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You're about to be let in on the most highly classified state in America.

We have a device that can allow us to send one human being back in time.

I feel like hell. I've felt like hell since Christmas of 1992.

Yeah, now some hell for others.

So they know.

to watch the show? It's really funny.

Evan!

Give me that.

I thought we had a truce. A truce. Right. Sorry. Me too.

the Los Angeles County Tourist Bureau. Welcome to L .A.

My name is Donald Roper, and I have the pleasure of giving you Visiting

Dignitaries, a tour of the City of Angels.

What's Dignitaries? Honor students get the same treatment as visiting heads of

state. You got a name?

Prime Minister Evan Hamilton of LaTorte, Indiana.

Mr. Prime Minister, your limousine awaits.

All right, kids, let's grab our bags.

Once you get off the bus, you can blast away.

We're going to have fun today, kids.

Incredible.

Just incredible.

This is the Wilkson residence.

Amanda speaking.

You are a brilliant young artist. You know that?

Grandpa? I just got your painting. It's absolutely terrific.

You liked it? Really?

I like it. I love it.

I had no idea I was so handsome.

I had to take it from a snapshot.

Maybe next time when you come visit, you could pose for me.

If you ever come visit again.

Of course, I'll come visit. How could I stay away from my favorite grandchild?

Grandpa. I'm your only grandchild.

Well, with a grandchild as wonderful as you, who needs two?

I vote for holding the briefing outside to break the boredom.

Outside? Where outside?

Oh, I don't know, on the lawn, up a tree for all I care.

I'll vote for a tree. That way you'll feel at home with your ancestors.

Oh, lay off, Ramsey. All right, Donovan. Ramsey's just jealous because he didn't

evolve from apes like the rest of us.

You evolved from Squamata.

Squamata? It means scaly. You know, like snakes and lizards and things.

Mrs.

Kelly?

Why Subway? We want to see movie stars.

Leonardo DiCaprio.

Beavis and Bonhead. Ben Affleck. Godzilla.

Evan, you kids can see as many movie stars as you want at the theaters or on

You could see Subways on TV, too, you know. So think of the thrill ride

What if there's an earthquake while we're down here?

Kidding. Kidding.

This is actually one of the safest places to be in an earthquake.

L .A. Metro is designed to sway with the earth in case of a seismic event.

See those two guys in army jackets?

What about them?

Look at them.

Evil works.

Don't try to scare me, Evan.

What?

It's a remarkable likeness.

It is, isn't it?

My granddaughter did it. Can you believe it? She's only ten years old.

Wow, she's got real talent, Bradley.

What do you think, Frank?

I think you got a prodigy on your hands there, sir. It's really good.

Well, this is all very warm and snugly, sir, but could we get on with the

business of the day? And what would the business of the day be, Ramsey?

Stamping out school motto.

Big ones.

Open up or I start killing passengers.

What is he doing?

Can you see?

Can you see? Can you see? Can you see?

Can you see?

Get up.

Stand there. Don't move.

What the hell are you doing?

Making sure the station master can't operate this train from central control.

Jet,

I really think we are in trouble.

Move! Move! Let's go!

Hey, what's going on here?

Everybody, sit down!

Shut up! Move it! Move it! Move it! All right, everybody, listen up.

We've taken control of this train. You are now our hostages.

Now, nobody is going to get hurt if you follow my rules to the letter.

One, nobody speaks unless spoken to. Rule two, nobody moves unless told to do

so. Rule three, the first person to lose control and freak out, Sergeant Higgins

here, will shoot and kill you.

Do we understand these rules?

Excuse me.

These kids are sixth graders.

This is their first trip to Los Angeles.

Could you at least let them go?

Sergeant?

You'd like us to let these kids go?

Please. I'd be willing to stay, of course.

Now you just broke the first damn rule.

No one speaks unless spoken to.

Hey, get back to your seat.

Get down, get down.

You, you.

Sit down, shut up, little kissy.

You, get off my damn board.

You watch him, Higgins. I'll set the charges.

a special news update on the subway hostage situation in Los Angeles.

Here's Carol Shaker.

