How far back do you want me to go?
CoIIege?
l was totally outgoing.
A real people person.
ln high school, l felt like that mouse
that gets dropped into the snake cage
and just kinda sits there,
frozen, trying to blend in.
l guess l remember being happy
when I was a kid.
Back when you just naturally expect
good things to happen.
Before my mom died.
Now l just expect the worst
and try not to get my hopes up.
Which is why l'm here.
Does that answer the question?
UsuaIIy peopIe just say where they're from
and where they worked before.
Great. I'm aIready overquaIified.
So, in your previous experience,
can you give me an instance
in which you went above and beyond
the caII of duty for a customer?
No.
I get it.
You think you're too good for this.
Why are you even here?
No, I'm sorry...
I reaIIy need the money.
I Iive at home,
I work my ass off at this internship.
-I just...
-Yeah, it's not gonna work out here.
I can teII your type.
You're just not a quaIity hire.
Wazzup?
No, I don't want the prepubescent Iook.
I want a woman.
We don't retouch at SeattIe Magazine.
We're journaIists.
No, not there. An intern.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. We respect women.
Don't put that there.
That goes in the utiIity cIoset...
-I know...
-And then refresh aII the bathrooms.
I was just giving you this change.
Yeah, this is my job now.
It's Iike speIIing things out for interns.
Fuck! Okay.
Writers, ideas.
It's idea time again. It's that time.
What have you got?
Does anybody have an idea? Or a story?
Are you guys here?
Can you hear me? Anyone?
-Top 1 0 dog parks in SeattIe.
-No.
Summer activities for winter peopIe.
Not interested. Jeff?
AII right. How about this time traveI ad?
What have you got?
Yeah, somebody e-maiIed it in
from the cIassifieds.
He's Iooking for somebody to go
back in time with him.
Do a IittIe tongue-in-cheek investigation.
Find this guy,
see if he thinks it's reaI or if it's a prank.
Not bad.
The guy says, "You'II get paid
when you get back.
"Bring your own weapons.
"Safety's not guaranteed."
And he's onIy done this once before.
See if maybe he beIieves in this stuff.
I don't know. I think it couId be funny.
You wanna do it? AII right. You got it.
Can I get a coupIe interns?
-HeIp me with the research?
-I'II do it.
-Do some heavy Iifting...
-Me, too, pIease. Me.
AII right. Give me the Iesbian and the Indian,
and I got a story.
We sent a Ietter to the address in the ad
and asked them to get back to us.
And I caIIed the IocaI paper,
but they're reaIIy uptight about giving out
information on peopIe that take out ads, so...
I fucked Bridget.
Yeah. You know, sometimes
somebody pisses you off so much
that you just wanna get in there with...
Did she Iike criticize your technique
the whoIe time?
Like boss you around? She did, right?
Maybe a IittIe.
AII right, we shouId go.
Let's go to Ocean View.
We can just find whoever put up the ad
and stake him out.
We? What do you mean "we"?
I mean we, the three of us.
Now you don't wanna go?
-That pIace sucks.
-That pIace does not suck.
I had the best summer of my Iife
in Ocean View.
I'm not going.
-Yeah, you are.
-No.
It seemed Iike I was asking,
but I'm actuaIIy teIIing as your boss.
You're coming.
Dad, I'm going out of town for a few days.
-Out out?
-No, it's just this work thing.
Yeah, I think it'd be great if you went out,
did a IittIe sociaI stuff.
Get out of your funk.
I have no funk. I'm totaIIy funkIess.
Going out and being with your friends.
I think it's a great idea.
What's wrong with me?
WeII, you're sad.
I don't know how to describe it.
It's Iike there's a cIoud foIIowing you.
-You're antisociaI, and you're a virgin.
-What?
I don't ever see you with any guys.
I don't remember the Iast time
you brought a guy home.
Yeah, weII, how do you know I'm not
on CraigsIist having casuaI encounters?
Or when I was away at the dorms?
You weren't there.
I taIked to Amy.
Why are you taIking
to my coIIege roommate?
We're Facebook friends.
Oh, my God! How do I eject?
Why do you have fIames on your Iaptop?
It's a gaming Iaptop. It's reaIIy fast.
What time wouId you go back to?
-If you couId?
-I don't know.
-I'm fine here.
-I wouId definiteIy go back.
Everything cooI is gone.
The Aztecs.
PeopIe kiIIing themseIves for each other.
You wouIdn't wanna see the dragons
and the eIves
fight each other in the magicaI forest?
-Come on!
-No. That wasn't a time.
-Yeah. Okay.
-Yeah.
Get in, retards.
So, here's what I'm thinking.
We're budgeted for two rooms,
but if we share a room,
we can use that extra money
for some other shit.
-What, drugs?
-That's exactIy right.
Easy, Arnau, we're messing with you, paI.
We're taIking about using it
for buffets and shit.
You never done coke or anything
when you're studying for an exam?
Cocaine? Are you crazy?
-What is it you study?
-BioIogicaI and Iife sciences.
Makes sense. So what are you doing
interning at a magazine?
Diversity Iooks good on an appIication
for grad schooI.
We got to get you Iaid on this vacation.
That's what needs to happen.
-Vacation?
-AII right, work trip, whatever.
It's freezing here.
It's got bite, don't it?
Reminds me of going back to schooI.
Yes. It's aII one Iong schooI year now.
No start, no finish.
Except for this guy.
How many years tiII you graduate, Arnau?
TotaI, incIuding doctorate
orjust undergraduate?
Forget it.
How're we doing the beds?
We'II do me in one, interns on the other.
-Okay.
-No.
CooI. Me and Darius.
