Jake is hired by the Stuntperson Group of Newfoundland and Labrador (SGNL) to investigate the fledgling film industry's sketchy health and safety record. Jake decides to go undercover as a stuntman named Gordie Galway, and gets a job on the set of a historical film adaptation of the battle of the Plains of Abraham.
The movie (The Wolfe Pack, starring Tom Cruise as General Wolfe, and Mickey Rourke as the pastry-loving Marquis) takes a number of historical liberties. First, Jake has to be a stunt double for Cruise in a scene where he uses a jet ski and explosives to scale a cliff. In the battle scene, Jake is loaded into a grapeshot cannon, and fired at the French soldiers at a speed of 88 MPH.
Unfortunately, he hits a power line the film makers hadn't accounted for, and Jake is sent back in time and into the midst of the real battle. Jake is concerned that since he didn't take his own time machine, he's not sure how to get back, and that it will be difficult to investigate stunt person safety issues from here, but is distracted by opportunity to find some French girls and try out his French pickup lines.
Will Jake make it back to the present? What implications will his part in the battle have on history? The show is only funded well-enough to answer one of these questions.
4 comments:
Is this being guest-directed by Michael Bay?
That's who I had in mind for the movie, but I just left it implied. The episode of RoD I'm sure couldn't afford him. Nothing about this episode would get through the budget committee.
The Wolfe Pack is an amazing title.
Michael Bay movie pitches would be a whole other blog, but it was tempting to add in more cheesy details about the movie. This may need a follow up RoD episode.
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