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Ten minutes to go, Tom. You're going to lose your job.

It's one of the biggest disasters in decades.

For WTSD, this is Tom Merritt reporting live from inside the burning power plant

plant. Got it. Yep.

Let's get a few more shots before we go. You said that ten minutes ago, Tom. This

is what it takes to be in the big leagues. We're going to get out of here.

Look at this place. Go up the stairs now or you're going to lose your job.

Look, devil babies and resurrected dictators are out. I will tell you what

I need. Alien abduction or a catastrophic disaster.

What's it been? A year without a decent earthquake or flood?

That's terrible.

Wasn't sure you were going to make it.

I'll take care of this later.

Okay.

Merrick.

Oh, you're warm, so you are alive.

You're looking well, Eleanor. You look like crap.

I was going for poverty chic.

Mm-hmm.

Always trying to stand out from the crowd.

Thanks for the job. No need to thank me. I got myself an award-winning newsman

for chicken feed.

Never could understand why you quit.

I was misunderstood.

Yeah. Well, you're a hero in my book. That tape you pulled out of the power

plant? Top.

The fact that the network used it to grab ratings and still pressured you to

resign over it?

Hypocrite.

So, where do you want me to start?

Basement. Research.

I need a piece on disasters.

I figure if Mother Nature won't cooperate, the next best thing is to

take my readers on a blast through the past.

Disasters through history.

Starting me off slow.

You complaining already?

I see no reason to wait.

Good luck.

This is a recording.

Elizabeth Wintern is not in today. I know you're there.

Okay, okay, I'm here, but not for long. Look, I'm trying to get out early today,

you know?

Actually have a little personal time and put a little balance back into my life.

Okay,

I'll do a complete search, but it's going to have to wait until tomorrow.

Excuse me.

I'm Tom Merrick.

And I'm overjoyed.

What are you doing here?

Grayson sent me.

No, I mean, why the National Inquisitor? Is slumming here some kind of penance?

New York, yeah.

Yeah, but I'm not Tom Merrick.

Had a bad day.

Led to a few bad years.

Look, if you could just set me up on your research computer.

Oh, you know what? I'll be back tomorrow, and then I'm all yours.

No, can't wait. First day on the job, I want to impress the boss.

Okay, photos, news articles, all online. Password is Liz Land.

Use the search engine. Hard copies are filed by subject.

What if I have a question?

For emergencies only.

And try to leave my desk like you found it.

What causes one disaster to become part of our collective consciousness while

another fades into history?

Maybe some hold our attention because they remind us of the power of Mother

Nature over man's technology.

Others because they show us how inherently flawed our most advanced

technology can be.

And still others because they reveal... This...

It's crap.

It's Tom Merrick.

I hope this is an emergency.

Could someone have altered your data?

No way. I have a double firewall that I keep Bill Gates guessing.

What's this about, Merrick?

Well, where do you get these pictures?

They're all directly from in-house negatives or from Smithsonian or Library

of Congress archives.

There has to be a mistake.

If there is, I doubt it's at my computer.

Merrick, look, can't this wait until tomorrow?

Whatever it is, Mary, you can wait till tomorrow. I have Larry King and a

heating pad waiting for me at home. Just take a look.

The Titanic, the Hindenburg, Hurricane Hugo.

I hope for your sake you have more than a history lesson here.

Take a closer look.

Still want to catch Larry King?

What is this? A guy shows up at three disasters spread across nearly 100 years

without aging a day.

Now, either someone's playing a hoax on us, or this is the most incredible DNA

fluke in human history.

Or he's not human.

Come on, Eleanor. It's just us here.

And we're throwing out theories.

I don't know what you found here, Merrick, but this is absolutely amazing.

Exactly what the Inquisitor needs to knock the socks off the globe. I want a

thousand words from you. From what? We have no idea what this is about.

We don't even know if those photos are authentic.

That's why you're flying to D.C. tonight.

Nine o'clock flight.