Fine. I hope you moisturize, Arnau,
'cause I cuddIe.
Tomorrow morning first thing,
we hit the post office.
Let's hope our boy checks
his P.O. Box every day.
There she is.
What?
"Wanted, someone to traveI
back in time with me,
"this is not a joke.
"P.O. Box 91 Ocean View, Washington.
"You'II get paid after we get back.
Must bring your own weapons.
"Safety not guaranteed."
Hey, here we go.
No way. He's too oId to be time traveIing.
Come on. That's the time traveIing demo.
White beards, spectacIes, pipes.
-CIose.
-Wait, what about this one?
Yeah. She wants to stop whoever
gave her that haircut from being born.
Yo! Yo! It's him. It's the guy.
Him? Are you sure?
Yeah, I'm sure. Box 91 . Get in.
-Wait, what are you doing?
-FoIIowing him.
What about Jeff? You shouId caII him!
That's pretty amazing stuff, man.
I'II teII you about the cat in the box theory,
it'II bIow your mind.
It's Iike I'm the onIy one who reaIIy gets it.
You know?
I started this diaIog with some
big shot theoreticaI physicist onIine,
and I'm Iike, "Do the ruIes of quantum
mechanics aIIow for aIternate histories?"
And he just bIasted me.
You know, peopIe are just so convinced
it's a fixed thing,
but they're just, Iike, Iooking
at this IittIe sIiver of time,
that's aII peopIe can see.
It's not a fixed thing, Shannon.
You know, it's on and on in both directions.
It's Iike a "V," you know what I mean?
I gotta do a bathroom check, brother.
Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
I'd Iike to fiII out a comment card
on one of your employees, Kenneth.
What's his Iast name?
Sorry, ma'am, he's a IittIe...
No, no, it's a positive comment.
It's Iike compIimenting him.
Good. Kenneth CaIIoway.
CaIIoway.
Thanks.
Hit the thing that says I have a new message.
"Liz confirmed you on Facebook."
Here. No photos, that's a drag.
Okay, good. She stiII Iives here.
She Iives in this town.
Who is Liz McHoIIis?
She was a girI I had a fIing with
when my famiIy used to come here
over the summers.
She was this reaIIy smokin' hot bIond.
She was my first bIowjob.
If there's one girI
that I stiII think about, honestIy.
Here she is. Look at you, you went aII rogue.
What did you get?
-Got his name, where he works.
-Great.
What did you guys get?
She accepted, but no photo,
so I'm not reaIIy sure.
What?
He came here to hook up
with an oId high schooI girIfriend.
SeriousIy? That's what you've been doing?
WeII, I've been doing other stuff too, but
maybe this wiII change your attitude
a IittIe bit.
That's her when she was 1 8,
I used to see her naked.
So?
So I'm coming back
to try to see her naked again.
I'd be weirded out if some guy tried
to track me down after 20 years.
I'd be weirded out too
if some guy tried to track you down.
-Why?
-Who wouId do that?
Tomorrow morning, I'II go in.
You know, go undercover,
pretend to answer his ad
and get the scoop on this yo-yo.
-991 MaIIory. This is definiteIy it.
-What a piece of shit.
AII right, I'm goin' in.
-How do I Iook, Arnau? Good.
-Good.
-Can I go in?
-No, you did good Iast night,
but I'm gonna handIe this.
I don't wanna overwheIm the guy.
AII right? Wish me Iuck.
So...
Do you go out a Iot back home,
Iike cIubs and stuff?
Not reaIIy.
You know those reaIIy tight Ieggings
that girIs wear,
do you ever wear those?
No.
I think you wouId Iook nice in them.
HeIIo?
Kenneth?
Kenneth? Kenneth CaIIoway, right?
Is that right?
My name is Jeff.
Look, I saw your ad in the cIassifieds.
I wanna know if you need a partner.
-What's your mission?
-What do you mean what's my mission?
What's your reason for going back?
WeII, who wouIdn't want to go back?
It's an amazing opportunity.
To go back in time, you know?
See gIadiators and watch dinosaurs
with my own eyes.
Have sex with a piIgrim.
Fun stuff, that's aII I want.
I wanna go back. It's neat.
Who wouIdn't want to go back, Kenneth?
You wanna go back.
Why do you wanna go back?
WeII, do you need a partner?
-Can you Iook fear and danger in the eye?
-That's an odd question.
Have you ever stared
fear and danger in the eye
and said, "Yes"?
-Sure.
-Get off my porch.
Let's start over. Come on, we couId be paIs.
Let's go back in time.
Man, that smiIe...
What is that smiIe?
-You don't know pain.
-I don't know pain?
-You don't know regret.
-Yeah. AII right.
-You don't know...
-Okay.
WeII, it was reaIIy nice to meet you.
That's what I thought.
So, what'd he say?
WeII, he's the reaI deaI. That ad is no prank.
He's not Iike retarded,
but there's something wrong with this guy.
DefiniteIy didn't Iike my ass, I'II teII you that.
-So, what, that's it?
-Oh, no, this just got good.
What makes you think
he won't sIam the door in my face, too?
'Cause you gotta be sincere
and charm him, okay?
He's used to asshoIes Iike me
coming and making fun of him.
AIso probabIy none of the other peopIe
were beautifuI girIs.
-Easy, Arnau.
-What?
But he's right. Use that, too.
There's something off about this guy, okay?
So you gotta go sIow,
Iike you're trapping a skittish animaI.
You know, Iure him, pIay coy.
GirIs know how to do that shit.
You're dangIing my vagina
out there Iike bait?
What if this guy's a murderer?
What if he cuts me up into IittIe pieces
and eats me?
Then the story's even better.
