Agent B_ : No. [Subject begins knocking on the table in 
rhythm. Knocks spaced precisely one second from one 
another. Note that no time pieces are present in the 
room.] | counted. 


Dr. Schrader: Forgive me, but | have a hard time 
believing that. You’ve never lost count? Not even once? 


Agent B_ : [Subject stops knocking] | did say ‘give or 
take’, didn’t I? In my line of work... Look, this is exactly 
why | came back, okay? 


Dr. Schrader: Making dubious claims to your own ability 


to keep time doesn’t seem very— 


Agent B_ : Stop. Just stop. | Know you’re proud of your 
education and you’re probably a very smart lady. But 
listen to me: you are getting in the way of your own 
agenda. 


Dr. Schrader: How would you say we’re doing that? 


Agent B:Let’s say, hypothetically, the Foundation 
knew of an extranormal event which would happen 
exactly one month from now and would claim... | don’t 
know, let’s say a million lives. In your opinion, would it be 
our job to find out how to stop it and save those people? 


Dr. Schrader: Of course we would. Who else? 


Agent B_ : Right, and | agree. What | can’t figure is why 
that answer is so controversial when the event in 
question will have happened one month ago. 


Dr. Schrader: But if it's already happened, then we can’t 
do anything about it. We wouldn't be able to know about 
it unless we were already living out the consequences. 
Any other way to find out would be anomalous, which is 
against general protocol and the Foundation charter. 
Besides, there's no way of knowing that our efforts to 
stop it don't cause it in the first place, or that we're not 
being told about it by a hos— 


Agent B_ : Okay! okay... Then let me put it this way: 
Let's say, hypothetically, that | know there will be an 
extranormal event exactly thirty-one calendar days from 
[subject is silent for approximately 4 seconds] ...right 
now. That | know it will claim about one million human 
lives. That | know this because | came here from the 
future, where it will have happened already. And that | 
know the Foundation can stop this event if it wishes. So 
let me ask, just hypothetically. What are you going to do 
about it? 


Dr. Schrader: | wouldn't believe you: you're anomalous. 
There's no reason for me to think you're telling the truth 
and every reason to think you're lying to manipulate the 
Foundation. 


Agent B__ : Of course... Good thing, too. 
Dr. Schrader: Excuse me? 


Agent B_: That we're speaking hypothetically, because 
you still can't see how you're getting in your own way. | 
wouldn't worry about it though. Thankfully, it's not up to 
you. 


END OF LOG 


Following this interview AgentB was remanded to permanent 
containment to prevent possible contamination of other SCP objects. 
No extranormal events of the scale described were recorded in the 
90 days following this interview. 


Addendum 1780-4: Recovered Notes 


The following handwritten notes, believed to be authored by 
SCP-1780-2a, were recovered within SCP-1780-1. Attempts to use 
similar notes to communicate with SCP-1780-2a have been 
inconclusive. Items listed in order of recovery. 


140 @ 1300 on 20 / / in String 036. WILL overwrite 
001 through 198! 
LOOP THIS NOTE. 


You’re welcome, but that’s the last warning. 
False Flag! Disregard next note! 
False Alarm. Please disregard previous note. 


Unknown string sending hostiles; at least 2 of them 
@1953. 
Be ready. Loop Message. 


Alternate Foundation(s): 
Please stop taking my Welcome Letters. 
It is becoming increasingly difficult to approve them for 
printing. 
| have at least 20 people who still need to be reached. 


I'm sorry... You would have done the same. 


Agents and @2301, Debriefing. 
Who keeps using the doughnut?! 


Alternate Foundation(s): 
Filing paperwork for your camera equipment is wasting 
my time and your resources. 
You will not recover them, please stop trying. 


Footnotes 

1. Analysis of Office CB- has yielded no evidence of anomalous 
activity. The office may be safely inhabited. 

2. Each of these additional SCP-1780 instances were melted down 
at the conclusion of testing. None of the resultant slag showed 
anomalous properties. 

3. This applies even to those subjects with the background in 
particle physics and quantum chromodynamics presumed necessary 
to understand the mechanisms and equations involved. 

4. Discovered 1989, found to be a Beretta Px4 Storm during 
administrative review in 2006. 

5. Discovered 1993, found to be the remains of Agents and 
after their disappearance following encounter with SCP-1780-2a in 
2006. Remains removed from anomalous biological cold storage 
and buried. Agents and were posthumously awarded the 
Silver Star for meritorious service to the Foundation. 


