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(helicopter blades beat)

(sirens wail)

(leaves rustle)
(glass breaks)

(car alarm blares)

(siren wails)

(woman screams)

(helicopter blades beat)

(gun fires rapidly)

(thunder rumbles)

(siren wails)

(thunder rumbles)

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(birds tweet)

(grunts)

(breathes heavily)

(dramatic piano music)

(somber piano and violin music)

(dramatic percussive music)

(monintor beeps)

(Jason gasps)

- Jason?

(ominous music)

- I saw it, I saw it.

- You're okay.

- It was so clear.

(percussive music)
(all speak over each other)

I know everything now!

(Jason sobs)

I know everything.

(Jason sighs)

- Do you have to go today?

- We play every Wednesday, Eve.

(sighs)

- Did you pay the
gas bill yesterday?

- I thought you put
that in the mail.

(zipper rasps)

- I said I'd wait to see how
much money you brought home.

(Jason sighs)

- Well, I don't have any
patients again today.

(zipper whines)

I will put it in
the mail at lunch.

Do you have any
severance money left?

- Yeah.

Couple hundred.

I was thinking of saving
it for Skye's crib.

- Good thinking, sweetie.

'Cause Logan's gonna
need a good crib.

- Are you sure you can't stay?

- I'm already late, babe.

Hey, everything's gonna be okay.

(ball smacks)

(men mutter)

You ready?

Ready? You ready?

- Ah!

You got lucky on that one.

- [Jason] Having some
good luck today, man.

- Well, I would too
if I kept faking out

a half blind guy
on his bad side.

- What, you're really gonna
play the cripple card?

- I'm just saying, you
wouldn't be half as good

if I was twice as sighted.

- Ah fuck, all right,
man, all right.

No more fakes for
the rest of the day.

- [Man] Game point.

- You see me?

- [Man] Oh.
- [Jason] You see me?

- [Man] Oh, you
think that's funny?

- [Jason] Here, see this.

- Oh, yeah, I saw that!

Woo hoo!

Oh, what's up now?

See, that's game.

- Get out.

- That's game, buddy.

So uh, how's Evie?

- She's good, man, she's good.

- Yeah?

Yeah?

- [Jason] She's good.

- That uh, that didn't
sound convincing.

- Well she's pregnant, man.

How would you be?

- Luckily I'll never
have to deal with that.

(Jason laughs)

- I don't know, man.

It's been a little hard for
her since she stopped working.

It doesn't really help that
I'm not bringing in much.

Might take a loan out
from her dad, last week.

- Ah.

I didn't uh,

I didn't know you were
hurting that much.

- Neither did I.

This is it.

- One more.

Ah, there you go.

- [Jason] Finally.

- But listen, if you need
some money, let me know.

- No, no, no, we're good.

I'll be fine.

- [Man] You sure?
- [Jason] Business oughtta

pick up soon, I just
had my brochure,

sent it on Monday, so I oughtta
see some business from that.

And the weather oughtta
get shittier soon, so--

- [Man] Oh, there you go.
- [Jason] Yeah.

- [Man] Doctor Jason
Pyatt, suicide preventer.

(man laughs)

Well uh, all right, you know.

Let me know.

- Thanks.

I will.

- I know you got a lot of
competition in this town.

- Yeah, but they're all 80.

I figure I got another
year of struggling,

then they'll all croak
and gimme their business.

But how 'bout you,
man, how's class?

- You know, uh.

It's uh...

Ugh, sometimes I feel
like I'm teaching

the future stars of
America's Most Wanted.

I mean, you got the
gangsters on one side,

the nerdy white
kids on the other,

and the Asian mafia
sprinkled everywhere.

- Shit, man.

Shouldn't you be carrying?

- Oh, I do.

- You serious?

- Hell yeah, I'm serious.

I carry every day.

(laughs)

- No, man, I guess,

I guess I would too
under the circumstances.

- Hey man, I already
lost this eye,

I'm gonna do what I can
to save the other one.

- Yeah.

- No, they're really
smart kids, though.

They seem pretty
involved so far.

- It's a cool class.

- Hey, they relate
to it, you know?

I'm teaching a
group that's made up

of 70% delinquents about
social issues and violence,

they have a lot to say.

- Yeah.

Hey, we still on for after work?

- I believe it's the only
thing on your schedule.

- Oh, oh, touche huh?

(laughs)

- I mean if you're sure
that's all right with Evie.

If she doesn't wanna come--

- Nah, she's fine, she's fine.

I'll see you at 6:30.

- Sounds good.

- All right.

I'll see you later, teach.

- I'll see you then.

- [Jason] Bye.
- [Man] You keep that lisping

to a minimum, all right?

- [Jason] All right,
all right, all right.

(percussive music)

Hello.

Thank you for calling
Jason Pyatt's office.

Hello, thank you
for calling Do...

What's up, this is Jase.

I'm really busy, holla back.

(pen clicks rapidly)

(Jason laughs)

- Doctor Pyatt?

- Yeah, can I help you?

- You can.

- Mister Darnell.

Sorry I didn't
realize it was you.

- That's all right,
Doctor Pyatt.

How is everything?

- Uh...

Yeah, things could be better.

- Work is slow?

- Yeah, all week.

- Yeah.

- How have you been?

What can I help you with?

- Well,

I just wanted to
see a familiar face.

Talk to someone I could trust.

Speaking of which.

- [Jason] Mmhmm?

- I uh,

found this on a news stand.

Good picture.

Yeah.

But, I just don't know

if I can trust someone
who uses balloon font.

Especially like--

- Mmhmm, tell me, please.

- "Dedicated to you happiness."

- [Jason] Dedicated
to "your" happ--

- No, "you" happiness.

- That's brilliant.

Well, it got your
attention, didn't it?

- Yes sir, you're right.

Effective, very effective.

Do you have some time
for a very tired old man?

- [Jason] Yeah, of
course, come on in.

You want a Red Hot?

- No.

