"Beloved husband and father" " It's time." " Is the record ready?" " Yes." " How detailed is it?" " I left a few things out." " Good." "Keeping you anonymous is the best way to keep you safe." "The navigator needs to have enough to go on." "He needs to insert you, before they find the tipping point." "Do you understand?" "Better than anyone." "December 19th." "December 19..." "December, December...19 2003." "December 19, 2003." "Hi there let every heart...prepare..." "Do you guys have Bluebird root beer?" "We sure do." "I'll be right back with that." "Thank you." "December 19, 2003." "I shall endeavor in this ghostly little book... both to entertain and inform." "I say ghostly because I see it being read aloud." "to many grandchildren, with its pages worn reeking of the echos of ages past." "Saints and angels sing." "We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a Merry Christmas..." "We wish you a Merry Christmas..." "and a happy..." "My name is Horatio Astaire Biggs." "A name lavishly placed upon me by my wonderful mother." "I begun many diaries... and I presumptuously begin again because today is a great tipping point in my life." "Congress, faced partly on my recommendation, has just approved a wild sum of money for a very special science project and I..." "And I think I've just fallen in love." "Hey, did you want a..." " No, I'm good, thanks." "It's taken a long time to get to this point." "I'm absolutely whipped and there's no going back for me." "But despite appearances, Sally is holding something back." "I know she wants to let herself really love me." "Only time will tell for sure, I guess." "But to me us being apart would be like defying the law of gravity or something." "She's afraid." "It find it very charming that Sally has convinced herself that she's in control of our relationship." "Wait." " Horatio Astaire" "Biggs." " Are you, Are you..." "Are you drawing a similarity between my name..." " Horatio and Mr Darcy?" ""..." "Which sparkled in the light that shown of the Ghost of Christmas past."" ""It matters little, she said softly to you, very little.."" ""Another idol has displaced me."" ""What idol is displaced you?" "he rejoined"." ""Joe drop that oil on the blankets now!"" ""His blankets?", says Joe." ""Whose else, do you think?" "Replied the woman." "He isn't likely to take on without them ."" ""I dare say that he is dead."" "We're going to give H. G. Wells' "Time Machine -"" "another chance." "You will like it." "" You know, of course, that a mathematical line, a line of thickness nil, has no real existence. "" ""They taught you that?" "Neither has a mathematical plane. "" "" These things are mere abstractions. "" "" That is alright, said the psychologist. "" "" Nor having only length, breadth and thickness... "" "I do find you the most attractive woman I've ever met, and I thought so from the moment I first laid eyes upon you." "In fact, that night, I started designing our wedding band." ""So, most people think , but wait a moment" "Can an instantaneous cube exist?" ""Don't follow you, Said Filby."" "Keep going." ""Clearly, the time traveler proceeded..."" "Christmas Eve 2004." "I'm going to propose tonight." "This is the tipping point." "The future hinges on her answer." " Navigator." "I need the earliest safe solution." "Intercept third kind." "On the girl." "The girl?" "ooh." "Even better!" "Prepare crews to Section 5." "Initiating new target track." "Compiling record." "Guys, guys." "Please." "Yes?" " Hi, Sally." " Hi!" "Hey Sally!" "Can we make ourselves at home or...?" "Oh no, what do you want with me?" "Guys, guys." "We have to understand the lines." "Yeah, well, we are British." "British is the Queen's language It is the Old English." "This is gonna be lame." "We have to just sell tickets to the rehearsals." "The tip of the tongue!" "The tip of the tongue, the leap..." "No!" "The tip, the tip of the tongue." "The leap." "Thank you, Sally so much." "I know this is a huge pain, especially when they're so awful." "It's no problem, they are kind of entertaining." "Are you sure you're going to be alright tonight?" "Yeah." "I'll be fine." "I'm going straight to bed." "No worries." "Are you sure?" "Yeah, yeah." "Get out of here." "Go." "Go." "Go..." " See you later." "Ok." " Bye." "WewishyouaMerryChristmas..." "WewishyouaMerryChristmas..." "We ....  ... wish you a Merry Christmas...  ... and a happy New Year" "... The tidings..." "Okay, pumpkin love, it's your move, baby." "Thanks, Joanne." "Online." "Another windy, cold day, just how I like it, at the beach." "Our yearly pilgrimage to the firemen's memorial turned out to pretty bizarre." "So I'm going to pan up the flagpoles here" "Now, you might get some young meteorologist to tell you that this is some kind of land-sea wind thing." "But I've been coming here..." "Yes?" "Sally, they're waiting for you downstairs." "Well, they're an hour early, so they're going to have to wait." "Okay." "I'll let them know." "You guys are total nerds." "We've narrowed it down to 50 possibilities." "Some are reiterations of important dates, keywords in his personal life." "Analysts say there is 58% chance that the correct password in the top 10 on the list." "80% chance it's in the top 30." "And not put any pressure on you or anything, but it's been about five years of work to get to this point." "And if we don't catch him now, we probably never will." " So how many tries do I get?" " Three." "If we do not get it in three, the account will execute a permanent lockout and it will alert the account holder that someone has been trying to break in." "That's amazing." "Is she psychic or something?" "Probability low." "Target lock impossible." "Exactly who was that put this record together?" "it's classified." "Continue the trace, please." "Hello, I saw an old friend of yours