Déjà Vu

This film contains some violent scenes.

THUNDER

LAUGHTER

HORN HONKS

SEAGULLS CALLING

STEAM HORN BELLOWS

ENGINE RUMBLES

HORN

Can't believe it. They're right on time.

Let's get these boys to their party.

HORN

Mommy!

BAND PLAY "WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING 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 -

105.3 FM, the heart of New Orleans.

BAND PLAYING

RADIO: # Well, it's been building up inside of me_

# For, oh, I don't know how long... #

HORN BELLOWS

OK. Take it out wide, give the pink some room.

HORN

RADIO: # She says, don't worry, baby

# Don't worry, baby

# Don't worry...

# Don't worry, baby

# Ooh

# I guess I should've kept my mouth shut

# When I start to brag about my car

# Ooh

# But I can't back down now

# Because I pushed the other guys too far

# She makes me come alive

# And makes me want to cry when she says

# Don't worry, baby Don't worry, baby

# Don't worry, baby Everything will turn out all right... #

BEEPING

# Don't worry... #

WOMAN SCREAMS

NO AUDIO

SIRENS APPROACHING

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

My daughter's on that ferry. Please. Please.

Oh, God. My daughter.

HELICOPTER BLADES WHIRRING

CELL PHONE RINGING

RING

RING

RING

RING

RING

RING

RING

HELICOPTER BLADES

Are they on the other side?

SIRENS WAILING

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

TELEPHONE RINGS

ATF-New Orleans, Agent Donnelly.

Listen. Call New Orleans PD.

I want all surveillance from the Algiers Dock.

Then call City Transit. I want the Crescent City Bridge surveillance

westbound between 10:00 and 11:00.

All right. Got it.

Hey.

Seen an ATF agent around here? Yeah.

He went down below.

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 Carlin.

Paul Pryzwarra. FBI.

How you doing?

Where's Minuti? On vacation.

Not any more.

Calling in half the region on this one.

You can reach him?

I tried. He's not picking up his phone.

Well, try harder.

It's important. Obviously.

PAUL: What are you looking for?

Anything that doesn't belong.

You want to give me a spot?

Uh, yeah.

Ampho.

Ammonium nitrate. Water soluble.

Fuel oil would've burned off during the blast.

Between the river and the rain,

if ampho was used the only place you'd find it

would be - Underneath this bridge.

That's right.

TELEPHONES RINGING

MAN: We can't rule out an accident at this point.

It's not officially a crime scene yet.

Here's a thought - why don't we double the perimeter,

so we don't have wall to wall trailers down there?

SECOND MAN: Now, we're gonna need all our manpower for evidence control

and witness processing.

Now, we need to keep it tight until we can determine that it is

a crime investigation. It is a crime investigation.

Got a piece of electric blasting cap

and a strand of what appears to be leg wire.

About a million of those blue particles

washed up on the Algiers side,

probably from a plastic container or barrel.

Ampho? Most likely.

There was post-blast residue under the Crescent City Bridge.

The insulation on the leg wire will inform us

of who the manufacturer of the blasting cap is.

Then we go after the switching mechanism and the bomb's power source.

We probably don't need to wait for the lab

to tell us what we already know:

that this is an explosive and a trigger.

And you are?

Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Doug Carlin. ATF.

Who's in charge? ALL SPEAK AT ONCE

Gentlemen, please. Ed Elkins. I'm in charge.

Oh, good. Good, good. You're in charge, then. OK.

First things first, where's the coffee pot?

Ed? Uh...

Come on. This is a police investigation, right?

We gotta have a coffee pot.

Yeah. You'll find it in the back. Back there?

Yeah. He is in charge. Thank you, gentlemen.

See anything?

Uh, traffic?

Ha. Hit rewind for me.

Hey, did Larry call? Still not answering his cell.

We left another message.

Say, that girl ever get ahold of you?

What girl? Real sexy voice.

Asked if you were talk, dark, and handsome.

I gave her 2 out of 3. 2 out of 3. That's very good.

Hit play. Thank you.

DIALLING PHONE

Hey, Larry, this is Doug. How you doing?

Listen, I know you may be still pissed off at me,

but you need to get your behind down here, all right?

Doug. Doug? Yeah.

Orleans Parish on line one.

It's Sheriff Reed. They pulled a body out of the water,

and they want a profile.

All right. Tell them they don't need a profile.

Just tell 'em to bag it - I'll call them back. OK. Got it.

Put this on a candy wrapper?

That's all I had.

Cuttin' back, huh?

Hold it right there.

Yeah. This is ATF agent Doug Carlin returning your call.

My cell number is 504-555-0130.

What's that?

Looks like a dude on a bike.

Run it forward a little bit.

Stop right there.

What is he doing?

He going to the bathroom?

Ha ha ha!

Run it forward. Run it forward.

What time does it say?

10:47.

That's before the explosion, isn't it?

Right before it.

CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING

MAN: 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 100 feet of muddy water.

