"It's time to wake up  and get a life." "We live in a three-dimensional world." "Until now, the world of computing's been flat, consisting of two-dimensional imagery." "Now, through the use of exclusive breakthrough technology," "ARC has made it possible for you to get a life." "A Life, where we can work and play in a lifelike world of three-dimensional reality." "A Life, the living monitor." "Impressed?" "Yeah, I am." "Would you put one of those in a box for me?" " Are you the lawyer?" " I'm Rita Dunne." "Obviously, no one from Nexim could be here today." " I'd invite you in, but..." " Good luck, Mr. Jennings." " I'll see you in two months." " Yeah." "Home sweet home." "What do you think?" "This is the exact same technology?" "Not the exact same technology, no." "Ultimately, I decided to reconceive some of it." "I never liked the way the monitor looked." "And then it occurred to me who needs it?" "Gentlemen, I am the future of computing." "And I would like to present you with Nexim's new Freedom Line of display technology." "New from Nexim." "Freedom is in your future." "Launch this now." "ARC is not gonna last." "Who said 100 percent market share's impossible?" "Get me Marketing immediately." "This far exceeds our expectations." "Congratulations." "Well thank you." "You understand, Mr. Jennings, you've done in two months what we've been trying to do for three years." "Sometimes it's easier if you work backwards." "Cheers." "You won't remember me, will you?" "No." "That's too bad." "Marker reached." "OK." "We're now extracting his memory from the marker forward to the present." "Jesus, Rita." "Jesus Christ!" "This is dangerous enough." "If this man's brain temp goes one C above 43, he's a veg." "Come on, Mike." "Here we go." "It's all clean." "Good morning, sunshine." "Hey, how you doing, big guy?" " OK?" " Yeah." "All right." "Thank you." "Take it easy." "Slow, slow, slow." "There's no hurry, OK?" " That's it." "Good?" " Yeah." "Good man." "Hey, Mike, look at me." "Look at me." "Right here." "What's the last date you remember?" " October 19." " Very good." "Mike, what's the last thing you remember?" "The Red Sox made the playoffs." "OK." "Let's get the legal out of the way, shall we?" "Mr. Michael Jennings, under the terms of your non-disclosure agreement, you are considered never to have been an employee." "You also understand that all your work is the intellectual property of Nexim..." "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "I never worked here." "I never saw anybody." "I never was here." "I got it." "Is my paycheck ready?" "Alrighty." " How you feeling, tiger?" " Good." " Now let's hear you." " All right." " Ready?" " Yeah." "Go!" "In order to zero the full eight weeks I had to heat your brain to 42.5 C." " I'm fine." " I'm saying it's getting harder, Mike." " I said, I'm fine." " You're slowing down." "Come on." "I'd be faster if you'd shut up." "Show me what you've got, grasshopper." "That's it." "That's more like it!" "Yes!" "Go, go, go!" "Go!" "Go!" "Yes!" "Faster!" "Beautiful!" "Yes!" "One more!" "One more, Mikey!" "See how you did that?" "How you focused?" " Yeah." "I focused on your face." " You know you love me." "Come on." "Don't be mean to the one who does everything for you." "Do you realize you've never once asked me what I see when I erase your memory?" "Basically, the last two months just never happened for you." "What's to know?" "20 hours a day in a clean room ripping off a guy's idea for a computer, selling it to somebody else." "What'd you do the last two months?" "The last thing I remember is driving in Spain in the Aston Martin, learning to dive in Belize with what's-her-name." "The seven-stadiums-in-seven-days trip." "It's great." "I mean, my memories are basically highlights." "It's good." "It's a good life." "The stuff you erase, it doesn't matter." "What is it with guys like Rethrick?" "He's gotta have everything, huh?" "Say what you want about Jimmy, he started Allcom in his garage." "Wait, wait." "Don't you leave me alone." "What?" "You'll be fine." "Talk." "Mingle." "I don't want to mingle." "Hello." "I'm Michael." "I'm Rachel." "Rachel Porter." "Is that Miss or Mrs?" "That would be Dr. Porter." "Doctor." "Well, excuse me, doctor." "It's all right." "What kind of a doctor are you?" " I'm a biologist." " Really?" "Do you work for Jimmy?" "It must be very top-secret biology that you practice." "Oh, yes." "Isn't everything?" "Let's go." "Excuse me?" "I mean, I'm happy to continue blathering on, trying helplessly to charm you, but I thought maybe, you know, cut to the chase and just, you know, go somewhere." "I'll tell you what, Michael." "I'm gonna walk over there and talk to a friend of mine." "If