Thank you.

- [Jason] You got
the first hour free.

- [Mr. Darnell] Ooh.

(cello music)

- Can I offer you anything?

- No, I'm all right, thank you.

- Well, make
yourself comfortable.

- I'd like to sit
here if that's okay.

- Yeah, absolutely.

I'm glad you came in today.

Didn't have anybody else
on the books, and uh...

Ooh, it's nice to
see a familiar face.

Mind if I record this session?

- [Mr. Darnell] That's fine.

- [Jason] Thank you.

So when was our last session?

- It was June, I believe.

- [Jason] That long?

- Yeah.

- Mr. Darnell, I gotta tell
you, you're my best customer.

- Well then I'm
sorry to tell you

that I'll be leaving
town for awhile,

I just came by to talk to a
good friend one more time.

- Well, today is yours, sir.

- [Mr. Darnell] Good, good.

- So.

What do you wanna talk about?

- Well I'll tell you, it's
a very important day for me.

I suppose at my age,
every day's important.

- [Jason] Sure.

- You know, there's a
lot of questions in life

that you can't answer until
you've lived as long as I have.

- Well, that's why we're here.

- Yeah.

- [Jason] I'd like you
to consider me a friend.

- Oh, I do, I do.

You know, I really appreciate
all the talks we've had.

You know, your patience
in our conversations.

I know I've been a
bit coy about my past.

Really my life.

- I wouldn't judge you.

You can count on that.

- By my age, you cherish trust.

It's harder to find someone
who'll really listen.

- Well certainly Mr. Darnell,

you have more than just me?

- A young man like you,

you know, he knows
what he wants in life.

Dreams, goals, places
he'd like to go,

things he'd like to see.

But you never really believe
it until it actually happens.

Dreams fade with age,
and they're replaced

with the harsh reality of
what life brings to the table.

I waited for that time.

I had a wife,
responsibilities, a career.

But my imagination
got the better of me.

- So, you had a difficult time
with life's little demands?

- No, no, there's supposed
to be something more,

something I hadn't
seen, but had to see.

But my life as I knew it would
never allow me to see it.

- Did you ever find that?

(sighs)

- I...

- Take your time.

(sighs)

- Have you ever looked up
at the stars and wondered?

- Yeah, yeah.

Always.

- I wondered, too.

I was fascinated
by the universe.

Space, time.

Are we alone, what happens next?

I wondered so much, I felt
like nobody saw what I did.

- Like you're a man in the
world, beneath the world.

- Yes.

Exactly.

- Of course, I...

I've felt like that often.

But it's all in
the manner I feel.

Perception is a powerful thing.

You've traveled a
lot in your life.

- Oh yeah.

- When I was in school
I had the opportunity

to visit the Louvre.

I wasn't really
into art galleries,

not until I saw
this one painting.

Most people wouldn't
give it a second glance,

it's not as vast or as
detailed as many other,

you know, paintings
in that gallery.

My friends dismissed it
immediately, but I didn't.

- What's its name?

- The painting?

- [Mr. Darnell] Yeah.

- It's called Nude Youth
Sitting By The Sea.

I'll never forget it.

- I remember it.

- You've seen it?

- The Penitent Man.

- It's all perception.

- [Mr. Darnell] Exactly.

- My friend saw a man
sitting on a cliff.

But I saw something
so much more.

His tortured soul.

- Why do you think he
sits there like that,

with his head buried?

- I, you know...

I always felt he was
suffocated, stuck in a way.

Like he wanted to look forward,

wanted to see the
future, but he couldn't.

He couldn't know
what was coming.

- Why do you feel
suffocated, Dr. Pyatt?

- Isn't this your session?

- Forgive me.

- No, no, no, no, don't
worry, don't worry.

Maybe you're right.

- What if the boy
by the sea is not

angry at the at the road ahead?

What if it's the road that came?

- I'm not sure I follow.

- What if he's haunted by
things he cannot change?

- Does something haunt you?

- Something haunts all of us.

- Let's go back to what
you were saying earlier.

You said there was
something missing,

something you couldn't
see but wanted to see.

Let's go back to that.

- I don't think it's something
many people could accept.

- Well, it's my
job to understand.

- Yes, I know it is.

And I'm sure you'll
do your best.

But you'll think I'm crazy.

I never intended
to follow science

into anything more than a hobby.

But I was curious.

Why things happen
the way they do,

those questions that
no one can answer.

But one day I understood.

It was as if all the
forces in the universe

had come together in that
one moment in space and time,

to deliver an answer to me.

All those things we cannot
change but wish we could.

Something reached
out and spoke to me,

and I understood.

To all those that wished

they could see the
beginning of time.

To all those that've
dreamed of witnessing

the first man climb out
of the primordial slime.

Finally they could.

Since H.G. Wells it's been
one of the greatest mysteries

and fantasies in human
history, but not anymore.

I've been given the secret.

And it was so simple.

(people chatter distantly)

(horn honks)

- I have a hypothetical for you.

- Shoot.

- What if somebody
came to you and said,

"Ovid, I can take you
back to the moment

"your classroom was hit, to
the moment you were injured."

What would you do?

- I'd call the cops.

- [Jason] I'm serious.

- What are we
talking about, here?

- Will you just humor me?

- I'd think he was crazy.

- But what if were possible?

I mean, wouldn't you
take that opportunity

to set things right?

- "Set things right"?

You mean save my eye?

Avoid the bomb somehow?

- Yeah.

- My life would be different.

You know when you were a
kid, you'd see that crazy guy

walking down the
street with one arm.

You point and you stare,

you whisper to your
friends about him.

Well when you become the
subject of those stares

it really turns the tables.

- So, hypothetically...

- Hypothetically
if I could go back

and save my eye somehow?

Sure, it'd make my life easier.

- Yeah.

- But I wouldn't do it.

I mean, changing what
happened would change my life

and everything
I've done with it.

I mean, teaching
overseas during the wars,

all those kids, who knows
where they would be.

