[insects trilling]
[Larry over radio] Something's not right.
[Juniper] We don't know that.
It doesn't stay open much longer.
They can still make it.
I don't know why they bother to give us ETAs.
It's them.
I'm not getting a signal.
[Juniper] No, the Watch.
What?
No, no, that's...
You need to get out of there.
- Wait. - I said get out of there. Abort.
It's okay, the STF are here.
They made it out of 1988.
Juniper, don't do anything stupid.
[distant energy blasts]
What's happening?
Juniper?
Juniper!
Oh, no.
[rumbling]
Oh, sh...
Um...
Okay. [takes deep breath]
Your name is Larry Radakowski.
You were born on March 12, 1978.
You are a member of the STF Underground.
Your mission is to protect the asset.
The asset lives in father's office.
If you're listening to this,
it's because they have stolen your memory.
This is your testimony.
Today's date is June 23, 2019.
[rumbling]
Blue tongues don't lie.
Shit.
[rumbling]
♪ ♪
[gun clicks]
[muffled chatter inside]
[knocking]
[lock clicks]
[Juniper] I've been expecting you.
Thank, God. What happened? Where are they?
I'm sorry.
Where's-where's my food?
Aren't you from Uber Eats?
No. Mm-mm.
No. No.
Oh, no. No, I-I'm sorry.
I just, I-I need you to listen to something, okay?
I'm gonna put my hand in my pocket.
I'm gonna take out a tape recorder, okay? It's okay.
I just need you to focus, all right?
[tape recorder clicks]
[Juniper on recorder] Your name is Juniper Plimpton.
You were born on October 13, 1978.
You are a member of the STF Underground...
- Your mission is... - Juniper... - Why would I say that?
- That's not right. - Juniper, listen to it. You recorded this.
- Your memory... - No, that's not me.
Who are you?
You know me, Juniper.
I'm important to you.
[thunder rumbling]
I've been expecting you.
Where's my food?
I don't have your food.
Well, then... you-you shouldn't be here.
Yeah, you're right.
[door creaks]
♪ ♪
[takes deep breath]
[Juniper] If you are listening to this,
it's because they have stolen your memory.
This is your testimony.
Today is June 23, 2019.
Blue tongues don't lie.
[recording ends]
Fuck! Fuck!
[sighs]
[exhales, coughs]
Oh, oh.
[coughs]
[pager beeping]
♪ ♪
[panting softly]
Ah, for fuck's sake.
Stop it, already.
Okay, okay.
We can do this, we can do this.
Emotionally, I'm gonna...
Where are you, you pieces of shit?
Come on.
♪ ♪
How could she have gotten so far ahead of us?
We shouldn't have let her go alone in the first place.
[KJ] Maybe it's just me, but it didn't seem
like she was asking our permission.
[tires screeching]
Will you please get in the car?
- Thank God. - [whispering] Not this again.
How did you find us?
This is Stony Stream, not Manhattan.
Hey, I'm sorry, okay?
Oh, my God, you have it, and you turned it on.
How did you turn it on? Did you say anything to it?
I-I don't think so, except for maybe, you know,
"holy shit," when I saw "System Armed"
- on the screen in front of my face. - [Tiff] What?
Where? What does it say?
- It's just letters and numbers. - Does it say how to get us home?
You need to tell me exactly what that screen is saying.
W-Wait a minute, wait a minute, weren't there four of you?
- Uh, Mac left. - [adult Erin] She did, she did what?
[Tiff] It's fine. It's okay.
- We know where she is. - Where...
[Tiff] We think.
I-I thought...
[car doors shut]
Okay, then.
[Tiff] Hurry up!
[seatbelt clicks]
[♪ Danzig: "Mother"]
♪ Mother...
[nurse] Can I help you?
What?
Can I help you?
Oh, no, I'm good.
I'm just waiting for my... [a la Danzig] brother.
[indistinct voice over P.A.]
- [coins clattering] - [buttons beeping
[food falls]
[vending machine door swings open]
[vending machine door swings shut]
[indistinct voice over P.A.]
[elevator bell dings]
[coughing]
[Mac thumps fist against vending machine]
You were looking for me?