you get the urge to have a real conversation, you'll know where to find me." "OK." "Fair enough." "It was nice to meet you." "Giving up so easily?" "You don't believe in second chances, now, do you?" "In my experience, no, I don't." " Good night." " Good night." " Mike." " Jimmy." " How you doing?" " Good." " Good to see you." " You too." " Thanks for coming." " Thanks for having me." " Come back this way." " Sure." "Hey, Jimmy." "Now you're talking." "Thank you." "Wait a second." "Isaac, disable fire protection, please." "Alarm disabled." "I don't think you'd look good covered in foam." "Even in that suit." "What's the pitch, Jimmy?" "I know you're trying to sell me something." "What is it?" "When there was a time we were in school, we wanted to change the world." "I thought we wanted to save the world." "Well, that's semantics." " What's the job, Jimmy?" " Can't tell you." "Other than to say that it involves optics." "And you get stock options for this one." "Get a real piece of the company." "What if it doesn't work?" "I get a real piece of nothing." "I promise you, it won't fail." "How do you know that?" "Is this a real crystal ball?" "I wish." "The point is, I'll guarantee that you do eight figures." " Minimum." " What's the catch?" "The job may require a little bit more time than you're used to." " How much more time?" " Two years." "Maybe three." " You're kidding." " Deadly serious." "Jimmy, that's impossible." "You can't do it." "The longest ever is eight weeks." "It was me." "Assuming it were possible, would you do it?" " Give up three years of my life?" " Not give up, trade." "Three years in return for the rest of your life." "One big paycheck." "You're done." "A lot can happen in three years." "You blink, it'll be over." "Two seconds." "A heartbeat, then snap, you're rich beyond your wildest dreams." "One big paycheck." "You're done." "Mr. Jennings." "John Wolfe." "Welcome." "You won't be allowed to leave the grounds." "You'll be assigned a residence here on campus." "Your mail will be screened, no phone calls." "Anything you receive will have to be inspected." "OK." "I'll need your personal belongings." "Watch, wallet, anything else." "Nothing's allowed to be brought in." "These items will be returned to you when you pick up your paycheck." "Sorry." "Those too." " Mike, hey, you made it." " Yeah." " Good to see you." " You too." " Everything OK?" " Yep." "Sit down." "I assume Mr. Wolfe gave you all the fine print." "Yeah." "He also took the last pair of sunglasses I've managed not to lose." "I'm sorry." "What is this?" "It's for your memory wipe." "We inject you with an isotope, migrates to your brain serves as a marker." "Another injection erases everything back to the marker." "No barbaric cooking of the brain." "All right." "Wow." " What have I gotten myself into?" " Let's go find out." "Initiating Blue Script directory." "Impressive." "This used to be our smallest unit." "Now it's our most profitable." "Mr. Rethrick, may I speak with you for a moment?" " Have a look around." "I'll be right back." " OK." "Cycle complete." "Begin transmission of data." "All right!" "I give up!" "I give up." "Don't give up." "Dr. Porter." "I guess I'm lucky you didn't use thunder and lightning." "True." "OK, well, I won't question your powers in the future." "Sorry, I just couldn't help myself." "I thought you said Marianne was on a plane." "She was planning to make the conference call from the plane, sir." "Look." "I should probably apologize for my behaviour the other day." "I get like that sometimes, and I shouldn't." "I'm sorry." "Careful." "You are in danger of sounding like you want a second chance." " Everything OK?" " Yeah." " Say something else." " Excuse me?" "Say something nice." "Quick, otherwise I'll forget it." "Was that little breeze for our boy here?" "Well, I owed him one." "Now we're even." "Be nice, Mike's moving into the neighbourhood." "Oh." " See you around." " OK." " You ready?" " Yeah." "Let's go." "You can still back out." "No hard feelings." "No, I want to stay." "Michael Jennings, meet the other half of your team, Dr. William Dekker." " Nice to meet you." " It's a pleasure." "Gentlemen." "Let's have a look at the next three years of your lives." "What happened?" "Michael." "You're done." " How long was it, Jimmy?" " It's been three years, Mike." " How'd I do?" " You did good." "Your money's been transferred to your account at Reddy Grant." "You've got an appointment there at 1:00." "Just go home, do the paperwork." "When you feel up to it, give me a call." "We've got a lot of catching up to do." "Ninety-two million dollars." "Everyone at Reddy Grant appreciates your business." "Well, not as much as I appreciate