I love you, honey.
We've got to get up.
Hey, where are you going?
It's 6:00. We've got to get up.
No, we don't.
Hey. The bible says: Woe unto the person
who thinks more of their job
than of their lover.
The bible doesn't say that, silly.
We're going to miss breakfast again.
It's better than oat bran.
You're going to be late.
I'll miss my appointment with the elusive Dr. Koopman.
So when will we get married?
I'm thinking about it. I told you.
Anybody tell you you got a great behind?
No.
Professor Rhodes.
You are going to be late for class.
Now, you're all Ph.D. Candidates.
Supposedly, you know your history.
So let's pose a question.
How would history be different if you'd never been born?
What if Hitler had never been born?
Or Christ?
I want you to think of time as being like a river...
With all these tributaries flowing into it...
Each one of these tributaries is an event.
It's a breakthrough.
It's like a rock Dropped into a stream.
It ripples forward, affecting everything afterwards...
The assassination at Sarajevo
or sputnik.
If events ripple forward like that,
do they also ripple backward?
You read my book.
That'll be your final exam question.
Can historic cycles ripple backward
as well as forward through time?
Do present discoveries affect our understanding of the past
and therefore, how the past affects us now?
You're asking us?
Yes.
What are you doing here?
I came to see professor Koopman.
He won't do an interview for my show.
He says he's camera-shy,
but he gave a globally televised Nobel acceptance speech.
He thinks I'm a ditz.
But you know what? I got him good.
I saw a picture on his desk of a woman...
Probably his mother...
And she was holding some lilies.
I'm going to send him some lilies with a note
saying how beautiful she was
and how moved I was by her picture,
and that I think she would really want him to share his ideas,
if only to give humanity hope.
Devious little creature, aren't you?
I'm just doing my job.
I have to have him on this show.
Hey, I'm not stopping you.
It's a matter of getting him to trust me.
Yeah. By manipulating him...
That little journalistic mind.
Hey, listen.
I think I'm going to visit my brother for a while.
You had another Dream again last night, didn't you?
Yeah. I've been thinking a lot about him lately.
Happy birthday, Chris.
Hey, slowpoke. Come on.
We're going fishing.
Why, Chris? Why do you got to go?
It's the right thing to do.
A man's got to defend his country.
What if something happens to you?
Nothing's going to happen to me.
You don't know that for sure.
Yes, I do. You're stuck with me for keeps.
Look at that.
You see that log over there?
You got a 12-pound bass just waiting for your hook.
Now, do it just like I showed you.
Use your wrist.
All right!
That-a-way!
Then you'll come back
and get married to Cindy
and move off to college.
I'm tighter with you than with my own friends.
Who taught you how to ride a bike
and how to throw a curve ball?
You did.
I did.
So stop worrying, OK?
Nothing's going to pull us apart.
I promise.
Nothing's going to pull us apart.
I promise.
Good evening, professor.
Hi, Michael.
What brings you back so late?
I forgot my briefcase.
You guys work this late?
Sometimes.
You have a good one, professor.
Laura.
Guess what? I got it!
I saw the damnedest thing.
He called and said he'd do the interview.
I saw a ballerina appear out of thin air
in the physics building.
David, you're not listening to me.
You're not listening to me.
I saw it!
All right. What?
I got the interview with Koopman.
Koopman?
Yeah.
The lilies clinched it.
What did you say he's working on again?
Trans-dimensional physics.
He's got theories about moving things through space and time.
He's very controversial.
Yeah. So I've heard.
Come with me.
Maybe you'll find him interesting.
Maybe.
Dr. Hendryk Koopman,
You claim there could be 12 dimensions, not just 4,
And we're missing out if we don't explore all of them.
Thank you for joining us on Dallas in depth.
Thank you. It's nice to be here.
But then, I'm always here. This is my classroom.
Tell us, Dr. Koopman.
What exactly is trans-dimensional physics?
Is it something I could understand?
