- The mayor's office is remaining silent on the matter,
Only to say that the truck was found abandoned in midtown
And that the bomb squad has been deployed.
- Look at this.
Mercury level triggers.
Can't even move this damn thing.
his name is rourke.
He's an american. - Yeah!
- He's a scientist of some distinction-
- What do we know?
- The suspect's benjamin rourke, an american-born physicist.
- And he wasn't on a watch list somewhere?
How did we not see this coming?
- It's not that simple, roy.
- Must be something out of a training camp-
- This is the report. - This guy is salt of the earth.
His father served in the state department 48 years.
This is rourke in 1989.
- Is that a- - nobel prize.
We'd be on that watch list before he would.
- How wide is our potential damage?
- Based on what our people know, mr. President,
They're saying that a detonation...
Would be total.
9 million at least, plus the fallout.
♪
- What are they doing? Huh?
Beating this guy is giving us nothing.
- He was wearing a wedding ring.
- What?
- Sir, you gotta let me talk to him.
- We've already been over this. Cocktail's coming in.
- If you do that, this guy's mind is just gonna disappear.
- It is not up to me. Order came down.
- Look, this guy turned himself in.
He has a reason for that. Let me talk to him.
- Knox, we are out of time.
- Talk to me, man.
Whatever you're thinking about, let's just talk it out.
Are you listening to me?
Knox-
Knox.
- What the hell is he doing?
Knox!
Open the door!
- I think we need to talk.
- What the hell's taking them so long?
We should have had that damn code by now.
Easy. Easy.
open this door!
- What are you finding there, mister...
Mr. Knox?
- Honestly, rourke, you're not a terrorist.
You came in here with no intention
Of giving us that code.
I see a man with an idea in his mind,
And he won't let go.
But mostly, I see a man
Who's still wearing his wedding ring
37 years after the death of his wife.
So maybe we should talk about her.
hmm.
She's so beautiful.
She doesn't aged, does she?
Time cannot change her.
- What is this... In your mind?
Is this about a guy who believes
That blowing up new york will somehow
Bring his dead wife back?
- Do you have anyone there, mr. Knox?
A wife of your own, perhaps?
- Jess, is that you? - Hi, danny.
Sorry, I was calling sean back.
- Sean is interrogating a suspect right now.
He wanted me to answer. Where are you right now?
- Uh, still in new york. I just left a deposition.
Why?
- Listen, um...
Something's happened.
You gotta get out of the city right now.
- Danny, what's going on?
- Go! Don't ask, jess. Go.
- Danny, I need to know.
- There is a nuclear threat in manhattan, jess,
And it's real.
- How long?
- You only have a few minutes.
- Knox!
Open this door!
- In your journals, you talk about
A life-creating act of destruction.
- Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
That's picasso, actually. I can't claim credit.
- Listen, rourke.
If there's something we need to know,
Then you need to talk- now.
Why is sylvia important?
How will doing this bring her back?
- I'm not going, danny.
- No, jess! - Danny, don't-
- Get sean on the phone right now.
- Don't, please. There's not enough time
And there's no point, okay?
If he's doing what I think he's doing, he has to focus.
Don't.
- Look, it doesn't matter what happened between you two,
But, uh...
It never changed how he feels.
- Promise you'll look after him.
- You know, I was beginning to despair.
Before you walked in that door,
No one was listening to me.
- Rourke, help me understand.
- Well, you do hear me, don't you, mr. Knox?
You understand why I've come.
- No, I don't understand!
Tell me what I need to know.
- Knox, it's not me who's gonna bring my wife back.
It's you.
- Get in there! - Wait!
- Get him the hell out of here.
- You're the only one who can save her,
But it can't happen here.
- Wait! He's trying to tell me something!
no!
- Cutters.
♪
- I'm sorry, mr. President.
♪
Who's going to bring my wife back.
it's you.
- At ease.
Hi, sean.
- General.
- I guess I don't have to ask how you've been.
- Never better.
- I heard you'd been requisitioning
Rourke's notebooks.
- A little light reading.
- You find anything?
Sean, I know everyone doesn't hold this opinion,
But I don't believe that this was your fault.
- 9 million people, general.
- I know.
- You know, she wasn't... Supposed to be there.
She gave me one more chance
With that libya thing last year...
Said if I signed up for another mission,
She was gone.
I didn't believe her.
- The grand jury's handing down its verdict next week.
They won't go easy on you. - Well...
When they make up their minds, they know where to find me.
I just-I went in there thinking that I had-
I had some kind of answers!
I spent weeks poring through this,
Every-every thought, every-
Every little bit of information.
There's nothing here.
He was insane.
- What if he wasn't?
What if benjamin rourke had some purpose
When he turned himself in that day
And you were the only one who saw it?
- General, why do I get the feeling
You didn't come here just to ease my conscience?
- I want to bring you in on something.
This is an approval for a 48-hour furlough.
