Prelude to a Distant Future

Four dysfunctional 50-something women working for a U.S. government entity known only as The Agency are involuntarily recruited for a top secret Code-11. Their mission: assassinate four men who threaten to topple the American government and wipe out its existence by the year 2030. Yet, becoming assassins late in life is not their greatest challenge. Traveling back in time to Nazi Germany in order to complete the assignment will be. The women: Determined Gabrielle Cyntrell, explosives specialist. Attached to the Mickey Mouse watch her late husband Randy gave her before he passed, she defies orders and secretly carries it back to the past with her for safekeeping. Ironically, Gabrielle will end up losing the watch anyway when she’s forced to use it as a bomb timer/detonator to kill her Nazi target. That’s the day Mickey blew his top. Belligerent Carlotta Morgonelli, a former agent demoted to security guard because of excessive roughness, is a master at hand-to-hand combat – especially when wielding a knife. Twenty-five years ago, she witnessed her husband, young son, and daughter blow up in a Soviet car bomb meant for her. You might say, she’s got a dynamite chip on her shoulders. Emotionally damaged Rebecca Stanton, sexually abused as a child by her alcoholic father, is a creator of unique weaponry and an expert marksman upon becoming an adult. Unbeknownst to anyone, she first handled a gun at the tender age of 16, where she put a bullet in her abusive father’s head. Yes, that girl’s got real daddy issues. Jewish-born Corrine Eizenberg, MIT grad and scientist who can invent liquid/gas poisons from virtually nothing. During her twenties, the love of her life, 50-something Sebastian Ensley, a coworker with The Agency, disappears because of a Code-11. Twenty-five years later, she’s devoted herself to two life-long projects: her work with The Agency … and her virginity. She will eventually run into Sebastian in Nazi Germany, where they are now the same age – and horny as hell. African American, 50-something Junifer Morison, head of The Agency, hand-picked these four women for three reasons: 1) all are experts in their field, 2) all are Caucasian women in their fifties – therefore less likely to be suspected as assassins, and 3) all have no family, therefore expendable. The plan: Upon teleporting to 1942 Nazi-Germany, Gabrielle, Charly, Rebecca, and Corrine have a week to locate their targets and take them out using only what’s available to them in the past. If they survive the week, they must make it back to the time portal on the precise day and time it’s scheduled to open – or be stuck in the past forever. (Yet an even sinister fate awaits them if they succeed with the mission and somehow make it back to the present. The Agency’s higher-ups want to eliminate the women to keep the time portal a national secret.) For Gabrielle, bombing the facility where her target performs his experiments will ultimately alter her future because he’s the Nazi who experimented on her husband’s ancestor, which causes the males to die prematurely at a young age. Thanks to Mickey and the bomb, the Nazi is blown up before the experiment can happen. When she returns to the present, her husband Randy is alive. When Carlotta (Charly) goes back in time, she falls for their German ally, 20-something Nazi-resistor Hans Scholl (real-life person beheaded for protesting Hitler’s regime). Bedding him at night, she kills during the day, not only her assigned target, but a couple more Nazi pricks for good measure. In the end, Charly (despite her age) will return from the past, pregnant with Hans’ twins: a boy and a girl – replacing the two children she previously lost in the car bomb. Tragically, Rebecca is raped by her Nazi target, only to become mentally unhinged at the assault, believing the Nazi is in fact the father she murdered as a teen. Unfortunately, she accidentally shoots herself with a gun she has “tweaked” to kill Nazis; however, she’s able to complete her assassination mission before she dies. When Corrina runs into her long-lost beloved Sebastian, whom The Agency had transported to Nazi Germany twenty-five years prior, they are now the same age (50-something). Sebastian helps Corrine kill her Nazi target in an elaborate bait-and-switch scheme where they get him to consume wine laced with Corrine’s homemade poison. Afterwards, she and Sebastian decide to get married and choose to stay in the past to help Jews escape prison camps, forming their own Jewish underground railroad. In the present, Junifer uses her Agency skills to flush out the last of four present-day moles programmed to assassinate her and sabotage the government’s mainframe computer, therefore bringing on the collapse of the US economy. Unbeknownst to Junifer, this final mole has had reconstructive, gender-altering surgery to look like her admin assistant, Lorie. When both Lories show up at Junifer’s office dressed the same, acting the same, looking the same, she must use her wits to decipher the identity of the true Lorie – or be forced to kill them both. (Which she does figure out because Junifer is a badass broad.)