There are no shortcuts.

Kevin, where's Doug? You just missed him.

Well, his car's still here. Took the streetcar.

What? The streetcar?

Hey, don't look at me. It's part of his process.

Says it helps him think.

BELL CLANGING

Sheriff Reed?

How you doing? It's Doug Carlin returning your call.

Hey, Doug. I know you got your hands full right now.

Yeah. That's OK. What do you got for me, Bob?

A couple of kids found a woman face down in the waters off Algiers Point.

She was burned over 30% of her body.

Well, you're gonna see a lot of that over the next few weeks.

We just set up BCC. Just have Crime Scene bag it for us.

We've already done that. The body's at the ME's right now.

Crime Scene's already been there?

Yeah. They've been and gone.

Well, exactly what time did this woman wash up on shore?

Mm. Kid called it in at 10:42 A.M.

You mean 11:42, don't you?

No. I mean 10:42. I got the sheet right in front of me.

And I got my reading glasses on.

MAN: Immediately evident is the focal charring of the limbs and torso.

Anterior face, neck, and chest are intact,

though swollen from apparent immersion in water.

Hold her hand for me, will you? There.

There we go.

Each digit of the right hand has been severed

Between the middle and distal phalanges. Thanks.

Angle of shearing indicates a single sharp-force trauma,

possibly caused by shrapnel.

That's too even to be shrapnel trauma.

Posterior charring gives off a strong odour

suggesting peri-mortem immersion in burning fuel.

Diesel.

An accelerant, maybe?

I don't know. If she was that close to the bomb,

she probably wouldn't be laying here now.

What are you doing?

What are you doing?

You got a U.V. gun?

Yeah. On the table behind you.

You see that?

Duct tape. Mm-hmm.

See that stippling, you see that?

Adhesive probably retained some substance against the water.

Yep. CELL PHONE RINGS

RING

Yeah. Go ahead.

I ran down those MPRs for you.

A Claire Kuchever was reported missing this morning.

Supposed to pick up her father from the airport. Pulled a no-show.

OK.

All right, Phil. I want you to do a full autopsy.

Concentrate on time and cause.

Full spread of lab tests, everything.

Let's pretend like the ferry explosion never happened today. OK?

Absolutely.

Claire?

She's beautiful.

Yeah. Very.

BELL CLANGING

MAN: You'll need a photograph for your investigation.

There's plenty in the house,

plenty to choose from.

Um...Mr. Kuchever...

Sorry about this, but...

I'm gonna need you to confirm your daughter's identity.

OK.

Um...now, anything that you can tell me

about your daughter's activities over the weekend

or any time, anything at all will be helpful.

Oh, I don't know.

My flight got in at 8 A.M. this morning,

and she was supposed to pick me up.

When she wasn't there, I thought maybe she just overslept.

So I took a cab and I went straight to her house.

But her and Allen's car was gone, so I thought

maybe she just finally sold it.

Who's Allen?

Her fiance. Or ex-fiance.

They broke up a few months ago.

And where is he now - Allen?

He moved to Montreal.

OK.

She's too good for him, anyway.

I got a sweater that she left

if you want to take it.

No. That's OK.

But if you have keys to her house, I would appreciate it.

KEYS RATTLE

Oh. She, uh... she had a date.

Last night on the phone

she told me that she was gonna meet someone.

She didn't say who.

Her friend Beth set it up.

Beth.

Beth Walsh.

Claire babysits her daughter Abbey sometimes.

OK.

Thank you.

That's good for now.

Um...

Somebody will be in touch.

KUCHEVER: Agent Carlin?

Doug.

I want you to take these.

Well, that's -

Just go through 'em when you get a chance.

It's really not necessary.

Yes, it is.

See, I know how these things go, Agent Carlin,

and I need her to matter to you.

DISTANT SIREN

MEOW

DISTANT SIRENS

BIRDS CHIRPING

BEEPING

COMPUTER VOICE: 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. I love you.

Bye-bye. HANGS UP

COMPUTER: Tuesday. 9:44 A.M.

WOMAN: 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? Oh, hi!

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 -

HANG UP

BEEP

COMPUTER: Tuesday. 9:50 A.M.

DIAL TONE

BEEP

COMPUTER: Tuesday. 10:04 A.M.

KUCHEVER: 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.

BEEP

COMPUTER: Tuesday. 1:18 P.M.

Yeah. This is ATF Agent Doug Carlin returning your call.

My cell number is 504-555-0130.

CHIRPING

DISTANT SIREN

COMPUTER: Tuesday. 1:18 P.M.

Yeah. This is ATF agent Doug Carlin returning your call.

My cell number is 504-555-0130.

The blast wave, initiated here, hit the bulkhead.

And propagated fore and aft along the path of least resistance

until it hits this access hatch.

And that's where it gets really bad.

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 fuel vapour

causing a secondary explosion of far greater magnitude.

PAUL: Essentially, the initial device

turns the whole ferry into a bomb and detonates it.