Top secret-you'll be under my personal supervision.
- You gotta be kidding me.
- The president has authorized me
To pull together a measure of recourse.
- Re-recourse?
What-what recourse, general?
You think-you think anything we do right now
Is gonna make this better?
Things don't get better now, general.
I took a chance.
I blew it.
I can't get her back.
And no matter what that grand jury says,
It's not gonna be worse than knowing that.
- Look...
We've known each other too long to waste time like this.
Here's how this is going to work.
Tomorrow, one of my men will be here
To take you to an undisclosed location.
It's very simple. You have a choice.
You stay here, keep feeling sorry for yourself,
And nothing changes.
Or you go with them, clean yourself up,
Get your act together, and be a part of this operation.
You haven't even told me..
What the operation is, general.
- It's a second chance, sean...
An opportunity to make things right.
♪
- You have clearance to tell me why we're here yet?
- Danny, I'm in the dark just as much as you are.
But we're about to find out.
- Sean, it's good to see you.
- You remember my partner, danny gates.
- Of course.
I'm really glad you're both able to be here.
Welcome aboard, knox.
I'm pleased you decided to come along on this mission.
- You look like you've been keeping busy down here.
- Yeah, looks like the bat cave.
- You want to tell me what this is about, sir?
- It's probably best if I show you.
Come on.
- Please don't step any closer.
That line is there for a reason.
- Dr. Bryce, I'd like you to meet sean knox
And daniel gates.
I'm assigning them to work on your team.
Knox was one of my most trusted field operatives.
- Yes, well, I'm sure they're both highly qualified.
- Let's not start this again, shall we?
- General, I don't mean any offense,
But soldiers who specialize in high-stress situations-
There have actually been studies that show
They demonstrate very little brain activity.
- I don't see how that's exactly pertinent.
- They're not qualified for this mission.
- She's talking about reduced neural flow.
It's an adrenaline thing.
Has the effect of slowing down mental acuity.
Fewer decisions decreases the likelihood
Of cognitive paralysis.
Not that I really read the studies.
Somebody want to tell me what this is?
- We're standing in the core
Of the most powerful particle collider ever built.
Most colliders cap out at 27%. It's a stability concern.
We found a way to push through that.
Earlier this year, our system went online
At 82% capacity...
At which point, this window appeared.
- So it's, what, some kind of hologram?
A video projection of a grassy field?
- No, it's a little more complicated than that.
The window is a rupture in the wave function
Of the universe.
It's unstable, prone to changing suddenly
And in irregular fashion.
Every time a new window opens up,
We send a probe inside to look around.
Here's what we got from the current location.
- Wait. That's a morris eight series.
They made those back in...
- 1934. - Exactly.
This is a field in gloucester, England,
On July 22, 1934.
We caught the exact date off a radio broadcast.
- Time travel.
That's what you built here.
- That's right, sean.
- And this is the mission, isn't it?
You want us to save new york.
We want you to conduct a clandestine op,
Subtly adjusting the past in order to alter the present.
This is your target: Dr. Benjamin rourke.
I'm sure you're very familiar with him.
Your goal will be to prevent him
From destroying new york.
- So this is everywhere this thing's been.
- Yes, every time and place
Since it appeared six months ago.
- "2 hours, central china, 1748?
28 hours in madrid, 1897."
What predicts where this thing goes?
- We don't know.
This is natural radiation.
It's in a free flow between the past and the present.
When it builds up,
The window destabilizes and bounces.
At this point, we can't tell it where to go,
And we can only estimate how long it stays open.
- What about side effects...
Physical, psychological?
- We don't know. - I'm sorry, doctor.
So what about this do you know right now?
- Very little.
Which is exactly what I've been telling the general.
Is at least three years away from operational readiness.
We have no idea
What the possible consequences might be.
- Doctor, I understand,
But maybe you haven't turned on the news lately.
We don't have a choice anymore.
The loss of new york has thrown the world economies
Into a freefall, and a military conflict
Isn't far behind.
- The world's coming to an end
Unless we do something about it.
- This is john malcolm. He'll be your pentagon liaison.
Now, knox and gates will run a two-man op on the inside.
- I'm sorry-what? No!
General, you need me in that window.
- No. We're not going there, bryce.
This is a one-time military op.
These men have worked all over the world.
When I was joint special ops command, they were my very best.
- They don't know the first thing about this.
- General, she's right.
Just being honest.
Danny and I are a little out of our range here.
- General, I don't think that involving a civilian
In a field op is a particularly good idea here.
- I do. - Are we gonna vote on this?
preferably not.
But I guess that's up to the general.
- All right, lindsay, congratulations.
You just bought yourself a ticket inside.
- I guess I should thank you.
Now, if you'll excuse me, general, I have work to do.
- She's really great, by the way.
- Dr. Bryce, you do realize
I just did you a favor back there.
- I'm sorry, what would you like, a thank you?
- Yeah, yeah. Yeah, maybe.
