witness.
- Oh.
Well, I trust you'll
keep working on it.
You can bet on it.
Hydrogen specialists,
prepare for inspection.
We've updated our entire operation
to Parker Datalink Systems...
utilizing their
superconducting chip.
Senator McComb
was Jack Parker's partner...
and sold out before the company
got the patent on that chip.
- Bet that cost you a few billion.
- Whoa, bad luck.
My deal with Jack Parker
is not important, Mr. Spota.
What is important is talking about
the dangers of this program.
- You got my vote.
- Excuse me. What dangers?
Well, dishonest agents
like this, uh, Atwood.
Every time an agent goes back,
he risks making contact with
the past version of himself.
- That could be a disaster.
- And why is that?
The same matter can't occupy
the same space at the same time.
It's never happened.
Not yet, but what I propose...
is far less costly
yet accomplishes the same thing.
Why don't we just
prevent time travel...
rather than spend money
trying to police it?
I have to get back
to the Hill.
Malcolm, this is a project
that we could do without.
I hope you vote against
continued appropriations.
I admire your dedication,
Agent Walker.
I hope you keep trying
to get your man.
I never quit.
We've done a breakdown
of the latest poll results.
While the trends
are not what we want...
there are some good things
we can utilize.
The numbers in the suburbs
are encouraging...
but they are killing you
in the urban centers.
But you're gaining with the pro-life,
pro-death-penalty coalition...
and with the close-our-border,
anti-immigration faction.
The bad news is the campaign chairman
put together a projected budget...
from now to Election Day,
and it's a big number.
Even going back again, I don't see how
you could get it all in time.
Lawrence, I love you.
I really do.
But don't tell me
what I can't do.
Elections are won with television.
You don't need the press, endorsements.
You don't even need the truth.
You need money.
So... tell me.
How much is it gonna cost
to buy the network time I need?
- $50 million.
- $50 million.
Agent Walker has already
cost me that much.
We're gonna chat with him, the kind
of chat a man remembers for a lifetime.
Sure is a handsome devil, isn't he?
- He's not my type.
- What did you want to talk about?
What do you know
about him?
Capable of eating
his young.
He sure seemed interested
in you this afternoon.
He interests me.
Atwood named him.
- You're shittin' me.
- He's the one who sent him back.
- Why didn't he testify?
- McComb would go after his family.
He also said McComb
has half of the agency. I believe him.
He doesn't have me.
I said, he doesn't have me.
- Well, fuck you too.
- He's gonna close the agency.
Then no one can stop him
from going back.
- This one is mine.
- Not unless I say it is.
The son of a bitch
is a presidential candidate.
If you haul him in, you better have
enough evidence to plug up the Potomac.
- You believe me.
- I always believe you...
but you're not always right.
Yeah.
Come over to the house for dinner.
Carol would love to see you.
Thanks. Some other time.
You're allowed to have a life.
I read it in a manual.
I'll tell you this:
If I cannot go back to save her...
this scumbag is not
going back to steal money.
Go home, Max.
If you won't come to mine,
go to yours.
By the way, when I said
McComb hasn't bought me...
you were supposed to say,
"I know that."
I know that.
System initialized.
Destination, please.
Home.
There are no new messages.
Television.
Play tape.
It's going to look like
this when I'm finished.
See? Very nice.
"Victorian Villa Deluxe Birdhouse."
This thing is gonna be bigger
than our house by the time I'm done.
Okay. Uh-huh.
- Want some help?
- Want some help?
Yeah. You can buy the birdseed.
Okay. Divide all these parts...
into groups to determine
their structural function.
- I should buy more videotapes.
- I