lighter, igniting a small pile of dried sticks for them.