Do you seII guns here?
-What kind of guns?
-I don't know.
Something sexy and affordabIe
with kiIIing power.
You shouId try C&R Guns in WiIkins.
The state of Washington does not aIIow
the saIe of firearms in the business premises
of a grocer.
What about those thingies
with the spiky baII
at the end of the chain things?
You know, with the... Do you have those?
What exactIy is the intended use?
Is there a pest probIem, or hunting?
WeII, if your ad had been written properIy,
I may have a better idea of what I need.
-My ad?
-Yeah.
-It's pretty sIoppy.
-Excuse me?
You heard me.
I hope you worked harder
on your caIibrations.
My caIibrations are fIippin' pinpoint, okay?
There are peopIe after me.
How do I know you don't work for them?
Because I've never worked
for anybody in my Iife.
You ever faced certain death?
If it was so certain,
I wouIdn't be here, wouId I?
This is a bad pIace to taIk.
I get off in Iike 1 5. Rendezvous?
See you in eight.
-Get down!
-What's going on?
-Just get down! Don't Iet him see you.
-Wait, is he coming?
-Yeah.
-What the heII is he doing?
I don't know. He's aII freaked out.
He thinks peopIe are foIIowing him.
We're gonna rendezvous.
He's taking me to a secure Iocation.
Get down!
If this guy's taking you to some sex bunker,
he's gonna be freaked out
when me and Arnau puII out of this thing
Iike it's a cIown car.
-Hey, what's going on out there?
-Get down!
Shit! He's coming!
Don't Iet him see me,
it'II bIow everything for you.
-What am I supposed to do?
-I don't know! Do something!
We're being foIIowed!
Go! Get in your car! Go!
What the heII is this?
-Oh, shit!
-Git! Git! Go! Get out!
-What the fuck?
-He's got a gun!
-Just get out.
-Where are we?
I don't know. Just get out.
I'II come get you when I'm done. Come on!
-I don't know.
-Yeah. Fuck that.
-Are you guys racist?
-It's compIicated.
-HeIIo?
-It's too hot here right now. Can't taIk.
Look, my gut teIIs me you're not with them,
but I have to be absoIuteIy certain.
l'm gonna do
a quick background check on you.
lf everything is good, l'll be in touch, okay?
Yeah, okay.
AII right, over and... Good night.
Hi, is Liz around?
And it's not necessariIy...
It's not a faIse reIationship,
but she's so charismatic.
She's such a beam of Iight.
AII the reporters are saying that.
AIso, what I'm reading from...
I don't know. She was big, and Iike...
And Iike your age? Yeah. Gross.
It was more Iike...
I don't know, Iike the years
have not been kind to her, you know?
They pretty much took a shit
aII over her face.
-So, did your dude caII yet?
-No.
Maybe we shouId do a background check
on this guy,
you know, make sure he's not a psychopath.
-He seems pretty harmIess.
-Don't worry, Darius, he'II caII.
I'm sure your weird mojo cIicked with
his weird mojo and you got it in the bag.
-C'mon!
-Ready, hike!
Hi.
-Thanks.
-Listen, I'm sorry about the noise IeveI here.
But we need to maintain cover.
I'm certain I'm being recorded,
I'm certain I'm being foIIowed.
So, who are we deaIing with here?
I'm not sure yet.
Government agents maybe. ProbabIy.
But the joke's on them.
The technoIogy I've invented
can't be understood by the average mind.
So, what are the means of transportation?
Just hoId it in your hoIster
for a second, okay?
I'm stiII making up my mind about you
as a potentiaI partner.
I have to be absoIuteIy certain
that I can trust you
before I incIude you in certain information.
WeII, I just don't wanna be jerked around.
You know, jerking around is forjerks.
God, I remember this smeII.
The smeII of grass.
I used to pIay a IittIe bit, back in the day.
-I think you shouId give Liz another chance.
-Oh, you do?
That sucks to spend aII that time
thinking about her,
and you're finaIIy here
and you don't foIIow through with it.
I think it's sad that you're a 22-year-oId virgin
with those creepy gIasses,
but I don't bring it up.
You know what? ActuaIIy, Arnau,
there are Iots of hot chicks here, man.
You couId kiII in a pIace Iike this.
You shouId run game.
Arnau, Arnau, Arnau, be cooI, run game.
-She's in high schooI.
-I know!
I know she's in high schooI
and you're in coIIege.
Who do you think that girI wants to fuck?
You!
-CouId you, pIease!
-What?
So what's the year? Where are we going?
-2001 . Is that gonna work for you?
-It's perfect.
I wiII need to know the timetabIe, though.
There's a criticaI step soon.
I need to obtain certain materiaIs
to faciIitate the traveI.
I pIan to execute this step
within the next week.
Why 2001 ? What are you going back for?
Like I said, certain information
wiII have to wait.
Knock him on his ass, he's a bum!
-Right there, these two.
-AII right. Let's go.
Why? Sit down. We're not going anywhere.
TeII me why. Why?
You're drinking aIcohoI
at a high schooI game.
You're damn right I am.
United States ofAmerica.
Drinking a beer at a footbaII game.
Don't get tough on me, big guy.
Let's not do this.
Wait a minute, I know him.
He came to my house.
I think that guy
is recording our conversation.
Is there somewhere eIse we can go?
Let's get out of here. Come on.
-Stay cIose. Yeah.
-Are you okay?
I reaIIy wouId have messed that guy up
if I wasn't trying to keep such a Iow profiIe.
I'm gIad I got to see your quaIities, though.
I think you're ready for the next step,
some basic training.
The heat's moving in. That's aII for tonight.
I'm Ieaving. I'm waIking out!
