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Very nice.

You need a tie.

I don't like ties.

Besides, this is the latest fashion statement. I think I look just fine.

Right.

Down. Down, down, down.

Now, this is a tuxedo.

This is not a tuxedo.

Once again, this is a tuxedo.

Oh, I'm sorry. It's a bad time.

Oh, Ash.

Mitch, you remember Ashley?

Um, no.

Sure you do.

Right as mine in all my college science courses.

Without her, I never would have made it through physical chemistry, much less

organic.

How are you? How's John? How's the research?

Actually, John's why I'm here.

What's wrong?

I think I'll come back later. You guys are going somewhere special. No, nothing

special. Only the opening of Lou's new club down at the beach.

Come in. You look upset.

I don't even know where to begin. It's so complicated.

For two years now, John and I have been concentrating on quantum physics.

We were conducting a simple countering experiment with the particle

when something unexpected happened.

A convergence was created. A force field.

A physical force field?

Yeah.

I didn't think that was possible.

It isn't. And it isn't just a force field, Ryan. It's a time -space anomaly.

Somehow objects come and go from inside.

I don't follow.

Good. I thought it was just me.

I guess you have to see it to believe it.

But I'm really worried about John, Ryan.

He's becoming obsessed. I'm scared to death he's going to do something crazy,

like enter the Convergence himself.

Well, we can go over there, can't we? Oh, absolutely.

Let's help your friend.

Great. I'm going to call T. Great.

Well, the experiment will interest him, and, you know, maybe he can help. Oh,

good idea.

I've never seen particle explorators do this.

No, no, Kazana.

All right.

Come to, uh, save the lunatic?

John, this is fascinating.

How did you get the conal refraction?

Unintentional genius.

What is this, some sort of phase disturbance?

That's what we were trying to determine when it happened.

What happened? What's the big deal?

The, uh, time anomaly.

What's that in English?

Go and stand over by the door and I'll show you.

Yeah. Wait, wait, stay right there.

Okay, where did it go?

It should be coming out about... now.

It was gone for 12 seconds.

Where was it?

Don't know.

Is it always the same time difference?

Have you thrown anything other than a football? Is the field different in the

middle than at the edges? What defines the field?

The time interval is always different.

Have you checked the magnetic resonances?

Yeah.

Okay, we'll check it again.

Let's throw something organic.

Ashley, I know why you brought Ryan here, but you see, even she is hooked.

Am I crazy, or is this the most remarkable experiment that you have ever

The magnetic field fluctuates every time something passes through.

Huge fluctuation.

The hell?

An apple in and a jar out?

This has never happened before.

This is definitely very weird.

There seems to be a gravitational force that's pulling at me.

Ashley, maybe you better step away from there. He's right. Until we know more

about this, you should be careful.

But we found a dead spot here and another one somewhere around here.

Ashley.

Different places.

will never be the same.

Please.

You have to come back.

Please come back.

It's been 90 seconds.

That's longer than anything else has been gone.

They're not coming back.

Calm down.

I need a satellite scan.

Trace the target coordinates of any magnetic impulse generation emanating

this location.

Anything during the last half hour.

Who are you talking to?

I'm checking to see if what's happening here is registering on the outside.

None?

Thank you.

Brian?

Anybody want to talk?

Ryan?

Do you have any theories, solid or otherwise, on where they might be? No.

Yes, we talked about it, but it's also speculative.

Oh, God.

I've lost her.

Ashley's gone.

Yeah, yeah.

Did you see them? I saw something that jumped out of the shadows at me.

I don't know what the hell it was, but I saw something.

I don't know what they are either. It's like some mutant human form.

Where are we?

I don't know.

Ashley will know. I mean, it's her experiment. Ashley?

You saw her? She's here?

Well, yeah, but I think those things have her. I saw her running and they

chasing her. All right, all right, all right.

Be fine, Ashley.

Find a way out of here.

Where'd you last see her?

Um, it was over there, I think.

Okay, come on.

Wait for me.

It's a baby's teething ring.

Humans were here.

You know what?

I think we're in a parallel universe.

No, it's a world like ours, running right next to us in another dimension.

Okay.

Whether you believe it or not, this is what we're dealing with here.

We came through a portal.

Jonathan called it a time anomaly.

It's another place, but at the same time.

I think we're in the future.

Oh, yeah.

The future's really going to look like this.

You know what else I think?

All this was caused due to a sudden breakdown in the ozone layer.

Nice theory.

Doesn't help.

