"[ Gunfire ]" "[ Gunfire Continues ]" "The American Civil War." "Come on!" "[ Dog Barking ]" "Fermo, Cesare." "Fermo." "All right, men, let's get out of here!" "You too!" "Major, over here!" "Help, Major.!" "We need a doctor." "He's beyond any hope this world can give him now." "He's dead." "He can't be dead." " He can't!" " Amplify his signal." "I'm sorry, General, but there is no signal." "That could only happen if he" "I won't accept it." "Maybe there's been a malfunction in the equipment." "Come on, Ray." "Let's check it out." "Quickly." "[ Beeping ]" "Well?" "Everything's working, General." "Doug's signal is still coming in strong." "There's nothing else it can be?" "[ Sighs ] No." "Well, we've lost the trail." "The tracks disappear into the stream." "This is as far as I go, Major." "If you're going the rest of the way, you're gonna have to do it alone." " I'm going back for my friend." " Wait a minute!" "You wouldn't stand a chance getting through those Confederates alone." "You help me, and I'll go back there with you..." " and we'll see that your friend gets a decent burial." " [ Bullet Ricochets ]" "Well, you with me?" "[ Sighs ] All right." "But if I'm gonna risk my life for you, I'd like to know what's going on around here." "The man in black stole a wagon containing 1 50 kegs of gunpowder from us... and those Rebs back there wanna get their hands on it." "So we gotta get it back or destroy it." "We've gotta find out where those tracks come out." "I'll try upstream." "You go downstream." "Here." "You better put these on." "They might save your life." "Wait a minute, Major." "I'm no soldier." "You think those clothes make you a civilian?" "You get caught on a battlefield, you're a soldier." "Look at those boys." "Do you think they're soldiers by choice?" "Huh?" "Here." "Get those on." "We'll meet back here in 1 5 minutes." "Major, what's the name of this place?" "Gettysburg." "[ Narrator ] The Time Tunnel." "[ Gunfire ]" "The odds were against both of them surviving." "We've known that for a long time." "We'll close down Tony's channel." "By concentrating full power on Doug, we may be able to save him." " I won't let you do it." " If you can think of anything we can do, Ann." "Anything." "General, will you let me try a power surge?" "Perhaps the shock" "Well, it could work." "All right." "Make the try." "I'll monitor." "I'm afraid we can't wait any longer." "General.!" "It worked!" "He's alive!" "He's comin' around, Sergeant." "Corporal, you find Private Acton." "Tell him to get a horse, report to Captain Vickers at the supply train." "He is to tell him that we found the courier alive." "Yes, sir." " Corporal!" " Yes, sir?" "I'd be obliged if you'd wait until I'd finished the instructions." "Yes, sir." "He is to tell him that he doesn't have the money on him." " Well, move!" " Yes, sir." "And be careful with them Yankee snipers!" "They're usin' real bullets!" "Kids." "They oughta be home shooting' possum." "Here." "This'll make you feel better." "You'll be all right." "Important thing is you got through, Lieutenant." " Lieutenant?" " Well, you're Lieutenant Andrews, ain't ya?" "You were sent here to lead us to a man named Michaels." "What do you remember?" "Nothing." "No, wait." "There was an explosion." "I remember that." "I was running, and there was an explosion." "Do you know me?" "Have you seen me before?" "No, sir." "You're part of Longstreet's corps." "We got a message to meet you here." "I may not be this lieutenant at all." "It's not very likely." "There ain't no civilians around here... two days of battle." "Well, here." "Brought this uniform for ya." "May not fit ya, but it'll save you from being shot as a spy." "Sergeant Maddox!" "Sergeant Maddox!" "Get down!" "[ Dog Barking, Howling ]" "Michaels's dog." "He's howlin' for all the men who are gonna die here." "I've had enough of your crazy superstitions!" "You understand me?" "Yes, sir." "That Yankee major who left the lieutenant for dead" "He's lookin' for Michaels too." "We'll track him." "Like as not, he'll lead us right to him." " Cover me, Corporal." "I'll get the lieutenant." " Yes, sir." "Lieutenant." "Let's ready to move out." " Find anything?" " Not a sign of anything." "Michaels and that dog must've crossed over to the other side." "If we're lucky... we'll be able to find their trail before nightfall." "Come on." " Major." "Here are their tracks, all right." " Good." "The Rebs oughta