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It is the story of a 1905 Newport socialite, Ella, who longs for a different future and is transported to 2025 by a comet, where she meets sailor and local historian Nick, in a tale of time travel, love, and the rediscovery of history and one's destiny.  #christmas #movie #comedy #romantic #adventure

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00:00:32Oh, Mr. Gale

00:00:34A scarf to help with the children

00:00:36Oh, and Mr. Lloyd

00:00:38I knit these mittens myself one

00:00:42Oh, thank you

00:00:43And last, but certainly not least

00:00:46A basket of baked goods for your family

00:00:51And some toys for the children

00:00:53Deeply obliged

00:00:54Thank you so much, Miss Stewart

00:00:56It's my pleasure

00:00:56Oh, those chestnuts smell delicious

00:01:00May I have a bag?

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00:01:03Merry Christmas, Nell

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00:01:37Ella, whatever are you doing?

00:01:44Here are kids three for you and for the rest of the staff downstairs.

00:01:46You're too kind, but you'll tarnish your new outfit.

00:01:49It's no bother. I'm glad to do it.

00:01:51You have your mother's heart.

00:01:53Your father requests the word with you in the study.

00:01:55Wonderful. I'd like a word with him as well.

00:01:58Sadie, I've made a decision.

00:02:01After much contemplation, I've decided to start a charity in town

00:02:04to help those who are struggling in Newport.

00:02:06But I found just the spot.

00:02:08Oh, no.

00:02:09Oh, yes. I'm going to ask Father to increase my allowance so I may rent the space.

00:02:14Wish me luck.

00:02:15Good luck.

00:02:23Good day, Father.

00:02:25I'm glad you called me. I must speak with you because...

00:02:27I must speak with you, too.

00:02:29As you know, we'll be hosting our inaugural Christmas ball in a week.

00:02:33It's the event of the season.

00:02:36Everyone in Newport is talking about it.

00:02:38Huzzah to you.

00:02:38Well, I wanted to inform you that it's not just a Christmas ball.

00:02:43No.

00:02:44It's also an engagement party.

00:02:46Oh!

00:02:48Are you to marry again?

00:02:49Oh, do be serious, Ella.

00:02:51I'm not marrying. You are.

00:02:53At the Christmas ball, we'll announce your engagement.

00:02:56To whom?

00:02:59To Everett Thornton.

00:03:00He's a good man from a very good family who you'll meet at the Christmas ball and not before,

00:03:06lest you pull your hijinks to blitz it.

00:03:09Well, um...

00:03:11Father, as much as I appreciate all the consideration you have put into this arrangement, and I do,

00:03:19I'll have to respectfully decline.

00:03:23Because I have decided to forego marriage and instead use my wedding coffers to start a charity.

00:03:29A charity?

00:03:30Yes, a foundation that will serve the community of Newport and ensure that no family is without food or a warm bed.

00:03:37I want to use my resources to help people find homes and jobs so they can be independent and prosperous.

00:03:44Father, I live a very blessed life.

00:03:49I want to share what I have with the community, just like Mother would have wanted me to.

00:03:55You'll do no such thing.

00:03:57You'll do as I say and marry.

00:03:58I...

00:04:00Oh!

00:04:05Dear, we are out of ornaments, but not to fret, I'll get more.

00:04:10Wait, we're not done.

00:04:11My coat, please?

00:04:13How did your father take it?

00:04:14Oh, quite well, I'd say.

00:04:16Ella!

00:04:17Although the idea might require just a bit more time for him to warm up to.

00:04:21Where are you going?

00:04:22For a sale on the Beneficence, to think.

00:04:25He'll be mad as a March hare.

00:04:26Which is why we should delay the news.

00:04:28Shall we?

00:04:34Good evening, William.

00:04:35Ladies and gentlemen, let's go back in time to the Gilded Age.

00:04:55My aptly named 122-year-old classic sailboat.

00:04:59Looks good for a century.

00:05:00I appreciate that.

00:05:01She does, and she should.

00:05:03She's a part of history, once owned by Ella Stewart Grafton, given to her by her father.

00:05:08And actually, we're going to be visiting their estate later on in the tour, where she grew up, became a philanthropist, and started the giving house right here in Newport.

00:05:15I heard she married a sailor.

00:05:16Navy man, Rex Grafton.

00:05:18As seen on that mast right there, they love to sail together.

00:05:21Uh, Nick, Coast Guard received report of a vessel dead in the water under Island Bridge, but all of our boats are already out.

00:05:26Copy.

00:05:27I can assist.

00:05:27Will you escort these people back to Grafton Estate?

00:05:29Christine will help you from there.

00:05:30Sure.

00:05:31You do rescues?

00:05:31I was in the Coast Guard for many years.

00:05:34Uh, when I'm not a historian at Grafton Estate, I do volunteer rescues for Newport, yes.

00:05:38But, uh, I gotta go, guys.

00:05:39Merry Christmas to y'all.

00:05:40Okay, folks, please follow me.

00:05:42Head right this way.

00:05:48Why did father have to go and complicate this?

00:05:51Ever important.

00:06:01I wish for a different life.

00:06:08I wish to fall in love.

00:06:12And for someone to fall in love with me.

00:06:15For me.

00:06:21Where did you go from?

00:06:24Get back.

00:06:25You stowaway.

00:06:26Excuse me?

00:06:28How am I a stowaway?

00:06:29This is my boat.

00:06:30Your boat.

00:06:31What nonsense.

00:06:32My father would beg to differ.

00:06:35Now, who are you, and what do you want?

00:06:38What's happening?

00:06:39I was sent on a rescue.

00:06:41These are the coordinates, and I don't see any boat.

00:06:44I just see you on my boat.

00:06:47What are you wearing?

00:06:48It's my boat.

00:06:49And what are you wearing?

00:06:52If you think to try anything with me, sir, you have paddled up the wrong creek.

00:06:56Wait.

00:06:58Do I know you?

00:06:59I don't think so.

00:07:01Does it matter?

00:07:01How did you get on this boat?

00:07:03Where did you come from?

00:07:04It's my boat!

00:07:07Now, you stay there and man the rudder.

00:07:10I'll manage the sheets.

00:07:12Okay.

00:07:14Okay.

00:07:15Okay.

00:07:17Is it happening?

00:07:19To where to?

00:07:20To Newport, of course.

00:07:22Where you can be dealt with by the proper authorities.

00:07:25What is happening right now?

00:07:26I'm not going to bite you.

00:07:41I'm not going to bite you.

00:07:41You can put the oar down.

00:07:41See?

00:07:42I'll tie the front.

00:07:53It's a pretty good knot.

00:08:02Now, where are the authorities?

00:08:06This is not my home.

00:08:09Where am I?

00:08:10Newport, Rhode Island.

00:08:11Nonsense.

00:08:11I left Newport an hour ago.

00:08:14And this is not it.

00:08:17Oh, my God.

00:08:25Oh, my God.

00:08:26No.

00:08:26Just calm down.

00:08:28It's okay.

00:08:28You're okay.

00:08:29You're okay.

00:08:30Just breathe.

00:08:30Take a deep breath.

00:08:31Who are you?

00:08:32I'm Nick.

00:08:34Nick McManny.

00:08:35And you are?

00:08:36Ella Stewart, of course.

00:08:38Ella Stewart Crafton.

00:08:41No.

00:08:42Ella Stewart.

00:08:43I think I know my own name.

00:08:46What year do you think it is?

00:08:48Why, it's 1905.

00:08:49December 18th, 19...

00:08:50Five.

00:08:52Although the harrowed expression on your face suggests...

00:08:55I'm incorrect.

00:08:56Mm-hmm.

00:08:57No, it is December 18th.

00:09:022025.

00:09:04Balderdash!

00:09:05No, it couldn't be.

00:09:07Balderdash?

00:09:08What is this anyway?

00:09:08Some kind of prank?

00:09:09Who put you up to this?

00:09:10My father?

00:09:11I should be asking you the same thing.

00:09:13Is this a joke?

00:09:14A joke?

00:09:14Like, you have a little hidden camera in your...

00:09:16How could I fit a camera in my button?

00:09:18Are you mad?

00:09:20How could all this be?

00:09:22Am I dreamy?

00:09:23You're an Ella Grafton cosplayer.

00:09:25This is genius.

00:09:26Who is Ella Grafton cosplayer?

00:09:30Where are you going?

00:09:31My home, of course.

00:09:33To the Stewart Estate.

00:09:35Why are you following me?

00:09:38I'll make sure you get home, okay?

00:09:40Oh!

00:09:41So the stowaway's a gentleman.

00:09:44What has become of everything?

00:09:46Love the commitment to this bit.

00:09:49You'd be great on the tours.

00:09:50What?

00:09:51Tours?

00:09:53I'm gonna play along.

00:09:53This is gonna be fun.

00:09:54All right, you guys, what's become of everything?

00:09:55Let me tell you.

00:09:56The last 120 years, let's see, we've synthesized DNA, we've built electric cars, we've landed

00:10:02on the moon, we have microwaves, internets, interstates, inflatable snowmen.

00:10:08Inflatable snowmen?

00:10:09Yeah.

00:10:10Oh!

00:10:15Are we breezy?

00:10:16I think we're breezy.

00:10:17Biss?

00:10:17Ma'am?

00:10:17Hello?

00:10:18Hello?

00:10:19You guys wanna back up just a little bit?

00:10:20Yeah, give her some air, give me some air.

00:10:22Let's give everybody some air.

00:10:23Ma'am?

00:10:23Oh, no.

00:10:31I'm still here.

00:10:33You had us worried there.

00:10:34I almost called an ambulance.

00:10:36I think you knocked your head pretty good when you stuck on my boat, so...

00:10:39It's my boat!

00:10:41You probably should rest a little...

00:10:43Or not.

00:10:45Okay, I'm gonna check it out here.

00:10:47I really am in the future?

00:10:49Yeah, yeah, you are.

00:10:51My stars.

00:10:53Everyone rides around in horseless carriages as if they're straight out of a Jules Verne novel.

00:10:59Yep.

00:10:59Please, tell me more of this 2025.

00:11:04Okay.

00:11:05Um, well, uh, we have taller buildings.

00:11:10Um, shorter tempers.

00:11:12Uh, houses are bigger, yet for some reason the families are smaller.

00:11:17A lot more conveniences, but somehow less time, and everyone's got notes.

