A Sound of Thunder Page #4

History's not a class struggle,

it's a vision struggle.

It's people like me trying to get free

from narrow-minded pricks like you.

Nothing moves without us,

we're the goddamned engine.

- This is out of my hands now.

- Like hell it is.

You know that regulations dictate

that this meeting has to be recorded.

Of course.

The Temporal Regulation Division

proclaims this facility closed.

TAMI...

ItAL Access denied.

They don't waste time.

You can't ask me to do that.

I'm not asking you to do anything!

I'm simply reminding you of the

potential delicacy of our situation.

What's done is done.

Even I have my limits. I can't.

We can't leave this

to some government agency

to figure out.

Why not? It's their job.

They're bureaucrats.

If they fell out of a window, it would

take them a week to hit the ground.

Do you have any idea

how long it would take them

to clear this up?

They'll have TAMI shut down for months.

I'll go bankrupt.

What happened today

has to be connected to our last jump.

- We must have changed something.

- You just made that up.

Something happened back there.

I know it.

Really? You know it?

You don't know anything of the kind!

I'll tell you what,

there is someone who does know.

You okay, man?

We represent the tenant board.

We have vines growing

into our windows, down the halls,

one broke the elevator!

Open this door at once!

Dr. Rand!

This is loaded! Now back off!

She's crazy!

You're crazy!

Dr. Rand, I need...

Excuse me.

Where are you delivering that?

Rand. 7-E.

I told you, I'm not responsible.

Look outside,

it's happening out there, too.

Use your brain

while you still have one.

Fertilizer.

Lady, it's real heavy.

Close the door.

Put it by the rhododendron.

The white flowers.

Then go.

I thought I recognized your voice.

You sound just like TAMI.

Although, she's a little nicer.

That thing doesn't work.

It's an antique.

I've been expecting you.

I'm afraid we've done it.

What you warned us about.

- I knew it.

- What do you mean?

- Don't I seem a little on edge?

- About the same as last time.

How far back?

The Cretaceous.

Jesus. And what did you change?

We don't know. As far as we can tell,

no one stepped off the path.

The animal fell in the kill zone.

The kill zone, the path.

The kill zone, the path.

You're so blind.

24 hours, isn't it?

Since you got back.

Yeah, almost exactly.

- Why?

- Watch this.

Son-of-a-b*tch.

- That was you.

- What the hell was that?

A time wave. So much

for your system being bulletproof.

Jesus.

Let's go. Get moving!

- What is that pipe for?

- Water for the oxygen condensers.

Over there, get over there!

The oxygen!

Come on!

You okay?

Look at this!

This tree was never here before.

It's extraordinary.

It's okay.

I think the window's our best bet.

Jesus. Why didn't this happen

until now? Why the delay?

When you change something in the past,

the future isn't affected all at once.

Changes come in ripples,

like dropping a stone into a pond.

So you mean there'll be more of these.

And they'll get bigger and bigger.

All the changes in evolution

that you affected will come in the waves.

It'll start with climate,

then vegetation,

the early manifestations of life.

Then come the more complex organisms.

- So what will happen in the last wave?

- It'll be us.

We wave goodbye.

Last wave changes

the last species to evolve,

Homo sapiens.

God knows what we'll become.

We may have no eyes,

we may be sea creatures.

We may not exist at all. We don't have

too many more waves before that one.

Can we fix what we did?

I don't know. Maybe.

There's no way

I can allow another jump.

I'll lose my badge.

If we don't fix this, you won't have

a chest to pin that badge on, moron.

Careful, you don't want

to start calling people names.

- She says it's the easiest way.

- No, I said it was the only way.

I also said I would help.

I didn't say I would be

in the same room with you.

Hold on. I go back

to just before

the original hunting party arrives,

meet them when they step

out of the portal and turn them back.

Whatever went wrong never happens.

Things go back to normal.

- How can we be sure it'll work?

- We can't be sure if it'll work,

but we can be sure

doing nothing will not work.

No. I'm sorry.

The whole of time

has been turned upside down

and you're running around

with your toothbrush,

worrying about your pension.

We have more than just

a software problem on our hands.

We have got to fix this

...and we have to make sure

no one ever finds out about it.

If I go down,

I'm not going down alone.

Can you compensate

for TAMI's margin of error

so he gets where he has to go?

Well, I built her.

How's that?

I want every moment

of this jump recorded, understand?

Another time wave is coming! Hang on!

Is everyone all right?

Lucas, make sure everyone's okay.

Give me your hand.

Let's see

if the backup generator works.

The power is out all over the city.

Power's probably out

all over the world.

Why couldn't I get back?

You weren't able

to jump through the time wave.

Remember, I explained

it's like a ripple in a pond.

We can't break through the rings.

We seem to be stuck ahead

of the changes that are occurring.

What do we do?

Jesus Christ, what do we do?

Let me work on it.

This is not a time for panic.

Actually, as times for panic go,

this is right up there.

What we need to do is take a look at

the jump and find out what was changed.

That was nothing.

I was standing right there.

That's a safety feature.

They're all tied to Travis's gun,

won't fire until he fires first.

Why the hell not?

To keep clients from shooting

things they shouldn't.

Derris, how about

we don't mention this in our report?

No harm, no foul.

Appreciate it.

Go forward.

Let's see that.

Over here!

Try and get me!

Get out of here!

Get behind the bushes!

We're not going alone!

Get behind the bushes!

Over here!

Can we follow them down the path?

Once they're out of range of my recorder,

there's no way to see them.

Speed up again to after the kill.

Travis, the volcano!

We better get going.

Follow me.

Anybody see anything?

Anything small

that may have fallen off one of us?

Nothing.

Boys and girls,

I think I found something.

You're not gonna believe this,

but, according to the physical log,

when we came back we weighed

1.3 grams more than when we left.

What does that mean?

It means we brought something back.

No, it's impossible.

There's the bio-filter.

No organic matter

can pass through the...

We never needed it.

We've always been so careful.

You turned it off?

You turned the bio-filter off?

It takes a lot of energy. It costs

a fortune and we never needed it.

My God. Are you insane?

Did you know about this?

Of course not.

Why does this not surprise me?

We need to find out

what you brought back.

Did you get through?

Line's busy. It'll be Forrest on

with one of his pals.

Donna will be freaking out,

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