afternoon." " Oh, really?" "Who was it?" " Guess." "How can I?" "Oh tut, don't I know?" " Was it Mr. Scrooge?" "It was Mr. Scrooge, indeed." "I passed by his office window." "I could scarcely help but see him." "You know, I hear his partner is close to death." "He never settled on." "Quite alone in the world, I do believe." "Spirit, take me from this place." "I told you." "These were shadows of things that had been." "But they are what they are." "Do not blame me." "Alright." "That's good work." "Very good work." "Yes, that's good for the night." "I'm out of this place." "Here." " What's this?" " Just Horatio's old stuff." " Well, you should be keeping this." " Oh, no, I've got tons of stuff." "Boxes and boxes." "Why doesn't Sally want to keep any of Horatio's stuff?" "Well, I think she's going through a hard time." "and..." "When she was younger than you her father died." "And now Horatio." "Come on." "Thank you for seeing me." "I really appreciate that." "Not at all." "Not at all." "Here we are in the house of the Air and Space Museum." "Where we prepare artifacts for exhibit." "And sometimes we find a ghost or two." "Well, here it is." "We of course removed it from the floor immediately when it was discovered and replaced it with a replica." "It's either a bizarre prank or an unusual attempt at some free press." "As you can see, it's completely embedded in the propeller... absent of any visible signs of entry." "So, how can you be sure it happened on March 17?" "I oversaw some of the cleaning crews getting ready for the" "St. Patty's day crowd." "We saw a few reporters and police out here the day it happened." "And now suddenly we get a visit from the FBI!" "Are you just nine months late or" "Is there some renewed interest in our little mystery?" "I'm just late, I guess." "Can you show me where it was originally found?" "Right this way." "Gallery 208... pioneers of flight." "Okay, I'm stripes." "I played these dumb boys for money last week." "I cleaned them out." "How about this:" "How about if I win, no more pool unless it's with your dad." " And you've never played before?" "No." " It's a deal!" "No cheating." "good." "So I hit the solid ones, right?" "Not bad." "You're going to keep your end of the bargain, right?" "No tricks, Trudy?" "Target lock impossible." "Probability low." "Record accuracy questionable." "Progress report, Navigator." "Gravity is about where we need it, but I can't get reliable lock." " Explain." "Probability's too low." "Target behavior is statistically improbable." "Human Performance outside normal parameters." "Target lock impossible." "Its probability low." "There's something funny about this record." "I don't quite trust from the data I've got." "I'm going to try new variation." "Applying new behavioral algorithm Teleutaios." "Reanalyzing record." "So I hit the solid ones, right?" " How many tries do I get?" " Three." "How many tries do I get?" "Algorithm success." "Target is rift born." "Class 1" " You lucky!" " What are you talking about?" "Are you trying to kill me?" "Warning." "Visualization overload." "Her record has been amended to protect her from hostile intercepts." "She is an extremely high valued target." "She is not just a high valued target." "She is a 95er." "Visualization overload." "This is going to take some time." "No pun intended." "And there was like this one weird guy who all like..." ""Dude, check out the pregnant lady." "She rocks!" "."" "Yeah." "Totally." "OK, I will." "Love you too, Daddy." "Good night." "Well, I'm going to watch my show in bed, ok?" "Ok." "The guest room is all ready for you." " Okay, good night." " Good night, sweetie." "Change your mind?" "Trudy?" "Trudy, do you need anything?" "No, I'm good." "Oh, come on!" "Horatio?" "Gravity decreasing." " What is that?" " Just a little decoration for your big fancy new office here." "How'd you get this thing, anyway?" "It's all about the timing, Jerry." "Where did you get that cute laptop?" "Oh, yeah, it's standard issuing for the FBI these days." "You know, we're the kinder, gentler agency." " Really...." " What you got?" " What does this look like to you?" " Coordinates." "Yeah, coordinates." "but you see any kind of relationship, any pattern going on?" "So, if you start and go right way and connect the dots," "I think you can make a reindeer." "See?" "That's his nose, those are his antlers." "I think it's's Rudolph." "Target locked." "Interception available." "Adjacent time lines.-Alright then." " What's my entry locust?" " You'll be splashing through." " 1 of 4 office workers in the building." "The COC people are bringing appropriate clothing" " And ID right now." " What about an explosion?" " What kind of an explosion?" "I don't know." "but does forensics have software that can calculate these points?" "And see if it's consistent with a typical blast pattern?" "Yeah, sure." "But can it calculate the origin?" "Yeah, we could give it a shot." "Temporal coefficient calculated." "Alert." "Defense condition minimal." "Content breech of reactor 8." "Send me now!" "Trojan is in the fire!" "Look out for foes." " Great!" "How soon can you have it done?" " Well, I got a hot date tonight " " So if I get started tomorrow." "Is that soon enough?" " How about yesterday?" " Okay, boss." "Oh, the sample you gave me, from the Air and Space Museum?" "Yeah?" "Root beer!" " Well, that's it then." " KTDE offline." "Alert." "Defense condition minimal." "I guess she's going to have to watch out for enemies." "All hands to battle stations." "Defense condition..." "Sir, I'll have your lunch in just a few minutes." "And your One o'clock is here Special Agent Biggs." "Send her in." "Agent Biggs." "Please have a seat." "So, how are you?" " Super." "Although I am a little curious as to why I'm here." "I think my evaluation is in July?" "Well, being