00:11:22Oh, you paint such a bleak picture.

00:11:25Uh, see?

00:11:27You also have glittering Christmas lights and ornaments.

00:11:33All identical and shiny.

00:11:36Inflatable snowmen.

00:11:37But what truly astounds me...

00:11:39Yeah.

00:11:41...is that women wear pants.

00:11:43Oh, yeah.

00:11:45Yeah, a lot of them do.

00:11:51It looks the same, only older.

00:11:56And more festive.

00:11:57Father will be so relieved I return.

00:12:02Sadie!

00:12:05What are all these people doing in my home?

00:12:07Well, this is our last tour of the evening.

00:12:10You know, this home has been a museum for the last 60 years, and I'm a historian here.

00:12:15A museum?

00:12:16But why?

00:12:17Why?

00:12:18You know, I'm gonna get Christine.

00:12:19She's our museum director.

00:12:20I heard my name, yeah.

00:12:21Yes, um, may I present to you Miss Ella Grafton?

00:12:24Stewart.

00:12:25Stewart.

00:12:25Apologies, Miss Ella Stewart.

00:12:28I'm sorry, what's going on?

00:12:30My goodness, what is this darling ensemble you're donning?

00:12:33A jumpsuit.

00:12:35Says who?

00:12:36Nordstrom Rack?

00:12:38I don't know, Sir Nordstrom Rack.

00:12:40Sir?

00:12:40Could you introduce me to him?

00:12:42Miss Stewart, why don't you have a seat right over here?

00:12:44There are some refreshments if you like, and Nick, can I have a word?

00:12:48Please.

00:12:55The Grafton Estate.

00:12:58Oh, uh, hello.

00:13:00Ella Stewart, how do you do?

00:13:01I do, thanks.

00:13:04Oh, are you a new tour guide?

00:13:06I didn't realize we were adding costumes.

00:13:08Genius.

00:13:09I'm Francis.

00:13:10I work for Christine.

00:13:11You work for her?

00:13:13A lady?

00:13:14Boss, how inspiring.

00:13:20Okay.

00:13:22All right, thanks for checking.

00:13:23Okay, so, I spoke with my Uncle Leo at the precinct.

00:13:28And?

00:13:28There are no reports of anyone fitting her description.

00:13:31He's gonna check the local hospitals to see if anyone's missing.

00:13:34I wonder who she is.

00:13:35I have no idea, but I do know she just appeared at a thin air on my boat.

00:13:38No, that doesn't make any sense.

00:13:40But it happened.

00:13:41Okay, in her reaction to Newport, I mean, she walked in the street, she fainted, and now

00:13:45she thinks she's Ella Stewart.

00:13:46Well, whatever's happening here, she seems innocent enough.

00:13:49Excuse me, what are you all here for?

00:13:53The lantern tour.

00:13:55Are you a guide?

00:13:55Oh, no, I'm actually in the midst of navigating an unfathomable chronological aberration.

00:14:01But I would be remiss to be a bad host.

00:14:04Thus, it would be my honor to give you a tour.

00:14:06Welcome to my home.

00:14:12Where is she going?

00:14:14She's the new guide, right?

00:14:15No.

00:14:17The architect was a dear friend of my father, Arthur Sulkin, inspired by European craftsmanship.

00:14:23And yes, this is a museum to you.

00:14:26How strange.

00:14:28But to me, it's the only home I've ever known.

00:14:33Ah, in here is the dining room.

00:14:35She's pretty good, huh?

00:14:36And looks exactly like her.

00:14:38Yeah.

00:14:39Over here is where we place an evergreen tree from the property.

00:14:44The staff would all come together and we'd decorate with ropes of cranberry and popcorn.

00:14:51Yes, and the dining table where we'd eat a plum pudding on Christmas Eve.

00:14:56Chef would make my favorite.

00:14:58Minced pies, roasted pork.

00:15:01Oh, and this year, we're starting a new tradition.

00:15:04We're hosting a Christmas Eve ball.

00:15:07Don't you still hold that?

00:15:09Yes, we do.

00:15:10Every year.

00:15:12How about that?

00:15:14And just across the hall is the study where we would...

00:15:18What happened here?

00:15:21The study has changed.

00:15:23The furniture and the layout are different.

00:15:27Father's desk was here and mother's painting just there.

00:15:31Okay.

00:15:32That's impressive.

00:15:33What occurred?

00:15:35Well, there was a fire in 1942.

00:15:38Some of the room had to be completely rebuilt.

00:15:42I never sat for this.

00:15:45When was this painted?

00:15:47Early 1906.

00:15:48My father must have commissioned it for my future husband.

00:15:53No one knows why it was commissioned.

00:15:55Well, I do look happy.

00:16:00Come back soon.

00:16:02Merry Christmas.

00:16:03Merry Christmas.

00:16:04Farewell.

00:16:07So what is this?

00:16:09Why is my home a museum?

00:16:10Because Ella, I mean you, was, or are, or is going to be a great woman, a historical figure.

00:16:18And how do you two know each other?

00:16:21We actually went to college together.

00:16:23Same history program.

00:16:24College graduate.

00:16:26Well done, Christine.

00:16:27A lady boss is extremely rare where I come from.

00:16:30Speaking of, while my time here has been grand, I do wish to return home, so I'll have to bid you adieu.

00:16:36Where are you going?

00:16:37Beneficent's got me here, so she should be able to get me home.

00:16:43Beneficent?

00:16:44Well, the boat.

00:16:45The Gilded Age is my boat.

00:16:47Gilded Age?

00:16:49What's that?

00:16:51Whoever she is, you have to look out for her.

00:16:53No, I don't.

00:16:53Yes, you do.

00:16:54No, because she doesn't know what she's doing.

00:16:58I don't need your help.

00:16:59And I'm not whoever you are.

00:17:01I'm Ella Stewart.

00:17:02Can you prove it?

00:17:03Tell me something about Ella that no one knows.

00:17:05Something you could not look up in a history book.

00:17:07How am I to know what you can find about me in a history book?

00:17:09And if no one knows this unknown fact, how are you to prove it?

00:17:12Tell me this.

00:17:13Why would you and Rex etch your name into the mast?

00:17:15Who's Rex?

00:17:17And what etching?

00:17:18I would never etch anything into my precious mast.

00:17:22Well, that's my mast.

00:17:24I've got some bad news for you.

00:17:26Ha!

00:17:27You see?

00:17:28There.

00:17:29I don't see anything.

00:17:33What?

00:17:35It was here.

00:17:36It was right here.

00:17:37It's been barbed over a century ago.

00:17:38Where's my sonar?

00:17:40Where's my equipment?

00:17:42What?

00:17:44You could not have taken it out this fast.

00:17:46What did you do with all my equipment?

00:17:48How are you doing this?

00:17:48I told you.

00:17:49This is my boat.

00:17:52Christened Beneficent in 1901.

00:17:55Ta-da!

00:17:55What?

00:18:04Maybe we get you warm and we talk about this.

00:18:07There's nothing to talk about.

00:18:09The sooner I get out on the water, the sooner I can get home to my precious Newport.

00:18:12I think whatever happened to you might be a little more complicated than you simply just

00:18:17sailed into the night.

00:18:18So please, please, just let's figure out what happened.

00:18:23Okay?

00:18:23Get you some rest.

00:18:24And then, and then, if you'd like to set sail, I will gladly help you.

00:18:29I appreciate your concern.

00:18:31I think I will head home.

00:18:33Sounds good.

00:18:35Home?

00:18:35No, no.

00:18:36You can't stay there.

00:18:39Okay, I need you to show me what to do with this sticker.

00:18:41Put it where?

00:18:42On the bag.

00:18:42On the, on, over.

00:18:44Oh, no.

00:18:45Wow.

00:18:45No, it's a good look, actually.

00:18:46Is it?

00:18:46What are you kids doing?

00:18:50Oh, um, we are making donation bags and decorations for the Christmas charity ball.

00:18:55For the 120th anniversary, the theme is Step Back Into Time.

00:18:59So we're trying to make the ball look and feel as much like the inaugural 1905 ball as possible,

00:19:04based off of your diaries and accounts of the event.

00:19:09Well, I've seen the staff decorating.

00:19:11Perhaps I can be of assistance.

00:19:13Oh, that'd be great.

00:19:14Oh.

00:19:15Oh, this won't do.

00:19:18Oh?

00:19:18Our ornaments are clay statues and hand-blown glass baubles.

00:19:23We definitely do not use this.

00:19:27What do you call this?

00:19:29Uh, plastic?

00:19:31Yes, this plastic.

00:19:35Follow me.

00:19:36Just here in my room.

00:19:38Remarkably accurate.

00:19:39Oh.

00:19:44This is where I keep my treasures.

00:19:48Roughly dusty, isn't it?

00:19:54Mother and I made this together for Christmas 1898.

00:19:58Pink.

00:19:59My favorite color.

00:20:01Not plastic.

00:20:04Mother knit this for me.

00:20:06Santa would place in the toe Brazil nuts and peppermint sticks.

00:20:09Have you ever had a Brazil nut?

00:20:11Rare.

00:20:12Yes, but ever so glorious.

00:20:14And this is where I would hide my diary.

00:20:16Actually, your diary's on display in the ballroom.

00:20:18How did you do that?

00:20:21Can I see it?

00:20:28This is the diary.

00:20:29Looks the same, feels the same.

00:20:31I know this book like the back of my hand.

00:20:34But in this one, the diary entries end at December 17th, 1905.

00:20:39As it should, because that was the last day I wrote in it.

00:20:43Yesterday.

00:20:44Well, this day has been quite unexpected.

00:20:49Um, now if you'll excuse me, I would like to go to bed.

00:20:52Well, considering your bed is now a museum piece, let's check the bed and breakfast and

00:20:56see if there's any more room.

00:21:01Okay, we're all set.

00:21:03The museum has arranged a two-bedroom suite on the upper floor until you can get everything

00:21:08sorted out.

00:21:09Max here will help you get situated.

00:21:11This is ever so kind of you.

00:21:13It's the least we could do.

00:21:14We're the ones who turned your home into a museum.

00:21:18Did you talk to your uncle?

00:21:24Yes.

00:21:25No reports of anyone missing from the wards or the hospitals.

00:21:28My boat, as I knew it, has completely changed.

00:21:30Everything.

00:21:31The little carving on the mast.