my business, I promise you." "OK." "Just sign there." " All right." " Great." " Your personal items." " Yes." "You only needed four stamps." "Oh, well, guess I could afford the extra 50 cents." "I don't think this is my stuff." " It's not?" " No." " I don't know what happened." " It's all right." "Don't worry about it." "It doesn't matter." "Let's talk about my shares." "What I'd like to do is get some money now, and, you know, put the rest away for long term, to live off." "So how do we do that?" "Mr. Jennings, you forfeited your shares." "I beg your pardon?" "What?" "Yeah, here." "Dated four weeks ago." "You surrendered the shares and stated to deliver only the envelope of personals." " Don't you remember doing that, sir?" " No." "I don't remember that, because I didn't do that." "Why would I do that?" "I wouldn't do that." "It doesn't make sense." "A mistake has been made, and it needs to be corrected." " I agree." "It's a strange thing you did..." " It's not strange." "Strange is a little out of the ordinary, but still plausible." "Giving away $100 million in shares in a Fortune 500 company for some knickknacks isn't strange, it's insane." "No one would do that." "Doesn't make sense." "Unless you think this is a $40-million can of hair spray, which is pink." "What, this is a $100-million book of matches?" "I've been out of it a few years." "Is this back in style now?" "Are these $100-million sunglasses?" "I'll look into it, but it's gonna take me some time." "This is crazy." "I'm gonna make some phone calls." "Mr. Rethrick's office." " It's Michael Jennings." "It's important." " I'm sorry, he stepped away." "He won't be back until this afternoon." "I can try him on his cell phone." "Just have him call me as soon as he gets in." "OK?" " OK." " Thank you." "Listen, guys, a mistake has been made here." "All right?" " I'm not a traitor." "I'm an engineer." " A reverse engineer, right?" "We know that you accepted payment of classified government technology." "Mike, that's called treason." "In this country, people get fried for that one." "In this country when the FBI harasses you, you also get an attorney." "Not today you don't." "What the hell is this?" "The attorney general calls me and says that Michael Jennings' cooperation is a matter of national security." "Look, first of all, that stuff isn't mine, OK?" "A mistake..." "What is?" "Perfect fit." "You were saying?" "Well, let me show you a few pieces of the puzzle that we're solving." "William Dekker, government physicist, weapons division." "Three years ago, his project gets shelved." "He didn't like that, so he sold his work." "Classified work." "Showed it to several corporations." "We think Rethrick bought it." "Unfortunately, we can't link Rethrick to the sale, because Dekker died." "Natural causes." ""Natural" being gravity after a 140-foot fall out of his apartment building." "What does this have to do with me?" "Patent applications filed this month." "They show designs based on Dekker's work." "Look whose signature is on every one of those documents." "Get it?" "It's your name on those patents!" "Rethrick can claim he knows nothing about Dekker or the design." "You need to tell us everything you did for Rethrick." " I can't." " You'd rather spend your life in prison protecting your friend?" " Help us, and we can work with you." " I can't." "I can't!" "He wiped my memory!" "I don't remember!" "I'll tell you whatever I know." "I was set up." "Believe me." "I don't remember what I did for the past three years!" "What?" "Wait a second!" "Wait!" "We figured Rethrick tried a wipe, so we'll try an extraction." "You're not gonna see anything." "You're wasting your time." "We're getting something here." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Shit." "We got nothing." "Hold on a second." "I need a smoke." "Boss." "He won't mind." " Smoke!" " Shit!" " Goddamn it!" " I can't see anything!" "Secure the door!" "Where the hell is he?" " He's loose!" " Don't worry, he can't go anywhere!" "Cover the door!" "I'll get the lights!" "I can't see!" "Get low to the ground!" "Stay low to the ground!" "Mitchell!" "See anything?" " Is that him?" " Klein, where'd you go?" "Al, shut the door!" "What's going on?" "Good night, Mikey." "Copy that." " Watch it, coming through!" " Go!" "Go!" "Go!" " Coming through!" " Out of the way!" " See him?" " I see him!" " Out of the way, lady!" " There!" "Move!" "Move!" "Move!" " Coming through!" " Let's go!" "Excuse me." "Coming through!" " Out of the way!" "Open those gates!" " Watch it, man." "Come on!" "Come on!" "Where did he go?" "I'll get men at every stop!" "He'll be long gone by then!" "How the hell did he do that?" " Sorry." " You all