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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?

Minneapolis We're currently heading...

TUA 35, turn to heading...

Say again, Minneapolis.

Jesus! Down!

Oh, my god.

Down! Go down!

my god! We hit them! We hit them!

Minneapolis, this is TUA 35

declaring an emergency. We hit another aircraft.

Looked like a 10.

3 and 4 shutting down. Cutting fuel on 3.

We are going down. Repeat, 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.

Round these people up and shove them 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.

With the flashlight over here.

We were just going after the flight-data recorder.

You want to do that next?

Sure.

I've been at the DC-10 site. Came down a lot harder than this one.

What happened here?

He managed to get it leveled.

But you might know there's only three engines.

One came down south of here.

He lost a lot of wing?

We think so, yeah.

We've started on the site map.

And 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.

Do you have any numbers yet?

Yeah, yeah.

This one had 354 and 13 crew.

The 10 had 265 and 11.

Watch that wing section there!

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 out to Washington.

Alright. I tell them.

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 those poor bastards were up against,

after they hit the 10.

I'm sure they did their best.

They always do.

Are you one of Roger's team?

I'm Dr. Arnold Mayer.

I'm the investigator in charge, Bill Smith.

Bill Smith, yeah, I know. I've read many of 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 is doing on the crash site?

You know someone on the plane?

Not that I'm aware of.

How did you hear about the crash? I got a call from the television.

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

Yeah, actually not.

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 whole mob here from Boeing.

And the man from McDonnell Douglas is on the way.

Wes Lake from the FBI is here

and the assistant D.A. from Ramsey County.

OK, the usual gang.

Mr. Janz, I'm Bill Smith with the NTSB.

Mr. Smith 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 a hard time 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, Down?

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.

Well, 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.

I think they made a profit on that when the insurance paid off.

Yeah, well, they sure are busting their asses on this one.

Look at that. They even got the ticket agents serving coffee.

Mr. Keane.

Where does this go? What we gonna do with this stuff?

Did I tell you, you could touch that?

Excuse me. Put that down!

Just put that down!

Hey!

How about some coffee?

Hey, wait a minute!

I think she likes you, Bill.

What did I do?

Could it be your breath?

I thought you always get that reaction.

They're ready to play the cockpit tapes.

Minneapolis, we are currently heading zero...

TUA 35, turn to heading...

Say again, Minneapolis.

Jesus! Down!

Oh, my god.

Down! Go down!

My God! We hit them!

We hit them!

Minneapolis, this is TUA 35

declaring an emergency. We hit another aircraft.

Looked like a 10.

3 and 4 shutting down. Cutting fuel on 3.

We are going down. Repeat, going down!

How much of the wing is gone?

Ron, get back and 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? I'll check for a field.

Just look for a flat place... anything.

We'll be on the ground...

They are dead. They're all dead!

What the hell is he talking about? Sit down for Christ's sake, Ron!

They're dead, all of them.

They're burned up!

Jesus! We're going to hit!

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.

We'll be on the ground...

They're dead! They're all dead!

What the hell is he talking about? Sit down for Christ's sake, Ron!

They're dead, all of them.

They're burned up! Jesus!

Burned up?

They were going to be.

They might as well have been dead already.

It makes me sick.

Yeah, but it doesn't make sense.

He'd expected to make sense at a time like that?

No, not like that.

Ok. How about the pilots?

Like they say, 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 and sees all those people who are going to die.

It's too much for him.

Obviously, they hadn't burned up yet.

What about if...

Maybe...

Maybe there was a fire in the cabin.

Maybe they were burned up already.

Sorry, but 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.

This gymnasium, is this the biggest place they could find?

Oh Bill!

I've got something interesting for you.

These are pretty good bodies in here.

Next door, we got stuff from the DC-10, which is mostly pieces.

Can't be identified.

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.

We autopsied a few,

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

We got to get some ripper trucks in here to...

They're on their way.

We only got this place for two days. I got a dance...

The trucks will be here.

OK...

Now here what I want you to see.

Two kinds of watches...

Mechanics here and digitals here.

Now, these digitals didn't do so good.

Mostly, they're blank.

Heat must 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?

Sir, there're been rumors of some type of a computer error

being the cause of this crash. Can you confirm this?

That's being looked at. I can't say more at this time.

When can we talk to the controller who was handling the planes?

You'll have to take that up to the man's lawyer.

Mr. Smith...

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

for failing to require anti-collision devices

on all commercial and private aircraft,

even though, as you know, these devices have been available for over a decade.

Would you care to comment?

Dr. Mayer, do you have any idea what caused this crash?

One of Newton's laws, I suspect. The one about gravity.

Beyond that I don't know anymore than you do.

Can I have an interview, doctor?

Gentleman, please.

I have to get in there and ask some questions of my own.

Would you care to reply to charge made by Mr. Carpenter?

No reply at this time. Next question.

Mr. Smith,

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 expect to find and things you don't.

For instance, there is anything in the cockpit voice recorder

out of the ordinary?

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

The relevant portions will be released in a couple of days.

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?

I'm afraid I still don't know what you're driving at.

I can't be more plain without sounding like a fool.

I'm sampling looking for the inexplicable.

I usually find it.

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

In a few days we should 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.

So, 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.

We might start getting it all sorted out.

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.

Why? 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.

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?

Listen, maybe we could go have coff...

Some 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 right there in the top 10 on my weird list.

If you knew me better...

I'd be number one.

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 the on 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?

On line 5, you will see there was a momentary surge

when fuel line number four was severed

along with 25 feet of wing tip.

