"SYNCHRONICITY Translation." "Review by Angel." "Balance metric pressure at 057." "Metric pressure sustaining 057." "Releasing valves." "Prepare to load M.R.D." "Radioactivity meters online, ready for exposure." "SYNCHRONICITY" "Docking hatch open and clear." "M.R.D. removed from containment." "Preparing to load." "Hold full exposure duration at no more than ten seconds." "Nine." "Eight." "Seven." "Six." "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." "One." "M.R.D. in place." "Close hatch." "Turn handle left 45 degrees." "Lock it at high noon to engage sequence." "Left 45, then right." "Left..." "Right." "You just caused a thermonuclear explosion, wiped out the whole city." "Sorry, Jim." " I promise I will get it right on the day." " This is the day, Matty." "Do you want us to switch?" "No, there is no time for him to learn the meters." "I will never understand how you are able to solve... the most complex mathematical equations, but you cannot tell left from right." "It is a form of dyscalculia." "The parietal lobes of my cerebral cortex." "Okay." "We have time for one more practice run at this." "Reset everything." "We have been at this for 72 hours straight." "Only two more till we go live." "I will get you some more coffee." "Coffee, amphetamines, more coffee." "You are going to kill yourself." "We are precious moments from a topological anomaly." "Is that what I should tell everyone at your funeral?" "No." "You signed a confidentiality agreement." "Jim Beale, project log." "Part one of the experiment." "Tentative results." "Opening a traversable Wormhole in the space-time continuum... first ever recorded." "This tear that I will create in the fabric of the universe is powered by M.R.D." "Extremely volatile, radioactive substance." "So, of course!" "All precautions will be taken." "Possible dangers range from manageable radiation leak to..." "Well!" "The universe collapsing onto itself." "It is now 47 minutes until we initiate the first part of the sequence... opening one end of the Wormhole." "Okay." "He should be here." "I am going to give him the Big Bang speech." "Jim, give him the fireworks." "That is what he is here." "Now, once opened, we should detect... a unique sequence of particles sent through... from the other side, a sequence so unique..." "That we will know that we sent them to ourselves." "In addition, I will have proof of the findings to show our venture capitalist, Klaus Meissner." "Moreover, he will then provide the necessary M. R.D." "for us to open the other end." "Let us see what I am paying for." "Then we will send this unique sequence of particles... back through to ourselves, thereby proving that the project is a success." "The Big Bang." "We have proven theories..." "This is not my ideal situation." "To have an investor be this kind of major factor in an experiment." "However, I only have enough M.R.D. to open one end." "We are about to embark on a journey." " That is going to take..." " Enough of the physics lesson." "Get on with the light show." "This whole thing is an experiment in certainty." "I am certain it will work." "Balance metric pressure at 057." "Metric pressure sustaining 057." "Releasing valves." "Docking hatch open and clear." "Prepare to load M.R.D." "M.R.D. removed from containment." "Hold full exposure no longer than ten seconds." "Nine." "Eight." "Seven." "Six." "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." "One." "M.R.D. in place." "Close hatch." "Turn handle left 45 degrees." "Lock it at high noon." "Engage sequence." "Here we go." "Jim?" "Jim?" "We thought you were having a seizure." " Did it work?" " Kept you from biting your tongue." " No, the machine." " The magnetic core melted." " The regulator has blown." " Where is Klaus?" "He left when you were unconscious." "You can only burn a candle at both ends for so long." "You should go home and get some sleep." "I sold my home to pay you and Matty." "Maybe it was sabotage." " Right." " No, I am serious." "Maybe it was visitors from the future who came back to destroy our project." "Because it eventually leads to some distant apocalypse." "It is a distinct possibility." "People." "Look what I found." "It is an exotic hybrid of the dahlia genus." "There." "Right there." "That black speck." "It could be a missing pixel." " It is moving." " Yeah." "There it goes." "There." " I think that was Matty." " No, no, I saw someone." "I saw it before I blacked out." "It looked like a person." "Not Matty." "They went out the front." "Where did you just come from?" "I should be asking you." "How did you do that?" " What?" " That." "How did you get here?" "In a car." "How did you get here?" "You did not just walk through a Wormhole?" "You are making me feel like I did." "I just met you." "Then why are you acting like you know me?" "I do not." "You left before you could see." "It was a success." "It did not appear that way to me, Mr. Beale." "If you just come back into the lab." "You have wasted my money." "Now you are wasting my time." "I can prove to you that it worked." "Look!" "I am already late for a previous engagement." "We made history tonight." "I am sure whoever it is will understand." "Whoever it is, is my wife." "She is already at the restaurant," "And I assure you, she will not understand." "Why do not you and, your little friend join us?" "In addition, can we discuss this over dinner?" "We just