You can use the company credit card to buy the ticket. No way. You're going to

have to send someone else.

You'll get the original from the Smithsonian and get a forensic lab to

authenticate it. I'm looking for a nine-to-five job. Remember, no

complications, no stress, and no travel.

I want to run this story day after tomorrow. If there's a story. If!

Why the hell did you come up here if you didn't think there was a story?

Come on, Merrick, admit it.

Your blood's flowing, you're all juiced up, and you love it. You have not felt

this good in a long time. There has to be a reasonable explanation.

Fine. The way to find it is be on that flight.

He's got $36,000. Give me that. Sorry.

Book Mr. Merrick on your flight to D.C. 9 o'clock tonight.

Hey, buddy, it's me.

Your dad.

I know.

Listen, Kev, I was wondering.

I got a new job, and I'd really like it if you came to Chicago.

We could hang out, watch the Cubs lose.

So, what do you think, buddy?

I don't know.

I gotta go.

Steve's coming over.

We're gonna play some Quake.

I'll put Mom on. Kevin, wait.

Mom! Kevin. Dad.

You could at least call him more than once every other month.

You know, Tom, bad things happen to people all the time.

They don't just drop out and give up.

I think it's time you got yourself a life.

Like the life you and Steve have made for Kevin in Atlantic City.

I don't think you're in any position to have an opinion about that.

Hotel themed parks, arcades, casinos.

What do you think that's doing to our son?

Stop it, Tom.

You know, this is just your sorry way of glossing over the fact you don't like

Steve being in Kevin's life.

You know, Steve does things with Kevin.

You know, he got his ticket for the final game of the hockey championship

that cops call Steve. Buying hockey tickets for a kid doesn't make him

father of the year. No.

No, it doesn't, Tom.

But Steve doing anything with Kevin makes him more of a father than you.

Are you a photographer?

Attention passengers, please fasten your safety belts.

No, uh, a reporter.

For, like, a newspaper?

Yeah, like, a newspaper.

Are you doing a story on that guy?

Maybe.

Because if you are, he's right there.

Tighten your seatbelt.

What? What's wrong?

Well, folks, we've passed through some minor turbulence, so if you wouldn't

mind passing your seatbelt this time, everything will be fine.

We'll be through it as quickly as possible. Thank you.

Sir, if you could please take a seat.

10 seconds.

Sir, if you could please just take your seat.

Today's the 15th, right? Yes, yes.

What's the flight number? It's flight 222.

You. Give it to me. No

one

needs to get hurt. Just put the gun down.

What the hell is going to happen to this plane?

Ben. Ben.

All right, calm down. We can discuss this one thing.

I'm going to calm down.

We're all going to be dead.

We got a problem.

Lightning took out radar and communications.

We got a bigger problem.

He's not going to hurt anybody. He just wants us to land. That's right, isn't

it?

Two nearest airports at Grand Rapids are back to O'Hare. It's your call.

Which one's closest?

O'Hare by maybe five minutes.

Do it.

Lowering to 10,000 feet.

Course, two niner by.

6-2-0. Wait.

I'm taking her down like you want it.

You've got no radar and no radio.

What would you be doing if I weren't here?

I don't understand.

If you didn't have a gun pointed at your head, would you continue on to D.C.? No.

No, it's considered an emergency, a Code 1 emergency.

We'd land her at the nearest strip.

Which is what you're doing anyway.

Yeah.

I thought you wanted us to land.

Bring her up now.

6,700 feet.

6,400 feet. 27 seconds till impact.

6,000.

22 seconds till impact.

5,700 feet.

We hadn't taken her up, we'd all be dead.

How did you know?

I won't be doing this anymore.

We're waiting for you.

There's no way that guy wasn't on the plane. I saw him.

The little girl next to me saw him. The flight attendant saw him. Stop worrying

about this alleged gentleman for a while and concentrate on you.

You see, Mr. Merrick, you had the gun.

You commandeered flight 222. Now, in my experience, hijackers rarely work alone.

