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- [ Man #1 ] Lie to me. - [ Man #2 ] What?

- I want you to lie to me. - You want me to lie to you, Mr. Phillips?

I need you to lie to me so that I can get a baseline reading.

It's just something I can compare your truthful statements to.

Okay.

Three plus four equals eight.

[ Chuckles ] That's not a lie; that's an untruth.

- Tell me a lie. - [ Scoffs ] I don't...

- lie. - Everybody has lies, Mr.Jordan.

-Just tell me one of yours. - You have lies?

Sure.

I didn't misdirect that shipment, Mr. Phillips.

We're not even talkin' about that yet.

Just give me a lie.

Okay.

I love my job.

Yeah. Me too.

[ Engine Starts ]

- Good job, Doug. - Poor bastard.

The guy transposes a couple of numbers on a shipping form.

Now he's goin' to jail.

Look, the guy misdirected nuclear fuel to an I.R.S. office in suburban Ohio...

- and then, oh, yeah, he covered it up. - Fair enough.

[ Man On Radio ] Talk to people who remember things that have never been.

Why do people call me and swear there are millions of people missing...

that they remember things that have never been?

- What is "The 2 40'"? - ""What is "The 2 40'''?

Who listens to this paranoid crap?

Paranoid crazy people?

[ Man On Radio ] Let's get to the bottom of this 2 40 business.

[ Sports Announcer ] Moves Kimball into scoring-

And the Boston Yankees still trailing 7-1.

There's 1 50 bucks.

- And the Yankee hurler is into his windup. - [ Horns Honking ]

- Fastball, swung on and missed. - Ain't gonna get any redder than that.

Thanks,Jess.

[ Girl Yelling ]

- Lewis.! - I have shoe.

- Hey, kiddo. - Give it back, Lewis!

- Hi, Dad. - Hi.

- I'm warning you. Give it back. Lewis.! - No.

- Lewis has her shoe. - Yeah. Noticed that.

- And I have a conference call. - I'll feed the kids.

Just not peanut butter again-And Abbie has homework and Lewis needs a bath.

Dinner, not peanut butter, homework, bath.

The kids are gonna work you about that day at the beach you promised.

I mentioned it. You promised.

Whatever. The heat's on, so I covered for you.

I told them that you're very busy and I will try to marry better next time.

Please go take your conference call.

[ Abbie ] Lewis,you animal, give me my shoe.

- [ Doug ] Kentucky. - [ Abbie ] Louisville.

- [ Lewis ] I'm hungry. - [ Doug ] Where's the mac and cheese?

- We ate it. - Alaska.

Juneau.

- Michigan. - Lansing.

- North Carolina. - Charlotte.

Nope. It's Raleigh.

- What about the hot dogs? - We ate them.

Mom said no peanut butter.

- [ Phone Ringing ] - Look, it's that or something undesirable.

- How undesirable? - [ Ringing Continues ]

- Yeah. Doug Phillips. - [ Man ] Please hold for...

- Undersecretary of Energy Pierce. - [ Woman ] Agent Phillips?

- Yes, ma'am. - We have an incident and-

- [ Line Cuts Off] - [ Conversation On Phone, Indistinct ]

- Hello? - [ Wife ] Doug? I'm on a conference call.

I'm hungry!

- Oh. - [ Line Beeps ] - [ Doorbell Rings ]

Hmm?

- Flynn. - Long time.

Real long time- Like six years.

- You get a call? - Sort of.

- What's goin' on? - I need you for a field mission.

Field mission? I'm U.S. Marines, retired.

- [ Lewis ] I'm hungry. - [ Abbie ] Lewis.!

- My kids. - You're a family man now. That's cool.

[ Abbie ] I'm warning you. Give it back.

But there's been an incident, Dad, and the Department needs you.

The Department?

- You work for the Department of Energy too? - In a way.

I'm on loan to them for a special project.

Doug, what is going on? Is that Flynn?

Hey. Sheila. Sorry, but I just need to...

borrow Doug for a little while.

- You work for the D.O.E. in a way. - I need to be on this call.

Doug, we're both under orders.

- Is it a nuke spill? - No such luck.

Listen, Doug, you are the only one that can help me on this.

[ Sighs ] Go.Just go.