- Okay, you're
right, you're right.

But who knows?

You coulda gone on to
do other great things.

- Let other men do
other great things.

I think I'm doing what
I'm supposed to be doing.

- Yeah, but I guess it'd
be impossible to know.

- All right, let
me put it to you.

What if your dad hadn't
died when you were a kid?

- Yeah, I don't know.

- Yeah, but don't you think...

His death defined who you are.

- Yeah, in many ways.

- [Ovid] If you could go back
and save his life somehow

do you think you'd be
doing what you're doing?

- Well business as it
is, maybe I shouldn't be.

- Come on, man.

I'm just saying our
lives make us who we are.

And who knows if you'd be
doing what you're doing,

who knows if you'da
got a chance to?

- I guess if my dad was
still alive I could've always

become that secret agent
I always wanted to.

- All right, man, you
asked for my opinion,

I'm just giving it to you.

- Oh, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.

You're right.

Thanks, man.

How's that sandwich?

- Oh, it's awesome.

Your salad good?

- Nah, not really.

- See?

Everything happens for a reason.

- [Jason] So.

Just to clarify.

You're telling me
that you're from...

- [Mr. Darnell] Yes.

- [Jason] And you
discovered some way to...

- [Mr. Darnell] Yes.

- Well I'd be very
interested in hearing it.

- Oh, I'm sure you would.

My secret's worth a lot.

- Well, we are under doctor
patient confidentiality.

- I know.

- Nothing you can say
can leave these walls.

I encourage my patients
to be as open as possible.

- Assuming that you really
wanna keep your practice.

- Right.

- Do you?

- Excuse me?

- Do you wish to
keep your practice?

Do you enjoy what you do?

- Of course.

This is my life.

I try to help people, like you.

- Why do you feel the
need to help other people?

- I believe you walked
into my office today.

- Do you take the
time to help yourself?

- Are you trying to
put me on the couch?

- I'm sorry.

I meant no disrespect.

- No, no, no.

That's fine.

Let's get back to your story.

- Yeah, you're right.

- Can you describe how
the answer came to you?

- How is not as
important as why.

- Okay.

What motivated you?

- Surely there are
things in our lives

we wish could be changed.

When you get older, however,

you grow comfortable in
the way things turned out.

That was not the
case for me, Doctor.

- I see.

- Some of the worst
crimes against humanity

are done with the
best of intentions.

This was the greatest
find in history,

and it was bound to
revolutionize the
way people live,

the way they thought.

By sharing it, not only
did I think it would be

a great leap in science, but
would be enhancing the world

with pure,
unadulterated knowledge.

But knowledge is nothing
without understanding.

I made a few calls, the
reaction was immediate.

As you can imagine, it
was much like yours.

A swift nod and a
quick dismissal.

I was nobody.

I was not part of
the well established
scientific community.

I got the government to listen,
they brought me deep inside,

surrounding me with the
world's great scientists.

Not the ones you hear about.

They studied my work,
cross-examined my calculations.

(laughs)

It was real.

Before I even had a
chance to think about it,

the government was at my door

offering me the biggest
check I'd ever seen.

I was young, inexperienced.

The amount of
zeroes on that check

could've fixed a small country.

And they calmly slid it
across the table to me.

- So you took the money.

- It was one of those moments

when you're presented
with two roads.

If I'd known the
road that I chose,

would I have made
the same decision?

I would like to think no.

- So what happened after
you took the money?

- I spent some, bought
a new house, car.

Life was great.

I was, I was the most famous
scientist in the world.

And I never considered
myself a scientist.

It was newspapers and magazines,

and talk shows and
movie premieres, and...

Everyone knew my face.

But really quickly, in a
couple years it went public.

You cannot contain
human curiosity.

Everyone's always
looking for the next

great leap in technology,
and this was it.

Got a question?

Some time, we'll
give you the answer.

- Yeah, I do have a question.

So how does this thing work?

Anybody can just travel back?

- No, that's not
what I intended.

You can't just give anyone
the power to actually go back.

Think of the
ramifications of that.

What I envisioned was more
like a window in time.

- A window?

Like what, like a,
like a big screen

where you could
just see history?

- Overly simplified, yes.

Once it was released publicly,

people could see any
time they desired

without directly
affecting past events.

It was the only way
to keep it safe.

So we thought.

- So theoretically,
anybody could see anything.

- Think about it
as memory recall.

Every man's experiences, they
can revisit even vividly.

Now imagine events in time
as memories for the world

in a space time continuum.

I discovered a way
to harness that.

- Now you mentioned being able
to see the creation of man.

I mean, you'd have
seen humans assemble,

develop their gods and
destroy each other.

I mean, Jesus Christ.

- He was just a man.

Imagine the devastation
from a revelation like that.

95% of the world's population

believed in a God in some form.

The scientists and
the politicians and
eventually the public

were able to go back and see

the Christian son of
God as a mortal man.

It shook the foundations.

Even atheists began to
lose hope for the future.

Southern evangelists began
lashing out violently

at anybody who supported
the new discovery.

The world was more
divided than ever.

The road to hell had been
paved with good intentions.

And it was just the beginning.

- Well what happened,
some kind of big war?

- Once the technology
was simplified,

the government went to a
few large corporations.

To develop it for
high-end consumer use.

They figured it was a great
way to build the world economy.

Like commercial missions
to the moon or Mars.

They figured they could
make a lot of money,

and they were right.

Only the most wealthy
could afford it, at first.

But with any new technology
price decreases with time.

People were going
back to the beginning.

They were peering into new
dimensions of space and time,

looking for positive
proof of evolution.

The origins of man.

The mythic stories
from ancient Greece.

It spread like wildfire,

and it formed civilization
as we know it.

- If this techology existed,
we could learn everything.

- Everything.

- I mean, think of
what we could do.

What we could
accomplish with that.

- Oh, the things we
could accomplish.

I used to think like
that when I was your age.

