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Dr. Bryce, I'd like you

to meet Sean Knox

and Daniel Gates.

I'm assigning them

to work on your team.

Knox was one of my most

trusted field operatives.

Yes, well, I'm sure

they're both highly qualified.

Let's not start this again,

shall we?

General,

I don't mean any offense,

but soldiers who specialize

in high-stress situations...

there have actually

been studies that show

they demonstrate

very little brain activity.

I don't see how

that's exactly pertinent.

They're not qualified

for this mission.

She's talking about

reduced neural flow.

It's an adrenaline thing.

Has the effect of slowing down

mental acuity.

Fewer decisions

decreases the likelihood

of cognitive paralysis.

Not that I really read

the studies.

Somebody want to tell me

what this is?

We're standing in the core

of the most powerful

particle collider ever built.

Most colliders cap out at 27%.

It's a stability concern.

We found a way

to push through that.

Earlier this year,

our system went online

at 82% capacity...

At which point,

this window appeared.

So it's, what,

some kind of hologram?

A video projection

of a grassy field?

No, it's a little more

complicated than that.

The window is a rupture

in the wave function

of the universe.

It's unstable,

prone to changing suddenly

and in irregular fashion.

Every time a new window

opens up,

we send a probe inside

to look around.

Here's what we got

from the current location.

Wait.

That's a Morris eight series.

They made those back in...

- 1934.

- Exactly.

This is a field

in Gloucester, England,

on July 22, 1934.

We caught the exact date

off a radio broadcast.

Time travel.

That's what you built here.

That's right, Sean.

And this is the mission,

isn't it?

You want us to save New York.

Knox, you'll be leading a team

into the window.

We want you to conduct

a clandestine op,

subtly adjusting the past

in order to alter the present.

Dr. Benjamin Rourke.

I'm sure you're

very familiar with him.

Your goal will be

to prevent him

from destroying New York.

So this is everywhere

this thing's been.

Yes, every time and place

since it appeared

six months ago.

"2 hours, central China, 1748?

28 hours in Madrid, 1897."

What predicts

where this thing goes?

We don't know.

This is natural radiation.

It's in a free flow between

the past and the present.

When it builds up,

the window destabilizes

and bounces.

At this point,

we can't tell it where to go,

and we can only estimate

how long it stays open.

What about side effects...

Physical, psychological?

- We don't know.

- I'm sorry, doctor.

So what about this

do you know right now?

Very little.

Which is exactly what

I've been telling the general.

- Doctor...

- This facility

is at least three years away

from operational readiness.

We have no idea

what the possible

consequences might be.

Doctor, I understand,

but maybe you haven't

turned on the news lately.

We don't have a choice anymore.

The loss of New York

has thrown the world economies

into a freefall,

and a military conflict

isn't far behind.

The world's coming to an end

unless we do something

about it.

This is John Malcolm.

He'll be your Pentagon liaison.

Now, Knox and Gates will run

a two-man op on the inside.

I'm sorry... what?

No!

General, you need me

in that window.

No.

We're not going there, Bryce.

This is a one-time

military op.

These men have worked

all over the world.

When I was joint special ops

command, they were my very best.

They don't know

the first thing about this.

General, she's right.

Just being honest.

Danny and I are

a little out of our range here.

General, I don't think

that involving a civilian

in a field op is

a particularly good idea here.

- I do.

- Are we gonna vote on this?

Preferably not.

But I guess that's up

to the general.

All right, Lindsay,

congratulations.

You just bought yourself

a ticket inside.

I guess I should thank you.

Now, if you'll excuse me,

general, I have work to do.

She's really great, by the way.

Dr. Bryce,

you do realize

I just did you a favor

back there.

I'm sorry, what would

you like, a thank you?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, maybe.

Mr. Knox,

I didn't need your help.

Please don't assume

that your presence here

was helping anything.

What you did

was make me a tourist

on a mission that none of us

are prepared for.

- I made you my advisor.

- So you'd listen to my advice?

When I need to.

- Doctor.

- Good evening.

New head of operations,

I'm guessing.

- Not my first choice.

- I wasn't assuming.

- Ellis.

- Sean Knox.

How's our extraction model

looking, Ellis?

A little hazy.

I'm still thinking the auxiliary

blast is our best option.

We'll lose the window

for a few seconds,

but we'll still be able

to bring a person back through.

Alive?

Now, that's a good question.

Keep me posted.

- Still not finished?

- No.

So let me get this straight.

You've never actually

sent a living thing

back into the past

and successfully

brought it back.

We sent a cat once.

Yeah?

What happened?

I'll let you know

when we find it.

Oh, hey, NASA is killing me.

- Calm down, Charlie.

- No, you don't understand.

It is physically painful

to see what he's done there.

He randomly moved

something around,

probably while scatting

or something,

and now I can't even

get it to work.

Okay, I'll speak with Ellis,

but get your software installed.

We need the con up and running

by the time

the next window shows up.

Yeah,

and I need a couple months.

- Which we don't have anymore.

- That's not funny.

This rack is Prussia,

not Russia.

There's a difference.

Put it in 1870.

Priya, is this everything

from the Smithsonian?

The rest is in storage.

It's not exactly

all that we'd hoped for.

I told them I needed

every artifact

those trucks could hold.

Will you show me the order?

What is all this?

Priya Bristow's our specialist

on historical detail...

Mannerisms, taboos...

Details that history books

don't tend to record.

So...

This is, uh...

Refuse.

From a Roman aqueduct.

That sample comes from Pompeii

and it cost $90,000,

so please be careful.

I'm sor... I'm sorry,

you're collecting...

Garbage.

From A.D. 79.

History books only give us

the information

that people want to remember,

but garbage shows us the past

as it actually was.

Don't get too subtle

with him, Priya.

They don't like subtlety.

Dr. Bryce,

hold on a second.

Look, Mr. Knox,

I don't expect you

to understand what we do here,

but I do ask

that you stay out of my way.

Doc, you don't exactly

have a lot of friends, do you?

Look, I understand

that you're worried about

the readiness of this mission,

but that's not your decision

to make... it's theirs.

You probably sold out

to the Pentagon

because everybody else thought

you were some kind of crackpot.

- Am I right?

- Yes. Thank you, Mr. Knox.

I wasn't quite aware of

the politics of this situation.

I'm really glad

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