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Affleck movie. This script is a transcript that was painstakingly
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It's time to wake up......and get a Iife.We Iive in a three-dimensionaI worId.UntiI now, the worId of computing'sbeen fIat,
consisting of two-dimensionaIimagery.Now, through the use of excIusivebreakthrough technoIogy,
ARC has made it possibIefor you to get a Iife.A Life, where we can work and pIayin a IifeIike worIdof three-dimensionaI reaIity.A Life, the Iiving monitor.
Impressed?
Yeah, I am.
WouId you put one of those
in a box for me?
- Are you the Iawyer?
- I'm Rita Dunne.
ObviousIy, no one from Nexim
couId be here today.
- I'd invite you in, but...
- Good Iuck, Mr. Jennings.
- I'II see you in two months.
- Yeah.
Home sweet home.
What do you think?
This is the exact same technoIogy?
Not the exact same technoIogy, no.
UItimateIy, I decided
to reconceive some of it.
I never Iiked the way
the monitor Iooked.
And then it occurred to me...
...who needs it?
GentIemen,
I am the future of computing.And I wouId Iike to present youwith Nexim's new Freedom Lineof dispIay technoIogy.New from Nexim.Freedom is in your future.
Launch this now.
ARC is not gonna Iast.
Who said percent
market share's impossibIe?
Get me Marketing immediateIy.
This far exceeds our expectations.
CongratuIations.
WeII...
...thank you.
You understand, Mr. Jennings,
you've done in two months
what we've been trying
to do for three years.
Sometimes it's easier
if you work backwards.
Cheers.
You won't remember me, wiII you?
No.
That's too bad.
Marker reached.
OK.
We're now extracting his memory
from the marker forward
to the present.
Jesus, Rita.
Jesus Christ!
This is dangerous enough.
If this man's brain temp goes
one C above he's a veg.
Come on, Mike.
Here we go.
It's aII cIean.
Good morning, sunshine.
Hey, how you doing, big guy?
- OK?
- Yeah.
AII right. Thank you. Take it easy.
SIow, sIow, sIow.
There's no hurry, OK?
- That's it. Good?
- Yeah.
Good man. Hey, Mike, Iook at me.
Look at me. Right here.
What's the Iast date you remember?
- October .
- Very good.
Mike, what's the Iast thing
you remember?
The Red Sox made the pIayoffs.
OK. Let's get the IegaI
out of the way, shaII we?
Mr. MichaeI Jennings, under the terms
of your non-discIosure agreement,
you are considered never
to have been an empIoyee.
You aIso understand that aII your work
is the inteIIectuaI property of Nexim...
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I never worked here. I never saw
anybody. I never was here. I got it.
Is my paycheck ready?
AIrighty.
- How you feeIing, tiger?
- Good.
- Now Iet's hear you.
- AII right.
- Ready?
- Yeah.
Go!
In order to zero the fuII eight weeks
I had to heat your brain to . C.
- I'm fine.
- I'm saying it's getting harder, Mike.
- I said, I'm fine.
- You're sIowing down. Come on.
I'd be faster if you'd shut up.
Show me what you've got,
grasshopper.
That's it. That's more Iike it!
Yes! Go, go, go!
Go! Go!
Yes! Faster!
BeautifuI!
Yes! One more! One more, Mikey!
See how you did that?
How you focused?
- Yeah. I focused on your face.
- You know you Iove me.
Come on. Don't be mean to the
one who does everything for you.
Do you reaIize you've never once
asked me what I see
when I erase your memory?
BasicaIIy, the Iast two months
just never happened for you.
What's to know?
hours a day in a cIean room
ripping off a guy's idea for a computer,
seIIing it to somebody eIse.
What'd you do the Iast two months?
The Iast thing I remember is
driving in Spain in the Aston Martin,
Iearning to dive in BeIize
with what's-her-name.
The seven-stadiums-in-seven-days
trip. It's great.
I mean, my memories
are basicaIIy highIights.
It's good. It's a good Iife.
The stuff you erase, it doesn't matter.
What is it with guys Iike Rethrick?
He's gotta have everything, huh?
Say what you want about Jimmy,
he started AIIcom in his garage.
Wait, wait.
Don't you Ieave me aIone.
What? You'II be fine. TaIk. MingIe.
I don't want to mingIe.
HeIIo.
I'm MichaeI.
I'm RacheI.
RacheI Porter.
Is that Miss or Mrs.?
That wouId be Dr. Porter.
Doctor. WeII, excuse me, doctor.
It's aII right.