Larry, the situation has become even more grave since we last spoke with you.

Now, as you know, a small group of well -armed men have hijacked subway train

552 here in Los Angeles, and they've been holding the passengers captive for

almost eight hours.

Carol, we understand that among the passengers is a group of sixth -grade

students from La Porte, Indiana. Is that correct?

Larry, unfortunately, that has indeed been confirmed.

It seems the students and their teacher were visiting Los Angeles to receive a

national award for academic excellence.

Carol, have the police or the FBI been able to identify the hijackers?

No, no, and in fact, at this point, all we know is they have only one demand,

and that is to speak with the President of the United States in person. Larry,

something is going on. Great.

Apparently, someone is coming out of the tunnel.

Angeles County Tourist Bureau.

I'm to read a statement from our captors.

Here it is.

We want America to know we are not terrorists, but patriots.

Each of us are veterans who served in the Gulf War and are now gravely ill

Gulf War syndrome.

Our demands are simple, that the president come here personally and make

statement recognizing that Gulf War syndrome does exist.

We also demand that we be given $300 million in cash as reparation to be

distributed to our brothers, sisters, and their families whose lives have been

destroyed by this horrible affliction.

If the demands are not met, we will kill everyone on the

subway.

Folks, these men have nothing to lose.

I've been told that the cars are wired to blow up.

Please, for the sake of everyone down there, for the sake of the children, Mr.

President, if you could at least come and talk with these people.

Mr. Roper, where are you going?

Gotta get back to the train.

You guys, I want to go straight down there. So two guys outside.

In fact, you can see behind me, the black guy is indeed moving down

into the tunnel.

Hostages on train 552 are confirmed dead, killed in the explosion.

But they also found sarin gas, the same poison Gulf War vets claimed they were

exposed to during their incursion into Iraq.

Soviet soldiers often claim the government endangered their lives, too.

not talking about the Red Army here, sister.

And we're not here to debate military history, Nate. I've been informed there

was an important diplomat on train 552.

Does that mean we're on alert?

Condition one.

Well, that's great. Let's saddle up right now. Donovan and I will have a

surprise waiting for those patriots before they even get near those kids.

Diplomat, train, whatever.

Let's move.

Let's go.

His name is Mathieu Hummel. He was vacationing in Los Angeles before his

the UN Peace Conference in South Korea.

Hummel, should I know this name? He's the frontrunner to be the next UN

Secretary General, Frank. He's also an ally, a longtime supporter of U .S.

foreign policy. Now, it hasn't been absolutely confirmed.

That Hummel was on that train, the burnt bodies still being identified.

But the NSA doesn't want us to risk a longer wait.

Here's the latest intel from the FBI on the L .A. police.

This one's going to be a pleasure, Fred.

Remember, your first duty is to save Hummel, then the kid.

You got it.

Mr. Parker, your vital signs are looking good.

Never better, Miss Mugavich. Never better.

Call me.

Reactor at 80%. Good luck, Mr. Parker. I know your mission is to save the kids.

Reactor at 100%. Stop.

Do not engage, Frank. Do not engage. That's an order.

Back step aborted. We have an abort.

What's going on? Let's go. They just found Matthew Hummel in a hideaway up

California coast with his mistress, drunk as a skunk but very much alive.

Talk to me, someone. Olga, Talmadge, what the hell is this?

The back step has been canceled, Frank.

What? What the hell are you talking about?

I can't believe this is bureaucratic crap.

They can't pull the plug on us like this.

I don't like it any better than you do, Frank. And you're just going to stand

there and take it, Bradley? Since Hummel's alive, the mission no longer

the criteria to warrant a backstep. What are you talking about? How can you

honestly tell me that a drunken, wife -cheating U .N. delegate can be worth

than the lives of 33 American citizens, 12 of whom are kids?

Disasters happen every day, Frank. We can't go back and undo all of it. We're

government operation, not God.

And the sphere of fuel source is limited.

You surprised me, Bradley.

Never thought you were a puppet.

much to her.

It was her first time out of La Porte, really.

It was her first airplane ride.

Evan and Jessica, they've known each other since preschool.

