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Thank you.

Hello?

Oh my God.

Hello?

What am I doing here?

Your research, Dr. Tanning.

We know about your work.

Your last experiment.

Who exactly is we?

Let's just say certain interested parties.

Interested in what?

Parallel universes.

And what happened to Professor Jack Brenner?

Your last experiment.

We want to know how you did it.

All the details. Everything.

How about you, Jack, your theory?

Some ideas are just too controversial.

What happened to him?

Am I being accused?

We know he vanished.

Disappeared into thin air.

But we don't know how or where to.

Looks like you have some idea.

Jack drew the answer for you.

Einstein, Rosen, Bridge.

But where?

I don't know.

Your office okay?

Uncomfortable enough?

Small enough? Perfect size?

Got plenty of tinfoil? You know I could use another roll?

I'll make a note of that.

So, listen, you got a few minutes?

Yeah, why?

I want to talk to you about something.

About?

In my office.

Why can't we get past that singularity?

Cosmic censorship?

What was it like before the Big Bang?

Any information that goes in, anything, even light, there's no way out.

Well, not in this universe.

Perhaps another.

So you didn't give up on your theory?

Parallel universes do exist and they can be created.

There has to be a way.

A matter of science?

Some science is better left as a belief.

Years ago, Jack got close.

To what?

His notebook.

Where'd you get that?

From Jack.

What? Who do you think funded his research in the early days?

There's no way. I mean, Jack would never work for...

If you wanted the same thing you want.

That we all want.

Your paper was the missing piece in his research.

He'd given up until he found you.

But I applied to work for him.

Did you?

He sent me an email first to congratulate me on my dissertation.

QED.

Girl?

It's a long time ago.

No, boo.

It's an artist.

Oh, like my wife, Lindy.

Well, I certainly didn't know what he was thinking.

It's like Jack was always happier somewhere else.

You know, a different time, place.

On the beach, I guess, with his girl.

She was the problem.

Why? What happened?

They were young.

Jack was ambitious like you.

He lost.

How's it coming?

As far as I can go.

What's with the rope?

She looks trapped.

I love you.

Did you make...

Your favorite?

Well, no, I really love it.

Hey. Does it work?

One sec.

What? I've just got to check the linear accelerator.

Huh?

It should work.

You don't sound too confident.

It's really dicey, eh?

Hey, is it going to work or not?

It will work.

Cool. I'll see you up here.

Five Tesla, enough magnet?

Should be.

Let

me

see.

Hey,

Robert.

Guys, what's going on?

Peter Tanning. Robert Jerry.

You know, I didn't see your name on the night schedule.

Oh, I'm just trying to get some of this old equipment working. Might be needed.

The audiometer's actually fairly new. It's only been used a couple times.

Good to know.

I'll be running some experiments with it next week.

Okay, then.

You guys have any problems, I'm downstairs in the control room. Thanks.

You know, it's real important to let me know when there is a problem.

Will do.

See you then.

It was Robert who told you about the experiment, wasn't it?

Does it matter?

Son of a bitch.

We've been monitoring you. Since when?

Who are you people? What right do you have?

More than you or I will ever know.

Okay, so who's the we?

It's us, those interested you keep talking about.

All right.

I'm not going to tell you anything more about the experiment.

It has no name, only purpose.

I thought you said that there's no one in here after six. Robert has to be here

to take care of any beamline signs. You mean they're here too?

Not usually.

I didn't believe that. Chill out, man.

Nobody cares what we're doing. Robert seemed to care.

So this was a critical moment in the experiment.

It was the first stage of the experiment to see if we could synthesize a

magnetic monopole.

I thought you were trying to synthesize a singularity.

Basically, once you've synthesized the monopole, you've got a singularity.

Basically. Now, theory says that they should naturally occur, but no one's

found one except maybe Jack.

Yeah, Jack did.

Of course you'd know that.

Told you, he was working with us.

And just what was he doing up there?

Here. Lab in Northern California.

Okay, so here we go again.

I tell you about the experiment, and you keep your mouth shut about anything

that might be remotely relevant.

How do you expect me to get the answers you need?

When you hold back information, it'll help me piece it together.

Piece what together?

Jack!

What happened to him?

I thought we were talking about the experiment.