But like I said, my imagination
got the better of me.

Civilizations come and go.

People live and die.

All for a reason.

These things I listed,
they are times and places

we were never meant to see.

Some, including myself, argued

that human progression was
as natural as time itself.

So we proceded.

All of society's mysteries and
questions could be answered.

I spent so much
time concentrating

on the fallout
from travel that I

never considered the
ramifications of viewing.

Men would look back
and find the secrets

the government was
hiding from them.

Why are the Kennedys
being killed?

Two brothers, a son.

Scholars would look back
at the savage nature

of European settlers
who stole the country

from Native Americans.

The truth divided us.

And individually armed us.

The world lost faith not just
in God, but in everything.

Anarchy replaced order.

Crime, corruption,
destruction took over.

No one was afraid
of anything anymore.

No more questions.

No more beliefs.

And all because I couldn't
see down that road.

- Time viewing, huh?

But you're not actually
viewing me, you're here.

You're actually sitting right
here, so how is that possible?

- You don't believe me?

- It's not my job
to believe you,

but I wanna understand.

So, so, okay, so
you created this

amazing technology but not now,

some time in the future.

Now that technology
only allows you to see,

so how are you here?

- I want you to understand
why, moreso than how.

- You gotta understand
that a man of reason

the things you're telling me
are all impossible to accept.

- [Mr. Darnell] I understand.

- I've studied all this.

I've fantasized about it.

I mean, most scientists,

people like Albert Einstein--

- Hawking.

- Stephen Hawking.

They don't even believe
something like this is possible,

yet you're sitting
here telling me

that you're actually living
proof that it exists.

- Yes, I am.

- The idea of taking a man,
or a woman, from one time

and putting them into another
that already happened?

It, there's just so many
questions that arise from that.

- I was as skeptical as
you are when I began.

- Okay, one of the biggest
issues that comes up

right away is causality.

So if you change something
in the past, then...

- The grandfather
paradox is something

we all debated for a long time.

If Jimmy goes back into the
past and kills his grandma,

will Jimmy or his
family ever exist?

- Right.

So,

- I came to two
conclusions about time.

Many theories existed.

But now I could
eliminate the arguments

that travel wasn't possible.

Or that only forward travel was.

I did tests and experiments

that lead me to
two possibilities.

Either time was
circular, constant,

or when you went back it
would create an offshoot.

- Like a separate timeline.

- That's right, a
new branch of time,

moving forward, parallel
to the original,

with its own events
and outcomes.

- So which is it?

- A definitive answer
to that question

is close to impossible.

Even if Jimmy goes and
kills his grandfather

and wipes out his whole
family in the process,

does time ultimately find
its way to the same outcome?

Or is it set in a new
direction, a new course?

Or does the original
future coexist

with a separate timeline
that Jimmy created?

Or, does Jimmy fail?

Maybe if Jimmy tried
to do something

as significant as kill his
grandfather in the past,

time or fate would not allow it.

The gun would jam.

Or a bird would get in the way.

(ominous thrumming music)

(mysterious click)

- I don't understand.

So, if you're from the future,

theoretically a time
far after Jimmy would've

killed his grandfather wouldn't
you see the changes it made?

- It's not that simple, Doctor.

Firstly, only the
traveler would ever know.

If time had changed, we
would never experience it.

To us, Jimmy never existed.

- Okay, okay, what if someobdy
went back and killed Hitler?

- What if Hitler was killed?

- What?

- What if originally
Hitler was killed?

And someone went
back and changed it?

Kept him alive.

To us, we would remember
it as our history.

As if it always happened.

Many people believe that time
eventually corrects itself.

If Hitler was dead,
someone would likely

step up and take his place.

Thank God, mercifully I've
never had to test that theory.

- Yeah, but you can.

- I guess so.

- You being here brings
all that into question.

I gotta drink, man.

You want a soda, a
scotch, water, what?

- Glass of water'll
be great, Doc.

So what's the diagnosis, Doc?

- Well,

you are either crazy,

a very, very accomplished
pathological liar,

(water splashes)

or you're telling the truth.

- Does it scare you if I am?

- I think,

I think regardless
of what happens now

there'll always
be that curiosity.

I can safely say I've never
seen anything like this before.

- Good.

That's all I could hope for.

- Guess what I still don't
understand is how you're here.

Or if there's some other
reason why you're here.

Is there?

- It's all about causality.

The only remaining question
for our species is fate.

Can we change our path?

Or is it always set?

I didn't know if coming here
would accomplish anything.

But I know if I didn't
try and talk to somebody

about what I know, it would add

to the long line of regrets
that I keep with me.

Maybe fate does exist,
and maybe it doesn't.

Maybe it's our destiny to
live with mistakes I've made.

Or it could be my
destiny to change them.

- Or maybe our
sessions have just

been leading up to this moment?

- That's why I came
back, Doctor Pyatt.

Just for the possibility.

- I'm gonna force myself
to remain skeptical,

as a sane man would, but,

with that being said I
still gotta know more.

- Did you ever wish you
could change things?

- Of course.

I don't think you're ever
gonna be alone in that.

(sighs)

- There was a time when I
lived to help other people.

Like you're doing.

You can go to bed at night
with a clear conscience.

You wake up in the
morning knowing,

that you're trying to
make the world better.

You can do that every
day, I had that once.

But it came with a cost.

- Did you begin to feel
like your discovery

made you feel isolated somehow?

- Oh, yes I did.

But I had to lose everything
before I saw that.

- If you don't mind,

what is "everything"?

- My friends, my family mainly.

After a while I
pushed them away.

But not by choice.

- They didn't see what you did?

- No, this time I didn't
see what they did.

Who would've guessed
that I'd be rewarded

for opening Pandora's box?

I was once revered, but now
I was hit with backlash.

If there was one singular
cause that united people,

it was hatred over
what I had done.

- How did that make you feel?

Was that painful?

- Of course.

But it was not the
kind of pain you feel

when someone you love
breaks your heart.