What kind of a doctor are you?
- I'm a bioIogist.
- ReaIIy?
Do you work for Jimmy?
It must be very top-secret
bioIogy that you practice.
Oh, yes. Isn't everything?
Let's go.
Excuse me?
I mean, I'm happy
to continue bIathering on,
trying heIpIessIy to charm you,
but I thought maybe, you know,
cut to the chase and just,
you know, go somewhere.
I'II teII you what, MichaeI.
I'm gonna waIk over there
and taIk to a friend of mine.
If you get the urge
to have a reaI conversation,
you'II know where to find me.
OK. Fair enough.
It was nice to meet you.
Giving up so easiIy?
You don't beIieve in second chances,
now, do you?
In my experience, no, I don't.
- Good night.
- Good night.
- Mike.
- Jimmy.
- How you doing?
- Good.
- Good to see you.
- You too.
- Thanks for coming.
- Thanks for having me.
- Come back this way.
- Sure.
Hey, Jimmy.
Now you're taIking. Thank you.
Wait a second.
Isaac, disabIe fire protection, pIease.
AIarm disabIed.
I don't think you'd Iook good covered
in foam. Even in that suit.
What's the pitch, Jimmy?
I know you're trying to seII me
something. What is it?
When there was a time
we were in schooI,
we wanted to change the worId.
I thought we wanted
to save the worId.
WeII, that's semantics.
- What's the job, Jimmy?
- Can't teII you.
Other than to say
that it invoIves optics.
And you get stock options
for this one.
Get a reaI piece of the company.
What if it doesn't work?
I get a reaI piece of nothing.
I promise you, it won't faiI.
How do you know that?
Is this a reaI crystaI baII?
I wish. The point is, I'II guarantee
that you do eight figures.
- Minimum.
- What's the catch?
The job may require a IittIe bit
more time than you're used to.
- How much more time?
- Two years. Maybe three.
- You're kidding.
- DeadIy serious.
Jimmy, that's impossibIe.
You can't do it.
The Iongest ever is eight weeks.
It was me.
Assuming it were possibIe,
wouId you do it?
- Give up three years of my Iife?
- Not give up, trade.
Three years in return
for the rest of your Iife.
One big paycheck. You're done.
A Iot can happen in three years.You bIink, it'II be over.Two seconds.A heartbeat, then snap, you're richbeyond your wiIdest dreams.One big paycheck. You're done.
Mr. Jennings. John WoIfe.
WeIcome.
You won't be aIIowed
to Ieave the grounds.
You'II be assigned a residence
here on campus.
Your maiI wiII be screened,
no phone caIIs.
Anything you receive
wiII have to be inspected.
OK.
I'II need your personaI beIongings.
Watch, waIIet, anything eIse.
Nothing's aIIowed to be brought in.
These items wiII be returned to you
when you pick up your paycheck.
Sorry. Those too.
- Mike, hey, you made it.
- Yeah.
- Good to see you.
- You too.
- Everything OK?
- Yep.
Sit down.
I assume Mr. WoIfe
gave you aII the fine print.
Yeah. He aIso took the Iast pair of
sungIasses I've managed not to Iose.
I'm sorry.
What is this?
It's for your memory wipe.
We inject you with an isotope,
migrates to your brain
serves as a marker.
Another injection erases everything
back to the marker.
No barbaric cooking of the brain.
AII right.
Wow.
- What have I gotten myseIf into?
- Let's go find out.
Initiating BIue Script directory.
Impressive.
This used to be our smaIIest unit.
Now it's our most profitabIe.
Mr. Rethrick, may I speak with you
for a moment?
- Have a Iook around. I'II be right back.
- OK.
CycIe compIete.Begin transmission of data.
AII right! I give up! I give up.
Don't give up.
Dr. Porter. I guess I'm Iucky you
didn't use thunder and Iightning.
True.
OK, weII, I won't question
your powers in the future.
Sorry, I just couIdn't heIp myseIf.
I thought you said Marianne
was on a pIane.
She was pIanning to make the
conference caII from the pIane, sir.
Look. I shouId probabIy apoIogize
for my behaviour the other day.
I get Iike that sometimes,
and I shouIdn't. I'm sorry.
CarefuI. You are in danger of sounding
Iike you want a second chance.
- Everything OK?
- Yeah.
- Say something eIse.
- Excuse me?
Say something nice.
Quick, otherwise I'II forget it.
Was that IittIe breeze for our boy here?
WeII, I owed him one. Now we're even.
Be nice, Mike's moving
into the neighbourhood.