Understand what happened to Jack, and you will understand the experiment.

Not just what happened, but what it really means.

It's significant.

You ready?

Let's go.

Neutron source.

Almost there.

Go. All right.

See what it looks like.

How long should it take? Less time than it's taking.

Can you check the hysteresis curve?

Is the field saturating?

Sure is, yeah.

Ah, we're ramping the field too quick. Hey!

I'm getting power surges off the chart.

Look, I know we're out of line here, but if you just let us finish the

hysteresis experiment, he can pass his class.

Too much bias.

Yeah, we're trying to fix that.

But this was anybody else.

How much more time do you guys need?

Another half hour, Max?

Okay, I'm giving you until 11.

He

doesn't

believe us.

Whatever. What do you want to do?

Can we get 7 Tesla?

The currents that get there could fry it.

No choice.

I'm shutting it down.

Just a few more seconds.

It's no use.

Look.

It's fragmented.

It's fragmented.

Crystal fluorescent.

Beautiful, eh?

How did it feel?

Amazing.

And at the same time, fearful.

Why fearful?

Is this because I didn't answer your question about Jack's research?

I think you don't understand the constraints that I'm under.

That's what I'm authorized to say.

You know, I can't even believe this conversation is taking place.

It's entirely absurd.

I'm stuck in this room with an intelligence operative.

A mathematician.

God knows what else.

Jack was trying to stabilize the singularity.

A portal to another universe.

a mechanic today.

Really?

I thought he was Buck.

How'd you find him?

He was in this diner next to a gas station.

The car was smoking because you didn't fix it like you said you would.

You see any good?

Think so.

Pardon me, miss.

I saw you pull up smoking.

Well, yeah, as long as he's reasonable.

It's been a really difficult day.

Oh, tell you what.

Why don't I take your car to my garage?

It's on me.

Said it was a welcome to the town gift.

You're kidding.

I'll get your car all fixed up.

I'm sorry. Are you okay?

I don't know, Peter. There's nothing here for me.

You know what working under Jack Burnham means for my career?

It was supposed to mean we could start a family.

What are you so afraid of?

Look, I'm not afraid. Just hold on a little while longer.

We're almost there. Everything's been leading up to this, where everything

starts to make sense.

Maybe you don't need to accomplish anything to mean something.

Maybe who you are is enough. Who we are. What are you talking about?

Everything hinges on this.

I used to believe in my dreams.

And you used to believe in ours.

So why did Jack stop working with you?

He lost hope.

It's a reason to keep trying.

Can you understand that?

Can you?

Ever since I can remember, even as a child, I was obsessed with somewhere

this world.

I've never admitted to anybody, but my research was much more than just

It's about validating who I was.

That what I had experienced my whole life wasn't because I was crazy.

I was meant to discover that.

Who's there?

What's on your mind, Peter?

What did you say in your papers?

A parallel universe from an elementary monopole singularity expansion.

It's a brilliant idea, but it's like you held back.

Well, I couldn't stabilize the elementary monopole.

Theoretically speaking, if you had a stable monopole, The idea would be

to bombard it with fast energy particles.

Chances are, one of these is going to slam into the monopole

and when that happens, a new universe parallel to ours would be born.

The problem is, besides needing the stable monopole, you need

this.

to trigger the singularity expansion.

Well, yeah, the synchrotron.

Thanks for coming, Peter.

I know you're busy.

Buck Johnson. Peter Channing. Nice to meet you. Pleasure to meet you.

Buck's the one who helped fix the car.

Oh, we really do appreciate that, Buck.

Oh, it's my pleasure.

You know, I've been thinking.

If you'd be new in town and all, there's a resort in Coutinho just north of

Calgary. I'm taking some friends up there this weekend. Why don't you guys

along?

We'd stay at my ranch.

It's part of the resort.

Flying us all in a plane.

Oh, we didn't order.

Buck's usual.

And that little ranch he's talking about?

Buck owns the resort.

What do you think, Peter?

It sounds really great, but it's going to be really hard to get time off from

work.

Why don't you go, Linda?

Don't you?

It'll be okay.

My pleasure.

I want this place to be good for both of us.

Go on, have some fun.

Hey, thanks for this, Buck. It's my pleasure.

I'd never do that now. I mean, who would do that? Let their wife go off with

another man.

