Millennium - Sci-Fi 1989 English
[WHOOSHING]
[ROARING]
[MAN ON RADIO] T.U.A., three five heavy,
descend to 3000 feet.
[PILOT] Minneapolis centre, this is Trans-Universal
three five heavy, descending to 3000.
[RADIO] Roger, T.U.A. three five heavy.
T.U.A. three five heavy, could you give me your location?
Ron, where the hell are we?
25 miles due south on approach,
descending through 5000 feet.
[RADIO] Three five, what is your current heading?
What's his problem?
Minneapolis, we are currently heading zero-
[RADIO] T.U.A. three five, turn to heading-
[STATIC]
Say again, Minneapolis.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
Jesus, down.
Oh my God.
Down, go down.
[METAL CRUNCHING]
My God, we hit them, we hit them! [ALARM BLARING]
Minneapolis, this is T.U.A. three five.
Declaring an emergency, we hit another aircraft.
Looked like a 10.
Three and four shutting down, cutting fuel to three.
We are going down, repeat, going down.
How much of the wing is gone?
Ron, get back there. See how much we have left.
Right.
[RHYTHMIC BUZZING]
[EXPLOSIONS]
[THRILLING MUSIC]
[MUSIC BECOMES PEACEFUL]
[PROPELLERS]
[PLANES PASSING OVERHEAD]
- [WOMAN]: There he is. - [MAN] Excuse me!
[REPORTERS CLAMOURING]
[HELICOPTER IDLING]
Mr. Smith, I'm Kevin Briley, from the Minneapolis office-
And you're not doing your job.
Round these people up and shove them in a room somewhere.
Make no statement 'till I get back.
Ashby, tell them what we need.
Right, come on, move it.
The rest of y'all, let's go.
- Move it! - Back up, back up.
Come on, people, let's go now, do it!
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[INVESTIGATOR] Where'd the DC-10 go down?
[PILOT] 10 miles to the south.
Jerry, Eli, go take a look.
Tom and I'll put down here.
[EERIE MUSIC]
Wanna give me a hand with this?
[WORKERS TALKING]
[MAN] Bill.
Alright.
[MAN] Bill.
[MAN 2] Get the flash light over here!
We were just going after the flight data recorder.
You wanna do that next?
Sure.
I think that the DC-10 site came down
a lot harder than this one.
What happened here?
Well, he managed to get it level,
but you might have noticed there's only three engines.
One came down south of here.
So he lost a lot of wing?
We think so, yeah.
We started on the site map,
and the cops have finally stopped moving things around.
[DISTANT SIRENS]
Look, Bill, uh, we're being very careful but
we don't think that this is a structural failure, natural.
Do you have any numbers yet?
Yeah, yeah, got them right here.
[MEN SHOUTING]
This one had 354 and 13 crew and the 10 had 265 and 11.
Watch that wing section there.
Do you already have the cockpit voice recorder?
Yeah, we have it, but it's pretty battered.
They're working on it now.
I want a dub made before you send it on to Washington.
Alright, I'll tell them, but it might not be too good.
[MAN] It's a silly rule.
Why should the boys in Washington hear it first?
I gotta hear what those poor bastards
were up against after they hit the 10.
I'm sure they did their best. They always do.
Are you one of Roger's team?
I'm Dr. Arnold Mayer.
I'm the investigator in charge, Bill Smith.
Bill Smith, yes, I know.
I've read many of your crash reports.
Naturally I've heard of you, Doctor.
What's your interest here?
You want me to leave?
No, it doesn't matter.
All this just seems pretty far removed
from your physics lab.
Maybe scientists should leave the lab more often.
They might learn some things.
Dr. Mayer, what's an ecology professor
doing at a crash site?
Do you know someone on the plane?
Not that I'm aware of.
How did you hear about the crash, sir?
I got a call from a television [DROWNED OUT]
He's the last guy I'd expect to find out here.
Yeah, actually, he's not.
He's been to several Midwest crashes.
That big one in '79 at O'Hare, he was all over that one.
I wonder why.
I don't think it will win him another Nobel prize.
Over here, I got it!
There's a whole mob here from Boeing,
and the man from McDonnell Douglas is on the way.
Wes Lake from the F.B.I is here,
and the assistant D.A. from Ramsey County.
Okay, the usual gang.
Mr. Janz, I'm Bill Smith of the NTSB.
Mr. Smith, my name is Raymond Leacock.
I represent Mr. Janz.
Is this a formal deposition?
Not yet.
I'm sitting in on this.
Bill, meet Ian Carpenter.
He's with the Air Traffic Controllers Organization.
Mr. Janz, I know this is a hard time for you.
I want to hear what you saw, and what your actions were.
We were handling 40 flights, three of us,
plus the private planes.
The screen was so crowded.
And a god-damned headache.
I was tired.
35 was coming in from the east.
No, from the west, and 880 was coming in.
Was that the 747, Don?
I looked away for a moment.
Some other situation.
And when I looked back, they'd changed places.
I told 35 to turn. They were close, man.
And then the numbers switched.
You couldn't tell them apart anymore.
Somebody's got these guys
working harder and faster than I've ever seen.
Well, that DC-10 was pretty public.
It spread itself over a field not half a mile
from the Interstate.
Right.
And they don't want people gawking at their...
What was it they called that crash in Florida?
Involuntary conversion.
I think they made a profit on that
when the insurance paid off.
Yeah, well, they sure are
busting their asses on this one.
Look at that, they even got the
ticket agents serving coffee.
[MAN] Mr. Keane, where does this go?
What do you wanna do with this stuff?