00:21:32Where'd that go, huh?

00:21:33It's gone.

00:21:33All my stuff is gone.

00:21:34And I know it sounds like a crazy person, but I'm starting to think she actually time

00:21:37traveled.

00:21:38Well, she does know things about Ella that no one could possibly know.

00:21:40Like your secret compartment in her room?

00:21:42True.

00:21:43I have been at that place for 10 years.

00:21:45I know every inch of it.

00:21:46Or I thought I did.

00:21:47Hear me out.

00:21:48Maybe the past and the present are happening simultaneously.

00:21:51So today is both December 18th, 1905 and December 18th, 2025.

00:21:56Or maybe this is all just an elaborate hoax.

00:21:58A hoax that changed my entire boat in a minute?

00:22:01Francis, you're the sci-fi nerd.

00:22:03Uh, I prefer sci-fi buff, but sure.

00:22:06So what do you think?

00:22:07It sounds crazy, but I believe her.

00:22:09Would you believe that I do too?

00:22:10And if she really did time travel, then we have some ground rules to abide.

00:22:13Okay.

00:22:14Like what?

00:22:15Like 1905, Ella hasn't started the giving house yet.

00:22:18She doesn't know the life ahead of her.

00:22:20It's true, because the diary that we have of hers on display, that's finished.

00:22:23Which means she somehow makes her way back to the past.

00:22:27So we can't tell her the future, lest we create a cosmic wrinkle and alter the course of history.

00:22:33Nick, you can't let her out of your sight.

00:22:36Uh, then perhaps she shouldn't be reading the stack of books on Newport's history that she's taking up to her room right now.

00:22:41Nope, probably not.

00:22:42Come on.

00:22:45Ella, I brought you some of my clothes and something to sleep in.

00:22:49Thank you, Christine.

00:22:52Oh.

00:22:54They're so soft and stretchy with no fiddly buttons or buckles.

00:23:03Why?

00:23:03I'd be the toast of my era.

00:23:05You were the toast of your era.

00:23:07I was?

00:23:08Mm-hmm.

00:23:09What do you know of me?

00:23:11I really shouldn't say.

00:23:13Surely there's something?

00:23:14I will tell you, you have always been an inspiration to me.

00:23:21Working at the museum and getting to share your legacy, it's been a dream.

00:23:27And I have no doubt you will be an inspiration to me.

00:23:30What with you being a lady boss in Hobbes.

00:23:32Oh, well.

00:23:34Nick will be staying in the other room just in case you need anything.

00:23:37Oh.

00:23:39Oh.

00:23:40I do think we should have a chaperone.

00:23:46The town will talk.

00:23:49You know, we do live in a much different time now.

00:23:52Yes.

00:23:53They seem liberated.

00:23:55Uh, well, that's debatable.

00:23:58I'm not saying that the world was perfect back then, but it was just such a beautiful golden age.

00:24:03You know, with great invention, and grand estates, and great literature, and opera boxes, and...

00:24:10Sorry, I read a lot of Wharton, so...

00:24:12Edith?

00:24:13Yeah.

00:24:14Do you know her?

00:24:14Yes.

00:24:15She and her husband bought one of their many summer homes just down the street from us.

00:24:19Oh, you, you, like, you know her, know her.

00:24:22I just meant it's, uh, it seems like it was a simpler time.

00:24:25Yes, but that's what my father always says about the era of good feelings.

00:24:30Nostalgia is not a modern construct.

00:24:32Anyway, I can promise you, whatever time or age, being human ensures that life will always be complicated.

00:24:41But beautiful.

00:24:46How did you know I was going to say that?

00:24:48It's one of your most famous quotes.

00:24:50Hmm.

00:24:51I probably shouldn't have told you that.

00:24:52I'm sorry, but it's a...

00:24:54It's a beautiful quote.

00:24:57It's one of my favorites.

00:24:58It brings me a lot of comfort.

00:24:59Well, I should retire for the evening.

00:25:06Good night.

00:25:10Good night.

00:25:20Here you go.

00:25:20Whatever is this?

00:25:26That is called a cafe latte with oat milk.

00:25:30No, I mean this.

00:25:33There is a perfectly shaped Christmas treat in my cup.

00:25:37I guess we would call that latte art.

00:25:40It can get quite ornate.

00:25:42Almost too lovely to drink.

00:25:43Almost.

00:25:44So you time traveled.

00:25:46Do you have any idea what time travel is?

00:25:48Of course.

00:25:48I've read H.G. Wells, the time machine.

00:25:50Who hasn't?

00:25:51But I never suspected it to be possible.

00:25:55Me neither.

00:25:55What's the last thing that you remember?

00:25:57Well, um...

00:25:59I was sailing up the coast when I saw...

00:26:03A comet.

00:26:05Unlike anything I've ever seen.

00:26:06And then you appeared on my boat.

00:26:10You mean my boat.

00:26:11Mm.

00:26:12Okay, so you think it has something to do with this comet.

00:26:14I'm trying to figure this out.

00:26:15It couldn't have been the boat.

00:26:16I've taken her out a thousand times.

00:26:17Is there...

00:26:18Is there anything else you can think of?

00:26:22Not that I remember.

00:26:23Oh.

00:26:25You must show me the holiday wonders of your century.

00:26:28Perhaps we could take a walk.

00:26:29Sure, yeah.

00:26:30We can take these to go.

00:26:31To what now?

00:26:32We will carry them out.

00:26:34In paper cups.

00:26:35A paper cup.

00:26:37Absolutely genius.

00:26:39Tell me, how does one milk an oat?

00:26:42No.

00:26:43You okay?

00:26:44Mm-hmm.

00:26:46Look at me.

00:26:47Yeah.

00:26:48In my pants, drinking the milk of an oat from a paper cup.

00:26:53If only a father could see me now.

00:26:55Yes, you're quite the sight.

00:26:56Listen, I've been thinking, getting you back to 1905.

00:27:00What is that man ringing a bell?

00:27:02He's collecting for families at Christmas time.

00:27:05So, anyway, that is very generous.

00:27:11That 120-year-old coin could feed the whole city.

00:27:14Okay, like I said, we need to focus on getting you back, so...

00:27:17Isn't that the most marvelous Christmas tree you've ever seen?

00:27:21Who owns this majestic tree?

00:27:29No one, actually.

00:27:29It's for the tree lighting tonight.

00:27:31It's one of the events that raises money for the, uh, giving...

00:27:33Giving what?

00:27:34Uh, local charity.

00:27:36We need to figure out how to get you back.

00:27:38Hello!

00:27:38I'm Ella Stewart.

00:27:39How do you do?

00:27:40And more importantly, how can I be of assistance?

00:27:44Here you go.

00:27:46Let's get to work.

00:27:48Oh, I'm...

00:27:49I'm good.

00:27:50I don't participate much.

00:27:51Whatever do you mean?

00:27:52Well, you know, you go to a restaurant at someone's birthday, and you're singing happy birthday to a stranger, and...

00:27:58Not at all, but go on.

00:27:59Why would you know that?

00:28:00Um, I don't know.

00:28:02I'm just more of an observer.

00:28:03Because you don't wish the stranger to have a happy birthday?

00:28:06No, no, no.

00:28:07Uh, bad example.

00:28:08Uh, I don't know.

00:28:09I just, I don't join in much.

00:28:11I don't know.

00:28:12Well.

00:28:12I don't know.

00:28:13Not to fret.

00:28:14We all have an unlimited capacity for growth.

00:28:16Yeah.

00:28:17Um, excuse me!

00:28:19Merry Christmas!

00:28:21This is Nick.

00:28:22He's learning how to participate.

00:28:24Hi, Nick!

00:28:28Hello.

00:28:28Roasted chestnuts.

00:28:37Glorious.

00:28:38Some things never go out of style.

00:28:40Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've been waiting for, please join me as we count down.

00:28:46Five, four, three, two, one!

00:28:58It's so beautiful.

00:29:01Isn't it though?

00:29:05Yeah, the Christmas tree lighting, the boat parade.

00:29:07They're all huge Newport traditions.

00:29:09Ella!

00:29:10Oh!

00:29:13Let me guess.

00:29:15Marstermack?

00:29:16You know it.

00:29:17Oh.

00:29:18Can I talk to you for a moment?

00:29:20Yeah.

00:29:20Just one minute.

00:29:21Okay.

00:29:28Dedicated in loving memory to Ella Grafton.

00:29:32Founded the Giving House, which has provided housing and support services to the people of Newport since 1906.

00:29:39I did it?

00:29:41What is this supposed to be?

00:29:42It's lovely.

00:29:43Can I get this?

00:29:43Look at it!

00:29:44This looks like Ella's portrait.

00:29:46Yes, but notice something missing?

00:29:48She's just completely disappeared from the painting.

00:29:50She's gone.

00:29:52What does this mean?

00:29:52As best as I can understand, time is a river that flows from the past to the present.

00:29:58And Ella being here has placed a boulder in the river, diverting its course.

00:30:02Okay, so we get rid of the boulder?

00:30:03Or the course of history will be changed forever.

00:30:06But remember, whatever we do, we cannot tell her the future.

00:30:09I started the Giving House!

00:30:11Did you know?

00:30:13Oh, you must come see the plaque.

00:30:15It's ever so lovely.

00:30:16Wait.

00:30:16Come.

00:30:16Okay, come on.

00:30:17Wait.

00:30:18Also, a generous passerby informed me that the Giving House later funded a paper company

00:30:23that single-handedly kept Newport's poor fed during the Great Depression.

00:30:28But whatever is a Great Depression?

00:30:31What?

00:30:33It's gone?

00:30:34But how could that be?

00:30:35It was just here.

00:30:36I swear it on my entire...

00:30:37We all knew it was here, Ella.

00:30:39We've all seen it many times.

00:30:41Then what happened to it?

00:30:42I think you being here is erasing you from history.

00:30:46From the traditions you started.

00:30:48And I worry if you don't go back soon...

00:30:50We could disappear permanently.

00:31:00Whatever are you doing?

00:31:01Right now, I'm doing a little bit of research, trying to figure out the name of the comet that

00:31:04you saw in 1905.

00:31:06No, I mean, what is this contraption?

00:31:09Oh, this.

00:31:10Um, this is a, uh, laptop.

00:31:14Mm-hmm.

00:31:14Laptop.