It was sort of a
mass humiliation.

A public failure.

I felt like a fraud
in my own house.

I created something
revolutionary,

but revolution does not
imply forward progress.

I felt like a fraud

because I wanted to
make the world better.

- But instead it turned on you.

- Yes it did.

- And what about that other
pain, did you feel that, too?

- For a time.

I had a friend.

- What, somebody who stuck
by you through everything?

- Yes, he did.

Early on, he helped
me with my work.

Became my partner.

- He must've really
cared about you.

To see what others wouldn't.

- He understood that the
outcome of my discovery

was not what I had intended.

Or he pretended.

- Something you wanna tell me?

Jason?

- Sorry, man, what's up?

- What's on your mind, man?

- I don't know if I can
really talk about it.

- [Ovid] Why not?

- It's that old doctor
patient privelege.

- All right, come on.

Just uh, don't tell
me the dirty details.

What's going on?

- I just really wasn't
prepared for today.

This old patient of mine
came in off the street.

We'd been talking
for about a year,

I didn't think anything of it.

I mean he's a normal enough guy.

I mean, you know, normal
in a certain light,

but he sits down
in so many words

he tells me that...

- What?

What, he's a robot,
he's an alien?

- He's from the future.

- Ha ha, so he's crazy.

Is this why you brought
up the whole changing--

- I've seen crazy before.

This guy was very convincing.

- All right, come on.

What's his angle?

Was he uh, trying to get
money out of you or something?

- Come on, man, listen.

Just hear me out, I'm
not an idiot, all right?

- All right.

- He just said some
pretty scary stuff.

Look, let's pretend this
guy's the real deal.

He comes in, tells
me that the world's

gonna go dark in a few years.

And everything is
severely screwed up.

And that he came back
because he wanted

to see what he could
do to change it.

That's why I brought
that thing up before.

I just wanted to know
what you would do.

- If the world gets
worse and worse

over the next few years, then
I'd say we had it coming.

I mean, who are we to play God?

What's done is done.

- Yeah, yeah.

- Ah, man, you're
really hooked on this.

- What's up?

- You need to take
some time off.

Spend some time with your wife.

How's your marriage, Jason?

- What do you mean, man?

My marriage is fine.

- You sure?

I mean, all you do is
spend time with me,

playing basketball or at work.

- Okay, what happened
to rituals, man?

- Come on, man, I love
you, you're my best friend,

but uh, I mean you have
a pregnant wife at home.

With your first
child, she loves you.

And all you do is talk to me
about work, week after week.

- I know.

- [Ovid] Are you sure?

- I just gotta
get my head right.

I will.

- I just, I don't want you to
mess things up for yourself.

- How can I mess things
up with you in my corner?

- Okay, but I can't fight
all your battles for you.

- I know, I know.

Especially in your
condition, Jesus.

- Really?

(Jason laughs)

Ass.

- I'm serious, though, I can't
save your marriage for you.

- Does that mean
you're not gonna

write me love sonnets anymore?

- Nope.

Okay, maybe for your
birthday, maybe.

- How do you do it, Doctor?

- I'm sorry?

- Manage your relationships?

Surely your wife is lonely
while you're here at work.

Dealing with colorful
characters such as myself.

What does she think of
your chosen profession?

- Our marriage has
its problems, but...

I mean, they always do.

She understands
that this is my job

and this is what supports us.

And every relationship
has its sacrifices.

- What does she
sacrifice for you?

- That's uh, I don't think
that's any of your business.

- How often do you
see your friends?

- Let's backtrack, I don't
wanna get derailed again.

Let's talk about your partner.

Now he was probably
closer to you

than most people around you.

- Yes, he was.

He was one of the
remnants of my life

before everything changed.

Although he was happy for me,

he thought that
I should sit back

and enjoy the fruits of
my labor with my family.

But I could not sit still.

I had to be involved
in every adjustment,

every refinement to what
I'd given to the world.

- Don't you mean what
you had sold the world?

- Sold.

Yes.

I had to be at
every demonstration.

I might as well have
been government property.

- As your partner stood
by on the sidelines.

- As everyone did.

Everyone that was close to me.

You know, in some ways,

my partner was more
naive than I was.

Once the repercussions
were being felt,

no one could've imagined just
how bad it was gonna get.

He was there to adivse
me, to comfort me even.

To see me through the storm.

Together we tried to
pick up the pieces.

Tried to undo what I had done.

- Did any of it work?

- No.

- Why?

- We tried to stop the
mass consumerization of it.

Plead with the government.

By this time the
damage was too severe.

The technology was
in too many hands.

Unsteady hands at that.

We tried to make attempts
to set things right,

but it was futile.

That's when I decided,
I have to go back.

Some how, some way,
I had to go back.

I fell deeper and
deeper into my work,

trying to push the boundaries
of my initial discovery.

To allow for actual travel.

To send a man into the past.

My partner pleaded
with me to stop.

But I couldn't.

I needed to know if
change was possible.

That's around the
time he turned on me.

- Now when you say
he turned on you,

he didn't merely cut you
out of his life, did he?

- Human beings were
once again reduced

to mindless barbarians
and I was responsible.

We would've been better
off if a meteor had struck

and wiped the slate clean.

Or that a bomb had forced
us to start all over again.

But I did it, I
actually did it, Doctor.

See viewing was
only the beginning.

But like a rudimentary
computer it only took time

and development before
a new model was born.

You harness a wormhole,
speed up one end

and slow down the other end.

- Go on, go on.

- I can't.

- Mr. Darnell, you realize--

- Please, please, I can't.

Let's leave it at this.

- How does it work?

(tense music)

How does it work?

- You have to understand
if I answer that question

you could rip a hole through
everything as we know it.

- But that's why
you're here, isn't it?

To change the past,

so you're gonna have
to give me something.

- Doctor Pyatt I was under
the impression it was never

a good idea to force a
patient to divulge anything

they weren't comfortable with.