- Mr. Knox, I didn't need your help.
Please don't assume that your presence here
Was helping anything.
What you did was make me a tourist
On a mission that none of us are prepared for.
- I made you my advisor. - So you'd listen to my advice?
- Wh-when I need to.
♪
- Doctor. - Good afternoon.
- New head of operations, I'm guessing.
- Not my first choice. - I wasn't assuming.
- Ellis. - Sean knox.
- How's our extraction model looking, ellis?
- A little hazy.
I'm still thinking the auxiliary blast is our best option.
We'll lose the window for a few seconds,
But we'll still be able to bring a person back through.
- Alive?
- Now, that's a good question.
- Keep me posted.
Still not finished?
- So let me get this straight.
You've never actually sent a living thing
Back into the past
And successfully brought it back.
- We sent a cat once.
- Yeah? What happened?
- I'll let you know when we find it.
- Oh, hey, nasa is killing me.
- Calm down, charlie. - No, you don't understand.
It is physically painful to see what he's done there.
He randomly moved something around,
Probably while scatting or something,
- Okay, I'll speak with ellis, but get your software installed.
By the time the next window shows up.
- Yeah, and I need a couple months.
- Which we don't have anymore. - That's not funny.
- This rack is prussia, not russia.
There's a difference.
Put it in 1870.
- Priya, is this everything from the smithsonian?
- The rest is in storage.
It's not exactly all that we'd hoped for.
- I told them I needed every artifact
Those trucks could hold.
Will you show me the order?
- Priya bristow's our specialist on historical detail-
Mannerisms, taboos-
Details that history books don't tend to record.
- So...
This is, uh...
- Refuse.
From a roman aqueduct.
That sample comes from pompeii
And it cost $90,000, so please be careful.
- I'm sor-I'm sorry, you're collecting-
- Garbage.
From a.D. 79.
History books only give us the information
That people want to remember,
But garbage shows us the past as it actually was.
- Don't get too subtle with him, priya.
They don't like subtlety.
- Dr. Bryce, hold on a second.
- Look, mr. Knox, I don't expect you
To understand what we do here,
But I do ask that you stay out of my way.
- Doc, you don't exactly have a lot of friends, do you?
Look, I understand that you're worried about
The readiness of this mission,
But that's not your decision to make-it's theirs.
You probably sold out to the pentagon
Because everybody else thought you were some kind of crackpot.
Am I right? - Yes. Thank you, mr. Knox.
I wasn't quite aware of the politics of this situation.
I'm really glad you cleared that up.
- Bryce, let's just get this out of the way.
What is your problem?
- My problem is that none of you
Have any idea what we're getting into.
This window is not just some weapon
Of blunt force, all right?
Everything in the past is connected-
Every moment, every event.
It all adds up to this reality that we call the present.
Can we use this window to alter history?
Absolutely.
But we're manipulating nature in its most fragile state.
- And saving 9 million lives.
- If we get it right.
Come on, we've got to go.
- Hey, what's going on? - The window's changing.
We gotta hurry.
- Well, doctor...
It appears you've got a new window.
- We've got work to do.
- What is that? - Camera.
This one's name is miles,
But down here I got coltrane, roach, krupa,
And the one on the end is mr. Chet baker.
- Godspeed, my little friend.
Come on, danny.
Now the fun begins.
Okay, miles, show us the magic.
- Asbestos piping.
We're pre-1978.
- What, exactly, are we looking for here?
- Clues. Anything we can use to narrow in
On a time and place.
- 200 bucks says it's the 1950s.
- When have you ever been right, charlie?
- I was right about the civil war.
- It was the spanish civil war.
- Still a civil war. - Look, I'm trying to get this.
Uh, looking at the clothing, we're prewar.
Jazz age.
- Okay, miles, we're going out the door.
- Oh, it's definitely not the depression,
Judging by the cars.
We're in the 1920s.
- Can we just please find a newspaper?
- Give me a chance!
There. That's it.
That's the washington monument. We're in d.C.!
it's the national mall
On the mcmillan plan,
Because the jefferson memorial hasn't gone up yet.
- What did she just say?
- It's the national mall on the mcmillan plan
Because the jefferson memorial hasn't gone up yet.
- We're at prewar memorial,
So is it coolidge or is it hoover?
- Hold on. I got a guy with a newspaper.
Come on, miles.
There you go. Got it.
- "March 8, 1929."
- Oh! I knew it was hoover!
You know he was the last president
To be sworn in while it rained?
- Is she always like this? - Yeah, it gets exhausting.
- All right, ellis, say good-bye to miles.
200,000 tax dollars, bye-bye.
Adios.
- So we know it's america. Last 80 years.
Geographically very close to new york.
Yes, that's pretty lucky.
This is the first window we've had in the modern u.S.
Ellis, what's our red zone?
- Radiation's at 20% stabilization.
The window will close in about...
17 hours.
- We can work with that.