And nice seeing you, Flynn.

Yes. Yes, I'm here.

Uh- Uh, uh- Wait. Let me get a pencil.

- [ Engine Starts ] - [ Tires Skidding ]

Doug, this is Dr. Toni Newman. She knows we served in the Marines together.

- She's read your file. - How you doin'?

Okay. Where are we going?

I'm gonna change your life, Doug.

Yeah? How you gonna do that?

- I'm gonna invite you to the big show. - Gee, Flynn. Thanks a lot.

Here. See if that fits.

- You're kidding, right? - Sorry. It's a matter of clearance.

All right, not for nothin', but I'm cleared all the way to the top.

Agent Phillips...

you have no idea where the top even is.

This would be a good time for you guys to tell me what's goin' on.

- Search and rescue. - Great. Where?

It's not where, Doug-

It's when.

Okay, Doug.

It's a real cozy place you guys got here.

Tragically, Toni has no sense of humor.

That is patently untrue.

Special project. That's hot fusion.

- You cracked hot fusion? - And would that amaze you?

Unlimited power? No more fossil fuels, no more pollution?

Yeah, that would amaze me- And you're 40 years ahead of schedule.

- [ Computer Voice ] Access Printed. - [ Beeping ]

- [ Flynn ] Doug, meet Dr. Hector Belsky. - These are from you-know-where.

- We're in prelaunch. - We've got 1 4 hours.

No we don't. The storm's picked up speed. You have to be in and out in under three.

- You have to jump now. Are these chicken or cheese? - Chicken.

- What storm? - [ Clattering ]

- Should I know what's going on? - I don't eat chicken anymore.

- Since when? - Since I saw that documentary on television.

- It's Hurtgen Forest. - Yes, the battle for Hurtgen Forest.

Do you know it as well as Flynn says you do?

- Answer truthfully please. - I remember those papers you used to write on it...

- back in officers' training. - You brought me here to write history papers?

The battle- How well do you know it?

Hurtgen Forest, the Belgian-German border.

Fought from September '44 to February '45.

The Germans were dug in. The mud and snow made the Allied advance...

of the 1 6th, 1 8th and 26th Divisions nearly impossible.

In fact, the battle was so intense, Allied commanders...

called in air strikes on their own position.

Well, you guys know who won the war don't ya?

I don't wanna ruin it for you.

He knows this. He can guide us.

- [ Electronic Voice ] Lower Level. - Perhaps.

And I will try one of these.

- [ Chattering ] - [ Computers Beeping ]

What storm?

- Do you love your country? - I love it, but I'm not in love with it.

I was just putting in some toast.

It started out as hot fusion.

Eight months ago, we ignited the hot fusion accelerator.

It worked-with one anomaly: It unleashed a time storm.

If you're going to laugh, do it now.

- Shall I laugh? - I did.

The storm was unexpected.

It's a tear in time.

You see?

When we turn the engine on, when the storm erupted...

it took us four hours to lock down one end.

In those four hours, there were changes in the world above-

Changes in history.

We labeled those 2 40 minutes, ""The 2 40.''

Clever, isn't it?

Down here at the core, we were protected.

We are the only ones who remember how the world used to be before the 2 40.

The rings in the tunnel before you form a lightning rod of sorts...

to draw the storm in... when we need to. [ Clears Throat ]

Great. Okay. You've got a time tunnel.

- Good for you. - You're having a hard time with this, yes?

Well, don't be ashamed. It's because it won't fit into your brain.

Because, well, to be plain, it's bigger than your brain.

Well, most things are.

You say you locked down one end of this time storm. Where's the other end?

It's out of control. Whipping around in the past.

You see, when it changes events back there, it ripples forward...

and changes things in the present.

These ripples show what the time storm is doing in the past.

- In World War II. - Yes. If the ripples move...

an unseemly amount, we send a team back to attempt damage control.

Is that an unseemly amount?

Unfortunately,yes. This is the worst we've seen yet.

Think of us as FEMA, Agent Phillips.

We don't send a team in for a rain shower, we send a team in for a hurricane.

Here's what we know: The time storm picked up...

a single human being in 1 546...

and set that person down on the Belgian-German border in 1 944.

Our mission is tojump in, find that visitor...

clean up his or her mess and then jump back before the window closes.