« SCP-1779 | SCP-1780 | SCP-1781 » 


Document 1780-WL 


Foreword: This document has been transcribed from the 
non-anomalous portion of SCP-1780-3, first recovered 
from SCP-1780-1 on 08/06/1993. Analysis of the paper, 
letterhead, type face, and radio-isotope watermarking 
remains inconclusive. It is the opinion of the SCP-1780 
research team that the article is either genuinely 
produced by some alternate version of the Foundation or 
a forgery requiring a 2 level security breach to duplicate. 
Investigation into both leading hypotheses is ongoing. 


All Level 4 staff are advised to report mentions of the 
name Thaddeus or 'Thad' Xyank among lower security 
personnel to the HMCL Supervisor of SCP-1780 
(Currently Dr. lliza Schrader) as soon as possible, as this 
may indicate infiltration of SCP-1780-2a. 


Welcome to RCT-At 


A Brief Overview by Dr. Thaddeus Xyank 


Thank you for your interest in Temporal Anomalies, and good luck to 
you that you’ve managed to receive a copy of this letter. It is my 
understanding that of the plurality of timelines in which the 
Foundation or an analogous organization has come to pass, only 
about a dozen of these includes a department specifically for the 
handling of temporal anomalies, and only three known timelines 
have authorized the targeted application of temporal displacement 
as a containment strategy. My sincerest congratulations to you for 
seeing the value in this assignment, especially with the 
understanding that possession of this letter is grounds for 
termination or indefinite confinement in 9/10 destination causalities. 


You have undertaken a grave risk by accepting this appointment. 
Thank you for that. 


So let’s start with the basic premise that everything you know about 
temporal dynamics is fundamentally flawed. Despite what even | 
might tell you, Paradoxes Do Exist. Loosely defined, a temporal 
paradox is any situation arising from an interruption in an ordered 
sequence of events which requires that two contradictory outcomes 
be held as true by the universe simultaneously. Up until the time of 
this writing, it was believed by most researchers that such an event 
would necessarily require the destruction of one or both timelines, 
the planet Earth, our local Light-Cone, or... well, you get the idea. 
XK-Class ‘or bust’, as it were. The truth, thankfully, is very much 
more subtle than that. 


Rather than creating an entirely new universe (these may or may not 
suffer from the same loss of temporal fidelity as our own), paradoxes 
split causality into several distinct ‘oranches’. Of course, this is a 
gross oversimplification, due to the chaotic nature of time in the first 
place. Suffice it to say, we’re closer to a ‘Copenhagen’ universe than 
a ‘Many Worlds’ universe. | am both writing this letter and not writing 
this letter. You are both reading it and not reading it. The two 
sequences of events take up precisely the same space, and no 
additional spaces. What they do take up, however, is different 
‘frames’ of time, and these separate but simultaneous ‘bulk’ 
causalities are maintained by the ‘brain’ causality of their collective 
inhabitants. 


Time is not only a physical phenomenon but a mental one as well. 
Minds create and maintain a low-power tachyon flux as a byproduct 
of sensory perception. In order to act meaningfully in the present 
with the information available from the senses streaming in 
continuously from the past, the mind must be able to base its 
reactions on several possible futures. This structure forms the 
fundamental self-referential loop at the heart of cognition, and as a 
result, not only do ‘bulk’ causalities form due to billions of minds 
interacting in concert, but each of these minds creates an 
independent ‘brain’ causality in which its body’s state is defined. 
This is the mechanism by which a man can travel through the past 
and kill his own grandfather, without breaking the universe; the man 


carries his own ‘temporal sink’ with him, and validates his own 
existence. 


This department can exist, and navigation between various ‘bulk’ 
causalities remains possible because of this temporal sink. Each 
person carries their own history with them, and that personal history 
also represents a navigable causality. 


What then, is the mission of Research and Containment Team At (or 
‘delta-tee’ for short)? There are several, which include need of 
Research Doctors and assistants, trained Agents, Mobile Task 
Force members, and Containment Security specialists. 


1. Where possible: the elimination of tangential, secant, looping, 
parallel, and perpendicular causalities by forcing a reset of 
their initiating condition. 

2. Assuring that certain events responsible for our own existence 
and the existence of the Foundation as a whole come to pass 
as recorded. 

3. Requisition of a temporally isolated base of operations to 
serve as a staging-area to combat retrocausal threats and 
maintain a consistent history of human civilization. (Approved 
sources currently under advisement; more to come later.) 

4. Discerning outcomes for the temporal isolation of Keter-level 
threats. (e.g. can we send the Keter Cakes to reproduce 
forever during the heat-death of the universe, and will it 
prevent/cause another ‘big-bang’ event?) 

