![]() ![]() The movie ends with a living Claire Kuchever on the dock following the incident, meeting an agent Doug Carlin who knows nothing of any of this, and riding away with him apparently intending to explain to him as much as she understands of what happened. He then manages to get the bomb off the ferry before it explodes, saving the lives of all those on the ferry but dying in the process. He is determined to save Claire Kuchever-and he succeeds. Having succeeded with the note, he persuades one of the scientists on the team to send him back, despite the certainty that his heart rhythm will be disrupted in transit. He uses it to attempt to send himself a note, which is intercepted by his partner, who is then killed by the terrorist when he attempts to apprehend the villain single-handedly. Agent Doug Carlin has determined that the team is lying about what this device is, and proved that it is possible to send something back in time through it. They catch the phone call inquiring about the vehicle, get surveillance footage of the phone booth from which the call was made, match a personal item carried by the bomber to the same item on surveillance footage from the ferry dock, get a clear image of the man's face, and ultimately match it to a file photo, arrest the bomber, and get enough of a confession from him to convict him of the crime. He suggests that the best way to find and identify the bomber is to watch the life of Claire Kuchever, because whoever abducted and killed her did so to get her car to use for the bomb, and that will be the first clearly identifiable act connected to the bombing. Doug Carlin is tapped to participate in this aspect of the investigation, but given a major song and dance about what this thing is and how it works. They intend to use this piece of equipment to attempt to solve the crime and identify the bomber so he can be apprehended, the sooner the better. The scientifically reasonable explanation is that they accidentally created a wormhole with a temporal offset between the two ends, and so they can look back in time four days, six hours and change. The second disruption to the routine is that the FBI brings in a team from Cambridge who have a temporal viewer. Carlin's quick investigation finds some anomalies at her house, but determines that her Ford Bronco was stolen that morning or the night before, which he correctly suspects of being the vehicle used to deliver the bomb. Agent Carlin apparently also does profiles he is called in connection with this body, and quickly realizes that the bomber must have killed this girl, whom he manages to identify as Claire Kuchever from a missing persons report that morning, because an effort was made to make her appear to have been a victim of a disaster that had not yet happened. ![]() The first of those two things is that a body is reported washed ashore somewhere upstream, burned and battered as if from the explosion, but found at least eight minutes before the explosion occurred. From there, the investigation is about to move into the routine, but two things happen. ATF agent Doug Carlin quickly determines that a bomb was used, finding pieces of detonator washed ashore. Nimitz (an aircraft carrier which is also featured in the time travel film Final Countdown, but which does not actually appear in this movie) is aboard for a welcoming party thrown by the host city of New Orleans. It is immediately suspected of being an attack, because the crew of the U.S.S. A bomb in a Ford Bronco detonates on the car deck, and the blast causes a secondary explosion in the fuel tanks, destroying the ship and most of the passengers. ![]() The movie begins with a terrorist-like attack on a ferry. ![]() In fact, it does not work under any theory of time known to me. It simply does not work as a possible story. It is not a bad movie in any sense, and it is not even really a bad time travel movie, at least in the sense that I would recommend seeing it to anyone who wanted to try to get a sense of how time works. I also appreciated the fact that the scientists were arguing about how time actually worked, each supporting a different theory and none of them completely certain of the details of his (or her) position. I get a particular kick out of the car chase, when the hero is using a temporal viewer which shows him the movements of the villain one hundred two hours earlier, and has to fight his way through traffic to keep the image in sight. There is a lot of action packed into the story, and some really fun bits. ![]()
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