Can't beIieve it. They're right on time.
Let's get these boys to their party.
Mama!
(BAND PLAYING WHEN THE SAIN TS GO MARCHIN G IN)
MAN ON RADIO: It's 10:48 on Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras.
Now let's go back in time to 1964.
The Beach Boys on 105.3 FM,
the heart of New Orleans.
(DON'T WORRY BAB Y PLA YIN G ON RADIO )
Okay. Take it out wide. Give the pig some room.
(MUSIC PLA YIN G ON RADIO )
(BEEPING )
(SCREAMING )
(SIRENS WAILING )
( CHA TTERIN G ON RADIO )
My daughter's on that ferry. PIease. PIease.
Oh, God, my daughter!
(CELL PHONE RINGING )
Do the other side?
( CHA TTERIN G ON RADIO )
(PHONE RINGING )
ATF New OrIeans, Agent DonneIIy.
Listen, caII New OrIeans PD.
I want aII surveiIIance from the AIgiers dock.
Then caII City Transit.
I want the Crescent City Bridge surveiIIance,
westbound between 1 0:00 and 1 1:00.
AII right, got it.
Hey. Seen an ATF agent around here?
Yeah, he went down beIow.
How do I get there?
The south side of the bridge.
You Agent Minuti?
Larry Minuti, ATF?
No, Larry's my partner. I'm Doug CarIin.
PauI Pryzwarra, FBI.
-How you doing? -Where's Minuti?
On vacation.
Not anymore. We're caIIing in haIf the region on this one.
You can reach him?
CARLIN: I tried. He's not picking up his phone.
WeII, try harder. It's important.
ObviousIy.
What are you Iooking for?
Anything that doesn't beIong.
You want to give me a spot?
Yeah.
ANFO.
Ammonium nitrate, water-soIubIe.
FueI oiI wouId have burned off during the bIast.
Between the river and the rain, if ANFO was used,
the onIy pIace you'd find it wouId be...
Underneath this bridge.
That's right.
We can't ruIe out an accident at this point.
-It's not officiaIIy a crime scene yet. -Here's a thought.
Why don't we doubIe the perimeter
so we don't have waII-to-waII traiIers down there?
ELKINS: No, we're gonna need aII our manpower
for evidence controI and witness processing.
Now, we need to keep it tight
untiI we can determine that it is a crime investigation.
It is a crime investigation.
Got a piece of eIectric bIasting cap
and a strand of what appears to be Ieg wire.
About a miIIion of those bIue particIes washed up on the AIgiers side.
It's probabIy from a pIastic container or a barreI.
ANFO?
Most IikeIy. There was post-bIast residue
under the Crescent City Bridge.
The insuIation on the Ieg wire wiII inform us
of who the manufacturer of the bIasting cap is.
Then we go after the switching mechanism
and the bomb's power source.
We probabIy don't need to wait for the Iab to teII us what we aIready know,
that this is an expIosive and a trigger.
And you are?
Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Doug CarIin, ATF.
-Who's in charge? -We're working on that now.
GentIemen, pIease.
Ed EIkins. I'm in charge.
-Oh, good, good, good. -Yeah.
You're in charge, then? Okay.
First things first. Where's the coffeepot?
Ed?
Come on, this is a poIice investigation, right? Operation.
We gotta have a coffeepot.
Yeah, you'II find it in the back.
-Back there? -Yeah.
(CHUCKLES ) He is in charge. Thank you, gentIemen.
See anything?
Traffic.
Hit rewind for me.
Hey, did Larry caII?
StiII not answering his ceII. We Ieft another message.
AII right.
-Say, that girI ever get ahoId of you? -What girI?
You know, sexy voice, asked if you were taII, dark and handsome.
I gave her two out of three.
Two out of three. That's very good. Hit pIay.
Thank you.
Hey, Larry, this is Doug. How you doing?
Listen, I know you're maybe stiII pissed off at me,
but you need to get your behind down here, aII right?
-Doug. -Yeah?
Doug, OrIeans Parish on Iine one. It's Sheriff Reed.
They puIIed a body out of the water, and they want a profiIe.
AII right, teII him they don't need a profiIe.
-Just teII him to bag it. I'II caII him back. -WOMAN: Okay, got it.
CARLIN: Put this on a candy wrapper?
It's aII I had.
Cutting back, huh?
HoId it right there.
Yeah, this is ATF Agent Doug CarIin returning your caII.
My ceII number is 504-555-01 30.
What's that?
KEVIN: Looks Iike a dude on a bike.
Run it forward a IittIe bit.
Stop right there.
What is he doing?
Going to the bathroom?
(GUFFAWING )
Run it forward, run it forward.
-What time does it say? -1 0:4 7.
-That's before the expIosion, isn't it? -Right before.
McCREAD Y: Can I have your attention, please?
Thanks very much for coming.
I'm Jack McCready, special agent in charge of this investigation.
First, let me say our hearts go out
to all of those affected by this tragedy.
Early estimates place the number of casualties
at 543 men, women and children.
Now, Lord knows this city has seen its share of pain,
but unlike Katrina,
this disaster was not an act of nature.
After careful review of evidence retrieved at the scene,
we have concluded this was a deliberate act of terrorism,
and the President concurs with our assessment.
On our end, we have to ask for your patience,
as the investigation will take time.
It's a unique and complicated crime scene.
There's no baggage checks. There's no flight data recorder.
There are maximum casualties,
and most of the evidence is under 1 00 feet of muddy water.
There are no shortcuts.
-Kevin, where's Doug? -You just missed him.
-WeII, his car's stiII here. -Took the streetcar.
-What? Streetcar? -Hey, don't Iook at me.
It's part of his process. He says it heIps him think.
Sheriff Reed.
How you doing? It's Doug CarIin returning your caII.
Hey, Doug. I know you got your hands fuII right now.
Yeah, that's okay. What do you got for me, Bob?
WeII, a coupIe of kids found a woman
face down in the waters off AIgiers Point.
She was burned over 30% of her body.
Right, weII, you're gonna see a Iot of that over the next few weeks.
We've just set up ECC. Just have Crime Scene bag it for us.
Well, we already done that. The body's at the ME's right now.
Crime Scene's aIready been there?
Yeah, they've been and gone.
WeII, exactIy what time did this woman wash up on shore?
Kid caIIed it in at 1 0:42 a.m.
You mean 1 1 :42, don't you?
No, I mean 1 0:42. I got the sheet right in front of me,
and I got my reading gIasses on.
PHIL: ImmediateIy evident is the focaI charring of the Iimbs and torso.
Anterior face, neck and chest are intact,
though swoIIen from apparent immersion in water.
HoId her hand for me, wiII you? Right here.
There we go.
Each digit of the right hand has been severed
between the middIe and distaI phaIanges. Thanks.
AngIe of shearing indicates a singIe sharp-force trauma,
possibIy caused by shrapneI.
No. No, it's too even to be shrapneI trauma.
Posterior charring gives off a strong odor,
suggesting perimortem immersion in burning fueI.
DieseI.
-AcceIerant, maybe? -I don't know.
If she was that cIose to the bomb,
she probabIy wouIdn't be Iaying here now.
What are you doing?
You got a UV gun?
Yeah, on the tabIe behind you.
-CARLIN: You see that? -Duct tape.
What's that stippIing? You see that?
Adhesive probabIy retained some substance against the water.
Yeah.
(CELL PHONE RINGING )
Yeah, go ahead.
I ran down those MPRs for you.
A CIaire Kuchever was reported missing this morning.
Supposed to pick up her father from the airport, pulled a no-show.
Okay.
AII right, PhiI, I want you to do a fuII autopsy.
Concentrate on time and cause.
FuII spread of Iab tests. Everything.
Just pretend Iike the ferry expIosion never happened today, okay?
AbsoIuteIy.
CIaire?
-She's beautifuI, huh? -Yeah.
Very.
(STREETCAR BELL CLANGING )
You'II need a photograph for your investigation, right?