Did I tell you you could touch that?
Excuse me. Put that down!
Just put that down.
Hey.
How about some coffee?
Hey, wait a minute.
I think she likes you, Bill.
What'd I do?
Could it be your breath?
I thought you always got that reaction.
Gentlemen, they're ready to play the cockpit tapes.
[PILOT] Minneapolis, we are currently heading zero-
[CONTROLLER] T.U.A. three five, turn to heading-
[STATIC]
[PILOT] Say again, Minneapolis.
Jesus, down.
[COPILOT] Oh my God.
[PILOT] Down, go down.
[METAL CRUNCHING] [ALARM BLARING]
[COPILOT] My God, we hit them, we hit them!
[PILOT] Minneapolis, this is T.U.A. three five,
declaring an emergency We hit another aircraft.
Looked like a 10.
[FLIGHT ENGINEER] Three and four shutting down,
cutting fuel to three.
[PILOT] We are going down, repeat, going down.
[ENGINEER] How much of the wing is gone?
[PILOT] Ron, get back there, see how much we have left.
[ENGINEER] Right.
Would you like some coffee, Mr. Smith?
Dammit, I'm listening'-
[PILOT] Still going down. Is there any place to land?
[COPILOT] I'll check-
[CLICKS BUTTON]
Can you rewind that a little?
[GARBLED AUDIO]
[PILOT] Still going down. Is there any place to land?
[COPILOT] I'll check for a field.
[PILOT] Just look for a flat place, anything.
We'll be on the ground in-
[ENGINEER] They're dead, they're all dead.
[PILOT] What the hell's he talking about?
Sit down for Christ's sake, Ron.
[ENGINEER] They're dead, all of them, they're burned up.
[FLAMES AND CRUNCHING METAL]
[PILOT] Jesus.
[COPILOT] Yes, here it comes.
[FLAMES ROARING LOUD CRASH]
[SILENCE]
Was that Kennedy shouting?
Yeah, Rockwell couldn't understand him.
Run that last part through again.
I'll see if I can clean it up a bit for ya.
[PILOT] Just look for a flat place, anything.
We'll be on the ground in-
[ENGINEER] They're dead, they're all dead!
[PILOT] What the hell's he talking about?
Sit down for Christ's sake, Ron.
[ENGINEER] They're dead, all of them, they're burned up.
[PILOT] Jesus.
[CLICKS BUTTON]
Burned up?
They were going to be.
They might as well have been dead already.
Makes me sick.
Yeah, but it doesn't make sense.
You expect him to make sense at a time like that?
No, not like that.
Okay, I'll back the pilots.
Like they say, they're the first on the scene of the accident.
But how many crash tapes have you heard?
God, too many.
But how many times do you hear
a man come apart like that?
[SIGHS] Okay, but it's gotta happen sometime.
He goes back there and sees all those people
who are gonna die and it's too much for him.
Obviously they hadn't burned up yet.
Well, what about, if, uh, maybe, maybe there was a fire
in the cabin, maybe they were burned up already?
Sorry, but that won't work.
The fuselage was unaffected by fire until after impact.
He just broke under the strain.
Get me a transcript of that tape.
Roger, set up a press conference for tonight.
Let's go see what the dead have to say about it.
This gymnasium, is this the biggest place they could find?
[KEANE] Oh, Bill, I've got something interesting for you.
These are pretty good bodies in here.
Next door we got stuff from the DC-10,
which is mostly pieces, can't be identified.
Next of kin are gonna have to look at personal effects,
mostly, not many faces to show them.
Then the F.B.I. takes over.
We'll be lucky to tag 60%
for fingerprints and dental charts.
Not enough hands, not enough heads.
We autopsied a few, and they died of trauma,
dismemberment, burns, the usual.
We gotta get some reefer trucks in here,
and some airtight coffins-
Yeah, they're on their way.
Look, I only got this place for two clays.
I got a dance-
Trucks will be here.
Okay.
Now, here's what I wanted you to see.
Two kinds of watches, okay?
Mechanicals here, and digitals here.
Now, these digitals didn't do so good.
Mostly they're blank.
Heat must have wiped them out.
But we did find this.
Yeah, so what?
Well, so take a closer look.
It's going backwards.
This better not be a joke.
It's not.
Somebody had a gag watch.
Well, we thought of that. Look at this.
[CROWD CHATTERING]
Good evening.
You all have copies of the prepared statement.
I'm William Smith, investigator in charge.
I'll try to answer your questions, but I warn you,
we don't know much more than is in that statement.
Who wants to go first?
[MAN] Mr. Smith! [ALL CLAMOURING]
Sir, there have been rumours of some type
of computer error being the cause of this crash.
Can you confirm this?
That's being looked at. I can't say more at this time.
[CLAMOURING]
When can we talk to the controller
who was handling the planes?
You'll have to take that up with the man's lawyer.
Mr. Smith, you're on record as issuing
a pretty harsh indictment of the FAA
for failing to require anti-collision devices
on all commercial and private aircraft,
even though, as you note, these devices
have been available for over a decade.
Would you care to comment?
Dr. Mayer, do you have any idea what caused this crash?
One of Newton's Laws, I suspect, the one about gravity.
Beyond that I don't know any more than you do.
Can I have an interview, Doctor?
Gentlemen, please, I have to get in there
and ask some questions of my own.
Would you care to reply
to the charge made by Mr. Carpenter?
No reply at this time. Next question.
Mr. Smith, I'm Dr. Arnold Mayer,
professor of physics at the university.
[BILL] I remember you.
Thank you.