I am not a hijacker. The plane was going down. Why don't you tell us who else was

involved?

No one.

The last thing I wanted to do was even get on that plane. Believe me.

Believe you.

Believe you.

Mr. Merrick, I believe in looking straight into a man's eyes and letting

the truth reveal itself. And right now, as I look into yours, truth is nowhere

in sight.

pilot he'll tell you as we speak agents are interviewing all flight personnel

and passengers and i have a forensic crew sweeping the plane good then you'll

find this brochure the itinerary you supposedly saw that inspired you to pull

out your gun for the millionth time it wasn't my gun it was his the guy with

the brochure the guy we couldn't find the guy who doesn't show up on the

flight manifest and wasn't even on the damn plane when it landed

Well, you're shooting a hole in my story.

There's a guy out there with a list of disasters.

The subway's neck.

I think.

Something's going to happen to it.

So now you have designs on a subway.

I need to use the phone.

I get a call, right?

Stanton, why don't you bring Mr. Mary to phone?

Check with HG. Have Merrick run through National BCI.

Stanton, what exactly is that thing?

A digital recorder built into my watch. I made it.

Are you sure you really want field work, son?

Maybe you should have stayed at MIT.

Nothing wrong with being an engineer.

No, I always wanted to be in the Bureau. I mean, I figured switching to Quantico,

I could be an agent and still have time to fiddle around with things like this.

By the way, if you ever want one... Forget the watch.

Focus. On the old noggin, remember that?

Please, just find Grayson for me. It's an emergency.

Ah, wait, wait.

Ah, transfer me to research.

Sir, what Merrick did, it doesn't make any sense.

Okay, follow that line of thought.

Well, a guy hijacks a plane, doesn't ask for any money, doesn't make any demands

whatsoever. So, what does that tell you?

Think.

Get a shrink down here.

We'll see if Mr.

Merrick's got all his marbles.

Check the marbles.

Check the marbles.

Research.

It's Tom Merrick. I need a favor.

You left my office in a complete mess. You hung up on me the last time we

spoke, and now you want... I found something on your system.

Uh, yeah, that is the point of using it, right?

I don't understand it all yet, but it may be something big.

Oh, please, Merrick. This isn't going to be one of those stories the century

calls, is it? Do you have any idea how many reporters have thrown that stuff my

way? Any of them commandeer a plane, force it to land, and get arrested by

the FBI?

Yeah, right.

I'm out of here.

Wait, wait, wait.

Don't hang up.

There's a file on your system.

Merrick.doc.

I dumped three photos into it.

I need you to make hard copies and bring them down to me at the FBI office.

I don't have time to be a delivery woman.

Look, Merrick, I would like to help, but... Listen to me.

You're a researcher.

I'm hoping that means you're genetically curious.

Pull the file. Look at it yourself.

You won't be disappointed.

Merrick.doc.

I'm counting on you.

What happened to Baker?

Where are we going?

Where the hell are you guys?

Not now.

Get an emergency medical team to room 348 on the double. Put security on

alert. Seal out the damn building. Yes, sir.

Merrick's escaped.

Intervention statute.

Here to be a Glock 17 now with a ballistic modification for an M136

Viper? Certainly not a... That's enough.

We got two male, two female pedestrians.

Moving east on Washington from the federal building. They're armed...

What have you gotten me into?

We should contact Rafazi.

Where the hell are they?

Just a second.

You guys find out. Cover the exits.

I don't want any of them getting out of here.

All right, listen.

If passengers saw Merrick's guy on the plane, we should be able to get a sketch

of him on the wire's frontal. Let's also get sketches of the two who freed

Merrick. What the hell is going on?

All I know for sure is that the guy in the photos was on my flight.

What? He was there, and he had a brochure of disasters.

Well, that doesn't make any sense.

No, but the flight we were on was in the brochure.

My plane was going to crash.

That's why you were arrested.

You hijacked a plane to stop it from crashing.

