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Please fasten your seatbelts, Senator Clark. We're landing.

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Mobile TikTok 1 to TikTok base. Permission to enter code red lion.

TikTok base to mobile TikTok 1. Permission granted.

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[music] Phillips?

Jiggs? This is Senator Clark. This is Master

Sergeant Jiggs, the ramrod of our security forces.

Glad to meet you, Senator. I'll take that, please. Security, Senator.

[music] Senator?

There are over 12,000 personnel quartered in each of those complexes.

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Each complex is over 800 floors deep.

You know, Phillips, every time I check your

budget figures, I ask myself the same question.

Is time travel really worth all this?

Senator, the control of time is potentially the

most valuable treasure that man will ever find.

It's certainly the most costly.

Will you come with me, please?

Senator? Hang on, we're going into free fall for 800 floors.

There's much more to see below.

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We'll be over in a few seconds, Senator.

An old friend of yours, I believe.

Leroy!

[music] Hello, Leroy.

Woody.

It's been a long time. How did they ever get

an old dog face like you out of the mud, huh?

Worst paratrooper officer I ever commanded.

I told him to go into politics where he couldn't hurt anyone.

Oh, come on, there was meant to be a gag, not a dig.

What's all this investigation nonsense?

Well, I think you can guess why I'm here, Woody.

Of course. Come over here a minute.

Have you ever seen anything like this before in your life?

No, I can't say that I have. That's what I'm here to talk about.

General, I think Tony ought to be in on this. Where is he?

In the tunnel. This way.

So that's the monster that's cost us all this money? Yes, sir.

Leroy, what do you think? Pretty expensive toy. Toy? Hardly a toy, Senator.

According to your reports, all you've ever sent back in time are mice and monkeys.

So far, yes.

How do you know they weren't just disintegrated?

Well, disintegration would cause some residue in matter.

Have you ever returned any of these animals to this laboratory, safe and sound?

Not yet, no.

Then so far as we know, this whole thing might be

just a fancy disappearing egg. Isn't that true?

Actually, at this point...

You're guessing, doctor. And so far, you're guessing it's cost

the United States government seven and a half billion dollars.

This way, Senator.

Johnny, could you come out here a minute?

Doc, it's going to work. I just finished the

polarization and it just feels right. Take a look.

Senator Leroy Clark, Dr. Anthony Newman.

Excuse me, Senator.

Doc, you seem a little young for that title.

Not to mention being number two man on this project.

His youth is only a disguise, Senator.

Inside is an old genius struggling to get out.

I'm glad you were interested enough in our project to pay us a personal call, Senator.

Let's just say I don't like to scrap billions of dollars by just sending a memo.

Scrap?

Tony, the Senator feels our experiments haven't shown

enough success to warrant the time and money invested.

But we're so close now.

Close to what, son?

To sending a man back in time and returning him, of course.

Well, then do it. No more promises, boys. I want a fact I can grab hold of.

By when?

When? You and the General have been on this for ten years.

You've been with the project almost seven.

I say the time is now. You mean today? That's right.

Because tomorrow afternoon I'm flying back to Washington

to write you a blank check or cut your umbilical cord.

Leroy! We are not ready to risk a life.

Doc, let me try it.

Absolutely not.

We just give up, is that it? We put our lives into this project.

I'm not going to commit murder and I'm not going to

allow you to commit suicide just to satisfy your budget.

That's no answer.

That's not even science.

Excuse me.

He seems a little emotional for a scientist.

Well, anything else you want to show me?

Plenty.

Leroy, we haven't even begun.

Senator.

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This is a red alert. Red alert. All time tunnel

personnel report to their stations on the double.

Let's go.

Doug, can't you stop him?

Not now, he'd burn alive.

George, start the countdown.

Sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven...

What's happening to him?

He's in a radiation freeze. It's the first step in his relocation.

Five, four, three...

Pray that it works.

One, zero...