You know that battle better than anyone.

-Jump back in time? - Yeah.

To 1 944. [ Scoffs ]

A visitor from 1 546.

[ Scoffing ]

You know, can't we just jump back in time 45 minutes instead?

I was making peanut butter sandwiches for my kids...

and I would really like to finish.

We can't send you back to finish those sandwiches.

We can only send you to where the time storm is right now-

and right now is at the battle of the Hurtgen Forest.

Hurtgen Forest.

You mean, I go in there...

and I come out in 1 944.

[ Sighs ]

These geniuses busted the world, Doug.

Now they're workin' on setting it straight.

I don't know if they can do it.

I do know that it's gonna bust more and more unless we do our job.

Now, you wanna go back and work that lie detector for the rest of your life...

or do you wanna take this trip and save the world?

[ Phone Ringing ]

- Hello. - [ Doug ] Hey, babe.

Hey! Where are you?

- On the job. - Where else?

- What time you'll be home? - I'm not sure.

It might be, uh, late.

- Are the kids in bed? - Finally.

Lewis put sand in the VCR.

Honey, it pains me to say, your son is a technophobe.

- Who can blame him? - [ Knocking ]

Honey, I gotta go. They need me.

- Can you give the kids a kiss for me? - Sure.

- Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm fine.

I, uh-

You know how much I love you, right?

Yeah.

I love you too.

[ Line Clicks Off]

[ Knocking ]

Doug, this is Wix, our medic.

- How you doin'? - How you doin'?

Wix is also not bad hand-to-hand.

I like to think of him as a bodyguard.

Excuse me. Tilt your head back, please.

- [ Clears Throat, Coughs ] - There we go.

Relay chip. Sends back all your vital signs to mission control.

Also gives 'em a live feed of what you hear and what you see.

It's two-way, so you can hear them, and it's language-enabled.

Mm-hmm. You, too, can speak German in one simple injection.

[ Man On P.A., Indistinct ]

Toni Newman you know. This is J.D.

- Hey. - Flynn.

Right. Listen, Doug, when we jump back, we do our job, nothing else.

First commandment: We don't take anything or do anything for personal reasons.

If you do, it's considered treason. One misstep back there...

and our present changes forever.

Got that?

See? Okay. Let's go for a walk.

Man-to-man, you know there's somethin' a little different...

- about you, soldier. - Don't ask, don't tell.

[ Flynn ] Now, I hope y'all peed, 'cause we're not stoppin' every ten minutes.

Mr. Salazar, take us to launch mode.

Any go no-go's?

- We are go for medical. - We are go for psychological.

- We are go for control. - We are go for strategic.

- We are go for operations. - We are go for tactical.

We are go for comm-link.

[ Man ] Time storm approaching.

[ Beeping ]

- Vital stats spiking. - Power grid at 97%.

Losing visual contact.

Just keep walking!

I will not puke. I will not puke. I will not puke.

[ Man ] Acquiring target.

Sympathy at 42%.

Sympathy at 79%.

-Just keep walking! - Timeline target.

- Ten seconds, nine- - We are at maximum power.

Seven, six, five...

four, three, two...

one.

Target acquired.

- [ Screams ] - [ Rumbling ]

[ Chatter ]

The team is away.

[ Grunts ]

- Don't touch the bullets. - Thanks for the heads-up on that.

That was a little close for comfort.

Everybody all right?

[ Vomits ]

- Every damn time. - Crap.

Flynn, the mission clock is running.

- Set for return in two hours and 1 5 minutes. - Okay.

This is where the visitor came through. What's the play, Doug?

You've taken the tours, right?

- You've walked these fields. - It's your battle, Doug.

That's why I picked you.

Yeah. It is.

[ Airplane Engines Rumbling ]

See, that's the Allied air support...

softening up the German 88th Division for their push over the hill.

Now, if we wanna find somebody, we'd better do it before that attack...

- because this whole place turns into hell. - Tick, tick, tick.

In my job, I ask a lot of people a lot of questions...

and I'll tell ya one thing, people return to the familiar.

But the bogie's never been here before, Dougie. Nothing is familiar.

J.D., I am gonna make you like me.