And so our early guess is that the bomb vehicle was a mini-van or SUV,

possibly red or tan. Make and model?

No. It'd take weeks, maybe months.

I got a partial on the licence plate.

Check all the SUVs and mini-vans that are registered in the state.

Anything recently rented or purchased;

anything tied to a theft or a missing person's report.

Agent McCready? Yeah.

Doug Carlin. ATF.

Oh, yeah. Oklahoma City.

Right. That's right.

This afternoon, I witnessed an autopsy

of a young woman who washed up off the wharf.

Heavy fuel burns, traces of PETN on her face.

PETN - that's the base explosive used by domestic terrorists.

She also lost several fingers in what appeared to be blast damage.

"Appeared"? That's right.

I checked the tide tables against the position of the blast.

For her to have washed up that early and that far upriver,

she would've been killed 2 hours before the ferry exploded.

Before?

POPS SODA CAN OPEN She died before the explosion?

She died before the explosion, yeah.

Her name is Claire Kuchever.

She washed up before the explosion and against the tide.

Do you have a scenario? Yes, I do.

I believe that somebody abducted her in her home,

taped her mouth, bound her wrists,

burned her alive, dumped her in the river

so she would appear to be just another disaster victim.

A disaster that hadn't happened yet.

The PETN tells us that the bomber came

in direct contact with the victim.

You solve her case, you solve this case.

Why this woman?

Good question.

Her SUV is missing.

It's tan and red Bronco. It could've been stolen

to drive the bomb to the ferry.

Oh, one more thing.

The victim called the local ATF office

the morning of the explosion.

Yeah.

We'll look into it.

OK.

All right.

OK.

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?

Uh...those cars were brought here from the Algiers ferry parking lot.

They're the vehicles that belonged to the victims.

I'm sorry.

So he's a former marine. Yes, sir. Local, too.

He was born and bred in New Orleans.

His family still in the area?

No. Nothing really but his job.

You like him?

He's smart.

Yeah. I like him, too.

All right. Then let's go find him.

SIREN BLIPS

POLICE RADIO CHATTER

Oklahoma City.

Yeah.

STEAM HORN BLOWS

PAUL: You and Larry were close?

Yeah.

Yeah. You know, close enough to, um...

get on each other's nerves.

Doug, I have been put in charge of

a newly 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 look at a crime scene exactly one time,

tell us what's missing, tell us what shouldn't be there,

tell us what we can ignore,

and especially what we need to pursue.

Also, you're local. You know the people and you know the area.

And why an ATF guy?

Why not? It's your shot.

You want to find the guy who killed Minuti, don't you?

Yes, I do.

CRANE WHIRRING

WOMAN ON PA, INDISTINCT

I guess you've got some questions.

For me to have questions, first I need to know something.

MAN ON PA, INDISTINCT

COMPUTERS BEEPING

Now I do have some questions.

Don't touch anything. We don't need you yet.

PAUL: Doug, you remember Dr. Alexander Denny.

Where's my audio?

MAN: Uh, compensating for - just a second.

BEEP

Ooh, compensating for a technical blunder by a tech guy -

solid stream, minus 4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds.

and 14 1/2 nanoseconds.

DENNY: OK. Any time you want to jump in here, be my guest.

Me? Yeah.

What are we looking for?

Clues. Suspects. Anything out of the norm.

When was this taken?

4 1/2 days ago. Gunnars, try the guy with the backpack.

Oh, that's tender. I wish I had someone.

OK. Widen out. Let's cruise the car deck for a while,

see what we got.

How can you change the angle on footage taken 4 1/2 days ago?

PAUL: This is a digital recreation.

We're combining all the data we've got into one fluid shot.

Any angle, any view within the target area.

OK. Let's cruise the breezeway, see what we get there.

PAUL: It's a brand-new program; it's called Snow White.

Our primary data comes from 7 orbiting satellites,

but at any given time, as many as 4 are surveilling one area.

It's like having multiple eye witnesses,

each with their own vantage point.

Snow White?

But which one of the 7 dwarfs can explain to me

how you get the audio?

INDISTINCT CHATTER

I don't understand...

why do you got to look at 4 days ago?

Why don't you just fast forward it to the day of the explosion?

We have to wait. It takes 4 1/2 days to render this single fluid shot.

The only thing that matters is that we have exactly one look at any one time.

We can't go back 10 minutes, you know.

Can't look back and see if there was a second gunman.

We can't watch the agent buying 10 pairs of cargo pants in 1983.

But given enough lead time, we can look anywhere within the target area. All right?

It's the "when" that's always constant.

It's always 4 days and 6 hours ago. Always.

You understand? It's like a single trailing moment of now.

In the past.

OK.

So, if you can't move forward or backward in time,

how is it the image keeps speeding up like that?

It's not the image that's moving faster.

It's just our shifting point of view.

The passage of time remains constant.