Seems like they were always fighting.

But I think deep down they really loved each other.

And so, once again, an act of domestic terrorism has shredded the fabric of

people's lives in Middle America, as the mothers of the dead children try to

make some sense out of this terrible tragedy.

All they can do is ask each other why.

Unfortunately, no one has been able to do it.

Daddy! Daddy!

If the demands are not met, we will kill everyone on the subway.

Mr. Parker?

Where are you going?

Perimeter security.

Set the dogs loose.

Dogs?

You creep.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

and he left this note pinned to his flight suit.

To whom this may concern, I, Frank Parker, resign.

I mean it this time.

That's fine with me.

A man has no emotional control whatsoever.

Excuse me, Mrs. Hamilton?

If you're a reporter, I've said everything I can say. No, I'm not a

I'm just here to pay my respects.

A couple of years ago, Evan discovered an old telescope up in

our attic.

One night we couldn't find him, and then...

There he was, just seven years old, standing on our roof, looking at the

through that old telescope.

You like astronomy?

Yeah.

He always said he wanted to visit the stars someday.

He wanted to be an astronaut.

I suppose now he is visiting the stars.

In a way.

What are you doing here?

I know the death of these children has affected you very much.

I'm afraid it has me also.

Don't even try and talk me into going back.

If saving these kids isn't a matter of national security, then there is no such

thing.

I've been thinking.

There might be a way to change it.

All right, Parker, now don't make a scene. These people have been through

enough. Can you lead them here?

No, of course not.

And as of right now, you're under arrest.

Let's go.

I'm not going to be under arrest. I don't work for you people anymore.

You do until we say you don't.

You're AWOL. You destroyed government property. Do you have any idea how

sensitive dogs' noses are? They're still at the vets right now. Gee, I'm sorry,

Nathan. Maybe we can do a backstab to yield them.

You cowboys, you're going to do some serious time in solitary. Oh, you're

to throw me in the hole, are you? That's right.

Then how about adding a real offense to those charges?

Like that.

Strike me, federal officer.

Oh, God.

Get him out of here!

How do you like solitary, Parker?

He's completely lost it.

Well, you wanted him to act like a trained monkey. He's acting like it. He

hasn't eaten a bite in three days.

My professional opinion, sir.

Parker's finally truly gone around the bend.

Whether he has or he hasn't may no longer be our concern.

What are you saying?

We all sympathize with the loss of those children, but our orders are crystal

clear. We only backstep for national emergencies. Frank knows that.

The NSA panel wants him out of this project.

What?

After all he's done for this? For us?

That's unthinkable.

If he's evaluated and still found to be a security risk, he'll be going back to

the agency's mental institution on Hanson Island.

At that point, we'll have no choice but to find ourselves a new chrononaut.

The NSA says we only backstab for national emergencies. What, rubbing it

no, no. It's just a simple deduction. But if that's the case, we just have to

create one.

A what? A national emergency?

They happen all the time.

What are you suggesting? We bomb the Pentagon?

Blow up a nuke in its silo? Well, there could be a simpler way.

I think the only problem we're going to have is that we would need a Ramesses

help.

Come on. We're running out of time.

If it's about Parker, you can just forget it. Ramsey, we're here to appeal

your human side.

I don't have a human side.

Come on, Nathan.

Those kids need your help.

It's the morally right thing to do.

Morality's a gray area in the intelligence field.

Nathan.

Feed.

Ah, this is all Parker's doing, isn't it?

Everybody all worked up.

I've been dreaming about this damn kid.

Besides, he embarrassed me in front of my men.

Wait a minute.

Is that what this is all about, Nathan?

He embarrassed you in front of your men?

Wait a minute, Nathan. We shouldn't be thinking about Parker. We should be

thinking about those 12 little kids from that small town just like you're from.

With your help, Nathan, we may be able to do something to change this.

Please just listen.

All right, I'll help you on one condition.

That son of a bitch is going to apologize.

Nice place you got here.

Frank, I understand you've agreed to my terms.

Frank.

I'm... Get on with it, Parker. I'm out of here.

Nate, I'm very...