met." " Another time, then." " No." "No, no, no." "We would love to join you and your wife for dinner, would not we?" " Abby." " Abby." "Abby." "What is going on, Jim?" "Start running preliminary tests on the flower." "I am going to go to dinner with the Meissner's and Abby." "Okay." "Who is Abby?" "What we have done is folded... on top of itself by forming a tunnel, a shortcut between one location in space-time to another light-years away." "However, in order to traverse a Wormhole, you have to have two openings." "What we did tonight was open one end of it." "Where is the other end?" "We have to do it again to find out." "I am not sure I follow." "The way it works is, you need a transmitter and a receiver." "Now, like a telephone..." "I am mixing metaphors here, however, you cannot complete a call without another phone involved." "We already have the receiver." "We got the call." "How much?" "It is not capital I am asking for." "No, for the whole project." "The research, the formulas, the machine, everything." "How much?" "It is not for sale." "Then, what do you want, Mr. Beale?" " Another unit of M.R.D." " And for that, I get what, 10%?" "We are talking about dangerous radioisotopes, enriched uranium, yellowcake, the sort of thing countries go to war over." "Not anymore, once we have the ability to answer the fundamental questions of the universe." "However, how will we make money on our investment?" "With all due respect, we are not talking about hover cars and x-ray goggles." "We are talking about an epoch of human evolution." "Pardon my pedestrian viewpoint, Mr. Beale, however, how do you plan to market that?" "Pardon my pedestrian viewpoint for a moment, Ms. Meissner." "Do you know who pioneered electricity?" "Of course!" "Thomas Edison." "I thought so, too." "Until I stumbled upon a book about Nikola Tesla." "You see, Tesla was working towards a way to get everyone on the planet safe, free, limitless electricity, in addition, he would have, except Edison did everything in his power to discredit him and crush his reputation." "Edison's company developed a patent for an inefficient current you had to pay for." "Tesla wanted to better the world." "Moreover, Edison forced us all to have a monthly power bill because he was envious of a profound idea." "Now, I do not have a horse in this race, but I would put my money on Jim, because he is Tesla, and Edison was a dick." "I will supply you with the M.R.D." "However, I want to own half the machine." "I cannot do that." "Well, you see my company is in the enviable position of being the sole manufacturer of M.R.D." "Therefore, best luck." "Forty-nine percent." "In addition, money for the repairs." "You have a week." "I will not sleep until it is complete." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Do you want to share a cab?" "Was I playing the beard tonight?" "Why do you ask?" "Well, either you came to the lab with Klaus alternatively, you got there through the Wormhole." "I arrived with Klaus." "However, I am leaving with you." "That kiss could have cost me millions of dollars." "Would it have been worth it?" "I would have to do more research, eliminate the variables." "This is I." "Do you sure, he will not mind?" "He went home." "With his wife." "Drinks." "Black coffee for me." "K.M.C 0-14." "Do you like my dahlia?" "Yeah." "Where did you get it?" "Sorry." "I have to take this." "Chuck, what you got." "What are you doing?" "Talking to you." "What time do you have exactly to the second?" "9:45:22, 23." "Come on!" "You get on with it." "When did you and I first meet?" " What is this?" " Just tell me." "It is important." "Ten years ago at that karaoke bar with the weird name." "What is going on?" "So, we have known each other along time." " Do we trust each other?" " Yeah." "Stay away from that girl." "She is no good for you." "What?" "Just do not tell her or anyone else about the experiment." "We are onto something much bigger than we imagined." "What are you doing here, Jim?" "I went to the lab." "Because you were gone." "You should go back." "We will meet you there." "No, no, no, you called." "You said something..." "We were onto something." "In addition, what was this stuff about Abby?" "My head is killing me." "Do you see?" "I said to you, you must stop popping those pills and get some sleep." "What did you mean earlier when you were talking about Abby?" "Let me get you some pills." "Chuck." "Chuck, I figured it out." "It makes sense." "I finally see it now." "Fucking intense." "Matty stop." "You are giving Jim a headache." "This is not a headache." "This is a lightning storm between my temples." "Just tell me, what you meant earlier when you were talking about..." "How long was I out?" "Jim, you are awake." "You were unconscious for approximately 8.5 hours." "Why did not you wake me?" "Your biological imperative requires a minimum amount of dormancy per day in order to properly function." "However, you should lie back down in case of another..." "I just needed some sleep." "I got plenty." "Where had you get that jacket?" "Have not you considered the correlation?" "Between your episodes moreover, the arrival of K.M.C 0-14." "K.M.C 0..." "The serial number of the dahlia." "We have to wait for Chuck gets back." "You and Chuck meet me at the lab." "We have another Wormhole to open." "We have to wait for Chuck." "Hey, did you forget your keys?" "Is this