- All right, I'll leave you to it.
Keep me informed. - Yes, sir.
- You know what? I don't know about this.
This is the 1920s.
Rourke won't even be born for another 15 years.
- We can ensure he'll never be born.
His father-he was a professor at new york university in 1929.
If we find him, we can take him out, right?
Before rourke is even conceived.
- So you think we can just kill this man
And solve the problem. - Yeah.
- I want to show our friends something.
- It's still on the fritz.
I don't know if that's a good idea.
And there she goes.
Oh-I got it. Let's just hope nasa
Finally got the servers upgraded like I asked.
It studies ripples,
Amasses data from weather satellites,
Radio signals, the internet.
- Which, in english, means...
- That was english. - Basically,
Charlie can show us how actions in the past
Create ripples in the present.
We've developed a special analytical-
- I developed the analytical program.
Thank you. - Charlie developed the program.
- No need to be humble here. - Okay, let's run a scenario.
Bring up a city that's been thriving in the last 50 years.
- How 'bout tokyo? - Perfect.
Mr. Malcolm, I assume you know how tokyo looks in present day?
Charlie's gonna show you a version of tokyo
If benjamin rourke were never born.
- Wow.
- Rourke was a nobel prize- winning physicist.
Played a major part in fostering the modern age.
Which means if you take him out of the equation,
All of that is erased.
No sony, no toyota.
- More world hunger, disease.
Millions of lives irreversibly damaged
Without anyone ever having a say.
- So this thing can test the effect
Of any changes we make in the past.
- Within a pretty damn high rate of probability, yeah.
- I'm sorry, doctor, but at what point
Was this a mission to save tokyo?
- Our mission is to restore everything
To the way it was.
Don't you understand?
All of these events are tied together.
You don't have the right to change 20 million lives.
- Are they any better ideas? - Maybe we can just
Go into the past and send a message forward,
Like warn that new york is gonna happen?
- Charlie, we've already discussed this, it's too risky.
We can't just assume that people would believe us.
- She's so beautiful.
- Show me present day new york if rourke's wife is still alive.
Born sylvia hammond, 1945.
She met rourke at m.I.T. In 1964.
In 1975, she was killed by a mugger in georgetown.
- Yeah, yeah. I already have all that.
Uh, so this...
Is present-day new york.
And this is present day...
If rourke's wife were still alive.
- It worked.
- Yeah.
High probability that if rourke's wife wasn't killed,
We save new york.
- Mr. Knox, how did you know that?
- Rourke told me.
He said I was gonna bring back his wife.
We need to know everything about how she died.
The key is, we can't have any other ripples.
We only impact what we need to impact,
So let's figure this out.
- Dr. Bryce said you were working on
Some sort of a comm system,
A way to talk between the past and the present?
- Mm-hmm.
- Is that it? - Mm-hmm.
This sends a high-band frequency through the medium-
Polycarbon with a degrading half-life.
- How, exactly, does that work?
- Well, nothing we send into the past
Can be left behind.
It creates bad ripples.
- And we don't like bad ripples.
- No, we don't like bad ripples.
Let's say one of you guys forgets a precious
And very expensive piece of my technology.
With my remote, I can just...
Wow.
You came up with all this?
- I did.
So you used to work at nasa. - Uh-huh.
- So what brings you here, man?
I mean, this must seem kind of like a step back
- You know, I asked dr. Bryce that very same question
When she first came to me.
I said, "we've been to outer space
"and we've been to the bottom of the sea.
Where else is left for man to go?"
You know what she said to me?
- What's that?
backwards.
- Leaving already?
- The president wants me back in washington.
You know, real world problems.
- Rourke knew about this program, didn't he?
- May we have a minute?
- Rourke had no reason to do what he did
Unless he knew this program existed.
Look, rourke was one of the finest minds
This country has ever produced.
Is it possible through the process
Of vetting bryce's numbers
That something could have crossed his desk?
Absolutely.
I've thought about it too. It's a concern.
But sean, do you know why I brought you in?
You've got a lot of enemies
Where that interrogation is concerned.
If it wasn't for you.
But I watched that tape,
And I happen to think you were right.
Rourke was never gonna give up that code.
All he wanted was to be heard.
And that's how you're gonna turn this around.
So this is probably the last I'll remember.
Bryce says there's a distortion field coming from the window
That protects this place from changes in time.
- So if we're successful- - you'll be the only ones
Who know the present was ever different.
Probably better that way.
What's to remember, right?
Good luck, knox.
If we ever see each other again,
Give me a wink or something,
Even if I don't know what it means.
- Certain, or 88% certain? - Certain.
- Then we're good to go.
Oh, good.
- Okay. Tell me what you got.
- Guys, take 'em through sylvia rourke.
- Right, so in June, 1969,
Benjamin rourke marries sylvia.
- Daughter of a florida senator.
Happily married for six years.
Then we come to 1975, when sylvia is shot and killed
In a mugging gone wrong.