be showing up any minute now." "They're lookin' for a courier with $2,000... to negotiate with Michaels." "Fortunately for us... that courier isn't gonna make it." "We got word that he was killed." "I want you to follow this trail while it's still light." "I'll give the Rebs 1 0 minutes." "If they don't show by then, we'll know they lost the scent." "Do you believe in... omens, Lieutenant?" "There's some strange things goin' on here." "What do you mean?" "Well, I can't explain it, but I feel it." "I've been in some battles before, but... never like this." "What battles you been in, Lieutenant?" "I don't remember, Corporal." "Well, maybe you're the lucky one after all." "Some things, it's better not to remember." "Them tracks are all over the place." "No tellin' where they crossed." "The corporal and I'll take this bank." "Will you be good enough to take the other side, Lieutenant?" "Sure." "Sergeant, let me take the other side." "I think I can hunt 'em out." "All right, Corporal." "You're on your own." "And don't be no hero." "If you see anything, give us a yell." "You understand?" "Yes, sir." " Is he alone?" " As far as I know." "He stepped out a minute ago and looked around and then went right back in." "[ Barking ]" " I'm just wonderin'." " About what?" "Why that dog isn't setting' up a racket." "Yeah, I know." "Weird, isn't it?" " Well, at least he's chained." " All right." "Cover me." "I'm gonna try and take him alive." "[ Barking ]" "All right, Michaels, on your feet!" "There's no need to break the door in, Major." "My house is yours." "Avanti, signor." "[ Dog Barking ]" "Oh." "Scusi." "It is against his nature to sit by when he considers his master's life threatened." "Zitto, Cesare." "Basta." "Basta." "Basta." "Basta." "He fears the wrath will fall on him if he disobeyed me." "Avanti, signor." "Avanti." "Come in." "I suppose you've come about the gunpowder." "You will surrender it, sir, or I'll kill you where you stand." "But you have no need for the gunpowder, Major." "You already have sufficient supplies." " Wine, gentlemen." " You are under arrest." "War is only interesting when the sides are evenly matched." "Don't you agree?" "I was just setting down a principle in my book The Art of War." """Reduced to essentials... war is nothing more than a conflict of one man against another."" "Surely you wouldn't want to take unfair advantage of an adversary?" "For example... you have an unfair advantage of me now, Major." "Two against one." "Not a very gallant affair, is it?" "But should the odds be changed" "Suddenly, the conflict becomes more exciting." "[ Groans ]" "The major has seen my point." "Perhaps you will too." "Mille grazie." "Instruments of death come in such intriguing forms." "This weapon of yours is very effective... but do not underestimate the rapier." "Just who are you?" "Let us say I am the superior here." "[ Groaning ]" "The major needs help." "All right." "But quid pro quo- something for something." "Your major can provide me information concerning this most interesting war." "How can you bargain while a man is bleeding to death?" "[ Groaning ]" "Only a stupid man does not press the advantage when he has it." "Still, sometimes the advantage is increased by delay." "There's a cot in the storeroom." "Do what you can for him." "I'll try to stop the bleeding." "No." "No, there's" "There's no time for that." "[ Coughing, Groaning ]" "Listen to me." " He's a madman." "You know that, don't you?" " Yes." "He must be stopped." "[ Coughing ]" "He must be stopped." "He will be stopped, Major." "I promise you that." "I" "I hate to die... and not know... whether the Union..." "will ever" "The Union will survive, Major." "The Confederates will be stopped here." "They'll begin their retreat to the South." "The final peace will come at a small town called Appomattox." "Two equal weapons." "Interesting." "Who are you?" "Where did you come from?" "Let us say I come from another place, another time." "That box in there" "Impossible." "Machiavelli died four centuries ago." "Then you know me." "My works did outlive my era." "My rule in Florence." "History remembers me, huh?" "Not as a ruler." "As a man of evil, of cunning." "As the most hated philosopher of planned carnage in the history of mankind." "You call it carnage, but I call it the highest achievement of man." "Bella.!" "Bravissimo, signore." "You really have gone too far now." "Much too far." "That