Supercollider (2013) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

A physicist crosses between realities after a collider explosion and fights to restore the world where his family is alive.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

The Collider Awakens

The protagonist begins in a stable family life while physicists prepare a revolutionary collider. A calibration problem is noticed just before the machine explodes.

Key Events

• Family Morning — The protagonist wakes with his wife and daughter, then drops them at a cafe before work. Location: Home and cafe
• Collider Project — A team of physicists prepares the world's largest collider, designed to produce unlimited free energy. Location: Zero Point Industries
• Calibration Warning — A physicist notices a calibration problem with the atomic clocks before the test begins. Location: Collider facility
• First Explosion — The collider explodes during its test run, devastating the surrounding area. Location: Collider facility

Life After the Blast

The protagonist awakens in a devastated alternate reality where his marriage has ended and his daughter is dead. Tornadoes, memories, and a psychological diagnosis challenge his understanding of events.

Key Events

• Altered World — The protagonist wakes in a reality damaged by natural disasters and discovers that his life has changed. Location: Destroyed city area
• Jail Release — The protagonist bails his divorced wife out after her arrest for drunk and disorderly behavior. Location: Jail
• Shelter Encounter — A tornado forces the couple underground, where the protagonist recognizes a colleague and recalls the collider. Location: Underground shelter
• Psychological Explanation — A psychologist claims the protagonist developed Memory Relapse Syndrome after his daughter's death. Location: Psychologist's office

The Impossible Connection

Flashbacks lead the protagonist to an iPhone from the original reality. Contact with his living family convinces him that the collider created a parallel world.

Key Events

• Recovered Memories — Dreams and flashbacks gradually restore memories of the events before the collider explosion. Location: Various locations
• Impossible Phone — The protagonist finds an iPhone from the original reality and builds a charger after the shop cannot identify it. Location: Workplace and electronics shop
• Reality Contact — The phone contacts the original reality, where the protagonist's wife and daughter are alive. Location: Protagonist's home
• Phone Retrieval Order — Chuck and two investigators are sent to retrieve the phone, but the protagonist escapes before they arrive. Characters: Chuck Location: Alternate-reality residence
• Birthday Recording — The protagonist shows a recording of his daughter's seventh birthday while arguing that the collider created another reality. Location: Psychologist's office

The Price of Control

Investigators pursue the protagonist and attempt to recover the phone. He learns that the collider's operator wants to exploit it for financial prediction and refuses to cooperate.

Key Events

• Birthday Recording — The protagonist shows a recording of his daughter's seventh birthday while arguing that the collider created another reality. Location: Psychologist's office
• Burning Escape — Investigators attack the protagonist at the house, which he sets on fire to create an escape opportunity. Location: Wife's house
• Club Pursuit — The protagonist leaves the phone for his wife, but investigators capture him after finding him at the club. Characters: Chuck Location: Club
• Forced Cooperation — The protagonist is tortured and drugged, then taken to the industrial facility to meet the collider's financial operator. Characters: Chuck Location: Zero Point Industries
• Time Machine Scheme — The collider's operator reveals a plan to use it as a time machine for stock-market prediction, but the protagonist refuses to help. Characters: Chuck Location: Zero Point Industries office

A World Rewritten

The protagonist deploys a virus designed to restore reality, but the alternate world collapses around him. The collider's reaction returns him to the reality where his family survives.

Key Events

• Virus Deployment — The protagonist downloads a virus intended to restore reality, while Chuck later activates it after the phone is destroyed. Characters: Chuck Location: Zero Point Industries
• Rubble Farewell — A tornado destroys the club, and the protagonist finds his wife buried under rubble before she dies. Location: Destroyed club
• Reality Restored — The virus drives the collider into overdrive, sends the protagonist back, and leaves his wife and daughter alive. Location: Zero Point Collider and original reality

Story Breakdown

• Family Before Disaster — The protagonist's ordinary family life establishes what he risks losing.
  • Morning Departure — He wakes with his wife and daughter and drops them at a cafe.
  • Scientific Ambition — His team prepares a collider intended to produce unlimited free energy.
• Collider Catastrophe — A clock calibration problem precedes the experiment's destructive failure.
  • Clock Irregularity — A physicist identifies an atomic-clock calibration issue.
  • Devastating Explosion — The collider explodes and destroys the surrounding area.
• Alternate Reality — The protagonist wakes in a disaster-stricken world with a radically altered personal history.
  • Broken Marriage — He discovers that he is divorced in the new reality.
  • Daughter's Death — He learns that his daughter died in a car accident.
• Memory And Proof — Memories and an impossible device challenge the psychological explanation of his experience.
  • MRS Diagnosis — A psychologist attributes his collider memories to a coping disorder.
  • Original Phone — An iPhone connects him with his living family in the original reality.
• Pursuit And Exploitation — Investigators pursue the phone while the collider's operator seeks personal financial power.
  • Phone Recovery — Chuck and investigators are sent to retrieve the phone.
  • Market Prediction — The collider's operator plans to use time travel to predict stock markets.
• Restoration Attempt — The protagonist uses a virus to trigger the collider and reverse the alternate reality.
  • Virus Download — He downloads the restoration virus into the industrial computer system.
  • Reality Reset — The collider overload returns him to the reality where his family is alive.

Directed by

Jeffery Scott Lando

Key Cast

• Robin Dunne — Victor Susskind
• Amy Bailey — Natalie Susskind
• Mia Nordstrom — Jessica Susskind
• Brendan Beiser — Chuck
• Enzo Cilenti — Leo Tarsky