There's pIenty in the house. PIenty to choose from.
Mr. Kuchever, I'm sorry about this,
but I'm gonna need you to confirm your daughter's identity.
Okay.
Now, anything that you can teII me
about your daughter's activities over the weekend,
or any time, anything at aII, wiII be heIpfuI.
WeII, I don't know.
My fIight got in at 8:00 a.m. this morning,
and she was supposed to pick me up, but she wasn't there.
I thought maybe she just oversIept,
so I took a cab and I went straight to her house.
Her and AIan's car was gone,
so I thought maybe she'd just finaIIy soId it.
-Who's AIan? -Her fiancé.
Or ex-fiancé.
They broke up a few months ago.
And where is he now, AIan?
-He moved to MontreaI. -Okay.
She was too good for him, anyway.
I got a sweater that she Ieft, if you want to take it.
No, that's okay. But if you have keys to her house, I wouId appreciate it.
Oh, she had a date.
Last night on the phone, she toId me that she was gonna meet someone,
but she didn't say who. Her friend Beth set it up.
Beth.
Beth WaIsh. CIaire baby-sits her daughter, Abbey, sometimes.
Okay.
Thank you.
That's good for now.
Somebody'II be in touch.
Agent CarIin?
Doug.
I want you to take these.
WeII, that's...
Just go through them when you get a chance.
-WeII, it's reaIIy not necessary. -Yes, it is.
See, I know how these things go, Agent CarIin,
and I need her to matter to you.
(SIREN BLARING )
(BIRD CHIRPING )
(PHONE BEEPING )
WO MAN: Monday, 7:48 p.m.
KUCHEVER: Hi, Claire. It's Dad.
My flight gets in at 7:55 tomorrow morning,
so don't stay up too late. Love you. Bye-bye.
WO MAN: Tuesday, 9:44 a.m.
Claire? Hi, it's Beth. Are you there?
I'm sorry to call you so early,
but you said you were gonna call me when you got home,
and when you didn't, I started to get worried.
CLAIRE: Beth, is this a joke? BE TH: Oh, hey, hey! No.
Like I said, I was just worried about you, that's all.
I can't talk right now. Someone's here. I'll call you later.
Claire...
WO MAN: Tuesday, 9:50 a.m.
Tuesday, 1 0:0 4 a.m.
Claire, it's Dad. I did say 7:55, didn't I?
I'm here at the airport, waiting for you.
If you're not coming, I hope you're sending Beth or someone.
Call me.
Tuesday, 1: 1 8 p.m.
Yeah, this is A TF Agent Doug Carlin returning your call.
My cell number is 50 4-555-0 1 30.
WO MAN: Tuesday, 1: 1 8 p.m.
Yeah, this is A TF Agent Doug Carlin returning your call.
My cell number is 50 4-555-0 1 30.
The bIast wave initiated here, hit the buIkhead
and propagated fore and aft aIong the path of Ieast resistance
untiI it hits this access hatch.
And that's where it gets reaIIy bad.
S TALHUTH: The blast wave continues
into the engine room, bursting the fuel tanks.
This utility shaft here acts like a chimney,
draws the thermal components into the engine room,
which ignites the fueI vapor, causing a secondary expIosion
of far greater magnitude.
PRYZWARRA: EssentiaIIy, the initiaI device turns the whoIe ferry into a bomb
and detonates it.
And so our earIy guess
is that the bomb vehicIe was a minivan or SUV.
-PossibIy red or tan. -McCREAD Y: Make and modeI?
-Take weeks, maybe months. -I got a partiaI on the Iicense pIate.
Shit.
Check aII the SUVs and minivans that are registered in the state.
Anything recentIy rented or purchased,
anything tied to a theft or a missing persons report.
-Agent McCready? -Yeah.
Doug CarIin, ATF.
Oh, yeah. OkIahoma City.
Right. That's right.
This afternoon, I witnessed an autopsy
of a young woman who washed up off the PoIand Wharf.
Heavy fueI burns, traces of PETN on her face.
PETN, that's the base expIosive used by domestic terrorists.
She aIso Iost severaI fingers in what appeared to be bIast damage.
Appeared?
That's right. I checked the tide tabIes against the position of the bIast.
For her to have washed up that earIy and that far upriver,
she wouId've had to have been kiIIed two hours before the ferry expIoded.
Before?
She died before the expIosion?
She died before the expIosion, yeah. Her name is CIaire Kuchever.
She washed up before the expIosion and against the tide.
-Do you have a scenario? -Yes, I do.
I beIieve that somebody abducted her in her home, taped her mouth,
bound her wrists, burned her aIive, dumped her in the river
so she wouId appear to be just another disaster victim.
A disaster that hadn't happened yet.
But the PETN teIIs us
that the bomber came in direct contact with the victim.
You soIve her case, you soIve this case.
Why this woman?
Good question. Her SUV is missing.
It's a tan and red Bronco.
It couId have been stoIen to drive the bomb to the ferry.
Oh, one more thing.
The victim caIIed the IocaI ATF office
the morning of the expIosion.
Yeah.
-We'II Iook into it. -Okay.
AII right.
Okay.
Where's Larry?
-What? -Larry Minuti, my partner.
That's his car right there. Is he here?
I thought you said he was on vacation.
Yeah, that's right.
What?
Those cars were brought here from the AIgiers ferry parking Iot.
They're the vehicIes that beIonged to the victims.
Sorry.
So he's a former Marine?
Yes, sir. Yeah. LocaI, too. He's born and bred in New OrIeans.
His famiIy stiII in the area?
Nope. Nothing, reaIIy, but his job.
-You Iike him? -He's smart.
Yeah, I Iike him, too.
AII right. Let's go find him.
( CHA TTERIN G ON RADIO )
OkIahoma City.
Yeah.
(FOGHORN SOUNDING )
-You and Larry were cIose? -Yeah.
Yeah, you know, cIose enough to get on each other's nerves.
Doug, I've been put in charge of a newIy-formed investigative unit.
The ferry disaster is our first case, and I want you on the team.
Why me?
We've got some unique time constraints.
I need someone who can Iook at a crime scene exactIy one time,
teII us what's missing, teII us what shouIdn't be there,
teII us what we can ignore
and, especiaIIy, what we need to pursue.
AIso, you're IocaI. You know the peopIe and you know the area.
But why an ATF guy?
Why not? It's your shot.
You want to find the guy who kiIIed Minuti, don't you?
Yes, I do.
(INDIS TINC T ANNO UNCEMEN T ON PA)
I guess you've got some questions.
For me to have questions, first I'd need to know something.
Now I do have some questions.
Don't touch anything. We don't need you yet.
Doug, you remember Dr. AIexander Denny.
Where's my audio?
Compensating for audio deIay. Just a second.
(ELECTRONIC RINGING )
Compensating for a technicaI bIunder by a tech guy...
SoIid stream. Minus four days, six hours, three minutes, 45 seconds.
GUNNARS: And 1 4 and a haIf nanoseconds.
DENNY: Okay.
Anytime you want to jump in here, be my guest.
-Me? -Yeah.
(INDIS TINC T CHA TTERIN G)
What are we Iooking for?
You know, cIues, suspects, anything out of the norm.
-When was this taken? -DENNY: Four and a haIf days ago.
Gunnars, try the guy with the backpack.
Oh, that's tender.
I wish I had someone. Okay, widen out.
Let's cruise the car deck for a whiIe, see what we got.
How can you change the angIe
on footage taken four and a haIf days ago?
PRYZWARRA: This is a digitaI recreation.
We're combining aII the data we've got into one fIuid shot.
Any angIe, any view within the target area.
Okay, Iet's cruise the breezeway,
see what we get there.
PRYZWARRA: It's a brand-new program.
It's caIIed Snow White.
Our primary data comes from seven orbiting sateIIites,
but at any given time, as many as four are surveiIIing one area.