00:31:15Think of it as, uh, electronic encyclopedia and an abacus were rolled into one.

00:31:21So you're saying this little box contains all the knowledge of the world?

00:31:27That's right.

00:31:28Uh, sadly, today people use it for mostly posting photos of their pets online and arguing with

00:31:32strangers.

00:31:33Hmm.

00:31:33Anyway, um, right now I'm trying to piece together what happened to you.

00:31:37Um, there's an article here that mentions various comets that have traveled through our solar

00:31:41system in history.

00:31:42How intriguing.

00:31:43Yeah.

00:31:43So with these comets come magnetic activity, which under the right circumstances would cause

00:31:48very strange phenomenon.

00:31:50Enough to cause a time portal?

00:31:51That's what I'm trying to figure out.

00:31:53Some of these theories think that these large bodies of water in the comets pass are highly

00:31:58conductive.

00:31:59Um, places like, uh, Bermuda Triangle?

00:32:01Hmm.

00:32:02No, that's okay.

00:32:02They've been experiencing things like this for centuries.

00:32:05So?

00:32:06What's our plan?

00:32:07Right now I don't have one.

00:32:09Um, I'm trying to find a name and when it will be visible, and until then I'm gonna keep

00:32:13digging.

00:32:13So, this little box contains all the knowledge of the world, even history?

00:32:22No spoilers.

00:32:23I was gonna say, the museum, or, I apologize, your, your home is less than a block from here,

00:32:30and I think Christine needs some help in the ballroom.

00:32:35So, uh.

00:32:37What?

00:32:38What?

00:32:38What are you doing, uh, when we finish up here today?

00:32:41Um, nothing.

00:32:42I, something I actually wanted to ask you.

00:32:44Do you think maybe you...

00:32:46Am I intruding on a private rendezvous?

00:32:49Um, well, I'm stressed.

00:32:51I'd heard a thing.

00:32:54I have these centerpieces to make, and the ball is in five days, and our step back into time

00:33:00theme is proving harder to pull off than I thought, so...

00:33:03Well, don't be stressed.

00:33:04I'll help you.

00:33:06But you haven't even been to a Christmas ball yet.

00:33:08No, but I've been to other balls.

00:33:11Men in tuxedos, women in gowns, my sculptures, candles, dancing.

00:33:17It sounds like the best time.

00:33:19Oh, it's dreadful.

00:33:20What?

00:33:20You must always be on your best behavior, as my father reminds me.

00:33:24I must converse cheerfully, never sigh of weariness, and always be polite, demure, graceful.

00:33:31Never truly myself, thus never really connecting with anyone.

00:33:34Oh, well, it seems Francis is courting you.

00:33:38No.

00:33:38Perhaps at the ball.

00:33:40You should let your fan do the talking.

00:33:43A press against the cheek signals you love someone.

00:33:47Ella, you're too much.

00:33:49Everything looks and smells divine, Christine.

00:33:51Well, the tradition of the ball started when...

00:33:55You'll see.

00:33:56But we hand out donation cards, people fill them out, and then they hang them on the boughs

00:34:00of the tree.

00:34:01That's wonderful.

00:34:03How many of these do we need to make?

00:34:05A lot.

00:34:13Perfect.

00:34:14Perfect.

00:34:15Perfect.

00:34:16Perfect.

00:34:17Perfect.

00:34:18Perfect.

00:34:19Perfect.

00:34:20Perfect.

00:34:21Hello.

00:34:33How may I help you?

00:34:35Are you?

00:34:38Are you talking to me?

00:34:39Yes.

00:34:40How may I help you?

00:34:44Show me everything you can about Ella Stewart from Newport, Rhode Island.

00:34:49Certainly. Finding information about Ella Stewart Grafton.

00:34:58Rex Grafton.

00:35:01Ella!

00:35:02Oh!

00:35:03Did you know your box talks?

00:35:06Yeah, it's called Siri.

00:35:08Siri who?

00:35:09Never mind. We said no spoilers.

00:35:13So I marry Rex Grafton.

00:35:15Is that who my father chooses instead of Everett Thornton?

00:35:17You know I can't tell you that. I'm sorry.

00:35:20Please, tell me something.

00:35:21We don't know a lot about him.

00:35:24Okay, we know that he was a Navy man.

00:35:25So my father chose a Navy man?

00:35:28Is there a portrait of this Rex?

00:35:29You have to stop searching for the future.

00:35:32You're going to be in it soon enough.

00:35:35You mean?

00:35:36Can I show you something?

00:35:37Okay.

00:35:38Watch.

00:35:40Okay.

00:35:41I found this while you were out.

00:35:43The Christmas Comet passes Earth's orbit in December every 20 years.

00:35:47But check this out.

00:35:48Look at the date in 1905.

00:35:49December 18th.

00:35:50December 18th.

00:35:52That's the night you ended up on my boat.

00:35:54That's the comet I saw.

00:35:55That's what I was thinking.

00:35:56But watch this.

00:35:57If this chart right here is correct,

00:35:59it's going to fly by in five days.

00:36:03Christmas Eve?

00:36:05Christmas Eve.

00:36:06But how will I know what time?

00:36:09Or where to be?

00:36:10That's the only thing I don't have figured out right now.

00:36:12But the important thing is we know what day it's coming.

00:36:19You're welcome.

00:36:23There is one thing I did not tell you about that night.

00:36:25Yeah.

00:36:26But it is silly.

00:36:27Sillier than time travel?

00:36:28Well, I guess if you put it that way,

00:36:30right before you appeared on my boat,

00:36:33I wished for a different life.

00:36:37One where someone would fall in love with me.

00:36:41Or me.

00:36:43That's not silly.

00:36:45It's a beautiful thing to wish for.

00:36:49Um, we should probably go at start soon.

00:36:52What is?

00:36:53The perfect thing for someone who loves Christmas as much as you.

00:36:57I thought they already did a Christmas tree lighting.

00:36:59They did.

00:37:00This is actually the beginning week

00:37:01of all of the holiday festivities in Newport.

00:37:05It's a Christmas boat parade.

00:37:07A boat parade?

00:37:08Mm-hmm.

00:37:08How wonderful.

00:37:10Yeah.

00:37:10It's a big tradition here.

00:37:11Started by Ruth Myers,

00:37:13who was a local woman inspired by you.

00:37:15All the proceeds go to the giving house.

00:37:17We must make sure Beneficence is especially pristine.

00:37:20Well, I can't say I participate in the boat parade,

00:37:23but I do enjoy watching.

00:37:24Tell me more about this refusal to participate.

00:37:27When did your commitment to a life of isolation begin?

00:37:31Growing up with my dad.

00:37:33He was a good man, but it was a quiet man.

00:37:35Where was that?

00:37:36Florida Keys.

00:37:37I probably could sail at the same time I could walk.

00:37:41My dad had a boating business,

00:37:42so I worked with him.

00:37:44And after that, I joined the Coast Guard.

00:37:45And then, from the G.I. Bill,

00:37:48I got to pursue my passion in college,

00:37:50which was history.

00:37:51That's where I met Christine.

00:37:52She seems like a good friend.

00:37:54She's pretty great.

00:37:55After drifting around for a while,

00:37:57she gave me a full-time job here in Newport.

00:37:59How do you like it here?

00:38:00I love it.

00:38:02So much.

00:38:03Surrounded by water.

00:38:06Surrounded by history.

00:38:07Mm-hmm.

00:38:08Definitely a drifter by nature.

00:38:10Why is that?

00:38:11I can't say one place ever felt like home.

00:38:14I, um,

00:38:16know that feeling well.

00:38:18Really?

00:38:19You seem very at home here,

00:38:20over a century later.

00:38:22Do I?

00:38:22You do.

00:38:23You're too kind.

00:38:25My whole life I've been told I'm

00:38:26too much or too loud,

00:38:28that no one will ever love me

00:38:30unless I'm a perfect lady.

00:38:32If I hadn't long ago committed myself

00:38:33to a life of service above self,

00:38:36I might be quite sad to think

00:38:38I never had a real chance to love.

00:38:40Well, who's to say that you don't?

00:38:41Or won't.

00:38:46Love, Rex.

00:38:47Hm.

00:38:52It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

00:38:56Everywhere you go

00:39:01Take a look in the five-ten

00:39:05The sugar snow-covered fried bread is delicious.

00:39:08Oh, and that parade was marvelous.

00:39:12A spectacle of humanity

00:39:13that my father would never approve.

00:39:16Your father must be worried.

00:39:17He'd be gone three days.

00:39:18I'm sure he'd be ecstatic to have you back.

00:39:20For a moment.

00:39:21And then he'd be,

00:39:22as Sadie says,

00:39:23mad as a marge pair.

00:39:24I take it you two don't get along?

00:39:27We attempt to.

00:39:27We never see eye to eye.

00:39:29He always wants me to be his dutiful daughter.

00:39:32But I've always been...

00:39:32Well, me.

00:39:37You ever tried talking to him?

00:39:38No, there is no talk.

00:39:39He dismisses any discussion

00:39:41before it ever even begins.

00:39:42And he always has the final say.

00:39:45Like choosing this Rex for me.

00:39:47I assure you, Ella,

00:39:48you live life as you intend.

00:39:51The things you want.

00:39:52You make it.

00:39:54And what of you?

00:39:56Of me?

00:39:57What do you wish for your life?

00:39:58I was in love once.

00:40:00Or,

00:40:00I should say,

00:40:02I thought I was.

00:40:03Oh?

00:40:03We met when I was working out of port

00:40:05in New York City.

00:40:06What was she like?

00:40:08She was great.

00:40:09On paper,

00:40:10we were a perfect match.

00:40:11She was

00:40:11beautiful

00:40:13and lively

00:40:14and

00:40:14spirited.

00:40:16A lot like you, actually.

00:40:18But very regimented.

00:40:20I wanted the

00:40:21romance

00:40:22and the moments in between

00:40:23and she wanted the

00:40:24packed

00:40:25social calendar

00:40:26and planned date nights.

00:40:28And you?

00:40:32If I'm being honest,

00:40:34I like to take the days

00:40:35as they come.

00:40:36Same.

00:40:38That was my whole point.

00:40:39I love waking up

00:40:40not knowing where the day

00:40:42is going to take me.

00:40:43Exactly.

00:40:43Getting off work early

00:40:44and

00:40:44taking a walk on the beach

00:40:47or

00:40:47maybe in the rain.

