I haven't seen any wildlife yet.
We could be in downtown Pittsburgh, for all I know.
Dad, how are you holding up?
I'm fine, I'm fine,
except for you asking me every two minutes how I'm holding up.
Sorry, honey.
I'm hot.
How much further do we...
Jesus, take that thing out of my face!
Sorry, Dad doesn't like cameras unless he's got his trench coat over his face.
How's the old man doing?
Heart rate slightly elevated, blood pressure normal.
I got $100 says Travis taps his daughter tonight.
Sucker bet.
You might want to record over the last bit.
When are we gonna see something?
What?
If you don't talk, you might hear something.
Hear what?
All right, everyone, get ready!
Remember, your weapons won't fire until mine does,
so be patient!
What the...?
Wait for my command!
Dad, how are you...
Sorry!
Whatever happens, do not step off of the path.
Thank you for sharing.
Oh, my God!
Cute, isn't he?
You don't see that in downtown Pittsburgh, do you Mr. Wallenbeck?
Shoot, for Christ's sake!
Heart rate elevated.
- Shoot it! - Wait.
Hold it.
- Not yet! - Are you crazy?
Shoot it!
Now!
Anything to say, Mr. Wallenbeck?
Gentlemen and lady.
Today you stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Columbus discovering America,
Armstrong stepping on the moon, Brubaker landing on Mars.
You are true pioneers
on the very last frontier: Time.
On behalf of us all at Time Safari, Incorporated,
I congratulate you on a truly thrilling hunt.
I'm proud to know you.
I have to say,
of all the jumps I've seen,
your group's was by far the most courageous and skillful.
I was scared out of my mind. My heart's still pounding.
That's a nominal physiological reaction to the jump.
Your heart rate will slow as we gain distance from the event
and adrenaline flow is reduced.
What?
It is.
Can I ask you something, Mr. Hatton?
Of course. Anything at all.
Where's Travis Ryer?
- You look like you could use a drink. - Nope.
You're a government inspector.
- You're supposed to drink on the job. - I don't drink.
Then this is the best you'll feel all day.
- I hate these jumps, is all. - Picked the right line of work.
Biding my time. Couple more years, I'll be out.
Civil Service pays you guys enough to retire early?
Have a good night.
This is the clearest reading of molecular blood structure
- we've ever had. - You are correct, Dr. Ryer.
I'm getting closer and you know it.
- Yes, Dr. Ryer. - Contain your enthusiasm.
My function is to facilitate the operation of Time Safari,
not your private research. On that subject,
will you be filing your report on today's jump tonight
or at the last possible moment tomorrow, as usual?
- Nobody likes a nag. - Reminding is not nagging.
You've got an answer for everything.
I have to. I was extremely expensive.
It's not always a good quality.
I understand, Dr. Ryer.
So don't have the last word.
- I won't, Dr. Ryer. - You did it.
- I'm sorry, Dr. Ryer. - You did it again.
Anything going on between you two that I should know about?
- Good evening, Mr. Hatton. - Hello, TAMI.
The guests are asking for you.
I'll be finished in a few minutes.
When I say guests, it's a euphemism. I mean clients,
as in "people who pay."
If I remember correctly, clients keep us waiting,
not the other way around.
I'm almost done.
I don't think you're catching my drift.
You work here so you can study
your silly animals who don't exist anymore.
I work here so I can grow rich and fat
and own everything that does happen to exist.
I hired you because you're this big deal scientist
and clients pay more for a big deal anything, it makes them feel important.
Rotten, I know. But progress is a rotten business,
which is why you have to go out there and mingle with them.
They pay, you study, I get rich. Is this a great country, or what?
Did I mention you signed a contract and you have to do this?
I don't remember if I did.
Oh, my speech was that good?
Or were you done anyway?
A safari suit, boots, helmet
and a holo-disc to relive the jump.
Take an especially close look at this disc,
- Mr. Wallenbeck. - Why's that?