My question has nothing to do with
overloaded computers or negligent air traffic controllers.
[BILL] That should be refreshing.
1 doubt it.
What unusual facts have you developed
so far in your investigation?
I'm not sure I know what you mean.
Were there any unexplained observations?
Is there any indication that this crash was caused
by something less obvious than a computer overload?
None at all, of course, every crash is unique.
Yet they share common factors.
There are things you expect to find and things you don't.
For instance, is there anything in the cockpit
voice recording that's out of the ordinary?
I can't comment on that; It's confidential.
The relevant portions will be released in a couple of days.
You can listen for yourself.
Alright, but is there anything else odd?
Have you found any unusual item in the wreckage?
Any discrepancies in the time sequence of the crash?
[COUGHING]
I'm afraid I still don't know what you're driving at.
I can't be more plain without sounding like a fool.
I'm simply looking for the inexplicable; I usually find it.
Look, somebody made a mistake, and a lot of people died.
In a few clays we should be able to tell you
what went wrong.
There's no mystery about it.
Then I salute you.
I'll read your report with interest.
[WOMAN ON P.A.] All T.U.A. personnel,
please check with your supervisor for shift changes.
So, is there anything else you need tonight?
I want the salvage team to work through the night.
You got it.
Better keep crew at the hangar, too.
Might as well start getting it all sorted out.
Alright, it's done.
Oh, my secretary managed to get you
a room at the Marriott.
Tom, you're staying at the Holiday Inn.
Privilege of rank, I guess.
Why? They got a big beauty pageant there tonight.
Miss I-94.
You know, I hear the bar's pretty wild.
Well, I'm out of here.
Thanks, Roger, your people did a great job.
Our usual service.
Alright, well, I'll see you tomorrow.
Yeah.
[P.A.] Los Angeles passenger Mr. George Kelliman,
please pick up the white courtesy telephone.
[DOOR CHIMES]
Mr. George Kelliman to the white courtesy telephone, please..
I keep running into you.
If you're not running away.
I had to get out of that hangar.
I thought I was going to be sick.
I guess you get used to it after a while.
[ESCALATOR CLANKS]
[CHUCKLES]
Excuse me.
Well, we could be stuck here for hours.
Maybe we'd better get acquainted.
I'm Louise Baltimore, and you're Bill Smith.
How long is it since you slept?
Do I look that bad?
I didn't say bad, just tired.
It's gotta be 30, 35 hours, but who needs sleep?
Listen, maybe we could go have coff-
Some dinner, and a few drinks, that'd be nifty.
Am I moving too fast for you?
I can move fast, too.
Let's go.
You should be careful, picking up strange women.
You never know where it might lead.
[GASPS]
Taxi.
We could take my car.
What kind of car do you drive?
What kind?
That's mine.
You smoke too much.
I'll quit tomorrow.
Just like that, huh?
I've heard that story before, took me over a year to quit.
You don't believe me?
This is my last cigarette.
Was it that good?
You were the best thing in 1000 years, Bill.
I was, wasn't I?
I'm stunned.
Why?
It's been so long since I've...
enjoyed myself...
let alone been swept away.
Do you believe in fate?
I will if you will.
I think it was fate that brought us together.
You may be right.
I want to spend more time with you.
I'd like that.
We'll have all day tomorrow.
We'll have all tomorrow night, anyway.
This job is killing you, Bill.
You need to take a rest.
Take it with me.
The first rule is...
never go to bed with anybody crazier than yourself.
I don't know if you're crazier,
but you're right up there in the top ten
of my weird list, lady.
If you knew me better...
I'd be number one.
[ROMANTIC MUSIC]
[COUGHS]
Yes, I'd like to cancel the 6:30 wakeup.
Yes.
Damn it, they were supposed to call me.
Well, they can't start 'till you get there.
Bill, you remember we were talking about fate?
Sure, I remember.
Maybe that's why they didn't call you.
Are you listening to me?
I don't get it.
This job is wearing you down.
I know it is.
I can't just walk away from it, Louise.
Why not?
The world's not gonna come to an end if you just walk away.
I haven't had a vacation in six years, I got one coming.
In one week, I'll have this investigation started,
and I can hand it over to someone else.
Then I'm gonna take a long look at my life.
Maybe we can go away somewhere together.
Anyway, we got tonight.
I may not be here tonight.
We'll talk about it tonight.
Louise?
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
Louise?
Now, as to systems surrounding engine number four,
which was the one that sheared off in the collision,
let's consider the fuel feed first.
You'll find that on page 19 of the computer printout.
[RUSTLING PAPERS]
Everybody got that?
On line five you will see there was
a momentary surge when fuel line number four
was severed along with 25 feet of wing tip.
They'll have a better figure
on that by tomorrow, they tell me.
[PHONE RINGS]
Smith.
Julie, thanks for calling back.
No, it has nothing to do with the investigation.
I can't understand it.
She was wearing a T.U. outfit.
That's right, Baltimore, like the city.
First name, Louise.
I guess I made a mistake, then.
Thanks, Julie.
It looks like the captain had very little control.
Good night, fellas.
Good night.
We're locking up, Mr. Smith.
What's that?
There'll be a guard on that door over there.
Just knock on the glass when you want to go.
I'll do that. Good night.
Hell of a mess, huh?
One hell of a mess.
Good night.
[LIGHTS CLICKING RHYTHMICALLY]
[FAINT BEEPING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC]
[RAPID BEEPING]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
Smith, isn't it?
I'm not sure.
Looks like the pictures I saw.
Is he dead?
Stunned.
God dammit.