Holy shit.
You got old.
And you're an actual doctor.
How the fuck did that happen?
Hey.
Asswipe.
It's me.
[elevator bell dings]
Look, I know it all sounds insane.
I wouldn't believe it either if I hadn't lived through it.
[laughs]
- But I got to tell you... - [crunching]
...you becoming a doctor
is almost as hard to believe.
If you turned out this good,
then I must be out there killing it.
[laughs]
[gulping water]
Jesus, you look like Dad.
Grandpa, even.
How is Dad?
And Alice? Are they still together?
What about you?
Are you, like, married with kids and shit?
You some kind of playboy
with, like, nine hotties at once?
[crunching]
What?
My sister is dead.
She died of cerebral lymphoma when she was 16.
Who are you?
Who put you up to this?
What did you say?
[Dylan] My sister has been dead for 27 years.
I don't know what kind of sick joke this is, but whoever...
[Donna] Dr. Coyle,
I'm Donna Metcalfe.
I'm the social worker here.
Just want to ask you some questions.
You're obviously a very troubled kid.
I hope you get the help you need.
Are you serious?
- This is what you fucking think? - [Donna] Hey.
- Fuck you, Dylan. - All right, now,
there'll be no more of that.
Now let's go.
[chair scrapes]
[door opens]
[door closes]
[Walkman opens]
[sharp inhale]
♪ ♪
[Donna] Okay, great.
Date of birth?
[Mac] July 5th, 1976.
[Donna] So, you're 43?
If you say so.
You look good for your age.
I ride my bike,
and I smoke a lot.
Where you from?
[Mac] Nineteen eighty-eight. I'm a time traveler.
It gets even better, though.
I'm actually a dead time traveler.
So, actually, technically, I'm a ghost.
Turns out, I kicked the bucket at sweet 16,
which is four years from now, so
I'm not dead yet, as you can see.
Are you on drugs?
I'm extremely concerned.
I mean, she's a runaway with delusional tendencies,
- and she's really... - She's my kid, okay?
What?
[sighs]
I took a DNA sample from the glass she was drinking from,
and it matched up.
I'm...
I need you to get rid of her file.
I don't get rid of files.
[scoffs] I have a wife,
a family, I...
I want to handle this as quietly as possible.
[scoffs]
Please.
[exhales]
Hang on, hang on.
[lock clicks]
[car door opens]
[sighs]
[car door closes]
[sniffs] You want a...
you want your seat cooler on?
I'm okay.
So...
how long was I sick for?
A while.
[sighs] I mean, you...
you weren't really sick that long.
How long was I really sick for?
Too long.
And for the record,
you were brave as fuck.
[inhales]
[exhales]
[sniffles] You want to know how I ended up being a doctor?
It's because I knew you wanted better for me.
It's why I got my shit together.
That doesn't sound like me.
You don't know who you're about to become.
That's not gonna work.
What kind of cheap-ass car doesn't have a tape deck?
Hey.
Play Danzig.
[♪ Danzig: "Mother"]
This is mine, by the way.
I feel like I told you not to take this thing
every morning for three years.
- I told you I'd bring it back. - [Dylan laughs]
♪ Mother...
What the fuck is happening right now?
[laughs]
♪ Tell your children not to hear my words...
[Dylan] Hey.
Louder.
Much louder.
♪ Mother...
♪ Can you keep them in the dark for life...
[Dylan] Buckle up.
This is gonna get...
intense.
♪ Oh, mother...
Seriously, buckle up.
♪ Father ♪
♪ Not about to see your light ♪
♪ But if you want to find hell with me ♪
♪ I can show you what it's like ♪
♪ Till you're bleeding ♪
♪ Not about to see your light ♪
♪ And if you want to find hell with me ♪
♪ I can show you what it's ♪♪
[engine shuts off]
- [♪ Moonbeau: "In Your Lifetime"] - ♪ Just what to do ♪
♪ All your...
[sighs]
♪ Your friends ♪
♪ They've all gone dark on you ♪
♪ I will always love...
Um...
So, I'm sorry about what happened back at the house.
