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- People often romanticize time travel.
To get a second chance seems so easy.
- I need your help, please.
Forgive me Samantha.
- Maya Eckels!
- Curfew is now in effect.
Please return to your dormitories.
Curfew is now in effect.
Please return to your dormitories.
- Please, you gotta help me.
- Just take a deep breath.
It's going to be okay, I promise.
- Excuse us.
- Of course.
- Who are you?
- Hello, Maya.
I'm here to investigate the incident tonight.
- You're with the police?
- Ah, no, this situation will be handled internally.
- A murderer breaks into my building and tries to kill me,
only to be shot dead on my doorstep and no police?
- Oh, well that's not true at all.
The man that attacked you is not dead.
- What are you talking about?
- It's been an eventful night.
You must be mistaken.
I just came from the hospital,
and the doctors have stabilized him.
He will be arrested once he has been released.
Now, I'm going to need to ask you some questions,
and I need you to be honest with me.
I am here to figure out why this has happened
and secure your safety
and the safety of everyone at this facility.
Understand?
Question, have you seen this man before today?
- Samantha!
- No.
- Good.
Second question, what did he say to you?
- Who said he said anything to me?
- Let's make one thing perfectly clear.
I know everything about this place.
Every crack, every secret.
Now, I am here looking out for everyone's best interest,
so you would do well not to lie to me again.
What did this man say to you before my team saved your life?
Let's go.
- What are you doing here?
- Get this thing off of me!
Get it off, get it off!
- You can't just show up like this.
- I know I just really need your help.
- This is how we get caught, you're too impulsive.
- Says the guy who's asking me to steal for him?
Besides, when I tell you what happened to me tonight.
Just give me two minutes.
I promise you'll want to hear this.
- Two minutes and you're gone.
- Certainly your records have been doctored.
- Do you see the name Samantha anywhere?
- Just once, Samantha Reed born October 15th, 2015
at 12:03am, Denver, Colorado.
And that's as far as they got.
Must have been an auto save file they missed
when they wiped the records.
- My name's Samantha?
Does it say anything about how I got to St. George's?
- There's definitely a gap in your geneline though.
No mother on record.
This could be your father.
Wait.
- That's the guy.
- Hey, what's up stumbles?
- Have we met?
- Are you kidding?
We hung out all day, you still owe me money too.
So since you're still here
I'm assuming the surprise visit went well?
- What?
- With your dad?
- You mean Barry?
- Who?
- Montgomery.
- Yeah, it went well?
- Yeah, I guess.
Where does he live?
- So you're clumsy and forgetful now.
- Would you just tell me where he lives please?
- Yeah, alright, it's around the corner.
Last house on the hill.
- Thanks.
- What?
Who do you work for?
- I don't work for--
- Took you long enough to find me!
- What?
- You can tell them this is the last time
you will be able to track me down.
- I don't know what you're talking about.
I just, I want to talk to you for a moment.
It's about the resistance.
- Ah, the resistance.
I knew it, get out of my way!
- No wait, wait, wait, wait.
Please.
Come on, come on.
Come on!
I'm not moving until you talk to me.
- I will run you over!
- I know your real name is Barry Reed!
- Gotcha.
Ah, dammit.
- What happened?
- Fail safe.
They're watching these files.
- Who are they?
Was that my father?
What the hell is going on?
- CID.
- What?
Tell me what's going on.
- Okay, this isn't really an orphanage.
It's a facade, a fake.
A better word to describe it would be a farm.
- A farm?
- This whole place is owned, operated, and populated
by a secret branch of the Majora Corporation called C.I.D.
Now, CID is in charge of the regulation
and control of time travel.
- So, you're telling me there's a secret organization
of time cops who are policing time travel?
- CID is afraid of what might happen
if somebody changes the past, so they police it.
Everybody in this place is here because CID put them here.
- So, my parents they were killed by CID?
- At least your father wasn't.
CID doesn't generally kill.
They sort of reconstitute.
Wipe your memories and replace them with new ones
or send you to a research facility in the middle of nowhere
until they can figure out what to do with you.
- So, you're saying that CID was behind my father
trying to assassinate me tonight.
- Likely, yes.
- And you didn't tell me this because?
- Because it's not for you to know.
