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you cleared that up.

Bryce, let's just get this

out of the way.

What is your problem?

My problem is that none of you

have any idea

what we're getting into.

This window

is not just some weapon

of blunt force, all right?

Everything in the past

is connected...

Every moment, every event.

It all adds up to this reality

that we call the present.

Can we use this window

to alter history?

Absolutely.

But we're manipulating nature

in its most fragile state.

And saving 9 million lives.

If we get it right.

Come on, we've got to go.

- Hey, what's going on?

- The window's changing.

We gotta hurry.

Well, doctor...

It appears

you've got a new window.

We've got work to do.

- What is that?

- Camera.

This one's name is Miles,

but down here I got Coltrane,

Roach, Krupa,

and the one on the end

is Mr. Chet Baker.

Godspeed, my little friend.

Come on, Danny.

Now the fun begins.

Okay, Miles, show us the magic.

Asbestos piping.

We're pre-1978.

What, exactly,

are we looking for here?

Clues. Anything

we can use to narrow in

on a time and place.

200 bucks says it's the 1950s.

When have you ever

been right, Charlie?

I was right about

the Civil War.

It was the Spanish Civil War.

- Still a civil war.

- Look, I'm trying to get this.

Uh, looking at the clothing,

we're prewar.

Jazz age.

Okay, Miles,

we're going out the door.

Oh, it's definitely not

the depression,

judging by the cars.

We're in the 1920s.

Can we just please

find a newspaper?

Give me a chance!

There. That's it.

That's the Washington monument.

We're in D.C.!

It's the National Mall

on the McMillan Plan,

because the Jefferson Mmemorial

hasn't gone up yet.

What did she just say?

It's the National Mall

on the McMillan Plan

because the Jefferson memorial

hasn't gone up yet.

We're at prewar memorial,

so is it Coolidge

or is it Hoover?

Hold on.

I got a guy with a newspaper.

Come on, Miles.

There you go.

Got it.

"March 8, 1929."

Oh!

I knew it was Hoover!

You know he was

the last president

to be sworn in while it rained?

- Is she always like this?

- Yeah, it gets exhausting.

All right, Ellis,

say good-bye to Miles.

200,000 tax dollars,

bye-bye.

Adios.

So we know it's America.

Last 80 years.

Geographically

very close to New York.

Yes, that's pretty lucky.

This is the first window

we've had in the modern U.S.

Ellis, what's our red zone?

Radiation's

at 20% stabilization.

The window will close

in about...

17 hours.

We can work with that.

All right,

I'll leave you to it.

- Keep me informed.

- Yes, sir.

You know what?

I don't know about this.

This is the 1920s.

Rourke won't even be born

for another 15 years.

We can ensure

he'll never be born.

His father... he was a Professor

at New York university in 1929.

If we find him,

we can take him out, right?

Before Rourke

is even conceived.

So you think we

can just kill this man

- and solve the problem.

- Yeah.

I want to show our friends

something.

It's still on the Fritz.

I don't know

if that's a good idea.

And there she goes.

Oh... I got it.

Let's just hope NASA

finally got the servers

upgraded like I asked.

So what exactly is this,

Dr. Bryce?

It's called a panopticon.

It studies ripples,

amasses data

from weather satellites,

radio signals, the Internet.

Which, in English, means...

- That was English.

- Basically,

Charlie can show us

how actions in the past

create ripples in the present.

We've developed

a special analytical...

I developed

the analytical program.

- Thank you.

- Charlie developed the program.

- No need to be humble here.

- Okay, let's run a scenario.

Bring up a city that's been

thriving in the last 50 years.

- How 'bout Tokyo?

- Perfect.

Mr. Malcolm, I assume you know

how Tokyo looks in present day?

Charlie's gonna show you

a version of Tokyo

if Benjamin Rourke

were never born.

Wow.

Rourke was a nobel prize-

winning physicist.

His work in particle physics

played a major part

in fostering the modern age.

Which means if you

take him out of the equation,

all of that is erased.

No Sony, no Toyota.

More world hunger, disease.

Millions of lives

irreversibly damaged

without anyone

ever having a say.

So this thing

can test the effect

of any changes

we make in the past.

Within a pretty damn high

rate of probability, yeah.

I'm sorry, doctor,

but at what point

was this a mission

to save Tokyo?

Our mission

is to restore everything

to the way it was.

Don't you understand?

All of these events

are tied together.

You don't have the right

to change 20 million lives.

- Are they any better ideas?

- Maybe we can just

go into the past

and send a message forward,

like warn that New York

is gonna happen?

Charlie, we've already

discussed this, it's too risky.

We can't just assume

that people would believe us.

She's so beautiful.

Show me present day New York

if Rourke's wife is still alive.

Born Sylvia Hammond, 1945.

She met Rourke at M.I.T.

in 1964.

In 1975, she was killed

by a mugger in Georgetown.

Yeah, yeah.

I already have all that.

Uh, so this...

Is present-day New York.

And this is present day...

if Rourke's wife

were still alive.

It worked.

Yeah.

High probability that if

Rourke's wife wasn't killed,

we save New York.

Mr. Knox,

how did you know that?

Rourke told me.

He said I was gonna

bring back his wife.

I was told you were

the man to talk to.

Okay. Our focus here is

Sylvia Rourke.

We need to know everything

about how she died.

The key is, we can't have

any other ripples.

We only impact

what we need to impact,

so let's figure this out.

Dr. Bryce

said you were working on

some sort of a comm system,

a way to talk between

the past and the present?

Mmhmm.

- Is that it?

- Mm-hmm.

This sends a high-band

frequency through the medium...

Polycarbon

with a degrading half-life.

How, exactly, does that work?

Well, nothing

we send into the past

can be left behind.

It creates bad ripples.

And we don't like bad ripples.

No, we don't like bad ripples.

Let's say one of you guys

forgets a precious

and very expensive piece

of my technology.

With my remote, I can just...

Wow.

You came up with all this?

I did.

- So you used to work at NASA.

- Uhhuh.

So what brings you here, man?

I mean, this must seem

kind of like a step back

after outer space, right?

You know, I asked Dr. Bryce

that very same question

when she first came to me.

I said, "we've been

to outer space

"and we've been

to the bottom of the sea.

Where else is left

for man to go?"

You know what she said to me?

What's that?

Backwards.

Leaving already?

The president wants me

back in Washington.

You know, real world problems.

Rourke knew about

this program, didn't he?

May we have a minute?

Rourke had no reason

to do what he did

unless he knew

this program existed.

Look, Rourke was one

of the finest minds

this country has ever produced.

Is it possible

through the process

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