- I didn't mean... - Yeah, no, it-it's fine, it's fine.
Uh, let-let's just chalk it up to all of us being,
you know, um...
stressed. [chuckles]
Okay? Uh...
Gonna go see if I can, uh,
track her brother down.
- Stay in here, okay? - [car chiming]
No taking off again.
[car door closes]
[song continues playing softly]
Excuse me. Excuse me.
- I wonder if you can help me? - Oh, sorry, I don't have any cash on me. I...
- [grunting] - [Taser buzzes]
Shit! Guys!
- Look! Look! - What? What's happening?
[KJ] Oh, my, oh, my God.
- Okay, okay. Move. - Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- He's kidnapping her. - [KJ] What?
- Oh, my God. - We got to go. Go! Move!
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
- [wipers squeaking] - [KJ] What the fuck?
That's not gonna start the car, Tiff. What are you doing?
- I'm trying to turn them off, okay? - [Erin] Just drive, Tiffany!
- Jesus fucking Christ! - I'm going!
- [car engine starts] - [KJ] Oh, my God.
[Erin] Push in the gas pedal. Why are we just sitting here?
- Oh, my God, you guys! - Where are we going?
- [Tiff] I got it. I got it! - [Erin] Just follow him, okay?
[tires screech]
- Go faster! - I'm practically standing on the gas pedal.
What do you want from me?
- [KJ] Push him off the fucking road. - How?
Why are you driving so slow?
I can't even catch up to him, KJ!
[KJ] Where's he taking her?
What does he want from her?
Please, just don't lose him, whatever you do.
He's turning, he's turning, Tiffany, he's turning.
[Tiff] I can see that.
Shit. I-I don't like this.
[Erin] Where the hell is he taking her?
This is where we go to get murdered.
- Tiff, no. No one is getting murdered. - Please don't say that.
No one is getting murdered, Erin,
because there is one of him and three of us.
Goddamn it, please let there be four of us.
Oh, what the fuck? What the fuck? Who are you?
Who the fuck is following us?
What? What? I don't know.
- What, who... - [Larry] They looks like kids.
- Who are they? - I don't know. Who are you?
- You're lying. What, are they using child soldiers now? - I don't know.
[Larry] Where are Heck and Naldo?
What? I-I don't know what that means.
[Larry] Don't fuck with me, lady.
What happened to Heck and Naldo?
I swear to God, I don't know what those words mean.
Now, please, please tell me where
you're taking me. Just let me out.
- You're-you're-you're... - [Larry] Shut up.
[adult Erin yells]
[engine revving]
[beeps]
Jesus. Ow.
[panting]
You guys okay?
[panting]
Shit. Go! Go! Run!
- [Larry] Stop. - [gun fires]
[whimpers]
[panting]
Keep quiet.
[all] No! No! No!
- Open the door! - Let us out of here!
[Larry] Back up.
I said stay quiet,
and we'll talk in the morning, okay?
- [door shuts] - [lock clacks]
[Dylan] You don't remember meeting her?
We were in Cleveland for that conference.
I-I think you were there.
Hole-in-the-wall Irish place downtown? Maybe you weren't.
It's my father's side of the family.
My father's mother,
- so the O'Hallerans, really. - Hm.
Uh, her mom is my cousin Penny.
Same great-grandfather.
Anyway, uh, Penny,
not unlike a lot of the O'Hallerans
and a lot of the Coyles, for that matter,
has-has always struggled with,
you know...
- What? - Um, various substances.
And she showed up tonight out of the blue
and told me she was checking herself
into rehab.
That takes a lot of courage.
It does. It does. I'm really proud of her.
And, uh, and that's why I wanted to be as supportive
as I possibly could be.
And since we have the extra room,
I knew that you wouldn't want...
Kimberly to end up staying with strangers when she could be
staying with us.
[Jennifer] Of course she should stay with us.
She's family.
It-it won't be for very long,
just while Penny's inpatient.
You must be exhausted, Kimberly.
Let's get you settled for bed.
Yeah, you know, my friends call me Jo.
It's my middle name. I like it a lot better.