Well...
I can't be certain until I review it myself,
but I'm pretty sure your shot brought him down.
Well, yeah.
Security!
A toast to all of you big, brave hunters!
Congratulations!
What's the matter?
You want to shoot dinosaurs, you're afraid of a little blood?
You don't understand the danger of what you're doing!
You keep messing with the past, one day you'll ruin the future!
You should know better!
Are you so stupid you can't see you're being used?
Well, that was fun.
Harder and harder to get good waiters.
- What was she yelling about? - The usual:
Time jumps will destroy the world. Crackpot.
A century ago she would have been screaming about the Internet or biotech.
Some people are afraid of progress. She's a dinosaur herself.
Let her yell all she wants.
Don't let her spoil the party.
I'm fine!
- I prefer walking on my own, thanks. - Guys, whoa! Hold on.
It's okay. I'll take care of it.
Tell me what that was all about.
You don't have a clue what you're doing. You'll destroy everything!
Lady, no offense, but I think I'm qualified to offer an opinion.
I work with TAMI. I lead the jumps.
You're the one who's clueless.
- You're Travis Ryer? - That's right.
Mr. Ryer, there's a lot about TAMI you don't know.
- It's Dr. Ryer. - Dr. Ryer.
One of the many things you don't know is that I'm Sonia Rand.
I invented TAMI, you asshole.
Excuse me!
Miss, wait up a second.
There are seven credited names on TAMI's patent.
I don't recall a Dr. Rand being one of them.
- I don't have time for stupid people. - Make some time.
And stop with the insults. It gets on my nerves.
Do you think I'd devote my career to designing
an amusement park ride for rich men with little willies
to shoot prehistoric animals?
I think if you were a guy
someone would have knocked you on your ass a long time ago.
So shoot me.
If you oppose TAMI's use, why build her
- in the first place? - I built her because I'm a scientist.
Possibilities drive us. What they said was impossible, I knew could be done.
I applied for a research grant with a company called CJN Co.
They handed out money and left me alone.
Your actual dream come true, until I finished developing TAMI.
Then why haven't I heard of you?
I'm a nerd, not a lawyer. Turns out there was a clause in my contract.
CJN Co. Owned the patent on whatever I developed with their money.
Guess who controls the company?
- Charles Hatton. - Very good.
It seems I signed a non-disclosure agreement,
so Hatton removed my name and,
except for tonight, shut me up.
I get upset watching you people destroy the world with my dream.
That can piss someone off. What's your excuse?
You really want to know?
I'm getting close,
- really close. - Close to what?
Look carefully. Tell me what you think it is.
A DNA strand of some kind.
- Can you tell what kind? - No, I got a D in Biology.
His ancestor.
When I was a little boy, my grandfather used to tell me stories
about actually seeing real animals in the wild.
Imagine seeing him run free.
The last wild animal born out of captivity was a crocodile.
She died 38 years ago.
Then the poachers started hitting the zoos and the virus
took care of the rest. Millions of years of evolution,
and we kill them off in a few thousand...
and screw up their DNA. We can't even clone them.
- He was beautiful. - That's why I do this job.
When we go on a hunt we obviously can't take physical samples,
but I've created a way to take remote DNA readings.
I can only do it in bits, but the bits add up.
One day, I'll reconstruct the DNA from animals
that lived long before the virus.
I can bring them back.
Saving animals by killing them, that makes sense.
The animals we hunt have to be in the last seconds of their life
so we don't upset the course of history.
That allosaurus is shot cleanly,
seconds before he gets bogged down in a swamp
5 minutes before a volcano erupts and fries him
in hot lava.
I wish people would pay for a photo safari
instead of a hunting safari.
But they don't. There's no other way.
So you bring rich tourists back to the past o jeopardize the future.
I appreciate what you're trying to accomplish.
But it's dangerous. This is bigger
than what you or anyone else is working on.
It's bulletproof.
A new government agency is assigned to us.