new around here" "I wanted to get to know everybody." "But I was especially eager to chat with you." "I've heard about you even before I read your file." " Well, here I am." "Yes you are." "So, tell me about yourself." "I am 5'7", cute" "Gemini." "Multiple accommodations, youngest new female agent in 20 years... expert marksman, unusually gifted in interrogation, code breaking undercover ops, pursuit..." " Knitting." " Knitting?" "So, when is your baby due, if you don't mind me asking." " Oh." "In about a month." " Do you know the gender?" " A boy." " A boy." "I hope you do not mind if I have a bite or two." "Oh, no problem." "You know this is great stuff, but they never put enough salt on it." "But I always keep some stashed away." "I always keep some stashed away." "Just a second, sir, I don't think you want that much salt." "Sharp eyes!" "Thank you." "So..." "Tell me what you're working on." "Well..." "Seeing as I'll be on maternity leave soon," "I haven't had a real case in months." "But I've been helping out the other departments quite a bit." "I'm working on a few side projects" "Tell me about your side projects." "Oh, nothing." "Just looking into some suspicious activities here and there." "Sometimes where there's smoke, there's fire." "Affirmative." "However, I'm sure that you can understand that it's my job to make sure that many hours spent have tangible results." "Accomplishing specific national security goals, making arrests, etc." "Now, is that likely to happen if you're chasing ghosts and UFOs?" "Well, first, I have to learn Martian, so I can read them their rights." "Now, is that likely to happen if you're chasing ghosts and UFOs?" "Well, It is possible the phenomena" "I've been tracking are some way connected." "As you know, you're extremely valuable to the Bureau." "If you like, I'd be more than happy to approve a early leave for you." "You know, prepare the nest and such." "I appreciate that, sir." "It's not a bad idea." "I'll let you know." "The date March 17th." "Does that have any special significance for you?" "I noticed it written on a map in your office several times." "That's the day my husband died." "Yes, of course." "I noticed it written on a map in your office several times." "St. Patrick's Day?" "I've got a bit of the Irish in me." "Will that be all, sir?" "Agent Biggs..." "We can not let personal issues affect our work at the Bureau." "I strongly recommend that you consider going on early leave." "Thank you, sir." "Answer me this one question - is this the shadow of things that will be or the shadow of things that may be, only?" "Tell me, spirit, am I that man who lays in the bed?" "Oh." "No!" "No!" " No!" " Excuse me." "Oh, yeah." "Sally!" "You can come out now." "Sorry we chased you away." "Good afternoon, Mrs. Biggs, this is Dr. Gupal." "I'm very sorry to leave this message on your machine," " but I'm going out of town with my family." "I am afraid tests came back positive." "A lot of progress has been made in this area , and more will be made in the future." "What was that about?" " My baby might have cystic fibrosis." " What's cystic fibrosis?" "Well, your great-aunt Margaret died in it when she was very young." "But they do not know yet for sure, right?" "That is so ironic, that it's genetic." "Mr. Biggs left quite a legacy." "Alright, Sally." "No." "This baby is going to need 24/7 attention" "I'm a single parent." "My mother is senile." "My father is dead." "I have no siblings." "But they do not know for sure, and you have us." "How many more people are going to be chained up because of my idiot husband?" "I..." "I never wanted to get married." "I never wanted children." "I didn't even want any friends." "I don't see the value, as Horatio used to say." "Sally, there's value right there." "Like I need Horatio's help for a baby." "I have always been in control of my life." "More than anyone could even comprehend." "And now, for the first time in my life" "I have bills I can not pay." "It's a really bad deal!" "But what are you gonna do?" "You're going to live in fear?" "You're never going to weave anybody into your life?" "You're never gonna make choices that matter?" "I remember the day I let it happen." "What happened?" "And what day?" "The day I let myself fall in love." "It was about a year after we met." "Christmas Eve." "He wanted me to meet him, at this little place in Annapolis." "Actually,the same restaurant he was in when he first saw me." "I wasn't even sure why I went down there." "He was going to propose and I knew that if I went in the restaurant," "I'd say yes." "So I just sat there." "And I was about to tell the cab driver to take me to the airport when this blind guy got in." "He must have thought it was available or something." "Oh, is this taken?" "Uh..." "No, it's okay." "It was kind of funny, so I just got out of the cab, and let him have it." "And then I went in the restaurant." "And the rest is history." "So it's the blind, man's fault you got married?" "It wasn't anybody's fault!" "You made a choice, and you made the right one." "Who... how do you know that?" "Because I know my brother!" "And he loved you." "Then why did that arrogant bastard get himself killed and leave me alone?" "and leave me alone?" "and leave me alone?" "Because I know my brother!" "And he loved you." " What's that noise?" " What noise?" "You don't hear that?" "Sally, what's the matter?" "Who's that?" "Who's who?" "The guy hanging..." "You didn't see anything?" "Like what?" "What is it?" "You don't see a guy on a ladder hanging Christmas lights?" "No." "Do you?" "It's Horatio." "Okay, Sally, come on." "Let's go inside, Sally." "Hey!" "Sally?" "I think I'm going crazy." "I think I'm going crazy." "Hold on before I smell the cake!" "Sally?" "You know, they never did find his body." "Jerry, this is Sally." "Come