It's not for anyone to know.
- So, we're all just part of some stupid experiment!
Chaos theory is just a theory.
- Look, this is a lot bigger than just you.
Just forget about it.
- Are you okay?
What the hell?
- This girl was harassing me
and trespassing on my property, alright?
- She was harassing you, huh?
Stay right there honey.
I saw the whole thing, I'm calling my sheriff.
- No, no, don't do that.
- This is bullshit, alright!
She ran right out in front of me.
This is a crock of shit, you're an idiot, you know that?
She's trespassing, and I get arrested?
This is bullshit!
- You sure you don't want to press charges?
- No, it was just a misunderstanding.
Please don't do that.
- Well, to tell you the truth, this is not
the first run in we've had with him.
We're gonna hold onto him for a while.
At least until he cools off.
Get home safe miss.
She's not gonna press charges.
We'll just hold him for the night.
- Chaos theory says that if I were to go back in time
and step on a butterfly
the whole world could explode or whatever.
But The Novikov self-consistency principle says
that whatever you do in the past, you've already done.
But how could CID know which is right?
- You've been studying the material I see.
- So, they must be using the Eloi Gas
as some type of molecule accelerator.
You're building a time machine.
- And this is why you shouldn't know these things.
You're too damn smart.
- That's it.
You can send me back in time, and I can find my parents
and figure out why I'm in this shit hole.
- No, we're not doing that.
- So, you do have a time machine?
- It doesn't matter.
Even if we could safely land you in the past, to what point?
We have nothing to go on.
And this whole situation has escalated
because of your father.
- The man who tried to kill me tonight.
- Yes.
Barry Reed is a very famous man in some circles.
He used to work for CID.
He figured out what they were doing and started the movement
against the organization almost 20 years ago.
He did amazing things for the resistance.
- So, what happened to him?
- Gone, disappeared.
Until tonight.
- Well then, maybe you could send me back,
and I can figure out why this happened.
I can find him and maybe warn him about the future,
or maybe he knows stuff about CID,
and I can bring him back to you.
- No, I can't!
- Why can't you?
- If you were to go back and prevent him from attacking you
tonight, then you never would have ended up here.
Anything you do will create a paradox--
- No, no, no, don't pull that paradox crap with me.
You're the one who showed me
the many worlds interpretation--
- It's just a theory.
- No, it's not just a theory.
- The answer is no!
You should go.
They'll notice you went blind any moment now.
- Well, you could at least show me how it works.
- This is starting to become a routine stop for you Eckels.
- Curfew is now in effect.
Please return to your dormitories.
- Help me. - Forget about it.
- Not dead. - Time travel.
- This man. - Your father.
- Forgive me. - CID put them here.
- Saved your life. - The resistance.
So, when the Eloi gas is heated up,
it accelerates the surrounding molecules,
which then in turn creates--
- Micro black holes, I know.
- So, I deconstruct the subjects DNA, map it,
and then reconstruct it on the other side of the wormhole.
- So, basically you break down the person
before the wormhole can.
- Right.
So, the rule is, if I send someone back,
their time moves in unison with ours.
Tick for tock.
- So, how do you choose where to go?
- That's the easy part.
Basic coordinates, and.
- What is that?
- This is the device.
- It's a watch.
- It's a lot more than that.
I call it the VM.
- That's the time machine?
- Think of it more like a remote.
This controls the time machine.
You squeeze these spikes as hard as you can into your palm.
The dial fills with blood, and the device emits
a short concussion blast that temporarily stops your heart.
That, along with the cold water,
will help to prevent any transmodification
that might take place
during the bi-temporal phylogenetic reconstruction process.
I don't know if any of this works.
What the hell do you think you're doing?
Did you even stop to think about where you're going?
What about how you're going to get back, huh?
What are you gonna do if someone catches you?
- I was just gonna figure it out.
I used the coordinates from your map.
John.
I need this.
I need to try.
All I'm asking for is one day.
Don't you want to see if it works too?
- One day.
We can't risk having somebody see you land,
so I'm gonna put you down right at the outskirts
of the town he was last seen in.
He's probably living under an alias,
so try Montgomery or Leonard.
If you can't figure it out in one day, that's it.
You can't go skipping around with this thing.