Based on rourke's journals,
It's the beginning of his decent into madness.
- Which is the inflection point we're trying to change.
- Our goal is to reroute history around her death
Without changing anything else.
- Which is a bitch, 'cause we're not in 1975.
- We were considering letting this window go
Until we found this.
Mary, bring up the mug shot.
This is ronald marsden,
The man who murdered rourke's wife.
He was a vagrant,
Drifted through halfway houses most of his life.
He was 65 when he killed her,
And when he was arrested,
He confessed to a string of robberies
Going all the way back to the 1920s.
- Which gives us exactly where he's going to be tonight.
Or, rather, I should say, six hours from now
At 9:07 p.M., on March 8, 1929.
- He's robbing a jewelry store in beacon county.
- Tonight?
- Yeah, he was standing lookout.
Cops arrive eight minutes after his buddies break in,
Shots fired, two guys get killed.
- So we're assuming marsden got away.
- Mm-hmm, 'cause we don't have his whereabouts
Once the police arrive.
- That means you need to get there
Before the police arrive.
- Beacon's only 40 miles away from the mall.
Plenty of time to lift a car, get there, do what we gotta do.
- Here's a better photo, an earlier mug shot.
- And here's the best part.
Marsden's got a low impact index.
Means based on what we know,
There's only, like, a 17% probability
That killing him in 1929
Will have any unwanted side effects.
- So we kill this man,
Save rourke's wife, bring back new york?
- Exactly.
You comfortable with that?
- It saves 9 million lives.
- All right.
Then we're a go.
- If a situation is messed up,
You don't say it's messed up.
You say it's off its nuts.
If you see a drunk, he's not a drunk.
He's got an edge.
Your girlfriend is a sheba. Your boyfriend is a sheik-
- Hey, hey, hey.
How 'bout we just don't talk to anybody in the past?
- That's probably a better idea.
- Yes, definitely.
- This is from 1934, but I cut out the label.
- Yeah, I'm not really a tie guy.
- The tie's nonnegotiable.
Now, I need to make sure you're not carrying...
- Why do you get the cool leather jacket?
- Any electronics, plastics...
- Oh, yeah, you're hilarious. - Excuse me.
- Actually, it's very itchy. - Hey!
You're not listening.
You're about to enter a world where customs and expectations
Are completely different.
So I need you to pay attention,
Or your modern prejudices will get you killed.
- Priya, will you show me
Those early four-stroke engine schematics again?
- Sure. I'll walk you through them.
Wow.
You look beautiful.
- The doctor really cleans up. - Thanks.
- Priya, the schematics.
- He's a real piece of work. - Yeah, he's a sweetie.
Hey, doc.
I need you to know this mission has really been weighing on him.
He's got a lot on his mind.
- You mean because his wife was in new york.
I read the dossier, mr. Gates.
- No, it's not just that.
She left him about a year ago.
He'd been promising her he wasn't gonna re-up,
Said he was gonna take an analyst job stateside.
But next thing you know...
A couple of radicals blew up a gas pipeline in libya.
I told him not to go, but...
By the time we got back,
She'd already taken a job in new york.
- He blames himself.
- No, you're gonna listen to grandma, okay?
You can pick out your pajamas and then watch a movie.
I'll be back first thing in the morning.
I promise.
I love you, moll.
Okay, so that was a ford... - Hey, ellis.
- And this is a buick. - I need you to clear me
Some space here, man.
Hey, jazzman!
- Hey, I never send a rocket up
Without a good cup of coffee, charlie.
- What? - I appreciate that your brain
Works at incredible speed, but mine requires coffee.
- Okay, I think we're ready to go.
Ellis, I need a last-minute reading on the radiation levels.
- You got it, doc.
- I have a question for you, doctor.
- Yep?
- What happens if you don't make it back?
Your protocol draws reference to a zero-footprint policy...
How, under no circumstance, should you do, say,
Or leave anything behind
That could substantially impact the past.
- That's right.
- So if you are left behind, what would you do?
- In that situation,
It's always been the plan to remove ourselves
From the timeline.
- Define "remove ourselves."
- We can't remain alive in the past
If it risks damaging the continuum.
This is pancuronium.
It's quick and painless.
Priya, everything in this purse has been checked, right?
Year of currency, lipstick. - Lipstick's good to go.
- Okay, thank you. - Mr. Knox.
The tie.
Testing, testing.
Good luck.
Knox.
Testing, testing.
- All good. - Oh, ellis,
What about the auxiliary reserves?
You know, sometimes they can get a little-
- Doctor...
Everything is cool.
- Congratulations, dr. Bryce...
On being the first time traveler in history.
- Oh. - That we know of.
- Shut up, charlie. - It's still good.
- Thank you-both.
All right. Let's do this.
♪
- So we're really gonna do this, huh?
- How long have you been waiting for this, doctor?
- Okay.
One small step for man...
