Displacement Page #2

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[music playing]

[indistinct chatter]

(Josh) What?

It's just that guy

at the counter keeps staring...

...over here, it's freaking me out.

(Josh) You want me to go talk to him?

(Cassie) No, no, no.

I'm probably just being paranoid.

I just.. I feel like someone

is messing with me.

Maybe you're messing

with yourself, Cass.

What is that supposed to mean?

"I'm not guilty

of anything yet."

What's that supposed to mean?

I still feel his blood

on my hands, Josh.

It's horrible.

(Josh) Why would someone kill Brian?

(Cassie) I don't know.

It doesn't make any sense.

Maybe I am losing it.

You sure you're okay?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm--

I'm just gonna go

to the little girls' room.

[music playing]

(Cassie coughing)

[music playing]

Oh, my God.

(Josh) Thank you.

Thank you.

Okay. Okay this is really

freaking me out.

This is on the mirror in there.

Somebody's idea of graffiti?

This is my handwriting, Josh.

I don't know what this is, Cass.

Look, maybe you're suffering...

...from some kind of fugue state, okay?

Or delirium, or something, okay?

I--

Thanks for the tea.

- Cass. Cass.

- Thank you.

Wait. Wait.

(Cassie) Hey, guys,...

...I haven't blogged in a while...

...but some really weird sh*t...

...has been happening

that I feel like...

...you should know about.

So I've been experiencing these,...

...what I can only

describe as, time slips.

These notes that I've been

writing on a Post-it...

...and on the bathroom mirror...

...that I don't even remember writing...

...and I have no idea...

...what it even means.

Josh thinks I'm crazy.

And Brian thinks I'm hallucinating.

I don't know,

maybe they're both right,...

...maybe I am crazy Cass.

Crazy Cass gone totally mental.

I just--

I'm gonna go see Brian's dad.

Maybe he can help figure this out.

[doorbell dings]

Professor, it's Cassie Sinclair,...

...are you home?

Professor?

[music playing]

(Cassie) Professor, I know

you're probably upset with me...

...but I need to talk--

Professor Deckard?

Oh, my God.

No. Don't touch me.

- (Cassie) What happened?

- It's just--

- I'm calling an ambulance.

- No, it's too late.

No, you need help.

You shouldn't be here.

It didn't work.

When are we?

What day is this?

It's Friday.

Yeah?

I think.

You must negate.

There are too many.

You can only be a brief observer.

(Deckard groaning)

No. No.

What?

Tuesday?

[camera shutter clicking]

(Cassie) Hawking?

What are you doing here?

Could say the same thing

about you, Einstein.

It's not Hawking, okay?

That was cute when I was 12.

It's Fu-Han now.

Means broad-minded.

Of course it does.

Professor Deckard's not here.

Really?

He is supposed to be tutoring me.

Are you helping him with all

those equations in there?

Yeah.

Dude is obsessed.

Causality, field containment,...

...large body entanglement,

particle pairs.

You know how he gets.

Yeah, never like this.

How long has he been working on it?

Don't know.

He only called me a couple days ago.

Seemed really impatient,...

...like the whole world

was gonna freak...

...if we didn't figure it out.

[music playing]

(Cassie) He did it.

(Josh) Did what?

(Cassie) Quantum entanglement.

He's trying to turn back the clock,...

...but something went wrong.

The field must be uncontained...

...which would explain the time slips...

...and what happened to him.

(Josh) I thought you said...

...large body entanglement

wasn't possible.

(Cassie) Yeah, well,

maybe he proved me wrong.

- (Josh) Cass--

- (Cassie) No, if Deckard...

...initiated, there is no telling

what effects it could have.

Arbitrary leaps, forwards and backwards,

one minute it's now, and then zap,...

...it's three days ago.

Anyway, it is the only thing

that can describe...

...what has been happening to me.

Not the only thing.

Don't start that again.

Again?

Never mind.

Can you just take me to my mom's?

Are you sure you wanna go to your mom's?

- I--

- (Cassie) Yes. Josh, please,...

...just to my mom's.

[car engine revving]

(Cassie) Okay.

Thanks for the ride.

I'm gonna go try and figure out...

...what the hell went wrong...

...with Deckard's equations,

but I will call you later.

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[music playing]

(Dr. Miles) What if I told you

there was a way to see Brian again.

Perhaps even change what happened.

I'd say you're as crazy as me.

(Dr. Miles) Unless time is a

multi-planar construct, hmm?

Your senior thesis postulated--

(Cassie) That thesis was theoretical.

It was for a grade.

(Dr. Miles) Yes, but you did

prove something, hmm?

(Lewis) Dr. Miles,...

...you'd better come see this.

[door opens]

(Cassie) So, I think

I found the source...

...for all these time-slips.

They call themselves

The Quantum Initiative Group.

Website's pretty generic.

They say they deal with Einstein's

unified field theory,...

...Quantum Entanglement

and Time Displacement.

With their multi-billion dollar defense

funding, there is a military aspect...

...to all of this.

I'm headed there right now...

...to see if I can get some answers.

Is this new?

Posted to her blog site two days ago,

but showed up here just now.

You know what that means.

She's getting close.

Deckard won't be pleased.

That is the least

of my concerns right now.

And neither will our benefactors.

We need to do another ESR treatment.

You do realize that those treatments...

...can cause amnesia.

If she finds her way in here we're--

I am very close to getting

the equation from this one.

When I do, all this goes away.

[door closes]

[knocks on door]

Come!

Peter?

Carol!

Hey, you have a minute?

(Deckard) Yeah, is everything all right?

Well--

I'm not sure actually.

I just had a--

A rather unusual encounter

at the beach with my daughter.

How so?

There was something different about her.

I don't really know how to describe it--

But--

I don't know, she just wasn't herself.

I was wondering has she said anything

to you I should know about?

Well, aside from grieving

for your prognosis, no.

Have you discussed this with Charles?

(Carol) Hmm, he hasn't been

around much since the cancer.

(Deckard) Hmm.

Oh, I'm sorry to bother you.

I'm just--

I'm worried about her.

I mean, she came down from the car...

...to tell me she missed me...

...as if I was already gone.

After.. we had just seen each other...

...not two minutes before.

This may seem like an odd question...

...but, uh, did this Cassandra...

...look like she might...

...be an older version of herself?

What?

Are you familiar

with closed timelike curves?

I think Charles might have

mentioned them, but no--

Charles.. he--

Well,...

...Einstein's Relativity Theory...

...describes gravity as

the warping of spacetime...

...by energy and matter.

So, therefore, a powerful

gravitational field,...

...or even possibly an electromagnetic

field could conceivably...

...bend time back upon

itself creating a loop,...

...or a closed timelike curve.

Now, enter the loop tomorrow,

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