All language subtitles for Millennium 1989

TUA 35 heavy, descend
to 3,000 feet.

Minneapolis center, this
is Transuniversal 35 heavy

descending to 3,000.

Roger, TUA 35 heavy.

TUA 35 heavy, could you
give me your location?

Ron, where the hell are we?

25 miles due south on approach

descending through 5,000 feet.

35, what's your current
heading? What's his problem?

we're currently heading...

TUA 35, turn to
heading... [ Static ]

say again, Minneapolis.

Jesus! Down!

oh, my god.

down! Go down!

[crash]

my god! We hit them!

Minneapolis, this is TUA 35

declaring an emergency.

we hit another aircraft.

looked like a 10.

three and four shutting down.

we are going down.

how much of the wing is gone?

Ron, see what's left.

right.

Mr. Smith, I'm Kevin
bryley from Minneapolis.

and you're not doin' your job.

shove these people
in a room somewhere.

make no statement
till I get back.

ashby, tell 'em what we need.

right. Move it.

come on, people. Let's do it.

where'd the DC-10 go
down? Ten miles south.

Jerry, Eli, go take a look.

tom and I will put down here.

bill.

bill.

we were just going after

the flight-data recorder.

you want to do that next?

sure.

the DC-10 hit
harder than this.

what happened here?

he managed to get it level.

there's only three engines.

he lost a lot of wing?

we think so.

we've started on the site map.

the cops have finally stopped
moving things around.

look, bill, uh... We're
being very careful,

but we don't think it's
a structural failure.

you have any numbers yet?

yeah, right here.

this one had 354 and 13 crew.

the 10 had 265 and 11.

[helicopter]

watch that wing section!

you already have the
cockpit voice recorder?

yeah, but it's
pretty battered.

they're working on it now.

I want a dub made

before you send
it to Washington.

it might not be too good.

it's a silly rule.

why should the boys in
Washington hear it first?

I got to hear what
they were up against

after they hit the 10.

they did their best.

you one of Roger's team?

I'm Dr. Arnold Mayer.

I'm the investigator
in charge, bill Smith.

I've read your crash reports.

naturally, I've heard
of you, doctor.

what's your interest here?

you want me to leave?

no. It doesn't matter.

all this just seems
pretty far removed

from your physics lab.

maybe scientists should
leave the lab more often.

they might learn things.

Dr. Mayer!

what's an ecology
professor doing here?

you know someone on the plane?

not that I'm aware of.

how did you hear
about the crash?

he's the last guy I'd
expect to find here.

he's been to several
midwest crashes.

that big one in '79 at O'Hare,

he was all over it.

I wonder why.

I don't think it will win him

another nobel prize.

over here! I got it!

there's a mob
here from Boeing.

the man from mcdonnell
Douglas is on the way.

Wes lake from the FBI is here

and the assistant d.A.
From Ramsey county.

the usual gang.

Mr. janz, I'm bill
Smith with the NTSB.

I'm Raymond leacock. I
represent Mr. Janz.

is this a formal deposition?

not yet.

I'm sitting in on this.

bill, meet Ian carpenter.

he's with the air traffic
controllers organization.

Mr. Janz, I know this
is hard for you.

I want to hear what you saw
and what your actions were.

we were handling 40 flights,

three of us.

plus the private planes.

the screen was so crowded.

had a god damn headache.

I was tired.

35 was coming in
from the east.

no, from the west.

and 880 was coming in.

was that the 747, don?

I looked away for a moment...

some other situation.

and when I looked back...

they'd changed places.

oh...

I told 35 to turn.

they were close, man.

and then the numbers
switched...

and you couldn't tell
them apart anymore.

somebody's got these guys
working harder and faster

than I've ever seen.

that DC-10 was pretty public.

it spread itself over a field

not half a mile from
the interstate.

they don't want people
gawking at their, uh...

what did they call
that crash in Florida?

involuntary conversion.

they sure are busting
their asses on this one.

they even got the ticket
agents serving coffee.

Mr. Keane.

where does this go?

did I tell you you
could touch that?

just put that down!

hey!

how about some coffee?

hey, wait!

she likes you.

what did I do?

could it be your breath?

I thought you always
got that reaction.

gentlemen, they're ready
to play the cockpit tapes.

Minneapolis, we are
currently heading...

TUA 35, turn to heading...

[static]

say again, Minneapolis.

Jesus! Down!

oh, my god.

down! Go down!

[crash]

my god! We hit them!

we hit them!