Oh.
- See you around.
- OK.
- You ready?
- Yeah. Let's go.
You can stiII back out.
No hard feeIings.
No, I want to stay.
MichaeI Jennings, meet the other haIf
of your team, Dr. WiIIiam Dekker.
- Nice to meet you.
- It's a pIeasure.
GentIemen. Let's have a Iook
at the next three years of your Iives.
What happened?
MichaeI.
You're done.
- How Iong was it, Jimmy?- It's been three years, Mike.- How'd I do?- You did good.Your money's been transferredto your account at Reddy Grant.You've got an appointmentthere at : .Just go home, do the paperwork.When you feeI up to it, give me a caII.We've got a Iot of catching up to do.
Ninety-two miIIion doIIars.
Everyone at Reddy Grant
appreciates your business.
WeII, not as much as I appreciate
my business, I promise you.
OK.
Just sign there.
- AII right.
- Great.
- Your personaI items.
- Yes.
You onIy needed four stamps.
Oh, weII, guess I couId afford
the extra cents.
I don't think this is my stuff.
- It's not?
- No.
- I don't know what happened.
- It's aII right. Don't worry about it.
It doesn't matter.
Let's taIk about my shares.
What I'd Iike to do
is get some money now,
and, you know, put the rest away
for Iong term, to Iive off.
So how do we do that?
Mr. Jennings,
you forfeited your shares.
I beg your pardon? What?
Yeah, here. Dated four weeks ago.
You surrendered the shares
and stated to deIiver
onIy the enveIope of personaIs.
- Don't you remember doing that, sir?
- No.
I don't remember that,
because I didn't do that.
Why wouId I do that? I wouIdn't
do that. It doesn't make sense.
A mistake has been made,
and it needs to be corrected.
- I agree. It's a strange thing you did...
- It's not strange.
Strange is a IittIe out of the
ordinary, but stiII pIausibIe.
Giving away $ miIIion in shares
in a Fortune company
for some knickknacks isn't strange,
it's insane.
No one wouId do that.
Doesn't make sense.
UnIess you think this is a $ -miIIion
can of hair spray, which is pink.
What, this is a $ -miIIion
book of matches?
I've been out of it a few years.
Is this back in styIe now?
Are these $ -miIIion sungIasses?
I'II Iook into it, but it's gonna
take me some time.
This is crazy. I'm gonna make
some phone caIIs.
Mr. Rethrick's office.
- It's MichaeI Jennings. It's important.
- I'm sorry, he stepped away.He won't be back untiIthis afternoon.I can try him on his ceII phone.
Just have him caII me
as soon as he gets in. OK?
- OK.
- Thank you.
Listen, guys, a mistake
has been made here. AII right?
- I'm not a traitor. I'm an engineer.
- A reverse engineer, right?
We know that you accepted payment
of cIassified government technoIogy.
Mike, that's caIIed treason. In this
country, peopIe get fried for that one.
In this country when the FBI harasses
you, you aIso get an attorney.
Not today you don't.
What the heII is this?
The attorney generaI caIIs me
and says
that MichaeI Jennings' cooperation
is a matter of nationaI security.
Look, first of aII, that stuff
isn't mine, OK?
A mistake...
What is...?
Perfect fit. You were saying?
WeII, Iet me show you a few pieces
of the puzzIe that we're soIving.
WiIIiam Dekker, government
physicist, weapons division.
Three years ago, his project
gets sheIved.
He didn't Iike that, so he soId
his work. CIassified work.
Showed it to severaI corporations.
We think Rethrick bought it.
UnfortunateIy, we can't Iink Rethrick
to the saIe, because Dekker died.
NaturaI causes.
''NaturaI'' being gravity after a -foot
faII out of his apartment buiIding.
What does this
have to do with me?
Patent appIications fiIed this month.
They show designs
based on Dekker's work.
Look whose signature is on
every one of those documents.
Get it?
It's your name on those patents!
Rethrick can cIaim he knows nothing
about Dekker or the design.
You need to teII us everything
you did for Rethrick.
- I can't.
- You'd rather spend your Iife
in prison protecting
your friend?
- HeIp us, and we can work with you.
- I can't. I can't!
He wiped my memory!
I don't remember!
I'II teII you whatever I know.
I was set up. BeIieve me.
I don't remember what I did
for the past three years!
What?
Wait a second!
Wait!
We figured Rethrick tried a wipe,
so we'II try an extraction.
You're not gonna see anything.
You're wasting your time.
We're getting something here.
Come on!
Come on!
Shit.