Great. So that makes me an accomplice to a hijacker. So there was a guy on the

plane with a brochure?

Merrick and him working it on the inside.

Those two goons and the woman running with Merrick on the out. Now, at least

we've got a positive idea on her.

That call we allowed, Merrick got patched through to an Elizabeth Wintour.

She's a match with the woman he just fled with.

So, Merrick.

Whatever all this is about, what are we supposed to do about it?

The brochure he had was of past disasters.

There was one that hasn't happened yet. A subway wreck, right here, on the Green

Line, at noon today.

I tried telling the FBI that, but they wouldn't believe me. Well, I can't

imagine why.

Just one thing's a little odd.

Captain of the flight.

Jack learns what Merrick said.

That Merrick prevented a mid-air collision.

So then he's not a hijacker.

Merrick pulled the gun.

He and this other guy probably tried to hijack it, but got cold feet.

End of story. Now, the three big questions.

How did Merrick know to prevent a mid-air collision?

How did the guy with him get off that plane and pass security? And why?

Why is Merrick running from the people who just sprung him?

I don't know, sir. I don't know either, but we're going to damn well find out.

Stop! They're coming.

You'll have to wait for us to reprocess the signal.

What the hell's wrong with him? I don't know. He's in a shielded containment

bunker. Anomalies shouldn't affect communication.

Sir, if you can read me, have them charge up the stands of this place, or

we need a reset.

We can't reset you.

We've had some serious problems here. It's going to take some time to address.

What's he saying?

Things are all messed up.

That's a major deviation.

But that's not bad enough. I've got the time bets after me. I'm having trouble

getting them.

Find this bastard and eliminate him.

Because if he keeps on saving lives, there won't be a question of when you

come back.

There'll be a question of him.

If my ass. Wait a second, Cortez.

We cannot afford any unspecified casualties.

There won't be any unspecified ones.

We have to stop it before something happens.

We got 20 minutes. Let's go. Oh, okay, wait a second. You don't even know that

something's gonna happen. And even if you did, how would you figure out which

train is supposed to crash?

I don't know.

But if we don't get every train on that line stopped, one of them's gonna be his

train.

Step away cop, security guard, anyone. Tell them there's a bomb on this line

and they need to step on the train on it. What are you going to do?

I'm going to try to find a way to kill the power of the tractor.

And what?

What is it?

It's him.

It's the train.

on this line. Ah, six. Last one's Hillhorn. One.

This is Baker.

I need security units at every subway stop between Union and Hillhorn

immediately. Let's get some cars.

Merrick, this train is not stopping.

photos and family, but it's the thrill-seeker's fault, not mine. Thrill

-seekers.

The end.

What's going to happen to this train? I can't say that. It's part of the

agreement. This is Laurie Trevor requesting emergency reset now.

Requesting emergency reset now. What are you doing? I need that to get off the

train. I need it to get home.

How's this train going to crash?

Okay, okay. The engineer, he had a heart attack. When he died, he didn't release

the dead man's switch. So the train kept accelerating just after Clayton. He

couldn't hold the tracks on a curve. He's talking about just like it already

happened. Because it did.

About 70 years ago, I'm just a tourist.

That flight you were on, it was supposed to be the biggest mid-air collision in U

.S. history. But because of you, nothing.

Zero. Village.

I better get a refund.

Come here, this is insane.

Stop this train. No, you can't do that. Just give me that.

Travel to disasters.

Disasters, sporting events.

Look, there's only a few minutes left.

Let's go.

Wait, wait.

There's rules against interfering. You can't.

At least give me back the RTT.

It's Whittier.

Clayton is three stops away. We've got maybe two more minutes.

Open up. Open up. Open up.

Open up.

Open up.

Open up.

Open up.

We can't hear you. He's dead.

Emergency break.

Maybe we can separate this car from the others.

We don't know how to do that.

Everyone, this train's going to crash.

You get to move in the rear car now. Go!

Is this your place? My folks, they're out of town.