They check our protocols up, down, and sideways.
That's how Hatton got the green light.
You don't have a clue about Charles Hatton! It's about money.
It's always the same when there's so much of it involved.
But this is different.
You are messing with the whole of evolution.
Nothing is bulletproof.
It must have been amazing.
God help us.
Hey, pal, you break it, you bought it.
Sorry.
Whoa, what's that?
The molecular structure of allosaurus blood.
No way.
Cool.
The doorman let me in.
I told him I was your cousin from St. Louis.
I always did like Aunt Martha.
I'm afraid I've killed it. Or at least driven it to suicide.
Got a bit of a brown thumb.
- Maybe a little sunlight will help. - You just moved in?
No, I've been here for about two years.
Okay.
Chloe thinks I'm going to a farm.
What's that about?
My wife told her I was going to sow some wild oats.
Adorable. Little kids are adorable.
Could you say that with less enthusiasm?
I'm not fond of adorable. I rate it just below perky.
It's nice you have a family.
Without families, what would we do with Christmas?
Me? I run my company and that's about it.
Your kids will grow up.
My company will be acquired by somebody. So what?
We're sleepwalking through life.
Admit it or not, we're bored out of our minds.
I'm not bored out of my mind.
What's the last exciting thing you did?
- Play fetch with your dog? - I don't know...
Come on! This'll arouse the old, dormant male instinct.
- Make us feel alive. - It's awfully expensive.
Why be rich if we don't buy things
other people can't afford?
George, how's life?
I can't complain. If I did, who would listen?
Tell me about it. Oh, could you...
- I'll get a cab for your cousin. - Thanks.
Standard liability release forms.
- That's a lot of forms. - There's a lot of liability.
We take you back 65 million years to hunt
the greatest predator the world has ever seen.
We are the first and only people able to do this.
We use technology that wasn't even a dream a few years ago.
A new federal agency, the Department of Temporal Regulation,
was created for us.
This is not a game. There is no reset button.
Today, on this hunt...
someone will die.
The prey... or the hunters.
There is no middle ground. Imprint where indicated.
By the way, deposits are non-refundable.
- Sure we should do this? - There's a 6-year waiting list.
We paid double to cut to the head of the line
and you want to slink home?
You want to spend the rest of your life with balls the size of BBs?
What the hell!
They're so big I can hear 'em clanging.
How was the other night with the lovely Ms. Wallenbeck?
- It's none of your business. - He said defensively.
If you must know, I sent her home.
Before or after?
Sometimes you can be a real brat.
Jen, I promised your father that I would always look after you.
- Are you going to lecture me? - No, I just...
Good, because Jeffrey and I only went out for...
Who is Jeffrey?
- You don't know? - No. Who is he?
I thought you were talking about Jeffrey.
What exactly did you and Jeffrey do?
- Nothing. - Tell me now.
Not going to happen.
What were you going to say just now?
I don't know.
I know we're sure about what we're doing...
Yeah, and?
But maybe...
Maybe what?
I don't know. It's nothing.
Derris, what do you do when you're not spying
for the government on us? You got a family? Wife?
Significant other?
Goldfish?
No, you probably go crazy at home, right?
Lampshade on your head, chicken feet, whips.
I know it.
Everyone,
this is Mr. Middleton
and Mr. Eckles.
Gentlemen, this is your jump team.
Jennifer Krase will record the holo-disc of your hunt.
Marcus Payne is your jump technician.
Dr. Lucas keeps everyone ticking. And this...
is Dr. Travis Ryer.
You must be Mr. Eckles.
It's an honor to meet you, Dr. Ryer.
You're half the reason my wife let me do this.
- What's the other half? - He has a huge insurance policy.
Mr. Middleton.
It's nice to have clients who look like they know what they're doing.
I have a good feeling about this jump.
You're in for the ride of your life.
We have developed technology
that is absolute cutting edge.
Actually, it was developed for us by a Dr. Sonia Rand.
