too late.
Oh, no, no. No, we cannot
launch you again.
May 7, 2002, 3:20 p.m.
That's when Miller killed my father.
Why? Why would he kill your father then?
You were already born.
- It would do him no good.
- Miller was looking for me!
You're making this sound
like it already happened.
It did already happen! It's about
to happen again if I don't stop him!
You've been launched too many times.
You gotta launch me again, or Miller's
gonna kill me when I'm 11 in 2002.
No. He didn't kill you before, why
would he kill you now?
He's already changed history, Betsy.
Last time I came back, you were dead.
[Chuckles]
Dead? Oh...
You tried to alter history to save
your husband from dying in the war.
Ryan, my husband did die in the war.
In this time line. But in the real
time line, there was no war.
You gotta believe me, Betsy.
Listen to me. You're the one
who always said to me that if
a timecop does his job right,
no one knows if
he got it right except him.
This same timecop would also be the
only one to know if he got it wrong.
This one got by me, Bets.
I hope you know what you're doing.
I'll see you for dinner.
What?
[Ryan]
Hey, Travis. Wake up.
O'Rourke, you should see this.
Come on, Travis.
Los Angeles, May 7, 2002,
University of Southern California.
- Ryan, what the hell are you doing?
- Get me there before 3:20 p.m.
- I can't do it, kid. It'll kill ya.
- Launch me.
[Grunts]
Let him go.
Launch him.
[Travis]
Prepare for another relaunch, guys.
[Female Computer Voice]
Launch activation T-minus 11, 10...
Don't forget that.
Eight, seven, six...
[Doc]
Good luck!
Initiating time phase.
[Computer]
Time phase initiated.
[Computer]
Cellular integrity unstable.
[Screaming]
- He's not gonna make it!
- Emergency shut down.
It's too late, sir.
We already initiated it.
[Computer]
Launch failing.
[Chiming]
There are far too many
variables, Mr. Miller,
to theorize what might have
happened historically,
had events played out differently.
I'm not theorizing, Professor Chan.
I'm just saying if time travel is possible,
we have a moral obligation
to right the wrongs of the past.
So are you suggesting that if it were
possible to change historic events, we should?
[Laughing]
Yes, absolutely.
Without knowing
the results of those changes?
Changes that would have a profound
effect on our world as we know it.
I don't see the problem with that, as
long as the changes are for the better.
All right.
Let's run with your idea.
Let's say hypothetically that we do
go back in time to make things right.
Whose moral guidelines are we
working within? Yours? Mine?
What happens if we have
a difference of opinion?
Whose rules are we playing by?
I think we all share a common
ground morally and ethically,
so some good would come out of it.
What's the point of researching time
travel, if not to right the wrongs?
We're historians, right?
Wouldn't you like
to observe history firsthand,
be there to authenticate
history's accuracy?
Yeah, that'd be cool.
But to stand around and do nothing
seems like a colossal waste of knowledge.
I mean, can I at least stop the guys
from flying the planes into the buildings?
Or the fanatic from walking into
a restaurant wearing a bomb?
As much as we all wish those horrific events
never happened, the fact is they did.
Then let's prevent them
from happening.
But we are who we are today
because of them.
Our anger, our compassion,
our awareness, our knowledge.
We alter history, it all changes...
good and bad.
[Sighs]
Yeah, I... I guess so.
Think about it.
[Chiming]
We'll have to pick
this up next week.
[Woman Laughing]
So, who wants ice cream?
[Young Ryan]
I do, but I have to go
to the rest room first.
- You do?
- Yeah.
- We'll be just a minute.
- I'll wait here.
Come on, then.
- See you next week, Professor.
- Good debate today.
- Thanks. Hey, Ryan.
- Hi.
Come on, Ryan.
You okay?
Yeah. Come on.
It's cool.
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