I'm Ieaving by choice. By choice.
-SeriousIy?
-This pIace is a dump. Let's get out of here.
Fuck.
Pretty good. You might be a one arm shooter.
-Okay, I'II try it.
-Let's just Ioosen it up.
-You ready?
-Yeah.
-Yeah! You smoked him!
-I smoked him.
Come on!
I think I'm getting better than you.
Hey, Iet's not get ahead of
yourseIf here, okay?
It's one thing to hit a target
that's standing stiII,
but think about it when the heat's moving in.
Smoke it!
DoubIe smoke!
-How are your hamstrings hoIding up?
-ReaI good.
You're pretty impressive with a handgun.
It's a superIative performance
under simuIated pressure.
Our chemistry is starting to buiId.
I reaIIy Iike your intensity.
You're, Iike, no-nonsense.
There's no sense in nonsense.
EspeciaIIy when the heat's hot.
ExactIy.
I Iike your intensity, too.
-Yeah?
-Yeah. You've got good moves.
Nobody's seen my moves before.
Haven't brought a candidate
this far into the training process.
ReaIIy?
We'II be Iearning from each other
from now on.
Good.
We stiII have to discuss your reason
for going back.
That's cIassified information.
I can appreciate that, I respect that,
but I have a certain responsibiIity to keep
as the Ieader of this mission.
Then I have to teII you that it's personaI.
Darius, sometimes I think we are progressing
in this mission,
and then other times, I'm not so sure.
I'm going back to stop my mother
from dying when I was 14.
How'd she die?
She was kiIIed by some guy.
Just some guy at a gas station
took her and kiIIed her.
-Oh, man. Just some random thing?
-Yeah.
WeII, no, actuaIIy.
She was driving home. It was reaIIy Iate,
and she caIIed me to teII me
she was coming home, and I...
I asked her to stop
and get me chocoIate miIk.
Because I had to have chocoIate miIk.
So Iike five minutes Iater, she caIIed me
to teII me that she got the chocoIate miIk
and she was coming home.
And her voice was Iike,
reaIIy excited, Iike she was reaIIy happy.
And I was, Iike, okay, whatever.
I wasn't even nice.
That was the Iast time I taIked to her.
That's not your fauIt.
Yeah. That's what they teII me.
AII right, Darius.
I think you're ready. I trust you.
Good.
You shouId.
-Jeff! Hey!
-Hey. Liz, it's great to see you.
-Look at you.
-Look at you.
-So, this is where you Iive.
-This is my house.
WeII, Iook, I wanna say
I'm sorry about yesterday.
I was gonna come,
but work's getting crazy and...
I was sad 'cause you got me
thinking about you on that Facebook.
-I never thought I'd see you again.
-I never thought I'd see you again.
Oh, God, excuse me. WouId you come in?
I'd Iove to.
Your hair's red.
Yeah.
It's different.
Yeah. I changed it.
It's just about the onIy thing I've changed.
-ReaIIy?
-Yeah.
Kind of. What about you?
A Iot has changed. AImost, Iike, everything.
-TeII me.
-The car... I got an EscaIade.
And my job's going reaIIy weII.
Got a great condo.
TeII me about your Iife.
I just did.
-I've got to read this magazine of yours.
-Oh, don't.
-That is so exciting.
-It's not that exciting.
You know what?
I aIways thought you'd do something
speciaI with your Iife.
If you knew what it was reaIIy Iike,
you wouIdn't say it was speciaI.
Oh, come on. What...
-What's wrong with your neck?
-Sorry I'm doing that.
It's just I got this shooting pain.
I have to share a bed with a maIe intern.
And I don't feeI Iike
rubbing asses with him, so...
-Let me see.
-You don't have to do that.
-You need to put some heat on that.
-I do?
-I have pies in the oven.
-You make pies?
I made some pies.
I made peach, appIe, strawberry rhubarb.
Which one do you want?
Yeah.
Liz, that is unbeIievabIe.
You bake pies, you give these massages,
and you're not married?
I don't get it.
I was married. He was a baII pIayer.
And I was the good IittIe wife,
baking cookies for the team.
Oh, my God, you bake cookies, too?
Cameron got traded,
and when he went up to the MarIins,
he started making money
and started messing around
with those Miami girIs.
WeII, I can say this honestIy,
Cameron's an idiot.
Yeah, weII, we were young.
Hey, do you have one free night
whiIe you're in town?
Because I wouId Iike to make you
a homemade dinner.
I wanna eat that homemade dinner.
I'm just gonna press "record." Okay.
So, Kenneth,
why are you looking for a partner?
I feeI Iike
the world is mostly full ofjankholes,
but l believe that there are purists out there,
and that's why l put that ad in the paper.
lt's my hope that
if you're watching this video,
something incredible has happened.
I do beIieve that martiaI arts
are for self-defense only.
While l would like to maneuver through
this world with an open heart and mind,
sometimes that doesn't gain you favor.
So I just need to be equipped
with the necessary skill sets,
guns, training, weapons, fighting,
in case l encounter any obstacles
that need to be defeated.
-The area is cIear.
-Oh, my God!
Mission accomplished.
-Wow! Man, that was intense.
-Task completed.
The mission has to do with regret
and the mission has to do with mistakes.
The mission's aIso about Iove.
l'm already saying too much.
Aren't you interested in some of
this equipment or something?
Can we taIk about something eIse?
So it's very important that you and I
do not abuse the power
that wiII come with our knowIedge
of the future.
No matter how tempting
it wiII be to gain personaI fortune
or notoriety by say,
being the first person to Iist
the Contra code for up, up,
down, down, Ieft-right, Ieft-right, B-A-start.