Oh, of course.
We are dealing with the Einsteinian concept
of time and space being the same thing.
Like mass and energy,
like waves and particles folding back on itself.
Folding back on itself.
Well, time and space.
You see, here I have a strip of paper.
It has two sides...
you see...
and two edges.
Now, I twist one side and fix it to the other.
Like this.
I'm with you so far.
Now, you see?
Now what we have
is a figure that has only one side
and one continuous edge.
That's hard to believe. Try it.
One side and one continuous edge,
like time and space folding back on each other.
At least, that's the theory.
What does this mean in practical terms?
It means that dimensional space is an illusion of sorts...
A perception... But not the real thing.
It also implies
that there may be other, more efficient ways
to achieve space travel than by present methods.
Dr. Koopman,
you say that it's just theory.
Have you actually sent objects through space?
My theories are based purely
on mathematical calculations at present.
The government budgeted over $13 million
to research you're conducting on something.
Is it sending objects through space?
That's science fiction,
As is that figure.
Then you haven't been able to do it.
There are many, many problems.
It's much too premature.
It'll be years before we're able to prove that.
Then it happened.
On a bright, cloudless day November of 1963,
The 35th president
was gunned down by Lee Harvey Oswald
in Dallas, Texas.
What would have happened if John Kennedy had lived?
Would anything have changed?
Wasn't he going to pull us out of Vietnam?
Excellent.
Eight days before he died, he gave verbatim instructions
that all American advisers
should be pulled out of Vietnam by 1965.
Hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
Our nation would not still be in mourning
after a quarter of a century.
My dad's brother died over there.
Come on, soldier.
You can't be late for boot camp.
Well, I hope I didn't forget anything.
Let me take that for you.
Thanks, dad.
Got it.
Oh.
I love you.
Stop that. Come on.
It's time.
Yeah.
I guess it is.
How do I look? All right?
Fine. Looking real fine.
Hey, come on, slowpoke.
No.
What now, David?
Come on.
Say good-bye to your brother.
You promised.
I'll be back.
You won't.
David!
Take that back right now, son.
No!
David, come back here right now.
No!
Say good-bye!
Come on, son.
Chris!
Professor Rhodes.
Professor?
Are you all right?
Yeah. I'm sorry.
I lost my brother in Vietnam.
Dr. Koopman.
Professor David Rhodes.
I'm with the history department.
I met you at the interview the other day.
I remember you.
You're a friend of the television lady.
Well, it's nice to see you again.
Professor, I was wondering
if I could ask you about your research.
Oh, no. I'm sorry. I'm very busy.
I really don't have the time.
I never saw a music box
appear and disappear before.
I beg your pardon?
I was in the physics building the other night.
I saw the music box.
This is exactly
what I hoped would never happen.
Now that it's happened,
good day, professor.
Dr. Koopman, if I could just have a minute...
I must tell you, I resent your prying
into my confidential research.
I'm sorry that I agreed to that interview.
You should understand.
I just want to be left alone to do my work.
Which is funded by the military.
So?
You might like
to have somebody to talk to
about the social implications.
I don't want any state secrets.
I'm sure you think persistence is a virtue.
I consider it to be a threat.
I would appreciate it in the future
if you avoided me completely.
You may consider this to be a warning
if you wish.
I'm sure Dr. Koopman appreciates
your not bothering him this late.
You definitely got his approval?
Absolutely.
Don't want either of us to get into any trouble.
He wants me to put some papers together.
I'll lock up.
Whatever you say, professor. Don't work too hard.
Dog?
Quiet, boy.
You're here.
Smooly.
Smooly, we did it.
We did it.
Oh, my god.
We made history, Smooly.
We made history.
You and I... Yes, we will. We'll be famous.
What?
What is it?
What is it, boy?
What are you doing here? You broke in.
No.
You are in a great deal of trouble, professor.
Will you wait a minute?
You need me.
I need you behind bars,
Where you belong.
I know what's going on here.