the residence of Abby Ross?" "She is not here." "This is Jim Beale." "I am a friend of her." "Hey, sleepyhead, looking for me?" "Is there a man in your place?" "I guess you buzzed my neighbor by accident." "I need to see your flower." "Wow!" "Classy." "I am a woman." "You can at least buy me breakfast first." "Do they even serve breakfast here?" "Two morning specials, Mike." "Your dahlia, where did you get it?" "It was a gift." "Exotic plants like that are hard to come by." "It is an expensive present." "It was from someone who gave me everything I wanted except a minute of his time." "Well!" "Time is our only real currency." "Meeting you was the most important part of my experiment." "Is that a fact?" "No, it is not a fact." "I, only meant to say that your dahlia, that may be important to my research." "Hit me again, Mike." "Alternatively, maybe not, I do not know." "Right now, it is just a theory." "So, what is all this fuss about my dahlia?" "How do I know I can really, trust you?" "The truth will set you free." "The ID number matches the one that came through the Wormhole." "That is probably just a coincidence." "You people do not believe in coincidences." "Sure we do." "Yeah." "Einstein himself said that they are God's way of remaining anonymous." "So, your machine working was total happenstance." "No." "No, that was I. I did it." "I am the one that came up with the idea that made it works." "Moreover, what was that?" "The rotation of the Earth." "The biggest obstacle in opening a Wormhole is creating enough energy." "Not unlike the tremendous amount of energy that an entire planet makes as it spins on its axis." "The power is there." "I did not have to generate it." "I just thought of a way to utilize it." "Kind of like us." "I mean, the energy is there." "We just have to think of a way to use it." "Jim?" "Are you okay?" "Chuck." "You found me." "Technology has come a long way." "Not be found is hard." "I think we sent this to ourselves." "Chuck... you were right about the girl." "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." "Jim?" "Jim?" "Jim?" "The pressure dropped below 029." "We have to abort." "All right, abort." "It is that damn bracket again." "We are going to have to reconfigure the output." "It might take a while to recalibrate." "Why do not you take a break?" " I like your lighter." " Take it." "It is yours." "Needs fuel." "Hand me those matches." "Therefore, my flower is really the same one that came through your Wormhole." "I would have to run some tests to know for sure." "What is my finder's fee?" "What?" "Okay, fine." "I will settle for one butterfly kiss." "It is a match, Jim." "Identical DNA match." "K.M.C 0-14, you are the first organism to time-travel." "Yes, but in a parallel-universe scenario." "We have to consider that the Klaus Meissner Corporation..." " may not have..." " Wow, wow, wow!" " What did you just say?" " Parallel universe." " We have to..." " No, no." "Klaus Meissner Corporation." "K.M.C 0-14." "Klaus Meissner Corporation 0-14." "They license exotic plants moreover, flowers for domestic use." "We have to take into account... the very distinct possibility that these two plants when they traversed..." "Jim Beale." "I have Klaus Meissner for you." "Yeah, put him through." "Mr. Beale, you have the dahlia in your possession." "Yes." "Did she tell you that?" "I want you in my office to go over the contracts." "What is going on here?" "You are about to get fucked." "Logic." "Rationale." "Dignity." "All seem to disappear with the scent of that perfume." "Good reason, common sense, they just go by the wayside." "Because of the way her hair breaks across her forehead and frames her eyes." "The total reckless abandon that you have absolutely no control over, Mr. Beale." "Have a seat." "I prefer to stand when I am getting it from behind." "You watch your tone." "If you are going to come at me, you had better come hard and fast." "And be willing to go all the way, because I never lose." "Klaus, listen." "You call me Mr. Meissner." "My best friends and associates call me Klaus, but you, sir, are neither." "You are an employee." "I do not work for you." "The hard cost of one unit of M.R.D." "is five million, give, or take." "What for you is a small fortune?" "It is for me negligible." "I have lost larger sums in the cushions of my sofa." "However, you need M.R.D. for your machine to work." "Therefore, you come to me, hat in hand, begging." "Forty-nine percent of my project hardly makes you my boss." "This is true, but you need tangible proof that your prototype works." "Evidence that you have actually created a traversable Wormhole." "And to do that, you need to be able to send the original specimen, which is registered as K.M.C 0-14... back through to the other side." "Now." "It just so happens that I own all copyrights." "Commercial and private, for all K.M.C products." "Which means...?" "This is your lucky day." "I am willing to sell to you those rights for let us say, 50% of your operation." "Now, if you put that together with the 49%, I already own." "Let us crunch the numbers, that leaves you with... one percent for your efforts." "Now, if you want to finish this experiment..." "That leads to the invention of time travel." "Then you, Mr. Beale work for me." "You are an employee." "Therefore, you slipped up." "Had a moment of weakness." "I have to admit, she is an incredible