meet me in my office as soon as you get this, alright?" "Sally, I didn't expect to see you here today." "Go ahead take it to my office." "What are you doing?" "Just making some changes, while you are on maternity leave." "I'm not on maternity leave." "I said I would think about it." "I was hoping that your tardiness was indicative of your decision." "But either way,as of right now you are on maternity leave." "This is insane." "I demand you put that down immediately." "Sally, that's government property." "Sorry Sally." "There is no reason to do this." "Look, Sally, I'm trying to save your job." "If the people above me read the same psych evaluation... that I read, you won't have a job when you get back." "You'll be assigned to some freak consultant list." "Now you get your things." "You go on home." "And I don't want to see you around here for a couple of months." "Come on, Sally, enjoy your time off." "The director's been after me all morning." "What you got?" "Alright ,here are your dots." "And you neglected to tell me that one of them was down the street from my house." "It's a little unsettling, don't you think?" "Tell me about it." "So, what are they, Sally?" "The dots represent  really, really strange phenomena." " Verified?" "Mostly yes. and there a ton of them up and down the East Coast." "Most are recent... but I've actually traced them back a couple hundred years." "It sounds crazy, but I'm convinced that a handful of them have to do with Horatio." "The ones I gave you appeared on the day he died ," "March 17 this year." "Ok." "Well, you're right." "These are consistent with a typical blast pattern , but it's something... something odd is happening." "Normally when the program runs, it looks for factors like wind resistance, gravity, aerodynamics...things like that." "But these coordinates, they don't work, unless you take all those factors out." "It's like a bomb that went off in another dimension." "So we have an approximate center." " I need exact location." "I just want to get to the center of it." "Ok." "I'm locked out?" "What?" "It's like a bomb that went off in another dimension." "Is this how you are connected to the rest of the building?" "Yeah, why?" "I'll give it back later." "I need exact location." " Are you alright?" " Come on, let's go!" "Ok, ok. this is not exactly college math here." "College Algebra." "This is complex stuff." "I need longitude and latitude." "Special Agent Gerald Mackenzie." "Cease all operations immediately and report..." "It's a little early for postpartum, don't you think?" "Longitude and latitude, Jerry." "Okay, it's coming." "Here it is." "Jessie, stop what you're doing." "Get it." "I want you in my office..." "Not even you can get out of here Sally." "So, ghosts and UFOs are classified now?" " Yours are." " Guess I'll take that maternity leave." "That's a good idea, Sally." "We will send you your things." "She certainly got quite a morbid fascination for time and space disturbance." "She's using the paradoxes to find out where he was when he disappeared." "Well, maybe we should hire her." "Why didn't you send me earlier?" "Before the power loss?" "Is this your first dive or something, rookie?" "If probability is too low, we don't know where the time line is, and then we can't get a lock on her." "And because she's a 95er " "She has this undo button for everything she does." "Figuring out what she's up to is" " drum roll please - less probable." "And then we come to gravity." "This, my dear boy, is a measure of how strong out time line is at any given point." "If gravity is too high, an interception is either impossible or futile." "But if gravity is low enough , then the time line can be manipulated." "Pumpkin love?" "Gotcha." "If her gravity is low, we should be able to intercept." "Yes, but it can't be so low that there's nothing there." "pardon the cliche, but my job is both an art and a science " "You must understand that." "You must understand that this is is more than a job, Brego." "This track is everything." " I need more information!" " Who is she?" "Classified." "Is Kennings after her?" "It won't be long before one of the stooges find the tipping point." " So, they want to make the big change?" " Why?" "Why her?" " Classified." " I need to know for the track!" " It's classified." "Why is it so personal to you?" "That's why." "This paradox all the way back to the beginning." "She's connected to it." "Some day, she can prevent this." "Now get me that track!" "December 19, 2003." "I chased the carolers the street and started singing with them." "Will we become Queen Victoria and Prince Albert a?" "Bonnie and Clyde or Scrooge and Marley?" "Christmas Eve 2004." "I'm going to propose tonight." "This is the tipping point." "Married today." "Checkmate!" "Happy." "Quantum theory says that we can't be sure of the ... most mysterious and impossible barrier of all  in the quantum treasury..." "A law?" "A force?" "A special kind of particle, that we haven't discovered?" "Mistress Pandora, will weigh in at about 12... 