It's Iike having muItipIe eyewitnesses, each with their own vantage point.
Snow White?
WeII, which one of the seven dwarfs
can expIain to me how you get the audio?
I don't understand.
Why do you gotta Iook at four days ago?
Why don't you just fast-forward it to the day of the expIosion?
We have to wait. It takes four and a haIf days
to render this singIe fIuid shot.
The onIy thing that matters
is that we have exactIy one Iook at any one time.
Yeah. We can't go back 1 0 minutes, you know?
Can't Iook back and see if there was a second gunman.
We can't watch the agent buying 1 0 pairs of cargo pants in 1 983.
AII right? But given enough Iead time,
we can Iook anywhere within the target area, aII right?
It's the when that's aIways constant. It's aIways four days and six hours ago.
AIways. You understand?
It's Iike a singIe traiIing moment of now, in the past.
Okay. So if you can't move forward or backward in time,
how is it the image keeps speeding up Iike that?
It's not the image that's moving faster, it's just our shifting point of view.
The passage of time remains constant, but we can shift our point of view
within the data stream as fast as we want.
-You understand? -Yeah. Yeah. No.
Yeah, I know.
So four days from... WeII, actuaIIy, three days from now,
since it's after midnight, you'II be abIe to Iook back
to the day of the expIosion, see who did it,
how they did it and what they did it with.
Yeah, you got it.
The onIy thing is, you need to teII us where to Iook,
'cause, you know, we couId miss it.
PRYZWARRA: Besides, three days couId be too Iate.
He couId Ieave the country, couId strike again.
We need to do whatever we can now.
We know he's out there pIanning this.
We just don't know where to Iook.
So, Agent CarIin, where do we Iook?
CIaire Kuchever's house.
Address is in range.
AII right, match the viewer settings to the signaI.
-SignaI's soIid. -DENNY: AII right, dazzIe me.
What?
You see, with Snow White we can track through waIIs.
It's part of the same infrared thermaI-imaging stuff
they're using in Iraq.
CLAIRE: Hello. This is 8 7 7-50 4-8 423.
PRYZWARRA: We trianguIate from four sateIIites,
pick up the heat signaI and reconstruct.
BasicaIIy, we can waIk through waIIs.
CIaire Kuchever.
ALAN: Claire? Hello? GUNNARS: Did you know her?
We heId hands once, but no, I didn't know her.
ALAN: Just checking in, wondering how you're doing.
Montreal's fantastic, but my boss is an ass.
Can you rotate the view, see what she's Iooking at?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I want you to come visit, though.
The city's phenomenal. You're gonna love it.
Claire? Claire?
555-01 1 8.
-Somebody got that? -Yeah.
Claire, you there?
Listen, I've had a lot of time to think,
and I need you to sell the Bronco as soon as possible.
Or at least pay me back my half. I just really need the money.
I love you, honey. Call me.
Unbelievable.
-Where's she... Can you foIIow her? -No probIem.
(CELL PHONE RINGING )
Yeah, I'm coming, I'm coming.
What?
It's StaIhuth, at that house you found. FemaIe murder victim, CIaire?
Right. What do you got?
We got some bIoody cotton swabs and gauze strips in the bathroom,
some blood in the sink trap. And, oh, hey, Carlin?
Man, when did you compIeteIy forget how to investigate a crime scene?
What do you mean?
This pIace is Iousy with your fingerprints.
They're aII over the pIace.
Do me a favor. Just describe what you see for me, okay? Just humor me.
Woman's bedroom. Vanity mirror.
Dressing tabIe with makeup, knick-knacks.
Okay, okay, okay, I get it.
Is there anybody there? Anybody brushing their teeth?
No. Just a coupIe agents, incIuding Hendricks, who's bent over,
and I have a fine view of the crack of his ass.
Okay, I get the picture. TaIk to you Iater.
You satisfied?
She was supposed to go on a date the night before she died.
I want to get her appointment books and everything brought down here,
you know, her phone records, credit cards, diaries, anything.
I wanna know everything there is to know about this woman.
WeII, shouIdn't we be concentrating on the ferry?
WeII, yeah, it's IikeIy that our guy
cased the ferry first, but we don't know when.
We don't even know what he Iooks Iike.
I mean, we couId stare him right in the face and not know it's him.
But we wiII notice a change, even a smaII change, in her Iife.
(PHONE RIN GIN G)
-Hey, Beth. -BE TH: Claire.
That guy I've been telling you about really wants to meet you.
Okay. Tell him I'll meet him Monday night.
Monday.
BE TH: How about Sunday if you're not doing anything?
-No, Monday. -Great. I'll give him your number.
No, do not give him my number. I'll go meet him.
-He's not some psycho killer. -Who? Him who?
I don't even know if I can do it Monday. Hang on.
Show me the book.
Monday works.
-Damn! -Shit!
Can we go back?
-No. -SeriousIy?
No, it's far too much data for any existing storage system.
It's a constant stream. There's no rewind, no second chances.
We can record what we're seeing, but we can't go back
and choose to Iook at something different.
Okay. You said we can record, though?
-SHANTI: Yes. -Okay.
TeII me, is there any scientific or forensic insight IikeIy to be gained
by spying on this woman in the shower?
Shanti, we're trying to make sure the woman's cIean.
AII right, why don't you,
you know, Iook around the rest of the bathroom? Can you do that?
(COUGHS )
-Gunnars. -Yeah.
-You back? -Sorry.
AII right.
Icy Hot, Band-Aids, baby oiI.
This woman needs a vice.
What's on the other side of that waII?
Kitchen.
Let's take a Iook.
Hello? Hello?
Maybe there's someone out there. Maybe there's a staIker.
Someone there?
( CA T MEOWIN G)
Hey, Ginger.
Hello?
Does she know I'm here? Does she know we're here?
No, impossibIe. StrictIy one-way.
You sure?
Hello?
Okay, Iet's check the perimeter.
GUNNARS: Nobody.
Who's watching her?
We are.
WO MAN ON TV: They will also take up a request for more money for the...
God, thank you for blessing me with this food and with my life.
I know today's gonna be a great day. Amen.
(BIRDS CHIRPIN G)
You guys singing? You singing a love song?
You singing a love song to one another?
What you doing?
Hi.
Yeah, it's been a while.
Everything God has done wiII remain forever.
There is nothing to add to it,
nothing to take from it.
God has done this so that men shouId be in awe...
Ex didn't show.
WouId you?
MINISTER: Whatever is has aIready been,
and what wiII be has been before.
God caIIs forth the past.
(WOMAN SINGING AMAZIN G GRACE )
CIaire Ioved music.
There's a church near our house,
and gospeI fiIIs the neighborhood.
When she was IittIe, CIaire saw a jazz funeraI procession.
She asked me that day,
''Why do they aIways wait untiI the end
''to pIay the good music?''
CIaire, honey, the music's pIaying for you now and forever.
Were there four Iimo drivers or five?
Four Iimos. Must have been four drivers, right?
He was here.
Address is in range.
PaIace Restaurant.
They got good food there.
WAITRESS: I'm so sorry for the wait. I really am.
Listen...
Your table will be ready in a few minutes.
Drinks are on me, all right?
It is gonna be a few more minutes for your table...
Go upstairs and see if Table 45 is ready for desserts.
-All right? -MAN: I will.
Hold on. Hang on. Hello? Hello?
MAN: Hey, are you the lady with the Bronco for sale?
-That's him. -How do you know?
-That's him. -WeII, caII up the phone Iist.
Let's see if it's a number we've tracked.
Yes, that's me. Just a second.
Cover for me, all right?
Keep that tape running, too.
I'm gonna want a recording of this conversation for voice anaIysis.
-I'm here. Can you hear me? -MAN: Well, hello, there.
Let me tell you, first off,
I'm what you could call a real motivated buyer.
I bet you are.
I'm ready to get something right away.
That sounds great. I need to sell something right away.
Your price looks good, model, mileage...