Dad always says that you never have too many power tools.

You sure you know what you're doing? Yeah, I remember watching the music when

I was like three. Didn't seem too difficult.

Kidding. Kidding.

Hold that spencer.

So we have a match.

Get him out of here.

Oh, surprise me.

We checked with the passengers.

Eric and Winton were on the train, but they're gone.

Any electric union?

The other two escaped as well. Oh, great.

That's great.

Okay. Listen up, folks.

I want an all-out search for Merrick, Wintour, and the two unidentified perps.

Check hospitals, motels, hotels within a 50-mile radius. You know the drill.

I want every topic. I don't care if he's driving, walking, or riding a horse. We

know what these four look like. Now, results.

Let's do it. Go.

I'm not getting a contact.

You hadn't stopped me from waiting when we first talked. Those were not our

orders. That crane wreck would have gone down. We were supposed to interrogate

Merrick, determine the point of deviation and reset.

Well, we didn't interrogate him. And thanks to you, he's still walking. Don't

lay this on me.

Man's figured us out.

He knows.

Fresh from the dryer.

Thanks.

So, Merrick, I've been trying to piece this all together.

In the plane, that brochure I saw, it listed the Edmonton power plant fire.

It stated that 12 people died.

Only 11 did.

So who's the 12th?

Me.

What?

The tourist guy travels to disasters.

And the power plant fire was one of his stops.

That's right.

His coin was there.

The one that he had on the train.

He must have dropped it when I saw it.

I hesitated.

Just long enough to change things forever.

Because if I hadn't stopped when I saw it, I would have been killed right along

with my crew.

You can't know that for sure.

But it makes sense.

I'm alive because that tourist from the future dropped a coin.

And those two freaks, they're from the future too. They stopped me before I

altered their path. This is nuts. Okay, the guy from the train was nuts.

But if some future scientist were to develop the technology for people to

travel through time, do you really think that this is what they would use it for?

For tourism? For entertainment?

If what you're saying is true, these people aren't coming back to see some TV

image get blown to bits.

They're coming to see thousands of real, live people die.

That's sick.

I don't see how that's any worse than tuning into the 6 o'clock news.

Or reporting it.

There's no comparison between you and them.

Isn't there?

I've watched some of your news segments occasionally.

Sometimes I even got caught up in them.

You remember that time you drove right up to that tornado?

That was a good piece, wasn't it?

What did you do?

I don't know.

That killed more than 11,000 people.

That's tomorrow.

When you are ready to begin your first trip, just use this remote temporal

transmitter with its built-in isometric frequency blocker which guarantees

shielding against time-fed detection.

Within seconds, we'll whisk you away to the start of an adventure more real than

reality. Who's going to be there?

Who?

Let me talk to your mother.

She's not here.

Christy's here.

Okay, I need you to listen to me very carefully.

I can't explain how I know this, but tomorrow, during the hockey game,

there's going to be a fire.

You, your mother, and Steve cannot be there.

I don't understand.

I'll explain later. Just promise me you won't go to the game.

No. I want to go.

Kevin, this is one time you've got to trust me.

Promise me you won't go.

Talk to me, Kevin.

Mom said you might get jealous because I'm doing stuff with Steve.

No, it's not that.

Believe me.

Kevin?

I guess he didn't believe you.

I gotta get there.

I gotta stop them from going. Okay, maybe there's something else we can try,

right? You suggested a bomb threat at the subway. We could try that at Cop's

Coliseum. No, they handle situations like that all the time.

They'll run a security sweep, and when they don't find anything...

The game will go on as planned.

All right, then we'll give them the device you took from the time traveler.

That would get their attention.

Maybe, but by the time they figure out what the hell it is, Colosseum would

already be history. Hey, this is an emergency. The FBI would, they would

move pretty quickly. No matter what the FBI comes up with, those two people will

destroy the arena. They need those 11,000 people dead.

Maybe we can slow them down.