One giant leap backwards for mankind.
- After you, doc.
♪
- Are you all right?
- Where's danny?
come on.
- Danny! - Danny, danny, danny.
Answer me, are you okay? Come on.
- I'm fine. I'm fine, tommy.
I'm fine.
- Tommy? Is that normal?
- I don't know, knox.
I haven't written the instruction manual yet.
Danny, danny, danny.
Look at me, look at me, look at me.
Look at me. - Whoa...
- Hey, there you are. Hey, what year is it?
1929, right?
- There ya go. Come on. Let's get him to his feet.
- Ooh. Oh, boy. - Ellis?
Are you getting a read on us?
- Got ya loud and clear, boss. Everybody okay?
- Yeah. How's our heart rate looking?
- You're all a little accelerated.
Blood pressure is low, but that's okay.
You're a go from our side.
- You good? - Yeah, I'm good.
- Team, are you a go from the field?
- Yeah, yeah, I think we just have
To get him out of the window.
- Malcolm, we're heading topside.
Talk to you then.
- I certainly hope you don't intend on smoking that in here.
- once again, the eskimo pie orchestra
Is ready to entertain you.
For the opening number,
Director harold stokes has chosen a tune
That's full of life and movement- what a day.
♪
- You all right? - Yeah. Yeah.
I'm good.
♪
- People are looking at us.
- It's all right. A look won't cause a ripple.
It's interactions we have to worry about.
- Just keep walking.
- Oh, boy. Fresh air.
I'm starting to feel better already.
♪
Wow. - Unbelievable.
- Oh, the air even smells... Off.
It's different than what we're used to.
Skin cell variations, changes in the ozone.
It's almost like-
- We gotta get a car.
We need one that no one's gonna miss
For the next eight hours.
- What we have to do is run registrations.
We have to profile each car appropriately.
- Danny. - Good call.
- No, guys, we can't just assume-
- Can I get intel on a plate?
District of columbia.
Uniform 8-0-3-2.
- Uh, yeah. Let's see.
Yeah. Damn, you're good.
The car belongs to edgar ramone.
He's the night shift manager at the hotel.
- There were no unions yet.
Night shifts last at least eight hours, maybe more.
That match should work.
- How did he get that so fast?
- Let's try not to over-think it.
- Any thoughts?
- It'll be like hotwiring a lawnmower.
I'll keep watch. Don't break anything.
- Hey, who's tommy?
You mentioned a tommy when we landed.
- Oh, uh, I don't know, just...
Just a weird thing, I guess.
- Did you see something when we passed through?
- Look...
I was five years old
At a public pool back in echo park.
I jumped in too deep, started sinking,
Swallowing water, till this older kid, tommy,
Pulled me out.
The thing is, I haven't thought about that
In what, 15 years?
But I wasn't remembering it, doc.
Like, I was feeling it. Like, I felt it.
I was five years old and I was drowning.
That's crazy, isn't it?
I got it.
Let's move.
A little more complicated than a lawnmower.
- As long as it gets us there. - Priya, we're on the move.
Get the maps ready. - I'm the driver.
- No, I've seen you operate a stick shift.
- No, no, you're not getting it, man.
It's 1929.
We're south of the mason-dixon line.
I'm the driver.
- Okay. - All right.
- This is fairfax county.
My mother was born close to here.
- You mean will be.
- That's right, none of that's even...
Happened yet.
She hasn't even been born, and...
I already know how she's gonna die.
They found an inoperable tumor on her spine when I was four.
- I'm sorry.
- Oh, it's okay, mr. Knox.
It...
It's just...
You want to know something amazing?
I could whisper...
The right thing into the right ear,
And I could change all that right now.
I could save her.
But then... Who would I be?
Losing her made me who I am.
Would I be-would I be different, happier?
I- I-
I don't know.
What would you change?
- Doc, I wouldn't know where to start.
♪
- That's not good.
No, that's not good.
- What's not good?
Nasa, spit it out.
Where's he going?
- Is there a problem, ellis?
Is there some kind of problem, ellis?
- Priya, you see the numbers I put on charlie's hand?
I need you to punch 'em into the auxiliary panel...
And add the prefix...
34.
- I can do it myself.
Nasa, you're gonna have to start talking some sense
Sometime soon, man.
- The red zone is fluctuating. - What does that mean?
- We're supposed to hit the red zone in six hours.
Which gives them time to get in, get out,
With a few hours to spare.
- Yes, that was the agreed-upon plan.
- The levels are changing.
Something we did when they passed through
Must have damaged it.
I was able to bring the power down as low as I could
Without losing the window.
But now the red zone is gonna hit in...
- Three hours?
That's barely enough time
For them to complete the mission and get out.
We have to tell them.
- It's enough.
- She just said it's barely enough.
- It's enough for them to accomplish the mission.
I don't want them getting bogged down in details right now.
Look, I understand we're talking about your friend here,
But no one guaranteed this was gonna be a round trip.