was the last bottle of my fine Italian wine." "My Orvieto!" "Finito." "I'm not acquainted with your weapons, but I learn quickly." " How did you get here?" " I wish I knew." "I had just returned to Florence from the camp of Prince Borgia... and was preparing to unpack when I was seized with all my goods... and whirled through a maelstrom which left me here." "The Time Tunnel." "As luck would have it, I have fallen into the most wonderful war." "An opportunity to see the refinements of my theories." "Oh, if only the Romans had had your equipment." "That's incredible." "How could Machiavelli have been switched through time?" "We have the only operative transfer mechanism." "Then his being there must have something to do with the Time Tunnel." "See if you can get a signal for him." "[ Monitor Beeping ]" "There's our answer, General." "A one-in-a-million coincidence... but his signal is identical to Doug's." "Machiavelli somehow switched through time on Doug's frequency?" "General?" " Here are those pictures you ordered." " Oh, good." "Now." "First... we'll sort out all the pictures of cabins." "Sir, how long do battlefield cases of amnesia persist?" "Oh, I've seen some boys come out of it in hours... and I've seen others who never regained their identity." "But we've got something much more important than that to worry about at the moment." " Machiavelli?" " Yes." "We sent him there." "It's our duty to get him out." "You think we can send him back to his own time?" "I don't know, General." "If his signal is interlocked with Doug's" "We'll have to find some way to separate their signals." "Ann, I want the date that Machiavelli returned to Florence from the camp of Prince Borgia." "I'll get on it right away." "Those are checked." "Here." " [ Barking ]" " That's Michaels's dog, all right." "He's got visitors." "We're gonna have to flush them out before we can talk to him." "[ Barking Continues ]" "I think you'll need this." " You expect me to fight them?" " Unless you prefer to let them kill you." "[ Gunshot ]" "Better cover the door as well." "Don't move!" "Tony." " What happened to you?" " Take his gun." "Well, what's the matter with you?" "Don't you recognize me?" "You stay put... or I'll kill you just like you killed my corporal." "The other one's in there." "He's dead, I'm afraid." " Are you Michaels?" " Yes." "You have 1 50 kegs of gunpowder." "We want it." " And you shall have it." " There's no money in this." "No bargains." "The money's not important." "Your side is the weaker side here." "Unless you have the firepower, the battle will be most uninteresting." "The gunpowder is in a cave above Wilson's Creek." "The foot of the suspension bridge." "I know the place." "But you- I don't understand you." " What do you get out of this?" " I?" "I am merely an observer." "Nothing more." "A historian in search of knowledge." "I want to know the disposition of your forces." "You make this war sound like some kind of mental exercise." "Precisely, and of the highest order." "Nothing would make him happier than to increase the slaughter on both sides." "And you'd like nothing more than to keep us from getting to that gunpowder." "It doesn't make any difference whether the South gets it or not... not in the long run." "You don't remember me, do you?" "I'm Douglas Phillips, and you're Tony Newman." "We came here together." "Is that true, Lieutenant?" "You know this man?" "I've never seen him before." "I've never been a member of the Union army." "Neither of us were." "You were injured in an explosion." "I thought you were killed." "He did have civilian clothes on him when we first saw him... like you did." "Don't you remember anything?" "The Tunnel?" "General Kirk or Ann?" "Well, you're not even from this time." "You're trying to save your own skin with some cock-and-bull story." "All right." "If you're not Tony Newman, who are you?" "My name is Andrews." "I'm a courier, mister, for General Longstreet." "Why, that courier was killed." "The major told me so before he died." "Now, wait a minute." "Did he say how much money the courier was carrying?" " Yes. $2,000." " That's right." "You are a member of the troop that ambushed me." "You took the $2,000!" "You killed my corporal!" "And, mister..." "I'm gonna kill you." "There's really no sport in killing an unarmed ad" "[ Barking ]" "Cesare!" " [ Italian ] - [ Barking ]" "The mastiff will tear Doug apart!" "Have you made the adjustment