Isn't that correct?
Gentlemen, your weapons are laser designated.
They're gauss rifles. They fire frozen liquid nitrogen bullets
- that completely dissolve in 2 minutes. - Wait a minute.
We'll take down a dinosaur with ice?
Second rule of time jumping: Don't leave anything behind.
Not another. I'm getting track marks.
The third rule of time jumping: Don't bring anything back.
What's rule number one?
No matter how small, never change
anything in the past. Nothing.
You kill a bee, then maybe the flower it was going to pollinate doesn't grow
and its seeds don't get spread
and the animal that was going to
eat the vegetation can't, and it dies,
and it was carrying genes for a new kind
of animal that doesn't occur
and it alters the course of evolution. A single bee.
The farther back, the more catastrophic changes could be.
So, rule number one?
Don't change anything.
Hey. Brass balls, remember?
Everyone, visors down.
This is a com check. Everyone hearing me okay?
- Ryer, check. - Krase, check.
- Derris, check. - Lucas, check.
Check.
Tell him you can hear him.
Okay, follow me.
Hands to your side.
Oh my God, it's so tight. I can't move.
Why so tight?
We are going to enter the virtual receiver.
You've got to stay still or the particle beam will not hit the right spot.
You want all those atoms winding up
in the same place and as the same people.
If you feel disoriented,
concentrate on your heartbeat, it'll calm you down.
And whatever you do, don't look into the light!
What?
Just kidding. This is supposed to be fun.
Let's go get him!
- Everyone okay? - Yeah, we're both fine.
Remember, don't touch anything.
- Something up, Mr. Eckles? - My gun doesn't work!
That's a safety feature. They won't fire until
- Travis fires first. - Why the hell not?
To keep clients from shooting things they shouldn't.
Derris, let's not mention this in our report.
- No harm, no foul. - Appreciate it.
I'm not that big of a dick. I just like to talk.
Eckles is barely holding it together. BP's through the roof,
breathing's shallow. Watch him.
This animal's big, right?
Better be for this money.
Check it out.
That's him, isn't it?
- Guys, remember... - Is that him?
...wait for my command.
Whatever happens, do not step off of the path.
Holy...
Cute, isn't he?
Get a grip, Ted!
All right, big guy.
Three steps.
Now turn your head to the right.
Wait! Not yet.
Hold it.
Hold it!
Now!
Jenny, take the shot!
Payne, we got a major problem here!
The designator shorted out! The safety won't release on the other guns!
- Fix it! - Even if I could, it'll take time!
We don't have time!
Cut it out, for Christ's sake!
This is part of the show, right?
Over here! Try and get me!
Come on, you bastard, take me on!
Get behind the bushes!
That's right! Come and get me!
- Get behind the bushes! - We're not going alone!
You guys, run! Take off!
Get behind him!
Over here! Take me on!
Come on! Over here, you asshole!
- Shit! - Over here, big guy! Yo! Yo!
Jenny, no!
Jenny, get down!
Go, yo!
Come on, over this way! Over here.
Come for me!
Jenny, go!
- Payne, my gun! - I got it!
Over here! Look at me!
Now try it!
Don't you ever pull a stunt like that again!
If anyone dies to save someone's rich, fat ass, it'll be me. Got it?
Where are the clients?
Let's go.
Anyone hurt?
They're fine.
You sure he's dead?
- You want to check his pulse, Ted? - He fell right where he was supposed to.
You got lucky.
Did anyone break any protocols?
Then we're clean.
- Travis, the volcano. - We better get going.
Follow me.
By the time I'm done suing you, I am going to own this joint!
That's your right, Mr. Middleton.
I understand you're upset.
But look beyond your immediate feelings.
Look at what you achieved today.
I almost achieved getting eaten!
And you weren't.
Countless clients have jumped back through time
faced the allosaurus, and gone home
proud that they cheated death. And in reality, they cheated nothing.