piece of ass." "You and I both know you are not going to walk away from the find of the century." "Because of whose name is going to end up in the textbooks." "Like our little friend said, you are Tesla." "In addition, I am quite content being just another Edison of the world." "Jim Beale." "Project log, final entry before zero hour of the experiment." "A piercing sound has been cutting through every synapse of my brain." "Ever since I opened the first end of the Wormhole." "It is finally ceased." "I hope that for good." "Klaus Meissner has me on the ropes." "He knew that I needed a correlative between sides A moreover, side B to prove that the machine works." "Otherwise, it is just a bunch of blinking lights." "I mean, if I send the dahlia back to me, then he owns my machine." "Wait, what are you doing?" "I am taking it back to its rightful owner." "The one variable in this is Abby." "And I need her to be a constant." "So if the fate of my machine is predetermined... it has to be because of her that the dahlia goes through." "She has to be the one to put it through the Wormhole." "If she brings it to the lab, if she comes there with Klaus... that is very fucking unfortunate." "At least I will know." "Jim." " I really was not expecting you." " You do not have to invite me in." "Good." "It is a bit of a mess in there now." "The gun is to my head." "However, I am sure as shit not going to pull the trigger myself." "This is yours." "You get to decide what happens." "In two days, I am going to start the machine." "In addition, I will open the Wormhole." "Now it is up to you." "What goes through it?" "You have to make the choice." "Mr. Meissner, would you be so kind as to wait here while I escort Ms. Ross and her dahlia to the lab floor?" "So, is this the way it is going to be." "It has to be this way." "The way it is." "It only seems that way now, but eventually you will see it in a different light." "We had our time together." "Goodbye, Jim." "Put these on." "Would not you want to miss a thing?" "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." "One." "M.R.D. in place." "Close hatch." "Turn handle left 45 degrees." "Lock it at high noon." "Engage sequence." "Commence graviton resonance." "You may own the dahlia." "You do not own me." "Do you have a light?" "Matches?" "Two sticks I can rub together." "Yeah." "Do you recognize that?" "Should I?" "It is yours." "It is now." "Thanks." "What you and Klaus are doing is wrong, and it has to stop." " Excuse me?" " I know what you are up to do." "In addition, I am not going to let it happen again." "That is none of your business." "It will be my business if you moreover, I get involved." "Does this technique usually work for you?" "Alternatively, have you been cooped up in the lab too long?" " Do you have forgotten how to flirt?" " Listen, I am onto you." "I should have known that someone as intelligent and as beautiful... as you are, I should have known there had to be some kind of catch." "There is a catch." "It is a big one." "Where did you just come from?" "I should be asking you." "How did you do that?" " What?" " That." "How did you get here?" "You did not just walk through a Wormhole." "You are making me feel like I did." "I just met you." "Then why are you acting as if, you know me?" "I do not." " Tell me, Matty, where it was again." " It was exactly right here." "You and I both almost stepped on it." "I did not see it when I came in." "I would have seen it, Matty." "When I was on the stairs, I came here, and I almost tripped on it." "Jim?" "I thought you were at dinner with Klaus." "I am." "Let us try this." "That is my phone." "Now, call it with yours." "It went to voice-mail." "Right." "Try it again." "It is ringing." "Chuck, what do you got?" " What are you doing?" " Talking to you." "What time do you have exactly in this second?" "What?" "9:45:22, 23." "Come on, get on with it." "It could be an imposter." "Ask him something only you and I know." "When did you and I first meet?" "What is this?" "Just tell me." "It is important." "Ten years ago at that karaoke bar with the weird name." "What is going on?" "Ten years ago at the karaoke bar with the weird name?" "I did not know that." "Chuck, are you there?" "Now, tell me not to trust Abby Ross." "She is just using me." "What?" "No." "You are my best friend." "I will understand." "Therefore, we have been friends a long time." " Do we trust each other?" " Yeah." "Stay away from that girl." "She is no good for you." "What?" "Just do not tell her or anyone else about the experiment." "We are onto something much bigger than we imagined." " So that happened." " What is it?" "Matty, have you ever been to a Native American orgy?" " No." " It is fucking intense." "I do not get it." "If I am doing my math correctly, then there is a good chance that I am on my way here right now." " How do you know?" " Because it is what I did before." "I am telling you, this is where I am coming next." "We do not know that for sure." "We need to keep you isolated from the world... as much as possible to avoid any collisions of causality." "However, my being here has not effected any real change yet." "That we know about." "We have to make sure that the machine does not fall into the wrong hands." "Uncover the conspiracy before it is too late." "What are you now, a secret agent?" "You are a scientist, in addition, as a man of science." "You