- I can't, um, I
can't keep doing this.

- All right, all right.

(Jason sighs)

I know this must be frustrating.

I can't give you everything,
it just wouldn't be safe.

- I'm listening.

- You say you like science?

- I do.

- Then go back and
read the concepts

presented by Hawking,
Einstein, Lewis.

Light speed, black
holes, wormholes.

They were so close.

There was just one
small piece missing.

I'm sure you're aware,

that you're somewhat familiar
with the concept of wormholes.

- Sure, yeah, they're
fascinating to wonder about.

- If you don't mind, could
you tell me what you know?

- Um...

They're a consequence
of Einstein's

theory of general relativity.

A wormhole in theory would,

act as a shortcut or a passage
way through space and time.

- The physics are even
simpler than your definition.

A wormhole creates a tunnel

effectively cutting through
two locations in space time.

- Yeah, yeah, therefore
eliminating the need

for three dimensional
travel through space.

No more rocket ships.

I like Stargate, too.

- Oh, wow, Stargate.

It's been a long time
since I've seen that movie.

Who was that guy in it,

he was really good
in that old western?

- What, Kurt Russell?

- Kurt Russell, he
was good, wasn't he?

- Listen, nothing you are
telling me is new information,

all right, the theories
about wormholes have existed

for a long time, but nobody
knows if they actually exist

or how to find them.

- But I do.

They're everywhere.

Just a matter of seeing
them or harnessing them.

- But you haven't
explained either.

How do you see them?

How do you harness them?

A machine, some sort of gateway?

- Of course you need a
machine to sustain a wormhole.

But this is where I stop.

I have given you the gun.

Let me keep the bullets.

- Please, continue.

- I found a way to go back.

I was alone, but I found it.

My old partner was the
only one that knew,

but for now, it'll
stay that way.

The only question is,
can the ripples I create

be enough to change the future?

Or create an alternate one?

- Ripples?

- Think of the water
in that glass as time.

Time moves forward
constantly, untouched,

as still as the water.

Go back and try to
change something,

(fist bangs)
(recorder rattles)

and it creates a ripple effect.

Change has to
catch up with time.

(Mr. Darnell sighs)

And everything around it
either changes, or suffers.

- Unless the ripples were
always meant to happen.

- That's what I wanna find out.

The truth is, he
had every reason

and every right to want me dead.

I would've done it
myself if I'd thought

that would change anything.

- Would you say you have
suicidal tendencies?

- I feel that ultimately
I will have to

pay for my sins with my life.

I now am only here to set
the wrong things right.

My parter pursued
me at great length

once he knew what I had done.

And as much as I felt
it was on my shoulders

to set everything
right, he was convinced

that anything I did
to fix the present

would continue to
make matters worse.

- Have you ever thought
that he may be right?

- He might be.

I don't know yet.

I think it's worth the risk.

I'm just afraid of what
lengths he might go to,

to see his mission through.

- And your wife?

Did you lose her, too?

- You know that saying,

you don't know what you've
got until you lost it?

- Sure.

- When I was a young
man, she kept me steady.

I cannot remember
the precise moment

where it all fell apart.

It was gradual.

Like a small scale of illusion.

Just somewhere down the line,

she realized I couldn't
give her what she needed.

I didn't even put up a fight.

I apologized, watched
her walk away.

- Did you love her?

- Yes, I did.

- And you just let her go?

- I might not have loved
her if she'd stayed.

How can I respect
someone who stayed

with someone that couldn't
even respect themselves?

- Well I think if
you love somebody,

you make it work
through anything.

I think it's that simple.

Have you ever considered
you couldn't handle

being there for her
because you didn't want it?

Or you were afraid of it?

- Doctor Pyatt, if you weren't
sitting here talking to me

right now, what
would you be doing?

- I'd be sitting here waiting
for somebody else to talk to.

- You wouldn't be
home with your wife?

- This is my job.

It's what makes us money.

- You're a psychologist
without patients.

That would explain that
ridiculous brochure.

No, you wouldn't be
sitting here doing nothing,

because Doctor,
this is your escape.

By being here, you don't
have to face your problems.

You know what I'm
saying is true.

Maybe you have as much reason

for being on that couch as I do.

- You can't even begin to
understand my situation.

- Yes I can.

- Oh, well then by all
means, don't stop there.

(violin and piano music)

- Relationships demand
constant attention.

I thought I understood that.

It was only when my wife told me

that she didn't love me anymore,

that i realized that I hadn't
given enough of myself.

Relationships demand constant
attention or they fail.

From someone that learned
a little too late,

make her your priority
over all things.

Your passions, your
job mean nothing

in the face of love, true love.

I've experienced a
lot in my lifetime,

both good and bad.

You're a young man, you
don't wanna be pushing 80

sitting in a
psychologist's office,

reminiscing about what you
wish you'd done differently.

Trust me.

One morning you wake up

and forget to kiss
your wife good bye.

And suddenly you can't
remember the last time you did.

(sighs)

- So I guess I'm
gonna talk to you,

'cause I think you can hear me.

Feels like it's been a
while since we talked.

(monitor beeps)
(Evelyn sniffs)

Tracy called this morning.

I guess there might
be a new temp agency

I could sign on with,
so there's some hope.

Listen, no one knows

how long it's gonna
be until you wake up.

My mom said she'd
move in to help,

while you're, while you're away.

And I'm really dreading that.

So you need to come to.

I need you.

And she does, too.

I've been alone a lot lately.

Without a job and you at work,

and I've had a lot
of time to think.

I haven't done much
else with my time.

The bills keep piling up.

And I notice how big the
hole gets when you're gone.

I miss you.

And I just keep trying
to piece together

where everything went wrong.

When did it get so bad for us?

It doesn't seem like
it's been six years.

I remember, I was
working downtown,

and you came in
early in the morning

and your tooth was
cracked in half.

And you were freaking out,
your voice was so high-pitched.