Try to find out what you can,
but don't tell him who you are.
Try to make as little of an impression as possible.
They say Barry was devising a plan.
A plan that could cripple CID's Infrastructure.
But then something happened, something went wrong.
He never used them.
Get me those plans, bury it where you land
and I'll dig them up on the other side.
We can finish what he started.
- We got another one?
- Find me that location.
- Narrowing it down now.
Good news.
- Where is it?
- It's coming from St. George.
- You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?
I'm just kidding, I saw what happened.
You want to talk about it?
- No.
- Well, at least it looks like
you're feeling a little better.
- What?
- Your hand, it's better.
- No it still hurts.
- Yeah, well, the other one is.
- Okay, I don't know what you're talking about.
Can you just leave me alone?
- Alright, seriously, what's going on?
- I gotta go.
- Okay, whatever the joke is, I don't get it.
- Just leave me alone, okay.
- You can't figure it out in a day, that's it.
You can't go skipping around with this thing.
- How's the tricks, Angie?
- Where did you send them, John?
- He talk?
- Not a word.
- Well, good news.
We've got a target date.
But there's no telling how accurate his machine was.
Especially if he was really using
a bathtub as an insulator.
- It was accurate.
Tell me where they went.
- Vista, Colorado, 16 years ago.
- Get your team ready, we jump soon.
- Daddy hi!
Hi there, I am your daughter.
Excuse me.
Hello?
Hey can I talk to one of you?
- Hey, what can I help you with?
- Ah, I'm sorry, not you, you.
- Hey, what's going on?
- Can I talk to you for a sec, alone?
- Sure how about over here?
- I don't know why I'm here.
I just, I saw you and...
Do we know each other?
- I guess we do now.
First up, my name's Tyler.
And yours is?
- Ah, I'm Maya.
- Maya, nice to meet you.
So, is there something I can do for you?
- No I'm from out of town.
- Oh, cool.
Well, I can be your ambassador to the wonderful town
of Vista, Colorado, population not very many.
What brings you here?
- I'm visiting someone.
Family, I guess.
I mean, I was visiting him.
- Who?
- Barry?
- I don't know a Barry.
- Oh, he also goes by Montgomery.
- Oh, that guy.
- You know him?
- Not really.
Mostly keeps to himself, not too active around here.
You're related how?
- He's my dad.
But, I don't think he wants to know, so.
- Since you're here today, you wanna hang out?
We can help you take your mind off things.
- No, sorry I don't have time.
- Ah, come on.
- Oh, I just hurt my hands when I was--
- No need to explain.
Some people are just clumsier than others I guess.
- I'm not clumsy.
- I'm not judging, can I call you stumbles?
Hey, what's up stumbles?
- Shut up.
- Come on.
It's not just them.
There's some girls coming too.
I'll introduce you to everybody.
- I don't know.
- Hey, come on, I promise, it'll be fun.
- I guess I could use a break.
- Hey there.
- Tyler, I need your help.
- But after that it was, like constant.
- What's up guys?
This is Maya, she's new in town.
- What's going on?
- It's a race to the top.
Loser fetches the booze.
- What?
- Straight to the top, just stick with me.
- Alright, is everybody ready?
You ready?
On your marks, get set--
- Unit 2, report.
Potential target has been identified.
- Set! - Hey!
- Location, north of town, Glacier lake.
- Think you can keep up?
- I guess I win.
- Everybody, this is Maya.
- What can I say, I'm more of a lover than a fighter.
- Yeah, right.
- How do you cheat and lose?
You definitely fetch--
- No, I did last time.
- And you'll go again.
- No, screw that.
Make the new girl do it.
- No guys, c'mon.
- Yeah, why not?
Let's see what she's got.
- I just, I don't know. - No, I'll do it.
- See there ya go, perfect!
- What is it?
- It's this place we stash our shit.
The alcohol.
It's an old purple suitcase about 100 yards that way.
- Okay, what's the big deal?
- Awhile back, a group of kids went missing in there.
Some people think it's haunted or something.
- It's ghosts, man. - Shut up, Dylan.
- No, I'm serious, I've seen it.
- You know, I'm not scared.
How do I get there?
What's this for?
- It's for the bears.
- Okay, which way is it again?
- It shouldn't be that hard to find.