You know, I don't think I heard that.

My ears are getting bad because I'm getting old. What did you say?

I'm sorry.

I can't hear you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for breaking your nose.

Did that sound sincere to you?

Good for me.

Yeah, sounded great to me.

Mm -hmm.

Let's get a polygraph down here. I want to know if he means it. Oh, Mr. Raffi.

What's this about an emergency, Nate?

Uh, sir.

Some of my operatives have come up with some additional intel on the L .A.

subway hijacking. I felt it was my duty to bring it to your attention.

What additional intel?

Well, this man is one of 33 people who perished in the subway fire.

He was just ID'd as Kennedy Barstow. But his name was not in fact Barstow. No,

that's one of many aliases he used. His real name is Jonathan Samps.

Now, Jonathan Sams was a freelance covert agent for the bellow Russians,

Chinese, anybody that would pay him to steal our secrets.

This man hardly looks like a highly skilled international spy.

Well, Jonathan Sams is or was known as the chameleon, like Carlos the Jackal.

He was a man of many disguises. In fact, that's what led to his success.

Yeah, very devious operative, sir. The agency has had him on our hard target

list for years.

So, if he was a hard target, why isn't this a good thing that he's dead?

Well, we have it on good authority, sir, that Sam's was in the

process of delivering a package to a person or persons unknown living in the

Angeles area. A very important package.

Yeah, a computer disk containing classified data about our SDI system.

is curious to know who hired Mr.

Samson, whether this operation is ongoing. Now, the only way to find out

arrest him and question him.

Very convincing.

Very convincing indeed.

And I don't believe a word of it. Sir Ramsey can verify.

Whatever needs to be verified, I'm sure.

It was a good try, people, but it's a total concoction, and you know it. Sir,

there really is a Jonathan Sams.

I'm sure.

I'm also sure that this poor fellow, whoever he was, wasn't him.

I'm not going to the NSA panel with this. In good conscience, I can't.

Conscience.

I don't even know what that means anymore.

of this terrible tragedy.

I guess we were lucky to have the time with them that we did. I just...

I only wish... I just wanted

to see them grow up to be.

The candlelight vigil continues at Evans and Jessica's school where parents,

teachers, and students stand warning the deaths of their fellow classmates.

As one student said, somebody out in Los Angeles owes us an explanation.

Amanda speaking.

Hello, Amanda.

Grandpa, it's late. Is everything all right?

Yes, of course, dear.

I just wanted to tell you that I love you very, very much.

I love you too, Grandpa.

Well, you sleep tight now, dear.

Goodbye.

It seems that a very important courier was among the passengers killed in the L

.A. subway terrorist attack.

I brought this matter to the attention of the NSA panel.

We're a go.

Thank you, sir.

Come on, it's the seventh day. Late on the seventh day. Let's get this thing

going.

Reactor at 90%.

Bring us in on this one, Frank. Don't try and save the day all by yourself.

And do not, under any circumstances, hit me in the nose again.

Understand?

Reactor at 100%. Good speed, Mr. Parker.

Engage.

Special intel on the situation.

Gentlemen, back to the station.

Okay, Parker.

Agent Honaker, FBI.

Captain Newman, LAPD.

All right.

Talk fast. What do you got?

In just over a minute, Donald Roper, the kid's tour guide, is going to surface

and read a statement from the terrorists.

And where'd you get that? First thing you got to understand about these people

is they're serious. They got explosives and sarin gas down there. An assault

would be a very bad idea. Sarin? How the hell do you know these things?

NSA knows everything. Haven't you seen our commercials yet?

Hey, cut the crap.

I'm not going into this operation blind.

You won't have to.

We're taking over from here, Agent Honaker.

You're what?

Captain Newman, come with us.

Why is anything involved in this, huh?

Why are you doing this?

You're a pretty brave kid, you know that?

You remind me of a friend of mine when he was your age.

with Simon Marshall and he was our unit commander at Desert Storm.

He was a real hero.

Except he came back home with Gulf War Syndrome.

Drove him crazy.

Correction, it drove him to suicide.