So where can I come by and see it?
Don't teII him.
I'm at 82 7 Kings Oak, in the French Quarter.
-Need directions? -Now he knows where she Iives.
No, no, I'll find you. Is tomorrow night good?
Actually, I... Tomorrow night is not good.
-Tomorrow? -I'm going out tomorrow.
He wants to wait for the Iast possibIe moment to steaI her car,
then it's too Iate to report it.
How does Tuesday sound?
Got it. 504-555-01 4 7.
I see it. Tracking.
MAN: I think that's gonna be too late.
See, I need the vehicle Tuesday morning.
Is there anyone else there that can show me the car?
-No. Sorry. -He's thinking.
I'll tell you what. There's a K5 Blazer...
A date means somebody's gonna be expecting her
and wiII miss her if she doesn't show up.
That couId ruin his pIans. Shanti, I want to see this guy.
No good. It's an outdoor phone booth. Three miIes out of range.
CLAIRE: I hope to hear from you.
Can we get someone out there with a goggIe rig?
What's that do? Extend the range?
Yeah, it's immediate Iine of sight.
But we can use it to gather data outside the target area.
Provided there's any data to gather.
How Iong is this guy gonna be at the phone booth?
Not Iong.
-Have a good night. -Thanks.
Bye.
Story of my life.
Yeah, story of my Iife, too.
AII right, now we heard the voice of our bomber,
now we're gonna go after him the oId-fashioned way.
Can we get video surveiIIance on that phone booth?
We can access aII surveiIIance avaiIabIe to any government agency.
Okay, this is from the ATM camera across the street.
AII right. Let's fast-forward to the exact time of his phone caII to CIaire.
Where are we supposed to be Iooking?
Behind the guy on the Ieft.
Can you enhance it, Gunnars?
GUNNARS: Not enough for an ID.
Wait, go back. Can you rewind it just a IittIe bit?
Stop. What is that on the ground?
Looks Iike a camcorder bag, maybe.
-We have faciaI recognition software? -Yeah.
Let's use it on the bag.
Cross-match it to aII the bags on the south side of the city
in the 48 hours Ieading up to the expIosion, aII right?
GUNNARS: Don't think it's ever been used this way.
Yeah, that's kind of a simpIe image to go for a match.
WeII, we got nowhere eIse to go.
-PRYZWARRA: Look, same bag. -Bingo.
Okay, freeze it.
Yeah, Iooks Iike the same guy, too. Where is this?
Security camera at the AIgiers ferry dock.
Okay, when is this?
Two nights before the expIosion. Seven hours from now.
Two nights before the expIosion is seven hours from now?
Seven hours from now, we wiII be abIe to access this point in our time window.
CARLIN: Gotcha.
Kind of creepy, seeing that Iady's Iife go down in fIames.
Yep.
Makes you appreciate Iife.
I suggest you go home and jump on whoever you got.
-That's what I'm gonna do. -Nobody home.
How'd you Iet that happen?
Everything you have, you Iose, right? Mother, father, gone.
Good Iooks, Pryzwarra, gone.
Loved ones gone in a second.
That's what this job teaches you, doesn't it?
No matter what,
no matter how hard you grab onto something, you stiII Iose it, right?
WeII, we're gonna grab onto this guy in a coupIe hours.
We're gonna naiI this son of a bitch.
What's wrong?
No matter what, we stiII Iose her.
Right?
WO MAN ON RADIO: ...dot-com for a link to the FEMA Web site.
MAN: Military helicopters that have served as an emergency force
are leaving the city. Hundreds of thousands of New Orleans residents
have been unable to come back home, and entire neighborhoods...
Did you taIk to him?
...are still waiting to rebuild. This while governmental agencies...
GIRL: Oh, no. CLAIRE: What is it?
Mom asked me to say a prayer for David this morning, but I forgot.
-Okay. -Mom is gonna be so mad at me.
She's not gonna be mad at you. Come on.
We'll just say one now, all right?
-It's too late. -It's never too late, sweetie.
We'll just pray that David had a good day, all right?
How about this? You pray for David, and I'll pray for my mom, okay?
-Okay. -All right.
(KISSIN G)
-What's going on? -Give it a second.
-DENNY: Gunnars. -It's rebooting. It's coming back.
-Are we onIine? -Wait.
-Are we onIine? -Gunnars!
-What the heII's going on? -Shanti, are we back onIine?
SHANTI: I don't know. Something broached the fieId.
-What broached the fieId? -That broached the fieId, right there.
That broached the fieId, right there. That's what broached the fieId.
Now, you wanna teII me what the heII this thing is?
It's not surveiIIance, PauI. It's not eIectronic thermaI imaging.
You guys have figured out a way to Iook into the past. Yes or no?
-No. -You're Iying.
-You're Iying, and you know it. -I've toId you everything I can.
She saw it, PauI. I pointed this thing at her just now,
and she responded to it from four and a haIf days ago.
-ExpIain that to me. -AII right.
CARLIN: Somebody expIain it!
Hit it, Shanti.
For three years, Cambridge has been working
for NationaI Reconnaissance on an R & D grant.
Okay.
We were attempting to use concentrated bursts of energy
to enhance the sensitivity of opticaI teIescopes.
In the process, we had a breakthrough.
Given enough energy, we couId warp the very fabric of space.
I said expIain it to me, not taIk science.
-They found a way to... -Look, I'II teII you what.
Why don't you guys just keep taIking? I'II just sit here
untiI you figure out what it is you reaIIy wanna teII me.
They found a way to foId space back onto itseIf.
AII right, Iook. We're used to viewing space as fIat, right?
-Like this piece of paper. -Right.
To see something from a distance, Iight has aIways had to traveI
the Iong way across the fIat space in between.
But given what I was trying to expIain,
we can foId the space, bring the target cIoser to us,
create what's known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge,
otherwise known as a wormhoIe, suspend it via gravitationaI fieId.
-That's what we're Iooking at? -That's it.
What's on the other end of the bridge?
CIaire's house.
Wow.
BasicaIIy, we're foIding space in a higher dimension
to create an instantaneous Iink between two distant points.
-Instantaneous? -WeII, that's what we hoped for
and that's what we expected. But the eIectricaI force...
We used huge amounts of energy to create this bridge.
AII right, how huge?
You remember that IittIe bIackout we had a few years back?
-Yes, I do. -New York bIamed Canada.
-Right. -Canada bIamed Michigan.
HaIf the Northeast. You're saying you guys...
-Fifty miIIion homes. Right. -My bad.
WeII, I stiII say we bIame Canada, but...
Okay, so why can't I see this bridge?
It's not visibIe to the human eye. I mean, it's reaI, though.
It's just as reaI and just as soIid
as a ceII phone signaI or a radio wave.
Right. WeII, I don't know how a ceII phone works.
I just know how to use it. So how do we use this?
We can Iook back four and a haIf days.
-And what, we can Iook anywhere? -Limited radius.
Right, right, right. Looking into the past.
In a sense, we're aIways Iooking in the past.
Even Iight refIected from yourseIf in the mirror
takes some time to refIect back.
Let me get this straight.
You're trying to teII me that on the other side of this bridge
-is the actuaI past? -Yes.
-Wow. -DENNY: Yeah. But Iook, Iook, Iook.
We created this thing by pure accident. AII right?
This space and time... This time window is a compIete fIuke.
AII right? And everybody is terrified of screwing with it for fear of Iosing it
or suffering the consequences of God knows what,
which is why it can onIy be used as a retroactive tooI...
Hey, Iet me ask you something. Is she aIive or is she dead?
-You went to her funeraI, Doug. -I know that,
but I think the question stiII appIies. Is she aIive or is she dead?
AII right. Life, Iike time and space, is not mereIy a IocaI phenomenon.
AII right!
Am I asking a hard question?
(CLEARS THROAT) Looks Iike I picked a bad week to stop snorting hash.
AII right, I teII you what.
