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People ask, where do you get your ideas?

Right here.

Oh, this is my magician's toy shop.

I'm Ray Bradbury, and this is...

Jonathan, breakfast's ready.

Yeah, I'm coming.

You're going to be late, Mr. Hugh.

Bye -bye, Alyssa.

See you tonight.

I'll be here. Mm -hmm.

Excuse me, sir.

Excuse me, sir.

Your paper is so much different than mine. Is that a later edition?

A much later edition, yes.

Is that a trial copy for a future change? Are you an editor of the Herald?

Future change, indeed.

2025.

Don't leave me, please!

Please, please, there's still time!

You want.

Who are you?

We are one.

The same person.

Jonathan Hughes.

What's going on here?

What do you want from me?

We were born in Quincy, 22nd of August. We?

Lived at 49 Washington Street.

Went to Central School.

Walked to that school all through the first year with Isabel Perry.

Isabel? We broke our right ankle when we were 10.

We almost drowned, age 11.

Father saved us.

And we...

We fell in love, age 12, with Impey Johnson.

Anybody can know those things.

What are you trying to do? I can tell you anything you want to know, past,

present, future.

Future?

Your business will slowly deteriorate.

You'll have a child who will die.

No.

You'll take a mistress.

And lose her. Your wife will slowly become less loving.

And at last, very slowly, you will come to... How shall I say it?

To hate her living presence.

It's impossible.

Yes, it seems impossible now. You've been married only a year. A wonderful

The best.

It's hard to think that this can change.

Fall apart.

You poisoned your wife, our wife, Alice.

The fine dream.

Lost.

So, you killed her.

We both killed her.

I killed her, you will kill her.

But if I can convince you...

Neither one of us will do it. And she will live.

And you will grow old, a happier, finer me.

You're crazy.

No, Jonathan.

There's still time.

I have to shake you, to change you.

There's still hope.

I have somehow got here, touched you, and begun the change that...

will save our soul.

We are one and the same.

And the twins of time ride this train now, this hour, this night.

She's been dead only a day.

And I ran.

Where?

Where to go?

Nowhere to go except in the past, before all this happened.

All of my sanity lies in you.

You turn away, we're lost.

We'll share a grave, buried forever in our misery.

You see, we're in this together. We've got to solve it together before you

become me.

Jonathan, the summer of 68, we hid in Grandpa's attic for two

days.

We thought we'd run away to drown in a lake or fall in the river, but there we

were in the attic all the time, miserable, feeling unwanted, crying,

listening to the wind.

Wanted to die.

No one knows that but me.

Aleph will be here in just a moment. There's so much I want to tell you. You

can't know what I know. 30 years of experience to trade, to understand.

You must listen.

Take me with you.

We'll watch. I'll watch. I'll teach you.

Find out what went wrong, maybe correct it.

Hello,

handsome. You want a lift?

Yeah, yeah.

Who's your friend?

Why?

His teacher in mid -central.

Yeah, we, um... We met on the train.

Wow, how nice.

It's always a pleasure to meet someone from Jonathan's past.

Won't you join us for dinner?

No, I don't think Mr... Yes.

I'd like to.

Well, come along then.

Dinner's waiting.

What did you say your name was? Oh, you didn't say.

Weldon.

Fine.

That's my maiden name.

Is it?

That's curious.

I wonder if we're related.

Was your family from around here, Mr. Weldon?

Well, it's quite possible.

Mrs. Hughes.

Oh, please.

Call me Alice.

Funny.

Why are you two staring at me?

Mr. Weldon?

What is it?

What's the matter?

You remind me of someone.

I once knew.

It's been a long time.

It's a lovely dinner.

Desserts.

I got something really special.

You have to go.

Alice will begin to suspect.

We haven't even begun.

Thanks.

Alice, you truly are a wonder.

This is...

I love you, too.

You see, I... I love my wife very much.

I remember.

You remember?

A toast.

To a wonderful wife.

And to a grand future.

Well, then you're not drinking.

It's not going to happen.

I could never hate her.

I watched her all evening.

I didn't see anything that would suggest that she... I was watching you, too.

And?

You drink too much.

You've got to watch that.

Maybe I ought to write a list of things you should watch for.

You look at them every day.

I'll remember everything you tell me. Yeah, for how long?

A month, a year?

It'll go like everything else. You'll be busy living.

You'll be turning into me.

And she'll... She'll be turning into...

to something you'll want out of this world.

No.

Never.

You've got to tell her you love her.

Every day. It's very important.

I promise.

Every day.

Is something wrong?

No, no. We were just trying to decide who likes you best.

Would anyone care for coffee?

No. No, not for me, thanks.

Thank you.

I'll be back in a minute.

I think it's time for you to go.

I just had an idea.

Maybe it's better if I do away with her now.

The old man takes the blame.

Now, the younger man goes on with his

life.

Jonathan, it's for you.

You startled me. You startled me.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Could I have a glass of water?

Have you a glass of water?

Oh, yes. Thank you.

I'll show you out.

I'll never forget this evening.

Goodbye, Mrs. Hughes.

Goodbye, Alice.

Why?

Yeah, I know.

Maybe I shouldn't have come to upset you and disrupt your life.

Is this going to happen again up ahead 30 years from now?

I've been no help whatsoever.

No, no, no.

You have helped. Oh.

You told me to tell her I love her.

Oh, yes, I did.

Yes. Do you think there's any hope for us?

I'll make sure of it.

Good.

Good.

Where will you go?

Up the road?

Wait for you?

You'll be along someday.

To kill her?

Not a chance.

Oh.

Uh, yes, you'd better take this. I don't trust myself.

I might do something wild.

How will you get back to... I don't know.

It'll happen somehow.

I must get back to finish on her life.

Goodbye.

That means God be with you, doesn't it?

Don't stand there letting the draft in, Jonathan.

Jonathan, did you hear me?

I said shut the door.