Minneapolis, this is TUA 35

declaring an emergency.

we hit another aircraft.

looked like a 10.

three and four shutting down.

we are going down.

how much of the wing is gone?

Ron, see what's left.

right.

would you like some
coffee, Mr. Smith?

damn! I'm listening...

is there anyplace to land?

can you rewind that a little?

still going down.

is there anyplace to land?

just look for a flat
place... anything.

they're all dead!

what's he talking about?

sit down, Ron!

they're dead, all of them.

[muffled] They're burned up!

Jesus! We're going to hit!

[crash]

[silence]

was that Kennedy shouting?

yeah. Rockwell couldn't
understand him.

run that last part
through again.

I'll see if I can clean
it up a bit for you.

just look for a flat
place... anything.

they're all dead!

what's he talking
about? Sit down, Ron!

they're dead, all of them.

they're burned up!

burned up?

they were going to be.

they might as well have
been dead already.

yeah, but it doesn't
make sense.

he'd make sense at
a time like that?

no, not like that.

ok. How about the pilots?

they're the first on the
scene of the accident.

how many crash tapes
have you heard?

god. Too many.

how many times do
you hear a man

come apart like that?

ok, but it's got to
happen sometime.

he goes back there,

sees all those
people who will die.

it's too much for him.

obviously, they
hadn't burned up yet.

what about if... Maybe there
was a fire in the cabin.

maybe they were
burned up already.

that won't work.

the fuselage was unaffected
by fire until after impact.

he just broke
under the strain.

get me a transcript
of that tape.

Roger, set up a press
conference for tonight.

let's go see what the dead
have to say about it.

is this gym the biggest
place they could find?

bill, I've got something
interesting for you.

these are pretty
good bodies here.

next door, we got
stuff from the DC-10,

which is mostly pieces.

next of kin will have to look
at personal effects mostly.

not many faces to show them.

then the FBI takes over.

we'll be lucky to tag 60%

from fingerprints
and dental charts.

not enough hands,
not enough heads.

they died of trauma,
dismemberment, burns, the usual.

we got to get some trucks...

they're on their way.

we only got this
place for two days.

the trucks will be here.

I want you to see this.

two kinds of watches...
Mechanicals and digitals.

these digitals
didn't do so good.

mostly, they're blank.

heat wiped them out.

but we did find this.

yeah. So what?

take a closer look.

it's going backwards.

this better not be a joke.

it's not.

somebody had a gag watch.

well, we thought of that.

look at this.

good evening.

you all have copies of
the prepared statement.

I'm William Smith,
investigator in charge.

I'll try to answer
your questions,

but I warn you,

we don't know much more
than is in that statement.

who wants to go first?

can you confirm rumors
of a computer error

being the cause of this crash?

that's being looked at.

when can we talk
to the controller?

you'll have to ask
the man's lawyer.

you're on record as issuing a
harsh indictment of the faa

for failing to require
anticollision devices

on all commercial and
private aircraft,

even though they've been
available for over a decade.

would you care to comment?

Dr. Mayer, do you know
what caused this crash?

one of Newton's laws,
the one about gravity.

can I have an
interview, doctor?

I have to ask
questions of my own.

would you care to reply to
Mr. carpenter's charge?

no reply at this
time. Next question.

I'm Dr. Arnold Mayer, professor
of physics at the university.

I remember you.

thank you.

my question has nothing to
do with overloaded computers

or negligent air
traffic controllers.

that should be refreshing.

I doubt it.

what unusual facts have
you developed so far

in your investigation?

I'm not sure I know
what you mean.

were there any unexplained
observations?

is there any indication
this crash was caused

by something less obvious
than a computer overload?

none at all. Of course,
every crash is unique.

yet they share common factors.

there are things you do and
do not expect to find.

is the cockpit voice
recording unusual?

I can't comment on that.
It's confidential.

relevant portions will
be released soon.

you can listen for yourself.

all right. But is there
anything else odd?

have you found any unusual
item in the wreckage,

any discrepancies in the
time sequence of the crash?

[coughs]

I don't know what
you're driving at.

I can't be more plain
without sounding foolish.

I'm looking for
the inexplicable.

I usually find it.

somebody made a mistake,
and a lot of people died.

soon we'll be able to
tell you what went wrong.

there's no mystery about it.

then I salute you.

I'll read your report
with interest.

all TUA personnel,

please check with
your supervisor

for shift changes.

is there anything else
you need tonight?