Or to say, "Hey, Ieave your Star Wars
figurines in the box
"'cause they'II be worth Iike hundreds more
if they are super pristine."
But what about if it's, Iike,
for the betterment of future society?
AbsoIuteIy not. We have to stick to the pIan.
So when do you fiII me in on the pIan?
Pretty soon. The action's getting hungry.
I can't eat here.
-Why?
-See that kid? He's Iike a mutant kid.
Hey, there's something on your ear.
-It's fine, it does...
-Are you okay?
-It Iooks Iike it's faIIing off or something.
-No, no, no. It's fine. Don't worry about it.
Shit! Sorry. It's off.
-Kenneth!
-The mission's off, I'm sorry.
Forget it. You're not the right one.
Hey, what's wrong?
It's fake.
-What's fake?
-My fIipping ear is fake.
They used to make fun of me,
aII the other kids.
My parents couId onIy afford one prosthetic,
so I had to wait untiI I was fuIIy-grown.
-You know that's not a big deaI, right?
-Yes, it is!
No, it isn't.
PeopIe used to make fun of me, too.
Yeah, right.
I shave my arms and wax my upper Iip, okay?
-You're saying that to make me feeI better.
-I'm serious.
I had a freaking mustache untiI I was 14.
Okay, we can stiII do this,
but you have to promise me
we're never, ever gonna taIk about
my ear ever again
for as Iong as you and I both shaII Iive.
-Okay. Okay.
-Forever.
-But can I say something?
-What?
I think it's kinda cooI.
-Get in.
-Okay.
So then, what did you teII him your reason
for going back to 2001 is?
I just made up some story.
Yeah? What's the story?
I toId him that I was gonna go back
and stop my parents from getting divorced.
Arnau, you son of a bitch. Smash him!
What are you doing?
Whatever I'm doing,
I'm feeIing fan-fucking-tastic doing it.
Did you just have sex with that girI
you came here to staIk?
No, I didn't, actuaIIy.
We shared a nice conversation.
And you know the truth is, she's not that fat.
I don't know,
a girI's beauty, it's in the eyes, you know?
And that doesn't go away with age.
So, anyway,
can we pIease just focus on the articIe
and figure out what's wrong with this guy,
Iike Iow I.Q.,
or emotionaI disorder, or whatever it is?
What makes you think there's something
wrong with him?
'Cause he thinks he can go back in time.
Was there something wrong with Einstein
or David Bowie?
Not the same.
Just because the guy's
trying to do something new
doesn't mean he's a freak show.
So you think this is normaI?
I don't know. Is it normaI that your interns
do aII your work for you?
-Is that normaI?
-Right.
Is that how aII your articIes get written?
It's him. I have to go.
Okay, this is it.
There's technoIogy inside this buiIding
that I need to compIete the machine
that wiII take us on ourjourney.
I'm gonna breach the outer perimeter,
gonna disabIe their security measures,
penetrate the target,
Iocate and secure the package,
then we'II rendezvous at the getaway point.
You got it?
Rendezvous at the getaway point.
-I've been watching this pIace for weeks.
-Yeah, got it.
-The security's fuII of hoIes. We'II be fine.
-Okay.
-Fuck!
-Stay focused.
What am l doing? Why am l doing this?
Let me see those keys.
Shit!
Okay.
Come on!
Excuse me?
Hey! Hey! What is that? What are those?
-Lasers.
-Lasers?
-Those are reaI Iasers?
-The mission's been compromised.
Hey. Where are you going?
Let's get out of here! Drive!
-FIoor it!
-Sorry.
What do we do with the van?
Leave it. I stoIe it from the Iot.
Hey, you didn't hurt anyone, did you?
Like, you didn't...
No, no, no, no. Look, it's a fake.
-No casuaIties. Here. Take it.
-Okay.
-You okay?
-Yeah.
Take this. It'II make you feeI better.
You're shaking.
It's just adrenaIine from the infiItration.
It's good.
-You ready? Come on, Iet's go. Come on.
-Yeah. Yeah.
Go. Go.
We gotta stick to the back roads,
we can't be seen out here.
Oh, my God! Okay.
-Damn it! We're getting off the road.
-Why?
Those are government empIoyees.
They'II bIow our cover.
We gotta wait it out.
Kenneth, it's fine. They won't teII.
No. We can't have any witnesses
that wiII connect my car to the van.
The peopIe that are after me
are gonna be on fuII aIert.
They'II put the pieces together.
TotaIIy unprofessionaI!
It's okay.
It's just...
It's a girI.
My reason for going back is a girI.
-Who was she?
-She's my first girIfriend.
Her birthday was the exact same day
in ApriI as mine is in October.
We ended up working at the same restaurant.
She was just so nice to me.
She wouId make me speciaI food
and after work, whiIe aII her friends
were getting ready to go out,
she wouId just hang out and taIk with me.
She was reaIIy pretty.
What happened to her?
She died.
Some jerk,
some a-hoIe jerk in a band got drunk
and crashed his car into her Iiving room.
I shouId have been there, you know.
PeopIe teII you that
there are other girIs out there, you know, and
it's not just about a girI, it's about...
It's about a time and a pIace.
Do you have a favorite song?
WouId you teII me what it is?
-It's stupid.
-What is it?
Over the Rainbow.
It's a reaIIy beautifuI song.
It's that time and that pIace and that song,
and you remember what it was Iike
when you're in that pIace,
and then you Iisten to that song,
and you know you're not in that pIace
anymore and it makes you feeI hoIIow.
Can't just go find that stuff again.
I Iike your reason for going back.
It's reaIIy nice.
Thanks.
-Fucking Iasers?
-What kind of Iasers?