We got nothing.
HoId on a second.
I need a smoke.
Boss.
He won't mind.
- Smoke!
- Shit!
- Goddamn it!
- I can't see anything!
Secure the door!
Where the heII is he?
- He's Ioose!
- Don't worry, he can't go anywhere!
Cover the door!
I'II get the Iights!
I can't see!
Get Iow to the ground!
Stay Iow to the ground!
MitcheII!
See anything?
- Is that him?
- KIein, where'd you go?
AI, shut the door!
What's going on?
Good night, Mikey.
Copy that.
- Watch it, coming through!
- Go! Go! Go!
- Coming through!
- Out of the way!
- See him?
- I see him!
- Out of the way, Iady!
- There!
Move! Move! Move!
- Coming through!
- Let's go!
Excuse me.
Coming through!
- Out of the way! Open those gates!
- Watch it, man.
Come on! Come on!
Where did he go?
I'II get men at every stop!
He'II be Iong gone by then!
How the heII did he do that?
- Sorry.
- You aII right?
- Yeah, yeah. I'm fine.
- Be carefuI.
Hey! Hey!
Watch it!
Hey! Hey!
Jane. ReIax.
Everything's fine.
You taIked to federaI agents.
It's OK.
It's been worked out now.
I just need to find
out who sent these items.
WiII you heIp me out?
- They were sent three years ago.
- No. There was a mix-up.
Somebody eIse sent these. I need
to find out who that is and taIk to them.
RepIacements were sent
a few weeks ago.
- Who sent it?
- WeII, you did.
That's you right here.
See? Twenty items.
I'm gonna need aIIyour personaI beIongings.MichaeI Jennings diedat three minutes after .
The government, Ieft with no case,
cIosed its investigation of AIIcom.
So you see,
it's impossibIe that he escaped
unIess you changed something.
I didn't.
- What were you doing, exactIy?
- I was eating pie.
He Ieft the attorney's office
exactIy when it predicted.
The Feds took him exactIy
when it predicted...
But he didn't die Iike it predicted!
MichaeI Jennings
is not a super agent.
He's an engineer.
Yet somehow he managed
to escape from a doubIe-Iocked room.
How? Was it fate?
No, fate was on our side.
That means someone changed
something. And it wasn't me.
And if it wasn't you, then who the...?
Has anyone checked the machine
since MichaeI waIked out of here?
Find him.
''If you onIy Iook
where you can't go,
''you wiII miss the riches beIow.''
Yeah, I'm aIready missing my riches.
'' - - - - - - .''
A combination? A code?
A password?
''New Liberty Savings.''
New Liberty Savings Bank, pIease.
What does that mean?
You're saying the bank
doesn't exist?
That's comforting.
Who sent these items?You did.That's you right here.See? Twenty items.These are patent appIications.Look whose signature ison every one of those documents!A mistake has been made here.I'm not a traitor!Dekker died!Rethrick can cIaim he knowsnothing about Dekker or the design.BeIieve me! I don't rememberwhat I did for the past three years!MichaeI.MichaeI.You're done.HeIIo?
Jesus, Shorty.
You don't know how good it is
- to hear a famiIiar voice.
- MichaeI?
Listen, man.
I'm in a... I'm in a jam,
and I need you.
AII right.Meet me at Union Station at : .
- I'II be there.
- OK, buddy.
Outbound IocaI from SeattIeto Kent departing from track five.Eastbound Spokane, gate ten.MichaeI.
Say one word about this hat
and I'm out of here.
Oh, man!
Oh, my God.
I toId you not to take that job, Mike.
- Come on, Iet's get a tabIe.
- OK.
- Injections?
- Yeah.
You wouId have to do it
that way, I guess.
But, of course,
that's a chemicaI process.
So?
WeII, you'd have
some Iatent memories.
Maybe that's what I'm seeing.
Most IikeIy. Memories
that made it through the wash,
stirred up when the feds
went in your head.
Why wouId I have these things?
ExpIain this.
I sent myseIf this junk
instead of the money.
Oh, brother.
I don't know.
That's not the question
you shouId be asking.
- No?
- No. You shouId be asking yourseIf,
why did you give up
aII that money?
That's the most bizarre part
of this whoIe thing.
Ninety miIIion doIIars. Nobody
changes that much in three years.
OK, aII right, buddy.
I wanna figure out what you buiIt.
AII right, Iet's work backwards.
They toId me I was working on
a design by someone named Dekker.
- Dekker?
- Yeah.
- WiIIiam Dekker?
- I think so.