right?" " Yeah, yeah." "I'm fine." " Be careful." "Hey!" "Hey!" "Watch it!" "Hey!" "Hey!" "Jane." "Relax." "Everything's fine." "You talked to federal agents." "It's OK." "It's been worked out now." "I just need to find out who sent these items." "Will you help me out?" " They were sent three years ago." " No." "There was a mix-up." "Somebody else sent these." "I need to find out who that is and talk to them." "Replacements were sent a few weeks ago." " Who sent it?" " Well, you did." "That's you right here." "See?" "Twenty items." "I'm gonna need all your personal belongings." "Michael Jennings died at three minutes after 3." "The government, left with no case, closed its investigation of Allcom." "So you see, it's impossible that he escaped unless you changed something." "I didn't." " What were you doing, exactly?" " I was eating pie." "He left the attorney's office exactly when it predicted." "The Feds took him exactly when it predicted..." "But he didn't die like it predicted!" "Michael Jennings is not a super agent." "He's an engineer." "Yet somehow he managed to escape from a double-Iocked room." "How?" "Was it fate?" "No, fate was on our side." "That means someone changed something." "And it wasn't me." "And if it wasn't you, then who the?" "Has anyone checked the machine since Michael walked out of here?" "Find him." ""If you only look where you can't go," ""you will miss the riches below."" "Yeah, I'm already missing my riches." ""17-44-4-26-37-40-22."" "A combination?" "A code?" "A password?" ""New Liberty Savings."" "New Liberty Savings Bank, please." "What does that mean?" "You're saying the bank doesn't exist?" "That's comforting." "Who sent these items?" "You did." "That's you right here." "See?" "Twenty items." "These are patent applications." "Look whose signature is on every one of those documents!" "A mistake has been made here." "I'm not a traitor!" "Dekker died!" "Rethrick can claim he knows nothing about Dekker or the design." "Believe me!" "I don't remember what I did for the past three years!" "Michael." "Michael." "You're done." "Hello?" "Jesus, Shorty." "You don't know how good it is" " to hear a familiar voice." " Michael?" "Listen, man." "I'm in a..." "I'm in a jam, and I need you." "All right." "Meet me at Union Station at 9:00." " I'll be there." " OK, buddy." "Outbound local from Seattle to Kent departing from track five." "Eastbound Spokane, gate ten." "Michael." "Say one word about this hat and I'm out of here." "Oh, man!" "Oh, my God." "I told you not to take that job, Mike." " Come on, let's get a table." " OK." " Injections?" " Yeah." "You would have to do it that way, I guess." "But, of course, that's a chemical process." "So?" "Well, you'd have some latent memories." "Maybe that's what I'm seeing." "Most likely." "Memories that made it through the wash, stirred up when the feds went in your head." "Why would I have these things?" "Explain this." "I sent myself this junk instead of the money." "Oh, brother." "I don't know." "That's not the question you should be asking." " No?" " No." "You should be asking yourself, why did you give up all that money?" "That's the most bizarre part of this whole thing." "Ninety million dollars." "Nobody changes that much in three years." "OK, all right, buddy." "I wanna figure out what you built." "All right, let's work backwards." "They told me I was working on a design by someone named Dekker." " Dekker?" " Yeah." " William Dekker?" " I think so." "What I heard was, he was working on something level five for the feds." "They came in, shut him down." " What was it?" " Well, the consensus was a laser." " Why?" " Because Dekker's drawings called for a mirror and a lens." "The only thing that uses those is a laser or a satellite camera to see things from far away." "Here comes the first number, 17." "Followed by 44." " The lens required perfect optics." " Four." " The mirror..." " Twenty-six." " So the capital outlay is huge." " Thirty-seven." " Word was it was gonna cost" " Forty." " 500 billion dollars." " And the bonus number is 22." "Who's gonna spend 500 billion dollars just to see something?" "What?" "No way I get out of that extraction room without the cigarettes and the glasses." "I would've never gotten on the bus without the ticket." "If I didn't have the ring, I wouldn't have followed that kid to Reddy Grant." " Right." " I gave up that money just to make sure that I would pay attention to these items." "Why?" "Because I know what you'd spend 500 billion dollars to see." "The future." "If you selected five numbers and the bonus number, you're a second-prize winner." "He used a virus." "The machine went down at 3:03 this afternoon." "3:03." "Can you program around the