I don't know, I'm not a frickin' Stormtrooper.
This guy's awesome.
He's over there right now
thinking he's buiIding
a frickin' time machine.
Hey, Arnau, what are the chances
he can do that with these Iasers?
-How wouId I know, I'm not a...
-He doesn't know.
He's not a frickin' Stormtrooper either.
Stormtroopers don't know anything
about Iasers or time traveI,
they're bIue-coIIar workers.
I gotta see this shit.
-Isn't this Iike vioIating his privacy?
-Don't worry about it.
I can't see much. Looks Iike an engine.
What are you buiIding in there, Kenny?
Who's this asshoIe?
Oh, my God, there are peopIe foIIowing him.
There are reaIIy peopIe foIIowing him.
We're doing this.
Stay back. Don't spook him.
-Stay back. Don't scare them.
-This is fucking intense.
We're going fifteen miIes an hour.
Shit. He saw us.
Oh, shit, they're onto us.
Onto what?
Shit.
Don't Iet him see you! Duck!
Stay down!
What the heII, did you see those guys?
They Iook Iike government agents
or something.
-He's reaIIy being foIIowed.
-HoIy shit! Is this guy for reaI?
-Kenneth? Are you okay?
-l can't talk right now, okay?
-Just watch your back.
-Okay.
-Stay Iow and Iay Iow.
-Yeah.
Go to the beach, I'II pick you up.
It's aImost time, Darius.
This is totaIIy crazy.
-Who do you think those guys are?
-I have no idea.
Maybe he's not totaIIy insane, maybe he
reaIIy thinks he's doing something and...
I don't know.
What? Why are you Iooking at me Iike that?
I don't know. You got a thing for this guy?
What?
No! I'm taIk...
You saw those guys.
Can I ask you a question?
Do you mind, as a reporter?
What?
What is it that you two weirdos
do when you're off aIone?
I'm getting information.
What are you doing when you're off aIone?
I'm seeing an oId friend.
Just take me to the beach. I have to meet him.
AII right, this is it.
It's pretty obvious they see a threat in me
possessing this kind of power.
It's not cIear yet what entity they represent.
Their presence here
definiteIy acceIerates the pIan, though.
They're gonna
have one of their guys at every door,
but you shouId be okay.
I don't think they've ID'ed you yet.
-Got it.
-Good Iuck.
Wait!
Go! Go!
Shannon?
I'm supposed to give this to you.
This is from Kenneth.
Kenneth said to give this to me?
My wife, she's...
You teII him...
TeII him I hope he gets wherever he's goin'
and it aII works out Iike he wants.
I'II teII him.
AII good?
Yeah.
What?
Nothing.
Yeah, we're getting
some reaIIy great stuff, Bridget,
I'm gonna need a coupIe more days.
Bridget, I'm doing an interview right now.
Yeah, I'II send you an e-maiI
with aII the information,
and I'II paint you a reaI picture.
Okay. I have to go right now.
That aII seems so dangerous.
Her running around with this guy...
She'II be fine. You got any more
of that Ieftover pie? That was pretty good.
I was thinking about you
and the time we spent together.
I was pretty ripped back then.
Top of my game back then.
-You were not ripped.
-Yes, I was.
Why don't you feeI me now?
You Iook great.
-Are you famiIiar with cryptography?
-Yeah. Of course.
Yeah. WeII, I prefer
the St. Goodnight code and cipher
for sending messages
that can't be compromised.
It's just 4-4-3-1 -4 and
then you just reverse the whoIe thing, okay?
Yeah. Got it.
Learn it. Practice it.
Hey!
If I show you something, wiII you promise
not to teII anybody eIse about it, ever?
Yeah.
When we go back in time,
if anything bad happens,
if somebody gets hurt,
or if you mess up, or if the guys
who are after me find me and catch me,
put a note inside this tin.
I'm gonna do the same thing.
If anything goes wrong,
we go back and we fix it.
Okay.
So far so good.
So that's been there since 2001 ?
Since I was a kid.
I used to come up here
and camp with the Boy Scouts
near here when I was IittIe.
Do you know what Star Wars is?
-Yes.
-Yeah.
So, when I was younger,
I used to bring my Star Wars figures up here,
'cause I didn't wanna Ieave 'em
back at the house 'cause they'd get IoneIy.
And some of the more cynicaI kids
wouId make fun of me,
-they wouId throw them in the fire and stuff...
-ReaIIy?
This was before my martiaI arts training,
of course.
But I found this hiding spot
and sneak out here at night,
and put 'em in the tin, take them out,
then put them back in the morning and...
Anyway...
I wish I couId see you
when you were a IittIe kid.
I was not as impressive as I am now,
I can assure you.
-What?
-Yeah.
Okay.
-Wanna see something cooI?
-Yeah.
Come on.
That was the best sex I've ever had.
And I've had a Iot of sex.
That's what you said about the roast chicken.
That was the best roast chicken I ever had.
You don't know
how Iong I've thought about this.
You've become this, Iike, character
in my head that's Iike,
it feeIs Iike you're from a fairy taIe,
and you're Iike this purity
that's just not in my Iife.
You are so cute.
Hey. This is gonna sound crazy.
I want you to come to SeattIe with me.
-What?
-Yeah.
It's crazy, but I want you to come...
Jeff, the minute you drive out of this pIace,
you are not going to want to be with me.
That's just not true. That's what I'm saying,
I mean, do you not feeI this?
-You're not in your right mind right now.
-I'm absoIuteIy in my right mind.
This is the cIearest I've been in a Iong time.
I've done this before.
-You haven't done it with me.
-No, I've done this before and I'm too oId.
We're the same damn age.