5. Extensive recovery efforts for lost and stolen SCP objects. 

6. Negation of the need to protect the timeline at all. (Long term 
goal, currently under debate.) 


Whichever of these missions you deign to attempt will require 
advanced understanding of several temporal anomalies, their 
boundary conditions, and their use as agents for temporal 
displacement. Certain missions may also require knowledge of 
cultural development and linguistics, as well as a few theories of 
predictive history. If you require access to materials in these fields, 
or require time to study prior to your first deployment, 
accommodations can be made. 


If the above explanation seems to you confusing, counter intuitive, 


or impossible in some way, then good. Realizing the 
incomprehensibility and inconsistency of temporal anomalies is the 
first step to understanding their use. Please see the back of this 
document for more information regarding temporal displacement 
and a test exercise to get you started. Remember: you are 
embarking on a journey upon which mankind was, arguably, never 
meant to embark. But we will have started now, and in order to 
mitigate the damage which has already been done to every history 
in our universe, the only way is forward. 


We must Secure the past. We can Contain the present. We will 
Protect the future. 


Thank you again, and good luck. By whatever gods still live, you'll 
need it. 


Signed, 


Dr. Thaddeus Xyank 
Chairperson of the Temporal Anomalies Department 


SCP-1781: Moonlight Theater Presents: Hugo 
Weaving 


Item #: SCP-1781 
Object Class: Safe 


Special Containment Procedures: The roadway leading to 

SCP-1781 has been blocked off near State Road _ . A perimeter 

fence has been constructed around SCP-1781, and is to be 

patrolled nightly. Any individuals who breach the fence are to be 

contained, administered a Class A amnestic, and turned over to the 
Police Department. 


Description: SCP-1781 is a drive-in movie theater located south of 

, Indiana, along State Road _ . The theater consists of a dirt 
parking lot, a concrete projector booth, a large screen, and a sign 
near the entrance labeled "Moonlight Theater". During daylight 
hours, SCP-1781 exhibits no anomalous properties. The projector 
booth can be entered, and contains a standard movie projector! 
used in similar theaters. 


Every other night at dusk, SCP-1781 will activate. The door to the 
projector booth will close if it is open and the parking lot lights will 
dim if they are lit. The projector within the booth will then begin 
playing a random film. Thus far, there appears to be no restrictions 
on the genre or length of film shown. During this time, the projector 
booth door and window cannot be opened. The selected film will run 
for its duration, and upon ending SCP-1781 will deactivate, causing 
previously dimmed lights to return to full luminescence and the 
projector booth to become accessible once again. Individuals within 
the projection booth when SCP-1781 activates seem to experience 
no passage of time during the film. 


While the type of film shown can vary wildly, the single constant 
throughout all observed showings is the presence of Australian/ 
British film actor Hugo Weaving in some role previously filled by 


another actor, actress, or prop. Often these inclusions are 
immediately recognizable, while in others the role may be very 
small2. 


Notably, it has been verified that none of the films shown have ever 
cast Hugo Weaving in the roles he assumes during screenings of 
SCP-1781. Additionally, when he replaces a major character, or his 
presence is otherwise obvious, no characters in the film will take 
notice of him, regardless of the capacity he is in. His inclusion may, 
however, cause discrepancies in the film from the original version. 


Documents 1781-1 & 1781-2: Two notes can be found pinned to a 
small bulletin board within the projection booth. If removed, they will 
reappear the next time the booth becomes accessible after a 
screening. The notes read as follows: 


| don't know what it is, and | don't care. | ran the 
numbers, and we get at least a 15% attendance boost 
whenever we show movies with this guy in it. Not only 
that, popcorn sales increase, on average, 22%! We've 
got to find a way to get him in every single goddamn film, 
| swear. Somebody needs to call one of those film 
students in Hollywood and get them on this. 


-John 
John, 


Aldon got your letter. We can definitely work with that. 
Can't wait to get started. You'll know when we're done. 


A&F 


Observation Logs: The following are records of observed 
screenings of SCP-1781. Personnel assigned to SCP-1781 are 
reminded to list the date, film title, role taken by Hugo Weaving, and 
any variations from the original production, if applicable. 


Observation Log: 07/08/14 
Film Title: Bruce Almighty (2003) 


Role Taken: God, previously assumed by Morgan 
Freeman. 


Variations: No major variation apart from the role 
change. 


Observation Log: 07/10/14 
Film Title: X-Men (2000) 
Role Taken: Professor X's wheelchair. 


Variations: Hugo Weaving, wearing a silver jumpsuit 
inscribed with a large "X", carries Patrick Stewart on his 
back as he crawls from place to place. During transit, 
Hugo Weaving is noticed making a soft "whirring" sound. 
Notably, scenes containing significant movement on the 
part of Patrick Stewart's character take considerably 
longer to play out. 


Observation Log: 07/12/14 
Film Title: Hercules (1997) 
Role Taken: The Hydra