If it becomes pertinent, I will tell them myself,
But until then, I suggest that all of us
Get comfortable with the possibility
That they may not be coming back alive.
♪
- I haven't seen anybody come around.
- Good boy, marsden.
Stay out here and keep watch.
- Yes, sir. - It's not gonna take long.
- We should be there by now.
It's 20 minutes until marsden robs the store.
- Everything looks like a service road out here.
I don't know, maybe we missed a turnoff.
- Can you describe where you are?
- I see trees... Like, the woods.
- How about a little more specific?
- You want to know how tall they are?
- There's no signage, priya.
- I-I hear a train nearby.
- A train?
- What's up?
- Maybe they made the wrong left at the interstate-
Or a right.
Stop driving.
Stop driving right now.
Doctor, I don't know where things went wrong,
But if you're hearing a train from the throughway,
It means you're in cooper county,
Which means you passed the turnoff
At least 9 miles ago.
- At the next turn, make a left.
Maybe a right. Make a right.
- Can we get a new navigator, please?
- I can hear that, you know!
- Danny, look out!
- Oh, no, no.
- Doctor, what's happened?
- Charlie, I need you to run
A possible ripple in the panopticon.
We just had an accident.
- That is really not good, people.
Okay, can you get me a data point
To enter into the program?
Can you get me a license plate?
- This is a problem.
Even the smallest ripple, over 80 years-
It adds up.
♪
- Guys, I'm not seeing a plate.
- Uh, that's odd.
Plates were definitely required back then.
- There is no ripple.
- How can there be no ripple?
Even if the driver's okay,
He's still gonna go to the police.
- He won't call them.
- Get down, get down, get down!
- You can't shoot him!
- Go, go, go! Go!
- How did you know? - He's carrying liquor in 1929.
He's not going to the police 'cause he's a bootlegger.
- Come on.
- We're too late. The police are here.
- Bryce, stay in the car. - No, wait!
You can't go near this.
- I'm gonna move in closer. Cover me.
- Knox, all this has already happened.
Do you understand? We can't change that.
We've missed our chance.
- She's right, man.
- I got this.
- All right.
Go. Go.
- Hold it!
- I don't think marsden was in that car.
- I didn't get a clean look.
Knox, get back in the car. We'll go find him.
- No, they don't have time for that.
- Malcolm, we have to tell them.
- Dr. Bryce, listen to me.
We have a problem with the window.
If you don't come back now, you will be trapped.
- But we have hours! - Court-martial me.
We were wrong.
Your bodies changed the critical mass.
By my calculations,
You have about 90 minutes to the red zone.
That gives you barely enough time to drive back.
- Knox, I can't tell you what to do here.
But you know what's at stake.
We may not get an opportunity like this again.
- That's him.
I'm going.
- Boss, I'm telling you,
Even with the most generous assessment of the red zone,
Unless you leave right now,
You will not make it back.
- Doctor, please.
This is suicide.
- We're not leaving.
- No, we are not.
Let's go. Come on. Go, go!
- Where is he? - I lost him.
- What? No, we're not doing this.
- He's right. - If we have any chance
Of getting back on time, we have to find him fast.
- I'll go down by the tracks and keep an eye on her.
♪
- Ronnie.
Ronnie?
- Hey, sis.
I told you I'd be back.
- Hey, knox.
- Do we need to leave now?
- No. No, we're safe for tonight.
Come on.
Tomorrow morning, we'll hop a train first thing
And we'll get out of here.
How does that sound?
- Okay.
- All right. You safe?
Everyone's safe?
- Emily, you safe?
Yeah. Everyone's safe.
- All right. Now you get some sleep, huh?
Good night.
- Charlie.
Does marsden have a sister?
- Uh...
Yeah, jenny marsden.
Why? What about her?
- Because he's living with her.
- He's living with his sister?
How does killing him not affect her?
- Hang on. Got it.
The only reason the program didn't factor her in
Was because she was taken out of the equation.
She dies in... Two years.
Tuberculosis.
She's abandoned in a foster home
While her brother does a stint in prison for car theft.
- So there's no ripple. That's what you're saying?
Shouldn't matter. If she's gonna die in two years,
Then killing marsden doesn't change anything.
- Yeah, according to the con, there's no negative ripple.
- It's wrong.
He's the only person that little girl has.
- Letting him go won't save her.
He's still gonna leave her and she's still gonna die,
And we will lose new york.
Sorry, but this is the way it has to be.
- Let's take him out. - No.
There has to be another way.
- He's taking care of her.
- Charlie, is there a train about to come through here?
- Yeah. Why?
- What are you doing, man?
- Stay here.
- What's he doing?
- Ronald marsden.
- Who the hell are you? - Doesn't matter.
Ronald, I know everything about you.
Where you were born, where you grew up.
I know you never knew your father...
And I know why you robbed that jewelry store tonight.
I know you plan to rob a bank on June 4th...
and again on July 2nd.