Professor.
That dog wasn't here when I came in.
I suppose this will be your lady friend's next big story.
Laura's not involved.
I want to learn about your research,
To be a part of your experiment.
I've dedicated my life to the study of history.
I've written books on it.
I've theorized on the cyclical flow of events.
I am the perfect complement to your research.
I can help you.
How could you possibly help me?
It could take years for the government
to approve of human testing.
Dr. Koopman,
unless you teach your dog how to speak,
no one is ever going to fully understand
what he's seen or where he's been...
Not even you.
Sooner or later, you'll need a volunteer...
A human being.
Smooly,
Stay here.
You...
Come with me.
Come in.
This is incredible.
Who could imagine something like this?
I could. No questions. Just watch.
You're going to bring the dog back
from the office?
The dog's name is Smooly.
Excuse me. Smooly.
His organic systems alone
require three billion calculations a second
to track and reassemble.
Here. Put this on.
Where is he?
Traveling through time.
There he is, the little darling.
Oh, he gets excited. A little accident.
I better get some paper towels.
If it was possible, professor Rhodes...
David.
If it was possible,
What would you do if you could travel through time?
Are you serious?
Curious.
I would stop a lot of men
from being killed in an unjust war
and restore this country's faith in its government.
And just exactly how would you accomplish all that?
I would stop John F. Kennedy's assassination.
You mean you would alter history?
I lost my brother in Vietnam.
I never got over it.
How one event could affect so many lives.
So this is not really about John Kennedy.
It's about your brother.
It's about a lot of brothers
who never made it back.
I knew president Kennedy.
He was a great man...
And a good friend.
That is insane!
It's not insane.
I'll only be gone 20 minutes.
You have that in writing?
You don't know what could happen.
Smooly came out OK.
Smooly didn't try to stop an assassination!
David, have you lost your mind?
I've seen it. It works.
This is why I'm afraid to set a date.
Why?
Nobody can change the past. You're stuck in it.
It's all you think about.
You've got this idea that you can change it!
Koopman's got the means to do it.
I could change everything.
How do you know it wouldn't be for the worse?
All of us have regrets. Grown-ups live with them.
That's a little below the belt.
It's the truth.
I will bring you back on November 22, 1963,
At precisely 12:15,
To the roof of the Texas book depository.
If these coordinates are off by only a few feet,
you could miss the roof,
and that's a seven-story fall.
We must lock in the precise spot
that you're to come out.
You'll have exactly 15 minutes
before President Kennedy's motorcade drives by
and Oswald is on the sixth floor.
You will go down, stop him,
and return to the roof.
Then I will bring you back at precisely 12:40.
You will detain him only, yes?
And nothing else?
I gave you my word.
David, there's one other thing we haven't discussed,
Something that concerns me very much.
You're 39 years old,
So you were 12 in 1963.
What will happen to the 12-year-old David
when you return in '63?
What do you mean?
Well, can the same life force
occupy two bodies in the same time and space?
You see, I don't have these answers,
And if something should go wrong,
There's no way you have of communicating with me.
That's why I want you to be absolutely certain
about what you do.
There can be tremendous risks.
I'm ready to accept them.
Yes? Who is it?
It's Laura Whitaker, Dr. Koopman.
I need to talk to David.
You told her about this?
Dr. Koopman,
She's the most important thing in my life.
I had to tell her.
And is she also willing to accept the risks?
I don't know. I hope so.
Hi.
I want to help any way I can.
You can use these.
These are microfiche copies
of the Dallas post dispatch
from November 1963 to now.
Now, if you stop Oswald and save Kennedy,
According to you, the headline ought to change.
Yes. All historical events
will change in accord with what we change in the past.
The want ads and the personals section will change.
That's it!
That's how you'll be able to communicate with me
if something should go wrong.
You can place an ad in the personals section.
You can address it to uncle Hendryk.
We'll be able to see exactly what you need.
Nothing will go wrong.