Winston's got parents in the Heights, a couple of friends in Eastburn, and an ex

-boyfriend on the Gold Coast.

Got it.

Stanton.

I'll put him through.

It's a pass-through from the Bureau. It's Merrick.

Mine, too.

Baker. I didn't cause the subway to wreck.

I tried to stop it from crashing.

Then why not turn yourself in?

The man and woman who grabbed me from your office, they tried to stop me from

saving it.

Now they want to take down Copp's Coliseum tomorrow during the hockey

championship.

You've got to stop them.

I'll tell you what.

Why don't you come down here, work with me to identify who these two are.

Thank you, we got it. It's her parents' place.

Pay attention.

Those sketches I ordered are the two who helped Merrick escape. I want them

delivered along with the photos of Merrick and Winter into the cops'

Coliseum security.

Tell them to get extra police and firemen there just as a precaution.

So you believe me? You think those other two will try to take down cops?

I don't believe a damn thing he says, but I do believe in covering all the

bases. Would you like me to kill the local search, sir? Hell no. He may be

just trying to throw us off.

Oh, you've got to be kidding me.

I can be there in three hours if I fly.

You're a suspected hijacker. You go anywhere near an airport, the cops will

be all over you.

Don't worry, it's old, but it'll get us there.

Us? Yes, we trade off driving.

Even if we stay away from major highways, we'll get to the Coliseum in

15 hours, well before the gate.

I already emailed my mom. I told her that we're taking her car, so I say

we're out of here.

Finally getting him.

How could you let this happen?

What the hell is going on?

Why does he look different?

Must be some sort of temporal leakage.

Do you have any idea what you've done? By not stopping Merrick, nearly 500

people lived who were supposed to die.

So? The time fence probably zeroed in on the organization again. Just kick up the

hush money and... You think all we're dealing with here is some law

enforcement issue?

What else is there?

Just a few little problems like... Population shifts in the hundreds of

millions, plus new governments and new technologies popping up and disappearing

that you've never even heard of? What's happening in L.A.? Who cares about L.A.?

My kid lives in L.A.

Southern California was wiped out in a fusion meltdown 22 years ago.

What?

I have to get back to my time. You have to get us a reset now.

not exist anymore.

Do you understand? Your family, your friends, all gone. And the temporal

accelerator, that's right. The core technology of the stanza displacer,

somebody Merrick saved on that plane, killed its inventor in an automobile

accident three years before he invented it. So right now, we can't reset anybody

anywhere. But sir, you're in a containment bunker, so the accelerator

should be shielded against any timeline deviations.

I assume you've got a team working on it? A team. Get your whole damn

conglomerate on it. I have to get a reset and save my son.

Listen, Cortez, I got bigger problems here than worrying about your progeny.

If we're lucky, and I repeat, if we're lucky, we might have a working model

within a week.

Then you could reset it.

We can stop Merrick before he gets on that plane.

That's the plan.

But nothing's going to happen unless we get a stable temporal zone.

Now, that means that you two have to make damn sure that Merrick... doesn't

cause any more deviations from the current timeline or it's over for all of

us. But how do we find Merrick now?

He got a client's RTT. He doesn't know it yet, but that's how we're tracking

him. I'll transmit his coordinates to you now. Stand by.

Stand by for downloads.

Download complete. Got him. Good.

Now, whether you get Merrick or not, we're going to need some insurance.

Insurance? The last of the big three disasters, the fire.

cop's coliseum. No matter what Merrick does, make sure it comes down. You've

got to be kidding.

Fire or no fire, 11,369 people need to die.

It's our only chance.

Sir, with all due respect, I'm a temporal security agent, not a murderer.

Consider it done.

Hey, wait a minute.

You screw this up, Belton, and I'll kill you.

I'm the least of your worries, Cortez.

The hell are you talking about?

You thought, Grafassi, we've got a temporal containment leak.

A few more deviations, Grafassi, the whole organization might not even know

we exist.

Eric, if this is all true, maybe we shouldn't interfere.