00:40:49That sounds delightful.

00:40:50It would be.

00:40:51As long as it's not 20 degrees.

00:40:54I wanted a love for the ages

00:40:55and I didn't

00:40:57see that with her

00:40:58and I

00:40:58I hope that doesn't

00:41:00sound selfish.

00:41:01One should never compromise

00:41:02with one's heart.

00:41:03You're very easy

00:41:04to talk to,

00:41:05Miss Stewart.

00:41:05As are you,

00:41:06Mr. McManny.

00:41:07I'm sorry.

00:41:08I'm sorry.

00:41:09Butting a corpse?

00:41:32Hey, um, yeah, something like that.

00:41:37Oh, wow.

00:41:40A good compass is a sailor's best friend.

00:41:42Absolutely.

00:41:42So I know the general coordinates

00:41:44of where you first appeared on the boat.

00:41:45Um, I figured we'd start there.

00:41:47Even if we find the right area,

00:41:48there's no guarantee of success.

00:41:50Are you worried?

00:41:51I mean, there's nothing comforting

00:41:53about being sucked into

00:41:54the Christmas time world.

00:41:56Besides,

00:41:57I've become very taken with the future

00:42:00and its many eccentricities.

00:42:03women in paths,

00:42:05talking encyclopedias,

00:42:07snow-covered fry bread,

00:42:08electric cars,

00:42:09a magic I've yet to experience.

00:42:11The past needs you.

00:42:13I know.

00:42:15I made a promise

00:42:16to help the people of Newport,

00:42:17and I will.

00:42:19Good.

00:42:19But what if I can't?

00:42:21What if history doesn't play out

00:42:23the same way?

00:42:23What if I'm not up for the task

00:42:24where I've somehow altered my fate?

00:42:26There's a quote that I really love.

00:42:28May those who follow their fate

00:42:29be granted happiness.

00:42:31May those that defy it

00:42:32be granted forgiveness.

00:42:36Abraham Lincoln.

00:42:41Really?

00:42:41Mm-hmm.

00:42:42Well, if we only have a few days

00:42:44left together in the future,

00:42:46we should make the most of it.

00:42:47I agree.

00:42:49Excuse me, miss.

00:42:51May we please have

00:42:51two Christmas cafe lattes

00:42:53with milked oats.

00:42:55Oh!

00:42:55And with the most ornate version

00:42:56of a reindeer one can muster.

00:42:59You know,

00:43:01I probably should not

00:43:02be doing this,

00:43:03but since we've

00:43:04already disrupted

00:43:05the course of time,

00:43:06I thought I should show you

00:43:07why you need to go back.

00:43:10And that's why.

00:43:14The giving house.

00:43:16Oh, Nick!

00:43:20Hmm?

00:43:24Look.

00:43:27Oh, wait.

00:43:28I've got cash.

00:43:29I've got cash.

00:43:30So, lots of cash.

00:43:32Hey, Santa, Harry.

00:43:33Merry Christmas.

00:43:34Thank you very much.

00:43:35You're welcome.

00:43:35Yeah, you can hold that.

00:43:37Oh.

00:43:38Um, why?

00:43:39Because, uh,

00:43:40that coin is going

00:43:41to be worth a fortune.

00:43:44Actually, all the coins are.

00:43:45Especially Bitcoin.

00:43:47Tell your great-grandkids

00:43:48about that one.

00:43:48I have a great-grandkid?

00:43:50No spoilers, Ella.

00:43:51Oh.

00:43:53This is lovely.

00:43:56Thanks.

00:43:56I can customize it for you

00:43:58if you'd like.

00:43:59Hmm.

00:44:00I suppose the name

00:44:02I would put on it is...

00:44:04Rex.

00:44:07Perhaps you should put

00:44:08your heart's desire on one.

00:44:09Okay, so we call that fishing.

00:44:11And, uh,

00:44:12what my heart desires,

00:44:14um...

00:44:15it wouldn't work

00:44:17in this case.

00:44:20Why not?

00:44:21You're quite the eligible bachelor.

00:44:23And you're free

00:44:24from the constraints

00:44:25of my era's matchmaking.

00:44:26Modern-day dating

00:44:27is not very easy.

00:44:30Maybe there is something

00:44:31to matchmaking.

00:44:32Surely not.

00:44:34You get to make

00:44:34all of your own choices.

00:44:37And that may be,

00:44:38but...

00:44:39finding someone

00:44:39you want to spend

00:44:40the rest of your life

00:44:40with, a...

00:44:42best friend

00:44:42and...

00:44:43confident...

00:44:43That's not easy,

00:44:47and I don't care

00:44:48what part of history

00:44:49that you come from.

00:44:50I agree.

00:44:52That's what my mother

00:44:53would always say.

00:44:54Nay, insist.

00:44:55My husband should be.

00:44:58Is that what

00:44:59your father was to her?

00:45:00I don't believe so.

00:45:02Which is why

00:45:03I think she wanted it

00:45:04for me.

00:45:04Ladies and gentlemen,

00:45:10follow me right this way

00:45:11to my favorite room

00:45:12of the house,

00:45:13the atrium,

00:45:14which is actually

00:45:15an addition to

00:45:16the original structure

00:45:17built in 1891

00:45:18as a birthday gift

00:45:19from Lord Grafton

00:45:20to Lady Grafton.

00:45:21This looks amazing.

00:45:23What are you working on?

00:45:24Stringing some popcorn,

00:45:25badly.

00:45:26You know what?

00:45:27I'm going to go box up

00:45:27some of the donations

00:45:28that one of the patrons

00:45:29dropped off,

00:45:30so see you later.

00:45:33Nick told me

00:45:33the good news

00:45:34about the comet.

00:45:35I'm just excited

00:45:36because we get to have

00:45:37you here for a little

00:45:37bit longer.

00:45:38Well, I look forward

00:45:40to experiencing

00:45:40your ball.

00:45:42You've worked so hard

00:45:43on it.

00:45:44It's been a labor of love,

00:45:45but I wish I could

00:45:47have gone to yours,

00:45:49the first ball.

00:45:50I also look forward

00:45:51to seeing you

00:45:52and Francis dance together.

00:45:54Oh, no, no, no.

00:45:56That's not going to happen.

00:45:58Why not?

00:45:59Because I...

00:46:02Maybe love just isn't

00:46:04in the cards for me.

00:46:05You know?

00:46:06I've never been

00:46:06very lucky at it,

00:46:07and that's okay.

00:46:10You know?

00:46:11Maybe some people

00:46:12are put on this planet

00:46:13to create history,

00:46:15like yourself.

00:46:17And some of us

00:46:18are put here

00:46:19to preserve it.

00:46:20Christine,

00:46:21you can't possibly

00:46:22believe that.

00:46:24Francis would be

00:46:26lucky to be with you.

00:46:27You're a catch,

00:46:28an inspiration,

00:46:31a lady boss.

00:46:33Right back at you.

00:46:34Yeah.

00:46:40Oh, so kind

00:46:42of the museum patrons

00:46:42to donate items.

00:46:44Patrons are very,

00:46:45very generous,

00:46:46especially around

00:46:46Christmas time.

00:46:47Like they say,

00:46:48one man's trash

00:46:49is another man's treasure?

00:46:50Sounds like something

00:46:51I'd say.

00:46:51I know.

00:46:53Hey, thanks again

00:46:54for the compass.

00:46:54Sure.

00:46:57That man.

00:46:59Who is he?

00:47:00Him?

00:47:00Oh, old Coast Guard buddy,

00:47:02Adam Waters.

00:47:04He looked familiar.

00:47:06Maybe he knew

00:47:06like his great-great-grandpa.

00:47:08Kel, the spruce goes in the ballroom,

00:47:20just there.

00:47:20Would you be able to help

00:47:21with hanging it?

00:47:22And Ned,

00:47:23if you could finish

00:47:23the popcorn garland,

00:47:24that would be amazing.

00:47:26Remember,

00:47:26the popcorn is for decorating,

00:47:28not for eating.

00:47:28Who owns people?

00:47:30Volunteers turn friends.

00:47:31Oh.

00:47:32The Christmas ball

00:47:32is in three days,

00:47:34so we need all the help

00:47:35we can get.

00:47:35Right.

00:47:36I figured until I return home,

00:47:38I can assist

00:47:39in preserving my legacy.

00:47:40I come bearing frosting.

00:47:42Do we still need

00:47:42to make a gingerbread house?

00:47:44Yes.

00:47:44Perhaps we can all

00:47:44do it together?

00:47:45Love a good gingerbread house.

00:47:47Cooper,

00:47:48let me help you

00:47:48with the glassware.

00:47:49I wish I had her optimism.

00:47:53So it looks like

00:47:54Ella's been a big help

00:47:54with the ball.

00:47:55Yes,

00:47:56Ella has.

00:47:58Hi.

00:47:59Christine,

00:47:59why does the mentioning

00:48:00of Ella's name

00:48:01seem to bring you

00:48:01palpable distress?

00:48:02You know,

00:48:03all the obvious reasons.

00:48:04Her portrait is blank,

00:48:06her plaque is gone,

00:48:07and now,

00:48:09her biography

00:48:09is just scrap paper.

00:48:11What's next to disappear?

00:48:13Hmm?

00:48:13The giving house?

00:48:15I love having her here,

00:48:17but I also know

00:48:17she has to go back.

00:48:19In all the history books,

00:48:20it says that Rex

00:48:21is the one

00:48:21that brings her back, right?

00:48:22Yeah, I know,

00:48:23and I still don't see

00:48:24how that's possible.

00:48:29What are you looking for?

00:48:30Oh.

00:48:31Uh,

00:48:32Nick said Rex was,

00:48:34is,

00:48:34a Navy man.

00:48:35So,

00:48:36there must be

00:48:37something about him,

00:48:38a graduation photo,

00:48:40a portrait.

00:48:40Even a sentence

00:48:41or a blurb

00:48:42would be held.

00:48:43We've looked.

00:48:44We've scoured these books.

00:48:45He has no footprint.

00:48:46Oh, I know,

00:48:47but there must be something.

00:48:49The talking encyclopedia

00:48:50told me

00:48:51that he was born

00:48:51in 1874.

00:48:53So,

00:48:54he must have been

00:48:54in the Navy

00:48:551892 and on?