You just get me back here.
Thank you, young lady.
Even if you do succeed,
There's no guarantee that Chris will be alive.
Yeah. I know that,
But I got to try.
Chris would do the same for me.
Well, I know that I can't stop you...
But I love you.
And I don't want to lose you.
And I pray for you every night.
Rope.
First aid.
Gloves.
Knife.
And a gun.
Remember, the gun is for keeping out of trouble,
Not creating it.
Right.
Hey, don't make any plans for tonight,
'Cause I'm cooking dinner at home.
Oh, I almost forgot.
Something very important.
This is an historic occasion.
Now, smile.
Good-bye.
Godspeed.
I'll see you in 20 minutes.
OK.
Are you ready, David?
He's gone.
No!
He shot the president! He shot the president!
This is his gun.
He's lying!
I tried to stop him.
He shot the president!
Let's put the gun down.
Get him!
Kill him! Kill him!
Which way?
There he is! Come on!
There he goes!
Stop him! He shot the president!
Hey!
Oh!
Hold still!
Stop!
It's almost time.
Yes. I know.
He's not there.
He's not there!
Where is he? What happened?
I don't know.
Well, did you do everything right?
Of course I did! I think so.
Maybe he was late getting to the roof.
That's it! He was late.
He's probably waiting.
We'll start again.
There he is!
All right, let us through, fellows!
Come on.
Come on!
Back off! Stay off!
Did you kill the president?
Come on!
Hey, that guy...
Is it that guy?
Come on!
We'll all have a statement for you later!
Just back off!
Oh, no!
This can't be!
Oh, my god.
You shot the president.
No, I didn't. Oswald did.
Oswald tried to stop you.
I stopped him.
You had the rifle.
I took it from him!
He said you stole it from him.
I never saw him before.
He met you in a bar.
The guy's crazy. He's a psychopath.
He took you to his place.
He's a liar!
He kept the rifle in his wife's garage.
They're separated.
He's staying in a boarding house on oak cliff
under the name O.H. Lee.
If you never met him, how come you know that?
You shot the president.
No, I didn't.
That's not why I came back.
Came back fr where?
What were you doing on the sixth floor?
That's him.
He shot the president.
I tried to stop him.
I wish he would have killed me instead.
Easy!
Easy.
Hold it!
We don't know his name
or where he's from or why he did it.
He had no identification. We can't match the fingerprints.
We're taking him to the county jail.
Step back, please!
Clear a path!
Why don't you talk to us?
How about you? Give us a comment!
Why did you shoot...
That's jack ruby!
Stop him! Stop him!
He's going to shoot me!
Oh, my god! He's been shot!
Get an ambulance!
Oh, my god!
No.
It's not fair.
I want him back.
You've got to bring him back!
There's got to be a way!
Wh... Oh!
Now, you're sure you'll be all right?
Yeah.
Let me fix you a glass of warm milk.
It'll help you rest better.
Laura, can you tell me where the...
Wh... What's wrong?
Some of our pictures are gone...
The ones of David and me.
Somebody's been in the house.
Well, is something else missing?
David's fishing pole and his cap.
All of his coats are gone!
Where are his clothes?
Laura, David doesn't exist anymore...
Now that he's dead in the past.
He's got to exist.
I want him back.
So do I.
We tried to play god.
Well, maybe god wants us to try harder.
It's not too late.
I'm going back.
What?
Laura, don't be absurd.
You can bring me back November 21st,
The day before David arrives.
No, I won't.
You must.
I'll have a day to warn the police.
They'll think you're insane.
Not if I tell them about Oswald.
They'll arrest him.
I can't let you risk your life, too!
I have no life without David.
This is the perfect place to bring you back...
My house in 1963.
Will anybody be there?
No. I was in San Francisco
the day Kennedy was shot.
I returned to Dallas that evening.
I will program you to materialize
in the Driveway.
I will bring David back
at precisely 12:40,
and you... 10 minutes later at 12:50.