I'll have a better figure on that tomorrow...

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.

...a very little control.

Night, fellas.

Good night.

We're locking up, Mr. Smith.

What's that?

There'll be a guard on that door, over there.

Just knock on the glass 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 yes, it's already too late.

God, what else can go wrong?

Let's get the hell out.

Smith, you're going to be all right.

You don't know me and I can't tell you who I am,

but you're endangering a project,

that is bigger than you can imagine.

Forget about this.

This gonna be a paradox, if you don't.

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, Louise.

It's a potential paradox.

You sent me to get the stunner we lost.

Well, here it is.

You didn't mention Smith was there.

He already found it and stunned himself.

And I think he wasn't out when we found him.

I think he saw us.

Sir,

I have a time quake approaching.

Paradox. Time quake approaching.

Force three.

A paradox, Louise.

You've changed the past.

You know damn well 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.

And you are still as ugly as ever.

One not much bigger than that could destroy us completely.

Look, you're the one supposed to scan the past.

Why don't you know Smith was gonna be in that hangar?

And 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.

All the precious medicines.

Do you realize what it costs to pamper you?

He was there. He was in the dark!

What did you want me to do? 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 from her journal.

Scan past it.

What's temporal censorship mean?

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

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.

Give us rapid scan until he moves.

Louise!

That's my name.

You probably dropped the calling card.

Louise!

I didn't mention my name. Neither did anyone else.

How does he know my name?

He's got the initiator.

Smith have met me before, haven't him?

How else would he know your name?

I've never been back to that era.

Do you want me to spell it out for you?

Give it a try, would you?

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

In your time, you have 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.

I didn't like it at all.

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.

OK, so, explain it to me.

That's what you're built for.

You know is like meaning what's going on, own my head.

Do you? 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 feather head today?

Louise loves you, Orville. Yes, 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. Yes.

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 like the back of my hand.

Who was the U.S. president?

Johnson.

No, wait, uh...

he was assassinated by...

Vito Corleone?

Louise.

We've talked about quarks and anti neutrinos,

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 years old.

That means you were never born.

And if you weren't, 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 once for all

who was on the grassy knoll that day in Dallas.

And he will know what we can only guess at...

that we are destroying the planet we live on 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...

a cup of water from the pacific ocean,

a stone 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!

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.

Alright, send the others.

Everything's nice and quiet. Lets keep it that way.

Gantry operators, prepare for arrival.

Extreme radiation danger.

May I get you a pillow, Sir? 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!

You gonna 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.

You stinking son of a bitch.

Hey, wake up!

Get in there and cork the crew.

You know the flight plan. Keep it steady.

Riot squad Martin,

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.

You will be taken to a safety...

Let's get you out of here.

Idiot!

That's the survivor.

Buckle him and came in to 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.

So, 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 must 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.

You know that 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 the possession of Bill Smith.

He knows what it can do.

Then you went back to 1963

and lost another stunner.

The computers estimate

it wound up in the possession of Arnold Mayer.

If he learns what it can do,

he might be capable of learn how it works.

The council has decided to risk another mission to 1989.

You must meet Smith the day before you saw him in the hangar.

You must prevent him

from going to that hangar the night he saw you there.

Since he knew your name when he saw you,

he must 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 very good girl on that plane, Sherman.

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 again.

You have to go back.

He must be kept out of that hangar.

This isn't a job for me, Sherman.

You want someone bashed in the head, 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.

Well, 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.

I think they made a profit on that when the insurance paid off.

Well, they sure are busting their asses on this one.

Take this coffee over there, would you?

They even got the ticket agents serving coffee.

Put that down! Just Put that down!

What we gonna do with this stuff?

Did I tell you you could touch that? Excuse me.

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. Cutting fuel of the three

We are going down! Repeat! Going down!

How much of the wing is gone? Ron, get back there and see what's left!

Right!

Some coffee, Mr. Smith? Damn it! I'm listening...

still going down.

Is there anyplace to land?

Alright Sherman, he's seen me again.

I think he's interested. What next?

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 was going to be sick.

You get used to it, after all.

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?

Whoa!

The tower clear you for that takeoff?

So, do you know Minneapolis?

No. I've only been here...

Watch it!

A couple of times.

I know a good place.

Anyplace is fine.

Something wrong?

Just watch... Jesus!

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.

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 now?

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. It's just...

Haven't you ever heard of women's lib?

Suffragette movement, 19th amendment,

Rosie the Riveter, bra burning,

Gloria Steinem, and the 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. Really?

Yours doesn't take you away in the middle of the night

and keep you gone a couple of months.

The time 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 yet.

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! Time quake approaching!

Force seven.

I have to talk to the council.

We don't have 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, go to work!

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.

Bill.

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?

I don't thing you better be around me.

It 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.

I have to know what do you expect to find?

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

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.

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.

That's right. 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 a weapon of some kind.

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?

It was 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.

What about her? Why didn't she die in the crash?

She got off someway,

but left this behind. She'll want it back.

After 25 years? In our time.

But in her time, she just lost it yesterday.

This is the key, Bill.

Is something that shouldn't be here.

We're living in her past.

If she changes her past, creates a paradox,

then her world is destroyed.

Oh yes!

We'll seen 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 already.

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

Doctor Mayer, 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 we can't make 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.

Bill, 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.

Time quake.

Force infinity.

Paradox.

Time quake. 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. I was too late.

It's all over.

The paradox is here.

If you had left things alone, nothing of 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 that may lie 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.

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.