Alright, start the location, Pro.

Jerry, see if you can synchronize at time, Kirk.

Ray, give us a power and distance ratio.

And find what specific radiation Tony used.

I'll try.

Where is he?

He could be living in yesterday or next week or a million years from now.

How do you know?

You've got your guinea pig, Senator.

Doug!

Okay, take a sock at me if it'll make you feel any better.

But I'd still like to know what's going on.

Tony just finished developing a radiation bath.

That was the blue mist you saw just before he disappeared.

Now, in theory, this should give us a magnetic fix, like a homing device,

to enable us to locate him in time.

In theory.

But what if it doesn't work?

Well, then he'll be lost in time for the rest of his life.

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[Music] Are you hurt?

I've made it.

You are hurt. I'll call someone.

Oh, no, no. I'm fine, really.

But you had a very bad fall.

I didn't look where I was going.

It's a pretty big ship.

It's supposed to be the biggest ever built.

It doesn't look so big in the middle of all this water, does it?

Are you...

You are American, aren't you?

Huh?

Are you American?

Oh, please, why don't you sit down?

Oh, yes. Yes, I am.

Anthony Newman.

Althea Hall.

Do all Americans adopt the vigorous life just to please your Teddy Roosevelt?

Teddy?

Mr. Roosevelt.

Oh, no, I...

I guess I should have put on a jacket. I didn't think it would be so cold.

Then you've never spent April in London.

I do hope it'll be warmer when we reach New York.

Is that where... That is...

Are you making your first trip to New York?

As a matter of fact, I am. Does it show?

Oh, no, no, of course not. I just wondered.

Not that I'm one of those Europeans who think

there are still cowboys and Indians in New York,

but it is the other side of the world, isn't it?

Well, that depends on which side you start from.

Touché.

I haven't noticed you in the dining room the past three days.

Are you a man of mystery, Mr. Newman?

I've been eating in my cabin, catching up on some work.

Well, it's bad luck to work on Saturday nights, particularly when it's the 13th.

Saturday, April 13th.

Are you superstitious?

Oh, no, no, I've just been working so much I've lost all track of time.

Well, I think I better get that jacket.

See you again, Miss Hall.

Okay.

Titanic.

Any luck?

No, not yet.

Doc, we've collated the automatic settings that Tony used.

The energy he employed could not have sent him

more than 100 years forward or back in time.

Probably less.

And reduce your limits.

Only 100 years forward or back.

That means you have to pinpoint him across 200 years.

200 years is just a heartbeat compared to the countless billions of years of time.

Yes, I suppose so.

What happens if you find him?

Tony and his immediate environment will be relayed into the

tunnel's recorders and reproduced instantly on the image area.

You mean we'll be able to see him?

See and hear him.

Would he be able to see us?

No, no, but he'll know what we're trying to do.

He might communicate with us on the assumption that we found him.

Break.

I know, Doc.

I'm beginning to get some irregular coordination.

Let me build.

Captain.

Good afternoon.

Captain, I must speak to you. It's very important.

Yes, of course. You're, uh, you're Mr.?

My name is Newman, sir, but that doesn't matter.

Captain, I must tell you something.

Yes, of course, Mr. Newman. What did you want to say?

I don't know how to say it without sounding like I'm out of my mind.

Come, come, my dear fellow, you're dissatisfied with your accommodations or the

food, or perhaps you've misplaced something and you're afraid it's been stolen.

In any case, I assure you...

Captain, this ship is the Titanic.

Is that what you had to tell me?

What I mean, sir, is the Titanic sank. It struck an iceberg and was lost.

Sank?

This is our maiden voyage, sir. That means our first voyage.

I trust this is not some poor attempt at a practical joke?

No, Captain, it's not a joke. I swear to you.

How can I make you understand?

Perhaps if you stop talking nonsense, Mr. Newman.

Newman, Newman, sir, I don't recall. Are you in second class or third?