12,000.." "I have never met or even heard of the projects of Mr. JT Kennings" "Tub, tub, Biggs." "You were a bit too hasty to surrender your queen." "Who will bring you tea and rub your feet?" "You know why I like to play chess with you, Biggs?" "Because no one else will?" "Because it makes me think." "You don't have to think too hard." "You know, it was a game of chess when I was a child, that sparked some of the first and most important insights into the nature of the universe." "For example, I have already predicted that this game will be comprised of a total of 89 moves," "44 of yours and 45 of mine." "My victory is an inevitability." "You will choose to resign in thirteen in twelve choices from now." "The wonderful magnificent question is did it already happen?" "And am I actually moving backwards in time?" "And more to the point- was time itself ultimately irrelevant?" "in the unfolding of your defeat?" "Was that the beginning of the first law?" "Yes." "But as we know, the closer you get to the thirteenth move,... your ability to change your mind and defeat me, in, say eleven moves, becomes increasingly less likely ." "and it becomes infinitely less likely for you defeat me in eleven moves." "the twelfth move, extrapolate that curve and we see that you are almost certainly moving in one specific direction through time and space." "And that, my dear Biggs, is the great injustice of the universe." "Here we have a scientist who speaks of quantum theories as friends and enemies not as scientific ideas, yet to be proven." "August 12, 2007." "This day everything changes." "I was on my usual round in the tube " "I was so on fire with ideas the realization of what we built." "See you later." "When I stammered out my discovery to Kennings, he laughed and said, "Oh, Biggs We are here in the people business here."" "I had always thought my "Neil Armstrong" moment - was going to be in a lab, looking at screens." "I thought Kennings musings on time and space were supposed to be just playful imagination" "I thought I would end up as all well-known physicist- and...and engineer, not a legend." "I got quite a shock tonight when Sally quoted Isaac Newton,to me!" ""Gravity explains the motions of the planets" " But cannot explain who sets the planets in motion'" "She says I've become maniacal in my work" "She says my playmates and I are building machines,..." ".. so we can play God And this coming from the biggest.." "control freak in the galaxy" "... we are now officially ESTRANGED" "October 22, 2009." "We've been going through the motions for a while now emotional tirades been pretty predictable" "But something quite unpredictable happened today." "Who played Georgie in the 1949 film "The Inspector General"?" "That has to be Danny Kaye?" "Ok." "The cellular energy transfer molecule known ATP" " What does that stand for" " Adenosine triphosphate." "When did Tyrannosaurus Rex roam the earth?" " Was it..." " Cretaceous." "Give me a hard one." "Okay..." "What calibers of handgun ammunition are known to induce hydrostatic shock in living targets?" "I do not know." "Your turn." "When a parachuter's speed is constant during a free fall, he or she..." " Terminal velocity." "Nice." "Which famous aviator disappeared mysteriously..." "Amelia Earhart." " On the electromagnetic spectrum..." " Red." "Tanzania." "December 25, 1776." "Come on, give me a hard one." "That would be..." "Mr. Shelley's wife." "I've always known that Sally is a little unusual." "She is inhumanly punctual as if time is on her schedule and not the other way around." "She is a perfect marksman, which has become something of novelty among her colleagues at the FBI." "She's never been in a traffic accident." "She does a lot of cooking... though she leaves the cleanup to me, even if I'm gone weeks at a time," "But I've never seen her drop a dish." "Could it be that I'm married to a living specimen... of the things I am theorizing about in my work?" "Professing romance and reconciliation..." "I invited her out to a nice restaurant." "Little did she know she was part of a little experiment." "I pretended to get a little tipsy, but with a secret mission in my mind  To break every dish I could." "Of all things Sally hates to be part of a scene she can't control... especially in public, but I was determined." "I went for the wine glass, salad bowl- the dinner plate, even the waiter." "But amazingly so, Sally was ready for me." "I couldn't break anything." "Maybe she is psychic, maybe I'm drunk," " Or maybe these dishes are crashing on the ground." "Which I admit, is the craziest of the three possibilities." "I used to joke that the most dangerous and unpredictable variable in my equations was my crazy wife." "How right I was." "All the math points to the necessity for - a residue of time broken lines." "A ghost, an echo - meaning that I should be able to find the piece of the dish that had broken, and yet hadn't" "And of course before dinner I made sure we were using dishes that had never been in that restaurant before." "I'm calling these ghosts "Paradoxes of the second kind."" "theoretically, Pandora could also create paradoxes of the 7th kind." " Making possible Sally's unusual relationship with time." "But frankly I don't have time to think about Sally." "This could all be hogwash." "We have to prove that chrono tons exist in the first place, and there's only one way to do that." "Sally's despondency has given away to regular volleys of rage and discontent even though I'm almost never home." "What's the value of marriage to someone like me?" "My gifts, my talents, my intellect can benefit human kind most doing what I'm doing." "She needs to be studied, but later." "Right now she is in the way." "It's not fair of me to hold her love captive." "I'm a scientist, right?" "Aren't I supposed to be removing dangerous and unpredictable variables from my life?" " Hi, Sally." " Hi." " Looks like you've been crying." " Yeah." "Me too." "Rehearsals at my house were a disaster." "You know, actors just don't behave themselves unless there is an FBI agent." "Power restored." "Mom and I thought we could take you out to lunch." " Don't you have school?" " School's out." "I guess I lost track of time." "Gravity fluctuating." "Low grid target lock only" " KTDE online." " Target acquired." "Go, go!" "Engine's come online and I'm detecting a bogey." " Then hurry!" " 1, 4 and 6 aberrant intercept" "Warning." "Will you go see who that is, sweetie?" "Ok," " How are things going?" " I don't know." "preparing to fire." "Report collateral paradox." "TSCP efficient." "Warning." "Interception