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and theoretically...

...you could come back

out today, or last year.

I'm sorry, what does this

have to do with Cassie?

Well, we've been running

simulations to resolve...

...the grandfather paradox...

...and we experienced an unusual...

...electromagnetic pulse

at the school...

...that was triggered remotely.

We were unable to locate the source,...

...but I suspect someone

may have taken...

...our simulations a step further.

Meaning?

(Deckard) The equations in

your daughter's thesis notes...

...may have actually solved the paradox.

But they're untested,

and now they're missing,...

...and you said Charles has been absent.

Could he have taken them

and induced an entanglement?

I suppose, but I highly doubt...

...he would risk it.

The man may be a lot of things,...

...but reckless is not one of them.

(Deckard) Well, nevertheless

he must be found.

The slightest miscalculation...

...could cause all manner of troubles.

Recurring time-slips,

loops within loops,...

...causality trying

to self-rectify.

It's very dangerous.

[music playing]

This makes no sense.

This isn't right.

[door creaks]

Brian?

Brian?

[music playing]

[music playing]

Brian?

Brian if that's you I swear--

[music playing]

Hey!

[music playing]

Dad?

(Charles)

Hello, Cassandra.

What's all that ruckus down here?

- Why aren't you at school?

- What?

(Charles) Well, you're never

gonna win the Nobel for physics...

...if you don't graduate.

Have you been upstairs this whole time?

(Charles) I have a lot of work.

Of course you do.

All right.

Okay.

So, how is my little time thief?

Don't call me that.

Why?

You're not still trying

to steal back time...

...for your mother?

Nothing's gonna change what happened.

No?

What are you suggesting?

Forget it.

You know I loved

your mother as much as you.

You loved yourself,...

...and the idea of a family,...

...nothing more.

Deckard's doing it.

What?

Stealing time.

He's created a displacement field...

...and I have been

sucked into it somehow.

I don't know who or what else has,...

...but the fact that I am

here right now...

...there's a control problem.

It has to be stopped.

Wait a minute.

What are you saying?

(Cassie)

I'm not exactly sure.

My memory has been fragmented.

But time is fractured.

It's been shifting all around me.

(Charles) And you think

Peter Deckard did this?

(Cassie) Are those my thesis notes?

What are you doing with this?

You gave them to me.

No, I didn't.

I remember specifically

not giving these to you.

I don't believe this.

You're helping him,...

...using my equations, my work.

Cassandra--

Brian dies if you go

through with this,...

...so does Deckard.

Cassandra,...

- ...what are you doing?

- (Cassie) You can't initiate...

...without the entire equation.

Maybe this will stop it

from ever happening.

Cassie, don't.

The negation point isn't here.

It isn't now!

Dammit!

What the hell is wrong with you?

That was our only hope of correcting it.

What?

The experiment's been ongoing

for two years now...

...and, yes, I am aware...

...of the recent anomalies.

I was working out

a correction for them...

...when you came in here.

And given that you're still here...

...standing in front of me,

at least this version of you,...

...I can only assume that nothing...

...significant has changed.

But--

You may have just

made things much worse.

You lie to me?

And now you try and blame me?

I hate you.

[music playing]

- (Jacob) Hey.

- (Cassie) Hey, Hawking.

- It's Fu-Han.

- (Cassie) Yeah.

Listen, the equations

that you're working on...

...with Deckard are wrong,

they make no sense.

I need you to find out

everything you can...

...on negation points.

- Why?

- (Cassie) It's just something...

...my father said.

He's involved with Deckard...

...and I think they launched

a quantum experiment...

...using my thesis notes

and screwed it up somehow.

Just research it

and get back to me, okay?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, sure.

- (Cassie) Thanks.

- Okay.

[music playing]

Cassie, what are you doing?

You're asking me that?

(Dr. Miles)

So, tell me more about...

...breaking the rules, hmm?

My thesis.

Go on.

It's what Brian wanted to steal.

My equations.

But, uh--

It's not in this workbook anymore.

I mean the--

There's a page missing.

(Cassie) Yeah.

I destroyed it.

(Dr. Miles) Why?

My father.

Oh, Cassie.

Your father was very proud of you.

(Cassie) He lied to me.

I wouldn't give him the satisfaction.

(Dr. Miles) You know

it's true he was very driven,...

...I mean, to a fault.

But, you know...

- ...he saw in you--

- He saw me...

...as a solution to a physics problem,

and Brian saw me.

Or so I thought.

(Dr. Miles) Cassie, you

deserve better than this...

...and that's why--

That's why we brought you here to--

We took you from that room and

brought you here to be safe...

...from the police, from your father.

You know, he.. he's put

in motion something...

...that's very, very dangerous and

a lot of people could get hurt,...

...perhaps even worse.

And that is why...

...I want to ask you to to recreate

those equations for me, hmm?

Why?

Why?

Why should I recreate them?

(Dr. Miles) Well, think

of the good you can do.

The wrongs you can right, I mean--

You think they work.

Just like my father, you think

these equations actually work.

Yes. Yes, we do.

No.

What?

You just wanna steal my work.

- No.

- You are just like my father.

[banging]

(Dr. Miles) Cassie! Cassie!

Cassie!

Bloody hell.

F***.

[music playing]

(Dr. Miles)

Without what's in her head...

...we can't locate the negation point...

...and we certainly

cannot control entanglement.

What part of screwed

don't you understand?

We're on the verge of a massive

metastability event.

Oh, we are on the verge

of a breakthrough...

...that could lead to everything

we've been attempting...

...since 1943.

Oh, Philadelphia, the Eldridge.

Right, that, didn't end

too well as I recall.

Oh, I am trying to save lives.

So am I.

You know anyone caught in the normal...

...to a displacement vector...

...under these conditions

will cook their insides.

No one will survive.

And without that building's

retrofit completed--

Look, how the hell did this happen?

You said you had everything handled.

She deviated from our behavior model.

It escalated.

No one knew about the gun and

we didn't expect the memory block.

Well, take care of it or I will.

[music playing]

(Lewis) Cassie, stop!

Hold on, b*tch.

Hey!

Get back here!

(Dr. Miles) Hey, oh,

we're out of time,...

- ...she needs to go back.

- (Josh) It's too dangerous.

(Dr. Miles)

Reliving the event...

...might actually do her some good.

You want to toss her

back into the middle...

...of a ruptured entanglement field?

(Dr. Miles) Look,

if we miss this window,...

...then it's not just her

that's at risk.

You know this place

it can't protect us yet...

...and I am not losing anybody else.

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