Prisoner X Page #3

It's okay, it's

perfectly harmless.

Please, allow me to show you.

May I?

- Where did it go?

- Nowhere.

It's just suspended in time.

Temporarily.

Four, three, two, one.

Voila.

Which makes it the key component

in the construction of

a portable time machine.

- We need to keep

this off the grid.

No one, and I mean no one,

needs to know about this.

I will brief the

director myself.

- If Abraham gets hold

of a new time machine,

we'd have no defense.

- He'd just go from

city to city setting off

future explosions and...

- It'll be

Indian point all over again.

Only 1,000-times worse.

- You didn't sleep, did you?

- No.

- What's going on?

- Well this is going

to sounds crazy.

I saw my son yesterday.

Swear to god it was him.

He had the same walk.

He had the same smile.

Just when you think you're

ready to forgive yourself,

you know?

- Jordan's death

wasn't your fault.

- Yeah it was.

Should never be doubted. Lt,

- look at me.

There was nothing that you

could have done, nothing.

- Yes there was.

There still is.

- What's that supposed to mean?

- Carmen.

Nothing is set in stone.

Time, it's not what it seems.

- What are you talking about?

- Time is nothing.

Nothing.

- Does this have to do with

your sandbox assignment?

Fischer, come on.

If there's anybody that

you can tell, it's me.

- Breaking news.

- What's that?

- An explosion has occured

at the Indian point power

plant north of New York City.

The radioactive fallout

is rapidly drifting south,

and the president has ordered

the immediate evacuation

of cities in northern

Pennsylvania,

Virginia and the

entire tri-state area.

- Oh my god.

My sister is in Brooklyn.

- A nuclear device,

likely smuggled on site

via the Hudson river.

Its type and origin

will be determined

once the isotopic signature...

- Bad news, Fischer.

The tests failed again.

We haven't found a functioning

equation, that's the problem.

- I am this close

to figuring it all out.

And now I'm desperate,

I need help.

- It doesn't make any sense.

Do you know that Fischer

lost his wife and kid?

If he was gonna commit

suicide, he would have done it

a long time ago.

- Maybe it all finally

caught up with him.

What is it?

- Signs of a struggle.

Maybe.

- Snider, I need

you here please.

Need to do blood...

- And...

- - Wait. Hold on.

Fingerprints?

- I'm betting those

are from Wednesday.

- Bring the chronoscan too.

I need you to date fingerprints.

You think Fischer was murdered.

- One way or another.

- No one's stepped

inside that apartment.

- Wouldn't even talk to

anyone on the phone either.

- The autopsy was clean.

- I think Abraham has

an agent inside sandbox.

- Yeah, the prints

are from Wednesday,

and they're Fischer's.

- Sweep the place for

foreign fingerprints.

- Fischer's visitor,

whoever he was,

managed to outsmart

the most advanced

security system in the world.

Do you really think that

he left fingerprints?

- We may get lucky.

- Just when you think the

situation couldn't get any worse.

- We've implemented class-3

surveillance protocol

and a comprehensive review

of all sandbox

personnel is underway.

- Find the mole, agent

Reese, and quickly.

I don't need to tell you

what's at stake here.

- Sir, I strongly suggest that

we undertake a similar review

of all security agencies.

Irrespective or

seniority, every agent,

every official should

be thoroughly screened.

- I'll recommend it to the...

What is it?

- Uh, nothing.

- Do you think Abraham

is still in India?

- I do. It's a lot easier to

hide among a billion people.

And besides, India gives him

the right technological base

for constructing

his time machine.

- The Indians are

scared shitless.

They're afraid we'll bomb them

into oblivion like Pakistan,

which is exactly what the

president wants to do.

- The Indians are our allies.

I'm sure they're gonna give

us whatever help we need

in finding Abraham.

- We can't tell them about

Abraham, agent Reese.

Because then we'll have

to tell them about Ramiro,

and that would be giving away

the store now, wouldn't it?

- Birthday, 'cause she was big.

Sally had made a cake.

- I am this close

to figuring it all out.

Now I'm desperate. I need help.

Please, help me.

- This world

is like a dream, Carmen.

Are you ever

surprised in a dream?

- Fischer.

I missed you so much.

Hello?

Somebody there?

Sandra.

- Catch me if

you can, aunt Carmen.

- What do you mean

the camera's offline?

- Only for about 10 seconds.

It happens every 24 hours when

- Which Jim obviously knew.

Okay Williams,

keep an eye on him.

Send me his file.

- Will do.

One more thing, agent Reese,

I'm not sure what to

make of it but it seems

that Jefferson's been communicating

with someone secretly.

- Secretly?

- He sent a couple

messages last night

then deleted the log

entries from the mainframe

but he forgot the backup.

- Messages to whom?

- Someone at the Pentagon.

Ah, it's probably nothing.

Maybe we should just...

- find out exactly who he's

been communicating with.

And be careful,

don't tip him off.

- Elmez.

That's where I'm from.

It's a city in the Balkan

peninsula that doesn't exist yet,

and in the time

that I come from,

it doesn't anymore.

It was destroyed during

the liberation of Albania

by the United States.

The last Islamic Republic ff

in the world.

- But what happened to the

rest, did the U.S. invade

all the Muslim countries?

- They didn't have to.

They played the Arabs

against the Persians,

the Asians against the Africans,

and watched them

devour each other.

Paranoia.

It's the greatest

weapon there is.

- So that's why you're here.

But how, this whole

time-travel thing just seems

preposterous to me.

- I figured you'd ask.

This should give you some idea.

- Has this

something to do with the

Casimir effect?

- Fischer.

I'm impressed.

- Parallel plates sat so close

together that they tap into

the energy field of a vacuum.

- Which then punches a

hole through space-time.

- How was the machine tested?

Was an object sent

into some distant past

and then just dug up

from a fossil bed?

- That can't be done, my friend.

- Why not?

- Because when you

go back in time,

an alternate reality is created.

A new timeline branching

out from the original one.

It's the universe's way of

preventing time-paradoxes.

Like I said before,

we can't change the past.

- But we can create a new one.

- And nudge it in any

direction we want.

- So when did you time-travelling

jihadists arrive?

- September 9th, 1999.

- Where?

- Kashmir, near the Shyok river.

- Why Kashmir?

- Because that's where the

time machine was in my day.

Point-to-point transfer

is how it works.

- How many came?

- 99 of us.

- So on the ninth day,

of the ninth month,

of the 99th year, 99

of your guys show up.

- Nine is of

special significance

in Islamic number-theory.

It denotes judgement day.

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