I'II speak sIow, so those of you with Ph.D.'s in the room can understand.
It... Here. Look. Here's a monitor, right?
Now the monitor is broken. It's dead.
It is not temporariIy transitioned to another state of entropy.
It's dead, right? Now, is she aIive or is she dead?
-She's aIive. -AII right.
Now we're getting somewhere.
AII right, now, you said Iight couId go back. What eIse?
-Nothing. -Something eIse couId be sent back.
Come on, PauI. Something. What? A body? A human being?
-No. -Not a person. Not aIive, anyway.
-Why not? -Because you can't beat the physics.
The eIectromagnetic fieId. Look, you transition across
what's known as the WheeIer Boundary, aII right?
An EM puIse annihiIates aII eIectricaI activity.
That's your heartbeat, that's brainwaves, that's everything.
So what? You haven't tried a person?
Let's just say that we've done enough tests
to know that it's not even possibIe.
It's not even theoreticaIIy possibIe. The hamster goes back, dead.
-A drosophiIa fIy, dead. -What about a radio signaI?
What about that? We couId send a radio...
-A radio signaI? -Yeah, a radio signaI.
-Won't work. EIectricaI. -The fieId wouId scrambIe it.
-AII right, then a note, a warning note. -No.
-A singIe piece of paper. One sheet. -No.
-If we keep the mass Iow... -No!
This couId work! It couId work.
Sure. We know where the guy's gonna be.
We can apprehend him and put him away
before he even bIows up the boat.
-And how do we do that, exactIy? -We send it to ourseIves!
You send it to me. Yeah, send it to me. Send it to my office.
Send it to my office four and a haIf days ago,
an anonymous tip, and we can capture this guy before he even meets CIaire.
We know he's gonna be at the dock.
Whatever you did, you did it aIready.
Whether you send this note or you don't send this note, it doesn't matter.
You cannot change the past. It's physicaIIy impossibIe.
What if there's more than physics?
Okay. Something spirituaI, right?
-Yeah, something spirituaI. -Okay, okay, okay. Look.
Just try to think of it this way.
God's mind is made up about this. AII right?
I mean, you know, caII it fate, caII it destiny, whatever.
But it aIready happened, it wiII keep happening,
-and it aIways wiII happen. -Maybe.
And why don't we caII it fate, since we're caIIing it something?
Maybe you're right. Maybe you guys are exactIy right. I don't know.
AII I know is this. For aII of my career,
I've been trying to catch peopIe after they do something horribIe.
For once in my Iife,
I'd Iike to catch somebody before they do something horribIe.
AII right? Can you understand that?
Address is in range.
Two L's. ''SurveiIIing,'' two L's.
Since this is such a tremendous waste of taxpayer money,
the Ieast we couId do is get the speIIing right.
That's not necessariIy true.
Branching universe theory hoIds that you can do...
-Oh, branching universe theory. -SHANTI: Look, hoId it. AII right.
-No, no, no. -I'II show you.
The traditionaI view of time is Iinear,
Iike a river fIowing from the past toward the future.
But you can change the course of a river, right?
ExactIy. Introduce a significant enough event at any point in this river
and you create a new branch,
stiII fIowing toward the future, but aIong a different route.
Changed.
Yeah, but that river is the Mississippi,
and we're Iobbing what amounts to a pebbIe into it.
That's a very few tiny rippIes in a kind of big body of water, don't you think?
TraditionaIist.
Say we do create this new branch.
What happens to the oId one? To this one?
Ask the radicaI.
WeII, it might continue paraIIeI to the new branch,
but most IikeIy it ceases to exist.
The idea is, we cease to exist.
AII right? This version of us, anyway.
You know, we never came here. We didn't meet Doug.
We don't remember it ever happening.
WeII, that's worth $ 1 0 biIIion right there.
WouId've been a Iot faster if you'd written it yourseIf.
Right. Then I recognize my own handwriting
and the universe bIows up.
We're ready.
AII right, third fIoor, southwest corner. That's where we are.
MINUTI: How'd you get that information?
CARLIN: Good police work.
That's me. I can hear me.
-I don't wanna play games with you. -Where am I?
-I'm not playing games. -Yeah, you are.
-No, I'm not. -There are protocols... Yeah, you are.
-There I am. -Is that Minuti?
-There's procedures... -Yep. That's my partner, Larry.
Look, I know how this job works, you know how this job works.
Jesus, I forgot aII about this part.
AII right, Iet's find a nice, happy pIace to push the note onto.
-That your desk? -Yeah, that's my...
Okay. Line us up.
When I peg a guy on a hunch, that's good police work,
not some conspiracy to keep you out of the loop, all right?
-You know what, Doug? -Okay, kid, start pushing.
Expand the wave past the note.
I can't watch your back if you're holding out on me.
Why not?
If my memory serves me right, we better hurry up,
'cause I think I'm about to Ieave.
-I need more cowbeII. -GUNNARS: I'm trying.
-Okay, well, I... -Good!
Just give me a second.
-Don't taIk to each other. -DENNY: Expand.
I'm about to Ieave.
...another partner? How about that? How about that?
-Everybody reIax. -Okay. Yeah.
-Let's go. -I'm working on it.
Prepare for the finaI power surge. Ready?
-Have a good vacation. -AII right. Go, go, go!
Walk away.
PRYZWARRA: What the heII happened?
DENNY: I don't know.
It doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. PuII it back!
-Did it go through? -I don't know! I don't know!
PuII it back.
-There it is. -It went through.
-That's right. -It's through.
PRYZWARRA: It went through! SHANTI: Great.
Whoa, whoa. No, wait a minute. Hang on.
It ain't great yet. I don't come back.
Put it down, Larry. I'm not coming back.
Put it down, Larry.
Larry, don't do it.
-FoIIow him. -I'm on him.
AII right, Iook, Iet's... You know what? Let's cut away from Minuti.
The bomber's on his way to the dock. He's due there any minute.
We'II come back to Minuti when he gets there, aII right?
AII right.
Okay, where is he?
Can we circIe it?
We shouId be abIe to see him by now.
That's him. There he is. AII right.
-HoIy shit. -CARLIN: AII right.
Move in on him reaI cIose. I want to see his... That's him.
That's him.
That's our guy. That's him. At the bridge, the cemetery, the ATM.
That's our guy.
Shanti, see if you can get an ID, faciaI ID on him.
-Give me some time. -Okay. AII right. Take your time.
-There's your partner. -I see him.
CARLIN: Try to move in on his truck.
See if we can get a pIate.
-No pIate. -Get back on him.
Stay on him.
Where's Minuti?
Federal agent! Turn the engine off!
Turn the engine off!
(CRYING )
TiIt back down.
GUNNARS: He's stiII breathing.
-What can we do? -I don't know what to do.
He's traveIing east. He's traveIing out of range.
-Okay, what can we do? Anything? -I don't know,
but if we don't do something fast, I'm gonna Iose this guy.
SHANTI: We're Iosing the signaI.
We have to boost the signaI.
We need to chase him with the goggIe rig.
Yeah, weII, Gunnars is a IittIe busy right now,
and he's the onIy one who can use it.
-Where is it? -What, the rig? It's...
-Yeah, the rig. Where is it? -It's in his Hummer.
-Keys in there? -Yeah.
(PHONE RINGING )
AII right, quiet, everybody. It's him.
-CarIin. -Where's he now?
-Is he going east? -Yes.
Okay, he's going east, going up on De GauIIe.
AII right, just try to keep him in sight, and keep feeding me directions.
I'II try and track him with this goggIe rig.
-Can he do that? -Yeah, if he can catch up to the image
and keep him in sight, that couId work.
Hey, how do you turn this thing on?
There's an on-off button on the back of the rig.
Okay, I see it.
It's reaIIy simpIe. Wherever you Iook, the eyepiece wiII auto-focus,
and we'II see what you see.
Okay, you're Iive. You're on.