Oh yeah, before he died, he shot his wife, his children, and his dog.

What's that got to do with any of us?

After today, I'm afraid, a lot.

So what?

Do we know which car Jonathan sounds within?

Who's Jonathan? Oh, right.

Yeah.

He's in the one right here with the kids. What kids?

Just some passengers.

Do you have any men down there yet? No.

Hijackers have 150 yards of visibility in either direction. And?

They shot at all the security cameras. And disabled the automatic train control

function. We know.

Remember the tour guide I mentioned to you earlier?

Right. Tick -tock, tick -tock. Bingo.

I'll be damned.

My name is Donald Roper.

I work for the Los Angeles County Tourist Bureau.

I'm to deliver a statement from our captors. Here it is.

President's not coming.

Yeah, I'm good.

See there? There's a coach coming.

About time, Roper.

The president coming? No, but he's breathing hard.

I'm going to kill this kid.

Where's the bag?

Where's the bag?

I'm going to kill this kid.

Disconnect those towers.

Hey, kid.

Is everyone else all right? I got it. I got it away from him.

Whoa, Jessica, honey, give that to me. All right, gently.

How'd she know my name?

All your pictures on TV, you're all famous.

Evan, you hear that?

Yeah, I knew I'd be famous one day.

Jonathan Sams.

You're under arrest.

Son, what the hell are you talking about?

Be nice to him, Jonathan. No cuffs.

I'll explain later.

I think he's going to be just fine with that.

I think he's fine.

I still can't understand how our intel was so wrong about Jonathan Sands. Well,

he is known as the chameleon. Anyone could have been fooled.

Hey, how's your nose?

My nose?

It's fine.

Why? No reason. So who's up for a beer?

For breakfast?

Yeah. Or coffee. Whatever you want. I don't care. We'll take a rain check. The

car's going to be here in 15 minutes.

Come on.

To tell the truth, my heart was racing when that was happening.

You people are pretty brave.

Yeah, I guess we were.

But the bad part about it is we never got to see anything in L .A. but a

tunnel. Mr.

Prime Minister, you're right.

Oh,

I think that's a wonderful idea.

So, who's up for going to the amusement park at Santa Monica Pier?

So, Mr. Parker, tell me the truth. Is this really about Jonathan's son?

Of course it was. You'd think we'd backstep just to save a bunch of kids.

I knew it. Someday I would love to know the full story about this backstep.

Well, someday I might just remember.

The subway kidnappers have been identified as surviving members of a

recon rangers.

Their names are David Korshot, 34, Tyler Higgins, 33, Sergeant Ken Dobbs, 32,

and Unit Commander Lieutenant Simon Marshall, shown together in this file

What is it, Doc?

Hey!

Don't do anything, Bullet Roper.

You stopped us once, Parker.

But I took a blood oath.

That I would die trying to get someone to listen.

Whatever went wrong in that rack, there are other ways to call attention to it.

I was just going to take them hostages again.

Now their blood will be on your hands.

They're innocent kids.

We were innocent, too!

True believers.

Go ahead, shoot.

I smashed this.

More people will die here than would die in a subway tunnel.

Thousands will die slowly, like me and my brothers.

Now, think about what you're doing here, Dobbs. You are not terrorists.

If you release that gas, you and your men are going to go down in history as

murderers. Nothing more.

Now, come on.

Put the canister down.

It's still much nicer than having a meeting outside.

Well, of course, no expense was spared.

I still want to know why you asked about my nose, Parker.

Well, I'm sorry, Nate. That's on a need -to -know basis only.

I have to admit it, Frank. You certainly make the rest of our lives interesting.

Excuse me.

This toast came in for Mr. Parker.

Oh.

What is it?

Well. Who is this from?

It's from those kids back at Wild Rose School.

Oh.

How sweet.

Don't rush me.

Oh, look.

Dear Mr. Parker, thank you for being our guardian angel. Love you always,

Jessica Schaefer.

See that halo?

Yeah, they don't know you very well.

Excuse me, I think I'm going to hang this one up in my quarters.

Wait a minute now. Is there any pictures of me in here?

Was my pleasure cat