It was elaborate, expensive, authentic, and a fantasy.
It was controlled.
The outcome never in doubt. Not for a moment.
You two.
Circumstances were thrust upon you, like all moments of great courage.
Sue me if you want to, but for Christ's sake,
look at what you two did today.
You faced death for real! All controls off
and you survived!
You stood shoulder-to-shoulder, Columbus...
Jesus.
...discovering America, Armstrong walking on the moon,
Brubaker landing on Mars!
You are true pioneers!
Gentlemen,
I salute you.
I swear, that dude could sell art lessons to a blind man.
So what happened?
Moisture damage. A leak
from a broken box of nitrogen bullets.
I tested the gun before we jumped,
but the short occurred after.
We have to change our whole procedure. This cannot happen again.
It was an accident, you know?
We cannot have accidents.
While I was a physics major in college,
we studied something called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
It proves that there is no such thing
as zero tolerance. It doesn't exist.
You basically can't be a hundred percent sure of anything.
No matter how hard you try, accidents...
...happen.
We can't have accidents.
Good evening, Dr. Ryer. How about this weather?
I guess this is what they call Indian summer.
70 degrees... in November!
It's different, that's for sure.
Unseasonably hot weather continues today with highs in the upper 80s.
The skies will be clear
and the humidity will remain around 90 percent.
Thousands of fish beached themselves on the shore of Lake Michigan overnight.
Scientists from the University of Chicago are investigating.
They're at a loss to explain what caused the phenomenon.
The beaching provides an opportunity for amateur fishermen,
but wait until the cause is determined
before you eat your catch.
Suicidal fish. That's a new one.
The Health Department says
that the UV count is extremely high,
so if you want to soak up
this amazing warm sunshine in November,
you'd better protect yourself.
An SPF of 45 or stronger is recommended.
What happened here?
Check it out.
This wall's at least three feet thick.
That plant must've really wanted out, huh?
Sorry.
What? You've seen me skinny-dipping.
You were eight.
Get over it.
When did you become such a brat?
You ready for this today?
You know what they say about falling off a horse?
Take a cab?
Get right back on.
What if your horse weighs 12,000 pounds and tries to eat you?
Everyone, everyone!
Mr. Zong, Mr. Chang, get ready for the ride of your lives!
Travis! Don't you want to say something about the light?
Gentlemen, please don't look at the lights.
Whatever.
All right. Let's do this.
You feel it?
Something's off.
Something's different.
Travis! Look!
Oh, my God.
What is noise?
Back to the portal! Now!
Everybody get back! Move!
Get them back to the portal now!
Come on, let's go! Hurry!
Move! Get back!
Jenny, leave it!
When the path retracts, it'll fall! On the ground!
Get them back to the portal now!
Let's go, Jenny! Come on!
I said, let's go!
I can do this! Calm down!
Keep moving!
Run!
Jenny, run!
Lucas! What the hell just happened back there?
TAMI missed her entry point by five minutes!
- We were late! - Make sure everyone's all right.
TAMI has never been off by a millisecond before.
TAMI, why were you off in your calculations?
Please be specific, Dr. Ryer.
On our last jump, you missed our entry point by five minutes.
- Why? - I'm afraid you're mistaken, Doctor.
My calculations were precise. You were sent to the correct coordinates.
We need to talk.
We've just stepped into a world of trouble.
She was off by five minutes, out of 65 million years.
It's a minor glitch. We can fix it.
I had to file a report.
Jeez, Clay, you didn't have to do that.
I had no alternative.
Of course you had an alternative.
You could have thought big instead of little, which is all
your pea-brain is capable of before it explodes.
Now you get to cause me grief just because you can.
History's not a class struggle, it's a vision struggle.
It's people like me trying to get free from narrow-minded pricks like you.
Nothing moves without us, we're the goddamned engine.
- This is out of my hands now. - Like hell it is.
You know that regulations dictate that this meeting has to be recorded.
Of course.
