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for an hour.

When are you gonna

get out of the game, Leila?

You gotta be pushing 60.

Thanks for letting everyone know.

Am I in the right place?

We don't normally make

pickups in this Zone.

I was lost.

Please deposit

one month.

Please deposit two months.

There are more of these than I remember.

That was a year.

Welcome to New Greenwich.

What are you really doing here?

I'm going to take them

for everything they've got.

I'm going to make them pay.

Please, miss. You can't be too careful.

Are you sure?

What's a night here cost?

Two months for a standard room.

Give me a suite.

Do you need help with your bags?

No.

- He's fast.

- He's going to have to be.

The camera doesn't show us

how the body got into the river.

What do we really know?

What do we know?

We know that most thefts in Dayton

amount to hours or days.

This was a century.

I don't see any more in circulation.

He could have capsuled the time.

You can't hide a hundred years

in the ghetto.

They can sense when a man has

a month more than he should.

The time left town.

That'll be eight and a half weeks.

Take a week for yourself.

Thanks.

You're not from around here, are you?

You do everything a little too fast.

Not everything.

What's that place across the street?

The casino.

Can anybody go?

Not dressed like that.

Good luck.

Sir, you were right.

If you turn back the clocks

the day of Hamilton's death,

and look at the time checks,

someone spent years crossing

four different Time Zones from Dayton...

To New Greenwich. The cameras picked up

on his suspicious behavior.

He's conscious of the surveillance,

he doesn't have a bodyguard, and he runs.

But if he has time, he doesn't need to run.

It's a hard habit to break.

You're looking for a match?

His name is Will Salas.

You know him?

No.

I remember his father.

Good evening.

I assume my time is as good as anyone's.

Indeed it is. However,

there is a voluntary donation

for non-members. Most give a year.

What's your game?

Poker.

Right this way.

What's the limit?

There is none.

I don't believe we've had the pleasure

of your company before, Mr...

Salas.

Will Salas.

Philippe Weis. You must come from time.

You could say I'm gambling my inheritance.

You don't have a guard, Mr. Salas?

I assumed I was amongst friends.

Bet you 50 years.

You must be young.

When you've been 25 for 85 years,

like I have,

knowing only a random act of violence

can take your life,

you learn to appreciate what you have.

And you seem to have a lot to appreciate.

I call.

Of course,

some think what we have is unfair.

The time difference between Zones.

I've heard that.

But isn't this just the next logical step

in our evolution?

And hasn't evolution always been unfair?

It's always been survival of the fittest.

Raise you another two centuries.

This is merely Darwinian capitalism.

Natural selection.

Absolutely.

The strong survive.

And I think your hand is weak.

I call.

It appears you're all in, Mr. Salas.

Thirteen figures.

Well played.

That was some risk.

It wasn't a risk.

No offense. I knew I was going to win.

Confusing times.

Is she my mother, my sister

or my daughter?

You're hoping she's not my wife.

Things used to be simpler once. So I'm told.

Very beautiful.

Daughter.

Though she does look

a lot like my wife. Sylvia?

Will Salas.

Congratulations, Mr. Salas.

You've taken years off my father's life.

Which is normally what you do.

Isn't that right, my darling?

We're having a party tomorrow night.

Perhaps you'll give him a chance to

win back some of those years.

I'd love to.

Carl will tell you where I am.

Good night, Mr. Salas.

Sylvia, stay with your guards.

Fifty-nine years.

Plus tax.

The price includes delivery.

Delivery?

To wherever you're going to display it.

Display it?

Hell, I'm going to drive it.

Will Salas.

Allow me to introduce

my mother-in-law, Clara,

my wife, Michele, and my daughter, Sylvia.

I believe you two have already met.

Nice to meet you all.

I'll come find you later

for our game.

I look forward to it.

Having fun, Mr. Salas?

Please, call me Will.

It's okay, Constantin.

Do you always have a hired hand

standing right next to you?

No. I usually have two.

That doesn't make it very easy

to get to know you.

I think that's the idea.

Your idea?

My father's.

I understand.

You all have a lot to lose.

So do you.

What do you do, Will?

I haven't quite figured that out yet.

Yes, why bother? What's the hurry?

Right. Why do today what

you can do in a century?

I know one thing we can do.

Dance with me.

Do you really come from time?

Why would you doubt that?

I saw you run.

Reminds me of people

who come from the ghetto.

Sometimes I envy them.

You don't know anything.

Oh, no? The clock is good for no one.

The poor die and the rich don't live.

We can all live forever as long as

we don't do anything foolish.

Doesn't that scare you? That maybe

you'll never do anything foolish?

Or courageous or anything worth a damn?

Come with me.

This was tonight.

He's only an hour ahead of us.

Look at that.

I've never seen anything like it.

What are you doing?

We don't go in.

You're insane.

You have this in your backyard.

You never go in.

And I'm insane?

Well? What are you waiting for?

Sylvia, come on!

What happened to doing something foolish?

I don't know you.

We could change that.

I get it.

You're out here, all alone,

with a stranger.

You can't be too careful.

Maybe you can.

Sylvia!

Sylvia!

I have to go back.

To what?

You should go back.

- Have you seen my daughter?

- I have.

She's with her guards.

Right behind you.

Thank God.

Now,

how about that game?

it's all right, everyone. What's this about?

I'm sorry to have to

break up the party, Mr. Weis.

I just need a word with your friend.

My friend?

Very well.

I'm Timekeeper Raymond Leon.

I'm Will Salas.

I know.

What are you doing in this Zone?

It's not illegal, is it?

To change Time Zones?

No, it's not illegal.

It's just rare.

Where did you get that?

I won it

Gambling.

All of it?

No.

A man named Henry Hamilton

gave me over a century.

He said he didn't need it any more.

He timed himself out.

Henry Hamilton was

worth thousands of years.

He could practically live forever.

You expect me to believe that

he was immortal and he wanted to die?

I don't expect you to believe it.

But it's the truth.

It was a gift.

I'm not a thief.

But, hey, if you guys

are looking for stolen time,

maybe you should arrest everyone here.

Oh, I see.

You're talking about justice.

Well, I am a Timekeeper.

I don't concern myself with "justice. "

I only concern myself

with what I can measure.

Seconds, minutes, hours.

I keep time.

And that time is in the wrong hands.

That time will be held, along with you.

We'll leave you two hours

for booking and processing.

Why are you investigating a suicide?

There's mass murder

in the ghetto every day.

That is fascinating.

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