About a mile and a half that way, across the Allied line in no-man's-land...

there's a church.

It's the Chapel of St. Florent. You could see it, if it were daylight.

- Which is when our visitor landed. - Right.

Now I'm from 1 546, I get put down here in the middle of all this...

in this hell, I see a church, I'm goin' for it.

Return to the familiar.

Okay. We go for the church.

Don't worry,J.D. He'll never make you like him. You don't like anybody.

- I like you. - Everybody likes me.

- I'm likable. - Phillips's P.O.V.

Take me closer.

That watch is appropriate to period, but was not issued by us.

All right. Look sharp, people.

- [ Dialing ] - [ Line Rings ]

Hey, you've reached Doug's cell. Leave a message here or try me at the office. Thanks.

[ Airplane Engines Rumbling ]

- [ Explosions ] - [ Yells ]

[ Speaking German ]

[ Speaking German ]

- When did you say this place turns to hell? - In about an hour.

[ Speaking German ]

Let's go!

[ Man ] Incoming.!

Take it easy. You're gonna be all right.

[ Men Yelling, Indistinct ]

We have taken the trench. We have taken the trench.

[ Flynn ] We're in the trench, headed for the church.

Hey. Stay sharp, huh?

Bio. Status on Phillips.

Heart rate and respiration well above projected norms.

- Must be first-time jitters. - Show me Phillips' P.O.V.

[ Explosion ]

Phillips, is there a problem?

Doug, you need a hand with that or what?

- We're looking at Pfc Douglas Phillips. - His grandfather.

Sir, our records show the Pfc Phillips died in the battle of Hurtgen Forest.

We had only two hours to research the entire mission, sir.

Get up. Get your second in that chair.

Agent Phillips, so this is why you know our battle so well.

You must not interact with him. Listen to my voice.

- Sir. -Stay with this mission.

Agent Phillips,you have no idea what you are dealing with.

Turn and walk away.

- You a little scared? - A little bit.

[ Explosion ]

- [ Belsky ] Do you hear me? - Why isn't he responding?

- He doesn't want to. - I'll bet your home life...

must seem pretty far away right now.

- You'd win that bet, sir. - You have somebody at home, Private?

She's pretty.

Boy, I keep thinkin' about all the times we were together.

When I wasn't really there.

Thinkin' about all the wasted time.

Hey, look at that! Kind of like mine.

But you've got the wrong time.

This watch was my grandfather's. He fought in the last war.

-J.D., we may have a breach. - I'm on it.

That's my wife, Pfc Phillips.

My kids. They're worth everything I have to give.

Tell me, Private, what is your family worth?

Everything.

What you are gonna do today, you're doing for them.

And you do it for them.

Yes, sir!

Carry on, Private.

Sir!

Your grandfather...

did he make it back, sir?

Come on, kid. We're movin' out.

- Let's go! - You know...

let's forget I asked that.

Thank you, sir.

I really wish you hadn't done that.

This mean you don't like me yet?

- Put the gun up,J.D.! - I can't do that.

- Put it up. - I can't do it.

That was his grandfather.

Tell me you didn't talk to him.

He dies today. He doesn't make it.

I've got this,J.D.

We got a job to do here. We brought him here to find someone.

You get him squared away.

Let me guess. She wasn't always with the Department of Energy.

No, she's C.I.A. Her orders are to take care of any member of the team...

that screws with time for personal reasons.

I'm a major. You tell me why I can't reassign him right now.

Take him out of this hell.

Because it's happened already.

- You can't change it. - No.

- He's dead. - He's not dead. There's still time.

If you screw with the past, you risk everything in the present.

Once we're back here, nothing in our time is for certain.

- Everything could change. - Yeah. Well, at least he lives.

Are you willing to risk your family for that?

What do you mean my family?

What are we talking about?

Procedure.

Procedure. I don't believe you.

He's just a scared kid. What difference could it possibly make if he lives?

I was an engineer working under Belsky on the hot fusion project.

Working close to the core, I was protected.

I remember the world before the time storm changed everything.

Before those four hours, before the 2 40...

I'd come from a big family-

three brothers, two sisters.

After the 2 40, when I came back to the surface, that had all changed.

My parents were exactly the same...

but, suddenly, I had no brothers or sisters.

