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out who sent these items.

Will you help me out?

- They were sent three years ago.

- No. There was a mix-up.

Somebody else sent these. I need

to find out who that is and talk to them.

Replacements were sent

a few weeks ago.

- Who sent it?

- Well, you did.

That's you right here.

See? Twenty items.

I'm gonna need all

your personal belongings.

Michael Jennings died

at three minutes after 3.

The government, left with no case,

closed its investigation of Allcom.

So you see,

it's impossible that he escaped

unless you changed something.

I didn't.

- What were you doing, exactly?

- I was eating pie.

He left the attorney's office

exactly when it predicted.

The Feds took him exactly

when it predicted...

But he didn't die like it predicted!

Michael Jennings

is not a super agent.

He's an engineer.

Yet somehow he managed

to escape from a double-Iocked room.

How? Was it fate?

No, fate was on our side.

That means someone changed

something. And it wasn't me.

And if it wasn't you, then who the?

Has anyone checked the machine

since Michael walked out of here?

Find him.

"If you only look

where you can't go,

"you will miss the riches below."

Yeah, I'm already missing my riches.

"17-44-4-26-37-40-22."

A combination? A code?

A password?

"New Liberty Savings."

New Liberty Savings Bank, please.

What does that mean?

You're saying the bank

doesn't exist?

That's comforting.

Who sent these items?

You did.

That's you right here.

See? Twenty items.

These are patent applications.

Look whose signature is

on every one of those documents!

A mistake has been made here.

I'm not a traitor!

Dekker died!

Rethrick can claim he knows

nothing about Dekker or the design.

Believe me! I don't remember

what I did for the past three years!

Michael.

Michael.

You're done.

Hello?

Jesus, Shorty.

You don't know how good it is

- to hear a familiar voice.

- Michael?

Listen, man.

I'm in a... I'm in a jam,

and I need you.

All right.

Meet me at Union Station at 9:00.

- I'll be there.

- OK, buddy.

Outbound local from Seattle

to Kent departing from track five.

Eastbound Spokane, gate ten.

Michael.

Say one word about this hat

and I'm out of here.

Oh, man!

Oh, my God.

I told you not to take that job, Mike.

- Come on, let's get a table.

- OK.

- Injections?

- Yeah.

You would have to do it

that way, I guess.

But, of course,

that's a chemical process.

So?

Well, you'd have

some latent memories.

Maybe that's what I'm seeing.

Most likely. Memories

that made it through the wash,

stirred up when the feds

went in your head.

Why would I have these things?

Explain this.

I sent myself this junk

instead of the money.

Oh, brother.

I don't know.

That's not the question

you should be asking.

- No?

- No. You should be asking yourself,

why did you give up

all that money?

That's the most bizarre part

of this whole thing.

Ninety million dollars. Nobody

changes that much in three years.

OK, all right, buddy.

I wanna figure out what you built.

All right, let's work backwards.

They told me I was working on

a design by someone named Dekker.

- Dekker?

- Yeah.

- William Dekker?

- I think so.

What I heard was, he was working

on something level five for the feds.

They came in,

shut him down.

- What was it?

- Well, the consensus was a laser.

- Why?

- Because Dekker's drawings

called for a mirror and a lens.

The only thing that uses those

is a laser or a satellite camera

to see things from far away.

Here comes the first number, 17.

Followed by 44.

- The lens required perfect optics.

- Four.

- The mirror...

- Twenty-six.

- So the capital outlay is huge.

- Thirty-seven.

- Word was it was gonna cost

- Forty.

- 500 billion dollars.

- And

the bonus number is 22.

Who's gonna spend 500 billion

dollars just to see something?

What?

No way I get out of that

extraction room without the cigarettes

and the glasses.

I would've never gotten

on the bus without the ticket.

If I didn't have the ring, I wouldn't

have followed that kid to Reddy Grant.

- Right.

- I gave up that money

just to make sure that I would pay

attention to these items.

Why?

Because I know what you'd

spend 500 billion dollars to see.

The future.

If you selected five numbers

and the bonus number,

you're a second-prize winner.

He used a virus.

The machine went down

at 3:
03 this afternoon.

3:
03.

Can you program around the virus?

No. It's not that kind of virus.

Come on, I'll show you.

It's not in the software.

It's in the hardware.

He put a circuit somewhere in here.

It's like a poison pill.

But you can find it, right?

Yeah, I can.

Then do it.

Slight change of plans.

According to Mr. Stevens,

we don't need Jennings.

Look, if we know anything, we know

that time travel's not possible.

Einstein proved that, right?

Time travel, yes.

Einstein was very clear

that he believed time viewing

- theoretically could be accomplished...

- Mike, Mike. Come on.

Maybe we should just find Dekker...

- I can't talk to Dekker.

- Why not?

- He had an accident.

- An accident?

Yeah, he...

He fell out

of his bedroom window.

Fell out of?

He fell out of his bedroom window!

I see. Sure.

That could happen.

Jesus. Wait a minute!

- We've gotta get out of here!

- Shorty, listen to me.

I think what happened

was I used this thing,

I saw my future.

And I saw what I needed to change it.

But all I could get out of Allcom

were these innocuous items.

Each item has to be used

at a specific time and place

to accomplish whatever

I needed to get done.

I mean, without the stuff in here,

I'd already be dead.

Yeah, well, it's too bad that you don't

know what the rest of them are for.

What?

Gotcha!

Hey!

Great seeing you again, Mike!

Jesus!

Those guys do not look like feds.

Here. Listen to me.

Take this.

This will get you through that door.

Close it behind you. Understand? Go!

- OK!

- Go! Go on!

Sh*t!

Go!

Oh, God, I hope that was

a good thing to do.

Sh*t.

Go.

Where's your gun?

He's got it.

So...

...how are you, Mike?

You?

Why?

Don't remember?

You brought this

on yourself, Mike.

So how does it feel

knowing you're going to die?

Sh*t.

He designed his own escape?

Mr. Attorney General, sir,

we have no explanation.

After looking at the evidence

the only logical,

albeit hard-to-accept conclusion,

is he was able to predict

what was going to happen to him.

These are memories extracted

from Jennings before he fled.

They don't seem to add up to anything.

Gladys.

That's all for today.

We knew Dekker was

trying to design something,

but when he sold his plans,

he wasn't even halfway done.

I don't understand.

Dekker was working at JPL

on a laser-enhanced lens.

He claimed the lens

was powerful enough

to see around the curvature

of the universe.

He believed if you could see

around a curve that went on forever

you would end up back

where you started,

looking at yourself.

Except you're not looking

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