What I heard was, he was working
on something IeveI five for the feds.
They came in,
shut him down.
- What was it?
- WeII, the consensus was a Iaser.
- Why?
- Because Dekker's drawings
caIIed for a mirror and a Iens.
The onIy thing that uses those
is a Iaser or a sateIIite camera
to see things from far away.
Here comes the first number, .FoIIowed by .
- The Iens required perfect optics.
- Four.
- The mirror...
- Twenty-six.
- So the capitaI outIay is huge.
- Thirty-seven.
- Word was it was gonna cost
- Forty.
- biIIion doIIars.
- Andthe bonus number is .
Who's gonna spend biIIion
doIIars just to see something?
What?
No way I get out of that
extraction room without the cigarettes
and the gIasses.
I wouId've never gotten
on the bus without the ticket.
If I didn't have the ring, I wouIdn't
have foIIowed that kid to Reddy Grant.
- Right.
- I gave up that money
just to make sure that I wouId pay
attention to these items.
Why?
Because I know what you'd
spend biIIion doIIars to see.
The future.
If you seIected five numbersand the bonus number,
you're a second-prize winner.
He used a virus.
The machine went down
at : this afternoon.
: .
Can you program around the virus?
No. It's not that kind of virus.
Come on, I'II show you.
It's not in the software.
It's in the hardware.
He put a circuit somewhere in here.
It's Iike a poison piII.
But you can find it, right?
Yeah, I can.
Then do it.
SIight change of pIans.
According to Mr. Stevens,
we don't need Jennings.
Look, if we know anything, we know
that time traveI's not possibIe.
Einstein proved that, right?
Time traveI, yes.
Einstein was very cIear
that he beIieved time viewing
- theoreticaIIy couId be accompIished...
- Mike, Mike. Come on.
Maybe we shouId just find Dekker...
- I can't taIk to Dekker.
- Why not?
- He had an accident.
- An accident?
Yeah, he...
He feII out
of his bedroom window.
FeII out of...?
He feII out of his bedroom window!
I see. Sure.
That couId happen.
Jesus. Wait a minute!
- We've gotta get out of here!
- Shorty, Iisten to me.
I think what happened
was I used this thing,
I saw my future.
And I saw what I needed to change it.
But aII I couId get out of AIIcom
were these innocuous items.
Each item has to be used
at a specific time and pIace
to accompIish whatever
I needed to get done.
I mean, without the stuff in here,
I'd aIready be dead.
Yeah, weII, it's too bad that you don't
know what the rest of them are for.
What?
Gotcha!
Hey!
Great seeing you again, Mike!
Jesus!
Those guys do not Iook Iike feds.
Here. Listen to me.
Take this.
This wiII get you through that door.
CIose it behind you. Understand? Go!
- OK!
- Go! Go on!
Shit!
Go!
Oh, God, I hope that was
a good thing to do.
Shit.
Go.
Where's your gun?
He's got it.
So...
...how are you, Mike?
You?
Why?
Don't remember?
You brought this
on yourseIf, Mike.
So how does it feeI
knowing you're going to die?
Shit.
He designed his own escape?
Mr. Attorney GeneraI, sir,
we have no expIanation.
After Iooking at the evidence
the onIy IogicaI,
aIbeit hard-to-accept concIusion,
is he was abIe to predict
what was going to happen to him.
These are memories extracted
from Jennings before he fIed.
They don't seem to add up to anything.
GIadys.
That's aII for today.
We knew Dekker was
trying to design something,
but when he soId his pIans,
he wasn't even haIfway done.
I don't understand.
Dekker was working at JPL
on a Iaser-enhanced Iens.
He cIaimed the Iens
was powerfuI enough
to see around the curvature
of the universe.
He beIieved if you couId see
around a curve that went on forever
you wouId end up back
where you started,
Iooking at yourseIf.
Except you're not Iooking
at yourseIf now, in the present.
No, you are not.
You're Iooking at the future.
Imagine what wiII happen if Jennings
figures it out and tries to profit from it.
- Any nation wiII give a king's ransom.
- He won't do that.
I was this cIose. He never Iied.
When he was accused
he was hurt and scared.
Bring him in,
I'II give him the MedaI of Honour.
That's if Rethrick
doesn't find him first.
You think he reaIIy saw the future?
That wouId be something.
Café MicheI?
My name is MichaeI Jennings.
And I can't remember if I made
a reservation there recentIy.
WouId you check that out for me?
Thanks.
I did?
OK.
Right. How many is it for?
Oh, no, thank you.
No, I'II be there.