But make sure that you don't leave the house.
Absolutely certain.
Just use the phone to call the FBI.
You're sure you want to do this?
Positive.
Good luck.
Thank you.
Ready?
Are you sure? Good.
Oh, god, lady. I didn't mean to hit you.
I didn't even see you.
You all right?
You hold on.
I'm going to get help.
You work at the Gregsons brothers' garage?
Yes, sir.
I pick up doc Koopman's car when he goes out of town.
He ain't a good Driver.
He ain't a good Driver?
What about you?
Well, I didn't see her.
She wasn't there... Then she was.
People don't just pop up out of nowhere.
She did.
Now, you're sure
she didn't have a handbag
to help us find out who she is?
She mumbled something about Kennedy.
Kennedy?
Oh, and she said something about Oswald...
Something about Oswald.
And, David.
Didn't make no sense to me.
That makes two of us.
Am I still in 199o?
No, dear. It's not 1990.
It's 1963.
Oh.
Oh, thank god.
Easy, now, dear.
Where am I?
Parkland hospital. You had an accident.
An accident?
You got hit by a car.
Why is it 12:00?
Is that clock wrong?
No, ma'am. You're just confused.
You were in a coma.
Coma.
For how long?
Since yesterday... About 24 hours.
That's why you need rest.
It's Friday. They'll kill him.
Let me call the FBI!
I've got to get to David!
Don't do anything. Just rest.
I've got to stop them.
They're going to shoot the president.
I'm going to get you something,
And I'll be right back.
Hello. You've got to get me the FBI.
2o4 just came to.
She's going to be unmanageable.
That's the concussion?
You better page Dr. Wilkins.
I know it sounds crazy, but it's the truth.
Don't you care about the president?
Meet me on the roof of the Texas book depository
in 10 minutes.
Hello.
No, her nurse. Who is this?
No. She's been rambling on.
She's been in a coma... A little mixed up still.
I'm sorry she bothered you.
Now, we shouldn't be bothering people on the phone.
You're still a little mixed up, honey.
Dr. Wilkins is on his way.
Take this until he gets here.
That's it.
Here you go.
Now, I want you to rest until he gets here.
You paged me?
2o4, doctor, the concussion.
I sedated her.
She came to and started slugging.
Let me take a look.
As the Kennedy motorcade makes its way through the city.
Good afternoon, miss Whitaker.
I'm Dr. Wilkins.
The Kennedy motorcade is entering downtown Dallas.
The people are out in force
to see the most popular president in decades.
Security's at an all-time high today,
amid threats from various right-wing groups...
The public to be on its best behavior.
Move it! Move!
Motorcade makes its way toward...
JFK will win by a landslide.
Oh, I'll never make it. God.
He's going to shoot the president!
Stop the motorcade! He'll be shot!
Get back there!
Cannot stop the motorcade, ma'am!
Where did he go?
This way!
Stop him! He shot the president!
David, get in!
Hurry! It's me! Get in!
Why are you here?
I had to stop you.
They thought you did it.
What?
They thought you shot Kennedy.
I came back to change it,
But everything went wrong.
I'm supposed to be up on the roof.
Everything's different now.
The coordinates are for Koopman's Driveway.
Two suspects were seen leaving Dealey Plaza
in a red convertible,
license plate IL 4324.
Police issued an all points bulletin for the suspects,
As the president's condition remains unknown.
We've got to be there in five minutes.
We'll never make it.
Here. Put these on.
They know what we look like.
Put it on.
Not so broad in the nose.
Yeah.
That's him.
You recognize her?
No.
His accomplice, according to witnesses.
Every precinct in the country
gets a copy of these.
From parkland memorial hospital,
Where the president is said to be in critical condition.
The nation awaits further word from the doctors.
I know it's too late to say it,
But I sure am sorry I got you into this mess.
Don't be sorry.
It's as much my fault as yours.
At least we're together.
What do we do now?