I'm not on the passenger list, Captain.

I'm Dr. Anthony Newman, my doctorate's in electrophysics.

That's a very impressive title, Doctor.

Listen, I know I sound insane, but you must

believe me for the sake of thousands of lives.

I can't remember the exact hour and day of the disaster, but it's history.

Stop this rubbish while you're riding on a car and seeing you talk

about sinkings and disasters as though they'd already happened.

It has for me, Captain. I was born in 1938.

If you insist.

Captain, I'm part of a scientific team in the year 1968.

We've been experimenting with time displacement.

I've been sent back in time to this ship to this moment, month and year.

Mr. Granger, this gentleman is a confessed stowaway.

Please see that he's confined. He will reach New York.

Captain, you'll never reach New York.

I'm afraid his peculiar ideas might alarm some of the other passengers.

I suggest you keep him in communicado and under guard.

Yes, sir.

All right, even if you don't believe me, it wouldn't

hurt you to change your course. Go farther south.

Take him below.

Captain!

Not reach New York? Change our course? What sort of gibberish was that, sir?

I make him some sort of harmless crank, Mr. Granger, but there are other

transatlantic lines which would not like to see us set a record on our maiden run.

I can't believe they'd go to these lengths, but I think that'll be all, Mr. Granger.

Aye, aye, sir.

Mr. Granger, why for further information on iceberg movements, will you?

We did this morning, sir.

Well, confirm them.

Aye, aye, sir.

Look!

Aye, aye, sir.

Gray, we need some pressure magnification.

Ship that size. It couldn't have been too long ago.

Anybody recognize it?

I do. I'd know those lines anywhere.

Gentlemen, that's the Titanic.

Picture of the Titanic.

No, not a picture. It is the Titanic.

Tony must be on board.

When did the Titanic go down?

Ann, get the boys on the history computer to give us a complete

rundown on the Titanic with pictures and cross-section diagrams.

I want tonnage, speed, equipment, the works.

Also, the year, day, and minute she went down.

But Dr. Newman is alive now, in our time. How could he be affected

by something that's happening at the beginning of the century?

No, he's living in that time zone now.

Anything that happens to us won't affect him there.

But, if he's on that ship when it goes down, he'll die along with the others.

Just a few minutes, ma'am.

How did you find me?

I just spoke to the captain. Is it true that you're a stowaway?

In a sense, yes.

And that you're trying to alarm passengers with wild stories of the ship's safety?

There's so much to explain. I don't know where to begin.

Tell me, why are you behaving like this?

Do you know it's been a peaceful trip up till now, and

then out of nowhere you... Well, I don't understand.

I know you don't.

I've just begun to realize how stupid I am to

think anybody could possibly understand me.

Would you let me try?

I'm glad you were concerned enough to ask about me.

Althea, do you believe in the future?

I mean that there really is a future for you, your children, mankind?

Yes, of course I do.

And obviously you believe in the past, everybody does.

But what if I were to tell you that the past and the future are the same?

You think I'm raving? No, no, I don't.

I don't blame you.

Suppose I told you that time itself doesn't exist.

It's only motion we measure, the motion of the earth

spinning, the orbit of the earth around the sun.

Tony, I'm sorry. Oh, no, no.

I'm the one who's sorry I frightened you.

You see, all I wanted to do was for you to let me help you.

Sorry, Mom. The captain said just a few minutes was all.

Oh, I'm just coming. Thank you.

Look, why don't you let me tell the captain that you didn't

mean what you said and that you won't mention it again?

I can't promise that, Althea. Not when I know what's going to happen.

But you don't know. Nobody knows.

You can't.

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[Music] That's it.

All those coordinates.

The captain said to keep you quiet. If that means using chains, mister, I had them too.

Doug! I don't know if you're picking me up.

If you're just getting sound, I'm on the Titanic.

Locked in a forward cabin just above the water line.

He's a prisoner.

