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life.

Look what they left behind.

Why don't you take Walter?

I think the company would do you

good.

Connor,

It wasn't all for nothing.

Never is.

[Knock on the door]

[Piano music plays]

- Hard to believe a whole year has

gone by.

I miss her so much.

As much as she loved you

it was just never enough was it?

You always had to have more.

- What are you talking about?

- The night she was killed

she saw you kissing your

assistant.

She was so upset when I called.

She could barely talk let alone

drive.

So, she walked to my place.

All she wanted to do was tell you

that

picking a wedding date

wasn't important.

As long as you two were

together.

That's how much she loved you.

She was willing to put your

priorities ahead of her own.

- I had no idea.

- Oh, of course you wouldn't.

All you ever thought about was

yourself.

Never once would you even

consider

putting her needs ahead of

your own.

Now she's gone forever.

I hope you're happy.

[Dramatic music playing]

- Jonas, it's Connor.

We need to talk.

[Gate slams shut]

What is this place?

- Come on in you'll see.

A friend let me use this place.

What I want you to see is right aroundpp

Couldn't let them just

destroy everything weve been

working on.

So, I made copies of all the

data,

and I continued our research

here

where they can't find me.

- I can't believe it.

You actually built it.

- It's not exactly a finished

quite yet.

Still have lot to do on it.

A few kinks to work out.

- Why didn't you tell me about this

earlier?

- I knew what you were going

through,

and I didn't want to bring it up

until you were ready.

- This is amazing.

This is exactly like my

drawings.

- I had to improvise a few

things,

but I think it's pretty close.

- If my calculations are

correct,

and 60 minutes is the constant

in which all living matter can

travel through time,

that gives me enough time to travel

back

and save April from getting hit by

that car.

- There's just one problem with

that.

I haven't yet figured out how to

precisely

map and measure time in order

to get you back to a specific

point.

- The earth's rotation is what causes

time to pass right?

- Right.

- By using an atomic clock

we can calculate the exact time

pass

and use it to identify specific

instances

into the past precise to the

minute.

Once we measure the waves,

it's just a matter of finding the

correct combination

of electromagnetic energy and

velocity.

- Let's hope you're right.

Let's hope this theory works.

- It has to work.

[Dramatic music plays]

- Are you ready?

- Yeah.

[Loud buzzing from machine]

[Exhales deeply]

- I think we're going to need some

kind of surge protection

to keep this thing from shutting

down during your trip.

- More power wouldn't do

anything.

It's ready.

Send me back to 7:14pm

on October 15th of last year.

- Don't you think we should at

least test it first?

We don't know what'll happen.

We don't know if it'll work.

All right. We'll send Walter.

- We're not doing anything with

that thing.

- Jonas, I'm ready.

- You're the smart one.

If something gets messed up, or

you don't get back,

I don't know if I can figure out

how to fix it.

That way, if something happens you

can fix it.

- You sure about this?

- Well, we don't have much choice

do we?

You send me back to the night she

dies.

That way we'll know if we calculated

the time right or not.

- If my calculations are

correct,

this is going to send you back to

that exact position.

How do you know any of this is going

to be the same?

- We don't.

- Good luck.

[Machine charging up]

You all right?

- I am.

[Struggles to get in

wheelchair]

- Does it work?

- It does.

[Both laugh]

- What was it like?

- Well, it wasn't the smoothest

ride.

- Where'd you get that?

- I could do more than an hour

somehow.

- Now that I know that it works,

I'm going back.

- Connor, take the night.

Think about what you're going to do

when you go back.

Besides, we don't want to

risk

overloading the machine on

it's first day.

- Jonas, I've waited long

enough.

- Another day isn't going to kill

you Connor.

You've only got an hour.

You need to be prepared.

- Yeah. Yeah, you're right.

I can't believe it works.

[Music playing]

[Electricity buzzing in the

background]

- Another, Connor.

I think going back in time would

change the outcome.

And it doesn't get reset until you go

back again.

So, you have to be extremely

careful with what you

interact and what you do.

Your actions could cause a chain

reaction

that could completely alter reality

as we know it.

- That's what I'm planning on.

- Be careful.

Avoid your previous self at all

times.

[Machine charges up]

[Coughing]

- Ah, God.

The roof?

Ah, you can't worry about this

Jonas.

[Car sputters]

- Oh no.

Come on!

[Suspenseful music and

buzzing from the machine]

[Intercom repeating:

System alert]

- Ahh!

- April!

[Car screeches]

[Connor coughs]

- Are you crazy to jump out in

traffic like that?

You all right?

I can get you an ambulance.

- No, I don't have time for an

ambulance.

- What about my car?

[Cell phone rings]

- April.

- Hello?

- April!

- I saw you...

[Car screeches]

[Coughing]

- It was too late. I couldn't save

her.

- What's with the leg?

- Got hit by a car trying to get to

her.

Shouldn't I have returned

to normal when I got back?

Why am I still feeling the

effects?

- Look. Time passes here exactly

the same as it passes in the

past.

So, when something happens to you

in the past,

and you come back here,

it will continue until you go back

and change it.

So, when you avoid that car on your

next trip

it'll be just like it never happened

to you before.

And when you come back here,

that will no longer be your

reality.

- I need a better plan the next

time I go back.

You think you can hack into the

phone company records?

- Sure. Why?

- If I get April's phone records

I can find out where she was that

night.

- Do what I can.

- How much time passed while I was

gone?

- Uh, 60 minutes.

- My watch says 58.

What happened to the two

minutes?

- Well, when did you set your

watch?

- Right when I got there.

- And when did you notice 58

minutes?

- Right before I got sent back.

[Laughs]

- We forgot to calculate travel

time.

It'll take you a minute to get there

and to get back.

- Great. I already lost two

minutes.

It was my call that distracted

her

right before she stepped into the

intersection.

- Blame her death on a phone

call?

There are plenty of other things that

could've distracted her.

- But there weren't.

If I can stop myself from making

that call

then maybe she won't get hit.

- What about the car?

How're you going to stop the

car?

- I'll think of something.

Prep the machine. I'm going

back.

[Dramatic music]

- Excuse me. Are you Connor?

- Yeah.

- You have a phone call in the

back.

- From who?

- From April.

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