need to step back, breathe, moreover, take a moment to properly analyze the data." "Fine." "Let me stay here and observe this strange new habitat I have encountered." "What is this?" "It is a remote control." "In our time, we use it to operate the television." "Wow!" "In the future, we control the TV with our minds." "Right." "You are only five days ahead of us." "This is not a game." "You are now part of the experiment, Jim, the same as the dahlia." "That means we have to study you the same way, follow the process." "I need you to go step by step and tell us exactly how you did it." "What did you feel like?" "The Wormhole opened." "I jumped in." "I do not know why you are being so obtuse." "Because we are wasting time sitting around here yapping about it." "We must take action." "I was duped." "We have to strike back." "We cannot do anything until us fully understand what happened." "We are messing with the primal forces of nature here." "The primal forces of nature are telling me, I have to take a piss." "What are you doing here, Jim?" "I went to the lab." "You people were gone." "You should go back." "We will meet you there." "No, no, no, you called." "You said something..." "We were onto something." "In addition, what was this stuff about Abby?" "Moreover, you were..." "My head is killing me." "Do you see?" "I told you, you must stop popping those pills and gets some sleep." "What did you mean earlier when?" "You were talking about Abby." "Let me get you some pills." "Stay in here." "You do not come out." "No, matter what you hear." "Give me the aspirin." "Chuck, I get it now." "It makes sense." "I finally see it now." "Fucking intense." "Matty stop." "You are giving Jim a headache." "No, this is not a headache." "This is a lightning storm between my temples." "What were you saying earlier?" "When we were on the phone, you said something about not trusting Abby." "Then we were onto something bigger." "No, no, no." " No, no, no, no." " Matty." " This is far too much to calculate." " You have to keep it together." " Matty look at me." " You cannot..." "No, no." "Look at me." "Sing the pi song." " ♪ 3.14159 ♪" " Yeah, there you go." "Sing it." "♪ 265358 ♪" " Yeah." "♪ 93238 ♪" "Jim?" "Shit!" "Time travel made that guy a real asshole." "The drink offer is rescinded." "Okay." "But what about coffee?" "Does that count?" "I never had a chance to finish my coffee." "What do you want, Jim?" "Look!" "I know I left without saying goodbye." "But if you let me back up, I just want a chance... to apologize for leaving the way that I did." "So, let us hear it." "It better be good if you want to see what is underneath." "I know what is underneath..." "trouble." "Do I really have to explain how this works?" "You grovel at my feet." "Then..." "I came here with a plan." "There is so much that I want to say." "I do not know where to start." "There are certain tribes in the Amazon where women use shamanistic ritual... to control their men by driving them to insanity." "Are you a shaman?" "No, I am just a girl." "I am sorry." "I will take it." "Is this the residence of Abby Ross?" "She is not here." "This is Jim Beale." "I am a friend of her." "Hey, sleepyhead, looking for me?" "Is there a man in your place?" "I guess you buzzed my neighbor by accident." " I need to see your flower." " Wow!" "Classy." "I am a lady." "You can at least buy me breakfast first." "The biggest obstacle in opening a Wormhole is creating enough energy." "Not unlike the tremendous amount of energy." "That an entire planet makes as it spins on its axis." "The power is there." "I just thought of a way to utilize it." "Double or nothing if I hit it again." "I will take those odds." "The booze hit me." "Not much of a drinker." "TIME IS OUR ONLY REAL CURRENCY" "THE GRAND HOTEL" "Give me that." "Ready?" "Not be found is hard." "Especially when there Is two of you." "That is not me, because I am sitting right here." "He might as well be some other person." "However, it is not." "That is you a week younger." "However, from now on, she is only going to be with me." "How can you know that?" "Because that is what I am about to make sure of." "Wow!" "Jim." "Jim!" "This is not some relationship problem." "It is a little bigger than you are and that girl." "Not to me." "Not anymore." "You cannot go around changing the past because you got your feelings hurt." "This is not the past for you." "I am not changing anyone's past but my own." "No matter what happens to that guy, I am still going to feel this way, right?" "I have no idea." "You are the first person ever to do this." "Well!" "Then the only way that I know how to fix my past... is by taking control of my future." "What about the fact that she is using you to get to the machine." "She is not." "She is using him." "In addition, that puts me in a fantastic position to turn it all around." "Jim?" "Are you okay?" "Chuck." "You found me." "Technology is come a long way." "Not be found is hard." "You taste like ash." "Who is that?" "Just ignore it." "They will go away." "Will they?" "They will." "It is Klaus." "Then definitely ignore it." "Does not he know I am here?" "I do not care if he knows or not." "Well!" "Tell him." "Tell him everything is going according to plan." " What are you talking about?" " Answer it." "I want to hear what you two have to say to each other." "Fine!" "I cannot invite you in, Klaus." "Jim