They were gone. They weren't dead.

They just never were.

They were part of a life that suddenly had never happened.

I'm an only child. I can't even grieve with my parents...

because all they've ever known is that I'm an only child.

I wish I were like you. I wish I didn't remember.

Just do your job.

- Toni. - Don't ask that.

You don't know what I was gonna ask.

You wanna know who you were before the 2 40.

Don't ask that. You are who you are.

[ Beeping Rapidly ]

[ Belsky ] The storm's accelerating again.

You have less than 30 minutes to find the visitor.

[ Door Closes ]

Toni,you took a hit in your pack. Check the return ticket.

- The bullet just nicked the case. - Copy that.

We've got company!

- No! - No. It's okay.

- No.! - No, no. It's okay. It's okay.

- American? - Yeah.

- [ Sobs ] You are American? - Yeah.

- If she can spot a G.I., she's here and now. - Are you alone?

- Yes. - You've seen no one?

No one. I'm alone here.

[ Woman ] No! He was sent to me.

God sent him to me to keep safe.

- Please! - [ Indistinct ]

Please. He knew me for what I have longed-

- [ Woman Sobs ] - P.O. V. Isolate and analyze.

- Hand-spun. Coarse weave. Mid-1 500's. - Got him.

Can you tell me your name? Hmm?

Your name?

It's okay.

I used to have a brother just about your age.

His name was Joseph, but I called him ""Beans.''

Now if you don't tell me your name, I'm gonna have to call you "Beans. '"

Please. Please, let her go.

There was a field of dead soldiers.

I was looking for my husband.

The boy appeared to me there.

God sent him to me.

Please. Can you tell us your name?

Jacques, milady.

I am just a monk. BrotherJacques Mitton.

How the hell does a teenaged monk change the future of the planet?

[ Doug ] Tell us about your home.

I was at vespers...

and there was a horrible sound...

and then I was here.

The sky was falling. The ground was exploding.

Am I being punished, master?

Am I in Hell?

No. You are not in hell.

Can you tell us about your family?

They are dead.

They are all dead. My village is dying.

Dying from the ""Death.''

Wanna check on that last translation?

- [ Man ] Checking translation. - We got Krauts on our six.

- Let's go. - Come on.

The ticket.

- [ Flynn ] How we doin'on that translation? - [ Woman ] Reading back now.

[ Woman ] "The others were dying, dying from the Death. '"

The Death. He's carrying the plague.

The church is about to get overrun. The disease will spread to the Allied troops.

Flynn, I think we found your hurricane.

And that's how a teenaged monk changes the future of the planet.

Aw, come on.

F.Y.I., every time you sneak a look at my ass...

1 00 people back at mission control get a good look too.

[ Doug ] Got it.

[ Screams ]

- What is happening here? - I was praying and he came in.

Get out of here. Now!

- Where's your regiment? - I was on patrol for the Third Division.

Our half-track hit a mine. I was sent ahead to assess the situation.

And how was the assessing?

Lucky you're not wounded.

Hmm. Know what I think?

Do you?

I think you're a deserter.

I have no report of a half-track hitting a mine.

- Who is your colonel? - At ease, Sergeant!

I see you have found my man.

Yes, with one of the village girls.

This is how you investigate the premises?

- Ampicillin-Antibiotic in my pack. - I'm on it.

Prepping for inoculation.

I am Colonel Klink.

Our half-track hit a mine three kilometers up the road...

we sent Schmidt to investigate.

- I'm sorry, Colonel, but I must insist on seeing your papers. - Schultz.

We will rest here and then set off on foot at dusk.

Let's go.

- Did you have to slap me? - Have to? No.

- You have issues. - You think?

- How's Schultz? - [ Imitating German Accent ] I know nothing.

- [ Flynn ] We're clear. - Let's move. Come on. Up. Come on.

This is a potion. It will save you from the Death.

Good. Our work here is done. Let's go home.

- Wait. What about him? - [ Flynn ] Bring him with us.

- He doesn't belong with us. - He doesn't belong here either.

- That's the way it's gonna be. You know that. - Negative.

Negative for return. The ripples are still coming.

The plague must still be spreading.

- Who did we miss? - We have 1 7 minutes.

You do what you can in that time; then you come home.