Underneath the fallen tree, should spot it right away.
So, ah, grab as much back as you can,
after that make sure to cover it back up.
The rule is, we have to wait 10 minutes
until we can come get you, but we'll have someone waiting
right at the tree line in case you need help.
Just give us a holler out and we'll be right there.
Listen, if you don't want to do this, you don't have to.
- See ya soon.
Okay, not so bad.
- You okay?
- I'm just fine!
- Eyes on target, do I make a move?
- Do not engage.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What are you doing?
- I saw someone.
- What?
- Someone is here.
- What are you talking about?
- What are you doing here?
- I heard a loud bang.
I just wanted to make sure you were okay.
- I had things under control.
- Clearly.
Look, everything's fine.
There's no one here, it was a joke.
We were just messin' with you.
At least you found it okay.
You let Dylan scare you.
- No, I saw someone.
- Alright, help me grab these.
- Did you see him?
- No, Dylan, is that you?
Stop messin' around, man.
- It's not Dylan.
- Let's just get out of here.
- I told you someone was there.
You were scared, huh?
- No, I was protecting you.
- Oh my god, the new girl made it back alive!
Did you see any ghosts?
- Nah, it was easy.
- So?
- The one in the middle.
Did you think I wouldn't notice?
- Notice what?
- It's the same girl from St. George's.
- Yes.
- Why not give us that information?
- Because that information is above your rank.
- Fine, this is a good place to take her.
Are we ready to make our move?
- No.
We wait.
- You okay over there?
- Yeah, I've never had that much fun before.
I like your friends.
- They like you too.
They loved you actually.
- It's like a family.
- Yeah, it is.
So, when do you leave?
- Hey, wait, stop!
Can I, maybe, borrow $20?
- Ah, yeah, sure.
- Thanks.
- So, why can't you tell me where we're going?
- It's just something I have to do okay?
- Okay, but why?
- Because I kind of already did.
- Anybody ever tell you you're kind of a strange girl?
- Okay, here it is.
Here, quick, give me the shoes.
Okay, that's it.
- You're just gonna leave this all here,
and I paid good money for this?
- I know, it's weird.
I'll make it up to you, okay?
I promise.
- Yeah, it's right here.
- Come on, I'll walk you to the door.
- Wait, this isn't right.
He didn't know me.
I need to get inside.
- Well, ya know most people
would just knock in this situation--
- I can't.
I have to get in without him seeing me.
- You wanna break in?
- It's not breaking in, he's family.
I need to know more about him before I can approach him.
- I don't think breaking and entering
will make the best impression.
- Please are you gonna help me or not?
- That guy's crazy, I'm thinking not.
- Don't be scared, just help me.
- Have a good night.
- You hear that?
There's no way out now, I will find you.
You listening, huh?
You god damn bastards, leave us out of this!
What?
Bullshit!
- Hello?
- Samantha!
- 87?
What is this junk?
Dammit!
- Give the order, Angelica!
If she gets away, we can't let that happen.
When they ask, this will be in my report.
Fine, I'll go get her myself.
- Just stop!
Just stop for one second, please.
- Angie what's going on?
Angie?
- I don't know!
There's something different about this op.
This whole thing, it doesn't feel right.
What are we doing here?
This girl had a family.
She was just trying to find them.
How do we know what we're doing is even right?
I mean, what if CID is wrong about this whole thing?
- Do you really think what we've been doing is wrong?
We're not the bad guys.
- We're not?
How do you know they haven't done this to you?
Listen.
What if we just, what if we just let this one go?
CID will do anything to stop Colliders.
But should we?
- You should get some sleep.
- I need to figure this out.
I just need a little more time.
- It's too risky.
If CID finds out, look, I don't want to lose you over this.
It's time, we take the girl now.
- One more day.
I won't let anything get out of hand.
Leo, please.
Everything will be fine.
Trust me.
- What? - What the hell?
Wait, please!
Just talk to me for a second, okay?
I'm not here to hurt you.
- Said the girl with a shotgun pointed at me.
- Will you just talk to me, please?
- There's nothing you could say that I'd want to hear,
so you've got about five seconds before--
- Your daughter was born today at 12:03 AM!
Her name is Samantha--
- Okay, okay.
