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man who's been dead for over a hundred years...

I thought you meant in a sance or

some other nutty spiritualist thing.

He didn't tell you that

we do time research here...

that you're going to

travel back in time to 1871?

I'm what?

[Sighs] Oh, jeff, really.

I'm sorry, but I was afraid you

might just jump out the plane.

I mean, I know if I were in your shoes,

and somebody I never heard or'...

said we're gonna go back a hundred years

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I think it's time

he meets the boss.

Dr. Earnshaw, Dr. Cummings.

I guess you have heard

of Dr. Amos Cummings.

I was under the impression that

you'd moved to Africa, Doctor.

No, no, no.

I just moved out of NASA.

Ran away from my chair in

physics. Oh, what a relief.

That's a strange reaction

from a Nobel Prize winner.

Not at all.

I just got rid of

specialization... that's all.

Now I can start at the beginning...

examine the whole tree of knowledge.

Dr. Cummings. [Chuckles]

Are you actually claiming

that you can transport me back?

Well, I'll be with

you. I'm going too.

Snoring all the way,

I suppose. Now, look...

I'll go along with any

experiment if it makes any sense.

But this is absolutely ridiculous.

I, uh, think l heard him

say "yes", didn't you?

Yes, I did. Dr. Earnshaw, my

computers are on a very tight schedule.

[Adams ] These are

the memory banks.

The main part of the city back in those

days was down here on the South Side.

Everything quite

close to Lake Michigan.

There might be great value in

going back in time, I suppose...

if we could correct

our mistakes. -No.

That's the one thing you can't

do. You can't change history.

Dr. Henderson lived up

here on the North Side...

a nice, quiet rural

area back then.

That's where we'll be arriving,

the first thing we'll see.

Just tell me one thing.

Has anybody ever done this before?

Have they? -Of course.

Four of us have gone back already,

a lot farther than Chicago.

There's nothing to it.

Jeff, I, uh, think it's time

we tell him the whole story.

Only three of those

men came back alive.

What happened to the fourth?

He came back 20 minutes late.

He was decomposed...

with an arrowhead

embedded in his back.

30.000 years old.

Don't ask me how or why...

because I don't even know yet.

So we're really

just guinea pigs. -No.

We're all just human beings.

And all we have to face the future

with... is the experience of our past.

Unfortunately, there are

only remnants left...

of our history,

our knowledge.

Wouldn't you like to find

some of that lost knowledge?

We go through here.

Hey, fellas.

Safe journey.

Four days.

We'll have four days there.

That should be plenty of time.

From October 4- - lf we lose

four days, that epidemic-

We could be in the past a whole month and it

wouldn't take away any time from the present.

How could it?

- [Cummings On P. A.] Gentlemen...

we are 1 O seconds from the start

of countdown. -We're ready, sir.

Dr. Earnshaw? -Yes, I'm still here.

He'll be fine, sir.

Let's go.

[ Whirring ]

[ Beeping ]

[ Beeping ]

So is this it? A nice, quiet

rural area on the North Side?

Where are we, downtown

what? New York, Cleveland?

It can't be Chicago. It's

too hot for this time of year.

They had a heat wave

in October of 1871.

No, this is Chicago, all right.

"CB & Q."

"Chicago, Burlington and Quincy".

And that sign. "Great Lakes Dry

Goods." That means Lake Michigan.

So the computers

made a little mistake.

A couple of miles' error in

latitude and longitude, that's all.

Sure, Randolph Street.

State Street maybe.

We'll have to leave from the

exact same spot where we arrived...

back there at the railroad station.

Did you hear me, Clint? -What?

We'll have to leave back there

from the railroad station.

We'll get a room

at the Palmer House.

We've only got four days to

get all the information we want.

Well, that should be plenty of

time once we find Dr. Henderson.

Well, just remember, you're Dr.

Clinton Earnshaw of Washington D. C.

If you tip your real identity-

-They'll put us in a padded cell.

Leff, I don? believe it.

We're really here. I don't believe it.

- [Chuckles]

Maybe now you'll understand

why I quit the astronauts.

I fell in love with history.

It's where the people are.

Jeff, look at this.

The latest dispatch from Stanley. He's in

Africa on his way to look for Livingston.

What's the matter? -Is

this date a misprint?

No, no. That's today's

paper, just out.

Today is Saturday, October

7th? -Well, sure, mister.

Jeff, what's the matter? -Those

computers, I should've guessed...

when they dumped us

in the wrong place.

We should've been here

October 4, remember?

What difference does that make? We still

have four days to find Dr. Henderson.

No, you're wrong, Clint.

In less than 29 hours, this

whole city is gonna be in flames.

He wants an ice?

-There's chicken in there.

I don't want it to spoil

before he gets a chance to eat.

And I know he won't eat unless

you get, uh, reminding him.

I just don't know if there's any

ice left in the whole hospital today.

Oh, hold on, gentlemen.

You mustn't go in there.

I'!! be over in a moment.

Dear, there's always ice on the

second floor of medicine storage.

Well, go on. See what they want.

Jane, we're waiting. -Poor girl.

They leave her all alone

on a Saturday afternoon.

No training, practically

brand-new from the old country.

Go back there, because it's

restricted. It's very contagious.

Jane, I thought you said you only

wanted to stop by and leave the food.

Shh. That man said "Henderson",

didn't he? Excuse me.

Lakeside Hospital, Dr.

Joshua P. Henderson.

Excuse me. I'm his

niece Jane Henderson.

You're a doctor too, aren't you?

Yes, I am. How did you guess?

Oh, I don't know.

Your bag. -Oh. [Chuckles]

[Adams ] Well, is he

here? It's urgent.

The surgeon general sent us all the way

from Washington D. C.just to see him.

This is Dr. Earnshaw. My

name is Adams. -How do you do?

General. Oh, yes, gentlemen.

This way, sirs. I'll see

if I can find him. -No.

You really shouldn't, dear. Uncle

josh is with his fever patients.

That's where he's been

for the past 24 hours.

Fever patients?

-Woods fever, it'; cal/ed.

There's been a small outbreak here.

But many of the doctors

referred their cases to my uncle.

They all claim that it's the

terrible heat and walked away...

but of course it's because they really

just don't know what to do about it.

If you could just tell us

where he is. We're in a hurry.

And so are we, jane.

Oh, I'm sorry, Clarence.

I'm terribly sorry, but I knew I shouldn't

have left my uncle all alone today.

Please tell the others...

forgive me.

I'm a nurse, gentlemen. Come along,

and I'll show you the way myself.

[Spits]

I told you to swallow that stuff.

Liquor. There's liquor in there.

Red liquor, the blood of the devil.

That was a pill in there.

Leave me, temptation. For

the Lord sayeth unto me-

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