Did you touch the water in the font?

Of course. This is a house of God.

He contaminated the water. The Germans. They're infected.

This is the center of the break-out.

Hundreds of thousands of troops will be moving through here.

There Germans will spread the plague to both sides.

Hey. [ Grunts ]

- We have to inoculate Nazis? - Technically, not inoculate.

Inject with an antibiotic.

- I got one and two. - I got three!

- I got four. - I got this last one.

He's gotta get his intel back. He'll head north.

Did your brother Beans die from the Death?

No. It was something else.

There was no potion for him?

No.

[ Yelling ]

Toni, get ready to get us home!

Return ticket activated.

Sorry, folks.

- It's time for you to go. - No. Please.

Please, he needs me.

Go. Now.

Don't you want to know why-

why God would send so gentle an angel...

into a world so full of pain?

- [ Gunshot ] - [ Screams ] - No.

[ Beeping ]

[ Grunting ]

I'm not gonna kill ya. I wanna kill ya, but I can't...

because it's a rule- a really stupid rule.

[ Belsky ] The ripples have stopped. Your mission is completed.

- [ Flesh Tearing ] - [ Grunting ]

[ Groaning ]

Flynn.!

No, stop.! Doug. [ Grunting ]

I know you wanna kill, but you can't.

Everything could change. Doug,you can't.

[ Groaning Loudly ]

[ Toni ] Doug, Flynn, where are you?

Three minutes and counting until they lose the storm, sir.

[ Doug ] Wix! Wix!

- Wix, I need your help! Come on. - [ Grunting ]

- Set for return in two minutes. Medical team is standing by. - Right here. Right here.

[ Wix ] Lift up his legs. Make room for his head.

- Here you go, buddy. - Oh, my God.

Hang in there, buddy. Hang in there. Okay.

How close are we, Toni?

- Almost there. - Okay.

- Doug. - Shh.

Toni wasn't the only one who was in the core when it happened.

When the time storm ripped open, I was at the core too.

I was down there, protected. [ Groans ]

I remember before...

before the storm changed everything.

I knew you before the 2 40.

I did. I knew you.

- He doesn't need to know this. - [ Breathing Heavily ]

Listen to me. You don't remember.

Everything was the same for you- everything except-

God, you were a lonely son of a bitch.

[ Laughs ]

No wife, Doug.

No kids.

Eight months ago, you were a goddamn loner.

You understand me?

- Yeah. - No, no. No, no, no.

The 2 40 gave you a family.

Do you understand me? Huh?

Yeah. I understand you.

Good.

More morphine.

- [ Breathing Heavily ] - Shh.

You were always so sad.

- I like you better this way. - Return pulse in three, two...

- one. - It's okay. It's okay.

- [ Beeping ] - Uplink locked.

We are bringing you home in 60 seconds.

50 seconds. You are committed for return.

Go. Go to her now. Go.

- Kid! - Hold your ground. He's been injected.

40 seconds.

I told you I'd change your life.

30 seconds.

- 20, 1 9... - Take him back.

- 1 8, 1 7, 1 6... - Take him back before he was stabbed.

- You hear me? - 1 5, 1 4...

- 1 3, 1 2, 1 1... - Take him back.

- 1 0- - We can only go where the storm takes us.

Eight, seven, six...

five, four-

Three, two, one.

Hello?

Hello?

Hello?

- [ Door Opens ] - I have a spoon.

[ Sighs ]

Hi, Daddy.

Hi.

- [ Laughs ] - Lewis has a spoon.

Yeah. I noticed that.

I hate sleeping without you. I hope it was for a good cause.

Yeah. It was.

You're squishing me!

Come on. Let's go wash your hands.

- [ Phone Line Ringing ] - [ Sighs ]

- [ Woman, Indistinct ] - Hey, it's Doug.

I just had to talk to someone.

- [ Toni ] Are you okay? - Yeah, I just, um-

- Why did Flynn tell me? - You know why.

To give me something to protect.

- Did it work? - Yeah.

[ Doug ] Why are you on the team?

[ Toni ] What I lost, I lost.

The only thing I can do is make sure it doesn't happen to anyone else.

- You gonna be okay? - [ Doug ] Yeah.

- [ Doug ] You? - I always am.