The Temporal Regulation Division
proclaims this facility closed.
TAMI...
ItAL Access denied.
They don't waste time.
You can't ask me to do that.
I'm not asking you to do anything!
I'm simply reminding you of the potential delicacy of our situation.
What's done is done.
Even I have my limits. I can't.
We can't leave this to some government agency
to figure out.
Why not? It's their job.
They're bureaucrats.
If they fell out of a window, it would take them a week to hit the ground.
Do you have any idea how long it would take them
to clear this up?
They'll have TAMI shut down for months. I'll go bankrupt.
What happened today has to be connected to our last jump.
- We must have changed something. - You just made that up.
Something happened back there. I know it.
Really? You know it? You don't know anything of the kind!
I'll tell you what, there is someone who does know.
You okay, man?
We represent the tenant board.
We have vines growing into our windows, down the halls,
one broke the elevator!
Open this door at once!
Dr. Rand!
This is loaded! Now back off!
She's crazy!
You're crazy!
Dr. Rand, I need...
Excuse me. Where are you delivering that?
Rand. 7-E.
I told you, I'm not responsible.
Look outside, it's happening out there, too.
Use your brain while you still have one.
Fertilizer.
Lady, it's real heavy.
Close the door.
Put it by the rhododendron.
The white flowers.
Then go.
I thought I recognized your voice.
You sound just like TAMI. Although, she's a little nicer.
That thing doesn't work. It's an antique.
I've been expecting you.
I'm afraid we've done it. What you warned us about.
- I knew it. - What do you mean?
- Don't I seem a little on edge? - About the same as last time.
How far back?
The Cretaceous.
Jesus. And what did you change?
We don't know. As far as we can tell, no one stepped off the path.
The animal fell in the kill zone.
The kill zone, the path. The kill zone, the path.
You're so blind.
24 hours, isn't it? Since you got back.
Yeah, almost exactly.
- Why? - Watch this.
Son-of-a-bitch.
- That was you. - What the hell was that?
A time wave. So much for your system being bulletproof.
Jesus.
Let's go. Get moving!
- What is that pipe for? - Water for the oxygen condensers.
Over there, get over there!
The oxygen!
Come on!
You okay?
Look at this!
This tree was never here before. It's extraordinary.
It's okay.
I think the window's our best bet.
Jesus. Why didn't this happen until now? Why the delay?
When you change something in the past, the future isn't affected all at once.
Changes come in ripples, like dropping a stone into a pond.
So you mean there'll be more of these.
And they'll get bigger and bigger.
All the changes in evolution that you affected will come in the waves.
It'll start with climate, then vegetation,
the early manifestations of life.
Then come the more complex organisms.
- So what will happen in the last wave? - It'll be us.
We wave goodbye.
Last wave changes the last species to evolve,
Homo sapiens. God knows what we'll become.
We may have no eyes, we may be sea creatures.
We may not exist at all. We don't have too many more waves before that one.
Can we fix what we did?
I don't know. Maybe.
There's no way I can allow another jump.
I'll lose my badge.
If we don't fix this, you won't have a chest to pin that badge on, moron.
Careful, you don't want to start calling people names.
- She says it's the easiest way. - No, I said it was the only way.
I also said I would help.
I didn't say I would be in the same room with you.
Hold on. I go back
to just before the original hunting party arrives,
meet them when they step out of the portal and turn them back.
Whatever went wrong never happens.
Things go back to normal.
- How can we be sure it'll work? - We can't be sure if it'll work,
but we can be sure doing nothing will not work.
No. I'm sorry.
The whole of time has been turned upside down
and you're running around with your toothbrush,
worrying about your pension.
We have more than just a software problem on our hands.
We have got to fix this
...and we have to make sure no one ever finds out about it.
If I go down, I'm not going down alone.
Can you compensate for TAMI's margin of error
so he gets where he has to go?
Well, I built her.
How's that?
I want every moment of this jump recorded, understand?