Beale is here." "And he is about to fuck the shit out of me again." "Well!" "What are you waiting for?" "I just cut off my only source of income for you, so better make it worth it." "Therefore, you work for him." "He was funding my research." "You are working on a time-travel project for him." " It is not for him." " So why is he paying you for it?" "Do you know?" "For a brilliant man, you really are quite dim." "Please, enlighten me." "You do not make me say it." "Come on!" "The truth will set you free, do you remember?" "Because I was fucking him, all right?" "Yeah, he paid my bills and my rent and I needed whatever else." "So then, why me?" "It ended for me the night you and I first met." "However, it was not official until right now." "So, do you jump at the first person who comes along?" "I mean, you must have had ulterior motives to fuck me like you did." "You are being a childish asshole." "Moreover, you are right." "I was using you." "I was using you for my research." "A ploy to steal my ideas for your nefarious scheme." "So, what is it?" "Let us get all the cards on the table." "It is..." "It is not done yet." "Are you waiting for my next move?" "Well!" "You are making it." "Do you want to see what I am working on?" "I will be down at the pub drinking this day off." "Working in secret for two years in a hidden lab on the outskirts of the city." "John Bane is prototype had become the stuff of legend." "They say he invented the time machine." "But what no one knew was that only moments before I met him." "It had actually worked." "Do you have a light?" "I knew everything there was to know about John Bane the physicist." "But I never imagined I would get to know John Bane, the man." "A science fiction novel." "More of a novella at this point." "Your hero, John Bane, that is supposed to be me." "There was an article about you that inspired the idea, yeah." "But once I met you." "Do you know who I am?" "John, a physicist named John Bane." "The whole story got a lot more involved." "That is why is not done yet." "I wanted to see how it played out." "Yeah, but it is not actually me." "It is just a version of me." "It does not have my memories or feelings." "That is unfortunate." "If we only had time." "Time to get closer." "I am just a girl." "The girl of my dreams." "We could have a chance of something real." "I led myself to believe in serendipity." "But the cosmos had a cruel way of making me believe otherwise." "As the day of the final experiment grew near." "I wondered if we had a future together." "Or would fate keep us apart?" "What happens from here on out is up to me?" "That is why I am here with you right now." "However, you cannot change fate." "It is like trying to make the sun set with your mind." "Who is to say I cannot?" "Do you see that?" "That right there." "I did that." "Tell me I did not." "Scientists and their God complex." "I am supposing to be the smoker in here." " Are you okay?" " Jim, are you okay?" " Jim?" " It is not Jim." "It is Abby." "There is something wrong with Jim." "He is coughing up blood and he is..." "He has been having seizures, and I do not know what to do." "Can you please?" "Can you please come?" "He will not let me take him to the hospital." "I am just..." " Abby, Abby." " Yeah?" "You do not do anything until I get there." "You do not call anyone." "You do not do anything." " I am coming." "Okay." " Okay." "Wait!" "What are you doing?" "Tell Jim Prime I am taking this to a specialist... for more intensive examination." "Where is the other one?" "Chuck took it to an examines for further specialization." "He must be who called." "Wait!" "What are you doing?" "I am taking back to rightful owner." "Wormhole." "Such a weird word when you think about it." "Right now he is experiencing..." "What can only be described as a kind of temporal feedback?" "It seems that are two beings of the same consciousness." "That cannot exist in the same universe." "This must be nature's way of correcting the anomaly." "Is that your diagnosis?" "Temporal feedback!" "That makes the most sense given what we know." "Okay, Dr. Chuck, if you are such an expert on space cancer, then what should we expect from here?" "If the rate of deterioration stays in sync with 0-14... terminus..." "That is what we call." "I get it." "What?" "He has about 48 hours give or take." "Then his vital organs will disintegrate until his biological functions shut down." "He has been chosen for extinction." "You have one hell of a bedside manner." "I am a physicist, not an M.D." "How did I suppose to believe in any of this?" "Now is your chance." "This is your proof right here." "However, please handle with this carefully." "The fate of the universe is in your hands." "Jim." "I really was not expecting you." "You might want to hide in the other room in case he comes in." "He will not." "He thinks Klaus is in here." "You not need to tell me, who is in there?" " I have my theory." " And what is that?" "I am not giving any more theories to you." "It is not why I came here." "It is not what I want from this." "In addition, what do you want from this?" "To ignore the facts, give you the benefit of the doubt." "All of the observable evidence... leads to the inevitable conclusion that you are playing with me." "However, I refuse to accept it." "I barely know you." "However, something happened in those brief hours we spent