Where's the stunner?
There.
He must have been fooling with it.
Is he out?
Our luck, he's probably seeing and hearing everything.
If he is, it's already too late.
[SIGHS] God, what else can go wrong?
Let's get the hell out.
Smith, you're gonna be all right.
You don't know me and I can't tell you who I am.
But you're endangering a project that's
bigger than you can imagine.
Forget about this.
There's gonna be a paradox if you don't.
You... You...
Coventry, send the gate.
[ETHEREAL WHIRRING] [BILL WHEEZES]
My God, do you think...?
We didn't make those planes crash, I swear it.
[WHIRRING GROWS LOUDER]
[MAN ON P.A.] Stand by for time travellers arriving
through gate Gantry D. Operator, prepare for arrival.
We have major problems. What happened?
We got the stunner.
Imagine my relief.
[P.A.] Louise, I want an explanation.
Our master's voice.
There was a little problem.
Those words will be engraved
in the annals of understatement.
Your mother was a cash register.
And she turned a tidy profit, too.
Louise, what happened?
[P.A.] All gate operators,
report to decontamination centre on shutdown.
Do you see that?
Do you see the red blob on the timeline?
That is 1989. That's where you just went.
And there's the mess you left behind you.
It's a god-damn paradox, Louise.
[LOUISE] It's a potential paradox.
You sent me back to get the stunner we lost.
Well, here it is.
What you didn't mention was that Smith was there.
He'd already found it and stunned himself.
And I don't think he was out when we found him.
I think he saw us.
Sir, I have a time quake approaching.
[SPEAKING INTO P.A.] Paradox, time quake approaching.
Four, three.
[ALARMS RUMBLING]
A paradox, Louise. You've changed the past.
I know damn well we can't change the past.
It catches up with us. We change.
Well, we haven't changed much.
We're all still dying, this place still stinks,
and you are still as ugly as ever.
One not much bigger than that could destroy us completely.
Look, you're the one that's supposed to scan the past.
Why didn't you know Smith was gonna be in that hangar?
And you're supposed to be ready for the unexpected.
You're supposed to be the best.
You and your people get all the best food,
all the best quarters, all our precious medicine.
Do you realize what it costs to pamper you?
He was there, he was in the dark.
What did you want me to do, kill him?
Oh, you'd like that.
Killing him would create the worst paradox imaginable.
His life affects thousands of other lives
in an endless chain, and if you break it-
You get a thousand years of bad luck.
And none of us is here anymore.
Alright.
Let's go find out what happened.
Maybe we can still do something.
All I'm getting is temporal censorship from her jump.
Scan past it.
What does temporal censorship mean?
It means we can't see where we've been,
or where we're going to.
We can only go back to a specific moment once,
and never to that same moment again.
Too bad. If we could see where were gonna go-
You'll get used to it, Susan,
after you've done a few more missions.
There he is, in the shadow.
Give us rapid scan until he moves.
Louise?
He knows my name.
You probably dropped your calling card.
Louise.
I didn't mention my name, neither did anyone else.
How does he know my name?
He's got the initiator.
Smith had met me before, hadn't he?
How else would he know your name?
I'd never been back to that era.
Do you want me to spell it out for you?
Give it a try, would ya?
In Smith's time he has met you before.
In your time you have met him only once, in the hangar,
which means you will go back and meet him earlier.
I spoke to him, Sherman.
That was not a good idea.
I didn't like talking to him, Sherman.
I didn't like it at all.
You were not helping him.
What's that supposed to mean?
This seems to be my day for spelling out the obvious.
I suppose I should not complain.
Come on, you old fraud, prep me for the 1963 flight.
[WOMAN ON P.A.] 63 mission will proceed to stage one.
The 63 mission will proceed to stage one.
You did not smoke enough, Louise.
Give it to me straight, doc, I can take it.
No new degeneration.
The levels of complex hydrocarbons
in your blood are depressed,
due to breathing the primordial atmosphere
of the 20th century.
They think their air is awful,
they ain't seen nothing' yet.
Maybe I should replace those kidneys.
Maybe a little kick, get the old blood moving?
Speed kills, my dear.
[P.A.] Uniform and hair for lookalikes
will proceed to stage two.
Uniforms and hair for lookalikes
will proceed to stage two.
Sometimes I think you want me to live forever.
Okay, so explain it to me. It's what you were built for.
You don't expect me to know what's going on
in my own head, do ya?
Hardly.
All right, on a normal mission,
when you are taking people who are about to die
off doomed airplanes you do not mind treating them roughly.
All done.
It's 'cause I'm helping them.
Obviously, without you, those people would be dead.
So you can function without remorse.
But with Smith it was different.
I don't think I want to hear any more.
[BIRD TWITTERING]
How's the little feather head today?
Louise loves you, Orville, yes, she does.
Polly want a chemical free sterilized cracker?
I should take you to 1963. You could fly.
Would you like that?
Huh, would you like that?
You left Smith helpless and confused,
so there was pain in you.
Alright, I felt sorry for the bastard.
But, I'd-a shot him if it'd straighten things out.
As Coventry said, you did not have that choice.
What choices do I have?
You say I have to go back, because he met me before.
Yes.
What if I don't go back? What happens to the universe?
You must go back.
Where's my free will?
Did you lose it?
I will look around for it.
This is awful.
If you think that's bad, take a look at this.
We located the 1963 crash while you were away.
It is likely you will go tomorrow.
How are you on the idiom and history?
I know it like the back of my hand.
Who was the U.S. president?
Johnson.
No, wait, uh, he was assassinated by...
