Time After Time Page #6

and we'll be off well before 7:30.

Where are you going?

It's something I've got to do.

And you do trust me, don't you?

I tell you what. What's the best

hotel in the city, your favorite?

The Huntington. I used to work there.

The Huntington. Write down

the telephone number.

If I'm not back in an hour, register

at the hotel. You've got the car.

- Promise you'll be back. Promise me.

- I promise. I promise.

Now you try and get some rest.

There's brandy in the flask

if you need it.

That's all right, I have some Valium.

- Sedatives.

- All right. Try and get some rest.

Hold it right there.

- What is the meaning of this?

- Shut up.

Amy!

- Look here.

- Listen, constable...

- Amy! Amy, get out of the house!

- Come on!

- Just get Lieutenant Mitchell...

- Look ahead.

- You're gonna have another murder.

- State your name, please.

I told you. Herbert George Wells.

What is this?

- Your valuables.

- Preposterous. Now please hurry.

- There is a lady in grave danger.

- Your watch, please.

My watch? This is ridiculous.

Please, where is Lieutenant Mitchell?

- You don't need that.

- Yes, we do.

Miss Amy Robbins is in very great...

Why do you need my glasses?

- I demand to see Lieutenant Mitchell!

- Relax.

I'm sorry, we have no one by the name

Amy Robbins registered at the hotel.

You've absolutely no right...

- Let me see Lieutenant Mitchell.

- No.

Now! Soon! Hurry! Please! Help!

I've told you. I've told you 50 times.

My name is H.G. Wells.

I came here in a time machine.

I'm pursuing Jack the Ripper...

...who escaped into the future.

If you don't do something,

he'll kill Miss Robbins by 7:30.

What about the gun? They weren't

making that model back in 1893.

I purchased it to defend Miss Robbins

should the worst come to the worst.

- Where did you purchase it?

- A pawn shop. I don't remember it.

You're wasting your time.

Please listen to me.

Forget about the shop and the time

machine. Forget that I'm H.G. Wells.

Please just save the girl.

You'll have to do better than that.

Last time you were Sherlock Holmes.

- All right, let's take it from the top.

- My name is H.G. Wells.

I came here in a time machine.

The one at the museum.

- Just tell me what you want.

- I want the truth!

We're gonna stay here until I get it.

Take a look at this.

That's right. That's it.

Take a look.

Look, you cretinous idiot.

This is tomorrow's bloody paper.

You see what will happen

if you don't listen to me!

Mr. Wells, or whatever

your real name is...

...you know that novelty shops will

run a phony newspaper edition.

You may have been born yesterday, but

I wasn't. Where did you get the gun?

Herbert.

Herbert?

You want to break for dinner? Hey!

I'll strike a bargain.

I'll confess to anything you like!

I killed them all.

Now, please...

Please send a car to 2340 Francisco.

Send a car and I'll sign

whatever you want.

You're free to go.

I'm sorry.

Please believe me. I'm truly sorry.

Herbert.

Herbert, I'm over here.

He murdered Carol, my friend. I forgot

I invited her over to meet you.

- Amy?

- He's got the car.

Amy?

- The newspaper was wrong.

- Amy.

Not so fast.

We have a little unfinished business.

- What more do you want?

- You know what I want. Give me the key.

And you get the white queen.

All right.

- Let her go and I'll throw it to you.

- No.

My mother was atrocious, but she

didn't raise mentally deficient sons.

You throw me the key

and I'll release the girl.

- On your honor.

- You have my word as a gentleman.

Now there's just one thing.

I would've expected that you'd noticed

I am not a gentleman.

- Say goodbye.

- Goodbye, Herbert.

You know where we're going.

You haven't instructed him in the use

of one of these machines?

Go faster. Please.

Go faster.

If I go any faster I'm gonna wrap

us around a phone pole.

- Herbert!

- Stevenson!

Stevenson!

What is it, H.G.? You're becoming

extremely tiresome.

- The girl.

- Which girl? You mean this one?

Let her go. Please, I beg you.

You can afford to be magnanimous.

Women throughout the centuries

are yours for the taking.

Is it so important?

I don't find her attractive. Do you?

You're not about to disagree?

No.

- No, what?

- No, I don't find her attractive.

- Shall I cut her throat then?

- No. Please.

John. You and I, we were friends once.

I admired you.

What are you babbling about, Wells?

You've become quite an old fool.

Yes. I am an old fool.

I know nothing.

And she means that much to you?

Yes.

Please.

I'm sorry.

H.G., it's checkmate

and you've lost again.

Herbert!

What did you do?

I sent him to where he belongs.

Infinity.

That's the last anyone will hear

of Jack the Ripper.

It's time for us to say goodbye

before the police arrive.

You going back?

- Why?

- I've got to dismantle that machine.

Until we master ourselves we have

no proper use for time.

I've got those books to write.

Whatever they are.

Fiction, I hope.

Every age is the same.

It's only love that makes

any of them bearable.

And finally, I must go back because

that is where I belong.

And my life is almost as important

to me as yours.

Not quite.

Almost.

Herbert! You wait for me!

You wait for me!

Herbert!

It isn't life without you.

Please, look at me.

Don't expect miracles. I'm changing

my name to Susan B. Anthony.

Let's go.

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