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 4 days - well, actually, 3 days from now,

since it's after midnight, you'll be able to look back to the day of the explosion,

see who did it, how they did it, and what they did it with.

You got it.

The only thing is you need to tell us where to look,

'cause, you know, we can miss it.

PAUL: Besides, 3 days can be too late.

He could leave the country; he could strike again.

We need to do whatever we can now.

We know he's out there planning this.

We just don't know where to look.

So, Agent Carlin, where do we look?

Claire Kuchever's house.

Address is in range.

All right, match the viewer settings to the signal.

GUNNARS: The signal's solid.

All right. Dazzle me.

TELEPHONE RINGING

What?

See, with Snow White we can track through walls.

Part of the semi-infrared thermal imaging stuff

they're using in Iraq.

CLAIRE: Hello. This is 877 -

PAUL: We triangulate from 4 satellites,

pick up the heat signal and reconstruct.

Basically, we can walk through walls.

Claire Kuchever.

ANSWERING MACHINE BEEPS

DENNY: Did you know her?

We held hands once, but no, I didn't know her.

MAN ON MACHINE: Just checking in, wondering how you're doing.

Montreal's fantastic. Luckily, my boss...

Can you rotate the view, see what she's looking at?

Yeah, yeah.

Why don't you come visit? The city's phenomenal. You're gonna love it.

Claire? Claire. 555-0118.

Somebody got that? Yep.

Claire, are you there?

Listen, uh, 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.

Wait... Can you follow her?

No problem.

CELL PHONE RINGS

Damn. Come on.

RING

What?

It's Stalhuth.

At that house you found, female murder victim - Claire?

Right. What do you got?

Uh, we got some bloody cotton swabs

and gauze strips in the bathroom.

Some blood in the sink trap.

And, oh, hey, Carlin?

When did you completely forget how to investigate a crime scene?

What do you mean?

This place is lousy with your fingerprints. They're all over the place.

Do me a favour. Just describe what you see for me, OK?

Just humour me.

Uh, woman's bedroom. Vanity mirror,

dressing table with makeup, knickknacks.

OK, OK. I get it. Anybody there?

Anybody brushing their teeth?

Uh, no. Just a couple agents,

including Hendrix who's bent over

and I have a fine view of the crack of his ass.

OK. I get the picture. Talk to you later.

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 want to know everything there is to know about this woman.

Shouldn't we be concentrating on the ferry?

Well, yeah, it's likely that our guy cased the ferry first,

but we don't know when, we don't even know what he looks like.

I mean, we could stare him right in the face and not know it's him.

But we will notice a change, even a small change in her life.

TELEPHONE RINGING

Hey, Beth. Claire.

That guy I've been telling you about.

He really wants to meet you.

OK. Tell him I'll meet him Monday night.

Monday. BETH: 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.

Who? Him who?

I don't even know if I can do it Monday. Hang on.

Show me the book.

Monday works.

Damn!

Can we go back? No.

PAUL: There'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 look at something different.

OK. You said you can record, though?

Yes. OK.

Tell me, is there any scientific and forensic insight

likely to be gained by spying on this woman in the shower?

Shanti, we're trying to make sure the woman's clean.

WATER RUNNING

All right. Why don't you, you know,

look around the rest of the bathroom?

Can you do that?

COUGHS

Gunnars?

Yeah.

You back? Sorry.

All right.

Icy hot, band-aids, baby oil.

This woman needs a vice.

What's on the other side of that wall?

Kitchen.

Let's take a look.

CLAIRE: Hello? Hello?

Maybe there's someone out there.

Maybe there was a stalker.

Is someone there?

MEOW

Hey, Ginger.

Hello?

Does she know I'm here?

Does she know we're here?

No. Not possible. Strictly one-way.

You sure?

Mm-hmm.

Hello?

OK. Let's check the perimeter.

GUNNARS: Nobody.

Who's watching her?

We are.

WOMAN ON TV: They will also take up a request

for more money for the agri -

MUTES

God, thank you for blessing me with this food

and with my life.

I know today's gonna be a great day.

Amen.

BIRDS CHIRPING

CLAIRE: Are you singing? You singing a love song?

Huh?

You singing a love song to me, my little...?

What are you doing?

Hi.

Oh.

Yeah. It's been a while.

MAN: Everything God has done will remain forever.

There is nothing to add to it

and nothing to take from it.

God has done this so that men should be...

Her ex didn't show.

Would you?

MAN: ..has already been and what will be

has been before.

WOMAN: # Amazing grace...

God calls forth the past.

# ..sweet the sound

# That saved a wretch... #

Claire loved music.

There's a church near our house,

and gospel fills the neighbourhood.

When she was little, Claire saw a jazz funeral procession.

She asked me that day, "Why do they always wait

"until the end to play the good music?"

# ..now I see... #

Claire, honey, the music's playing for you now.

And forever.

# ..my heart to love

# Was grace that made me... #

INDISTINCT CHATTER

Were there 4 limo drivers or 5?

