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Thank you.

Thank you.

That mouth of yours only digs a hole deep for everybody in here.

What, do you think they're going to let you out of here someday, young boy?

Because if you do, you're exactly where you belong.

You're freaking crazy.

It's my honor to serve the country.

That's Sondra's aviation airplane, isn't it?

Where's Frank Saunders?

Hey, kill that engine!

Where's Frank Saunders?

So we started lobbing mortars over the border from Kuwait into Iraq.

We started the whole Iraqi move into Kuwait. Me and six other guys.

No such opt -out occurred.

I was at the agency mission in Tel Aviv, and we would have known.

Yeah, well, need to know, dipwad, you didn't have a need.

Walking you by this crap.

23 down, trepidation.

Don't know, fellas.

Never stationed in that part of the world.

Yeah, where were you stationed?

Parker to Frank B, serial number 923 -880305.

Parker to Boy Scout.

Took an oath, fellas.

Don't keep it for them, keep it for me.

Every day, same freaking thing. Reads a letter, puts his face right in his food.

What's in that letter? Who's it from?

It's a good question.

Paper's blank.

Come on, it's all right.

You got sunshine.

It's all good.

Stuffing seems like I'm underwater, you know.

Whenever you guys got the guts.

Planet of the apes.

They'll put us in isolation till the end of the century.

Isn't a little meditative time good for this whole y 'all bar?

Kruid, I'm in. Planet of the Apes. Anybody else?

Morning,

boys.

Shut up!

Hey, somebody bomb the White House!

The president and vice president were in that part of the White House at the

time of the bombing, attending a scheduled summit meeting with Russian

state Rudolf Naryshnikov. We'll now join Kerry Pfeffer awaiting presidential new

secretary, Dalton Phillips.

Kerry, are you there?

I'm here, Lena, and right now details are sketchy at best. As of yet, there's

been no new comment on the conditions of anyone injured. So what?

Who cares?

We gave this country everything we had.

What did we get in return?

This.

Ladies and gentlemen, we regret to inform you that the

President and Vice President of the United States are dead from wounds

in an explosion occurring at 753 Eastern Standard Time this morning at the White

House.

We'll be boarding Air Force One immediately, Mr. Speaker.

Why don't we go to the Pentagon?

We're not sure what's going on yet, sir. For all we know, Washington could be

under siege.

Good Lord.

All Level 2 personnel report to Cobb 9.

All Level 2 personnel to Cobb 9.

Sources close to the scene report that many, within a several block radius of

the blast... Speaker of the House 2.

Melissa Group? It's been a lot of activity down there lately.

No, no, no. It's a foreign source. It's got to be.

Sons of Saddam is my best.

We have an amateur videotape of the White House tragedy. Is it up, Hal?

Okay, here it is.

That's the individual who made the tape, a tourist, one Stephen A. Potter of

Freehold, New Jersey.

And those are the missiles we told you about earlier, the ones fired from the

White House roof.

They miss entirely.

They're cutting the head off our government.

What a terrible shame.

This picture tells the awful story.

This tape recorded at 7 .53 this morning, Eastern Standard

Time.

We've got to deploy and we have to do it right now. We have no choice.

Unfortunately, it's not up to us.

It's up to them.

We have to present the case calmly and clearly.

They'll be emotional. They'll try to push us.

Dr. Mentnor, I need your team's assistance.

Military intelligence group is in full motion, correlating data from Langley,

the FBI, the Secret Service, and the D .C. police. We'll be cross -referencing

right up until the moment we go.

And the scientific group?

Sir, this comes at a bad time for us. We're in the middle of modifications,

the device isn't ready. And more than that, no one's been trained to operate

new systems. They haven't even been tested.

New candidates for the job are being chosen as we speak.

Each will be a quick study and expendable.

Get the hardware ready.

What's wrong with you people?

Don't you get it? Our national leadership's been wiped out.

Human events don't change scientific fact, Mr. Ramsey.

Nor does human emotion.

We're not ready.

Mr. Talmadge, this woman is a defector. No allegiance to anyone or anything. She

shouldn't even be allowed in this room.

Enough, Ramsey. Stop it.

Sir, with each failure, we lose more of the element needed to fuel the reactor.

So if we fail again, we may not have enough left for another attempt.

Numbers give me numerical odds for success or failure at this time.