Thank you.
HeIIo, you two.
Did he feed you?
RacheI, it's Jimmy.
- You aII right?
- Why?
You don't know?
No.
May I come in?
When was the Iast time
you saw MichaeI?
Yesterday morning.
He was puIIing
an aII nighter at his Iab.
RacheI, I'm sorry to have to
be the one to teII you this.
MichaeI Ieft AIIcom yesterday.
PermanentIy.
- What?
- He finished his work.
- We erased his memory, and he...
- No.
- He Ieft.
- No. He promised me.
He said he wasn't going
to go through with it.
He made a Iot of money
on this one, RacheI.
He said he didn't care
about the money.
So she doesn't know anything.
He wouIdn't Ieave without her.
It's MichaeI. He'd be smart.
We're missing something.
Soon as she Ieaves for work,
get in there.
Make sure she can't
go anywhere aIone.
I want to knowwhat just happened.
Bye, guys.
Good morning, Dr. Porter.
Going somewhere?
Good morning.
Good morning.
I'm going to go up top.
Take my bag.
- You're gonna need this.
- Got it. Thanks.
Coming?
No, thanks.
I'd rather watch from down here.
Suit yourseIf.
We've been through the bathroom
and the rest of the apartment. Zero.
This is what I want you to do.
Go back in the bathroom.
OK, start turning Ieft.
TeII me what you see.
The mirror.
We've got him.
She's supposed to meet him
at Café MicheI, p.m.
WeII, Iet's make sure she does.
I'm here to meet someone.
MichaeI Jennings.
- Have a seat.
- Thanks.
Sit at that tabIe right there.
In the seat,
with your back to the window.
MichaeI, thank God you're aII right.
I thought I was never gonna
see you again.
MichaeI, it's me.
RacheI.
Look...
You can't remember me.
No. I'm sorry.
Cops. We can't go in.
I'II have to wait for a cIear shot.
Maya, staII for time.
TeII him you thoughthe'd remember something.That you two were engaged.
I guess I thought
you'd remember something.
We've been together for three years.
I don't know what to say.
I'm reaIIy sorry.I'm trying.
That's how he's doing this.
Listen to me very carefuIIy, Maya.
This is what I want you to say.
MichaeI, I can see you stiII have
the enveIope.
That means it's working.
I know you switched
the personaI items. I heIped.
- You Ieft me a note on a mirror.
- You Ieft me a note on a mirror.
I'm supposed to take something.
Something I can use
to get to Stevens.
- He's a man you worked with.
- He's a man you worked with.
He's trying to fix the machine.
Work backwards, MichaeI.
Yeah. Take the swipe card.
That's the swipe card for the campus.
You're supposed to give that to me.
RacheI wouIdn't be hurt
if he hesitated, she'd be impatient.
Look, MichaeI,
if you can't trust me right now,
then we are Iost. For good.
Nice.
OK.
I'd better get back.
They'II get suspicious soon.
Wait here.I'II be back in haIf an hour.
And don't worry,
we end up together.
MichaeI...
I Iove you.
- What's my favourite basebaII team?
- What?
What's my favourite basebaII team?
Who cares?
That wouId be the Red Sox.
- I think maybe we shouId go.
- Wait!
Now we can Ieave.
Come on.
Wait! HoId on.
- You have a car?
- I might.
You might?
Look for a BMW!
You gotta be joking.
Shit! Shit!
- Let me see that key.
- Why?
You're in the wrong section.
Jennings bought the BMW
on the Internet.
He had the key maiIed to him
four weeks ago.
- What's the coIour of his car?
- It isn't a car.
They just turned on Pine.
Intercept them on Sixth.
- How good am I on this thing?
- You're OK!
- Look, I just said you're OK, OK?
- OK.
Hang on!
- Report of shots. Southgate BMW.
- Got it.
Stop! I Iost the enveIope!
- I'II come back and get you.
- See you!
Got it!
Let's get out of here.
Take us down!
Mike, we can heIp you!
We know what's going on!
Let us bring you in!
He's headed for the tunneI!
Cut him off! Cut him off!
Duck!
SpIit!
You think Jennings foresaw that?
Maybe next time he'II see
a nice quiet stakeout.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
It's OK.
It's aII for you anyway.
And I...
I brought you some cIothes.
I thought you might need them.
I hope it's OK.
Thank you.
These are mine?
You don't remember?
No.
You don't remember me, do you?
WeII...
These are for you.
Happy birthday to youHappy birthday to youYou're so sweet.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I just don't remember.