I'll listen to you.
I will fucking kill you.
Don't say her name, don't even think it.
I will kill everyone of you that tries to get to them.
Do you hear me?
With every breath in my body, I will protect them from you.
Do you hear me?
Who are you?
You work for CID, I know you do.
You work for CID, don't you?
I know you do.
You work for CID.
How do you know about Samantha, tell me.
- No, please.
- Don't lie to me god dammit.
- No, please.
I am Samantha.
- What?
- I am Samantha Reed, your daughter.
The child you abandon today, grows up to turn into me.
Why?
Why couldn't you just be there for me?
They got me living in some shit hole
St. George's all my life.
- How is that possible?
- I know you worked for CID.
So, when I say I came back from the future,
to come and find you, you know it's possible.
- Samantha Reed is my granddaughter.
My son, Roger had a daughter last night.
- Your son, his daughter's name is Samantha?
So that means, you're my grandfather.
- But if you're Samantha, then why did you come here?
- You came and tried--
You were the most recent family member
attached to my records.
- You.
You're the Collider.
God damn it.
- Collider?
Like my parents too, right?
- Have you noticed anyone following you?
Anyone watching you since you got here?
- I'm new to this town, everyone looks at me funny.
- Shit.
Come on, come on, come on.
Don't ask questions, just listen.
These guys are snatchers.
If they catch you, they will wipe your memory
and send you back to St. George's.
They're here to stop you from changing your past.
You should have never come here.
You caused all of this.
They're going to take everyone because of you.
Everyone you talked to, everyone you came in contact with.
They're gonna make it so no one will ever know
that you were even here.
Take this.
Get to them before CID does.
I'll draw these guys away.
Once I'm gone, you need to find a way to warn them.
Whatever it takes.
You did this, so find a way to fix it.
Look .
I didn't think I'd ever get the chance to meet you.
You are more beautiful than I ever could have imagined.
I was just trying to protect you.
Protect all of you.
You want me, I'm right here!
Come and get me!
- Get that patched, I got the girl.
- Don't be scared, it's like a family.
- Hey there.
- Tyler, I need your help.
- Whoa, whoa, what's going on?
- I don't have time to explain.
I need you to drive me to the city.
- The city?
It's getting kind of late.
- I know, I know, Tyler.
I just need your help, okay?
- Alright, okay.
Let me get a jacket.
- We need to hurry.
- Okay.
- Yeah?
- Sit-rep?
- Ah, Leo's gone.
He ran into the woods after the girl.
- Is that it?
- And the old man got away.
- The girl is on the move with one of the locals.
Come get me, we need to stop her.
- Copy.
- Tyler, I'm sorry about the other night.
- Nah, ya know, it's alright.
I know it's hard when you're in a new place.
So, will you please tell me what's going on?
I'm not going anywhere until you tell me what's going on.
Maya!
- I don't know!
I don't know, okay!
I think I'm being followed.
- Followed, why?
- I think my family's in danger.
- From who?
- I can't tell you until we get closer.
- Okay, listen, whatever it is, I want to help.
- Okay, first off, my name isn't Maya.
- Okay, so you lied about your name.
- I lied about everything!
The truth is, you wouldn't believe me if I told you.
I mean, I know I wouldn't.
- Okay, well, why don't you let me decide that for myself,
if you don't mind.
- I'm from the future.
- What?
- I knew you wouldn't believe me!
- Yeah, but I didn't think you were going to say that.
I mean, come on!
Okay, what, so now some-some faceless evil corporation
is after you for your time travel secrets.
Is that what's going on?
- Basically.
They want to stop me from changing the future.
- Wow, this is, it's like I've read this in a comic book
or something, this is incredible.
So, who are we going to see,
or maybe I should ask when are we going?
- My parents.
- Oh, your parents from the past.
- Yes.
- Okay, so if you're being followed,
why would you lead the bad guys right to your parents?
- I'm going to warn them.
- So, you're going to show up on the doorstep
of your future, or past, or whatever parents
and tell them that story?
- Well, what would you do?
- Well, you know, first,
I would probably set my photon phaser to kill.
- You know what, fine.
Don't believe me!
Can we go?
- Yeah.
- What the hell happened?
- He was ready for us.
He got the jump on us.