4 limos. Must have been 4 drivers, right?

You would say yeah.

Address is in range.

Palace restaurant.

They got good food there.

CLAIRE: I'm so sorry for the wait, ma'am.

Your table's gonna be ready in a few minutes.

All right? And it should be a few more minutes...

WOMAN SINGING CELL PHONE RINGING

Hold on. Hang on.

Hello. Hello?

MAN ON PHONE: Hey. Are you the lady with the Bronco for sale?

That's him. How do you know?

That's him.

Call up the phone list,

that's see if his number can be tracked.

Yes, that's me. Just a second.

Keep that tape running, too.

I'm gonna want a recording of this conversation

for voice analysis.

I'm here. Can you hear me?

MAN ON PHONE: 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 tell him.

I'm at 827 King Oak in the French Quarter.

Need directions? Now he knows where she lives.

No, no. I'll find you.

Is tomorrow night good?

Actually, I - tomorrow night is not good.

Tomorrow? DOUG: Mm-hmm.

Wants to wait till the last possible moment to steal her car,

and then it's too late to report it.

How does Tuesday sound?

Got it. 504-555-0147.

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...

A date means somebody's gonna be expecting her

and will miss her if she doesn't show up.

That could ruin his plans.

Shanti, I want to see this guy.

No good. It's an outdoor phone booth.

3 miles out of range.

CLAIRE: I hope to hear from you.

Can we get someone out there with a goggle reading?

What's that do, extend the range?

Yeah. It's immediate line of sight.

But we can use it to gather data outside the target area.

Provided there's any data to gather.

How long is this guy gonna be at the phone booth?

Not long.

Have a good night.

Thanks.

Bye.

Story of my life.

Story of my life, too. All right.

Now we heard the voice of our bomber.

Now we're gonna go after him the old-fashioned way.

Can we get video surveillance on that phone booth?

We can access all surveillance

available to any government agency.

OK. This is from the ATM camera across the street.

All right. Let's fast forward

to the exact time of his phone call with Claire.

Where are we supposed to be looking?

Behind the guy on the left.

Can you enhance it, Gunnars?

Not enough for an I.D.

Wait. Go back. Can you rewind it just a little bit?

Stop. What is that on the ground?

Looks like a camcorder bag, maybe.

We have facial recognition software?

Yeah.

Let's use it on the bag.

Cross-match it to all the bags on the south side of the city

in the 48 hours leading up to the explosion, all right?

GUNNARS: Don't think it's ever been used this way.

Yeah. That's kind of a simple image to go for a match.

We got nowhere else to go.

GUNNARS: Look, same bag.

Bingo.

OK. Freeze it.

Looks like the same guy, too. Where is this?

Security camera at the Algiers ferry dock.

OK. When is this?

2 nights before the explosion. 7 hours from now.

2 nights before the explosion is 7 hours from now?

7 hours from now we will be able

to access this point in our time window. Gotcha.

Kinda creepy seeing that lady's life go down in flames.

Yep.

Makes you appreciate life.

I suggest you go home and jump on whoever you got.

That's what I'm gonna do.

Nobody home.

How'd you let that happen?

Everything you have you lose, right?

Mother and father? Gone. Good looks? 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 still lose it, right?

Well, we're gonna grab onto this guy in a couple of hours.

We're gonna nail this son of a bitch.

Mm.

What's wrong?

No matter what, we still lose her.

Right?

WOMAN ON TV: ..for a link to the FEMA website.

MAN ON TV: 3 helicopters have served as emergency...

ABBEY: Oh, no. CLAIRE: What is it?

Mom asked me to say a prayer for David this morning,

but I forgot. OK.

Mom is gonna be so mad at me.

She's not gonna be mad at you. Come on.

So let's say one now, all right?

It's too late.

It's never too late, sweetie.

We'll just pray that he had a good day, all right?

How about this?

You pray for David. I'll pay for my mom, OK?

OK. OK. All right.

GUNNARS: What's going on?

PAUL: Gunnars? It's rebooting.

ALL CHATTERING AT ONCE

PAUL: Shanti, are we back online?

SHANTI: Something broached the field.

What broached the field?

That broached the field right there.

That broached the field right there.

That's what broached the field.

Now you want to tell me what the hell this thing is?

It's not surveillance, Paul.

There's not electronic thermal imaging.

You guys have figured out a way to look into the past.

Yes or no? No.

You're lying. You're lying and you know it.

I told you everything I can.

She saw it, Paul! I pointed this thing at her just now,

and she responded to it from 4 1/2 days ago!

Explain that to me!

Somebody explain it.

DENNY: Hit it, Shanti.

For 3 years, Cambridge has been working for national reconnaissance

on an R.D. grant. OK.

We were attempting to use concentrated bursts of energy to enhance

the sensitivity of optical telescopes.

In the process, we had a breakthrough:

given enough energy, we could warp the very fabric of space.

I said explain it to me, not talk science.