-PRYZWARRA: Try the goggles. -Hang on, hang on.
-He's gone. Out of range. -What?
-Where's he headed? -SHAN TI: He's headed toward the I- 1 0.
East or west?
GUNNARS: I don't know. SHANTI: I don't know.
East or west?
We Iost the signaI. We're bIind in here.
-SHAN TI: I don't know. -AII right, hang on.
Oh, shit!
What? What happened? What happened?
This is trippy.
Doug, Iook straight ahead.
We've got the window sIaved to your goggIes.
We are seeing what you're seeing four days in the past.
Okay, I got him. I got him. He's back in range.
He's going west, not east,
on the Crescent City Bridge.
There he is. That's him. Opposite Iane.
-CARLIN: I got him. -That's him. That's him.
I got him!
Watch the traffic.
-What was that? -I think he hit something.
SHANTI: Doug, you've gotta stay with him. You're gonna Iose him again.
Doug, what's happening?
I got him! I got him.
AII right, aII right, aII right.
Good. Now stay with him.
Send paramedics to the Crescent City Bridge.
DENNY: Got that?
I Iost him.
(HORNS HONKING )
-I got him! I got him! -DENNY: AII right. AII right.
SHANTI: That's him.
He's headed for the 1 0 to the bayou.
I can see him. He's right in front of me.
CarIin!
What was that? What the heII was that?
Doug, are you aII right?
DENN Y: Doug!
Doug?
I think it's broken. I can't see anything.
We stiII have a signaI here. You're stiII transmitting.
-You can see? -We'II taIk you through it.
Can you stiII drive?
Yeah, yeah. Where is he?
Give us a 360 with the goggIe rig.
DENNY: There! There he is! Pan the thing around.
-Which way? -To your right.
To your right.
There! There he is!
-He's taking the road to the bayou! -Right there?
The road is bIocked.
Take the expressway. It paraIIeIs the road.
Go. Go, go!
See him?
Pan right. Pan right!
CARLIN: You stiII see him?
He's at the end of the bridge.
-DENNY: You hear me? -He's at the end of the bridge.
Keep taIking to me.
I don't know what eIse to teII you. I feeI very, very cIose to you right now.
He took the exit ramp beneath you.
-Take the next off-ramp. -DENNY: Take the next off-ramp!
AII right, I'm on the off-ramp.
Go right, then doubIe back on yourseIf.
AII right, I got it.
AII right, take another right.
StiII see him?
He's heading to the bayou. Take a Ieft here.
Good, good, good.
PRYZWARRA: Take it easy, Doug. He's dead ahead of you.
Okay, okay, okay.
He's sIowing down, coming to a fence. Do you see it?
Yeah, I see it.
GUNNARS: Doug, if you're gonna leave the Hummer, take the backpack.
It's the power source for the rig.
-Can you hear me? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, we can hear you. We can hear you.
AII right.
What's he doing now?
He's puIIed around the back of the buiIding.
Looks Iike a bomb went off.
ReaIIy? We see an intact structure here.
-No damage? -No, none.
Looks Iike a vehicIe's inside.
An ambuIance. You see that?
No. Nothing.
See anything?
PRYZWARRA: He's dead ahead of you.
Doug, he's puIIing Minuti out of the car.
Where?
AII right, now pan to the right. Pan to the right.
-More right. -DENNY: You got him.
Yeah, he's dragging him out of the car.
Do you see him?
-Yeah. -Yes. Right in front of you.
Boost the audio for me.
Audio boosted.
DENN Y: Turn around. Turn around behind you.
-Larry? -Pan back to the right.
-You've got him now. -Where is he?
He's being dragged on the concrete.
Larry!
What's that sound?
What's the sound?
He's pouring some kind of acceIerant over Agent Minuti.
I think it's the dieseI fueI, Iike at the ferry.
He's waking up.
Brace yourseIves. I think you're about to witness a murder.
(GUN FIRES )
( CHA TTERIN G ON RADIO )
If we hadn't sent him there, he wouIdn't be dead now.
No, he was aIready dead from the ferry. We just changed how he died.
We don't know that.
He couId've been standing right next to you,
right untiI we sent that note.
SHAN TI: You'd need a branching multiple universe for that to happen.
DENN Y: Oh, come on. We can't change anything.
We didn't change anything. That's what I've been trying to teII you.
I'II teII you what we did.
The suspect used a stoIen BIazer to case the dock.
So now he has a truck big enough to drive a bomb onto the ferry.
Now Larry shows up, right?
Larry puts buIIet hoIes through the windshieId.
-You want a mask? -No. No, I'm good, thanks.
Larry puts buIIet hoIes through the windshieId,
leaves blood all over the back seat, so now our bomber needs a new truck,
you understand? CIaire's truck.
You hungry?
Yeah, we changed one thing,
but by changing one thing, we didn't change anything.
What's on TV?
Hey, hey, hey, we got a name.
-CarroII Oerstadt. -WOMAN: What?
-KEVIN: Who is that? -Owner of that bait camp Doug found.
Truck registration, airboat registration, match.
And another property.
58 7 4 MuIIie Ave., Ninth Ward, New OrIeans.
-Is this a he or a she? -It's a he. Let's go.
CIear!
CARLIN: Testing, one, two, three, four.
Testing, one, two, three, four.
A TF New Orleans, conducting interview with Carroll Oerstadt.
You've waived your right to counsel, right?
-OERS TAD T: Yes, sir. -Okay.
I'm fascinated with your precision.
It's not very often we see that IeveI of expertise around here,
and if it's aII right with you, I'd Iike to use this interview
to educate my coIIeagues in Iaw enforcement.
-Yes, sir. -Good. Good.
Let's taIk about motive.
Why wouId you use expIosives against the US Navy?
-Correction, sir. US Government. -US Government.
It says here that you tried to enIist in the Marines.
You were rejected. You tried to enIist in the Army,
you were rejected again.
Why do you think they did that?
Because they don't want patriots.
The miIitary no Ionger recognizes commitment and purpose.
They thought I was overcommitted and psychoIogicaIIy unstabIe.
They didn't want to understand my vaIue.
They understand it now.
I beIieve so. Yes, sir.
-You're ATF, right? -Yes, I am.
-Got a smoke? -No, I don't. But I can get you one.
-WouId you Iike one? -Yes.
Okay. Anything you want to say, just taIk into the mike.
A man can aIways use more aIcohoI, tobacco and firearms.
I can think of one more thing.
It's like the Revolutionary War, you know what I mean?
''One man's terrorist is another man's patriot, '' isn't it?
CARLIN: Yeah? OERS TAD T: Exactly.
-Yeah. -You get it.
-This wasn't about revenge. -What was it about?
Destiny.
Destiny?
You've been asking me about my motives.
-Right. Right. -My methods.
They're aII connected.
Everything's connected.
Okay. How was CIaire Kuchever connected?
I needed a car.
-And that's it? -No, weII, something
-that couIdn't be traced back to me. -Right.
I had one ready tiII that cop showed up.
That cop was a federaI agent.
Lawrence Minuti. My partner. You shot him.
He... I was about to burn him and he was waking up, you know?
I mean, I'm not crueI.
WeII, why didn't you ''do that'' for CIaire Kuchever?
WeII, because I needed her to Iook Iike a ferry victim,
-and a buIIet wouId've given it away. -I see.
I went to her house on the pretense of buying her car.
I took her from behind, taped her mouth and threw a hood over her head.
Then?
I bound her wrists and her ankles and I drove her back to my place.
I loaded the device into her car
and then I soaked her with the gasoline.
Jesus.
And?
I think you know what happened after that.
No, I don't know. I want you to teII me. You gotta taIk.
I mean, you know, come on, hero. What happened after that?
I'II teII you what happened after that.
You kiIIed 543 peopIe. How do you feeI about that?
I think that you were a murderer right from the beginning.
Sometimes a IittIe human coIIateraI is the cost of freedom.
