h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

...when you combine some old short-story ideas with a Victorian scientist locked in the basement of a mental-hospital, a man troubled by a recurring dream about an 18th-century "highwayman" figure sillhoueted against the moon, a retired policeman and committed christian taking his life in an unexpected direction and some silver metal "eggs" that make the whole thing come together?

You get "Green Fields", an idea that has been germinating in my head since that blasted depression lifted and that I am preparing to hone into a screenplay, possibly for TV. You have been warned.