Look, I'll tell you what - they found a way to fold -

Why don't you guys just keep talking?

I'll just sit here until you figure out

what it is you really want to tell me.

They found a way to fold space back onto itself.

All right, look...

We're used to viewing space as flat, right,

like this piece of paper.

to see something from a distance, light has

always had to travel the long way across the flat space in between.

But given when I was trying to explain, we can fold the space,

bring the target closer to us, create what's known as an Einstein-Rosen bridge,

otherwise known as a worm hole,

suspend it via gravitational field.

That's what we're looking at.

That's it. What's on the other end of the bridge?

Claire's house.

Wow.

SHANTI: Basically, we're folding space in a higher dimension

to create an instantaneous link

between 2 distant points.

Instantaneous? That's what we hoped for,

and that's what we expected, but the electrical force -

we used huge amounts of energy to create this bridge.

Oh. All right. How huge?

You remember that little blackout we had a few years back?

New York blamed Canada, Canada blamed Michigan.

Half the northeast. You're saying you guys...?

50 million homes. Right.

My bad.

Well, I still say we blame Canada, but -

OK. So why can't I see this bridge?

It's not visible to the human eye.

I mean, it's real, though.

Just as real and just as solid as a cell phone signal on a radio wave.

Right. Well, I don't know how a cell phone works.

I just know how to use it.

So how do we use this?

We can look back 4 1/2 days.

And what? We can look anywhere?

Limited radius. Right, right, right.

Looking into the past.

PAUL: In a sense, we're always looking

in the past - even light reflected from yourself in the mirror

takes some time to reflect back.

Let me get this straight.

You're trying to tell me that on the other side

of this bridge is the actual past? Yes.

Yeah. But look, look. We created this thing

by pure accident, all right?

This space in time, this time window

is a complete fluke, all right?

And everybody is terrified of screwing with it

for fear of losing it or suffering the consequences of God-knows-what,

which is why it can only be used as a retroactive tool...

Let me ask you something.

Is she alive or is she dead?

You went to her funeral, Doug.

I know that, but I think the question still applies.

Is she alive or is she dead?

All right, life, like time and space,

is not merely a local phenomenon.

All right!

Am I asking a hard question?

Looks like I picked a bad week to stop snorting hash.

All right, I'll tell you what.

I'll speak slow 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 has not temporarily transitioned

to another state of entropy. It's dead!

Right? Now, is she alive or is she dead?

She's alive. All right.

Now we're getting somewhere. All right.

Now, you said light could go back. What else?

Nothing. Something else could be sent back.

Come on, Paul. Something. What?

A body? A human being? No.

Not a person. Not alive anyway.

Why not?

Because you can't beat the physics.

The electromagnetic field. Look, you transition across what's known as

the Wheeler boundary, all right?

An E.M. pulse annihilates all electrical activity.

That's your heartbeat, that's brainwaves, that's everything.

So, what?

You haven't tried a person?

All right. Let's just say that we've done enough tests to know

that it's not even possible.

It's not even theoretically possible.

Like the hamster goes back dead, a drosophila fly - dead.

What about a radio signal? What about that?

A radio signal? Yeah. A radio signal!

The field would scramble it. Won't work.

All right, then a note, a warning note,

a single piece of paper, one sheet.

No!

If we keep the mass low. No!

This could work! It could work!

Sure, we know where the guy's gonna be.

We can apprehend him and put him away

before he even blows up the ferry.

And how do we do that exactly?

We send it to ourselves! We send it to me.

Yeah. Send it to me. Send it to my office.

Send it to my office 4 1/2 days ago.

An anonymous tip, and we can capture this guy

before he even meets Claire.

We know he's gonna be at the dock.

Whatever you did, you did it already,

whether you send this note or you don't send this note,

it doesn't matter.

You cannot change the past.

It's physically impossible.

What if there's more than physics?

OK. Something spiritual. Yes.

Something spiritual.

OK, OK, OK. Look, just try to think of it this way:

God's mind is made up about this, all right.

I mean, you know, call it fate, call it destiny, whatever.

But it already happened, it will keep happening,

and it always will happen.

Maybe. And why don't we call it fate,

since we're calling it something?

Maybe you're right. Maybe you guys are exactly right.

I don't know. All I know is this -

For all of my career, I've been trying to catch people

after they do something horrible.

For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody

before they do something horrible, all right?

Can you understand that?

Address is in range.

2 Ls - "surveilling". 2 Ls.

DENNY LAUGHS

Since this is such a tremendous waste of taxpayer money,

the least we could do is get the spelling right.

SHANTI: That's not necessarily true.

Branch universe theory holds -

Oh, branching universe. Oh, no, no.

I'll show you.

The traditional view of time is linear like a river,

going from the past toward the future.

But you can change the course of a river, right?

Exactly. Introduce a significant enough event at any point

in this river, and you create a new branch,

still flowing toward the future, but along a different route.

Changed.