together." "It was how you looked at me." "Like how you are looking at me now." "Is the pain worse when he is close by?" "Yeah." "Proximity to him must be a factor." "The best course of action is to get you out of town." "As far as possible to alleviate the effects of the feedback." "You mean prolong the inevitable." "Therefore, here it is." "My act of faith." "The gun is to my head." "I am sure, as shit I am not going to pull the trigger myself." "This is yours." "You get to decide what happens." "In two days, I am going to start the machine, in addition, I am going to open the Wormhole." "However, it is now up to you, what goes through it?" "Chuck, I want you to take your friend and get the fuck out of here." " Okay." " Abby?" "You lied to me." "Not about you and I." "I and you is all totally based on bullshit." "If you could just see my logic on this." "You do not!" "There is an explanation for all of it." "Not for how I feel." "I am not even sure whom, I am talking to right now." "However, whatever Jim you are, I want you to get the hell out of my house..." "Before I contract this psychotic disease." "I do not think that temporal feedback is contagious." "No." "Matty?" "Where is Jim Prime?" "I need you to slip away in addition, meet me at our place." "Tell him that you left your reading glasses at home." "He knows you are useless without them." "Then break them and tell him you have to go get your other pair." "Just does it, and... bring D-29 B." "Dextrin 29 boost." "Still in beta." "It is a hybrid synthesis of adrenal epinephrine secretions." " Yeah." " It will not keep you alive." "However, when you take it, you will not know you are dying." "I am dying." "I am dying, yes." "Yeah, okay." "All right!" "What to do?" "What to do?" "What to do?" "I am dying." "Dying." "Death." "Dead, 48 hours." "48 hours." "We have to prevent that, do not we?" "We do." "We should." "I say, we do not do anything." "You do not open the other end of the Wormhole." " Then it is as if it never happened." " Have you considered?" "I am here." "It happened." "Yes..." "Yes, it did." " But have you considered?" " Yes, it did." "No, we roll up our sleeves." "We will find a workable solution, to explain the absence of paradoxes..." "We have to get one of you out of here." "Let us come clean with Jim Prime." "He can go, and you can live." "He is not going to do it if he knows, he will die." "Would you?" "No, you would not." "I would not." "I have been..." "I mean, I did." " I am here, so..." " There is the notion..." "Maybe I should be going." "In addition, make things worse!" " The theory..." " Are you joking?" "Is he joking?" "Make things worse!" "I have less than two days to live." "I lost the rights to my life's work." "My girlfriend, she hates me, so how could it possibly get any worse?" "Parallel dimensions." "Parallel dimensions." "Not exists one singular universe." "But an infinite number of possibilities coinciding... simultaneously and eternally, every conceivable version of every being persisting forward... in a concurrent reality." "Your time-space excursion was not to the past of your present universe." "On the contrary, it was simply a migration from your plane of existence... to another one adjacent." "You are operating independently of yourself in an alternate timeline." " No." " But..." "That is still hypothetical at this point." "And, of course, I already thought of that." "But being here, seeing it for myself, everything played out the same." "But your journal accounted for..." "What journal?" "Where did you get this?" "It was in your coat pocket when you traversed." "In addition, have you had this the whole time?" "I was processing it as a data set." " It is not my handwriting." " You were so busy." " This is her book." " Whose is the book?" "Abby's." " It was alarmingly accurate." " Matty?" "This is a made-up story, a work of fiction, moreover, an incomplete one at that." "Okay, enough theorizing." "All right?" "The machine should be up and running." "How much more of this juice do you have?" "Enough." "All right, I am pulling the trigger on our best option." "Klaus only paid for one unit of M.R.D." "We cannot do this again." "If I go back through the Wormhole knowing what I know now to that first day." "We will not have to do this ever again." "I can take over from here." "Where have you been?" "Our mass spectrometer was on the fritz." "I wanted to take 0-14 over to the institute for final evaluation." " How is it doing?" " Clean bill of health." "However, they are going to keep it tonight." "So that they can run it through the liquid scintillation counter." "Okay, as long as they do not know what it is." "They think it is a sample." "We are almost online." "Do you want to do a practice run?" "Absolutely." "Chuck, dahlia 2.0 is also gone for now." "Therefore, we have to send something else through the Wormhole." "I think I can find a replacement." "Balance metric pressure at 057." "Metric pressure sustaining 057." "Releasing valves." "Docking hatch open and clear." "Radioactivity meters online." "Ready for exposure." "Prepare to load M.R.D." "M.R.D. removed from containment." "Preparing to load." "Keep full exposure duration no more than ten seconds." "Nine." "Eight." "Seven." "Insertion of M.R.D. commencing." "Five." "Four." "Three." "Two." "One." "M.R.D. in place." "Close hatch." "Jim?" "Jim?" "Jim?" "The pressure dropped