I want the salvage team to
work through the night.

you got it.

better keep crew at
the hangar, too.

all right. It's done.

my secretary managed to get
you a room at the marriott.

tom, you're staying
at the holiday inn.

privilege of rank, I guess.

they got a beauty pageant
there tonight...

miss I-94.

I hear the bar's pretty wild.

well, I'm out of here.

thanks, Roger.

your people did a great job.

our usual service.

all right. Well, I'll
see you tomorrow.

yeah.

Los Angeles passenger
Mr. George Kellerman,

please pick up the white
courtesy telephone.

Mr. George Kellerman to the
white courtesy telephone.

I keep running into you.

if you're not running away.

I had to get out
of that hangar.

thought I'd be sick.

you get used to
it after a while.

[clank]

excuse me.

well, we could be
stuck here for hours.

maybe we'd better
get acquainted.

I'm Louise Baltimore,

and you're bill Smith.

how long is it
since you slept?

do I look that bad?

I didn't say bad. Just tired.

it's got to be 30, 35 hours,

but who needs sleep?

maybe we could go have coff...

dinner and a few drinks.
That'd be nifty.

am I moving too fast for you?

I can move fast, too.

let's go.

you should be careful,

picking up strange women.

you never know where
it might lead.

oh.

taxi!

we could take my car.

what kind of car do you drive?

what kind?

that's mine.

you smoke too much.

I'll quit tomorrow.

just like that, huh?

I've heard that story before.

it took me over
a year to quit.

you don't believe me?

this is my last cigarette.

was it that good?

you were the best thing

in a thousand years, bill.

I was, wasn't I?

I was stunned.

why?

it's been so long
since I've...

enjoyed myself...

let alone been swept away.

do you believe in fate?

I will if you will.

I think it was fate that
brought us together.

you may be right.

I want to spend
more time with you.

I'd like that.

we'll have all day tomorrow.

we'll have all tomorrow
night, anyway.

this job is killing you, bill.

you need to take a rest.

take it with me.

the first rule is,

never go to bed with anybody
crazier than yourself.

I don't know if
you're crazier,

but you're in the top
10 on my weird list.

if you knew me better...

I'd be number one.

[coughs]

yes, I'd like to cancel
the 6:30 wake-up.

yes.

damn it. They were
supposed to call me.

well, they can't start
till you get there.

bill, you remember we
were talking about fate?

sure I remember.

maybe that's why they
didn't call you.

are you listening to me?

I don't get it.

this job is wearing you down.

I know it is.

I can't just walk
away from it, Louise.

why not?

the world won't come to an end

if you just walk away.

I haven't had a
vacation in six years.

I got one coming.

in one week, I'll have this
investigation started.

I can hand it over
to someone else.

then I'll take a long
look at my life.

maybe we can go away
somewhere together.

anyway, we've got tonight.

I may not be here tonight.

we'll talk about it tonight.

Louise?

Louise?

as to systems surrounding
engine number four,

which was sheared off
in the collision,

let's consider the
fuel feed first.

you'll find that on page 19
of the computer print-out.

everybody got that?

you will see there was
a momentary surge

when fuel line number
four was severed

along with 25
feet of wing tip.

[telephone rings]

Smith.

Julie, thanks for
calling back.

no, it has nothing to do
with the investigation.

I can't understand it.

she was wearing a t.U. Outfit.

that's right, Baltimore,
like the city.

first name, Louise.

I guess I made a
mistake, then.

thanks, Julie.

it looks like the captain
had little control.

night, fellas.

good night.

we're locking up, Mr. Smith.

what's that?

there's a guard on that door.

knock when you want to go.

I'll do that. Good night.

hell of a mess, huh?

one hell of a mess.

good night.

it's Smith, isn't it?

I'm not sure.

looks like the pictures I saw.

is he dead?

stunned.

god damn it. Where's
the stunner?

there.

he must have been
fooling with it.

is he out?

he's probably seeing and
hearing everything.

if he is, it's too late.

god, what else can go wrong?

let's get the hell out.

Smith, you're going
to be all right.

I can't tell you who I am,

but you're endangering
a project

bigger than you can imagine.

forget about this, or
there will be a paradox.

you...

coventry, send the gate.

my god, you think...

we didn't make those
planes crash.

I swear it.

stand by for time travelers
arriving through gate.

gantry b operators,
prepare for arrival.

we have major problems.

what happened?

we got the stunner.

imagine my relief.

Louise, I want an explanation.

our master's voice.

there was a little problem.

those words will be engraved

in the annals of
understatement.

your mother was a
cash register.

and she turned a
tidy profit, too.