And that the entire west coast, from San Diego all the way up to Seattle, burned

up.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard of.

Really?

Today, September 15th, 1999, fires consume west due to ozone layer

We are in the future.

Come on, find Ashley.

What came out of that thing?

Forget what was hatched, I want to know what played it.

Looks like humans aren't the only things mutating.

That was Ashley. What?

I've lost her.

She's gone.

Never coming back.

There's nothing I can do.

I've learned nothing.

What is that supposed to mean?

Six years ago, I was still an undergraduate.

This, uh... This happened before.

This? No, not exactly this.

It was an experiment with lasers.

Working too long, pushing too hard.

Refusing to stop, even though everyone warned me.

There was a... There was an explosion.

People were hurt.

Two died.

That's why Ashley was so concerned.

Screams came from over there.

No, no, it came from over there.

The way this town echoes.

Come on, come on.

I don't want to place you in a bad look.

What is the matter with me?

Why must I hurt the people that I'm closest to?

Don't beat yourself up.

You're a scientist.

An explorer.

Your purpose is to go beyond the limits.

To test the areas unknown to others.

That can be dangerous.

But with that comes responsibility to finish what you've started.

Now, you've done this.

I've solved the problem.

Then I'm the one who should be in there.

Ashley should be here alive.

She is alive.

So are Mitch and Ryan. You don't know that, do you?

Do you?

What? What?

We're drawing a crowd.

We're going in after them.

With your soft work, self -indulgence.

Now, they may only have one chance, but that one chance is you. You hear me? You

got that? Now you get out your old -fashioned slide rule. You power up your

newfangled high tech.

But one way or another, you stop feeling sorry for yourself and you start caring

about the people who need your help. The people are depending upon you and me to

get them back.

Stay close.

Come

on.

Where are we going?

I don't know. I don't know.

It can't be any worse than where we just came from.

No!

What was that?

Easy, easy.

It's okay.

It's all right.

Who are you?

You're not from here.

Where did you come from?

What are you doing here?

We're not sure.

His pulse is right weak.

Have you eaten anything?

No, no.

Don't bother with me.

I'm dying.

Here, take a little water. Easy, easy.

He did it to us all.

When? Can you remember when?

Then the cities burned.

The survivors gathered together.

Mitch, I know this sounds crazy, but I think I know this man.

And then the marauders came.

Desperate, savage.

They attacked the city. The survivors beat us.

Many of us were killed.

It's nothing

I

can do.

The marauders are still there.

Is there anything we can do? Anything we can do to help?

You must get away.

Save yourselves.

They'll get you.

Is your name Arnold?

Professor Arnold?

How do you know my name?

Years ago, you taught physics at a university.

Do I know you?

My name is Ryan McBride.

I was a student in one of your physics classes.

I don't remember you.

Maybe if we take him back to our time period, we find Ashley, the doctors over

there could help him.

Mitch, it doesn't work that way.

He's here in his own time.

We're the ones that aren't supposed to be here.

I don't know what the rules are here.

We all saw it coming.

Everybody did.

The arrogance of man.

We think no matter what the problem, no matter...

How great the danger signs.

We can always fix it.

We couldn't fix this.

Our great arrogance killed us all.

You must leave.

All right.

All right. Just rest easy.

Easy.

OK.

The

hell

should I do?

I don't know.

I don't know what the hell you should do.

Look, you built this thing. Stop whining. I don't even know where to

Dr. Arnold's notes?

No, he's the head of our department. How is that possible?

Excuse me.

Why are his notes here? They just can't be the same Dr. Arnold.

These are my notes in the beginning.

How'd he get my notes?

I wish I had something to measure the radiation with.

There's something moving over there.

Might be Ashley.

Ashley?

Ashley, it's us.

I'll figure it out.

Nice punch.

Thank you.

Go, go, go, go!

No, it's easy. When you land, just tuck and roll.

We can talk to you at gym class. I didn't take gym class. I took dance.

Dance is good.

Tap.

Tap?

You took tap?

It's not coming back. Don't you understand?

They're not coming back.

You're lying.

If you hadn't gotten us into this mess, we would probably be at Lou's Club right

now, sitting in the front row, listening to a medley of his hits.

But she was my best friend in college. What am I going to do, say no?

Yeah, it's okay to say no.

You'll learn that when you get older.

No!

You see?

It's okay to say no.

No is good. No is very good.