Then 11,000 people will die. I know. I know. It's just that the guy from the

photos, he warned us about interfering.

Those two that are after us, they are willing to kill or to risk being killed

to stop us.

Maybe somebody we save will go on to cause something terrible to happen that

is much worse than Cops Coliseum coming down. I don't see it that way.

If those three people are from the future, then yes, their path is dead. It

can only go down one way.

But our future can go an infinite number of ways.

Any one of which may be a whole lot better than the world they're from.

Or a whole lot worse.

You're right.

But all we can do is act upon what we do know.

Knowing that 11,000 people are going to die, including my son, means I have to

do whatever I can to save them.

At this speed, we could intercept Merrick in about five minutes.

Very simple. Canvas the area for any neighbors that may have eyeballed

traffic coming in and out of here. And look for some security cameras,

whatever.

Sir, found these.

And an e-mail.

She'd obviously attempted to trash her sent mail, Ben, and I ran a digital

recompiler... Just get to the point, Stanton.

Uh, she bought her mother's car. They're headed to the cops' coliseum.

Damn.

Mrs. Baker, they're definitely headed to the cops'. That's right. Call off the

local search.

Focus everything there.

Let's go.

Mayor, can I ask you a question now?

Only if you agree to call me Tom.

I, um... I got a feeling earlier that you and your son aren't that close.

I was just wondering what happened.

After the plant fire, I shut down.

From work, the world, everyone.

You can't just drop out of a kid's life and expect to waltz back in when you're

ready.

You must really miss him.

You miss his mom, too?

From the day one our marriage lost out to my job to the jolt I got from

covering disasters.

You were that hooked on it?

Until I got those men killed.

That's when I crawled into my cave and disappeared.

Well, now that you're out of hibernation, what do you think?

I'm liking parts of it.

Maybe we should, uh, gas.

He stopped.

Just ahead.

Time to put him out of our misery.

Chuck, do you want tires?

That'd be great.

why are you trying to kill me did you ever stop to think about the

consequences of what you're doing maybe my son is dead because you decided to

stop the plane from crashing

How long till we're there?

I don't know.

I said how long.

Maybe 15 minutes.

It's okay. It's okay to be here, to fly there.

No! Elizabeth!

There's nothing you can do for her. Nothing.

Officer, pack it for me, will you?

Looks like the local boys took our warning to heart.

What are you doing now?

I'm setting it to local time. I'm working on creating a watch that's

sensitive to longitudinal changes and automatically resets according to

whatever time zone you're in. I can hardly wait.

Hardly wait.

Now, I don't know if anything's really going to happen today, but it's a

precautionary step.

What has America's dead?

The fire that's supposed to bring this place down will still work, so we don't

actually need to kill anybody.

Listen to me. It is one thing to defend an existing timeline.

Another thing entirely to purposely invoke a disaster.

Have you listened to a word I've said? Don't you feel any responsibility?

What kind of person are you? Kind who will do anything, anything, to stabilize

this timeline long enough to get a reset?

And save my son.

You understand?

You don't give a damn about any of them, do you? To the extent that they could

screw up our timeline.

Yeah.

They're people.

They are dust!

If you're so worried about them, why the hell are you here?

You think I want to be doing this?

Working for some two-bit underground firm that uses the greatest technology

ever invented for amusement rides?

That was legit once.

Yeah, right.

I was with the government's temporal development program, Cortez.

Oh, let me guess.

When they shut it down and illegalized time travel, you were already hooked.

I'm trying to figure who is lower on your moral scale.

Me? Who does it for the money?

Or you?

Who does it for thrills?

Good.

a message at the tone.

Merrick, it's Eleanor. You're not battling hijacking charges with a public

defender. There's an old buddy of mine, Erwin Thompson, renowned defense

attorney. He's agreed to represent you at your hearing on Tuesday. Call me.

I'll give you the details.

Good job with the cop's coliseum. The stable temporal zone you created worked.

