The Time Traveler's Wife Page #4

CLARE:
You can't be in here.

HENRY:
We have to watch something.

CLARE:
The TVs are gonna set you off.

HENRY:
We have to watch something.

MAN [ON TV]:
To win, all you have to do...

CLARE:
What's that?

MAN [ON TV]:

Good luck.

What'd you do?

MAN [ON TV]:

Our first winning number is...

- Seventeen.

MAN [ON TV]:
seventeen.

Up next:

- Maybe a 23.

MAN [ON TV]:
Number 23.

Or even a 32.

MAN [ON TV]:

Thirty-two is next.

- Couldn't possibly be a 40.

MAN [ON TV]:
Followed by 40.

- That shouldn't be a 12.

MAN [ON TV]:
And our last number is...

...a 12.

So here are your winning numbers:

- Seventeen, 23, 32, 40 and 12.

- You just won $5 million.

You can't do that.

It's... It's cheating.

- Okay. Let's rip it up.

- No.

Look, there are a lot of downsides

to my condition, okay?

But this is not one of them.

REALTOR:
Exquisite plasterwork

in every room of the house.

Isn't it gorgeous?

This is not it.

- But I like it.

- You'll like another one more.

Just look at the fireplace.

It's got the "wow" factor.

The details, the architecture,

the windows.

- Spectacular.

- No. Not the one.

Uh, thank you.

Just look at this landscaping.

Wouldn't you love to see it in the spring?

Now, it's a little smaller

than the other places, but big on charm.

Now, the main entrance of this house

is actually towards the rear...

...where there is a charming garden.

But look at these features. The fireplace.

That staircase, it's so handsome.

The wide-plank flooring. Love that.

Clare.

- We're home. See the garage?

- Uh-huh.

- That's your studio.

- Aah!

HENRY:

Come on. Come on.

Come on.

CLARE:

So here's the garden.

- And over there is my studio.

CHARISSE:
Oh, my.

[GOMEZ WHISTLES]

GOMEZ:
Things are going okay.

CHARISSE:
This is...

CLARE:
Mint?

- Yes.

- And black for you.

GOMEZ:
Mm-hm.

- How many more of these do you want?

- Three's good.

CHARISSE:

He's awake.

- He's kicking. Max is kicking.

CLARE:
Oh!

[GRUNTING NEARBY]

[COUGHING NEARBY]

[CLARE GASPS]

Do you know when you're gonna die?

No.

I've never seen you older.

I've never seen you older

than 40-something.

Never.

Maybe you stop...

Maybe you stop traveling.

Somebody... Somebody finds a cure.

There's gotta be some kind of drug

you can take. There's gotta be someone...

Something. Something that can help.

We're having a baby.

What?

I...

I think it's time.

It's time you find Dr. Kendrick.

How did you say you found me?

When I'm older...

...I travel back in time to see my wife

when she's a little girl.

She says I mentioned a Dr. Kendrick.

I found three in the Chicago area:

one an ENT, one a podiatrist, so...

I'm a geneticist.

And I have a genetic anomaly.

It's called Chrono-Impairment.

That's a term you came up with, apparently.

That's what she says.

Of course, now I've mentioned it,

you will call it that...

...and it'll be hard to tell

which came first.

You see, that's the thing

about time travel.

Did my students put you up to this?

Because, man, you are good.

Oh, God.

You got me.

I knew this would be a waste of my time.

Wait a minute. Uh, wait. Here.

Henry, wait.

Hey.

I lost the baby.

[CLARE SOBBING]

Kendrick.

Mr. DeTamble.

My wife had a miscarriage.

I am very sorry about that,

but I don't see what I can do to help.

What if the baby's a traveler like me?

What if it has the same genetic anomaly?

What if it traveled out of the womb?

You need help.

Not the kind of Help I can give you.

How can I prove it to you?

You can't. It's impossible.

Well, just do one test.

If you don't find anything, fine. I'll leave

you alone, you can go back to your life.

I'm calling Security.

The grant.

The Berger Grant.

- Have you applied for it yet?

- How did you find out about that?

You win.

We're going to start the first series.

It'll take about 10 minutes.

[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]

[MRI CLUNKING]

[COMPUTER BEEPING]

Oh, sh*t.

Your brain emits a blast

of electromagnetic energy...

...akin to an epileptics

right at the moment you travel.

And you can see it right here.

Now, there are drugs for epilepsy

we can use.

But all of these drugs

are way too strong for a fetus...

...if, indeed, it is a similar condition

which is causing the miscarriage.

I'm 10 weeks in now,

and we've never been that far along...

...so maybe the baby isn't gonna travel.

We're going to find out.

We're going to take a look

at Henry's genetic code.

We'd like to take a look

at the clock genes.

And then I would like to run the same test

on the fetus.

Not to worry.

It's a noninvasive extraction of cells.

But perhaps we'll get

some sort of indication...

...as how to bring you to full term.

Honey.

- What?

- Wake up. You're bleeding.

[GASPS]

What?

HENRY:

We could adopt.

What's wrong with me wanting

one normal thing in my life?

I wanna be a mother.

I wanna bear a child, your child.

Why can't I have that?

I've never seen us with a baby. Never.

I've traveled to the future...

...and I've never seen it.

- I don't wanna hear that.

- You heard what the doctor said.

You'd be... - Stop.

Okay, Henry.

Uh, just to be official about this,

I need to ask you one last time:

- You're sure you wanna do this?

- Yeah, yeah. I've signed the papers.

Yeah. Yeah, I know, but, uh, vasectomy's

rarely a one-party decision.

Yeah, well, this time it is.

NURSE:

You all right?

- You need us to call someone?

- No.

NURSE:

A cab?

[CLOTHING CRUMPLES]

CLARE:

Henry.

Hey. What's the matter?

I don't really feel like being here

right now.

Is it me?

No.

I did something.

It was hard, and you won't like it.

What'd you do?

You won't like it.

Well, then why'd you do it?

- To stop us from fighting.

- We're fighting?

Why?

Well, just once, one time, could you...?

Could you tell me the answer

to something I'm asking you?

You wouldn't get it anyway.

[CLARE GRUNTS]

That wasn't very nice.

You've never kissed me before.

I was with you in the meadow.

- When?

- You looked about 18.

It was our first kiss.

Hmm...

You were having a bad day.

I did something.

I did something I felt I had to do.

Oh, please don't tell me something

that's gonna make me hate you.

I had a vasectomy.

I'm not gonna have a child...

...with the same genetic disorder as me

who's gonna die. I...

I'm not gonna do it.

How dare you?

You tricked me.

You...

You came to that meadow...

...and you forced yourself into the heart

and the mind of a little girl.

What, you think that I wanted this life...

...this husband that disappears

without any kind of warning?

Do you think anyone would want that?

Who would want that?

- You have a choice.

- I never had a choice.

[MACHINE WHIRRING]

[CRYING]

[CELL PHONE VIBRATING]

Hello?

[HENRY GRUNTS THEN MURMURS]

Thanks for coming.

It's freezing out there.

[SHIVERS]

Where's Henry?

Uh, I left him sleeping.

I needed some time away from him.

How's that working out for you?

[LAUGHS]

You okay?

We had a fight.

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