Vito Corleone?
[CHIDINGLY] Louise.
[ZAPPING]
[GARBLED WHIRRING]
We've talked about quarks and anti-neutrinos,
but what about people?
It's quite a step from demonstrating that
subatomic particles can travel backward through time,
to saying that people can.
What would be the result of people travelling in time?
For one thing, paradoxes become possible.
Say you build a time machine, go back,
and murder your father when he was 10 years old.
That means you were never born,
and if you weren't how did you build the time machine?
It's the possibility of paradoxes that make most people
rule out time travel by human beings.
Still, why not?
If you were careful you could do it.
You would not go back to kill Adolf Hitler,
much as you might like to.
Because it would change history.
The time traveller would have to be careful,
but he could do a surprising number of things.
He could observe, for one.
Find out once and for all who was
on the grassy knoll that day in Dallas.
And he will know what we can only guess at,
that we are destroying the planet we live on by complacency.
He will have to live with our legacy
of pollution and acid rain.
Our negligence today is producing a world
in which our children's children will be barren,
and the human race heading towards extinction.
He could also take things,
providing they wouldn't be missed.
A cup of water from the Pacific Ocean,
a stone from the Grand Canyon.
This may sound pointless...
but sometimes very small differences can be crucial.
The difference between a dead man...
and a man who's alive can be very small.
What about a man who is about to die,
a man no one will ever see alive again.
[WOMAN ON P.A.] Stage three alert, all sections go.
This is the hard part about looking for time travellers.
They don't want to be found.
You must look for them in places where no one is,
or where there are people
no one will ever see alive again.
[FOREBODING MUSIC]
[MAN ON P.A.] All personnel stand by for departure.
Go! Go!
[STARTLED CRY]
[P.A.] Gate attendants, pick up new arrivals,
pick up new arrivals.
[PILOT] Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
This is your captain speaking.
We are cruising at an altitude of 31,000 feet,
[STUNNER ZAPS]
At a ground speed of 460 miles per hour.
If you look out the right side, through the clouds,
you can see the Finger Lakes.
Our expected time of arrival is on schedule at 4:30.
So sit back and relax, and enjoy the flight.
[STUNNER ZAPS]
Alright, send the others. Every thing's nice and quiet.
Let's keep it that way.
[MAN ON P.A.] Gantry operators prepare for arrival.
Extreme radiation danger.
May I get you a pillow, sir?
Sure.
[STUNNER ZAPS]
Prepare holding pens for arriving passengers.
[WHIRRING AND BUZZING]
[STUNNER ZAPS]
I'm through up here. What's up?
Well, there's a guy acting funny.
He's watching us too close.
- Get up, hey! - [SCREAMS]
[SCREAMING]
You're gonna take me to see the captain.
Sir, you can't shoot that.
If you depressurise the cabin you'll kill us all.
Nobody gets hurt if I see the captain.
[GUNSHOT SCREAMING CONTINUES]
You stinking son of a bitch.
[LOUD ZAP]
Oof!
Hey, wake up, get in there and cork the crew.
You know the flight plan. Keep it steady.
Alright, Squad Martin, fast and dirty.
This one's falling apart.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC] [ALARMS BLARING]
Did that man shoot her?
Don't worry, honey, it's gonna be alright.
When she fell-
I want you to sleep now.
[STUNNER ZAPS]
[P.A.] Attention, attention,
initiation phase has commenced.
All recovery team personnel stand by.
[COVENTRY] 63 flight in force field.
Holding, all systems engaged.
Ladies and gentlemen,
please remain in your seats.
Ladies and gentlemen, please move
toward the rear of the plane.
Excuse me, would you mind telling me what's going on?
[P.A.] Please step onto the raft,
walk quickly to the bottom, and follow instructions.
You will be taken to a safety area.
Let's get you out of here.
You idiot, that's the survivor.
Buckle him in and come and help me with Susan.
Please step onto the ramp.
Walk quickly to the bottom, and follow instructions.
You will be taken to a safety area.
Please step onto the ramp.
Walk quickly to the bottom, and follow instructions.
You will be taken to a safety area.
Please step onto the ramp.
All substitute bodies will be placed
strictly according to the passenger list.
Passengers now in transit.
Prepare to activate holding pen force fields.
So now we know a hijacker caused this crash.
We know there was a survivor.
We know when it crashed.
We just have to duplicate it.
I stopped it.
I stopped the bullet.
You saved us all, kid.
Hang in there, you're gonna be all right.
He must have fired his gun in the cockpit.
Have Djakarta attach a 5K bomb to the wind screen.
That should duplicate the effect.
I lost it.
What, Susan? What did you lose?
Stun.
Stunner, I lost the stunner.
[OMINOUS MUSIC]
[ALARM BLARING] Look out!
Stop it! Hold the gate!
Stop her.
Baltimore, get out of there, get out!
No time, Louise, no time!
Louise, there's a bomb.
[EXPLOSION]
One of my team was shot.
In the confusion, a stunner was lost.
It was too late to go back and get it.
[MAN] You know the prevention of paradox
is more important than individual lives.
Blame is secondary at this point.
The first stunner you lost in 1989 ended up
briefly in the possession of Bill Smith.
He knows what it can do.
Then you went back to 1963 and lost another stunner.
The computers estimate it wound up
in the possession of Arnold Mayer.
If he learns what it can do, he might be capable
of learning how it works.
The council has decided to risk another mission to 1989.
You must meet Smith the clay before
you saw him in the hangar.
You must prevent him from going to that hangar
the night he saw you there.