We'll be ready in a few minutes to reset you.

Program an insertion point 24 hours prior to Merrick getting on that plane.

That'll give us plenty of time to stop him.

Just name any of these disasters and you'll instantly be transported back in

time exactly three hours prior to the disaster you select.

One more thing.

The stanzard displacer is still unstable.

And each test run is causing multiple burnouts. Bottom line, you only have one

round-trip ticket.

Back to stop Merrick from getting on that plane and rerouting our timeline,

then back here to Hall.

We're on line now.

Good luck.

So now that you've come out of your hibernation, what do you think?

What the hell?

This is all wrong.

You're alive.

Yeah, last time I checked. What is wrong with you?

Nothing.

We're back near Cobb's Coliseum three days late. Somebody must have inserted

an alternate date.

What the hell are you doing? I'm connecting with Griffith.

He already said he has no more research on this timeline.

We have no choice.

We have to think.

Merrick and cops pull us down again and wait a week for Griffon to generate a

new reset.

And maybe we should stop for gas.

No.

No. We definitely don't want to do that.

You're not one of those guys who refuses to pull over until the car's running on

fumes, are you? In this case, yeah.

We'll catch something near the coffee.

What are you doing?

Those guys who were after us at the train station?

Let's just say I have a very informed hunch that this could lead them straight

to us.

This time we'll be out of our misery for good.

Where the hell is Merrick?

Hey! Did you have a 1984 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in here in the last few

minutes? Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme? No.

You want me to check your whole entire school? Over here!

It's going to work, Merrick. We'll get your son back.

Looks like the local boys took our warning to heart.

What are you doing now?

Setting it to local time. I'm working on creating a watch that's sensitive to

longitudinal change and automatically resets according to whatever time zone

you're in. I can hardly wait.

Hardly wait.

I'm baking.

I can't guarantee anything's going to happen, but thank you for taking the

time.

that I have to get to. It's an emergency.

What's the name? A couple

more.

We'll be ready to go.

Linkwist Party, please report to the first aid station on the main concourse.

Linkwist Party, please report to the first aid station on the main concourse.

Thank you. No problem. If you could just point me to the first aid station. Sure,

absolutely. All right, just go right outside this door here, straight down

the hallway. When you get to the end, make sure... Open this door! Open this

door!

Steve, can you take any different... They just paged us. There's an

emergency. No, there's no emergency.

Attention.

Attention.

How are you doing your talk?

There's going to be an explosion. We have to get out of here. Right. Last

time you told Kevin it was a fire. Now this? What are you doing?

Attention. There is a bomb in the arena.

Repeat. There is a bomb in the arena. Please evacuate immediately.

We have to get Kevin. All right. Please evacuate the area right now.

Will you just try to be calm?

Leave the emergency exit.

I'm not going to let you do it this time.

You idiot.

Put the detonator down, Cortez.

Do you have any idea what you're doing?

Now!

It distands a displacer. You shouldn't have him.

this weapon can do it's our only way out of here uh he may be right shut up put

it

What I said earlier about you not having what it takes for field work, ignore it.

No, sir, I think I'm going to take your suggestion and look into technical.

Devastating building.

Killing 200 of the 16,000 in attendance, though authorities can't speculate at

this time.

It's a long story. I'll tell it to you someday.

Thank you.

I'm going to see you soon, okay?

Yeah.

Sure.

Anytime.

Look, I've got to take care of something.

See you real soon.

Okay.

Bye-bye.

You can't stay out here, folks.

Elizabeth!

Where are you going?

Look, Tom... Tom.

Call me Tom.

That's good, Tom.

It looked like you were staying and I didn't...

I don't really want to interfere, so... Anyway, I thought...

time shifters hope that you enjoyed this rare and infamous moment that combined

the first-rate disaster with genuine, gargantuan significance.

But now it's time to take a deep breath and get those cameras out as we prepare

to temporally reset you to one of the most fantastic catastrophes in history.

Are you ready?