EXT: HILLSIDE - MIDDAY
Man measures the length of shadows while his daughter watches sitting on a rock.
MR. SINCLAIR - VOICEOVER
When does the student become a Master? And the Master a student?
THE NEXT TWO LOCATIONS FLASH BACK AND FORTH
(1) INT: BUDDHIST TEMPLE, TOKYO, JAPAN – MORNING – June 2001
Woman meditates in traditional attire.
(2) EXT: BUSY STREET IN TOKYO – DAYTIME – June 2001
Same woman rushes through a crowd of Harajuku girls.
EXT: BUDDHIST TEMPLE GARDENS
Woman walks along a path with a wise elderly man.
MASTER:
Liu, something seems to be awakening inside your mind. Do you know what it is?
LIU HUI:
An equation, I’m searching for the answer to a mathematical problem.
MASTER:
Soon, the answer will bloom inside your mind like a flower, and make itself known to you.
INT: CAKE SHOP
Liu Hiu in a crowded bakery motions for a cake behind the glass. The clerk wraps the cake and puts it inside a box. As the cake box is handed back to Liu Hiu, one of the Japanese characters is traced over in gold (character meaning love). For Liu Hiu it solves the answer to the mathematical problem.
EXT: SUBWAY STATION
Liu Hiu stands with the cake box talking on her cell phone.
LIU HIU:
Yoshima? Hi. Yeah everything’s fine, it’s just that I had a moment of insight. Can you please pull up the formula, and go to Section 2, and write down this down. Yeah, I figured it out.
INT: BULLET TRAIN SPEEDING ACROSS THE JAPANESE COUNTRYSIDE
Liu Hiu sits with the cake box beside her.
LIU HIU – VOICEOVER
After the last World War, my father married a Chinese woman that claimed her ancestry from the great mathematician Liu Hiu. She was my Mother.
EXT: TOYOTA CORPORATE OFFICES
Liu Hiu walks across a courtyard with the cake in hand.
LIU HIU – VOICEOVER
Is it more than coincidence that my father became one of the top engineers for one of the largest car manufacturers in the world?
INT: OFFICE
Mr. Hiu sits at his desk working. The door opens and Liu Hiu walks inside with the cake smiling.
LIU HIU – VOICEOVER
And that I would be one of the top organic fuel engineers in the world?
Thank you,
Cyrus Emerson
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