Well, the odds for success are very low, 5, 7 % at best.

The final decision as to whether or not we go will be made at the highest levels

of the National Security Agency, but they will have that option.

Are we clear?

And so be prepared

He

has

a nearly photographic memory extensive background in black ops all over the

globe how crazy is he

Crazy is a word I have difficulty with. Well, let's cut the shrink wrap, Doctor.

The man asked you how nuts he is. Not as nuts as most of the men here.

He had a breakdown in Somalia, tortured by a group of technicals there. What did

they do to him?

Put him in a metal box in the sun for a week.

No food or water until he'd given them the names of locals working for the

agency.

How long before he'd fallen?

He didn't.

Maybe he couldn't.

He didn't even know his own name when they finally rescued him.

Pain threshold pretty high, then.

That room got a 220 outlet.

Your name picked out of our computer, Mr. Parker. Turns out you may be well

-suited to a special agency operation.

Am I now?

We're here to test you.

If you meet our criteria, you'll leave this island today.

But I thought I was crazy.

Are you?

Not crazy enough to get involved in an operation you want a crazy man for.

You need somebody to get killed.

All right, if you're not interested.

Wait.

Give me a freaking test.

What's that? It has been confirmed that a school located near the White House

was also enshrouded in poison gas. Oh, my God.

A number of young children are dead.

The name of that school is being withheld until authorities can contact

families of the victims.

I had no answer at Jimmy's school, and I was just about to leave for his Easter

pageant. We're in the area removing bodies at this time.

We do know that a temporary morgue has been set up at St. Michael's Catholic

Church, located on Constitution Avenue.

Where is my baby?

Where is my baby?

No!

Oh, my God!

Oh, my God!

Oh, God! Oh, God, my baby!

You can't touch these bodies, ma 'am. They're contaminated. You'll have to

shower immediately.

Something like that.

Actually, the questions are a lot more like an IQ test.

Start when I tell you. Don't stop till the buzzer sounds.

Well, they just gave me an IQ test the other day.

You guys think I've gotten smarter since then?

These scores will be different, Mr. Parker.

I promise you.

Begin.

Keep working.

I just got a shock. I think there must be a short with your equipment.

You're wasting valuable time, Mr. Parker.

All right, that's it. Get this stuff out.

You son of a bitch. Mr. Parker, if you don't finish this task, we'll be leaving

here without you.

I'm gonna kick your ass when this is over and done with. You know that, don't

you?

Go ahead, then. Give me all you got.

Oh,

my God.

be excused now he actually scored higher than he did under normal conditions but

there's something else you should know talk to me he's a jerk sir a real

personality this is not a popularity test travel him what's our total five

are now flying apprise me the moment they arrive yeah

Reduce speed.

Reduce speed.

Reduce speed.

Reduce speed.

This is the Coast

Guard. Please announce yourselves.

And your station.

Let's go.

Starboard side.

All right. Let's go. Let's go.

If anyone's aboard, announce yourselves now.

Get ready.

This is your final warning. Show and announce yourselves now.

Prepare to be boarded.

Turn off the fence.

We were just doing our job. I completely understand. I'm just happy to be out of

that snake pit.

Thanks very much.

Thanks for all your help, fellas.

Yeah, right.

Three hours west by southwest, so where's that put us?

Colorado, New Mexico, maybe?

Chatty brats, aren't you?

You maybe got a stewardess back there? I could use a drink.

Come on, fellas, just a hint. Where we land?

It's kind of dark out there.

Guys, what's with the altimeter? It says we're 300 feet below sea level.

This place got a name?

It's called Never Never Land.

Good luck to you, cowboy.

Like your insignia, this shows real esprit de corps.

On vacation from Buckingham Palace?

It's got to have something to do with the assassinations. You guys agency?

Nope. I'm Air Force.

Jose there, he's Army of Berets.

And there's Benny, he's an engineer with NASA.

And old Jack here, he's the enemy.

Navy fighter jock. They give you their shock test?

Good news is, Nuggets beat the Tonics last night.

I want 600 bucks.

We can rule out number five. They pulled him out of an agency mental

institution.

I'm more concerned about candidate four.

He has a cold. We can't risk that. Number four out. Number one's blood

reading was high.

His records don't indicate a problem, but you never know.