I mean, I was so blinded.

I didn't see him as a threat. All I could think was that I could finish the

experiment. I just needed one final push, uninterrupted by my relationship

my wife.

Any information that goes in, anything, even light, there's no way out.

Not in this universe, but perhaps in another.

Jack was trying to expand the singularity, but he couldn't control it.

He came face to face with the Einstein -Rosen bridge.

We'd always been interested in the creation of other universes.

They're uncontrollable side effects.

So Jack did experiment with this theory.

Another universe?

Jack?

What's up?

Hey. Anything interesting?

What?

Net.

Some calculations.

What do you know about undulators?

Why? Get the door.

We need a way to expand the monopole to learn about its properties.

We're going to need very intense and narrow energy bands to hit it hard.

An undulator beam will get you the energy, but you'll need optics to focus

beam.

What does Jack think?

I don't know. I haven't asked him yet.

Don't you think you should? I mean...

There's heavy stuff way beyond us. Not just yet.

I want to have more data before we tell them.

I don't know.

We just got to expand the monopole, that's all.

So?

I'll get you the beam.

Cool. Good night, then.

How much did Tim know about the science?

I never told him more than he needed to know. He knew we were running renegade

experiments, and he knew not to ask.

He didn't wonder?

Not sure.

I didn't care.

At that moment, I needed to get to the airport.

You're going to clean this all up, aren't you?

A lot more complicated than you know.

I really wish you were coming.

Me too, but I can't.

I still think you should have asked.

There's no way.

It's safe, right?

Well, it's safe as anything.

Besides, I got a good co -pilot. I've never flown a plane before in my life.

Piece of cake.

I'll teach you in the air.

Hop in. Let's giddy up.

It's your friend.

Oh, they're meeting us up there.

Okay.

Wendy.

I'll take good care of her.

Undulator beam.

Ready to rock.

Go.

Radiation levels.

Holding steady.

Keep an eye on them.

Got it. Can we magnify around the monopole?

Yep.

So, what exactly are you looking for here?

A kind of ray expansion.

Shouldn't we be looking for the crystal lattice? That would at least tell us

something about the structure.

I can switch to an atomic structure. No!

Well, at least let's get a visual.

I'm bringing up a view of the crystal.

Fine.

I've seen Cheronkov radiation.

Here it comes.

Radiation level?

Increasing, but still safe.

Shut it down.

What? I said shut it down now! Okay.

Whatever.

What was that all about?

Radiation levels were getting too high. We weren't even close to a danger level.

Rates were increasing too quickly. I couldn't chance it.

Sure.

But Tim didn't believe you.

That there was radiation.

Not sure, and I didn't care.

As long as he's gone, I succeeded.

You were willing to take the risk.

I never believed it would end badly.

If you didn't think it would end badly, why did you kick Tim out?

You see, it's a lot more complicated.

There's problems in Texas.

Odessa Pipeline.

Hi, everyone.

You can get it cleaned up.

I'll see you Tuesday.

You hungry?

Starving. Great. The lodge makes the best steak you've ever tasted.

So what's on tonight?

I'm taking it alone tonight.

What?

That guy Robert.

We're under his eye. We've got to play cool for a little while.

He's always like that. You know, sticking his nose in everything. But

all.

You're being paranoid.

Look, I'm taking it alone tonight. That's it.

Go for it.

Good thing Tim wasn't there.

Why? That's when it happened.

Singularity expansion.

It changed everything.

How did it change everything?

Well, normally there's one person for every universe, but when you

only have one person for two universes,

you've got problems.

I was phase -shifting into multidimensional space.

And again, it could have been a psychotic break.

Or an alternate reality?

Another universe?

You still there?

Something you said.

That there's one person for each universe.

Reminded me of something Jack used to say.

Yeah?

Some people aren't meant for this world.

I don't care what Jack said, you little prick. I swear to God. If I knew what

you were talking about, I would help. You see that? They're dead.

What I was talking about. Look at those diagnostics there. They're dead. They're

blank. I want to know what you're going on. If you have a problem, go ask Peter,

because I don't know what he did.

Okay, homework, right. Yeah, that's really what you guys were doing. Hey,

What's up?

What were you guys working on?

And don't even try the homework line. What did you tell him?