Since he knew your name when he saw you,
he must have met you previously.
Therefore, you did go back.
Must go back.
Seems I can't get away from you.
I would be a poor personal robot if you could.
I lost a very good girl on that plane, Sherman.
And what was the council's epitaph for her?
"Preventing a paradox is more important"
"than individual lives."
Susan knew that. She accepted it.
I just... [SIGHS]
I couldn't leave her.
It is not necessary to destroy your soul
in this job, Louise.
But a certain amount of violence will be done to it.
You made the wrong choice.
It is easy for them to make cold choices, Louise.
They are hardly human anymore.
Am I so different?
We're all dying, they're just a little further along.
You are different. You have feelings.
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
They want me to go back again.
You have to go back.
He must be kept out of that hangar.
This isn't a job for me, Sherman.
You want somebody bashed in the head, I'm your girl.
You will have to learn new methods.
You can do it. I know you can.
Then let's go do it.
[BILL] Somebody's got these guys working
harder and faster than I've ever seen.
[KEANE] Well, that DC-10 was pretty public.
Spread itself over a field not half a mile
from the interstate.
Right.
They didn't want people gawking at their...
What was it they called that crash in Florida?
Involuntary conversion.
I think they made a profit on that
when the insurance paid off.
Well, they sure are
busting their asses on this one.
Take this coffee over there, would you?
Look at that, they even got
the ticket agents serving coffee.
Put that down, just put that down!
What do I do with this stuff?
Did I tell you you could touch that?
Excuse me.
Hey, how about some coffee?
Hey, wait a minute.
[PILOT] Declaring an emergency;
We hit another aircraft.
Looked like a 10.
[ENGINEER] Three and four shutting down.
Cutting fuel to three.
[PILOT] We are going down, repeat, going down.
[COPILOT] How much of the wing is gone?
[PILOT] Ron, get back there.
See how much we have left.
[ENGINEER] Right.
Would you like some coffee, Mr. Smith?
Dammit, I'm listening'-
[PILOT] Still going down. Is there any place to land?
[COPILOT] I'll check.
[RECORDING SHUTS OFF]
Alright, Sherman, he's seen me again.
I think he's interested. What next?
What now, Sherman?
Think of something.
Take him to dinner, some place romantic.
[LOUISE] How do I do that?
Pick him up, my dear.
HOW?
[SHERMAN] Drop your hankie, wiggle your behind.
You're the woman, Louise. You figure it out.
Just be subtle.
Louise is about as subtle as a lead pipe.
Thanks.
These should be appropriate to the era,
as well as stimulating to the contemporary male.
[COMICAL MUSIC]
Sorry about the high heels.
[CHEERFUL MUSIC]
[WOMAN ON P.A.] Standby passenger D. Lawrence,
report to Gate 17.
D. Lawrence to Gate 17.
[ROMANTIC MUSIC]
Standby passenger D. Lawrence, report to Gate 17.
D. Lawrence to Gate 17.
I keep running into you.
If you're not running away.
I had to get out of that hangar.
I thought I was going to be sick.
I guess you get used to it after a while.
Oh. [CHUCKLES]
Excuse me.
Well, we could be stuck here for hours.
Maybe we'd better get acquainted.
[GASPS]
Taxi.
We could take my car.
What kind of car do you drive?
What kind?
That's mine.
Why don't you get in?
You got the keys?
Keys?
[RAPID BEEPING]
[LOCK CLICKS]
[ENGINE STARTS]
[TIRES SCREECHING BILL] Whoa!
Tower clear you for that take-off?
[ENERGETIC ROCK MUSIC]
So, do you know Minneapolis?
Nah, I've only been here-
Watch it! [HORNS HONK]
A couple of times.
Oh, I know a good place.
Any place is fine.
Something wrong?
Just watch it, Jesus!
[CAR HORN HONKING]
You really drive this thing.
Are we almost there?
Another two minutes at this velocity.
How long have you had this car?
Oh, uh, forever.
You must be the luckiest woman in the world.
[HORNS HONK TIRES SCREECH]
[MAN] Hey, what are you doing?
Idiot!
You alright?
I feel like I should kiss the ground.
[SIRENS]
[RELAXING MUSIC] [SOFT CONVERSATION]
Wow, can't get that anymore.
I'll have another one.
Forget the water.
Can't get it anymore?
It's old, but it's not that old.
Oh, I mean I can't usually afford-
Are you ready to order now?
Bill, would you order for me? I can never decide.
Okay, the sole, and tossed salad,
and Italian dressing.
That's the first time I've ordered for a girl since...
after the senior prom in high school.
Did I act improperly?
No.
No, it's just... haven't you ever heard of Women's Lib?
The suffragette movement, 19th Amendment,
Rosie the Riveter, bra burning, Gloria Steinem, ERA,
the battle of the sexes. Who won?
I think it's still being fought.
We might call a truce for tonight.
I'd like that.
Who won?
You have a strange sense of humour.
Sometimes it's like you grew up in a foreign country.
I did. I grew up abroad, overseas.
Whereabouts?
France.
I'm from France, my father was posted there.
He was a warrior.
Soldier?
That's right, a soldier.
Well, to France, then.
Excuse me, your table's ready for you now.
That's a real habit you got.
What habit is that?
I never seen anyone eat and smoke at the same time.
[GASP]
Where did it go?
If you hear someone scream, that's probably where it is.
Louise, you gotta quit. The tobacco's ruining your brain.
[LAUGHING]
So you never remarried, and don't have a girlfriend?
Isn't that a little unusual?
Is it?
I guess so.
I don't know, sometimes I wish I'd...