What about number five? Strike number one, leaving three.

Physical exams, then the simulator.

Pressure like this.

BP's normal.

Straight ahead. Keep walking.

F -P -T -O -Z -L -P -E -D -P -E -Z -O -L -C -F -T -D.

Other eye.

Parker.

F -P -T -O -Z -L -P -E -D -P -E -Z -O -L -C -F -T -D.

I'm gonna reset this.

Poor man told it under the pressure.

I'll do better for you.

Will you, sir?

Oh, yeah.

What?

I beat him, didn't I?

You may have won, but...

she likes me better.

Although Parker's ability with the needles wasn't as good, his mental

while enduring pain is...

Truly quite amazing.

That's because he doesn't feel any pain.

He's out of his mind.

Your choice would be Navy.

You bet. That's the right stuff.

You yourself said flying the needles was critical.

Yes, but only in the simulator are there controls like those of an airplane.

It might have given the pilot an advantage he won't have in reality.

Doctor? I like Parker's pain threshold. That could be a critical factor.

But Ramsey's right.

His mental stability is questionable.

He's stable.

I bet my life on it.

I have bet my life on it.

We were in Honduras.

A mission... classified.

I won't bore you.

Frank Parker saved my life.

If you have any faith in my judgment, trust something.

When the whip comes down, Parker's gonna be there for you.

He's a drunk.

He's a gambler.

He's had problems with authority all his life. Hell, he's got criminal eyes.

He's not the man we need for this mission. If this gets real, he won't let

down.

Show of hands.

Those for Reardon, the Navy pilot?

We are making a major mistake.

I'm so very sorry.

God has its reasons.

The third missile nearly hits the incoming aircraft, missing

only by a few feet.

The question everyone's asking, who was the pilot of this plane?

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

Think I can keep the secret?

As you know, the president and vice president, others, were slain two days

We're going to undo that event.

We're going to undo it. Mr. Parker, highly experimental technology has been

developed involving the distortion of time.

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

Back in time.

Seven days.

A time machine.

I love it.

You're the man we've chosen to make the back step.

When you arrive in the past, your job will be to brief us on the events about

happen.

So they can be prevented.

You know what I think?

I think this is a typical CIA mind game of some kind.

It's a test to see if Frank Parker is well enough to be released from that

hospital. Well, guess what, boys and girls?

I passed your test.

And I'm fine.

If you'll excuse me.

Donovan? Yeah, Frank.

Let's take a walk.

I told him you'd have to see it.

See what? Keep your eyes ahead. Keep walking.

That's France, son. Those boys are their elite.

They'd just as soon shoot you as look at you.

It's for real, Frank.

Priced here in 1947, Roswell, New Mexico.

That saucer is where the technology for this came from.

What the hell is going on here, Donovan?

That saucer came a long way from here, Frank.

A million light years, a billion.

They don't get here in a straight line. They get here by distorting space.

And with it, time.

We can't travel quite like that yet, but we have kind of half figured the time

distortion aspect.

Flying saucers, time machines, you're kidding me, right?

See, the time device is powered by a reactor. But instead of heat, it

its own little gravity field in that field.

Time can be played with.

Distorted. You're saying it actually works.

So far, the results have been less than spectacular.

But they do think it's going back in time, though.

See, the trouble is, it doesn't always show up where it should. When it gets

there, it ends up way out in space or buried deep in the ground.

It moves.

No, but we are.

We're orbiting the sun.

See, that's what that flying the needle stuff is all about.

It simulates a new system.

Kind of a fine -tuning knob to make sure the thing shows up in the same place it

left from.

Donovan.

Remember when I saved your life in Honduras?

Yeah.

You kind of owe me one, right?

Yeah. Good.

Because I need a drink.

I haven't sweat in two and a half days, Donovan. None of us have.

Where the hell are we going?

To get your tattoo.

Hello, Mr. Parker. Hi, I'm John Ballard.

Hi. I run the math around here.

Come on in.

Have a seat.

Please roll up your sleeves.

I've been in every foreign capital on the globe drunk.

And I've never gotten one of those things.

As you can see, it's... Like a barcode to identify you when you arrive back in

time. Because we... We won't have met you yet, of course.

I can introduce myself just fine, thank you very much.

Hello.

Hi.

What's going on?

Just... Getting my official team tattoo.

