Deja Vu Page #5

we can fold the space,

bring the target closer to us,

create what's known as

an Einstein-Rosen bridge,

otherwise known as a wormhole,

suspend it via gravitational field.

- That's what we're looking at?

- That's it.

What's on the other end of the bridge?

Claire's house.

Wow.

Basically, we're folding space

in a higher dimension

to create an instantaneous link

between two distant points.

- Instantaneous?

- Well, that's what we hoped for

and that's what we expected.

But the electrical force...

We used huge amounts of energy

to create this bridge.

All right, how huge?

You remember that little blackout

we had a few years back?

- Yes, I do.

- New York blamed Canada.

- Right.

- Canada blamed Michigan.

Half the Northeast.

You're saying you guys...

- Fifty million homes. Right.

- My bad.

Well, I still say we blame Canada, but...

Okay, so why can't I see this bridge?

It's not visible to the human eye.

I mean, it's real, though.

It's just as real and just as solid

as a cell phone signal or a radio wave.

Right. Well, I don't know

how a cell phone works.

I just know how to use it.

So how do we use this?

We can look back four and a half days.

- And what, we can look anywhere?

- Limited radius.

Right, right, right.

Looking into the past.

In a sense,

we're always looking in the past.

Even light reflected

from yourself in the mirror

takes some time to reflect back.

Let me get this straight.

You're trying to tell me

that on the other side of this bridge

- is the actual past?

- Yes.

- Wow.

- Yeah. But look, look, look.

We created this thing by pure accident.

All right?

This space and time...

This time window is a complete fluke.

All right? And everybody is terrified

of screwing with it for fear of losing it

or suffering the consequences

of God knows what,

which is why it can only be used

as a retroactive tool...

Hey, let me ask you something.

Is she alive or is she dead?

- You went to her funeral, Doug.

- I know that,

but I think the question still applies.

Is she alive or is she dead?

All right. Life, like time and space,

is not merely a local phenomenon.

All right!

Am I asking a hard question?

Looks like I picked

a bad week to stop snorting hash.

All right, I tell you what.

I'll speak slow, so those of you with

Ph. D.'s in the room can understand.

It... Here. Look. Here's a monitor, right?

Now the monitor is broken. It's dead.

It is not temporarily transitioned

to another state of entropy.

It's dead, right?

Now, is she alive or is she dead?

- She's alive.

- All right.

Now we're getting somewhere.

All right, now, you said

light could go back. What else?

- Nothing.

- Something else could be sent back.

Come on, Paul. Something.

What? A body? A human being?

- No.

- Not a person. Not alive, anyway.

- Why not?

- Because you can't beat the physics.

The electromagnetic field.

Look, you transition across

what's known as

the Wheeler Boundary, all right?

An EM pulse annihilates

all electrical activity.

That's your heartbeat,

that's brainwaves, that's everything.

So what? You haven't tried a person?

Let's just say

that we've done enough tests

to know that it's not even possible.

It's not even theoretically possible.

The hamster goes back, dead.

- A drosophila fly, dead.

- What about a radio signal?

What about that?

We could send a radio...

- A radio signal?

- Yeah, a radio signal.

- Won't work. Electrical.

- The field would scramble it.

- All right, then a note, a warning note.

- No.

- A single piece of paper. One sheet.

- No.

- If we keep the mass low...

- No!

This could work! It could work.

Sure. We know

where the guy's gonna be.

We can apprehend him

and put him away

before he even blows up the boat.

- And how do we do that, exactly?

- We send it to ourselves!

You send it to me. Yeah, send it to me.

Send it to my office.

Send it to my office

four and a half days ago,

an anonymous tip, and we can capture

this guy before he even meets Claire.

We know he's gonna be at the dock.

Whatever you did, you did it already.

Whether you send this note or you

don't send this note, it doesn't matter.

You cannot change the past.

It's physically impossible.

What if there's more than physics?

Okay. Something spiritual, right?

- Yeah, something spiritual.

- Okay, okay, okay. Look.

Just try to think of it this way.

God's mind is made up about this.

All right?

I mean, you know,

call it fate, call it destiny, whatever.

But it already happened,

it will keep happening,

- and it always will happen.

- Maybe.

And why don't we call it fate,

since we're calling it something?

Maybe you're right. Maybe you guys

are exactly right. I don't know.

All I know is this. For all of my career,

I've been trying to catch people

after they do something horrible.

For once in my life,

I'd like to catch somebody

before they do something horrible.

All right? Can you understand that?

Address is in range.

Two L's. "Surveilling," two L's.

Since this is such a tremendous waste

of taxpayer money,

the least we could do

is get the spelling right.

That's not necessarily true.

Branching universe theory holds

that you can do...

- Oh, branching universe theory.

- Look, hold it. All right.

- No, no, no.

- I'll show you.

The traditional view of time is linear,

like a river flowing from the past

toward the future.

But you can change

the course of a river, right?

Exactly. Introduce a significant enough

event at any point in this river

and you create a new branch,

still flowing toward the future,

but along a different route.

Changed.

Yeah, but that river is the Mississippi,

and we're lobbing

what amounts to a pebble into it.

That's a very few tiny ripples in a kind

of big body of water, don't you think?

Traditionalist.

Say we do create this new branch.

What happens to the old one?

To this one?

Ask the radical.

Well, it might continue

parallel to the new branch,

but most likely it ceases to exist.

The idea is, we cease to exist.

All right? This version of us, anyway.

You know, we never came here.

We didn't meet Doug.

We don't remember it ever happening.

Well, that's worth $10 billion

right there.

Would've been a lot faster

if you'd written it yourself.

Right. Then I recognize

my own handwriting

and the universe blows up.

We're ready.

All right, third floor, southwest corner.

That's where we are.

How'd you get that information?

Good police work.

That's me. I can hear me.

- I don't wanna play games with you.

- Where am I?

- I'm not playing games.

- Yeah, you are.

- No, I'm not.

- There are protocols... Yeah, you are.

- There I am.

- Is that Minuti?

- There's procedures...

- Yep. That's my partner, Larry.

Look, I know how this job works,

you know how this job works.

Jesus, I forgot all about this part.

All right, let's find a nice, happy place

to push the note onto.

- That your desk?

- Yeah, that's my...

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