And we rushed you to the chair,

and the doctor turned the TV
on to try to calm you down

but that didn't work.

And we numbed you, but
apparently not enough

because when I went to start
working on your filling

you just screamed.

And afterwards you had
the nerve to ask me out.

You were still all
swollen at the time,

and you looked like a balloon

and sounded so ridiculous.

What happened?

I mean, when we were dating

you used to come by
work from time to time

just to surprise me, or say
hello on your lunch break.

Was it the baby?

Does the responsibility
scare you?

When you come out of this,

I want to start again.

Because, without you,
our family doesn't work.

God, I'm so confused.

And the police can't even
identify the man who shot you.

God.

Ovid came by to
check on me today.

To see you.

You really know how to
choose your friends.

He cares a lot for you, for us.

I hope you realize that.

(monitor beeps)
(tense music)

(Evelyn's voice is drowned out
by music and beeping monitor)

- The price of my
ambition extended

far beyond my wife,
Doctor, it was everything.

Where I'm from, there
are no taxes, no IRS.

No gas stations or
fuel pumps, no warfare.

No Ronald McDonald's,
no shitty movies,

we don't make those anymore.

Human kind had acquired
all the information

it could ever desire,
and it was maddening.

Once you put the power of
God into the people's hands,

they don't believe in anything
anymore but themselves.

- So, are you a natural skeptic.

- I haven't always been,
remember I've seen what happens.

I've seen men kill
whole families

because they didn't
believe in their god.

Politicians murder
each other for control.

Corporations playing
chess with peoples' lives

for a percentage.

In a way, time has shown me

that people are just
fucking selfish.

And I'm no different.

Like Icarus, I flew
too close to the sun.

(recorder clicks)

You gonna get that?

- You can't expect
any rational mind

to believe that you're
from the future.

- I know, that's
why I'm telling you.

- You certainly can't expect me

to believe what you're saying.

- You must realize
how important it is

for you to keep an open mind.

I imagine you've got
something of a feel for me

by this point.

Surely you see that
I have a sober mind.

And despite the fact
that I sincerely believe

what I'm telling you here,

I show no signs of lunacy.

- I think it's still a bit early

for a full diagnosis on that.

- You're still trying to wrap
your head around me, huh?

- There are just a lot of
questions that need to be asked.

All right, so far everything
that you've told me

requires no shred of proof
or any irrefutable data.

- What do your
instincts tell you?

- Being a man of science myself,

going on instincts is not
something I commonly do.

- Even if you don't believe
I'm from the future,

you can't ignore the
plausibility of my story.

And being a man of science,
you must consider it.

And this is where I get off.

(poignant strings music)

- Wait, what?

- I've already allowed
this conversation

to go on too long.

- Now hold on, I
mean, I have sat here

and listened to your
stories, your lectures,

your, what, your life lessons.

I've sat here as this
conversation became

far more than a therapy session.

You can't just, you can't play
games with people like this.

- I'm sorry.

- That's it?

- That's all I have.

- Oh.

- Your life may've been
easier had I not entered it.

But if you don't mind,
I selfishly will cherish

the talks we've had.

You've reminded me of a
world that's worth it.

And I'm grateful.

You ever hear "fools walk in
where angels fear to tread"?

- Thank you.

- No, no, no.

- Oh, I got it.

- No, man, we--

- No, lunch is on me.

- I appreciate it.

- No problem.

Oh hey, thank you.

- Hey I'm sorry about earlier.

I mean you were totally right
about everything you said.

- I know.

- And I promise
you'll see less of me.

- Good.

(laughs)

You know what I mean.

- Yeah, yeah.

- What?

- Today was just so crazy,

I can't get it outta my head.

- It definitely doesn't
happen every day,

but take my advice.

Separate your work life
from your home life.

You know when you married
Evie you made a commitment.

I mean, you had your
chance to bail out.

- I don't wanna bail
out, I love her.

- Then why don't you do
something tonight to show her?

- Shit.

Gotta put the gas
bill in the mail.

- That's not exactly
what I meant by--

- No, no, no, no, I
just remembered though,

but I know what you mean.

I will.

- Let me know how it goes.

- Yeah sure, I'll
just film it for you.

- Really?

- No, man, what is
a matter with you?

- I just haven't had a lot of
time for a sex life, lately.

I mean, I gotta
take what I can get.

- All right, man,
I'm gonna head home.

- [Ovid] All right.
- [Jason] I'll catch you later.

- [Ovid] Okay, you give the
Missus the best for me, okay?

- [Jason] I will.

(Jason grunts)

- Hey you know, give
her a kiss for me.

- Always.

- Yeah, a nice big juicy one.

That wasn't very nice.

(low percussive music)

(violin and quick
percussive music)

- What brings you in?

- Uh, some special
flowers for my wife.

- Okay.

Anniversary, birthday?

- Uh, kinda a little make up.

- Been there before.

Right over here.

- Let's go with the red.

- Sounds good.

Got a nice assortment
here that actually

somebody backed out on,

so it's already got
the baby's breath,

a nice green mix all with it.

- How much is that?

- [Florist] $59.99.

- Yes, let's do it.

- Okay.

Okay, I've actually got some
change for that right now.

- Awesome.

- Here's 40.

- Thanks so much for that.

- [Florist] Yeah, feel
free to look around,

I'm just gonna set
these down for you.

- [Jason] Awesome, thanks a lot.

- Thanks again.

- Yeah, yeah.

(hinge squeaks)

(tense music)

(quick, tense music)

(leaves rustle)

(door squeaks)

- Look at me, look at me.

What are you doing?

- Let me go.

- No, no, no.

- [Ovid] Let me go.
- [Mr. Darnell] No, no, no.

Give me a chance.

I'm here, I'm gonna fix this.

- You ruined everything, Jason.

- If you're so goddamn smart,
what are you doing here?

- [Ovid] It's the only way.
- [Jason] It works.

- [Ovid] It's the only way.

(elevator button buzzes)

- Please.

Just give me a chance.