I can see your future, ronnie.
- How do you know this?
- Think of me as your guardian angel.
I'm here to change your life.
You have a sister inside?
- Yes. - Do you love her?
- Please- - do you love her?
Listen to me. Listen to me.
In two years, your sister's gonna die.
If you go down this path, you will lose her.
You don't see it now,
But one day, you will look back on this life,
And you will see that you have nothing!
Trust me. - Please!
I don't know what you're talking about!
- Well, why don't I just spare us the trouble?
- Jesus! What the hell are you doing?
- Sparing us both the pain. I've got nothing left.
So let's meet god together, huh?
You want to go with me, marsden? - Please stop!
- You want to die tonight, marsden?
- Please, god, no!
Please, stop! Please, god, I want to live!
- Ronnie?
- Come here, come here.
- Don't make me come back.
- I won't.
- Uh...
Ellis, how much time do we have?
- There's only 40 minutes left.
That's not gonna be enough time.
- Did it work?
- Charlie, ellis, pull up the outside feed.
- Uh, guys?
I think you just saved new york.
What do you know?
Marsden's gonna be a war hero.
- Dr. Bryce, I'm very sorry,
But there are some things that need to be taken care of.
We can talk you through it,
But I suggest you start driving back to d.C.
We need to get that car back.
- Where's she going?
- Bootleggers! - What?
- Bootleggers! - I can't believe I missed it.
It was in front of us the whole time.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa- breathe.
- That truck a few miles back,
It was making an illegal liquor run.
Those vehicles had to move undetected.
How do you think they did it?
- I don't know. How?
- The 1929 map is lying to us. Look.
There is no road here.
But here... On a 1919 survey,
There's a logging route that moves straight through
To the capital. - The what?
- Straight through to the capital.
- I don't get it.
How does a road just disappear off a map?
- Because it was illegal.
- Corrupt officials had it removed
So the police wouldn't know it was there.
And in 1950, that road
Became the state's first highway.
- A hidden road straight back to d.C.
♪
- Ellis, how long? How long do we have?
- It's gonna be close. Move it, boss.
- Go, go, go, go!
- Ellis, we're here.
Turn up the auxiliary blast to 200%!
Bring us home!
- Did it work?
- Whoo. - Whoa!
- Just so you know...
I will not be doing that again.
- Hey. Check this out.
♪
- ♪ musta been a tear from your eye ♪
♪ everything'll be okay
♪
- That was a hell of a mission, mr. Gates.
- Oh, thanks, man.
So you gotta go brief the general now, huh?
- Yes, I do.
- He's not gonna remember anything
That happened before, is he?
- Oh, boy, good luck with that.
- Let me ask you something.
- What's up?
- When you went through that window, what'd you see?
- How 'bout you buy me a cup of coffee sometime
And I'll tell you all about it?
♪
- ♪ funny
♪ thought I felt a sweet summer breeze ♪
♪ must have been you sighin' so deep ♪
♪ don't worry, we're gonna find a way ♪
♪
- I gotta get topside.
Sort some things out.
- I just wanted to thank you.
- Yeah, well...
You were right.
Everything is connected.
What?
- Nothing. No.
It was a really good day.
- But...
What happens next?
I mean, we went back in time
And we changed the fabric of who that man was.
Where do we go from there?
- What?
- You want some advice from a guy
Who just broke every law of physics with you?
- Sure.
- You worry too much.
Go celebrate.
You just saved new york.
Good luck with her, knox.
- About time you called me back.
Something wrong?
How great it is to hear your voice.
- If that's sarcastic, I am running late.
- No, it's not.
Just talk.
I want to hear your voice.
- You know, I gotta be honest,
I wasn't sure we were gonna pull it off.
- I was.
really? The whole time?
- Most...Of the time.
- You're such a liar.
You were confident the whole time?
- Absolutely.
- This young lady is always confident, my friend.
I'd like to make a toast.
To the greatest invention since jazz.
- Hell, yeah. - Salud.
- Cheers, liar.
- Well, for the record,
I nearly tripped over your crap on the way out.
Are you still coming by this weekend to get it out?
- Yeah. Yeah, I will.
I will. I, uh, I promise.
Jess... I want to see you.
- Why?
I don't know-
To buy you dinner... Look at you again,
Tell you what a jerk I am.
trust me, sean.
I don't need to hear that from your lips.
- Yeah. Yeah, I know.
I'd just like to tell you anyway.
- Look, I don't think it's a good idea.
- Oh, it's a terrible idea.
In the history of bad ideas,
You and me are, like... Top of the list.
- It's not gonna change any thing.
- I know.
But, jess, honestly, right now, you have no idea
How happy I am that nothing has changed at all.
- Hey, guys, we're celebrating.
Enjoy. - Thanks, dr. Bryce.
- You're welcome.
- Jess?
- Something's going on, we have to get to communications.
- Jess?
Jess?