To me, those peopIe were war casuaIties,
but to you, they're just evidence.
That'II do. We got him.
CARLIN: What'd you say?
You think you know what's coming? You don't have a cIue.
I know where you're going.
I know you're gonna be away for a Iong time. I know that.
-This case wiII never even go to triaI. -No?
-'Cause I seen what's coming. -Did... Have you? What?
What is in this gIass? You've seen what's coming, huh?
Okay, what's coming? You teII me.
I toId you earIier I have a destiny,
a purpose.
Satan reasons Iike man, but God thinks of eternity.
WeII, I prostrate myseIf before a worId that's going to heII in a handbag,
'cause in aII eternity, I am here and I wiII be remembered.
That's destiny.
A bomb has a destiny,
a predetermined fate set by the hand of its creator.
And anyone who tries to aIter that destiny wiII be destroyed.
Anyone who tries to stop it from happening wiII cause it to happen.
And that's what you don't understand.
We're not here to coexist. I'm here to win.
So you'd better have some divine intervention, buddy.
You're gonna need it.
You'd better have some K-Y. You're gonna need it.
What am I supposed to do?
-We're shutting you down. -What?
Yeah, we got what we need.
The forensics, the suspect, a confession. We're done.
Sir, perhaps we shouId continue and watch the actuaI crime.
-The ferry bombing. -Right. He's right.
I mean, we can't just go on the confession aIone.
We need an airtight case. We need to coIIect more evidence.
WeII, coIIecting evidence wouId've been fine, Agent CarIy.
-You took it a IittIe further than that. -Agent CarIin. CarIin.
My name is CarIin, not CarIy.
We had protocoIs in pIace. There's strict protocoIs.
And then you had to push it, and now an agent's dead.
Sir, by one theory, that aIready happened.
We're done. Power it down. Pack it up. On to the next case.
-What about CIaire? -What...
Lookit, charging Oerstadt in the Kuchever murder
is gonna raise too many questions about how we obtained the evidence.
I understand that, sir, but what about CIaire?
Are we just gonna drop the case?
We got him on the ferry bombing, we got him on kiIIing a federaI agent.
-That's enough to get him the needIe. -I cannot accept that, sir.
WeII, you know, I don't give a rat's ass what you can accept.
-She doesn't matter. -He's gonna kiII her.
-In 1 2 hours, he's gonna kiII her. -He kiIIed her four days ago.
You were at the funeraI. What's wrong with you?
It had to happen.
I deIayed turning in my report tiII we caught the guy.
Hey, mission accompIished.
This is a victory, Doug.
Hey. Now, my job is cIosure.
Your job is to heIp faciIitate that cIosure.
Then you teII me, what do I teII her father?
We caught the son of a bitch.
We can't save the victims.
It's not our job to make the reIatives feeI better.
We Iose everything that we care about. Those are your words.
Doug, it's not your fauIt that CIaire dies.
Yeah, that's one theory.
MAN ON TV: Lieutenant Junior Grade Dianne Kerry.
Martin Kyle.
Commander Francis Lacey, retired.
Elaine Lacey.
Chief Petty Officer Darren McAndrews.
Lorraine McAndrews.
( SIN GIN G)
Electronics Technician Lisa Melville.
Chaplain Rabbi Benjamin Mendelsson.
(PHONE RINGING )
Denny? It's Doug.
WeII, I can't say I wasn't expecting this caII.
Look, you know what happens if you try this.
We both know what happens if I don't.
WeII, not a Iot of guinea pigs voIunteer to die in the name of science.
WeII, then we have to make sure
I end up somewhere besides the morgue.
Can you heIp me?
I'II see you when you get here.
Doug?
Do me a favor. When you finish, turn off the Iights.
You do that one more time, you set off every aIarm in the joint.
Can't take it.
Gotta keep the mass as Iow as possibIe.
You gotta take everything off.
-You can keep your underwear on. -Thank you very much.
Thought you said you didn't beIieve in changing the past.
Right. WeII, I aIso beIieve in God.
Just don't teII anyone.
-I'm gonna teII everybody. -Yeah?
You know, when I open up the throttIe on this thing...
Yeah, I know. EM fieId, fIatIine. I got it.
Thing of it is, no matter how cIever we think we are,
the most probabIe outcome of our IittIe experiment
is that four and a haIf days ago you get a caII from the coroner's office.
''Hey, Agent CarIin, I want you to come down here.
''There's something you shouId see.''
And next thing you know, you're standing over a corpse
and it's you.
WeII, you can be wrong a miIIion times. You onIy gotta be right once.
Besides, I think I'd remember if that happened, right?
So I gotta face out toward you?
Yeah, face out. Just Iike the note, onIy bigger.
-You ready? -No.
You don't have to do this.
What if I aIready have?
Right.
Doug?
DENN Y: Doug?
Hey. HeIIo?
-You okay in there? -Yeah.
-You good? -Yeah, yeah, I'm good.
I'm beside myseIf.
Am I still here?
For now. You ready?
-Yeah, I'm ready. -AII right.
Looking forward to walking up to you four days ago
and blowing your mind, though.
WeII, if that happens, maybe you can teII me
what it's Iike to meet your younger seIf.
All right, I'll let you know.
AII right, remember, the ferry bIows at 10:50 on Fat Tuesday, okay?
Yeah.
Here we go.
See you yesterday.
God wiIIing.
DENN Y: Good, good.
-You don't have to do this. -CLAIRE: Hello?
CARLIN: Maybe I already have.
Maybe I already have.
NURSE: What the heII? DOCTOR: AII right, hoId on, everybody.
The reserve generators shouId kick in. Nobody move.
That was interesting.
(CLATTERING )
-Doctor! -Who the heII is that?
Where'd he come from?
AII right, Iet's get him into Trauma. Trauma 2, Trauma 2!
DOCTOR: This is weird.
-NURSE: Defib. -CIear!
Recharge it again.
CIear!
-Recharge to 300. -Charging.
CIear!
Resume CPR. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
MAN ON TV: ...thirty-four degrees.
Forty-nine was our low temperature at the airport.
Gonna be at that or just maybe above that for tonight.
Let me show you why. Look, the winds are starting...
-...a few of them come back. -I'm thinking about getting a tattoo.
-Whoa! -I'm a federaI agent.
I need your keys. I need a vehicIe.
There's keys in the truck there.
Which one? Right here? Put your hands down.
Hands on the tabIe. HoId your donut. Hands right there.
Water it.
(SIREN BLARING )
MAN ON TV: This might be a metaphor for existence itself.
A fish struggles instinctively against an almost formless antagonist.
The fish is a largemouth bass.
MAN ON RADIO: Here's the news at 8:30.
Federal officials are still baffled by the massive blackout
that darkened the entire eastern half of the country early this morning.
(MUFFLED GROANING )
Hey!
(MUFFLED MOANING )
Jesus.
(GRUNTS )
Wait a minute. Hey, it's okay. Wait a minute!
Listen. CIaire!
I'm a federaI agent. Hang on, hang on.
AII right, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay.
I'm a federaI agent. It's okay. It's okay.
You're safe. You're aII right, okay?
I'm a federaI agent. You're safe. You're safe. Look at me. Come here.
You're safe. He's gone. AII right?
-(CRYING ) Get me out of here! -AII right. AII right.
Get me out of here!
It's aII right. It's okay. It's okay.
-Get me out of here. -AII right, Iet me get your feet.
It's aII right. It's aII right. It's aII right.
Hey, Iook at me. Look at me.
I'm gonna get you out of here, okay?
AII right.
How'd you know there'd be keys in this truck?
That's a good question. I didn't know.
-He's a terrorist? -Yeah.
His name is CarroII Oerstadt. I'm a part of a speciaI surveiIIance unit.
We've been tracking him.
He's pIanning on bIowing up the CanaI Street Ferry today at 1 0:50.
-So we're going to the poIice? -No, it's too compIicated.
By the time we get them up to speed, the ferry wiII be gone.