No can be great.

go in there I'd be with her I could live with my failure on that side or if

necessary die with it but I would have Ashley with me now I have nothing

what does it matter anymore it matters now why hasn't

the coffee cup come back that force I know whatever it is hasn't released

it what do you think it is No matter how crazy or speculative, there's something

in your mind. What is it? I think that we throw it into a parallel universe.

Physical place?

What did you write on it?

If you're there, send it back.

How do we get the hell out of here? I have absolutely no idea.

But I think I know where we might find the answer.

Remember Dr. Arnold from the university?

I found all his lab notes.

You found the notes? I found the maker. What? He's here? Yeah, he's that way.

I think that might be a problem.

You scared him off.

I don't think so.

Every time the little fish run, it's because... There's a big fish coming.

Let's go find Dr. Arnold.

I heard your voice.

I thought it was a dream brought to me by my fever.

Professor, it's Ashley.

Ashley?

You had my research notes in your own logs.

So many years ago, so many students.

I don't remember.

How did you survive?

Professor, we were doing particle accelerator research.

Jonathan and I.

We created a time anomaly.

A portal we came through.

And now you're lost and can't get back, eh?

We've learned so little.

We're still devil.

In areas that are best left alone.

We've learnt nothing.

Professor.

Can you help us find a way out of here?

As the gambler says.

Get out.

The way.

The way you got in.

Professor?

Professor?

The man said, we gotta go back to the spot where we came in.

That's the door.

it down. I better not have. It's our only way out.

If you're there, send it back.

I need something.

KT, here it comes.

Wait, wait, wait, wait, okay.

We came out here, so the convergence is there.

But since we came out this side, I think it's better if you throw it in from

above. Okay.

Wait, wait. I have to go back. Go back now?

I have to get Dr. Arnold's notes. What, are you crazy?

He saw it all.

With these notes, maybe we can avoid everything in our world ending up like

this.

Can't you see?

We may never get back here.

All right, all right. I'll go back and get his notes.

But you are going back now. Come on, come on. It's a brown leather notebook.

got it. Come on, come on.

Come in right after me, okay?

I'm right behind you.

Okay.

Mitch, um, I love you.

I know you do.

Oh, no, don't start getting cocky on me now.

Okay, all right, just go. It's going to be okay.

Okay.

I'll be waiting for you. I'll be there as soon as I can.

It's okay.

Right.

Okay.

You okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm okay.

I was scared to death that I'd never see you again.

So scared.

I never realized how much I cared until you were gone.

Then I went crazy.

I wanted to come over to the other side to be with you.

Thank God.

I thought that you were right.

Oh, thank God.

Jonathan, Jonathan, you'll never believe where I've been.

I saw the future, and it wasn't good. It was chaos and disaster, and we

caused it.

Where's Mitch?

Um, Dr. Arnold, he wrote it all down. He went back to get the professor's notes.

You saw Dr. Arnold?

What was he doing there?

Why would he do that?

The notes were the key to the future, Teague. He documented it all, step by

step.

You should have come back together. There's no guarantee the Convergence

hold.

Where is he? Please come.

He'll be here.

He'll be here.

It's astounding.

This portal.

An entryway to the next dimension.

Tegan, we can't think about that right now.

God, why did I let him go back?

He'll be here. You said so.

And so do I.

You all right? Yeah.

Yeah. Well, then what the hell took you so long?

I ran into a couple of mutants.

Oh, God. The convergence is gone.

But the book's here.

Dr. Arnold's notes. It'll show us how to avoid all the stupid... The

metal in the binder.

We lost the note.

But we know what's going to happen.

It's up to us.

You sure you're all right?

Yeah, yeah, I'm just trying to figure out what the hell just happened.

Well, when the physical convergence created a Mobius... I know you believe

that scientific mumble -jumble, but... I don't know, it just occurred to me that

if this is the present...

The past is really our future, right?

Right. And if the ozone layer is going to burn off, we're all going to die in

the future, then maybe, you know, maybe we should make the most of the present.

I don't follow.

Maybe we should make the most of the moment.

What moment are you referring to?

Well, you did say you love me.

Yes, but that's because I thought we were going to die.

We are going to die.

In the future.

That's why we should make the most of this.

I don't really think we should talk about this right now. Well, you're a

scientist. We're supposed to discuss everything.

Yes, but this has nothing to do with science.

You really love me?

Go away. No, I'm not going to go away, because if you really do love me, then

should make the most of the present and do something about it.

I mean, we're going to die in the future. You did say you love me. I'm not

giving up on this one. Now, come on. You said you love me.

You did.

I know. Maybe it was a moment of weakness, but you did. You said you love