virus?" "No." "It's not that kind of virus." "Come on, I'll show you." "It's not in the software." "It's in the hardware." "He put a circuit somewhere in here." "It's like a poison pill." "But you can find it, right?" "Yeah, I can." "Then do it." "Slight change of plans." "According to Mr. Stevens, we don't need Jennings." "Look, if we know anything, we know that time travel's not possible." "Einstein proved that, right?" "Time travel, yes." "Einstein was very clear that he believed time viewing" " theoretically could be accomplished..." " Mike, Mike." "Come on." "Maybe we should just find Dekker..." " I can't talk to Dekker." " Why not?" " He had an accident." " An accident?" "Yeah, he..." "He fell out of his bedroom window." "Fell out of?" "He fell out of his bedroom window!" "I see." "Sure." "That could happen." "Jesus." "Wait a minute!" " We've gotta get out of here!" " Shorty, listen to me." "I think what happened was I used this thing, I saw my future." "And I saw what I needed to change it." "But all I could get out of Allcom were these innocuous items." "Each item has to be used at a specific time and place to accomplish whatever I needed to get done." "I mean, without the stuff in here, I'd already be dead." "Yeah, well, it's too bad that you don't know what the rest of them are for." "What?" "Gotcha!" "Hey!" "Great seeing you again, Mike!" "Jesus!" "Those guys do not look like feds." "Here." "Listen to me." "Take this." "This will get you through that door." "Close it behind you." "Understand?" "Go!" " OK!" " Go!" "Go on!" "Shit!" "Go!" "Oh, God, I hope that was a good thing to do." "Shit." "Go." "Where's your gun?" "He's got it." "So how are you, Mike?" "You?" "Why?" "Don't remember?" "You brought this on yourself, Mike." "So how does it feel knowing you're going to die?" "Shit." "He designed his own escape?" "Mr. Attorney General, sir, we have no explanation." "After looking at the evidence the only logical, albeit hard-to-accept conclusion, is he was able to predict what was going to happen to him." "These are memories extracted from Jennings before he fled." "They don't seem to add up to anything." "Gladys." "That's all for today." "We knew Dekker was trying to design something, but when he sold his plans, he wasn't even halfway done." "I don't understand." "Dekker was working at JPL on a laser-enhanced lens." "He claimed the lens was powerful enough to see around the curvature of the universe." "He believed if you could see around a curve that went on forever you would end up back where you started, looking at yourself." "Except you're not looking at yourself now, in the present." "No, you are not." "You're looking at the future." "Imagine what will happen if Jennings figures it out and tries to profit from it." " Any nation will give a king's ransom." " He won't do that." "I was this close." "He never lied." "When he was accused he was hurt and scared." "Bring him in, I'll give him the Medal of Honour." "That's if Rethrick doesn't find him first." "You think he really saw the future?" "That would be something." "Café Michel?" "My name is Michael Jennings." "And I can't remember if I made a reservation there recently." "Would you check that out for me?" "Thanks." "I did?" "OK." "Right." "How many is it for?" "Oh, no, thank you." "No, I'll be there." "Thank you." "Hello, you two." "Did he feed you?" "Rachel, it's Jimmy." " You all right?" " Why?" "You don't know?" "No." "May I come in?" "When was the last time you saw Michael?" "Yesterday morning." "He was pulling an all nighter at his lab." "Rachel, I'm sorry to have to be the one to tell you this." "Michael left Allcom yesterday." "Permanently." " What?" " He finished his work." " We erased his memory, and he..." " No." " He left." " No." "He promised me." "He said he wasn't going to go through with it." "He made a lot of money on this one, Rachel." "He said he didn't care about the money." "So she doesn't know anything." "He wouldn't leave without her." "It's Michael." "He'd be smart." "We're missing something." "Soon as she leaves for work, get in there." "Make sure she can't go anywhere alone." "I want to know what just happened." "Bye, guys." "Good morning, Dr. Porter." "Going somewhere?" "Good morning." "Good morning." "I'm going to go up top." "Take my bag." " You're gonna need this." " Got it." "Thanks." "Coming?" "No, thanks." "I'd rather watch from down here." "Suit yourself." "We've been through the bathroom and the rest of the apartment." "Zero." "This is what I want you to do." "Go back in the bathroom." "OK, start turning left." "Tell me what you see." "The mirror." "We've got him." "She's supposed to meet him at Café Michel, 1 p.m." "Well, let's make sure she does."