I keep telling him it was just homework. Forget about that.

I saw the energy spikes going off the chart.

But what I don't understand is when it all went blank.

What are you talking about? Oh, come on. You had to have seen something. I

didn't see anything.

All the x -ray lab diagnostics... You really don't know, do you? That's what

saying.

All the x -ray lab diagnostics went dead.

Probably just a computer glitch. I checked. It was way more than that.

What do you mean, way more?

It's like the entire x -ray lab just disappeared.

Now what were you guys working on?

All right, that's it. You're both going on report. Jack can sort this out. Come

on, man. Forget it, Tim.

Oh, hey, hey, hey, it's not worth it.

Did Tim know you had created the universe?

I mean, he must have suspected... It was my agreement.

I couldn't have him or anybody else interfering, okay?

Look, I didn't know what the hell was going on. I was starting to lose

Hello? Peter?

Hey, are you okay? I've been trying to call you.

Sorry, the phone reception's really bad up here.

How was the plane ride?

It was fun.

Buck let me fly.

And you're still alive.

Where are you?

At the bar, waiting to get a table for dinner.

Sounds like you're having a really good time.

I miss you.

The research, Lindy, what I've discovered is...

Amazing. Always about what you're doing. It's never about us.

Why do you always have to look for the bad? I mean, why can't you just enjoy

what's right in front of you? Oh, yeah.

I'm at a bar alone with a man I just met.

Alone?

We're Buck's friends.

They didn't end up coming.

What's he doing up there?

Throwing his money all over you?

He's not doing anything.

Besides being a knife.

Lindy?

Yes? Please come home.

Now's not the best time.

What do you mean?

Buck and I are going to Texas. One of his pipelines first.

You're doing what?

He asked me to go with him.

Well, so tell him you can't go.

Don't tell me what to do.

I gotta go.

Something just fired in my head.

How could I be so stupid?

So she started having an affair with this man?

No, no.

See, I didn't know it then, but I know now that I was actually jumping into a

parallel universe, that it wasn't her, it wasn't my Lindy.

You see, I was starting to shift.

Shift? Yeah.

Between universes.

Did anyone else know of this affair?

Shifting?

Well, Jack knew I was off.

He tried to reach out.

How's the beamline going?

Um, yeah, the beamline seems to be working its back, but these gears are a

little out of alignment.

Too much vibration.

Trying to compensate by changing the primary default angle at initialization.

Tim and I... Yeah?

Tim's been helping me at night with the beamline.

Now far be it for me to discourage a young talented scientist from his

Why don't you keep this x -ray beam line working?

Whatever you do around here is okay with me.

Thanks, Jack.

You like rockabilly?

Yeah, I do.

There's a bar called The Fez on River Drive.

Rockabilly band playing there all week long.

Why don't you and Lindy Meet me there tomorrow night.

You're always going to have work here.

Come on.

Okay, sure.

See you there.

Hey, Peter.

I thought you'd already be at work.

Howdy, Peter.

Something wrong?

No, no. Looks like everything's okay with you and Buck.

I'll miss you getting on.

Thanks again, Buck. I had a really great time.

See you there, Peter.

I don't believe you. How could you be so rude to him?

Are you serious? The guy wants to take you to Texas. I have every right to be

rude. Where do you get that?

Come on, Lindy. You told me on the phone. What happened? Your conscience

you? What are you talking about? You said it flat out that you're going down

Texas with him. Are you okay?

I know what I heard. Fuck is going to Texas, not me.

What is wrong with your acting? Crazy!

I didn't say that. No, go ahead and say crazy.

I mean ever since I can remember I saw I always thought they were hallucinations

Whatever your concerns for your sanity, your research is valid.

How can you say I'm not just crazy?

Perhaps, as you say, if there was a shifting between universes, maybe

time as well.

Assuming you were shifting, how would you know which universe you were in?

The real or the alternate?

The frame of reference is irrelevant.

Both universes would be real.

One time, Jack had the same concerns.

Like what?

The girl.

I don't get it, okay? If he was so hung up on her, why not just get her back or

at least try?

That was the problem.

He couldn't find her.

What, she took off?

Disappeared? Not like she disappeared. It's like she never existed.

We offered to look for her, but Jack said not to bother.