for the time reversal?" "My time setting is January 3, 1 51 9... the date we lifted Machiavelli out of Florence." "I tried to separate his signal from Doug's... but I don't know what may happen when we activate." " Lock in on the mastiff!" "." " I'm locked in and tracking it." "[ Grunting ] Back!" "Back off!" "." "[ Shouts ]" " We did it!" "We did it!" " He's not out of danger yet." "Tony's on his way." "Can you get Doug out of there?" "Well, if we move Doug, what about Tony?" "We'll hold the fix and try to get Tony out later." "Something's happened to our power." " How long will it take to repair it?" " I don't know, General." "I'll check it." "Now, listen to me!" "Just let me explain." "That's all I ask." "All right." "Do you know how old that corporal was?" "He was 1 6." "And that justifies your killing me?" "I don't need any justification!" "You're the enemy!" "I'm the only friend you have." "All right, so that explosion took your memory... and watching that boy die made you mad." "I don't blame you." "But if you kill me, you kill your only link with the past or your future." "Take that gun out... carefully." "Tony, use your head." "I've had this gun all along." "If I wanted to kill you, I could've killed you from the rock." "I said take it out!" "Now throw it over there." " None of this makes any sense to you at all, does it?" " None of it." "Look." "If Michaels carries out his plans... this is gonna be the bloodiest battleground in the entire Civil War." "Get up." "Now, we're gonna join the sergeant." "You give me the slightest excuse, and I'll kill you." "Is that clear?" "Let's go." "Come on!" "I have a report from the generating station." "It'll take eight hours to bring the power up to peak." "Eight hours?" "You know, that sergeant mentioned something about a suspension bridge." "Here." "This must've been the one he was talking about." "Let me see." "Yes." "There it is." "Ann, find the coordinates of that bridge and feed them into the console." "We'll have our fix preset by the time they approach it." "Then we'll retrieve Tony and Doug when they reach it?" "No." "No, we won't." "I will not leave Machiavelli on the field." "We'll send him back to his own time as we did the mastiff." "He's far too dangerous." "He can't change what happened at Gettysburg." "I'm not gonna take any chances." "It's our duty to get him out of there." "All right." "I understand how you feel, General." "Even if we're willing to risk Doug's life..." " we don't have power enough." " We'll find supplementary power." "You saw the explosion that followed the transfer of the dog." "It'll take three times that power to transfer a human." "We can't do it." " You have a better suggestion?" " No." "If we overload our circuits that much, there's no telling what will happen." " General, I'm against it." " I'm sorry, Ray." "This is the one time I have to overrule you." "I want that programming done as quickly as possible." "When it's complete, notify me." "Please." "I'll make the changes, General... but heaven help Tony and Doug if you're wrong." "You think I'm wrong too?" "I don't know." "We have a responsibility here... not only to science, but to humanity as well." "[ Gunfire ]" "They ride like the Horsemen of the Apocalypse... bringing death closer with every stride." "Do you have that feeling of tight excitement within you, Sergeant?" "That fascination with impending death?" "You sure do run off at the mouth, don't you?" "Union cavalry, sir." "They're attacking our supply train." "It's a fortunate circumstance, Lieutenant... that this type of artillery was nonexistent in ancient times... else the Romans would not have conquered so easily." "But the use of firearms prevents men from displaying personal valor." "Don't you agree?" "We'll need at least two of those wagons to move the gunpowder." "They may never survive the attack, sir." "There's a wagon and horses at the cave." "I'll try to get another wagon and an escort." "We've got to get that gunpowder through." "That's the most important thing right now." "Tony, don't go." "You'll never make it." "Sergeant, you guard the prisoner." "If he tries to escape, kill him." "Michaels." "We're moving up into higher ground." "[ Whinnies ]" "Why'd you do it?" "What do you want with me?" "You're gonna have to trust me." "What I told you before was the truth." "We're gonna have to find a landmark and wait to be picked up." " Picked up?" " I could