I never met a Kimberly that I didn't want to beat up. [laughs]
All right, then... Jo.
Let's find you some pj's.
[birds singing]
[KJ] Put the... put it under the window.
[Tiff] I'm trying. Stop.
- And pull down. - Shh.
[Tiff] Don't tell me to "shh."
Pull it down, don't push up.
You're doing the wrong thing.
[indistinct whispering]
[KJ] I keep trying. Can't get it off.
Do they still hurt?
Yeah.
But, uh...
the good news is
my migraine went away.
I can't see that stupid scroll anymore.
I'm not sure that's good news.
You know, Mom... Mom was right.
Should've never taken this stupid job.
[adult Erin] Hey, M-Mom wasn't right.
Okay? We fought for this job.
You know that.
[Erin] True.
You remember that?
I do.
Yeah... [soft chuckle]
I'll never forget that look she gave me when I got home.
Ooh, she was...
so pissed.
You got home?
I did.
[door opens in distance]
[footsteps approaching]
Uh, hey, hey, come here.
Come over here. Get over here. Come over here.
[clattering]
[lock clacks]
[door creaks open]
I think we should all have some breakfast.
That wasn't an invitation, that was an order.
Okay, okay, okay.
Come on.
Nobody's hungry?
- KJ? - Stop.
[KJ] Please,
don't hurt us, okay?
Who do you work for?
[adult Erin] Um...
I, uh...
I-I'm freelancing
right now, but I-I
was working for Callum & Fields.
Who are they?
- They're patent attorneys. - Okay, for Christ's sake.
Where did you get it?
It was given to me.
Do you know what it is?
I know it's important.
[adult Erin] You know, I don't know if this is helpful, but,
um, when I'm near that thing, I...
see a screen that pops up in front of my face
- that's just scrolling. - [Larry] You know, what, lady?
I might look stupid, but I'm not.
One more time.
Where did you get it?
One of the guys that brought us here gave it to me.
- Are you STF? - Hey.
[Tiff] I don't know what that means.
We're paper girls.
I don't know what that means, either.
We deliver newspapers.
The Cleveland Preserver.
The Cleveland Preserver's been shut down for 20 years.
You traveled.
How?
We're not really sure, um, but
they had a capsule and just brought us here.
- Who? - [Erin] We-we don't know.
They were not much older than us,
and their faces were scarred.
[KJ] Yeah,
like they had been in some kind of bad fight
or something.
Where are they now?
They, um...
they were shot.
There was some kind of ambush,
and they were killed.
I'm sorry.
Did you see who did it?
They looked like soldiers.
They had on this armor. It was white.
[door opens]
[door closes]
[Mac] Wow.
It looks like everything went right for you after I died.
Sorry.
I didn't mean that like, um,
like a "fuck you" or something.
You're not dead.
You're standing right in front of me.
[laughs]
How'd you sleep?
Good.
That bed is so nice.
- Bliss, right? - [Mac] Yeah.
It's my favorite mattress in the house.
I think I like having a rich brother.
How about hardworking brother?
Call it what you want, moneybags,
but I'll tell you what I need right now.
I need some smokes,
and some donuts,
and then I'm gonna go to the metal yard,
and we'll break some shit.
I will not be buying you smokes.
There's a really good donut place up the street,
and I'm sad to report that the scrap metal yard
is now the Misty Pines housing development.
That doesn't sound like progress.
I couldn't agree more.
But before we do anything, we're gonna go to the hospital
and get some of your blood drawn.
What? Jesus, do you still not believe me?
I'm gonna make sure you never get sick.
Uh, I also have breakfast here, if it's easier.
How about some muesli?
What the fuck is muesli?
[laughs]
Donuts it is.
Very strange.
[Prioress] What's that?
I'm not seeing release records.
[Prioress] Well, maybe she hasn't been released yet.
No, that would be indicated. Uh... [sighs]
It's just a bunch of nonresponsive answers,
fake birth year,
some nonsense about being a ghost
traveling through time,
and then nothing.
So, she's not here, and she's not not here.
- That would seem to be the case. - [Prioress] Wow.
