Left Behind II: Tribulation Force - Manipulation of a Messianic Announcement
Buck Williams: [Reading a copy of Ben-Judah's speech that Rayford retrieved from Nicolae's laptop]
This is what Ben-Judah's big announcement is all about. He's going to announce Nicolae as the messiah. That's why Nicolae wants me here! He's using me to promote this speech!
Rayford Steele:
No, no, we're missing something here. This is Ben-Judah's speech. Then why did I hear Nicolae thank Steve Plank for writing it?
Buck Williams:
Or re-writing it. Come on, Ray, look at this: "The messiah will be pierced without breaking a bone." We all know that was Jesus Christ. He was stabbed when he was hanging on the cross.
Rayford Steele:
Ben-Judah was going to announce that Jesus Christ is the messiah. They changed the speech! But how are they going to get Ben-Judah to read it?
Buck Williams:
Nicolae's got a lot of people under his power. We gotta get to Ben-Judah.
Rayford Steele:
And then what? I mean, if he's got all these people under his power, or spell, or whatever you want to call it, it's supernatural. What can you do?
Buck Williams:
I can't do anything, but God can. The only thing that can break it is the power of God.
Rayford Steele:
But how?
Buck Williams:
We get Ben-Judah face-to-face with the word of God. We take him to the witnesses.
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Philadelphia Experiment II - A Father's Assurance in Uncertain Times
David Herdeg:
Hello, kid.
Benjamin Herdeg: [embraces his father]
I love you, dad. It's all going to get better now, right?
David:
Ok.
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Philadelphia Experiment II - Tempting Fate with Time Travel
David Herdeg:
He's obsessed. You said that yourself. He's obsessed with me. He's obsessed with time. Now, what if we could turn that around, use it against him, tempt him?
Dr James Longstreet:
What are you saying?
Herdeg:
We could use the machine.. Send me back to 43- Stop the plane from ever taking off.
Longstreet:
No, no. I told you, never again. What's done is done. We can't change it.
Herdeg:
You don't understand.
Longstreet:
We cannot continue to tamper this way.
Herdeg:
There's a different world, Longstreet, with a different history. I was just there yesterday. It's better than it is here, much better. It's not perfect, it's got its problems, but not like this. It's a nightmare here because here was not meant to be. It never should've happened.
Longstreet:
But it's been this way for 50 years.
Herdeg:
No. No, it's been this way for one day. I swear. It's true. Don't you see? We won the war!
Longstreet: [surprised at the remark]
We? We won the war?
Herdeg:
Yeah.
Longstreet: [takes a drag of his cigarette]
There's a cemetery in old DC, where they let us put out markers for the victims of the Phoenix... Stretches for miles. This country was buried there... Six feet under.
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Philadelphia Experiment II - The Mystery of the Phoenix's Disappearance
Dr James Longstreet:
Until 43, May 4th. I disappeared your ship, and you never came back. There were stories you'd gone forward in time. Twenty-four hours later, it didn't matter.
David Herdeg:
Go on.
Longstreet: [shows David a picture of a Luftwaffe pilot and officials posing before an F-117 in Luftwaffe markings]
Fifth of May, the Phoenix flew. Dropped her bombs on Washington DC. Fifteen million people gone. Took me 20 years to figure it out-- Why the Phoenix never flew again, where it came from, and what happened to the damn thing. Then one of our operatives found this.
Herdeg:
My god, it's a stealth. Nuclear-armed.
Longstreet:
Then it all fell together. The doubts I had about you and the damn Philadelphia Experiment became nightmares. We did cut a hole in time. The same way we sent you forward from 43, that plane got sucked back there, landed in the heart of Nazi Germany. It's my fault... All of it. A foolish young man's pride opened Pandora's box. All this... everything you see here came out of it.
Herdeg: [points to a man in picture]
This man. Who is he?
Longstreet:
Friedrich Mahler. Took credit for the plane. Claimed he built it. Was a hero when the Phoenix struck. Turned scapegoat when he couldn't build a replacement. See, he didn't know the plane's real power. How could he? It was lost in the blast from its own bombs. Mahler killed himself in 65, utterly disgraced. But like all good Aryans, he brought forth a son who's become obsessed with the Phoenix, obsessed with time. He studied everything we did in 43- The ship, you, all of it. He's reopened the Philadelphia Experiment. Convinced he can go back 50 years, warn his father, and change the Phoenix's flight path so it survives the blast.
Herdeg:
You mean he's rebuilt it? Your machine?
Longstreet:
He's close. He's developing a plasma that simulates your DNA so he too, can survive the vortex.
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Philadelphia Experiment II - Struggling with Uncertainty and Confusion
David Herdeg: [talking to doctor]
Feelings... I don't know. Everything's... Everything's normal. Then, out of nowhere, suddenly they're tearing at me. I don't know if it's the past or the future, heaven or hell.
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