00:48:58We followed that lead,

00:48:59and the only

00:48:59unidentified photo

00:49:01we have

00:49:02from that time

00:49:04is,

00:49:05yeah,

00:49:06of that man.

00:49:07There.

00:49:08My father bought

00:49:09my boat beneficence

00:49:10from him,

00:49:11only I don't remember

00:49:12his name.

00:49:13Could that be Rex?

00:49:14My future husband?

00:49:18No,

00:49:19I don't think so.

00:49:20I remember him

00:49:21being a working class type,

00:49:23not the kind

00:49:23my father would

00:49:24choose for me.

00:49:25I bet Nick would enjoy

00:49:26seeing the boat's

00:49:26original owner.

00:49:27I'll show him.

00:49:28I'll go check on things.

00:49:30All right,

00:49:30I'll be along

00:49:31in a moment.

00:49:35Before you hear it

00:49:36from her,

00:49:36I tried to help

00:49:37Ella find info

00:49:38on Rex,

00:49:39but no dice.

00:49:39You're jealous,

00:49:42aren't you?

00:49:43No, I'm not.

00:49:44Why would I be

00:49:44jealous of Rex?

00:49:45Oh, come on.

00:49:46It's obvious

00:49:47you have a thing

00:49:47for Ella.

00:49:48Sorry, bud.

00:49:49It is painfully obvious.

00:49:51Of course I do.

00:49:52How could I not?

00:49:53I mean,

00:49:53she's effervescent.

00:49:54She's hilarious.

00:49:55She's gorgeous.

00:49:56She's a bright light

00:49:57that fills every room

00:49:57and she makes

00:49:58every situation better.

00:49:59That'd feel really good.

00:50:00But it doesn't matter

00:50:01because of all

00:50:02the extenuating circumstances,

00:50:03okay?

00:50:03Like what?

00:50:04What do you mean,

00:50:05like what?

00:50:06Like the fact that

00:50:06she lacks a social security number?

00:50:08The fact that she lives

00:50:09in another century?

00:50:09Which gives new meaning

00:50:10to a long-distance relationship.

00:50:12How about the fact

00:50:13that she's a time traveler

00:50:14destined to marry another man?

00:50:16So yes, Christine,

00:50:17it's mildly complicated.

00:50:24Pick a hand.

00:50:29A little gift for you.

00:50:32This is great.

00:50:32When did you do this?

00:50:33Last night,

00:50:34when I couldn't sleep.

00:50:35I thought we could

00:50:36hang it on the mantel

00:50:36with the stocking

00:50:37my mother made for me.

00:50:38Oh, she taught me

00:50:39how to knit and crochet.

00:50:40We'd make stockings

00:50:42and mittens

00:50:42for the people of Newport.

00:50:44For her,

00:50:45Christmas was a time

00:50:46to give back.

00:50:47It's clear where you get

00:50:48your generous spirit from.

00:50:50Perhaps my mother

00:50:51came from nothing.

00:50:55She met my father

00:50:56and she was swept

00:50:57into a life of privilege

00:50:59she could only dream of.

00:51:01Though,

00:51:01I fear it was self-sacrificial.

00:51:03I believe she married my father

00:51:05so she could pull her family

00:51:07out of poverty.

00:51:08That's why your father

00:51:09wanted you to marry Everett.

00:51:10He was trying to protect you.

00:51:12Huh.

00:51:12He saw how hard

00:51:13your mother's life was

00:51:15and the choices

00:51:16that she had to make.

00:51:17Well, what do we do now?

00:51:20Do you want to watch

00:51:20a Christmas movie?

00:51:21A moving picture?

00:51:22Mm-hmm.

00:51:23But how?

00:51:24The TV, of course.

00:51:26Yeah, watch.

00:51:27Think of it as a lot

00:51:28of moving pictures

00:51:29in this black box.

00:51:31Fascinating.

00:51:33Right?

00:51:34Would you like some wine?

00:51:34Yes, please.

00:51:36So what was your favorite

00:51:37Christmas movie of your time?

00:51:38Oh, Santa Claus.

00:51:40The first Christmas movie

00:51:41ever made.

00:51:42Oh, it's absolute perfection.

00:51:45One minute and 17 seconds of it.

00:51:47Wow.

00:51:48Well, our Christmas movies

00:51:50today are much longer

00:51:52and there's much more of them.

00:51:54Shall we?

00:51:57What's your favorite

00:51:58Christmas movie?

00:51:58Hands down,

00:52:02it's a wonderful life.

00:52:04Huh.

00:52:04Which actually

00:52:05reminds me a lot of you.

00:52:07Why?

00:52:08Well, because

00:52:09it's about

00:52:10a person

00:52:11with a good heart

00:52:13trying to make

00:52:14a big difference.

00:52:15And also

00:52:16creating happiness

00:52:17no matter where you are.

00:52:20Strange, isn't it?

00:52:21Each man's life

00:52:22touches so many other lives

00:52:23but when he isn't around

00:52:26he leaves

00:52:27an awful hole

00:52:28doesn't he?

00:52:31Will I

00:52:32leave an awful

00:52:34big hole

00:52:34when I'm gone?

00:52:35You will be missed.

00:52:39But everyone

00:52:39will know

00:52:40that you're living

00:52:40the life you should.

00:52:44And they will be

00:52:45happy for you

00:52:46and Rex.

00:52:47What if I don't

00:52:48love him?

00:52:50Do you remember

00:52:50the day that you

00:52:51went to the study

00:52:51and you saw

00:52:52the portrait of yourself

00:52:53for the first time?

00:52:54And Christine said

00:52:55that there was

00:52:55mysterious wonder

00:52:57around your smile.

00:52:58And you said

00:52:59because you were happy.

00:53:01What of it?

00:53:02It's because I think

00:53:03and I have always

00:53:04thought

00:53:04that that was

00:53:06the very first time

00:53:08you

00:53:09were ever in love.

00:53:12I understand

00:53:16you

00:53:17found an original

00:53:18photo of the owner

00:53:19of the Gilded Age.

00:53:21Oh.

00:53:21Uh.

00:53:22Yes.

00:53:25Let's see.

00:53:25Here.

00:53:27On the right.

00:53:29This man?

00:53:30Are you sure?

00:53:31Yes, I'm sure.

00:53:32I never forget a face.

00:53:33And I just bought

00:53:34the beneficence

00:53:34from him

00:53:35two years ago.

00:53:36This is just

00:53:37a tad odd

00:53:38because this looks

00:53:39similar

00:53:40to the Coast Guard

00:53:42officer that you

00:53:43said looked familiar,

00:53:44Adam Waters.

00:53:45Huh.

00:53:46I bought

00:53:47the Gilded Age

00:53:48from him.

00:53:58Uh.

00:53:59Ella.

00:54:02I can't believe

00:54:03I have to say this again.

00:54:04I know.

00:54:05No spoilers.

00:54:06Only this time

00:54:07I'm not looking for me.

00:54:08I'm looking for Adam Waters.

00:54:10Kidding it doesn't

00:54:11do anything.

00:54:12I've tried that

00:54:13many times.

00:54:14Um.

00:54:14Use the mouse to

00:54:15Oh no!

00:54:16Jesus.

00:54:17No.

00:54:19This.

00:54:19This is.

00:54:20This is called a mouse.

00:54:21I didn't know.

00:54:23I know.

00:54:24Okay.

00:54:24So.

00:54:25You use the mouse.

00:54:26The mouse moves

00:54:27the arrow.

00:54:27And you go up

00:54:28to the search bar.

00:54:29I did that.

00:54:29But then you click here

00:54:30with this.

00:54:32Oh.

00:54:32Now type in

00:54:33your search word.

00:54:35Good.

00:54:36Type it in.

00:54:36This alphabet

00:54:38is all out of order.

00:54:39That is true.

00:54:41Okay.

00:54:42Now hit.

00:54:42When you're done

00:54:43hit enter.

00:54:46Ba-da.

00:54:47Nick.

00:54:49Look.

00:54:50They're nearly identical.

00:54:52They really are.

00:54:52Wow.

00:54:54Maybe that's like

00:54:54his great grandson

00:54:55or something.

00:54:56Or maybe he knows something.

00:54:57Adam did look at me

00:54:58in quite a peculiar manner.

00:55:00I just thought

00:55:00you were really pretty.

00:55:04Or um.

00:55:05Well I'm going to

00:55:08pen a letter

00:55:08formally requesting

00:55:09his presence for tea.

00:55:11I'll send it by courier.

00:55:12We also could just

00:55:13go to the marina.

00:55:14It's where he usually

00:55:15hangs out.

00:55:16Oh.

00:55:18Thank you for walking

00:55:19with me.

00:55:20What is this feeling?

00:55:22My head's in a tizzy

00:55:23and my heart is

00:55:24pounding.

00:55:24It couldn't be fate

00:55:26could it?

00:55:30Hey Adam.

00:55:32We were just

00:55:33coming to see you.

00:55:33Oh.

00:55:34Nick.

00:55:34Good to see you.

00:55:35How you doing?

00:55:35Good to see you.

00:55:37How do you do?

00:55:38Ellis Stewart.

00:55:39Oh.

00:55:40Rex.

00:55:42Rex Crafton.

00:55:46Huh?

00:55:46So it was you

00:55:49who sold

00:55:50the beneficence

00:55:50to me

00:55:51wasn't it?

00:55:52Yes.

00:55:54As I remember it

00:55:55your father

00:55:55was tied up

00:55:56on business

00:55:56so you came

00:55:57in his stead.

00:55:58I knew

00:55:59I recognized you

00:56:00only you look

00:56:01different now

00:56:02older

00:56:03than my father

00:56:05sent you

00:56:05to rescue me?

00:56:07Yes.

00:56:07I was a navy man

00:56:08known for my

00:56:08navigational skills.

00:56:10The night

00:56:10you disappeared

00:56:11your father

00:56:11sent a courier

00:56:12asking me to set out

00:56:13to find you

00:56:14immediately.

00:56:15I couldn't have been

00:56:16more than an hour

00:56:16behind you

00:56:17and that's when

00:56:19I saw it.

00:56:21A comet?

00:56:22Unlike anything

00:56:23I'd ever seen.

00:56:25Then you ended

00:56:25up here.

00:56:26Yes.

00:56:28At first

00:56:28I didn't realize

00:56:29anything had happened

00:56:30except that I was

00:56:30back on course

00:56:31to Newport

00:56:31but when I got here

00:56:32I discovered

00:56:34it was 2005.