It's 9.15 a.m. April 14, 1912. I don't know when it's going to sink, but...

They've got me locked up because I tried to warn the captain.

He's right in the middle of the section that was slashed open by that iceberg.

Well, what about the date?

See, the Titanic struck an iceberg late on Sunday evening,

April 14, and sank during the early hours of Monday, April 15.

Well, he's got about 14 hours.

Fourteen hours.

No, he hasn't, Senator.

Tony's locked in a room that could be flooded as soon as they hit that berg.

No, we're the ones that have 14 hours if we're going to try and save him.

Well, what can you do?

Theoretically, we can suspend Tony in his time zone and remove him from it.

But during that suspension, Tony's body processes, his

heart, his breathing, his tissue regeneration would all stop.

Unless we can return him here or to some other

time zone within seconds, we'll kill him.

That's what you're thinking, isn't it?

Not exactly.

There were over 300 men who survived the Titanic.

Now, Tony knows what will happen.

Now, if he were free on board, he could be one of those survivors.

Yes, but we can't free him by remote control.

No, but we could go back and help him.

Doug, no.

Yesterday, you refused to let Tony do what he went

and did on his own anyway, and you were right.

What do you expect to do now except die with him?

What do you suggest? If we just sit here and watch

him die, at least my way, you'd have a chance.

Now, remember, I'll appear there dressed for the period and prepared with a fact.

That reminds me, have research, get me a copy

of a New York paper dated April 15th, 1912.

Doug, you and I worked together long enough for you

to know that I don't give orders just to play soldier.

I know that, Woody.

But just this once, it might be the right thing to do.

Now, we have a friend that's in danger.

You're trying to protect me from that danger. I appreciate that.

But if Tony weren't back there, this research

would have come to a close. Isn't that true?

All right.

Tony's risking his life to succeed where I failed.

Now, if we don't have the faith in what we're

doing here and the guts to back up that faith...

Woody, Dr. Newman took off on his own like a matter.

If you let this man go, it's a cold-blooded responsibility

you might have to live with the rest of your life.

Would you let me go if our positions were reversed?

Probably not. I turned Tony down.

But I'm hoping you're tougher than I am.

Prepare your briefing procedure.

I'll organize a countdown.

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Good luck, Doug.

It'll work, Senator.

Doug, your master guidance control has been

programmed for an identical overlay with Tony's.

If you overshoot me a day or more, I'll get there before Tony.

You're a day late.

You wind up in the freezing waters where the ship sank with Tony on it.

Doug, please. Don't go.

I have to.

Ray, you'll be calling the scientific shots from this end.

Don't gamble unless you have to, but if you do have to, go for Brooke.

Don't worry.

16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0.

[Music] Here, now.

Where did you come from?

I'm sorry. I guess I should get back where I belong.

Guess you should. Sorest.

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[Music] It's all right.

Come on in.

Anything wrong, son?

Oh, excuse me, sir.

It's all right. I'm just washing up.

Ah, you didn't happen to see a little French

boy with his pockets bulging with food, did you?

Did you say food?

Yes, sir. His parents are immigrants in the third class, and he's

been raiding the dining room tables in the first class for leftovers.

Not that we blame the little fella, sir, but if you allow

one, they'll all descend on you if you know what I mean, sir.

Of course.

The little fella seems to have given me the slip. He's a clever little tyke, you know.

Now, who left this about?

That's mine, thank you.

Oh, I see, sir. Carry on, sir.

It's all clear.

Merci, monsieur. Merci bien.

Oh, you're very welcome. What's your name, young man?

Marcel. Marcel Corbin.

Oh, I'm Dr. Phillips. It's a pleasure to meet you, Marcel.

Say, I'm looking for a friend of mine. He's supposed

to be locked up somewhere in the third class area.

Would you know anything about him?

Friend?

An American.

Ah, oui, oui, monsieur. See him when I can.