It was impossible to find her.

Jack, what, imagined her?

No.

It's as if she was somewhere between the imagined and the memory.

It's like a dream, which is true.

Thanks for going along with the story last night.

What are you talking about, Peter?

Last night when Robert reported on me. What?

What were you guys working on? And don't even try to hold your crime.

The last time I saw you was when you kicked me out of the lab. Yeah, listen,

sorry about that too, but you see the way that Robert's... I don't know what

you're talking about, Peter. You don't remember charging Robert in the control

room last night?

You're both going on report jacking for me. Come on, man!

Forget him.

Hey, hey, hey, it's not worth it.

I don't know what you're thinking, man. That did not happen.

I got class in ten minutes.

You okay, Peter? Yeah.

Sure.

So when you were shifting, you were living in two universes.

Well, when the singularity expanded, instead of a separate me for each

there's somehow only one of me shifting back and forth between the two. And you

couldn't control which universe you're in.

Correct.

So somehow you opened a doorway into another universe.

And it was affecting your perception of reality.

Science is crazy, right?

Just had to have some fun.

Glad you guys could make it.

Thanks so much, Lindy. Hey, nice to meet you. So good to meet you.

Peter told me so much about you.

Uh -oh.

Explaining about the boss already.

Well, listen up.

Peter's always telling me about how much he admires your research.

Well, I'll drink to that.

And here's to Lindy for putting up with being married to a physicist.

Oh, yeah.

Hey, y 'all know our local perfect scientist here.

It's Jack the Cat Branner.

Well, tonight, Jack's brought with him all the way from California his very own

stand -up bass player.

He downloaded your demo, man. You're good.

Come on, get up there. Come on up. Come on, play us on. Download my demo.

Well, everybody needs an escape, you know.

It works too much to have an escape.

Yeah, Peter!

Woo!

Woo!

Woo! Woo!

Don't worry about him.

You watch out for him at the lab, Jack.

Of course.

I will.

Thank you.

Like that.

Like that?

Yeah.

Ready down the strip to try and find this plow.

Some greaser in a shabby was making some noise. So I said to the dude, you

better hang on, boys. Line them up at the lot so we start to lay it down.

Well, I'm a street crazy man always breaking the law.

I don't care what you heard or what you think you saw. I'm always tearing it up.

All over town. So if you're high on yourself and want to bring it down. So

your mouth and stop that walking.

Let's line them up and let the smoking tires lose it. I'm a street racer man

I'm going to shut you down.

Hey, Peter.

What's up?

I'm really sorry about last night.

What are you talking about?

I shouldn't have let Bug get to me. I really didn't mean to make a scene at

favorite bar, but I wanted him and Lindy to start dancing together.

And the way that they were looking at each other, I just sort of... Wait,

wait. Sit down. Sit down.

The only other person that danced with your wife was me.

Buck was there when Lenny and I arrived. I mean, they danced right in front of

you. No, Peter.

I don't understand.

Jack, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to.

I'm going through some personal problems. So why don't you take the rest

day off? I don't need to do that.

What do you do, Jack, when life doesn't make sense?

It can be real scary.

You know, you find out what's important to you and trust that whatever happens,

it happens for a reason.

You're not alone here, Peter.

Join with us, Peter.

We can give you everything you need to perfect what you've done.

We can help you with you and Linda.

I can't.

Work with that and you'll never have to justify your work and dream to her

again.

Be home for dinner every night.

You'd have a good position, lots of money.

And you would help me for some sort of altruistic reason?

Some noble cause?

What we're facing is not very good.

I can't imagine.

Try me.

But Jack started and you continued.

Would you say it stands to reason that there are counterparts to you and Jack

other universes?

Sure, of course.

We have to be prepared in order to protect.

Is it the same offer you made Jack?

Peter, are the weekly reports ready for me?

Right here. Hey, sorry about bothering you at the university.

Bother?

I don't know. You're welcome anytime.

You know, I mean, if it's okay with you, I think it would be best if I did take

the rest of the afternoon off.

I don't know if it'd be wise to take off early the same day you came in late.

Right. I agree.

Sorry.

You all right?

Yeah, I just, you know, I just need to get some food, and then I'll finish up

the day.

Hello, Tim.

Yeah? Jack Brenner here.