detected." "Some guy in a suit." "aberrant intercept..." "Deflection Risk rising." "Intercept threatened." "Warning. fluctuating gravity" "Paige, Trudy,we got to go out the back now!" " Go." "Move it out the back, now!" " Oh, My God." " What are you doing?" " I don't know." "Trudy, get down!" "9872 Willow brook Lane, armed intruders. get out!" "Call 911." "Just do it!" " What are you doing?" " Get down!" "Who are you?" "I said who are you?" "Does this have anything with Horatio Biggs?" "Sally, behind you!" "Behind you!" "Who are you?" "Who sent you?" "What is this all about?" "Talk to me!" "I said, talk to me!" "9 seconds, right?" "Still too much gravity." "Track lost." " What happened?" " The enemies got there first." " Reacquire the target!" " Yes, Sir." "So you know who they were?" "Yes." "What's that?" "Just a second." "Sir, if you have something to tell me, I need to know now." "I just injected myself with the antidote to the gas you've been breathing since you entered the car." "No, don't worry, it's not toxic." "It's just going to put you sleep." "What?" "I just injected myself..." "Sally?" " Mom, what's happening?" " Is she okay?" "It's Ok." "I'll take care of her." "I just injected myself..." "injected myself with an antidote." "It's empty." "Why?" "I'm taking you to a top secret location." "You can't know where that is." "I'm your friend, Sally." "Your friend." "Get up, Sally." "You have to get up!" "We are running out of time." "Agent Biggs." "Agent Biggs." "Agent Biggs, are you alright?" "I am terribly sorry to have to bring you here this way." "But this location has the highest classification rating." "And frankly, blindfolds are kind of old-fashioned." "Where are we?" "Where your husband used to work." "Is this... where he died?" "There was a terrible explosion." "What is this place?" "You've been tracking strange phenomena for some time now." "They seem to appear in patterns - similar to last night, correct?" " Yes." "They are explosions, Agent Biggs." "Explosions in time-space, also called paradoxes." "They occur when someone changes the past or the future for that matter." "This thing is a time machine?" "Well, supposedly there is no such thing as time." "It's more about mass, gravity , particles." "I don't eally understand the whole thing, but when a change is made fragments of what was, blast out and they show up t in the real world as "happenings", like Blue birds flying over Antarctica." "Sometimes we get fragments that are clearly connected to the person or event at the center of the paradox   such as a cap of a root beer bottle." "Now, Horatio Biggs was killed while conducting the first tests on the engine." "Right down there." "This is all very hard to believe." "You see ghosts, don't you?" "Come on, let's put our cards on the table, Agent Biggs." "Yes, I see his ghost." "Echos, Sally." "They probably already lost self-awareness, and eventually they will dissipate completely." "But they are echos of a time line that might have been." "The machine is actually very safe." "Unfortunately, your husband thought he knew better than to follow the safety protocols." "If you got a time machine, why don't you do not go back to save him?" "Oh,we tried, but changes in time are generally extremely hard to make." "Your husband was a very prideful and stubborn man." "That makes it very hard to dislodge his time line" "And for the similar reasons, the men who attacked your home failed to kill you." "A very straightforward approach on their part, but  you had too much gravity." "You're saying they're from the future?" "Look, what I've told you is the tip of the tip of the iceberg." "I can't really say much more, only that it amounts to a major threat to national security, and puts your life and your happiness at risk." "Why me?" "Partly because of your connection to Horatio Biggs." "Partly because of your investigation, Which, I so rudely interrupted." "You've been looking at Horatio's death as the beginning of your troubles..." "What do you know about my relationship with Horatio?" "Enough to know it was a disaster." "This is ridiculous." "I don't believe in time travel anyway." "Yes, do you, Agent Biggs." "You've believed in time travel since you were a little girl." "And I'm guessing you've fantasized about going back in time more than just a few seconds." "Yes, I know." "Here, put this on your arm." "Go on." "Now..." " Do you have a solution?" " I think I know where she is  but gravity is too high for an intercept." "Hers?" " No, the bogies." "They must have been planning this for a long time." "Pull all the power you need to punch me through!" "We don't have that kind of power." "I have got to get in there before she gives him the tipping point." "She's just going to give it to him?" "Why?" "Because she wants to make the change." " She wants to get rid of Horatio?" " Horatio and the baby." " She doesn't want them." " Well, there's nothing I can do." "Can you remember the moment when you decided to join your life with that of Mr. Biggs?" "The night he proposed to me at a restaurant in Annapolis." "I was sitting in a taxi outside." "It was Christmas Eve, 2004." " Do you remember about what time?" " I remember. 