Displacement Page #4

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If you do this,...

...she'll be flying blind again,...

...won't remember a thing.

So, give her a trigger, I don't know,...

...change things, uh,

change the venue,...

...but induce the hypothermia

and, uh... if you ever,...

...ever question me again, next time

you'll be the one in the ice bath.

Here, don't lose it this time.

[music playing]

No.

Card key, card key.

[music playing]

[music playing]

(Lewis) Hey!

(Lewis groaning)

[electric zapping]

(Cassie) Oh.

Josh.

(Josh)

I'm sorry, Cass.

It was you.

You broke the rules.

But sometimes there are second chances.

(Cassie) They say that time is relative.

But death--

[gunshot]

(Cassie) Hey, guys, so I woke up...

...in another ice bath.

This time I'm at my mom's house.

My memory's a little bit clearer,...

...but it's still pretty much...

...like a black hole in there.

Something's missing.

But I do know this.

Josh is involved.

He totally lied to me.

And I'm pretty sure that he's behind...

...all of these ice baths

and that he knows exactly...

...what this note means.

Find the initiative.

The initiative.

[music playing]

(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.

[phone rings]

- (Josh) Hey, Cass.

- (Cassie) Josh.

(Josh) Long time.

How are you?

(Cassie) Hey.

(Josh) What's going on?

(Cassie) Something's--

Something's really weird.

Can you meet me at RJ's?

No, RJ's, I can't,

I'm gonna be late for work.

(Cassie) Brian's dead, Josh.

I think someone kills him.

- Please.

- Okay. No, I'll be there.

(Cassie) Thank you, it's some--

- (Josh) Okay.

- (Cassie) I need to see you.

(Josh) I'll be there.

Oh, God.

Okay. So, these time-slips...

...seem to be repeating a pattern.

Some sort of

self-rectifying mechanism...

...or something.

Forces at work trying

to change causality,...

...but if I can make it to the diner

before Josh gets there, I think--

I think that I can change some things.

[music playing]

(Brian) Cassie, what are you doing?

You're asking me that?

[indistinct chatter]

Okay.

[heavy breathing]

[indistinct chatter]

Look, Jimmy, twins like us.

No, not like us.

- (Delaney) Sorry.

- (Denise) Oh, excuse me, mister.

[gagging]

- (Josh) Hi.

- (Cassie) Black, two sugars.

[engine revving]

(Cassie) So, apparently, the

initiative group has another more...

...secret facility that Josh works at.

I can't believe I actually

trusted him this whole time.

[music playing]

(Cassie) I'm assuming that

this is where they took me...

...to interrogate me, where

the whole thing originated.

I'm starting to feel the effects of

what I believe to be pair proximity.

(Lewis) Going to the cafeteria.

Cafeteria.

(Cassie) My body is

beginning to break down...

...whenever I'm near the other me.

I just really hope I can

hold out long enough,...

...to stop this whole thing

at its source.

[music playing]

[device beeps]

(Cassie) You think they work.

Just like my father, you think

these equations actually work.

(Dr. Miles) Yes.

Yes, we do.

(Cassie) No.

(Dr. Miles) What?

(Cassie) You just wanna steal my work.

You are just like my father.

[chair rattles]

Cassie! Cassie!

Cassie!

Bloody hell.

[music playing]

(Dr. Miles)

Without what's in her head,...

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

...and we certainly cannot

control entanglement.

(Deckard) What part of screwed

don't you understand?

We're on the verge of a

massive metastability event.

(Dr. Miles) Oh, we are on the

verge of a breakthrough...

...that could lead to everything

we've been attempting...

- ...since 1943.

- (Deckard) Oh, Philadelphia.

The Eldridge, right,...

...that didn't end too well as I recall.

(Dr. Miles) Oh, I am

trying to save lives.

(Deckard) So am I.

[music playing]

[device beeps]

Obviously, of course not.

[man] Thief of time.

No, sh*t.

Three hours--

[phone beeps]

(Cassie) What the hell?

What is--

Okay, guys,...

...quantum inducer

is hard-wired directly...

...into the University's

pulse magnifier,...

...remote triggering

software Wi-Fi'd...

...directly from this laptop to the lab.

Entanglement laser is online,...

...negation point

computations entered,...

...hypothermic protective bath prepared.

Ready to change history?

It's my fault.

God, it's my fault.

[music playing]

Card key, card key--

(Cassie) So, apparently,...

...this is all my fault.

But if you guys were watching

these from the beginning,...

...then you would already know that.

Except for the fact that they

have taken all of my blogs...

...off of my personal site.

That must be why they're

so interested in me.

Weaponize the technology or something.

I'm headed to the hotel

right now to see...

...if I can stop this

from ever happening.

Depending exactly on what time...

...I am actually in.

[music playing]

Hey.

Cassie, what are you doing?

You're asking me that?

Why did you steal this?

Baby, I was just trying to protect you.

You lied to me.

- It's not what it looks like.

- It looks like a loaded...

...f***ing gun, Brian, and my workbook.

(Brian)

You're misunderstanding this.

They said you'd die, that we'd both die.

I mean, what am I supposed to do?

Did my father put you up to this?

(Brian) No.

Don't lie to me, Brian.

- Baby, I'm not lying to you.

- Then yours. Was it yours?

Baby, listen to yourself, all right?

I get it, all right.

You're scared, all right?

No, Brian, you have no idea

what scared is.

None. You don't.. scared is not

knowing what f***ing day,...

...or year it is,

what is even real anymore,...

...or who you can trust.

(Brian) Baby, you can...

You can trust me.

You've always been able

to trust me, right?

I mean, look, I'm scared too, all right?

These guys,

they have been following me,...

...threatening me,

showing up at my work.

We need to keep these

out of the wrong hands.

The initiative is the wrong hands.

I know, baby, I'm with you

on this, all right?

But if you.. if you solve

these formulas, right.

It all starts over. We go back

to zero the way things were.

(Cassie)

No, no, Brian.

No, no, no.

That is not how this works.

They are using my equations

for their own ends.

Defense contracts,

government experiments.

As a weapon.

Okay. Okay.

(Cassie)

So, what was the plan?

For you to steal my work

and hand it over to them?

Baby, you can't..

You can't think that.

You can't think that.

Just tell me something, Brian.

Okay, okay. What?

Was this all bullshit?

Us. Was this whole thing,

was it bullshit?

No, baby. No.

Listen to me, I love you.

I've loved you

from the day we met, right?

I've always loved you.

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