Louise...

what happened?

all gate operators, report
to decontamination center

on shutdown.

do you see that?

do you see the red
blob on the time line?

that is 1989.

that's where you just went,

and there's the mess
you left behind you.

it's a god damn paradox.

it's a potential paradox.

you sent me to get the
stunner we lost. Here.

you didn't mention
Smith was there.

he'd found it and
stunned himself.

he wasn't out when we
found him. He saw us.

sir, I have a timequake
approaching.

paradox. Timequake
approaching.

force three.

a paradox, Louise.

you've changed the past.

you know we can't
change the past.

it catches up with
us. We change.

we haven't changed much.
We're all still dying.

this place still stinks.
You are still ugly.

one not much bigger than that
could destroy us completely.

you're supposed
to scan the past.

you should have known
Smith was there.

you're supposed to be
ready for the unexpected.

you're supposed
to be the best.

you and your people get the
best food, the best quarters.

do you realize what it
costs to pamper you?

he was there.

did you want me to kill him?

oh, you'd like that.

killing him would create the
worst paradox imaginable.

his life affects thousands of
lives in an endless chain.

if you break it...

you get 1,000 years
of bad luck,

and none of us
is here anymore.

all right.

let's go find out
what happened.

maybe we can still
do something.

all I'm getting is
temporal censorship.

scan past it.

what's temporal
censorship mean?

we can't see where we've
been or where we're going.

we can only go back to a
specific moment once,

and never to that
same moment again.

too bad. If we could...

you'll get used to it
after more missions.

there he is, in the shadow.

use rapid scan until he moves.

Louise!

he knows my name.

you probably dropped
your calling card.

Louise!

I didn't mention my name.

neither did anyone else.

how does he know my name?

he's got the initiator.

had Smith met me before?

how else would he
know your name?

I've never been to that era.

should I spell it out for you?

give it a try.

in Smith's time, he
has met you before.

in your time,

you've met him only
once, in the hangar,

which means you will go
back and meet him earlier.

I spoke to him, sherman.

that was not a good idea.

I didn't like talking
to him, sherman.

you were not helping him.

what's that supposed to mean?

this seems to be my day

for spelling out the obvious.

I suppose I should
not complain.

come on, you old fraud,

prep me for the 1963 flight.

the '63 mission will
proceed to stage one.

the '63 mission will
proceed to stage one.

you did not smoke
enough, Louise.

give it to me straight, doc.

no new degeneration.

the levels of complex
hydrocarbons

in your blood are depressed

due to breathing the
primordial atmosphere

of the 20th century.

they think their air's awful.

they ain't seen nothin' yet.

maybe I should replace
those kidneys.

maybe a little kick, get
the old blood moving.

speed kills, my dear.

uniforms and hair
for look-alikes

will proceed to stage two.

uniforms and hair
for look-alikes

will proceed to stage two.

sometimes I think you
want me to live forever.

explain it to me.

that's what you're built for.

think I know what's
happening in my head?

hardly.

all right. On a
normal mission,

when you are taking people

who are about to die
off doomed airplanes,

you do not mind treating
them roughly. All done.

it's because I'm helping them.

obviously without you, those
people would be dead,

so you can function
without remorse.

but with Smith,
it was different.

I don't think I want
to hear any more.

how's the little
featherhead today?

Louise loves you,
Orville. She does.

Polly want a chemical-free
sterilized cracker?

I should take you to 1963.

you could fly.

would you like that? Huh?

would you like that?

you left Smith
helpless and confused,

so there was pain in you.

all right, I felt sorry
for the bastard,

but I'd have shot him

if it would straighten
things out.

as coventry said, you did
not have that choice.

what choices do I have?

you say I have to go back

because he met me before.

what if I don't go back?

what happens to the universe?

you must go back.

where's my free will?

did you lose it?

I will look around for it.

this is awful.

you think that's bad?
Take a look at this.

we located the 1963 crash

while you were away.

it's likely you
will go tomorrow.

how are you on the
idiom and history?

I know it.

who was the U.S. president?

Johnson.

no, wait, uh...

he was assassinated by...

vito corleone?