We can't keep ducking into sleazy bars.
Somebody's bound to spot us.
Wait a minute.
There is a way out.
Let's contact Dr. Koopman.
He returns to Dallas tonight.
Callim. It's our only chance.
It's 1963. He won't know us.
We can explain. He'll understand.
He can place a classified ad to himself in 199o.
He'll read it on microfiche and bring us back.
Well, it's worth a shot.
Where are you going?
To make a phone call.
Dr. Koopman won't be back for about...
No. I'm going to call Chris.
Your brother?
I just want to hear his voice again.
Lee Harvey Oswald was shot
while heroically trying to stop
the assassination attempt.
I wish I'd been there earlier.
I could have stopped him.
Why anybody would do anything like this...
Though wounded, Oswald...
Is Chris there?
Hospital?
I'm sorry to hea...
Wish I knew what to say.
No...
I'll call him tomorrow.
We have no word on the extent of the president's injuries.
He is in surgery,
And no statement has been issued by hospital spokesmen.
What's wrong?
I'm dying in a hospital.
I had a seizure
on the playground around noon.
What?
Koopman wasn't sure if the same life force
could occupy two bodies in the same time.
I guess now we know.
What?
I'm killing myself coming back here.
I'm 12 years old,
And I'm dying in a coma.
Chris is at the hospital
visiting me.
That means I'm dying, too.
They're not there, Smooly.
They're not there.
Oh, my god.
Keep the change.
I'm coming. I'm coming.
Hello.
Dr. Koopman.
This is David.
My name is David Rhodes.
Do I know you?
Not at the moment.
It's important that I meet with you to talk.
This isn't a time for talking, but for grieving.
I'm extremely anxious
in discussing your time travel theories...
In particular,
the ones concerning trans-dimensional physics
and super-lumenal velocities.
How do you know all that?
You're thinking of breaking energy patterns
into scalar waves.
I never told...
Your problem has been
how to condense it back into matter again.
Who are you?
It's very complicated.
It's easiest if I come to your house.
I'll explain everything.
It's incredible. You know everything.
And the future...
You've already lived it.
We came back to change it.
Change it in what way?
There'll be war in Vietnam.
It'll last over 10 years.
It might never have happened if Kennedy had lived.
You sent us...
Yes?
FBI.
You can't tell them we're here.
Yes?
I'm agent Landry. This is agent Braniff.
Mind if we come in?
Oh, please.
Thank you.
Couple of questions about the woman
hit by the car in your driveway yesterday.
A woman hit by...
The hospital says her name was Laura Whitaker.
She didn't have any ID.
You recognize either of these two?
No. Why do you ask?
Who are they?
We think they shot the president.
No. I-I-I...
I'm sorry. I don't think I can be of any assistance.
No. No. You keep them.
They might jog your memory.
Good evening, doctor.
Oh. Good evening.
Who are you really?
Were you involved in the assassination?
We weren't.
They think we did it.
I want the whole story,
And you'd better be telling me the truth.
I could be accused of being your accomplice.
Because we couldn't stop the assassination,
Johnson is going to plunge the US into a war
that will tear this country apart.
I don't understand.
If the war was terrible, why didn't Johnson stop it?
It got out of control.
I met Johnson. I've spoken with him.
He seems a reasonable man.
He didn't realize what was going to happen.
If only he could have known how terrible it was.
Well, why couldn't he know?
If you called him and said it was an emergency,
Could you get through?
I think so.
David.
Why can't we tell him? Why can't we show him?
Show him what?
If you could stop this war, you would,
Wouldn't you?
Of course I would. But how?
If only you had some proof of this tale.
We can get proof
if you'll help.
Would you mind reading that back to me, please?
OK.
"Dear uncle henDryk,
"Still trying.
"Send David's class film, home file cabinet...
"Film, not video...
To Driveway noon, November 24th."
Is that OK?
Yes. That's fine.
How much do I owe you?
That will be $3.67.