6:01 pm." "Excellent." "Now, don't worry." "I'm gonna be right behind you." "You can send me further upstream." "Anywhere." "I'll track her on the ground." "We only get one shot at this." "If I send you back to when she was a little girl you could easily dead end or ricochet." "I do not care!" "Or you might end up being an old man before you intercept." "The armband is your anchor, it will keep you in the new time." "Now, whatever you do, do not take it off." " What happens if I do it?" " You'll go flying through time- space." "You may end up a day after today or you may end up a month after today, or... nowhere at all." " She's gone." " You can still send me upstream." "Our best chance is to wait...for her." "So did that spicy food satisfy the baby?" "He's kicking a little bit more." "You are so beautiful." "Honey, are you okay?" "I think so." " What's your problem, lady?" " I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." " You okay?" " Let's just go." " I don't know..." " she's pregnant!" "I should call the cops." "Let's just go." "Welcome to Christmas Eve 2004." "Pretty amazing, huh?" "This is a couple hundred miles north from where we were." "It's not your typical time machine." "We're going to be visiting an event, not a date." " So which restaurant is it?" " Am I gonna see myself?" "Well, if we're lucky." "It's called Sais." "hang a left here." "Sally!" "I remember Horatio talking about you... the most unpredictable and dangerous variable in his equation was his crazy wife." "Nice, huh?" "Hey, is that you?" " Yes!" " You mentioned 6:01." "What happens then?" "What... what makes you decide?" "This blind man got into the cab and sort of gave me a little push." " So where are we going, lady?" "What are we doing here?" "Well, we are approaching the tipping point." "Stop the blind man." "You want to stop me from marrying him?" "Isn't that what you want?" "So what happens to me?" "The version of me sitting right here?" "You're already thinking like a time traveler." " Answer my question." " It will be kind of like a dream." "The angry, lonely Sally will go away and you'll be left with..." "Well,with the Sally that's the right track." " What about the baby?" " Well, on the current time line," "If all this mucking around with time were to stop, it most likely live a very short, painful life." "Sally, you deserve the life that you want." "people aren't supposed to be trying to kill you." "And you never intended for the man that you married to dump you for his job." "then to leave you altogether." "Sally, life is about making choices, about making better and better choices." "Choices that bring more happiness and less pain into this world." "Now, you are getting a rare opportunity to look at your life from a..." "from a non-linear point of view." "No." "If you had to do it all over again, would you have done it differently?" "You couldn't take control, when your father died, but you can now." "Now, I'm not talking about redoing a few seconds." "I'm talking about a whole life." " Yes..." " I mean, was Horatio it worth?" "And besides, you don't want that baby anyway." " Yes..." " I mean, was Horatio it worth?" "Sally!" "Sally, wait!" "Sally, wait!" "Sorry." " Get out of the car!" " Sally." "Out of the car!" "I can't let someone like you have a loaded gun." "You should be happy." "I'm giving you the life you always wanted." "Rift tide." "foes have cut her anchor." "Epicenter located." "Cascading paradoxes approaching." " All personnel: await instructions." " Where is she going to land?" " Calculating" " Rift time approaching." " Calculating time line." " Exit vector." " Calculating time line." " reentry vector." " Delta is minus 3.8 hours." " A few hours before she left." "Thing's gonna really get weird." "Pass me through to the boss." " Permission is required." " Consent Alpha 17-01 Epsilon." " Secure channel opened." "Danger." " Well, hello, there." " Where am I?" " Bethesda Medical." " How did I get here?" "A nice couple on the metro said you came out of nowhere" " and attacked them, and then went unconscious." " How's the baby?" "Just fine." "There was a trace of sedative in your blood " " But there is no indication of any lasting effecst." " Do you know how you got that lasseration?" " No." "Well, I do need some personal information  Information." "Your name?" " Well, hello, there." " Where am I?" " Bethesda Medical." " How did I..." "What day is it?" " Friday." " What's the date?" "December 24th, Christmas Eve." "It is the day that I left." " 2013?" " Yes." " Danger. rift is approaching." " Yes, Matthew." "All personnel:" "await instruction from your CP official." "We've failed." "No." "I failed." "A long time ago." "The rift tide is coming." "There's still a chance." "She knows what she needs to do." "Agent Biggs, how are you doing?" "Can you just pay the taxi?" "He's waiting outside." "Bill the Bureau." "Kennings has picked the big day." "Lucky March 17." "Of course I'm scared out of my wits." "scared out of my wits." "Of course I'm scared out of my wits." "As the big day approaches," "I find myself asking the objective kinds of questions scientists are supposed to ask." "The kinds of questions I haven't been asking for a long time." "Question one:" "Why does Sally have such a flexible relationship with time?" "My best theory is that a major event in her life, such as birth must have occured in the midst of a mass of rift in time-space A paradox of the seventh kind." "Question one:" "Why does Sally have such a flexible relationship...?" "Question two:" "If there is such a rift, where is it?" "I'm not sure yet." "Sally was born in an ambulance on the freeway." "But I have no reason to believe that I-95 is a hotbed of strange time-space phenomena." "Question three:" "How did this rift get created?" "And here's where my life falls apart." "Timeline transmutation in progress." "She's hoping that Horatio left the location of time machine in the diary." " Brego, what's happening?" " Her gravity is climbing a bit." "But..." "like a whole new timeline is taken over." "In my blind arrogance, I had thought that Pandora - might be able to create paradoxes all nine kinds." "Wouldn't that be nice little story?" "An eccentric scientist builds the machine that inadvertently gives his wife super powers." "But the truth is..." "To create a rift in time, of that magnitude it would take dozens of machines, maybe even hundreds, operaing from who knows where or