I can fix it.

- Get out of my way,
or I will put you down.

- Oh, sorry!

- This is where it ends.

Right here, right now.
(knee thumps)

- [Jason] Yeah.
- [Man] Have a good night.

Oh, hey, watch the elevator,
it's really slow today.

- Yeah, does it ever go faster?

- [Man] Later.

- [Jason] Yeah.

- [Man] Night!

(door squeaks)

(gun fires)

(gun fires)

(Evelyn screams)

- No!

(gun fires)

(Jason cries out)

(gun fires)

(Evelyn sobs)

(rewinding audio tape chitters)

- [Voiceover] I'd
been given the se.

(tape recorcer clicks)

(toilet flushes)
(water trickles)

- With that device,
you have a device.

The device.

When the singer have flown
off requiring gravity.

We could harness the
combined collection

of wormholes to lead
through space itself.

And with that previous formula,

secured,

we could eliminate
three dimensional
travel through space.

At the fraction at the energy
thought to be required for it.

(tape recorder clicks)

- Jason...

Please tell me what's happening.

I'm in the dark.

Who were those men, and
why did he shoot at you?

Please.

(tape recorder clicks)

- Please.

Try to keep an open mind.

Okay.
- [Evelyn] All right.

- Okay.

Do you remember where I took
you for our second date?

- [Evelyn] Yeah.

- Tell me, please.

- Gasworks Park,
on the big hill.

You wanted to show me the stars.

- Do you remember what
I said to you there

before I kissed you?

- [Evelyn] Jason, I
don't understand what--

- I looked up.

I looked up at the sky,

and I said, "Evelyn,

"this is my canvas."

And the possibilities,

oh, the possibilities
are endless.

I see 'em now.

The possibilities.

The possibilities are
laid out in front of me,

like a pattern of stars.

- What happened?

What happened to you?

- That man with the gun, okay?

He wasn't a bad man.

- He tried to kill you, Jason.

- That was Ovid.

- [Evelyn] What?

- That was Ovid.

- Ovid, our friend Ovid,

your best man, Ovid?
- [Jason] Yeah, yeah.

- [Evelyn] Jason, Jason,
- [Jason] He came back.

- [Evelyn] how is that possible?

- He came back.

He's Ovid.

50 years from now.

Today a patient of mine
came into my office.

We've been talking
for about a year.

And I didn't think
anything of it.

But he told me,

he told me a fantastical story.

About a man who made an amazing,

an amazing discovery,
that changed everything,

but it didn't change
it for the better.

It made everything worse.

It made it much worse.

And I knew he wasn't crazy.

But I couldn't believe
what he was saying,

because I couldn't
accet it to be true.

But it was.

It is.

- The other man in the
hallway, that was him.

- [Jason] Yeah.

- Well who was he?

- It was me.

(Evelyn exhales forcefully)

- [Evelyn] I don't understand!
- [Jason] Please, please,

please, please, please, please,

just try to keep
an open mind, okay?

He came back,

to warn me about the future.

Hey.

This is one of the most
difficult moments of my life.

This thing could,

it could fix everything.

It could solve all
of our problems.

Easily.

We'd have, we'd have money.

And we'd have freedom.

We'd have time.

Look in my jacket.

Look in my jacket.

Look at the inside pocket.

Look closer.

Look closer.

- Is this a joke?

- No.

- And so what, you,

you discovered a way to...

- Yeah.

- Jason, I wanna believe you,

I really do.
- [Jason] Please believe me.

I'm not crazy.

I'm not crazy.

- You better not be.
(Jason sobs)

- Well maybe after Logan's born.

(both laugh shakily)

- I don't think Skye will
give us that much trouble.

Do you?

- No, no, of course not.

Oh, Eve.

I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry.

I haven't been there.

I haven't been there at all.

I'm sorry.

It's gonna be different, okay?

It's gonna be different.

(both sob)

It's gonna be different.

It's all gonna be different.

Oh.

- So, what do we do now?

I mean, I guess we have
to call someone, right?

I mean, someone has to do
some tests on this discovery.

I mean, you have to,
you have to have someone

confirm it before
you sell it, right?

- [Jason] No, I
don't think I can.

- What do you mean?

- I don't think
I can do it, Eve.

I don't think I can do it.

- I don't understand, you
just sat there and told me

that this would fix
all our problems.

- [Jason] I did, I did.

- Well then am I
missing something?

- Well you didn't
hear what he said,

okay, you didn't
hear what he said.

This thing destroys everything.

- Well if this is all true,

I mean how could you
turn your back on it?

You said yourself, this
is an amazing discovery.

- Why would my best
friend wanna kill me?

Why would he want me dead?

No, if this is the chance
to go back and make

this thing right, then--
- [Evelyn] No, this would fix

everything, Jason.

We need that money.

We need it badly.

- We'll get the money.

We'll get through
this, this is--

- And, I mean...

What, are we just gonna
keep this to ourselves?

I mean, the world
should know about this.

- There are some things the
world should never know about.

- [Evelyn] But Jason,
I think that if you--

- Do you trust me?

- [Evelyn] Jason, I think--

- Do you trust me?

I'm sorry.

Do you trust me?

- Yes.

- Then please,

just try to understand
that I can't do this.

(tape recorder clicks)

(audio tape thumps in trash can)

(Jason sighs)

- Get some sleep.

(Jason sighs)

We'll leave in the morning.

- Oh, look at you,
walking around already.

We'll have you back on that
basketball court in no time.

Doctor?

Hey, you there?

- Yeah, sorry.

Just a bit fuzzy.

- Well, we're lucky
that's all it is.

We were worried we
were gonna lose you

for a minute, there.

- Yeah, not this time.

- Got a little, got a little.

(Ovid groans feebly)

All right, all right,
all right, come on now.

I got it, thank you.

- You ready?

(poignant violin music)

(dramatic piano music)

(somber piano and violin
music with a slow beat)

(subdued orchestral music)