Louise.

we've talked about quarks
and antineutrinos,

but what about people?

it's quite a step
from demonstrating

that subatomic particles

can travel backward
through time

to saying that people can.

what would be the result of
people traveling in time?

for one thing, paradoxes
become possible.

say you build a time
machine, go back,

and murder your father
when he was 10.

that means you
were never born.

so how did you build
a time machine?

it's the possibility
of paradoxes

that make most people rule out

time travel by human beings.

still, why not?

if you were careful,
you could do it.

you would not go back
to kill Adolf Hitler,

much as you might like to,

because it would
change history.

a time traveler would
have to be careful,

but he could do a surprising
number of things.

he could observe, for one.

he could find out who
was on the grassy knoll

that day in Dallas.

he will know what we
can only guess...

that we are destroying our
planet by complacency.

he will have to live
with our legacy

of pollution and acid rain.

our negligence today
is producing a world

in which our children's
children will be barren

and the human race heading
towards extinction.

he could also take things,

providing they
wouldn't be missed...

water from the pacific ocean,

stones from the Grand Canyon.

this may sound pointless,

but sometimes very
small differences

can be crucial.

the difference
between a dead man

and a man who's alive

can be very small.

what about a man who
is about to die,

a man no one will
ever see alive again?

stage three alert.

all sections, go.

this is the hard part

about looking for
time travelers.

they don't want to be found.

you must look for them in
places where no one is,

or where there are people

no one will ever
see alive again.

all personnel, stand
by for departure.

go!

go!

[bell rings]

ah.

aah!

gate attendants,
pick up new arrival.

pick up new arrival.

good afternoon,
ladies and gentlemen.

this is your captain speaking.

we are cruising at an
altitude of 31,000 feet

at a ground speed of
460 miles per hour.

if you look out the right
side through the clouds,

you can see the finger lakes.

our expected time of arrival
is on schedule at 4:30.

so sit back and relax

and enjoy the flight.

send the others.

everything's nice and
quiet. Keep it that way.

gantry operators,
prepare for arrival.

extreme radiation danger.

may I get you a pillow?

sure.

prepare holding pens for
arriving passengers.

I'm through up
here. What's up?

there's a guy acting funny.

he's watching us too close.

get up!

aah!

oh, my god!

take me to see the captain.

sir, you can't shoot that.

if you depressurize the
cabin, you'll kill us all.

nobody gets hurt if
I see the captain.

[gunshot]

aah!

you stinking son of a bitch.

get in there and
cork the crew.

keep the flight plan steady.

riot squad, fast and dirty.

this one's falling apart.

did... did that man shoot her?

don't worry, honey.
It'll be all right.

when she fell...

I want you to sleep now.

attention. Attention.

initiation phase
has commenced.

all recovery team
personnel, stand by.

'63 flight in force field.

holding.

all systems to gate.

ladies and gentlemen,

please remain in your seats.

ladies and gentlemen,

please move toward
the rear exit door.

please step onto the ramp.

walk quickly to the bottom
and follow instructions.

let's get you out of here.

that's the survivor.
Help me with Susan.

please step onto the ramp.

walk quickly to the bottom
and follow instructions.

you will be taken
to a safety area.

please step onto the ramp.

walk quickly to the bottom
and follow instructions.

you will be taken
to a safety area.

please step onto the ramp.

all substitute bodies
will be placed strictly

according to the
passenger list.

passengers now in transit.

prepare to activate
holding pen force fields.

now we know a hijacker
caused this crash.

we know there was a survivor.

we know when it crashed.

we just have to duplicate it.

I stopped it.

I stopped the bullet.

you saved us all, kid.

hang in there.
You'll be all right.

he fired his gun
in the cockpit.

have djakarta attach a 5-k
bomb to the windscreen.

that should duplicate
the effect.

I lost it.

what, Susan?

what did you lose?

stun.

stunner.

I lost the stunner.

look out.

stop it! Hold the gate!

stop her!

Baltimore, get out of there!

no time, Louise! No time!

Louise, there's a bomb!

one of my team was shot.

in the confusion, a
stunner was lost.

it was too late to get it.

preventing a paradox
is more important

than individual lives.

blame is secondary
at this point.

the first stunner
you lost in 1989

ended up in bill
Smith's possession.

he knows what it can do.

then you went back to 1963

and lost another stunner.

the computers estimate

it wound up in Arnold
Mayer's possession.

if he learns what it does,

he might learn how it works.

the council has decided to
risk another mission to 1989.

you'll meet Smith
the day before

you saw him in the hangar.

prevent him from going to
that hangar the next night.

since he knew your
name when he saw you,

he must have met
you previously.

therefore, you did go back.

must go back.

I can't get away from you.

I would be a poor personal
robot if you could.

I lost a good girl
on that plane.

what was the council's
epitaph for her?

preventing a paradox is more
important than individual lives.