Yeah. But that river is the Mississippi,

and we're lobbing what amounts to a pebble into it.

That's a very few tiny ripples

in a kind of big body of water.

Don't ya think? Traditionalist.

Say we do create this new branch, what happens to the old one,

to this one?

Ask the radical.

Well, it might continue parallel to the new branch,

but most likely it ceases to exist.

The idea is we cease to exist.

All right. This version of us, anyway.

Um...we never came here, we didn't meet Doug.

We don't remember it ever happening.

Well, that's worth 10 billion right there.

PAUL: Would've been a lot faster if you'd written it yourself.

DOUG: Right. And I recognize my own handwriting

and the universe blows up.

SHANTI: We're ready.

All right. Third floor, southwest corner.

That's where we are.

MAN: How'd you get that information?

DOUG: A police wire.

That's me. I can hear me.

I don't want to play games with you.

Where am I? I'm not playing games.

Yeah. You are. There are protocols. Yeah, you are.

There I am.

Is that Minuti?

Yep. That's my partner Larry.

Jeez, I forgot all about this part.

All right. Let's find a nice, happy place to push the note onto.

That your desk? Uh, yeah. That's -

OK. Line us up.

DOUG ON SCREEN: When I peg a guy on a hunch,

that's good police work, not some conspiracy

to keep you out of the loop.

MINUTI: You know what, Doug?

OK, kids, start pushing.

Span the wave. Pass the note.

DOUG: If my memory serves me right,

we'd better hurry up, 'cause I think I'm about to leave.

I need more cow bell!

GUNNARS: Trying.

Just give me a second. Good!

Don't talk each other. Just scan.

I'm about to leave.

MINUTI: You find yourself another partner, how about that?

DENNY: Everybody relax.

Let's go. Let's go. I'm working on it.

Prepare for the final power burst right...

Have a good vacation!

All right. Go, go, go!

MINUTI: Don't walk away!

GUNNARS: What the hell happened?

DENNY: I don't know.

It doesn't matter. Pull it back.

Did it go through? I don't know!

Pull it back!

There it is.

It went through. That's right.

GUNNARS: It's through! It went through!

SHANTI: Great!

Now, 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.

Follow him. I'm on him.

All right, look. Let's, um...

Um, you know what? Let's cut away from him.

The bomber's on his way to the dock. He's due there any minute.

We'll come back to Minuti when he gets there.

All right.

All right.

OK. Where is he?

Can we, uh, circle it?

Should be able to see it by now.

That's him. There he is. All right.

Holy... Right.

Move in on him real close.

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 I.D., a facial I.D. on him.

Give me some time. OK.

All right. Take your time.

COMPUTER BEEPS

There's your partner.

I see him.

Try to move in on his truck, see if we can get a plate.

Ooh, a plate.

Get back on him.

Stay on him.

Where's Minuti?

Federal agent! Turn the engine off!

Turn the engine off!

SOBBING

Tilt back down.

DENNY: Yeah, he's still breathing.

TYRES SQUEALING

What can we do?

I don't know what to do.

He's travelling east. He's travelling out of range.

OK, what can we do? Anything?

I don't know, but if we don't do something fast,

I'm gonna lose this guy.

SHANTI: We're losing the signal.

We have to boost the signal.

We need to chase him with the goggle rig.

Yeah, well, Gunnars is a little busy right now,

And he's the only 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.

SPEED-DIALLING

TELEPHONE RINGING All right, quiet, everybody. It's him.

Carlin?

Where is he now?

Is he going east?

Yes. OK.

He's going east going up on Degaulle.

All right. Just try to keep him in sight and keep feeding me directions.

I'll try and track him with this, uh, goggle rig.

Can he do that? DENNY: Yeah, if he can catch up

to the image and then keep him in sight, that can work.

Hey, how do you turn this thing on?

There's an on/off button on the back of the rig.

OK, I see it.

It's really simple. Wherever you look,

the eyepiece will auto-focus and we'll see what you see.

OK, you're live. You're on.

Try the goggles. Hang on, hang on.

He's gone. Out of range.

What?

Where's he headed?

SHANTI: He's headed toward the I-10.

East or west?

I don't - I don't know.

East or west?

We've lost the signal. We're blind in here.

SHANTI: I don't know. All right. Hang on.

Oh, shit!

What? What happened? What happened?

Heh! Wow, this is trippy.

Doug, look straight ahead. We've got the window slave to your goggles.

We are seeing what you're seeing 4 days in the past.

SHANTI: OK, 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 lane.

CARLIN: I got him. That's him.

I got him!

Watch the traffic.

What was that?

I think he hit something.

SHANTI: Doug, you've got to stay with him. You're gonna lose him again.

Doug, what's happening?

HORNS HONKING

I got him. I got him.

All right, all right, all right.

Good. Now stay with him.

Send paramedics to the Crescent City Bridge.

Got that?

I lost him.

CARLIN: I got him! I got him!

DENNY: All right, all right. SHANTI: That's him.