Good. Well, there's a meeting going on in another room you should be privy to.

Data you must memorize so you can brief us when you arrive in the past.

In a nutshell, the explosive was of a C4 -type composition with oxygen plasma

accelerants. It was laced with cyanide, causing poisoning in the 10 -block

radius. Ah!

No, it hurts, huh?

Yeah, the ink is quite unique. It's radioactive.

Suddenly, I'm Tommy Lee.

Does it hurt?

This?

No.

Please, memorize for us. The office in Chechnya has been tracking this

particularly hardcore Marxist group.

They hate America. They hated President Naryshnikov for getting friendly with

us.

Good morning.

Morning, Doctor.

Pull your coverall off the shoulder, please.

Why? I have to put a subcutaneous implant under your arm. So, you're going

cut me?

It's a small programmable chip. Just a tiny incision.

Maybe you can give me a nipple ring while you're at it.

This is Carl Fretzner.

Male, approximately 40 years of age.

He's the leader of this cadre.

He's ex -KGB, then Spetsnaz, attained the rank of major.

spent three years in a Moscow prison for political agitation, escaped a year

ago, and made his way back to his native Chechnya.

So, the Brezhnev group looks good, people.

We've appraised Russian intelligence, and they'll be working the case from

end. They lost a president, too, after all.

Good Lord, did you look at that?

Oh, brother.

This is not the person we should be dealing with, you ass.

The entire future of this country is resting on a person who can't even

concentrate long enough to remember his own name.

Presnev Karl, native of Chechnya, approximately 40 years of age. Valensky,

Valerie, 40 years old, born in Chechnya in 1958.

Presnev's second -in -command, a dangerously loyal follower. He's ex

serial number 318 -063B. Trotsky, Igor.

Attention all genocides begin coding phase one All

genotypes begin coding. Phase one.

It's a nice looking

system, isn't it?

I understand you've had problems with it in the past.

Theories are sound, Mr. Parker.

They've been proven. How?

Two nuclear clocks.

One here, it's twin -centered to outer space out of the Earth's gravitational

control. The one out there runs slower.

Time is elastic, Mr. Parker.

And gravity affects it drastically.

And this is your new fine -tuning knob.

If you can learn to use this as well as I think you can, there's a chance this

will work.

Why is it seven days? Why not a month, six months, a year?

It has to do with the size and power of the reactor, Mr. Balkan.

Do you want me to explain?

No.

No.

The trick is tiny increments.

Gentleness.

Unless big movements are necessary.

aware of the effect you have, aren't you?

Yeah. We'll have the medical unit standing by for you when you arrive.

They're on call all the time, just waiting. Why would I need medical units?

Physicians, we know it, Mr. Parker, is being violated.

Some of the outer molecules of your body, hair, skin, fingernails, may not

make the trip.

There are certain outer molecules of my body I want exactly on the apartment

just yet. Your testes?

No, no. You'll be intact.

We're talking only a few microns, Mr. Parker. A light shaving of your outer

epidermis. At least that's what the map tells us.

And now we see the horse -drawn caisson. It contains the president's body.

Silence is all that can now be heard throughout the crowd.

Heads bowed in respect as a nation says a final goodbye to their fallen leader.

Talmadge?

Yes, sir.

Washington, they say to hell with the odds, we're a go.

Tell people!

How's it going?

There's a hell of a lot of stuff here, Donovan.

Well, it's not going to waste.

You are time -traveling, my friend.

Want to get some air?

Hey, how come the doors are open? Aren't they afraid he can be seen from the

air? The air conditioning went down. They're letting in some breeze.

All this genius and you guys can't keep the air conditioning running.

You see Gwyneth?

Send her a check every month.

You talk to your ex?

Oh, yeah, yeah, I spent the last couple of years locked up in a CIA nuthouse,

and they let me call out whenever I want, Donovan.

No, I, uh, heard she's dating.

What I miss is not raising my son.

Despite where it can be kind of hard on family life, you know, personally, if I

had to do it over again, I think I'd choose another line.

Yeah, I'm gonna think about the phone we had.

Maybe too much fun, my friend.

Moment.

Is there any chance this thing could actually work?

I never lied to you before, Frank.

Do me a favor.

Look up my son for me and tell him some lies about how cool his old man was.

Tell him I thought of him a lot.