Uncle Hendryk.
I'll put you right in the Driveway at 12 noon.
Well, tell him it's about the assassination.
He must make time.
Hendryk Koopman.
Dr. Koopman,
The Nobel laureate.
The Nobel prize in physics.
Kennedy knew my work.
No. I'll wait.
Wish me luck.
I do.
I'll call.
Get out of the car.
Now!
Don't make any false moves. Let's see those hands.
You're under arrest for the assassination
of the president of the United States.
Mr. President, Dr. Koopman is here to see you.
Come on in, doctor.
Thank you, Mr. President.
I can give you five minutes.
That's all I'm going to need.
I'm listening.
This is top, top secret.
Only you and I must know about these things.
What's in the can?
Well, you know my work, Mr. President...
I remember you. What do you got there?
I have been doing research with time coordinates.
This is a film I've managed to retrieve
from the future.
I'm not in the mood for games, doctor.
These are very difficult days for me,
For all of us.
Mr. President, this is a television documentary
made after you died.
After I died?
You're serious, aren't you?
I have never been more serious in my life.
You have the chance, Mr. President,
If you view this film,
To save hundreds of thousands of lives,
If you have the nerve.
The nerve? To watch a movie?
It's not an easy thing to see one's future.
The Johnson years
marked the beginning of the end of Camelot.
As vice president, Lyndon Johnson watched
as Kennedy led his country into an era of economic growth
and political consensus.
Doctor, you're wasting my time.
One more moment. You'll see what I mean.
But the tragic assassination of Kennedy on November 22, 1963
abruptly ended the Dreams of a nation.
Even in mourning,
Johnson had taken the reins of the presidency.
Almost immediately,
He escalated the war in Vietnam.
It was a devastating and protracted conflict.
Each night, television carried images of death and destruction
into every American home,
a constant reminder
that the policies of their president
were resulting in ever-escalating levels
of human suffering.
Peaceful antiwar demonstrations were held nationwide.
Suddenly, there was violence.
Students were arrested by the scores,
beaten and corralled by police
and the US Government militia.
Americans factionalized.
Father turned against son, brother turned against brother.
With opposition to the war increasing on a daily basis,
Lyndon Johnson was forced to address the nation.
I shall not seek,
And I will not accept,
The nomination of my party
for another term as your president.
No!
After 37 years...
Why did you bring me this film?
To give you the extraordinary chance,
The miraculous opportunity to change the course of history.
We lost 58,000 American soldiers in Vietnam,
Hundreds of thousands more wounded and maimed.
All your programs, sir, everything you worked for...
For civil rights, for medical care,
For education, for housing... Everything suffered.
You are remembered for in 1990
is a war America lost.
The war we lost?
It's not too late, Mr. President.
The war in Vietnam hasn't started yet.
We have only a few advisers there.
Bring them home, Mr. President.
It will change everything you saw.
No man wants to leave this office
less respected than when he came in.
It seems I made a few mistakes.
But you could correct them now, sir!
Thank you, doctor.
I now know what I have to do.
You can't fight a war with one hand tied behind your back.
This time we'll do it right.
If half a million men weren't enough, send whatever it takes!
Mr. President, you don't understand!
The American people were against this war!
Only because the damn thing lasted too long!
We're going to win... Fast.
Mr. President, please...
Are there copies?
Just, just that...
I got all I need out of this.
No one has to see this.
It's not true anymore, right?
Mr. President, you don't know what you're doing!
I do now, partner.
I know, Smooly, I know.
You're hungry. I'll feed you in a minute.
What have I done, Smooly?
What have I done?
You'll be all right, Smooly.
Somebody will find you if I don't come back.
Good-bye.
Good dog.
One last time.
We'll return, god willing...
at 2:15 PM.
That's all I ask.
Now...
Klondike.
Klondike, Klondike...
Klondike!
Klondike 55-3633.
Hello. This is Dr. Koopman.
I just called to tell you not to pick up my car.