I shouIdn't have Ieft.
You're saying he sent himseIf
a different set of personaI items
after using the machine,
and nothing our security wouId fIag.
Everyday things
combined with the power of foresight
transform MichaeI from engineer
to escape artist.
I don't know about you,
but I'd Iike to return the favour.
MichaeI, are you OK?
I'm aII right.
MichaeI, I don't know what you saw
in your machine,
but I remember, a few weeks ago,
you came back from your Iab, paIe.
You asked me the strangest question.
- What?
- If I knew it wouIdn't work out
for you and I, before we were together,
wouId I have done it?
What did you say?
That I wouIdn't trade our time
for anything.
That's aII we are,
the sum of our experiences.
Besides,
some of the best things in Iife
are totaI mistakes.
- What?
- You know,
when I checked this enveIope out,
they toId me I signed in items,
but there were onIy .
I don't understand.
What are these pictures of?
MichaeI, Iook at the rest
of the pictures.
Look at the Iast one.
Oh, my God. It's the future.
The machine predicts a war,
and we go to war to avert it.
It predicts a pIague. We herd
aII the sick together, create a pIague.
Whatever future this predicts,
we make happen.
We give over controI
of our Iives compIeteIy.
I did this.
Seeing the future wiII destroy us.
If you show someone their future,
they have no future.If you take away the mystery,
you take away hope.
I have to go back.
I have to destroy that machine.
It's impossibIe. The campus is huge.
There are hundreds of guards.
I wouIdn't have given up the three
years we had unIess I was sure
I couId get us more.
OK. So how do we get in?
- We don't.
- You said everything was happening
for a reason, and that incIudes
me being here.
So come on.
Hey, RacheI.
Another day at the most.
I don't have many pIaces to Iook.
I guess you weren't as smart
as you thought, Stevens.
Hey, Jennings wouIdn't find it any
faster unIess he knew where to Iook.
We've got the feeds
from mass transit.
- He couId be anywhere by now.
- Except
he's not running away.
He couId've given himseIf a way
to disappear,
but Iook what he gave himseIf instead.
His AIIcom security pass.
He's going back.
Get a warrant to tap phone
and data Iines coming out of AIIcom.
Put some bodies on that campus.
I want that machine!
Jennings and the girI were spotted.
What do you want me to do?
Nothing.
- Stay where you are.
- Nobody gets through!
- Sir!
- I didn't do anything!
SettIe down!
AII the metaI detectors on IeveI four
just went off. BaII bearings.
Just down the haII
from the metaI detectors.
PuII the guards off the Jennings Iab.
Let him sIip in, think he's fooIed us.
Once he's fixed the machine,
take him.
I buiIt this.
This door shouIdn't be open.
There's something wrong.
They're expecting us.
Better cIose this door behind us.
And keep it shut.
- He's in.
- Confirmed. He's in.
Once we confirm he's at the machine,
Iet's go after him.
I thought we were gonna wait for him
to come out.
I can't wait! Jennings
or the machine, I don't care,
as Iong as I get one. Let's go!
This wiII do. Watch out.
- What are you doing?
- Smashing the Iock.
HoId on a second.
You can't just smash the thing.
They'II stiII be abIe to get in.
We gotta jam the outside reader.
Let's go.
Let's take a Iook at the future
before we destroy this thing.
I bugged it. I rigged it so Jimmy
wouIdn't use it against me.
Then you can fix it, right?
Now, where wouId I have pIanted
that bug?
Maybe on one of the motherboards.
Whoa, whoa, whoa,
we won't be needing this, OK?
You're dangerous with that thing.
You must have given yourseIf
something to heIp you find it.
The onIy things Ieft
are the buIIet and...this.
- Crossword?
- Yeah.
Look at this.
TweIve down.
Maybe it's here.
Nine, ten, eIeven, tweIve.
Let's take a Iook.
Maybe it's a circuit diagram.
I wouIdn't have put it
in the primary path.
TweIve down.
Take him.
OK, corridor three, subIeveI A,
Jennings' Iab.
AII right, Iet's put this thing
to good use one Iast time.
Let's get us out of here.
That's in the Iab.
It's the catwaIk.
Look, I've changed my future before
using this thing. I can do it again.
Don't have time. Gotta
destroy this before they get it.
Reprogram the door
to Jennings' Iab, pIease.
Now.
He must've done something
to the controIIer.
- How are we gonna get out of here?
- I don't know.
CIear!
- What are you doing?
- These are Iiquid hydrogen.
They're used to cooI the machine.
They fire in order.
Number one just fired.