He's headed for the 10 to the bayou.

I can see him. He's right in front of me.

HONK

Carlin!

DENNY: What was that? What was that?

Doug, are you all right?

Ow.

DENNY: Doug.

Doug?

Think it's broken. I can't see anything.

DENNY: We still have a signal here. You're still transmitting.

You can see?

We'll talk you through it.

Can you still drive?

Yeah, yeah. Where is he?

Give us a 360 with the goggle rig.

There! There he is!

Pan the thing around.

Which way? DENNY: To your right.

To your right.

There. There he is.

He's taking the road to the bayou.

Right there?

The road is blocked.

Take the expressway. It parallels the road.

PAUL: Go, go, go.

See him?

Pan right, pan right.

CARLIN: Do you still see him?

He's at the end of the bridge.

You hear me? He's at the end of the bridge.

Keep talking to me.

I don't know what else to tell you.

I feel very, very close to you right now.

SHANTI: He took the exit ramp beneath you.

Take the next off ramp!

DENNY: Take the next off ramp!

All right, I'm on the off ramp!

Go right, then double back on yourself.

All right, I got it!

All right, take another right.

Still see him?

He's heading to the bayou. Take a left here.

Good, good, good, good.

PAUL: Take it easy, Doug. He's dead ahead of you.

OK, OK, OK.

He's slowing 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 - power source for the rig.

Can you hear me?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

GUNNARS: Yeah, we can hear you.

All right.

What's he doing now?

PAUL: Pulled around the back of the building.

Looks like a bomb went off.

DENNY: Really? We -

We see an intact structure here.

No damage?

No, none.

Looks like a vehicle's inside.

An ambulance. You see that?

No, nothing.

See anything?

PAUL: He's dead ahead of you.

Doug, he's pulling Minuti out of the car.

Where?

All right. Now pan to the right.

Pan to the right.

More right. 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.

Turn around.

Turn around behind you.

Larry?

Head back to the right.

You've got him now. CARLIN: Where is he?

He's being dragged on the concrete.

Larry? ECHOING

SLOSHING

What's that sound?

CARLIN: What's the sound?!

PAUL: He's pouring some kind of...

accelerant over Agent Minuti.

I think it's the diesel fuel like at the ferry.

SOBBING: He's waking up.

Brace yourselves. I think you're about to witness a murder.

SIRENS FADING

POLICE RADIOS

GUNNARS: If we hadn't sent him there, he wouldn't be dead now.

No, he was already dead from the ferry. We just changed how he died.

We don't know that. He could have been standing

right next to you right until we sent that note.

SHANTI: He'd need a branching multiple universe for that to happen.

DENNY: Oh, come on. We can't change anything.

We didn't change anything.

That's what I've been trying to tell you.

I'll tell you what we did.

The suspect used a stolen blazer 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 bullet holes through the windshield -

You want a mask?

No, no. I'm good. Thanks.

Larry puts bullet holes through the windshield,

leaves blood all over the back seat,

so now our bomber needs a new truck,

you understand? Claire's truck.

You hungry?

Now we changed one thing, but by changing one thing,

we didn't change anything.

What's on TV?

Ah.

DISTANT POLICE SIREN

EQUIPMENT BEEPING

Hey, hey, hey, we got a name.

Carroll Oerstadt.

WOMAN: What? STALHUTH: Who is that?

Owner of that bait camp Doug found.

Truck registration, air boat registration - match.

And another property -

5874 Mullie Ave., Ninth Ward, New Orleans.

Is this a he or she?

It's a he. Let's go.

BRAKES SCREECH, SIRENS FADE

Clear!

CARLIN: Testing, 1, 2, 3, 4.

MAN ON RADIO: Testing, 1, 2, 3, 4.

ATF-New Orleans,

conducting interview with Carroll Oerstadt.

You waive your right to counsel, right?

OERSTADT: Yes, sir.

I'm fascinated with your precision.

CARLIN: It's not very often

we see that level of expertise around here.

And if it's all right with you,

I'd like to use this interview

to educate my colleagues in law enforcement.

Yes, sir.

Good, good.

Let's talk about motive.

Why would you use explosives against the U.S. Navy?

Correction, sir.

U.S. Government.

U.S. Government.

Says here that you tried to enlist in the marines.

You were rejected, and you tried to enlist in the army.

You were rejected again.

Why do you think they did that?

Because they don't want patriots.

The military no longer recognizes commitment and purpose.

They thought I was overcommitted

and psychologically unstable.

They didn't want to understand my value.

They understand it now.

I believe so.

Yes, sir.

You're ATF, right?

Yes, I am.

Got a smoke?

No, I don't, but I can get you one. Would you like one?

Yes. OK.

Anything you want to say, just talk into the mic.

A man can always use more alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.

I can think of one more thing.

CARLIN, OVER INTERCOM: Like the Revolutionary War, you know what I mean?

One man's terrorist is another man's patriot, isn't it?