Yes, I'll be needing it.
Oh! Dr. Koopman!
Now, don't worry. It's all right.
I came back ahead of you.
Well, I'll explain later. Come.
I think it's this way.
It should be somewhere around here.
Now just be ready.
Laura.
Oh, no! No!
Laura? Professor, what...
We came back ahead of you to stop you!
It won't work!
Somehow you were delayed. Oswald shot Kennedy anyway.
Trying to stop him made things worse!
No, I've got to go through with this.
No, David. Listen!
You don't understand the forces involved.
We cannot change these events!
Even if we could, who knows what other horrors we'd unleash?
Oswald convinces them you killed Kennedy.
Ruby kills you.
We've come back twice.
It happens every time.
Then I have no choice.
No. David!
Stop!
David! Come back! Don't!
I'll kill him! It'll work now.
Please stop! They'll blame you! They'll blame us!
David, stop. Listen to me.
Don't interfere. You don't know what this means!
David! David, stop!
Listen if you love me!
You can't go through with this!
We might all die! We don't belong here!
You know why I came here!
No matter what, it won't bring Chris back.
You can't play god.
David, we must go before he sees us.
We only have 20 minutes to get back!
We made it! We made it!
This is the spot, I think.
I'm not going.
David, you've got to!
I want to see Chris.
We don't know what will happen
to your younger self if you stay!
I'll be here at 2:15 tomorrow.
I don't have time to argue.
You must be here tomorrow!
This is the last time I use the machine!
I'm staying, too, doctor.
But you can't!
You can't change one blade of grass!
Tell him, Laura!
I'm back.
I'm back!
Yes, Smooly, I hear you! I'm back!
No reflex. He's in a coma.
Will he be all right?
Security officer ward to the front desk.
Officer ward to the front desk, please.
Hi.
My son is a friend of David's.
How is he?
They don't know.
The doctors can't even tell what's wrong with him.
Oh, god, I don't want to lose him.
Yeah, I know.
I lost a brother once.
He's the only brother I have.
I'm Chris.
Yeah. I've heard a lot about you.
I guess your brother thinks you hung the moon.
So, how old... How old was your brother?
About your age.
He died for his country in Vietnam.
I'm sorry.
Not as sorry as everybody he left behind.
Everybody thinks their brothers
are going to come back.
No one ever dies.
I never did say good-bye.
I didn't want him to go.
I swear,
If David pulls through,
I'll never let him out of my sight.
Smooly, she's here.
She made it.
Hi. Professor, we did it.
And David?
He's waiting.
Well, we'd better hurry.
Something else might go wrong.
We have one minute.
"The moving finger writes,
and having writ, moves on."
"Nor all thy piety nor wit
"shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
nor all thy tears wash out a word of it."
Rubaiyat.
We didn't change anything, did we?
It seems not.
We may never know for sure.
David.
There he is! There he is.
Hi.
The show on the environment has been moved up.
Have you decided on a film segment?
My work's cut out for me.
I'm afraid that has to wait.
Hi, it's Carly...
What do you mean?
I want to get married.
You're serious, aren't you?
I want to get on with my life...
With our life, together.
I'm ready to stop living in the past.
It's your mother...
No more adventures.
The adventure's just begun.
Hey, slowpoke! Get to the phone!
We're supposed to go fishing. Where are you?
What's that?
Hey, slowpoke!
It's Chris!
We're supposed to...
Chris!
Only Chris called me slowpoke.
He's alive?
David, come here!
Where are you?
Oh, my god!
That's Chris all grown up!
How can that be?
It must have been something you said back there.
Maybe almost losing you... Something changed his mind.
Look at that! Didn't he die in 1966?
Yeah!
That's 1967. Maybe he never enlisted.
He wouldn't be alive if we hadn't gone back.
Hey, slowpoke!
Fish are biting. Time's a-wastin'!
You two fooling around in there?
Go on.
God, it's good to see you!
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