below 029." "We have to abort." "All right!" "Abort." "It is that damn bracket again." "We are going to have to reconfigure the output." "I know how to fix it." "It might take a while to recalibrate." "Why do not you take a break?" "I do not take breaks." "What about that stack of readouts in your office?" "Have you gone through those yet?" "I see what you are doing." "Do you?" "You want me to sleep." "You are onto me." "Fine!" "I will leave you to work on that for a bit." "However, I am not napping." "Okay, Jim, get ready." "Matty, close the docking hatch." "Handle left 45 degrees." "Slide forward, then lock at high noon moreover, engage sequence." "Chuck, I do not..." "Matty let us go." "The left and right..." "Matty, he could come back any second." "The left and right, they are not..." "The left and right..." "Matty, you have done it a thousand times." "Do it now." "SYSTEM FAILURE INVALID SEQUENCE" "Are you still chasing after her?" "I never realize that is what I am doing until I do it." "The power to cross the universe in an instant." "The impossible dream becomes possible." "All the unbelievable things you could accomplish." "The eternal questions you could answer." "In addition, you just want to be laid." " You would do the same if it were you." " You are probably right." "The machine still works." "However, the M.R.D. is gone." "We could try to find the money." "Thirty-six hours?" "I do not see how." "What about Klaus?" "You have seen the future." "Could you buy some stocks?" "And play the over-under on a game." "Did not you catch the news before you left?" "It is over." "I am done with the past." "If this is goodbye." "At least I could buy to you a dinner." "Okay." "We will let Jim Prime keep on without a clue." "At least until you are gone." "Yeah." "Where is Matty?" "He was devastated by what he did." "He did not want to face you." "This is you." "I mean him." "I should take this." "Go ahead and order." "I will be right back." "It is not done yet." "Chuck told me everything." "Chuck is an asshole." "I want to hear it from you." "Why did you really go through the Wormhole?" "Because my heart was broken." "Moreover, do you blame me?" "Abby, the only one to blame here is I." "I did it to myself." "I am willing to let the technology to follow from here." "Therefore, I understand the only way to get the other Jim into the Wormhole..." "I show up tomorrow with the dahlia and Klaus." "That is one scenario, yeah." "One that I would prefer not to repeat." "But if it would save your life." "It would not, because we are about five millions of there even being a Wormhole." "I can get the money." "No." "Any questions about the menu?" "Can you please give us a minute?" "However, it would be for us." "Then we can have more time together." "Look!" "I am not going to let you do that." "It is my choice, not yours." "Then it will be your choice." "Take me as far as you can." "Checking in?" "Yes." "Name, please." "James Beale." "It seems you are already with us, Mr. Beale." "What?" "Right." "I forgot my key card." "May I get a replacement, please?" "Of course!" "Not exists one singular universe." "But an infinite number of possibilities coinciding... simultaneously and eternally." "Every conceivable version of every being persisting forward." "In a concurrent reality." "Your time-space excursion... was not to the past of your present universe." "On the contrary, it was simply... a migration from your plane of existence to the one adjacent." "John Bane's time-space excursion was not to his own past." "Little, he realized he had traveled to the past of a parallel universe." "A timeline so similar to his own." "He had simply overlooked the differences." "An infinite number of possibilities... an infinite number of choices, an infinite number of outcomes." "Take me to The Grand Hotel." "Mr. Meissner, would you be so kind... if wait here while I escort Ms. Ross and her dahlia... to the lab floor?" "Is this really what do you want?" "Is not there usually champagne at these things?" "I could kill a whole bottle right now." "Therefore, this is the way it is going to be." "It has to be this way." "The way it is." "It only seems that way now, however, eventually you will see it in a different light." "Therefore, that is it, then!" "It meant nothing." "Put these on." "I do not want you to miss a thing." "Turn handle left 45 degrees." "Slide it forward." "Lock it at high noon." "Engage sequence." "I am not interested, so do not even try." "It may not look like it, however, I am actually working." "Do you know who I am?" "Should I?" "My God!" "You look just like him." "Who?" "John." "A physicist named John Bane." "What a coincidence." "I am a physicist." "They say he invented a time machine." "Did he?" "No one knows." "Anyways, he died in a lab explosion before I have to interview him." "Really?" "That is too bad." "The fire destroyed all of his work." "It is sad, really." "To be so close to controlling time, then poof..." "He had gone in an instant." "Time is a great teacher that eventually kills all of its students." "I like that one." "That is a good one." "Do you have anymore?" "Yeah." "Have a drink with me." "I will tell you all about my time-travel experiment." "That would make much better my story." "Is your story better?" "Is that a fact?" "No, just a theory." "SYNCHRONICITY Translation." "Review." "Synchronization by Angel."