Susan knew that.
She accepted it.

I just...

I couldn't leave her.

it is not necessary

to destroy your soul
in this job, Louise,

but a certain
amount of violence

will be done to it.

you made the wrong choice.

it is easy for them to
make cold choices, Louise.

they are hardly human anymore.

am I so different?

we're all dying.

they're just a little
further along.

you are different.

you have feelings.

they want me to go back.

you have to go back.

he must be kept out
of that hangar.

this isn't a job
for me, sherman.

you want somebody's head
bashed, I'm your girl.

you will have to
learn new methods.

you can do it.

I know you can.

then let's go do it.

standard metal fatigue.

somebody's got these guys
working harder and faster

than I've ever seen.

that DC-10 was pretty public.

it spread itself over a field

half a mile from
the interstate.

what did they call
that crash in Florida?

involuntary conversion.

they made a profit on that

when the insurance paid off.

they're busting their
asses on this.

take this coffee over there.

they even got the ticket
agents serving coffee.

put that down!

did I tell you you
could touch that?

hey.

how about some coffee?

what a long night ahead of us.

hey, wait a minute.

declaring an emergency!

we hit another aircraft!

looked like a 10.

three and four shutting down.

we are going down!
Repeat! Going down!

how much of the wing is gone?

Ron, see what's left!

some coffee, Mr. Smith?

damn it! I'm listening...

still going down.

is there anyplace to land?

[tape player is turned off]

sherman, he's seen me again.

I think he's
interested. What next?

ahem.

what now, sherman?

think of something.

take him to dinner.

someplace romantic.

how do I do that?

pick him up, my dear.

how?

drop your hankie.
Wiggle your behind.

you're the woman, Louise.

you figure it out.

just be subtle.

Louise is about as
subtle as a lead pipe.

thanks.

it should be
appropriate to the era

as well as stimulating

to the contemporary male.

sorry about the high heels.

I keep running into you.

if you're not running away.

I had to get out
of that hangar.

I thought I'd be sick.

you get used to it.

oh!

excuse me.

well, we could be
stuck here for hours.

maybe we'd better
get acquainted.

oh!

taxi!

we could take my car.

what kind of car do you drive?

what kind?

that's mine.

why don't you get in?

you got the keys?

keys?

[car starts]

whoa!

the tower clear you
for that takeoff?

so, do you know Minneapolis?

naw. I've only been here...

watch it!

a couple of times.

I know a good place.

anyplace is fine.

something wrong?

just watch... Jesus!

[horn honking]

you really drive this thing.

are we almost there?

another two minutes
at this velocity.

how long you had this car?

oh, ah... Forever.

you must be the luckiest
woman in the world.

[honk honk]

hey! What are you doing?

idiot!

you all right?

I feel like I should
kiss the ground.

wow!

can't get that anymore.

I'll have another one.

forget the water.

can't get it anymore?

it's old, but it's
not that old.

oh, I mean, I can't
usually afford...

are you ready to order?

bill, would you order for me?

I can never decide.

ok. The sole

and a tossed salad and
Italian dressing.

that's the first time
I've ordered for a girl

since after the senior
prom in high school.

did I act improperly?

no.

no. It's just... Haven't you
ever heard of women's lib?

suffragette movement,
19th amendment,

Rosie the riveter,
bra burning,

Gloria steinem, e.R.A.,
battle of the sexes.

who won?

I think it's still
being fought.

we might call a
truce for tonight.

I'd like that.

who won?

you have a strange
sense of humor.

sometimes it's like you grew
up in a foreign country.

I did.

I grew up abroad, overseas.

whereabouts?

France.

I'm from France. My
father was posted there.

he was a warrior.

soldier?

that's right. A soldier.

well, to France, then.

excuse me.

your table's ready
for you now.

that's a real habit you got.

what habit is that?

I've never seen
anyone eat and smoke

at the same time.

where did it go?

if you hear someone scream,
that's probably where it is.

Louise, you got to quit.

that tobacco's
ruining your brain.

so you never remarried,

and you don't have
a girlfriend?

isn't that a little unusual?

is it?

I guess so.

I don't know.
Sometimes I wish i...

what?

done things
differently, I guess.

the job always came first.

I know what you mean.

that's how I feel
about my job.

yours doesn't take you away

in the middle of the night

and keep you gone a
couple of months.

when I got back, my
girl had usually gone.

maybe you didn't
find the right girl.

maybe.

tom says I'm burning out.

whatever, I just
gave up looking.

took a lot of cold showers.

you find it difficult
to talk about yourself.

that's all I've been doing.

well, you're right. I can't...

open up emotionally?

that's it.