Good. Do you think you could take me to him?

Oui. Come with me.

Maybe you and I could figure out some way to get in to see him, huh?

Oui, oui.

Oui, oui.

Oui, oui, oui.

Tony.

Hey, Tony.

Doug.

You all right?

That radiation gimmick of yours was great, Tony.

We were able to home ride in on you.

Why, I could even pick up the sound of your voice right through those bulkheads.

And I was able to pick this point in time exactly.

You were out of your mind to come here.

Now we're both stuck on this ship.

Leroy. Leroy.

Something's coming through.

I have this.

The guard's coming back.

They're together.

And regulate the probe for 50% less radiation absorption.

It's no good.

The captain won't believe it.

He thinks I'm some kind of conspirator already.

He'll say I had it printed.

Why did you come here?

Well, I had to.

Well, you would have done the same for me.

But you know the ship is going to sink tonight.

Maybe not.

Doug, they won't listen, I tell you. I have tried.

Tony, what if we were to get into the ship's fire list?

Take it over.

What if we were to wire for help before the collision?

There'd be no titanic disaster.

Exactly.

Well, you're not afraid to try, are you?

The first thing we have to do is take care of that guard out there.

Well, all right.

He thinks you're in here alone, make some noise.

Let me out of this place, you hear me?

I said let me out, I'll break a hole in this tub.

What the devil?

You're asking for it, all right.

Good afternoon, gentlemen.

May I help you?

The Dutch liners picked up our CQD.

What on earth?

Oh, it's you.

I see you have a confederate.

They were using the wireless, sir.

What?

This is no longer a harmless prank, gentlemen.

You are in serious trouble, I promise you that.

Captain, I know you didn't believe my friend here, and you won't believe me.

But you can believe your own eyes.

This ship will strike an iceberg at 11.40 tonight and go down.

The story's all here in tomorrow's paper.

Take them below.

And this time, see to this.

Take them below. And this time, see that they say there.

Captain, you've got to believe me.

Captain, we're getting calls from many ships

requesting our position and the nature of our distress.

Tell them to disregard all distress signals from this ship.

We are in good order and safely underway.

Aye, sir.

Aye, sir.

Something.

Come with me, Mr. Granger.

Aye, sir.

You wait outside for a moment, Mr. Granger.

Aye, aye, sir.

We have hit an iceberg, just as the two of you predicted.

How could you have known?

Captain, the only explanation is the truth.

You see, we come from the year 1968.

We've traveled back through time to this moment.

What's happening here is history to us.

My reason cannot accept that.

We've traveled back through time to this moment.

What's happening here is history to us.

My reason cannot accept that.

Captain, in any case, when we repair damage and reach New York,

perhaps a maritime inquiry can fathom your story.

Captain, your ship is going down.

That is impossible. The ship is unthinkable.

This ship is dead and so is everyone on board unless

you give immediate orders to lower the lifeboats.

Captain, we've warned you of the collision.

Please believe us about this.

What have you got to lose? Order those lifeboats away.

Mr. Grainger.

Sir.

Order the crew to begin abandon ship procedure.

Abandon ship, sir, but...

Do as I say.

Aye, aye, sir.

Very well, gentlemen.

With more than 2,300 souls on board, I cannot

afford to ignore even the remotest possibility.

Your lifeboats will only hold about 750.

How did you know that?

Well, despite the fact that this ship was built

and advertised as a vessel that could not be sunk,

your life-saving equipment is insufficient and inadequate.

Are you telling me that only 750 will survive?

Yes, sir.

I see.

My mind will not let me believe you.

But I do believe in a God, gentlemen.

If what you say is true, then only the fact that

you were here will save those who do survive.

I would have to consider that a miracle of God's mercy.

In a way, sir, perhaps it is.

Captain, do you think maybe we could all be of more help on the decks?

Yes, yes, of course.

It occurs to me now you may even know whether I will die tonight.