explain it to you." "But in your condition, I don't expect you to believe me." "We've got to stop Michaels, and we've got to destroy the powder." "You know, you almost had me there for a minute." "It would be easier for you to get at that gunpowder through me, wouldn't it?" "Are you all right?" "Don't make the mistake of doubting it." "Come on." "I would say you have just about outlived your usefulness." "Wouldn't you, Sergeant?" "After all... you couldn't possibly help us to move the gunpowder." "And you walk with only the greatest difficulty." "[ Groans ]" "You would impair our mobility." "A good field commander always destroys those things... which are detrimental to his cause." "That's just common sense, isn't it?" "I'm a better man than you..." "half dead." "Then I suggest you prove that, Sergeant." "Otherwise, I intend to kill you." "[ Laughing ]" "[ Laughing Continues ]" "You see, I've always had the advantage." "Your prisoner almost succeeded in telling you the truth." "I am indeed Machiavelli- a man in a time long past his own and, therefore, already dead." "[ Sniffing ] Ah!" "They smashed us to pieces and swept on." "Like a whirlwind scattering death in its wake, eh?" "Tell me, Lieutenant... does not your mind quicken in the presence of such destruction?" " What happened to him?" " Oh, poor fellow." "Felled by a final fusillade." "But he was quite helpless at the end." "The battlefield is a place for strength, not weakness." "Don't you agree?" "The officers who commanded this train are dead... the sergeant's dead... and I'm a very tired man, Michaels... worn right down to the bone." "I've got no time for whatever game it is you're playing." "I want the gunpowder from you and nothing more." "Now lead me to it." "No." "Carry the conduit down to the terminal pole." " We're running out of time, Ray." " We're almost through here, General." "All right." "That's it." "Now close it up." "A special power supply from Hoover Dam is hooked in, General." "It should be enough to handle our power reversal." " We'll run a test of the circuits." " Good." "The timing is gonna be critical... if we can separate Doug's signal and send Machiavelli back in time." "How long will it take you to test the circuits?" "A few minutes." "No more." "I owe you an apology, Woody." "Well, let's say it was the strain of the moment." " Then you think I'm right?" " No." "But somebody's got to make the decisions, and I respect you for doing it." "The apology's accepted." "I'll run the test and stand by for your signal." "And I wish us luck." "Amen to that." "The powder is hidden by that screen of brush, and the wagon's over there." "An interesting thought, is it not?" "Yankee, load this onto the wagon." "Beware." "He will outwit you." "Now you're faced with the commander's decision- whether to sacrifice your friend to destroy a larger evil." "All right, this has to be done, Tony." "I'm gonna get by you one way or the other." "Now, you'd better get out of here while you can." "Put that down." "I said put it down!" "[ Hammer Clicking ]" "Excellent." "Now you are both even." " What's happened?" " He's trying to kill us." "You have the advantage." "Kill him, and you can destroy the powder." "That's not gonna work this time, Machiavelli." "You forget yourself." "I am Machiavelli." "You cannot kill me." "Therefore, I'm indestructible." "No, we're not going to kill you, Machiavelli." "No." "We're going to tie you up and put you in that cave." "One of the bloodiest battles of all time is about to take place... and we are personally going to see to it that you miss it." "I think not." "You've deprived me of the lieutenant's aid... but a good field commander always has alternatives." "[ Laughs ]" "Stand back!" "[ Man Shouting ]" " [ Alarm Blaring ] - [ Shouting ]" "Stand to your posts, everyone!" "Stand to your posts!" "They're in the path of the explosion!" "If that powder goes, they'll be killed.!" " Switch them quick!" "We've only got seconds!" " It'll be a miracle." "Can't you get them under control?" "Stabilize them." "Ann, refine your locator." "I'm doing the best I can, General." "We're getting an interfering impulse." "We've lost 'em." "[ Shouting ]" "I've got Doug and Tony again." "[ Men Screaming ]" "Let's try this way." "Oriental." "Sure is." "Mongolian." "Those were Mongols back there." "If my memory serves me right... this is the emblem of the great Khans." "Genghis Khan?" "[ Shouting ]"