I'm no good at...

expressing yourself?

I couldn't have said
it better myself.

what about you?

why aren't you married?

I can't have any children.

I'm sorry.

but that's not the only
reason to get married.

would be for me.

I'd like to get out of here.

where are you staying?
I can drive you there.

for a minute, I forgot.

I haven't even seen the room.

I was going to ask
you if it's nice.

you can come up
and take a look.

it is nice.

at least they
delivered my luggage.

"compliments of
the management."

that's real nice.

that is nice.

would you like an apple?

what's so funny?

I don't know.

you just seem to do everything

a little different
from everyone else.

is that bad?

I don't think so.

let's find out.

this may not have been
such a good idea.

why not?

you don't find me attractive?

no. It's not that.
It's just...

wait.

try it again.

please.

I really want this to work.

I really need this to work.

let me get the light.

the hell with the light.

there's a spare
toothbrush in there,

if that's what
you're looking for.

I thought you were sleeping.

I think I was.

come here.

you smoke too much.

I'll quit tomorrow.

just like that, huh?

I've heard that story before.

took me over a year to quit.

you don't believe me?

this is my last cigarette.

damn it! They were
supposed to call me.

well, they can't start
till you get there.

bill, you remember we
were talking about fate?

sure I remember.

maybe that's why they
didn't call you.

are you listening to me?

I don't get it.

this job is wearing you down.

I know it is.

I can't just walk
away from it, Louise.

why not?

the world's not going
to come to an end

if you just walk away.

I haven't had a
vacation in six years.

I got one coming.

in one week, I'll have this
investigation started,

and I can hand it
over to someone else.

then I'll take a long
look at my life.

maybe we can go away
somewhere together.

anyway, we got tonight.

I may not be here tonight.

stay with me.

I can't.

we'll talk about it tonight.

Sherman, send the gate.

Louise?

gate operation terminated.

all controls to zero.

hmm.

he'll never miss it.

what happened?

did you stop him?

Sherman, get my uniform.

paradox! Timequake
approaching!

force seven.

I have to talk to the council.

there isn't much time!

here's what happened
after I left.

going over every single
piece of wreckage

in this hangar.

identify it. Tag it.

you don't know
what something is,

bring it to me.

what are we looking for?

I'll know when I see it.

we'll reassemble the 747
from the ground up.

bill, are you sure?

that's all.

he's forgotten all about

what really caused the crash.

now he's looking
for the stunner...

and for me.

we're wasting time, bill.

you can't learn
anything from this.

rebuild it...

every inch of it,

day and night.

I'll approve the overtime.

the boss is on the
phone from Washington.

tell him I'll call him back.

he says get back there
or you'll be fired.

well, that sounds
fairly urgent.

want me to go with you?

being around me might not
be good for your career.

he's doing his job badly now.

it had to lead to conflict
with his superiors.

bill, I've always backed you

because you were a
good investigator.

I let you run with this

even if I couldn't
see the reason,

but you've turned
up nothing new.

what do you expect to find?

if I knew, I wouldn't
have to look so hard.

this crash has been
crazy from the start...

like the watches
that ran backwards.

you said that
wasn't important.

I didn't think so. Now I do.

and the cockpit tape...

the engineers screaming that
they're all dead and burned.

was it computer error or not?

yeah.

soon as we get your
report saying that,

we can recommend
getting new computers.

that's a big appropriation,

and congress is ready
to spend the money.

something happened...
In the hangar.

I found something.

I think it knocked me out.

they came and took it from me.

and now they're watching me.

I can feel it.

they can go anywhere...

look anywhere.

there was this... Girl.

now he'll go see Dr. Mayer.

Dr. Mayer doesn't
have the answers,

but he has one of these.

it's the stunner
Susan lost in 1963.

Smith has the initiator.

you put them together,
and it spells paradox.

come in, Mr. Smith.

been expecting you.

that's it.

it's all temporal
censorship from there.

that means I will go back.

I can stop the paradox
if I leave now.

the watches, the cockpit
voice recording...

that could be important,

but you say she
didn't know you.

she said I looked
like my pictures.

then she hadn't met you yet.

I told you, we spent
the night together.

it was unforgettable.

you're missing the point.

she finds you in the hangar
on the night of the 5th.

she returns to
wherever she's from.

then, for reasons of her own,

she returns to the 4th

and meets you for
the first time

from her point of view.

she's traveling in time.

there has to be
another answer.

it's time I showed
you something.

