Prologue to The strange visitor Based on anastasia by 20th century fox All characters are theirs except those that are made up This takes place in 1916 years before the main story Night has fallen at the palace as the Romanovs sleep the Revolution begins outside the gates The gates are forced open , a mob pours in In the palace people run everywhere Anastasia turns back towards her room Marie " Anastasia wait " Anastasia " my music box" They run into the room and are hurried into the servants tunnels by a boy As the others flee down the hall they get trapped Nicholas " too many rebels were trapped" Soldier "kill'em all" just them he is knocked out by a beam of light Cmdr Higgins "back off , there will be no bloodshed tonight" He uses weapons never seen before ,guns with four barrels on them that shoot light beams He stops "your Highness its time to leave " Alexander "wait Anastasia and Marie are missing " Higgins throws a weapon at Nicholas " here hold the revolutionaries off were I go look for them , just point and shoot , it stuns them ,they will awaken later" he runs into the halls Higgins searches rooms left and right , he fights off scores of people , finally he enters a room where Two guards and harassing a boy Guard "where did they go ? " Dimitri " I don't know " Guard "liar " Cmdr higgins stuns both of them " take that monsters" he walks over to Dimitri " where is Anastasia and Marie ?" Dimtri "they have escaped through the servants tunnels " Higgins "no time to go after them " He returns to the others " they escaped out the tunnels , we have to leave now " Nicholas " we must find Anastasia " Higgins "there is no time , the palace is burning , and the rebels are everywhere come on " they leave reluctantly ,fighting rebels along the way , they exit through the garden "this way into woods "Higgins called . They reach a ship parked in the woods "get aboard , hurry " Higgins ordered the Romanovs raced aboard "what is this thing " Nicholas asked " it's a spacecraft , were leaving the surface " Higgins answers "strap yourselves in , were taking off " he pushes buttons and grabs a control stick , the ship rises into the air and passes over the palace and the train station. Higgins looks down "madness down there " he doesn't see the girl lying on the tracks as the fly away "if those idiots knew what I know ,they wouldn't be revolting " he grumbled "are you going to do anything about Anastasia " Nicholas asked "yes we will keep looking for her after we are safe " Higgins answered. They away towards the station orbiting far above ,Alexander "it looks like an arrow pointing up" Brad answers "the thing at the bottom is what allows me to travel in time , they dock and enter the station ,unaware of what has happened to Anastasia and Marie ,they hope to find them someday Anastasia and Marie never saw the spaceship take off and fly overhead , they don't know the family is safe And Anastasia cannot remember who she is.