What?
Done things differently, I guess.
The job always came first.
I know what you mean.
That's how I feel about my job.
Really?
But yours doesn't take you away in the middle of the night,
keep you gone for a couple of months?
By the time I got back, my girl had actually gone.
Well, maybe you didn't find the right girl.
Maybe.
Tom says I'm burning out.
Whatever.
I just gave up looking.
Took a lot of cold showers.
You find it difficult to talk about yourself.
That's all I've been doing.
But you're right, I can't.
Open up emotionally?
That's it.
I'm no good at...
Expressing yourself?
I couldn't-a said it better myself.
What about you?
Why aren't you married?
I can't have any children.
I'm sorry.
But that's not the only reason to get married.
It would be for me.
Bill, I'd like to get out of here.
Where are you staying? I can drive you there.
For a minute, I forgot.
I haven't even seen the room yet.
I was going to ask you if it's nice.
Well, you could come up and take a look.
[ROMANTIC MUSIC]
It is nice.
At least they delivered my luggage.
Compliments of the management.
That's real nice.
That is nice.
Would you like an apple?
[SNIFFS]
[LAUGHS]
What's so funny?
I don't know, you just seem to do everything
a little different from everyone else.
Is that bad?
I don't think so.
Let's find out.
This may not have been such a good idea.
Why not?
You don't find me attractive?
Nah, it's not that, I just...
Wait, try it again.
Please, I really want this to work.
I really need this to work.
[ROMANTIC MUSIC]
Let me get the light.
TO hell with the light.
There's a spare toothbrush in there,
if that's what you're looking for.
[GASPS] I thought you were sleeping.
I think I was.
Come here.
You smoke too much.
I'll quit tomorrow.
Just like that, huh?
I've heard that story before. Took me over a year to quit.
You don't believe me?
This is my last cigarette.
Damn it, they were supposed to call me.
Well, they can't start 'till you get there.
[SIGHS]
Bill, you remember we were talking about fate?
Sure, I remember.
Maybe that's why they didn't call you.
Are you listening to me?
I don't get it.
This job is wearing you down.
I know it is.
I can't just walk away from it, Louise.
Why not?
The world's not gonna come to an end if you just walk away.
I haven't had a vacation in six years, I got one coming.
In one week I'll have this investigation started,
and I can hand it over to someone else.
Then I'm gonna take a long look at my life.
Maybe we can go away somewhere together.
Anyway, we got tonight.
I may not be here tonight.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC]
Stay with me.
[ROMANTIC MUSIC]
I can't.
We'll talk about it tonight.
[DEVICE BEEPS] Sherman, send the gate.
[WHIRRING AND CRACKLING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
Louise?
[MAN ON P.A.] Gate's operation is terminated.
All controls to zero.
Hmm.
He'll never miss it.
What happened?
Did you stop him?
Sherman, get my uniform.
Paradox, time quake approaching, force seven.
[ALARMS BLARING RUMBLING]
I have to talk to the council. We don't have much time.
Here's what happened after I left.
[BILL] Going over every single piece of wreckage in this hangar.
Identify it, tag it.
If you don't know what something is, bring it to me.
What is it we're looking for?
I'll know it when I see it.
We're gonna reassemble the 747 from the ground up.
Bill, are you sure of this?
That's all. Go to work.
He's forgotten all about what really caused the crash.
Now he's looking for the stunner.
And for me.
We're wasting time, Bill.
Can't learn anything from this.
Rebuild it.
Every inch of it.
Day and night, I'll approve the overtime.
Bill, the boss is on the phone from Washington.
Tell him I'll call him back.
He says get yourself back there or you'll be fired.
Well, that sounds fairly urgent.
You want me to go with you?
I don't think you'd better be around me.
It might not be good for your career.
He's doing his job badly now.
It had to lead to conflict with his superiors.
[BOSS] Bill, I've always backed you,
because you were a good investigator.
I let you run with this even if I couldn't see the reason,
but you've turned up nothing new.
Now, I have to know what you expect to find.
If I knew, I wouldn't have to look so hard for it.
This crash has been crazy from the start.
Like, the watches that ran backwards.
You said that wasn't important.
I didn't think so. Now I do.
And the cockpit tape.
The engineer screaming that they're all dead and burned.
Was it computer error, or not?
Yeah.
As soon as we get your report saying that,
we can recommend getting the new computers.
That's a big appropriation,
and Congress is ready to spend the money.
[SIGHS]
Something happened in the hangar.
[EERIE MUSIC]
I found something.
I think it knocked me out.
Then they came and took it from me.
Now they're watching me.
I can feel it.
They can go anywhere.
Look anywhere.
There was this girl.
[SIGHS]
Now he'll go see Dr. Mayer.
Dr. Mayer doesn't have the answers.
But he has one of these.
It's the stunner Susan lost in 1963.
Smith has the initiator.
You put them together, and it spells paradox.
Come in, Mr. Smith. I've been expecting you.
That's it, it's all temporal censorship from there.
[MACHINE SHUTS OFF]
That means I will go back.
I can still stop the paradox if I leave right now.
The watches, the cockpit voice recording,
that could be important. It's hard to tell,
but you say she didn't know you.
That's right, she said I look like my pictures.
Then she hadn't met you yet.
I told you, we spent the night together.
It was unforgettable.
You're missing the point.
She finds you in the hangar on the night of the fifth.
She returns to wherever she comes from,
then, for reasons of her own,
she returns to the fourth and meets you...
for the first time, from her point of view.
She's travelling in time.
There has to be another answer.