I've been working on a
puzzle for 25 years.

you may be the missing piece.

that's it! Where'd you get it?

what is it?

it's some kind of weapon.

all systems green.

quadrants interlock.

all systems go.

two minutes.
Baltimore, solo, 1989.

two minutes.

all I want to do is find her.

I don't care about
anything else.

bill, I think you'll
see her again.

how do you know so
much about her?

because of this object.

it's very important.

I've run tests over the years.

I still don't know
what it's made of.

we can't make one in
the 20th century.

where'd you get it?

in the wreckage of a 707

that crashed in upstate
New York in 1963.

I was on that plane.

that can't be.

the only survivor
was a boy named...

William Collins.

my mother remarried,
and I took the name.

this is incredible.

then you must...

what do you remember?

I don't think about it much.

you must remember something.

I don't remember
the crash at all.

before that...

people were shouting.

somebody got shot.

they found a gun
with one shot fired.

it was a mental
patient, a hijacker.

there was this lady.

it was her.

I remember it now.

she told me everything
would be all right.

she knew you'd survive.

why didn't she die
in the crash?

she got off, but left this.

she'll want it back.

after 25 years? Our time.

in her time, she just
lost it yesterday.

this shouldn't be here.

we're living in her past.

if she changes her past,
creates a paradox,

then her world is destroyed.

we'll see more of
Louise Baltimore.

laser beams, prepare
for countdown.

time tones intimate
at 6 seconds.

5, 4...

I may not make it back.

you will be back.

all systems green.

30 seconds.

Baltimore, solo, 1989.

30 seconds.

this came off mine.

you know too much.

I don't have much time, but
I'll answer questions.

doctor, I'll have
to take that.

you take people off planes

just before they crash.

we replace what we
take with dead bodies.

I'm glad you came back.

but the relatives
identify them.

they identify the
wrong people.

we duplicate them...

fingerprints, dental records.

we're very good at what we do.

then you are from the future.

about 1,000 years.

it must be incredible.

it must be horrible.

it's awful.

we're all dying.

we can make the bodies,

but not the souls.

we can't have
children anymore.

we steal people from the past

to send them somewhere
else to start over...

to give them a second chance.

I have to take that stunner
back with me, Dr. Mayer.

it could cause a paradox.

I'm going with you.

you can't, bill. Haven't you
heard anything I've said?

you said you were
dying. So am I.

the whole race is
dying, all of humanity.

we're all going to die.

what matters is now...

this moment.

I can't take anything with
me that'll be missed.

no one's going to miss me.

the stunner, Dr. Mayer.

that's what I came for.

I knew I was right.

no!

he's dead.

the paradox has happened.

I got to get out of here.

take me with you.

Sherman, send the gate.

watch that first
step. It's a killer.

oh ho! Owww!

timequake.

force infinity.

paradox.

timequake. Force infinity.

Mr. Smith, I presume.

come on.

Mayer's work would
have changed history.

he wasn't supposed to
die for six years.

I tried to stop him.

it's all over.

the paradox is here.

if you had left things alone,

this wouldn't have happened.

I did what I had to do.

our world is at an end.

all evidence of our existence
will be washed away.

we must attempt to send
those we have saved

into a distant future
beyond the gate.

coventry...

reverse the gate.

get out!

get out! Everybody get out!

go, Louise.

get him out of here.

open the holding pens!

release everyone and
send them to the gate.

you will awake now.

remain calm. Remain calm.

all right! Come on! Let's go!

proceed to the gate as
quickly as possible.

proceed in single file
to the main terminal.

remain calm.

do not be afraid.
Do not be afraid.

no harm will come to you.

follow directions.

walk toward the light and
step into the light.

move along.

move along!

everything's all right.

please remain calm.

single file. Walk
into the light.

you'll be all
right. Keep moving.

single file. Walk
into the light.

walk toward the light and
step into the light.

aah!

our work is done.

I move we adjourn.

seconded.

just keep moving.

walk through the light.

walk into the light.

time to go, bill.

the gate will be destroyed
in two minutes.

what happens when
the gate's gone?

like a nuclear bomb.

step through, bill.

together.

none of us can go.

only you.

then I'm not going either.

take a chance, Louise.

go with him.

you are going to
have his child.

the gate will be
destroyed in one minute.

Sherman, come with us.

there is no place for
me where you are going.

go!

now!

this is not the end.

this is not the
beginning of the end.

it is the end of
the beginning.