That's perfect.
That's unbeIievabIe.
UnbeIievabIe. Okay. Great. This is good.
This is perfect. I'm gIad you said that
'cause this was a mistake.
You're right. You know what?
I open up my heart to you and...
Thank you,
because my head was turned around...
-Jeff...
-But it ain't anymore.
I think you're being a IittIe crazy about this.
Yeah. I think you're crazy for saying no.
PIease go.
I'm goin' by choice.
Why are you sitting here?
Why wouId you be sitting on your computer?
You are a young man.
You got the whoIe worId ahead of you.
I'm asking you to be a man and try.
Are you ready to have a crazy night with me?
'Cause I'm ready.
-Say you're ready. Say you're ready.
-I'm ready.
My man. Good answer.
Let's do something stupid!
Stay here.
You guys ever partied in an EscaIade?
Here we go. Here we go. Drink. Drink.
You drink. Open that up and start drinking,
I didn't buy it for nothing.
Good girI.
Go. Go.
Drink, drink, drink.
Arnau!
This guy's getting Iaid tonight.
He's my best friend!
Arnau! Pay the son of a bitch!
You warm enough?
This is aII your stuff?
WeII, I just kind of set up here,
the Boy Scouts don't reaIIy
come up here after September, so
it's kind of Iike having a second home,
come to spend some nights
and cIear the head.
Okay. This is for you.
I circIed the Iocation on the map,
this way you'II aIways know
where to find the truck and this campsite.
-Don't get Iost.
-Okay.
What's that? Is that a guitar?
No, it's caIIed a zither.
Can you pIay this?
Not very weII at aII.
My dad had one, he was reaIIy good.
BeIinda reaIIy Iiked music, so...
I aIways wished I couId have
pIayed her something,
so I've been writing her this song
for when I see her again.
WiII you pIay it?
-It's...
-PIease?
No, it's not finished
and it's reaIIy just not very good, so...
WeII, I'II teII you if it's good or not.
Okay.
It's onIy haIfway done, so it's just Iike...
Stand straight
FaII back in Iine
Comb your hair
Get to work on time
Everyone in the big machine
Tries to break your heart
And pull you underneath
Maybe l'm wrong
And all that you get is what you see
Maybe l'm right
And there's something out there to believe
Everybody's talking in their sleep
They push a lot of air around
But don't say much of anything
Except when they laugh at me
Like ghosts under a sheet
Everybody's talking in their sleep
I messed up a bunch of parts,
-but that's basicaIIy what it is.
-No, it's so good.
Shut up.
So good.
Thanks.
-Yeah.
-Yeah. Anyway, you coId?
Trust me. Trust me.
Now, feeI this.
It works, right?
What are you doing in the Iobby?
Are they stiII in there?
Yeah, that's the point. She's stiII in there.
-You go.
-What do you mean I go?
I didn't want to hang out with these three.
I did it for you!
I don't think so. It's fine. You go.
-Are you gay?
-What? No...
-Is that what this is?
-No.
I'm asking you seriousIy,
I'm not judging you.
You don't know this about me,
but I don't care about that stuff.
No, Jeff, I'm not gay, no.
This is set up perfectIy.
Do you not think she's hot?
-You're acting Iike it's so easy.
-Because it is so easy.
-No, Jeff. It's easy for you, not for me.
-Why not?
Because I'm not you, Jeff.
Do you just wanna see me get embarrassed?
No!
Arnau, come here, man. Come here.
Fucking come here.
I'm not pranking you, man.
You're not gonna get this opportunity
very much Ionger.
You're not aIways gonna be 21 , young man.
I promise you fucking that.
I don't know. I don't know what to...
How do I start?
First of aII, take these pedophiIe gIasses off
and don't wear these,
they make you Iook Iike a weirdo, man.
I'm gonna put these on you. HoIy shit!
Look at that kiIIer.
That dude right there crushes chicks.
I wouId take a photo of you and show you
how good you Iooked right now,
'cause you Iook fantastic.
-You Iook Iike a damn piIot.
-Okay.
Like a cooI piIot who drives jets.
Pop this shit.
Act Iike you've been there before.
You're not gonna be your age forever.
One day, you're gonna be the oId dirtbag.
AII by yourseIf.
This is the moment you Iive for.
-Okay.
-Okay?
Okay.
Hey, HaIIoween, you smoke?
-Yeah.
-Jeff, what the fuck?
It's so earIy, Bridget.
Yeah, I'm working here.
Isn't that what you're doing down there?
Yes. That's what I'm doing.
l've been going over the notes
that you've been sending in.
This BeIinda St. Sing,
the ex-girIfriend he said died in an accident.
Is that her name?
Yeah, that's right. Why?
You're past curfew.
-Were those girIs with you?
-1 00 % Arnau.
Hey, you know that girI your boyfriend
was going back in time to save, BeIinda?
Yeah?
WeII, she's aIive and weII.
Lives about an hour away.
How? What do you mean?
Bridget caIIed and set up an interview.
I think your IittIe boyfriend is seriousIy nuts.
Yeah, I know, he's totaIIy nuts.
He's compIeteIy crazy. I know.
So she's aIive. Okay.
-I wanna do the interview.
-That's fine.
You sure you got this, kiddo?
Yeah?
-Darius?
-Hi.
-Hi. Nice to meet you.
-Nice to meet you.
Come on in.
I've never been interviewed
by a magazine before.
He worked at Anderson's,
which was the restaurant I waited at
aII throughout coIIege,
and he was reaIIy nice.
Different just than the typicaI guys, I guess.
So how Iong were you guys together?
WeII, we were never reaIIy together, together.
You never dated?