It's time I showed you something.
I've been working on a puzzle for 25 years.
You may be the missing piece.
That's it! Where'd you get it?
What is it?
It's a weapon of some kind.
[MAN ON P.A] All systems green, quadrants interlocked.
All systems go.
[WOMAN ON P.A.] Two minutes, Baltimore, solo,
1989, two minutes.
All I want to do is find her.
I don't care about anything else.
Bill, I think you'll see her again.
How do you know so much about her?
Because of this object. It's very important.
I've run tests on it over the years.
I still don't know what it's made of,
and we can't make one in the 20th century.
Where'd you get it?
It was in the wreckage of a 707 that crashed
in upstate New York in 1963.
I was on that plane.
That can't be; The only survivor was a boy named-
William Collins.
My mother remarried and I took the name.
This is incredible.
Then you must...
What do you remember?
I don't think about it much.
You must remember something.
I don't remember the crash at all.
Before that, people were shouting.
Somebody got shot.
They found a gun with one shot fired.
It was a mental patient, a hijacker.
There was this lady.
It was her.
I remember now.
She told me everything would be all right.
She knew you'd survive.
But what about her, why didn't she die in the crash?
She got off some way, but she left this behind.
She'll be wanting it back.
After 25 years?
In our time, but in her time, she just lost it yesterday.
This is the key, Bill.
It's something that shouldn't be here.
We're living in her past. If she changes her past,
if she creates a paradox, then her world is destroyed.
Oh yes, we'll be seeing more of Louise Baltimore.
[COVENTRY] Laser beams, prepare for countdown.
Time tolls intermittent at six seconds, five, four, three...
I may not make it back.
You will be back.
One. All systems green.
[WOMAN ON P.A.] 30 seconds, Baltimore, solo,
1989, 30 seconds.
This came off mine.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
You two know too much already, and I don't have much time,
but I'll try to answer your questions.
Dr. Mayer, I'll have to take that.
You take people off planes just before they crash.
We replace what we take with dead bodies.
I'm glad you came back.
But the relatives identify them.
They identify the wrong people.
We duplicate them, fingerprints, dental records.
We're very good at what we do.
Then you are from the future.
About 1000 years.
It must be incredible.
It must be horrible.
It's awful.
We're all dying.
We can make the bodies, but we can't make the souls.
We can't have children anymore.
We steal people from the past
to send them somewhere else to start over.
To give them a second chance.
I have to take that stunner back with me, Dr. Mayer.
It could cause a paradox.
I'm going with you.
You can't, Bill.
Haven't you heard anything I said?
You said you were dying. So am I.
Bill, the whole race is dying, all of humanity.
We're all gonna die.
What matters is now.
This moment.
I can't take anything with me that will be missed.
No one's gonna miss me.
The stunner, Dr. Mayer, that's what I came for.
I knew I was right.
No!
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES]
He's dead.
The paradox has happened.
I gotta get out of here.
Take me with you.
Sherman, send the gate.
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
Watch that first step. It's a killer.
[LOUD RUMBLING] [PEOPLE SCREAMING]
[MAN ON P.A.] Paradox, time quake, force infinity.
Paradox, time quake, force infinity.
[ALARMS BLARING]
Mr. Smith, I presume.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[EXPLOSIONS]
Come on.
[EXPLOSIONS]
Mayer's work would have changed the course of history.
He wasn't supposed to die for six years.
I tried to stop him. I was too late.
It's all over. The paradox is here.
If you had left things alone,
none of this would have happened.
I did what I had to do.
[FEMALE COUNCIL MEMBER ON P.A.] Our world is at an end.
All evidence of our existence will be washed away.
We must attempt to send those we have saved
into a distant future that may lie beyond the gate.
Coventry, reverse the gate.
Get out.
Get out, everybody get out!
Go, Louise.
Get him out of here.
[INSPIRING MUSIC]
[URGENT MUSIC]
Open the holding pens.
Release everyone and send them to the gate.
[WOMAN ON P.A.] You will awake now.
Remain calm Remain calm.
- Come on! - Come on, let's go.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]
[EXPLOSIONS]
[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[PAINED MOAN]
Proceed to the gate as quickly as possible.
Proceed in single file to the main terminal.
Remain calm.
Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid.
No harm will come to you.
Follow directions.
[EXPLOSIONS CRY OF FEAR]
Walk towards the light,
and step into the light.
Move along.
Move along, every-thing's all right.
Please remain calm.
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC]
[EXPLOSIONS ANGUISHED MOANS]
Single file, walk into the light.
You'll be all right. Keep moving'.
Single file, walk into the light.
Walk towards the light,
and step into the light.
[EXPLOSIONS]
[SCREAMING]
Our work is done.
I move we adjourn.
Seconded.
[MUFFLED EXPLOSIONS]
Just keep moving, walk through the light.
Walk into the light.
[EXPLOSIONS]
Time to go, Bill.
[MAN ON P.A.] The gate will be destroyed in two minutes.
What happens when the gate's gone?
Like a nuclear bomb.
[ETHEREAL WHIRRING]
Step through, Bill.
Together.
None of us can go, only you.
Then I'm not going', either.
Take a chance, Louise.
Go with him.
You are going to have his child.
[EXPLOSIONS, METAL GROANING]
The gate will be destroyed in one minute.
Sherman, come with us.
There is no place for me where you are going.
Go, now.
[LOUD ROARING]
[EXPLOSION]
[SHERMAN] This is not the end.
[PEACEFUL PIANO MUSIC]
This is not the beginning of the end.
It is the end of the beginning.
[ROARING]