21st century bureaucracy
is at an absolute nadir of efficiency.
Uh, we are a small department servicing
- a large and extremely... - Who took that statement?
One of our most experienced case workers...
Just give me a name.
Excuse me, but you cannot just march
in here and demand... [grunts]
So, I can rough you up and get the name that way,
or you can just give it to me.
Either way, I'll make it so you'll forget
everything that happened.
The roughing up is optional.
[grunts]
What's your pleasure?
- [bones crack] - Ow. Look.
[Glen winces]
[adult Erin] Okay, come on. Come on, come on,
come on, come on.
Come on.
Shit!
[KJ] Yeah, I'm sorry about that.
[groans]
Hey.
Hey, come back here.
Those were his friends.
[adult Erin panting]
Your friend saved my life.
Mine, too.
[Larry] We're in the middle of a war.
The men you saw being murdered were members
of an organization called STF.
Standard Time Fighters.
Its mission is to combat the Old Watch.
The soldiers in the forest?
- Exactly. - [Erin] When are they from?
The... Old Guard?
[Larry] Old Watch.
Also the future, but...
earlier than the STF.
Yeah, I know, it's-it's a lot.
Trust me.
Essentially, the Old Watch is hell-bent
on keeping things exactly the way they are.
Which, not coincidentally,
keeps them in power, and the STF
is working to course-correct the moments in history
when mankind lost its way.
So... your friends
are the good guys, right?
Yeah.
That doesn't make sense. How do they fix things
without disrupting everything that comes after?
Well, first off, you wouldn't even know it if they did or not.
- But couldn't it cause... - [Larry] And secondly,
that's an Old Watch talking point. It's bullshit.
Things will be disrupted. They need to be.
The Old Watch are
basically a group of-of rich reactionaries who...
well, they outlaw time travel
because it threatens the future that they thrive in.
A future that should've never been allowed to happen,
of vanishing resources,
- indefensible income disparities... - That sounds just like now.
I didn't say the war was over.
Every minute, two steps forward, one step back,
but, trust me, I've heard what it's like in the STF's time.
This is worth it.
What is?
The fight.
All this sacrifice.
Are there STF like you in every time?
Of strategic importance, yes.
- We go by "the Underground." - [adult Erin] Oh, okay,
- this-this is all a little over their heads... - [Tiff] No, it's not.
I'm following.
[KJ] So, the soldiers,
these Old Watch, they're-they're bad guys?
Well, they feed people to dinosaurs, so,
what do you think?
Did he just say dinosaurs?
- I think so. - [Larry] Now things are changing again,
and I'll be ready.
The Old Watch is closing in on us.
You girls...
- you girls are targets now. - What?
- Why? - They didn't do anything.
Yes, they traveled out of their time.
That's a capital offense.
Who is that?
Doesn't matter.
Follow me.
Hey, but...
well, there's another one of us out there.
- What? - There's another paper girl from 1988.
- How-how can we get to her? We... - Where is she?
We got separated.
[sighs]
Well, I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but...
...your friend is probably dead.
You saw what they did to Heck and Naldo.
Sorry about the tasing, by the way. Uh...
That's not who I am,
I swear.
My name's Larry.
Erin.
[Larry] Can I trust you?
[adult Erin] I don't know, Larry.
- What do you want us to say to that? - You can see the screens?
Yeah.
Then I need to show you something.
[♪ New Order: "Blue Monday"]
[lights clank on]
[whirring]
There might be a solution to our current problems.
♪ ♪
♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪
♪ How does it feel ♪
♪ To treat me like you do? ♪
♪ When you've laid your hands upon me ♪
♪ And told me who you are ♪
♪ I thought I was mistaken ♪
♪ I thought I heard your words ♪
♪ Tell me how do I feel ♪
♪ Tell me now how do I feel ♪
♪ Those who came before me ♪
♪ Lived through their vocations ♪
♪ From the past until completion ♪
♪ They will turn away no more ♪
♪ And I still find it so hard ♪
♪ To say what I need to say ♪
♪ But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me ♪
♪ Just how I should feel today ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Ah, ah, ah ♪♪