Listen, I want to talk to you, but not over the telephone, so can you meet me

over at the x -ray lab?

Now? Well, when can you get here?

Half an hour?

We'll make it 20.

So tell me about Peter's work.

X -ray physics, mostly calibration and mirror alignment for the beam line.

You don't measure space -time curvature for an X -ray beam line.

What have you really been working on?

I'm not upset then, but I'm concerned about Peter.

I need to know what he's doing.

It's what he uses to get the magnetic monopole.

He's done it.

Does he manage to span the singularity?

I'm not supposed to know.

The logical next step.

Jack?

You've done something amazing here.

Thank you.

I believe this is yours.

We need to talk about this.

In your office tonight?

Okay.

That's who Jack was.

He knew I was in trouble and he was determined to find a way to help me.

So did Jack believe you had created an alternate universe?

At that point, yeah, we all did.

And then I... I started to unravel.

Just reheating some leftovers.

I hope that's okay.

I wasn't sure when you'd be home or what you wanted to do.

What are you doing?

I was cooking dinner.

How was your day?

Do you expect everything to just be normal now?

I'd like it to be.

Look, I just came here to get some clothes. I'm surprised you're even home.

Where else would I be?

Sleeping with Buck, maybe?

What are you... talking about?

Nothing happened.

Unbelievable.

Where are you going? I'm sleeping at the lab tonight.

You're gonna stay at the lab?

Better than at home with my lying, stanky wife. How can you say that?

making any sense.

Yeah, thank you. That's being made perfectly clear. Say hi to Buck for me.

up. Nothing happened.

You're delusional and you can't even admit it.

Figure things out at home?

Lindy and I are splitting up.

She had an affair.

We're not even in town six months, and she sleeps with some strangers.

The other night at the Fez, I mean, you and Lindy, it's clear that she really

loves you.

You saw her dancing with Buck like I wasn't even there.

Yeah, no, you don't believe me. No, I didn't say I don't believe you. I said I

didn't see anything.

How far along are you with the emergent singularity expansion?

I was almost there the other night. Then Robert pulled the plug.

I know. He showed me the lab diagnostics.

That had to be a computer glitch.

Maybe. Or maybe the creation of a universe.

Or maybe my imagination.

In any of that, there might be some answers in those notes.

Go ahead and use those. Don't lose them.

Thanks, Jack.

What was the significance of the note?

The Einstein -Rosen bridge, the same as on Jack's whiteboard. It demonstrates

the connections between two universes, two black holes.

linked by a wormhole. Yeah, I know that, but did the note imply a connection to

an existing universe?

If Jack believed that you had created another universe, why would he want to

into it?

Does it make sense that your mentor, the man you claim understood the science

even better than you, would want to blindly jump into yet another third

reality?

Or is it more likely that it was a window back to the universe that

he'd come from?

So that would mean that he believed that the Einstein -Rosen bridge was a bridge

and not the actual creation of a universe.

How did I get here?

What's wrong?

It can't be happening. It can't be happening. I was just in my office. I

was just in my office.

I'm at her and I close the door and I'm here. Maybe you're just having an

hallucination like when I was a kid. Maybe it's your body getting your

attention. You need sleep.

I don't need sleep!

Why can't you stop lying to me? Why won't you let me help you? I don't need

help. I just need to solve my problem.

My problem.

My problem.

My problem.

What are you trying to do?

Oh, you need to calm down there, partner.

Peter!

What are you doing here?

Is Peter here?

No. Listen, I need to talk with you.

It's about Peter. It's important.

Thanks.

When's the last time you saw him?

I couldn't believe me.

Why?

I had a fight.

I was in here, and he was over there, and he was screaming and yelling.

And then the next thing, he was gone.

What do you mean, gone?

I don't know. He was just gone. He was screaming.

It can't be happening again. It doesn't make sense.

What again? What?

When he was young, he had problems, hallucinations, delusions.

Peter can't be losing his mind. I thought he was, but it doesn't make

How's someone there one minute and then just vanish?

I think I know what might be going on here.

I believe Peter has opened up a bridge, so to speak, to another reality.

But I'm not talking about his mind.

I'm talking about a parallel reality.

A total shift.

with the physical world.