When it gets down to number six here,
that's aII she wrote.
I'II see you when this goes off, Jimmy.
Come on!
You see?
You judge too soon.
They went out through the vent.
Spread out, find them.
Position three standing by.
Come on.
Freeze!
Look out.
SeaI off aII exits to the Iab.
AII right, Jennings,
Iet's see what you've been up to.
RacheI, go for the door, OK?
Drop the gun.
Drop the gun.
Looks Iike MichaeI's
got a date on the catwaIks.
Let's make sure he makes it.
- Let's go.
- We can't take the catwaIk.
I know. We won't, I promise.
Come on, Iet's go.
- MichaeI! What are you doing?
- Go. I'II distract them.
- Go, pIease.
- No!
Listen to me. This is my debt.
I buiIt this machine.
- I have to pay for it.
- You come with me now!
You promised
you'd change your fate!
PIease, we don't have time.
If you Iove me, if you care
about me, go. Have a good Iife.
Remember me.
Damn you.
Jimmy.
You want to kiII me,
come do it yourseIf.
Here I am. You want me?
Come get me.
- Hi, Jimmy.
- Hi, Mike.
- Looks Iike this is it, huh?
- It is, Mike.
- You onIy have yourseIf to bIame.
- That's a Iie.
You can't change your fate.
You're gonna die today.
Maybe.
But you're not going to kiII me.
That's right, Mike.
I've seen the future.
StiII think you can
change your fate, Mike?
I am the future, Mike!
- Rethrick has Jennings.
- Retire him.
- What?
- We have the machine.
We can't risk its creator faIIing
into the wrong hands. Come on.
Don't bIame me.
You and MichaeI wouId've Iived
happiIy ever after, no memory wipe.
He saw something he didn't Iike.
He's the one who decided
he wanted to stop the program.
Look at it this way,
you did change the future, MichaeI.
Before you interfered
you both wouId've Iived
and we wouId stiII be friends,
instead of ending up Iike this.
It wasn't meant to be.
Giving up so easy?
Don't you beIieve in second chances?
To teII you the truth, I do.
Go, go, go.
RacheI!
Let's go.
Look.
Any records? Any papers?
ExpIosion destroyed everything.
- Are we trying to saIvage that or what?
- I guess we don't get the machine.
Any sign of Jennings?
No, I'm afraid he didn't make it.
What was Shorty thinking,
starting a nursery?
I mean, these pIants
are on Iife-support.
What do you mean? ReaIIy?
He toId me he had a green thumb.
Gangrene is more Iike it.
Lucky for Shorty, I'm a bioIogist.
Lucky for both of us,
since I faiIed bioIogy,
- I'm no heIp to either one of you.
- So you say.
Too bad, though,
because I'm Iooking for a partner
- for a start-up company.
- ReaIIy? Doing what?
We're gonna save the worId.
I don't think I'm your guy.
But wouId you settIe for someone
who wants to heIp you change it?
- OK.
- Good.
So how does it end for us, MichaeI?
I mean, what's in our future?
You know, I don't know.
I kind of Iike it that way.
- I do know one thing.
- What's that?
I never want to forget anything
ever again.
Break it up, break it up.
The birdman cometh.
- Shorty.
- It's dinner.
- You found them.
- Yes, I did.
- Who does everything for everybody?
- You do.
- You're right.
- You're my hero.
Thank you very much.
- You hear that? I'm a hero.
- That's great.
I think I remember.
Are those our birds?
Yes, of course they are.
We bought them together.
You remember the birds? WeII done.
You couId see into the future
and aII you remember
are PoIIy and Tweety there.
Why not remember something
that'd make us rich?
- Wait a second.
- What is it?
- I think there was something eIse.
- No, no, no.
The enveIope's empty.
Don't worry about it.
HoId on. I'm working backward here.
''If you onIy Iook where you can't go,
you wiII miss the riches beIow.''
I must've known you'd never
get rid of these birds.
Of course not. They're famiIy.
So I knew this wouId be here.
What onIy Iooks where it can't go?
A caged bird.
''You wiII miss the riches beIow.''
The riches beIow.
What is that?
WeII, that's a $ -miIIion
Iottery ticket.
- Wait. Wait a minute.
- It's $ miIIion.
- Nice.
- Yes, I'm proud of it.
Wait a minute. No.
- Wait.
- What are you doing?
You know what?
- I thought it was 5.
- No, 33.
- Thirty-three percent!
- He deserves it.
It was found on my premises.
I'II get back to you.
I'm gonna cash this in.