00:56:35And you've been

00:56:36stuck here ever since.

00:56:38Yes.

00:56:42Did you ever

00:56:43try to get back?

00:56:44Yes.

00:56:45In the beginning

00:56:46I was desperate.

00:56:47If a comet

00:56:48was mentioned

00:56:48in the news

00:56:49I got out

00:56:49on the water

00:56:50but no luck.

00:56:52After some research

00:56:52I realized

00:56:53that it wasn't

00:56:53just any comet

00:56:54that could get me

00:56:54back home but...

00:56:55Christmas comet?

00:56:56Yes.

00:56:58The Christmas comet

00:56:58is the only one

00:57:00that comes close enough

00:57:00to Earth's orbit.

00:57:01Somehow it

00:57:02interacts with

00:57:04certain bodies

00:57:05of water

00:57:05and is only available

00:57:06for about

00:57:08a two hour window.

00:57:09And the fact

00:57:09it only comes once

00:57:10every 20 years.

00:57:11I discovered

00:57:12there was

00:57:12no chance

00:57:13of getting back.

00:57:15Until right now.

00:57:17I'm so sorry.

00:57:20I...

00:57:20It's all my fault.

00:57:22No, don't apologize

00:57:24because the longer

00:57:24I was here

00:57:25the more I wanted

00:57:28to stay.

00:57:29Can I ask

00:57:30who sold you

00:57:30the Gilded Age?

00:57:31It was left to me.

00:57:33I don't know

00:57:33by whom

00:57:34but about a decade

00:57:35after I got here

00:57:36I got a letter

00:57:36instructing me

00:57:37to head down

00:57:38to the shipyard.

00:57:39I was given

00:57:40the title to the boat

00:57:41with one caveat.

00:57:43What?

00:57:44And one day

00:57:45I had to sell it.

00:57:47To Nick.

00:57:49Hmm?

00:57:50Then

00:57:50who wrote the letter?

00:57:53I don't know.

00:57:54Was it

00:57:55my father?

00:57:57Was it he who

00:57:58arranged for us

00:58:02to marry?

00:58:02Okay.

00:58:03I can give you guys

00:58:03some privacy.

00:58:04No.

00:58:05Again,

00:58:05I don't know.

00:58:07I haven't been back

00:58:07since I left that evening

00:58:08but I'm aware

00:58:11the history books

00:58:12say that we marry.

00:58:13You know,

00:58:14the Christmas comet

00:58:16next appears

00:58:17in two days

00:58:18on Christmas Eve.

00:58:19I'm so sorry

00:58:22I have work to do.

00:58:24I'll see you out.

00:58:28So,

00:58:29I just met

00:58:30my husband

00:58:31and it was

00:58:32a crushing

00:58:33disappointment.

00:58:35What about

00:58:35the spark

00:58:36my mother

00:58:36always told me about?

00:58:37Maybe you two

00:58:38just need some time.

00:58:39True love

00:58:40doesn't take time.

00:58:42This was supposed

00:58:42to be love

00:58:43at first sight.

00:58:44The start of forever.

00:58:46Nick,

00:58:46be honest with me.

00:58:49I am being given

00:58:50the chance

00:58:51to rewrite history.

00:58:53Should I take it?

00:58:56I think...

00:58:57I didn't ask

00:58:58what you think.

00:59:00I asked what you feel.

00:59:02I feel that

00:59:03in a world

00:59:03that makes

00:59:04very little sense

00:59:05that everything

00:59:07happens for a reason.

00:59:08I believe that

00:59:09everything

00:59:09is exactly

00:59:11how it's supposed to be.

00:59:14I also believe

00:59:15that all of

00:59:16the history books

00:59:17cannot

00:59:18be wrong.

00:59:19so you do feel

00:59:21I should marry him.

00:59:36Nick filled me in

00:59:37about Adam.

00:59:37Oh, yes.

00:59:38I'm certain

00:59:39the fates are having

00:59:40a laugh at us.

00:59:41Do you want to talk

00:59:41about it?

00:59:42What is there to say?

00:59:44Except

00:59:44I guess

00:59:46whatever will be

00:59:47will be.

00:59:49Are those the cards

00:59:50the guests will place

00:59:50on the tree?

00:59:51Yeah.

00:59:52And

00:59:53how did that tradition start?

00:59:55Just let it play out,

00:59:57Ella.

00:59:58How am I supposed

00:59:59to let it just play out?

01:00:01Leave my fate

01:00:02to my father's picking?

01:00:04Just allow myself

01:00:05to marry Rex?

01:00:07Who knows?

01:00:07Maybe he grows on you.

01:00:09I know myself.

01:00:11I know my gut.

01:00:14By the first time

01:00:15I

01:00:15I know what it feels like

01:00:19to fall in love

01:00:19with someone.

01:00:20Someone in particular?

01:00:22No.

01:00:24It doesn't matter.

01:00:26The history books

01:00:26are pretty clear

01:00:27that I marry Rex.

01:00:29To think I will have

01:00:30tasted love

01:00:31and then have

01:00:31to live a life

01:00:32without it.

01:00:34Ella,

01:00:35I really shouldn't

01:00:36be telling you this

01:00:37and I'll probably cause

01:00:39like total

01:00:40dimensional fracture.

01:00:41Oh, I'm pretty sure

01:00:41the damage is already done.

01:00:43In the history books

01:00:44and family accounts

01:00:45and local legend

01:00:46Rex is the one

01:00:48that finds you at sea.

01:00:50He brings you home

01:00:51and the two of you

01:00:52fall madly in love

01:00:53so

01:00:53you will love Rex

01:00:56and it'll be

01:00:57a love

01:00:58for the ages.

01:01:06Adam!

01:01:18It was

01:01:19just on my way

01:01:20to see you.

01:01:20Yes,

01:01:21I've also been

01:01:22meaning to come by

01:01:23I just

01:01:23wasn't sure

01:01:24what to say.

01:01:25Why don't we talk

01:01:26someplace out of the cold?

01:01:29I've been thinking

01:01:30of you

01:01:30how it must have felt

01:01:31these last 20 years.

01:01:32I feel responsible

01:01:35I took you

01:01:36from your home.

01:01:39But I am home.

01:01:40No, I mean

01:01:40your home in the past

01:01:42but it's okay

01:01:43I think I know

01:01:44how I can get you back.

01:01:45Why would I want

01:01:46to do that?

01:01:46I have a life here.

01:01:47I have a sense

01:01:48of purpose

01:01:48and community

01:01:49and even if we try

01:01:51there's no guarantee.

01:01:52No, but we have

01:01:53to try.

01:01:55Adam,

01:01:56there's so

01:01:57much

01:01:58at stake.

01:01:59Look around you

01:01:59this could all

01:02:00be affected

01:02:01and I fear

01:02:02if we don't go back

01:02:03I won't be able

01:02:03to fulfill my legacy.

01:02:05And if I do go

01:02:05with you

01:02:06I fear I won't

01:02:06fulfill mine.

01:02:07Look,

01:02:08I understand

01:02:09your concern.

01:02:09I do

01:02:10but when I lived

01:02:11in our time

01:02:12I was adrift.

01:02:13I didn't feel at home.

01:02:14I had no friends

01:02:15or family

01:02:16and for a long while

01:02:17I wished for a

01:02:18different life.

01:02:19Yes.

01:02:20I have a wonderful

01:02:20life here.

01:02:22Why would I want

01:02:23to give all that up

01:02:23to go back to 1905?

01:02:25Call it fate

01:02:26or luck

01:02:26or whatever

01:02:27but whatever happened

01:02:28with us

01:02:29with that comet

01:02:30it was meant to be.

01:02:32Perhaps

01:02:32you're meant

01:02:33to do it

01:02:33on your own

01:02:34to rewrite history.

01:02:36If you believe

01:02:37in your dream

01:02:37and your vision

01:02:38for it

01:02:38everything will

01:02:41work out.

01:02:43But then

01:02:43why am I here?

01:02:45I wish I knew.

01:02:53Thank you so much

01:02:54for your time.

01:02:56Merry Christmas!

01:02:57Hey,

01:02:58I was looking for you.

01:02:58Oh,

01:02:59hi.

01:03:00What, uh,

01:03:01how are you doing?

01:03:03I discovered

01:03:04the Giving House

01:03:04does events

01:03:05with the coffee shop

01:03:06during the holidays

01:03:06to raise awareness.

01:03:08I, um,

01:03:10wanted to take

01:03:10my mind off everything

01:03:11so I decided

01:03:13to show the volunteers

01:03:14a little gratitude

01:03:14and did some

01:03:16Christmas shopping.

01:03:17Nice.

01:03:18Nice.

01:03:18Where, uh,

01:03:20where'd you get the money?

01:03:21Oh,

01:03:21the gold coins I have?

01:03:23Yeah.

01:03:23You're right.

01:03:24Turns out

01:03:24they're worth a fortune.

01:03:26Hey, Ella.

01:03:27Mm-hmm.

01:03:27I got you this.

01:03:29Nick,

01:03:29this is one of our volunteers,

01:03:31Ada.

01:03:31Hi.

01:03:32Hi.

01:03:32Named after her

01:03:33great-grandmother.

01:03:35Oh, wow.

01:03:35I was just telling Ella

01:03:36that the Giving House

01:03:37helped my great-grandmother

01:03:39secure a home

01:03:39and find a better job.

01:03:40Her family became

01:03:41one of the most prosperous

01:03:42in Newport

01:03:43and still one of the

01:03:44largest contributors

01:03:45to the Giving House.

01:03:45That's great.

01:03:47Come on.

01:03:47Let's take a walk.

01:03:48Sure.

01:03:49Nice meeting you.

01:03:50What a perfect night.

01:03:51You seem energized.

01:03:53Look, I was thinking

01:03:54we talked to Adam

01:03:55and then-

01:03:55I've spoken to him.

01:03:56And?

01:03:57Well,

01:03:57you've decided to stay here.

01:03:59I think I should, too.

01:04:00Wouldn't it be grand?

01:04:03No.

01:04:04Why not?

01:04:05There's a world

01:04:06of good I can do

01:04:07here in 2025.

01:04:09No.

01:04:09They meet you.

01:04:15Ada

01:04:16needs you.