- Of course, he was ready, he's trained to be!
Any word from Leo?
- Maya, Maya wait!
I didn't mean to upset you.
It's just the way it sounds.
Look, I don't know what's going on,
and the truth is, I don't really care.
Alright, okay, so you're from the future, fine!
You could be from the future or Mars, it doesn't matter.
All that matters is that, is that you're here
and that you're safe, and that you'll stay.
What's wrong?
Maya, what are you doing?
- Hello?
May I help you?
- Ah, yes, are you Roger Reed?
- Yeah, can I help you?
- You just had a baby girl last night, right?
- Well, my wife did most of the work, but yeah, I did.
- Well, congratulations!
I'm from the hospital, and you've won a special prize.
I apologize for the unplanned visit.
May I come in to talk to you about it?
It's just a little cold.
It'll only take a second.
- Ah, yeah, yeah, I guess.
Yeah, sure, come on.
Honey, there's a girl here from the hospital.
She says we've won something.
Come on in, sit down.
What was your name again?
- Maya.
- Honey, this is Maya, she's from St. Joseph's.
- Hello.
- You guys have a beautiful family.
- Thank you.
I'm Emma, and this is Samantha.
- This is Alpha calling two.
Report, two!
Come in, two!
- So, do we proceed?
- Report two!
Come in, two!
- So, you work at the hospital as a nurse?
- No, um, I'm in administration.
- And they have you out working this late on a Thursday?
- I know, I thought it was on the way home.
I just got lost.
I'm sorry for showing up so late.
You know, I just didn't want to disappoint anyone.
But I wanted to come.
I wanted to be the one to give you the big news.
- It's been 45 minutes since he last checked in.
- I'm well aware.
- I'm just stating that the standard CID protocol
is to abandon an operative,
that deviates from his direct objective.
- I know the protocol.
- So, we move without him.
The target's confirmed, inside!
- You don't have orders until I give them.
Grab the kid first, quietly, and bring him back here.
We don't want to tip her off.
Then we will take the house.
- I need you to step out of the vehicle.
- Okay, is something wrong?
- Why don't you just step out of the vehicle.
- Ah, shit!
- She said she wanted lemonade with chocolate syrup in it!
- What?
I wanted something sour then sweet!
Why is that so crazy?
- I mean, whatever gets you through it, right?
- Exactly, I'm the one doing all the work.
All he had to do is watch.
- Which, to be fair, isn't easy.
- You better go get that,
'cause you know you're gonna lose this one.
- Oh, okay.
- No, don't go.
- What?
- Don't answer it, please.
- Why?
It's no problem.
I'll just be a minute.
- Hello?
Please just take me, okay.
Is anybody listening?
Hello?
- Good morning Ms. Eckels.
We are glad to hear you will finally be cooperating.
- Please, just leave my friends alone, okay.
I'll do whatever you want.
Don't do this!
- I'm sorry Maya, I'm afraid I can't do that.
- Where are my mother and father?
Where's Tyler?
You can't do this!
- We are putting them to the best possible use.
- No don't do this, okay!
You got me, that's what you wanted right?
I'll go back to St. Georges.
Why are you doing this to us?
- Excuse me?
- Why are you doing this?
- Don't you get it?
That is what we do.
This is the way it's always been done.
We just make sure the cards fall where they are supposed to.
We maintain this reality.
- Where's my family?
- Well, thanks to you, they all now happily work here,
and they're none the wiser to this whole fiasco.
- I didn't mean to.
I just wanted to find my family.
- Your family?
They were never your family.
You with your pissing and moaning.
Poor me.
I need to know why.
Why doesn't anyone love me?
You did this to us!
Have you ever wanted to take something back?
Something that you did a long time ago?
You just dwell and dwell, if I had just done
this one thing different, my entire life would be better.
One decision can change everything about you.
Or maybe, it changes nothing at all.
Just a continuous loop that you're forced to relive
over and over again.
Terrible and endless.
No end.
No way to stop it.
Well, unfortunately, or, well fortunately,
we make sure everything goes according to the plan.
What if you already know the plan?
Does that mean you can change it?
- What are you talking about?
- We don't know all the effects of time travel,
but we do know the side effects.
You can't change the past, Samantha.
But, maybe.