Yes, sir, I'm afraid you will.

You don't know that you can remove them from their present time zone.

You might just kill them yourself.

Well, what's our choice, General? To let them die with that ship?

Even if you do remove them, you won't have any control after that.

They disappear in time, to any moment, in

the billions of years of the past or future.

Is that any worse than condemning them to certain death aboard the Titanic?

I wonder.

Tony, get the lifeboats in the upper deck, I'll see the law.

Help, help, help!

Mr. Thomas?

Sir?

Only women and children are to be allowed in the lifeboats.

That order is not to be violated.

Aye, aye, sir.

Sir?

Sir!

Rise to board a room to evacuate all stations immediately.

Aye, aye, sir.

William?

Sir?

The signed six-table body seems to assist the passengers in steering.

Aye, aye, sir.

Aye, aye, sir.

What are you doing? The ship is sinking.

It doesn't matter for me.

I'll see you.

Tony, you don't understand. I've no right to take a place in one of those lifeboats.

I'm not a rich girl on holiday, I'm just an ordinary school teacher.

I spent the last penny of my savings for this trip.

What difference does that make?

The difference is I'm going to die soon anyway.

What are you talking about?

Um, ill. There's a growth inside my head. It's just a matter of months.

Are you sure?

My doctor in London is sure. He said there's a doctor in

New York who's working on a new type of brain operation.

It's called neurosurgery, I think.

But it's just a matter of months. There's really no hope.

Of course there is. Neurosurgery is not a fad and it's not hopeless.

Althea, some brain operations have become as commonplace as taking out tonsils.

They've become?

Althea, you'll just have to trust me. The chances that

you can be helped are probably much better than you think.

Are you a doctor too?

No, I am not a doctor and you have no right to play God.

I mean, I'm not even attempting to play God.

You're deciding when it's time for you to live or die. You don't have that right.

And you are asking me to believe in miracles.

I am asking you to believe in life, not death.

Althea, please believe in me.

[Crowd cheering]

[Screaming] What the fuck?

What's going to happen to you?

Never mind that, they'll hurt.

I won't see you again.

Come on miss, we're going.

Come on Adec, follow me.

Doug, tell me.

Freeze them.

What happened to them?

They're alive.

What's the time transfer with?

Of where?

We don't really know.

Can we establish any limits?

Not with service.

Hurry, they're dying.

Accelerate power.

The tunnel's gone blank.

Well, wherever he and Doug are now, at least they're together.

But where?

We couldn't begin to guess.

Roy, Sergeant Jiggs will escort you to the surface.

The car's waiting for you there.

Thanks Woody.

Goodbye Doug.

Goodbye Senator, and thank you very much.

Of course, my committee will take no action on

this until Phillips and Newman are safely back.

Or beyond hope.

But I will have to give some estimate of their chances.

Oh, we're doing everything we can.

We're perfecting our technique and apparatus every day Senator.

And I'd have to say, without trying to be funny, that it's just a matter of time.

Well, it always helps to keep a sense of humor about things.

Goodbye Doug.

Goodbye Senator, and thank you very much.

Always helps to keep a sense of humor about things.

Goodbye Doug.

Goodbye Senator.

Good luck Woody.

Mr. Roy.

This way sir.

Ray.

Are you being optimistic, or am I being pessimistic?

General, we know they're still alive.

We've started another location for them.

It won't mean beans.

Unless they can survive.

Wherever they are.

Wherever they are.

This is mission control.

We are at launch minus sixty seconds and counting.

Launch minus fifty-five.

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Minus forty-five.

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Launch minus forty and counting.

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Minus thirty-five.

Rocket.

[Music] Tony.

If this is one of those early Canaveral jobs,

we could be blown up right here on the pad.

Minus twenty-five.

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Minus twenty and counting.

It's no use.

It's locked off.

Fifteen.

Get down here quick.

Off your feet.

Ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

One.

Ignition.

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