Besides the three dimensions that you and I can perceive sitting here in this

kitchen, there are other dimensions which exist here and now where space and

time blur.

There's no before, no after.

If we get Peter to the lab, I believe I can help him.

We're going to do this together here.

We're going to get it fixed.

Peter? Not now, Jack. We've got to figure this out. What's going on?

What are you doing?

Huh? I just wanted to kill him, you know?

Who?

Buck. I can't believe Lindy had an affair, okay?

Okay, I just saw them together. I just saw them together!

I'm so close, Jack.

You know, I'm so close.

That's why I came here, okay? It's because of you.

Because of your theory. Because I thought I could prove it. I thought I

prove it, but I can't. Where'd you get this?

Where'd you get this?

You gave it to me.

Hold on a minute here, Peter.

We're going to try something here, Peter.

All right, you keep this note.

Why? Take it.

Take the note and hold on to it.

Why?

So this was the second jack.

Yeah.

Why would he write you a note and then ask you to give it back to him? Because

they were both trying to help me.

I think I understand what's going on here now. You do?

Yeah. We need to create a naked singularity.

And we can do that with a spherical confinement.

Peter.

Peter.

Almost ready.

We had enough yet?

I think we might have time for one more.

Yeah, bring that up.

Meet me in the lab.

Make sure you keep that energy rampant.

Okay. He still hasn't come home.

I'm so worried.

We're going to go find him.

All right?

Let's go.

It's okay.

It's okay.

We were so close. We were so close. You did it.

You got there.

I've been waiting a lifetime for this moment, all right?

You've got to trust me. We've just got to get to the lab.

It's okay.

It's okay.

You got the note? You have the note?

Take it to the note.

All right. Now we're going to go to the lab. I got this side.

Let's go.

If there was any hope for me, it was Jack.

How was he going to help you?

I can only speculate.

You know the story of Schrodinger's cat?

Yeah.

The essential mystery of quantum mechanics.

That you can only tell whether the cat's alive or dead when you open the box

containing the cat. The two possibilities can exist simultaneously.

The outcome of which only happens when something is measured.

That the outcome is actually affected.

by the observation.

You're not comparing yourself to an elementary particle on the

level.

You can't extrapolate quantum mechanics to the macroscopic.

We're dealing with the unknown here, the edge of physics.

All I know is what I experienced, the shifting.

It's like I was a kind of probability, you know, in both universes, but not

definite neither.

So you were the cat.

And Jack was the guy opening the box.

You need lots of energy now, Robert.

You got it, Jack.

You fired up, Tim?

Good to go.

Sit him down here.

I wish I had the time to explain what's going on here.

I don't understand.

Just trust him. Peter, remember the classroom?

It's all connected.

Remember that?

How's it going, Tim?

Hang on.

It's very important that he keep his mind right here with you.

Okay? You got that?

You all set?

I don't like this, Jack. I mean, radiation.

Getting Peter back in phase is crazy.

Really crazy if you don't believe.

But Peter in two parallel universes?

You can't believe this is gonna work.

It's what I believe.

I don't believe him.

Jack!

What's happening?

There are other dimensions which exist where space and time blur.

There's no before and no after.

And trust that whatever happens, it happens for a reason.

Am I right?

Jack was from another universe, the one I inadvertently reopened.

So Jack was never supposed to exist in this universe.

He was, in fact, a kind of copy of himself from another universe.

And he created a timeline for himself here, in this universe.

But that's why he couldn't find the girl. She didn't exist here.

The symmetry between universes was broken.

That's why I was phase shifting back and forth.

That's why I've always phase shifted.

And the only way he could help you was for him to cease to exist in this

universe.

To merge with his self in the other universe.

That's how he did it.

He fixed it.

You never did answer my question.

I told you about the experiment, and we discovered what happened to Jack. What

more is there?

You.

Look, I get what you're trying to say about needing to be prepared, but

really... There's no other way for you, Peter.

What if I choose another way?

The day will come when you will be needed.

And when that day comes, you will have no choice.

Long, long ago, back when the ocean was our home,

we crawled out of the sea so eager to breathe.

And we looked to the sky and through the limits of our

minds to understand why all things died, how we came to be.

I've had too good a time.

I really like it here.

All those prophets promised me that if I could just

believe an eternal...