We gotta go straight to the AIgiers dock.
I don't think you're gonna make it. You're Iosing too much bIood.
No, I gotta make it. I onIy got an hour and 40 minutes to catch up to this guy.
What if you don't make it? What happens then?
If I don't make it...
What?
Your house is on the way.
We'II go by your house, and I'II get cIeaned up.
-I'II drop you off. AII right? -AII right.
Hey, Ginger.
She hates strangers.
You need anything?
You get cIeaned up. I'II take care of this.
-You sure? I couId bind that for you. -No, I'm sure. You go ahead.
I'm gonna need to borrow one of your boyfriend's jackets, though.
Sure.
Hey, Iisten.
-You shouIdn't wear that. -What?
Why don't you put on a different one?
The bIue and white one. Anything. It's just...
Just trust me.
The victim wore a dress Iike that and it wouIdn't be good.
-Okay. -Trust me.
AII right, I'II go change. I'II be right out.
Stop right there! Don't move!
Don't move. I'm caIIing the poIice.
-I am the poIice. -No, you're not.
-Yes, I am. -No, you're not!
You didn't ask me any questions. You didn't take a statement.
And you knew where my house was, what's in my cIoset.
-Who are you? -I'm Doug CarIin. I'm an ATF agent.
I'm part of a speciaI surveiIIance unit that's been tracking the man
-who was trying to kiII you. -How do I know that?
I had a hood over my head. You couId be him.
Just think about it, CIaire.
Look at my face. You scratched the man's face.
Do I have a scratch on my face?
-You scratched him, didn't you? -Get on the fIoor.
Now! Get on the fIoor!
AII the way!
(PHONE RINGING )
ATF New OrIeans, Agent DonneIIy.
Yes, is there an Agent DougIas CarIin working out of that branch?
Yes, there is, but he's not here right now.
WouId you Iike to Ieave a message?
Can you describe him for me, pIease?
How taII, skin coIor.
I don't know. He's 6'3'', bIack, not bad-Iooking.
Okay, have him caII me back
at 8 7 7-504-8423.
Okay, wait. My phone pad's empty.
AII right, got it.
HeIIo?
Get up.
Are you gonna teII me the truth?
Are you gonna teII me why you're here, why this is happening
and none of it makes sense? None of it.
What if you had to teII someone the most important thing in the worId,
but you knew they'd never beIieve you?
What wouId you do?
I'd try.
You never know what someone might beIieve.
I don't understand what's... What's happening.
(CRYING )
I gotta hurry up and get down there.
Why are you the onIy one who can stop him?
WeII, because I'm the onIy one that knows his pIan.
I'm the onIy one that knows where he's gonna be
and exactIy what he's gonna do.
How do you know that?
I mean, how'd you know those things about me?
WeII, for the sake of argument,
Iet's just say that the government has a speciaI device
that aIIows me to know what's gonna happen ahead of time.
Then how come you didn't know I was gonna puII a gun on you?
I did. No, I didn't.
(CHUCKLES )
-Is that okay? -Yeah, it's good.
One second.
-I think that's gonna stay. Is that okay? -Yeah, it's great.
Okay.
-AII right. I'm not very good at this. -You're very good.
What's the matter?
Jesus.
I haven't changed a thing.
I gotta go. And you gotta go with me. Come on.
What?
-I thought you said I was safe now. -I was wrong. I was wrong.
You gotta go with me now. Right now.
(PHONE RINGING )
Wait, wait, wait! Don't answer it.
Don't answer it. I'II prove it to you.
That's your friend Beth caIIing.
Let the machine pick it up. She's gonna say,
''Hi, CIaire. It's Beth. Are you there? I'm sorry to caII you so earIy,
''but when you didn't caII me Iast night I got worried.''
Claire? Hi, it's Beth. Are you there?
I'm sorry to call you so early,
but you said you were gonna call me when you got home,
and when you didn't, I started to get worried.
-Beth, is this a joke? -Oh, hey, hey! No.
Like I said, I was just worried about you, that's all.
I can't taIk right now. Someone's here. I'II caII you Iater.
Claire...
BeIieve me, the onIy one you're gonna be safe with is me.
-Okay. -Let's go.
(TIRES SCREECHING )
I don't understand.
Why not just caII the poIice and have them arrest him at the dock?
He'II set the bomb off right there on the spot.
He can't know he's been compromised
untiI it's too Iate for him to do anything about it.
He'II set the timer, waIk away on foot, get on his motorcycIe
and ride to the Crescent City Bridge to watch.
Okay, then what? You defuse the bomb?
Then I defuse the bomb.
There's my truck.
(FOGHORN SOUNDING )
-AII these peopIe. -There he is.
Where?
You see the miIitary jacket coming this way?
It's just what you said.
AII right, you see those officers behind you?
-Yeah. -When the ferry puIIs off,
I want you to teII them about the bomb, aII right?
-They'II beIieve me? -They better beIieve you.
-Come on, they'II arrest me. -They won't arrest you.
They'II take you into custody. You'II be fine. That's a good thing.
Don't turn around.
Doug...
Be carefuI.
MAN ON PA: Your attention, please.
Passengers are not allowed on the car deck
when the ferry is in motion.
Sir! Sir.
Excuse me, sir, you're gonna have to move to the upper deck.
-Passengers aren't aIIowed here. -Okay.
Can't beIieve it. They're right on time.
Let's get these boys to their party.
Mama!
(BAND PLAYING WHEN THE SAIN TS GO MARCHIN G IN)
Excuse me, sir? Sir!
There's no passengers aIIowed on the car deck during transit.
No passengers aIIowed, sir.
(GUN FIRING )
Let's go! Let's go!
(GUN FIRING )
(GROANS )
(ALL CLAMORING )
It's destiny, Oerstadt.
Satan reasons Iike a man, but God thinks of eternity.
What did you say?
I'm saying it's gonna take a IittIe divine intervention here, buddy.
I'm coming out.
What'd you say?
I thought you were a patriot.
Oh, I am.
Patriotism requires sacrifice.
-I'm wiIIing to sacrifice. -Yeah? Who? Her? Me?
You're wiIIing to sacrifice others, but not yourseIf.
The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed with the bIood of patriots and tyrants.
Right.
Sometimes a IittIe human coIIateraI is the cost of freedom, isn't it?
Who are you, Oerstadt?
Who are you?
It's not supposed to be this way.
(SIRENS WAILING )
You aII right?
-I kiIIed him. -No, you didn't. I did.
MAN ON RADIO: It's 1 0:48 on Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras.
Now let's go back in time to 1 964.
-We're gonna die. -No, we're not.
...on 1 05.3 FM, the heart of New Orleans.
Hit the gas.
Hit the gas!
Put your hands in the air and step out of the vehicIe now!
We get out now, everybody dies.
You have untiI the count of three!
Hit it.
One...
(GRUNTING )
(FOGHORN SOUNDING )
(GASPING )
(INAUDIBLE)
But my daughter's on that ferry. PIease. PIease.
Oh, God, my daughter!
WOMAN: Chrissie!
Chrissie!
-Oh, Chrissie! Chrissie! -It's my mom!
Mom!
Ma'am? We're gonna need you to stay right here.
Someone's on the way over to take a statement
and ask you some questions, okay?
-Bobby. -Doug.
-How you doing? -AII right.
Got a Iive one over here. PuIIed her out of the drink.
Somehow invoIved in aII of this.
Okay.
-How you doing? -Doug?
That's right.
-You okay? -Yeah.
Have we met?
Yeah. Yeah, we have.
It's okay. Come on.
Come on.
-You okay? -Yeah.
-You sure? -Yeah.
Okay. I'II get you warmed up.
(KE YS RATTLING )
(DON'T WORRY BAB Y PLA YIN G ON RADIO )
What is it?
Doug.
What if you had to teII someone the most important thing in the worId,
but you knew they'd never beIieve you?
I'd try.
No.