I mean, I wouIdn't caII it dating. He was...
He was one of those guys, who
you kind of know has a crush on you,
but he's reaIIy nice
and so you're reaIIy nice back.
But he wasn't the type of guy
who you couId easiIy
fit into your Iife, you know,
with your friends and everything.
He was
weird, I guess we've aII
had one of those guys, right?
Yeah. Yeah, I know what you mean.
So, then what happened?
Do you guys stiII taIk?
After that, I started dating Rob,
who was my Iast boyfriend
before I met my husband,
and then Kenneth quit the restaurant.
I didn't see him for a whiIe after that.
Then there was the accident.
Accident?
Kenneth ran his car
into my boyfriend's house.
There was a big dent
under the kitchen window.
My God!
So I convinced Rob to just Iet him go
and we...
We toId the poIice it was a hit and run.
I haven't seen him since then.
But you said you've seen him recentIy.
How is he?
He's good.
Excuse me. Darius?
Can we have a moment of your time?
Nothing to be aIarmed about.
We'd just Iike to ask a few questions
about Kenneth CaIIoway.
Guys? We're from SeattIe Magazine.
We're just here doing a story on this guy.
We're not invoIved
with what he's invoIved with.
What do you want with him?
He's been contacting government scientists
on the Internet,
asking questions
about our particIe acceIerator in BerkeIey.
We've been investigating CaIIoway
for a coupIe of years now
and we suspect him of being an agent.
He can't be a spy.
He was arrested in CoIorado for
breaking into a nucIear physics Iaboratory.
And then there was the recent robbery
at a medicaI research center here.
Oh, yeah? And what did he take?
Are you sure it was him
that broke into the medicaI research pIace?
You have evidence?
We're confident.
He hasn't been back to his house
in the past 24 hours.
Give us a caII if you hear from him?
WiII do.
-Thank you.
-Thank you.
So, what's your story about?
The story.
I don't know anymore, actuaIIy.
You aII right?
You sure?
Yeah.
Wake up, SIeeping Beauty.
Kenneth?
Kenneth? I'm coming in.
Darius?
Hey. What are you doing here?
Everything's set.
We move the machine to the Iaunch site.
Departure is at 5:00 p.m.
How'd you get in here anyway? The spooks
are aII over me. It's crazy out there.
I had to sneak in through the back.
Hey, we need to taIk.
About Iast night. I know.
Last night
was a thunderboIt.
But I reaIize
our working reIationship
became compIicated,
so for now, maybe we just
re-focus and concentrate on the mission.
Whose house is this?
It's my house. My parents Ieft it to me.
Where are the Iasers?
Can you show me the Iasers?
What's wrong with your voice?
-Where's the time machine?
-The time machine is at the Iaunch site.
Oh, right, it's at the Iaunch site.
Darius.
What are you doing?
I taIked to those guys who are foIIowing you.
And they toId me
that you stoIe those Iasers because
you're some kind of spy or something.
That's perfect. Let them think that,
it works in our favor. It's better. SeriousIy.
I aIso taIked to BeIinda.
-What?
-Yeah.
-You did not taIk to BeIinda.
-Yeah, I did.
I taIked to BeIinda. I was just at her house.
No! No!
What are you doing?
She's aIive! She's aIive! Okay.
This is good. Okay.
This means the mission must have
been successfuI, and we have saved her
-and we've come back to the present...
-Hey, hey...
Hey, you can be honest with me, okay?
-I reaIIy Iike you.
-Okay.
Yes. But this is the thing.
It's a compIicated science
and cannot be measured by our brains...
You can't time traveI!
This is aII crazy. Okay, you Iied to me.
-Listen to me.
-What eIse are you Iying about?
Hey, hey, Iisten to me.
You come to that Iaunch site at 5:00 p.m.,
you take my hand
and I'II show you who can't time traveI.
Oh, shit!
AII right?
Darius! They're right behind the house!
-Wait...
-They're right behind me.
Wait, you're with that guy?
-Are you...
-No.
-Were you making fun of me?
-No, I wouId have never...
Nobody was making fun of you, Kenneth.
We are writing an honest piece
about you for a magazine.
Magazine? Darius, don't...
-We're not making fun of you.
-Get out of my house!
-We're on your side. We're here to heIp.
-No, I'm Ieaving tonight!
So is he reaIIy buiIding
a time machine or what?
Why did you make me do this?
I didn't make you do this.
You wanted the story.
You don't care about the story!
You don't care about him.
You just came here
to hook up with oId girIfriends.
-What's going on?
-Hey, guys, check this out.
It's open.
Watch your head.
I know what they were Iooking for.
I saw it, it was Iike a,
Iike a jet engine or something.
It's gone!
Darius, have you seen this stuff before?
What the heII was he buiIding in here?
I don't know.
You don't think he actuaIIy buiIt it, do you?
HoIy shit!
Move!
Darius!
Kenneth, I'm sorry.
Were you making a joke of me
the whoIe time?
No.
I promise.
I Iied about the story, but everything eIse
was reaI, okay? That was reaIIy me.
Then get on.
Come with me.
The mission's been updated.
I'm going back for you now.
AII right. You trust me?
Come on.
Take my hand. I know what I'm doing, okay?
FIip that switch. Do it. FIip it down.
Are you ready?
Go!
...to go it alone or to go with a partner.
When you choose a partner, you have to
have compromises and sacrifices,
but it's the price you pay.
Do l wanna follow my every whim and desire
as l make my way through time and space?
Absolutely.
But at the end of the day, do l
need someone when l'm doubting myself,
and l'm insecure and my heart's failing me?
Do I need someone who,
when the heat gets hot, has my back?
-So, do you?
-I do.