when." "Which means that this is not the first time machine." "which explains why I have never heard of Kennings." "Which means that I am no great scientist, only a willing pawn and the greatest fool who ever lived." "I'm probably only alive because Kennings sees me as his pet." "With a leash foged link by link with my own pride." "But as I always say, the very ink with which history is written merely fluid prejudice." "There are bonds between molecules, between atoms, between quarks, between every particle." "And there are bonds between the master particles." "These are the bonds that make us free." "Hold on to me, Matthew." "We need your gravity." "I have to disable the machine, at least the long-range components." "I think I know where he's going at, I can't let him get there." "If there is still a a shred of gravity between us" "Sally will find this diary." "I would have been impervious to all this if I had loved you better, Sally." "Finally I understand that that is a choice I should have made every day. ...every day." "...every day." "Timeline obliteration, recorded at 18:01 hours." "Our Sally is gone." "Transmutation recorded." " Ma?" " Hold on to me." "Within normal parameters..." " Gravity spike detected." "Activation in progress." " Wait a minute!" " Resurgence of original timeline." " She's going to bounce!" "Calculated obliteration 9.2 hours." "But Horatio didn't leave the location of the time machine in the diary." " The what is she going to do?" " Get some help from a friend." "Jerry had been trapped, but he left her a Christmas present." "Her gravity's jumped a bit." "None of this is in the record." "She's going back to Horatio's machine." "How do you know?" "Matthew, they're attacking from both sides of the timeline." " Launched a counterattack." " Are we still online?" "Don't go until she's all the way inside the complex." "Reporting no solution." "Brego, have we got anything?" "This is ridiculous." "Sally, Sally, get up." "Get up, Sally!" "You have to wake up!" "We are running out of time!" " She can't hear you." "Sally, you can't just show up and stop yourself from making a major decision." "Time-space won't allow it." "These things have to be done delicately." "We're losing her!" "Youre going to have to go through her!" "Brego, send me through her." "Are you crazy?" "Which one of her?" "Stop!" "You're late, Sally." "The rift tide must be catching up to your timeline." "I guess I'm about to be successful, uh?" "It is the gravity Sally." "You gave it away." "We got no readings now." "Just send me!" "This is our last chance!" "You'll just expand the paradox." "There are already three people if you give me the authorization" "To fire blindly, into the heart of a rift tide." " And you're not one of them, Captain." " DANGER!" "Rift tide approaching." "But I am." "She is ready, Brego." "I'm sorry." "Is there anything you want me to tell her?" "The truth." "Are you alright?" "Yeah." "This will help with the fading, but not for long." "When you're finished, deactivate the anchor by pressing the little button." "It will bring you back to within a day of right now." "When I'm finished?" "What am I supposed to do?" "You'll know what to do." "Wait, can they come back afterwards and stop me?" "Unlikely." "They tiedtoo many knots in the timeline already." "Each incursiion at the same locus requires exponentially more energy, but they will try again." "Some day." "Time to go." "Horatio Biggs used the probability paradox to disable theis machine." "Its max range is only a few years now." "Useless to Kennings, but enough for you." "On March 17th, Kennings took Horatio to the future." "Leaving only..." " he's alive?" "And you may see him again." "I can't let someone like you have a loaded gun." "You should be happy." "I'm giving you the life you always wanted." "I'm done here." "Let's get back to war." "Find your exit locus." "I need a pen." "Sure" "Do you have something to write on?" "Anything." "Yeah." "Write this for me." "Write this for me, please!" "Ok." "She's at the airport." "She loves You." "Hurry." "Give it to that guy in the booth over there." "It's for you." "Taxi!" "Well, we're still here." "Thanks." "Timeline restored." "So, what happens now?" "That's classified." "Morning, children!" "What's today?" "Today?" "Is he mad?" " Today is Christmas Day!" " It's Christmas Day!" "So the spirits have all done it all in one night." "Of course they did." "Then I shall treasure the past live in the present and safeguard the future." "Merry Christmas, everyone!" "Bob!" "Bob Cratchit!" "The prize turkey!" "We should surprise him!" "Oi!" "Merry Christmas everyone!" "And that, my dear Biggs - is the great injustice in the universe." "This is not the first time machine." "I think I know where he's going and I can't let him get there." "Everything I've told you isthe tip of the tip of the iceberg." "You'll know what to do." "The fireplace fell on top of me..." "Yes!" "But your improvisation was brilliant, my friend!" "Mom!" " Is it time?" "Look what's happening!" " I think so." "Are you quite alright with that or...?" "Go get Sally's overnight bag ." "It's in her room." "Ok?" "Go." "Go." "Go." "Okay, go inside, Sally." "We're all here for you." "The car is right here." "Come on!" "I guess we're having the party at the hospital." "Sorry." "How are we doing, pumpkin love?" "Not in too much pain?" "I'm right here." "I'm right here." " Come on." "Come on." " Okay, over here.We're ok." " Okay." " Let's go!" "Let's Go!" "Let's not have the baby on the freeway!" " Sally?" "Mom!" "May water just broke." "Ok, we need to get there fast." "Right now." "As long as you get to the hospital right now!" "We're still here." "Now let's go get your father." "Report incomplete Relevant loci distribution " "Outside low probability curves." "Target untraceable."