Timecop: The Berlin Decision Page #5

Went off the screens. He must be

masking his time wake somehow.

What happened to your eye patch?

Eye patch?

What the hell's wrong with him?

He barely made it back.

We're lucky he's alive.

All right, he needs

medical attention right now.

Well, it's over.

Ryan's my last guy.

[Travis]

- Then we have to send him again.

- Send him where?

We don't know where Miller is.

Besides, look at him.

Even if he survives the launch,

he's so disoriented he wouldn't be

any good to us.

- [Miller] Out of the respect

and love I had for your father,

- No!

I'm giving you a second chance.

[Gasps]

- Hey.

- What happened? Where's Miller?

- No one knows.

- I have to find him.

He's going to destroy my family.

- My parents... God,

my parents will be next.

- No.

You're in no condition to help anyone.

You need your strength.

What happened to my watch?

[Chuckles]

It stopped the bullet.

Saved your life.

[Miller]

What I would give...

to be able to sit

and talk with you,

knowing what I know now.

He killed my father.

- What? How?

- Miller killed my father.

- What are you talking about?

- I know where Miller is.

Wait! No, no, no. Wait. Sit down.

You're not making any sense.

You have to launch me back

before it's too late.

Oh, no, no. No, we cannot

launch you again.

May 7, 2002, 3:
20 p.m.

That's when Miller killed my father.

Why? Why would he kill your father then?

You were already born.

- It would do him no good.

- Miller was looking for me!

You're making this sound

like it already happened.

It did already happen! It's about

to happen again if I don't stop him!

You've been launched too many times.

You gotta launch me again, or Miller's

gonna kill me when I'm 11 in 2002.

No. He didn't kill you before, why

would he kill you now?

He's already changed history, Betsy.

Last time I came back, you were dead.

[Chuckles]

Dead? Oh...

You tried to alter history to save

your husband from dying in the war.

Ryan, my husband did die in the war.

In this time line. But in the real

time line, there was no war.

You gotta believe me, Betsy.

Listen to me. You're the one

who always said to me that if

a timecop does his job right,

no one knows if

he got it right except him.

This same timecop would also be the

only one to know if he got it wrong.

This one got by me, Bets.

I hope you know what you're doing.

I'll see you for dinner.

What?

[Ryan]

Hey, Travis. Wake up.

O'Rourke, you should see this.

Come on, Travis.

Los Angeles, May 7, 2002,

University of Southern California.

- Ryan, what the hell are you doing?

- Get me there before 3:20 p.m.

- I can't do it, kid. It'll kill ya.

- Launch me.

[Grunts]

Let him go.

Launch him.

[Travis]

Prepare for another relaunch, guys.

[Female Computer Voice]

Launch activation T-minus 11, 10...

Don't forget that.

Eight, seven, six...

[Doc]

Good luck!

Initiating time phase.

[Computer]

Time phase initiated.

[Computer]

Cellular integrity unstable.

[Screaming]

- He's not gonna make it!

- Emergency shut down.

It's too late, sir.

We already initiated it.

[Computer]

Launch failing.

[Chiming]

There are far too many

variables, Mr. Miller,

to theorize what might have

happened historically,

had events played out differently.

I'm not theorizing, Professor Chan.

I'm just saying if time travel is possible,

we have a moral obligation

to right the wrongs of the past.

So are you suggesting that if it were

possible to change historic events, we should?

[Laughing]

Yes, absolutely.

Without knowing

the results of those changes?

Changes that would have a profound

effect on our world as we know it.

I don't see the problem with that, as

long as the changes are for the better.

All right.

Let's run with your idea.

Let's say hypothetically that we do

go back in time to make things right.

Whose moral guidelines are we

working within? Yours? Mine?

What happens if we have

a difference of opinion?

Whose rules are we playing by?

I think we all share a common

ground morally and ethically,

so some good would come out of it.

What's the point of researching time

travel, if not to right the wrongs?

We're historians, right?

Wouldn't you like

to observe history firsthand,

be there to authenticate

history's accuracy?

Yeah, that'd be cool.

But to stand around and do nothing

seems like a colossal waste of knowledge.

I mean, can I at least stop the guys

from flying the planes into the buildings?

Or the fanatic from walking into

a restaurant wearing a bomb?

As much as we all wish those horrific events

never happened, the fact is they did.

Then let's prevent them

from happening.

But we are who we are today

because of them.

Our anger, our compassion,

our awareness, our knowledge.

We alter history, it all changes...

good and bad.

[Sighs]

Yeah, I... I guess so.

Think about it.

[Chiming]

We'll have to pick

this up next week.

[Woman Laughing]

So, who wants ice cream?

[Young Ryan]

I do, but I have to go

to the rest room first.

- You do?

- Yeah.

- We'll be just a minute.

- I'll wait here.

Come on, then.

- See you next week, Professor.

- Good debate today.

- Thanks. Hey, Ryan.

- Hi.

Come on, Ryan.

You okay?

Yeah. Come on.

It's cool.

I'll be back as soon as I can.

[Sasha]

What's wrong, baby?

Hold on a second.

I'll be right back.

- You gonna be quick?

- Yeah.

All right.

Hello, Professor.

It's good to see you again.

Miller?

What the hell is this?

What I would give to be able to sit

and talk with you...

knowing what I know now.

Why do you look so different?

Shh.

- I have an appointment with your son.

- Ryan?

[Professor Chan]

What are you doing?

[Miller]

Come out, come out wherever you are.

No. No!

- Miller, what are you...

- Professor, I was hoping

it wouldn't come to this.

[Buzzing]

[Gasps]

[Chiming]

Oh, my God.

What did you do to him?

You'll figure it out one day.

I can kill him before you can

even get into that stall.

You'd be altering history.

You'd be going against

everything you stand for.

Oh, but it's different when it

affects you personally, right?

You f***ing hypocrite.

Go on. Go on. Do it.

You kill him, you kill me.

Your father never dies.

Something to think about, isn't it?

The ultimate validation.

This is between you and me.

Attaboy.

Come on, Ryan.

Let's see what you got.

Let's put an end to it all right here.

Come on, baby!

Don't let me down.

Yes.

You spent your entire life

playing by the rules.

What have you got to show for it?

Nothing.

Sasha.

Oh, my beautiful Sasha.

You are looking at the man that took

two years of our life away from us.

You tell her what you did to her.

You tell her!

I didn't want it to be this way.

I gave you every opportunity.

Come on!

Thattaboy. I knew you

wouldn't let me down.

Yes.

It doesn't have to be this way.

You can change all this.

[Coughing, Gasping]

[Ryan Narrating]

History is being

altered every second,

by a look, a simple gesture...

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