01:04:17The Giving House

01:04:18would not exist

01:04:19if you think of

01:04:20all the people

01:04:20you've helped.

01:04:22Not to mention

01:04:22you have an entire

01:04:23you have an entire

01:04:26life waiting for you

01:04:27with Rex.

01:04:28Nicholas McManny,

01:04:30do you not have

01:04:31any feelings for me?

01:04:31Of course I have feelings for me.

01:04:33Then why are you

01:04:33so set on pushing me

01:04:35into the arms

01:04:36of another man?

01:04:36Because it's the right

01:04:37thing to do.

01:04:39that sometimes

01:04:40caring about someone

01:04:42means letting them go.

01:04:44Sometimes caring for someone

01:04:45means fighting for them.

01:04:46Bella.

01:04:47What will you fight for?

01:04:48What will you love?

01:04:49If not me,

01:04:50if not this,

01:04:51then what?

01:05:01It's not the way

01:05:02it's supposed to be.

01:05:04Listen,

01:05:05I'm going to do

01:05:05everything I can

01:05:06to help you

01:05:08get back home.

01:05:09What about you, Nick?

01:05:12When will you

01:05:13ever be home?

01:05:16Ella?

01:05:16Mind if I join you?

01:05:33Yes,

01:05:33you're actually

01:05:34saving me a trip.

01:05:35I was about to come

01:05:36find you.

01:05:36One of those, please.

01:05:38I spoke with Ella

01:05:46last night.

01:05:49If you're going

01:05:49to try to convince me

01:05:50to go back,

01:05:51I'll tell you the same

01:05:51thing I told Ella.

01:05:53I have a life here.

01:05:55In 1905,

01:05:57both my parents

01:05:57have passed.

01:05:58I was an only child

01:05:59and the few people

01:05:59I know in Newport

01:06:00are all gone.

01:06:01if you don't

01:06:02catch that portal

01:06:03and the comet

01:06:05passes by,

01:06:05you two are both

01:06:06stuck here

01:06:06for another 20 years.

01:06:07Would that be so bad?

01:06:08Yes.

01:06:09Yes, it would.

01:06:10Adam or Rex

01:06:10or whoever you are,

01:06:11you have to go

01:06:12back with Ella.

01:06:13We have no chemistry.

01:06:14Then build

01:06:15some chemistry.

01:06:16I promise you,

01:06:16if you get to know her,

01:06:17there's no chance

01:06:19you are not

01:06:19going to fall for her.

01:06:21Come to the ball.

01:06:22Come to the ball

01:06:23and then you both

01:06:24can sail away together.

01:06:25To a time

01:06:26where I've been gone

01:06:26for seven days

01:06:27yet I'm 20 years older

01:06:29and to do what?

01:06:30Enjoy all the

01:06:30turn-of-the-century

01:06:31comforts and a few

01:06:32world wars?

01:06:33What would I even

01:06:34do there, Nick?

01:06:35You would love

01:06:36and you would be

01:06:37loved by an

01:06:38amazing woman.

01:06:41Look, the thing is

01:06:42I already have

01:06:44an amazing woman.

01:06:46Her name is Maven

01:06:47and we're engaged

01:06:48to be married

01:06:49this summer.

01:06:53Does Ella know this?

01:06:54Look, I want

01:06:55to help her

01:06:56and I believe

01:06:57I have a way

01:06:58to make sure

01:06:58she finds

01:06:59the correct location.

01:07:00Come on,

01:07:00let me show you something.

01:07:01Okay, I believe

01:07:03the Christmas comet

01:07:03will be visible

01:07:04over Newport

01:07:05starting at 10 p.m.

01:07:06So in theory

01:07:07that's when

01:07:08the two-hour window

01:07:08would begin?

01:07:09Yes.

01:07:10The one thing

01:07:10that bothers me

01:07:11is why did

01:07:12Ella and I

01:07:13both see

01:07:13the same comet

01:07:14but come out

01:07:15in different

01:07:15time periods?

01:07:16I think

01:07:17it's because

01:07:18we were both

01:07:18at different coordinates

01:07:19when we entered

01:07:20the portal.

01:07:21Do you remember

01:07:21the coordinates

01:07:22you found her at?

01:07:22Yeah, it was

01:07:2341 degrees

01:07:25longitude

01:07:25by minus 71

01:07:26latitude.

01:07:28Okay.

01:07:28If every section

01:07:30of this protractor

01:07:30is 10 years

01:07:31with 1905

01:07:33Newport being

01:07:33at zero

01:07:34So then

01:07:34120 years

01:07:36into the future

01:07:37would match

01:07:38the exact coordinates

01:07:38where Ella

01:07:39appeared?

01:07:40Yes.

01:07:40Now,

01:07:41I came in

01:07:42at these coordinates

01:07:43here

01:07:44which would signify

01:07:45100 years.

01:07:46It's 2005.

01:07:48It's 20 years

01:07:49earlier based on

01:07:50where you were

01:07:51in the water.

01:07:52That means

01:07:52that if she

01:07:53stays the course

01:07:54on Christmas Eve

01:07:55and sails

01:07:56to the coordinates

01:07:56that you just

01:07:57gave me

01:07:57that should be

01:07:59her best chance

01:07:59of getting back

01:08:00to 1905.

01:08:06Nick,

01:08:06there's something

01:08:06else I didn't

01:08:07tell you.

01:08:08What's that?

01:08:09That in addition

01:08:10to selling you

01:08:11the boat

01:08:11I also had

01:08:12to make sure

01:08:12on December

01:08:1318th,

01:08:142025

01:08:14just before dusk

01:08:16I somehow

01:08:17get you out

01:08:17to sea.

01:08:18What's the rescue

01:08:19you sent me?

01:08:20There was

01:08:21no rescue.

01:08:22I was just

01:08:23following the

01:08:23orders from

01:08:24the letter.

01:08:26Look,

01:08:27I'll meet you

01:08:27both at the ball

01:08:28and I'll make

01:08:29sure she gets

01:08:29off safe

01:08:30but that's

01:08:30all I can

01:08:30promise.

01:08:32I'm not going

01:08:32back.

01:08:33You look beautiful.

01:09:00Look at you.

01:09:01I've never worn

01:09:08a dress like

01:09:08this before.

01:09:09You look amazing.

01:09:10Guess where

01:09:11I got it.

01:09:12Nordstrom Rack!

01:09:14You're gorgeous.

01:09:15Oh, Christine.

01:09:16This is stunning.

01:09:19Look.

01:09:20Look at what

01:09:21you've accomplished.

01:09:22I'm so proud

01:09:23of you.

01:09:24It's all

01:09:25because of you.

01:09:26Anything that

01:09:27I am is because

01:09:28of women like you

01:09:29who paved the way.

01:09:31you're going

01:09:33to make me cry.

01:09:35Oh,

01:09:35I have a gift

01:09:36for you

01:09:37from the past.

01:09:38Oh.

01:09:38I think it will

01:09:39prove useful.

01:09:40Oh my goodness.

01:09:43It's beautiful.

01:09:44Remember,

01:09:45a press against

01:09:45the cheek

01:09:46signals you love

01:09:47someone.

01:09:48So when you

01:09:49don't know

01:09:49what to say,

01:09:50let your fan

01:09:51do the talking.

01:09:53now.

01:09:56How much time

01:09:57do we have?

01:09:58I set sail

01:09:59at ten o'clock.

01:10:01Then let's

01:10:02make the most

01:10:03of it.

01:10:03Yes.

01:10:04Let's.

01:10:10Hi.

01:10:11You clean up

01:10:12nice.

01:10:13I was going to

01:10:13say the same

01:10:14thing about you.

01:10:17Say,

01:10:18did you ever

01:10:18learn about

01:10:19Victorian fan

01:10:19signals?

01:10:20Yeah.

01:10:21Women use them

01:10:22to convey

01:10:22secret messages,

01:10:23right?

01:10:23Right.

01:10:24Yes.

01:10:24Yeah.

01:10:25So,

01:10:26an open fan

01:10:27to the side

01:10:28means that

01:10:29you want

01:10:29someone to

01:10:30wait for you.

01:10:30And a fan

01:10:31pressed against

01:10:32the cheek

01:10:33means that

01:10:33you love

01:10:33fancy someone.

01:10:35And a closed

01:10:37fan to the heart

01:10:38means that

01:10:38you've won

01:10:39the person's

01:10:39love.

01:10:40You know

01:10:41what my

01:10:41favorite one

01:10:41was?

01:10:47What's that

01:10:48one mean?

01:10:50that you

01:10:51want to be

01:10:52kissed?

01:11:20What do you

01:11:28think?

01:11:29I think

01:11:30that never

01:11:31in the middle

01:11:33of history

01:11:34has anyone

01:11:35met more

01:11:36beautiful.

01:11:37Careful.

01:11:39I might

01:11:39swoon again.

01:11:40I might

01:11:40catch you.

01:11:42Any word

01:11:43from Adam?

01:11:44No.

01:11:45We have

01:11:48to go.

01:11:48Why?

01:11:50I thought

01:11:50we said

01:11:51ten o'clock.

01:11:51We did,

01:11:52but I want

01:11:53to make

01:11:53sure you

01:11:53get off

01:11:53safe.

01:11:57Isn't

01:11:57there time

01:11:57for one

01:11:59dance

01:12:00before we

01:12:00go?

01:12:03I think

01:12:04so.

01:12:04You

01:12:06seem

01:12:08sad.

01:12:13I am

01:12:16a bit.

01:12:19Why?

01:12:24You get

01:12:25to go

01:12:25home.

01:12:26Nick,

01:12:27the question

01:12:29still stands.

01:12:32When will

01:12:33you ever be

01:12:34home?

01:12:34When I

01:12:38kissed you

01:12:38that moment,

01:12:42I was

01:12:45home.

01:12:51Adam,

01:12:51this is my

01:12:52fiancee,

01:12:54Maven.

01:12:55Hi.

01:12:57It's nice

01:12:57to meet you,

01:12:58Ella.

01:12:58It's nice

01:12:59to meet you,

01:12:59Maven.

01:12:59The

01:13:09giving house

01:13:10doesn't exist.

01:13:11This is all

01:13:12my fault.

01:13:13Lisa,

01:13:13we can fix

01:13:14this.

01:13:15We have to

01:13:16go now,

01:13:17okay?

01:13:17Okay.

01:13:21Let's go.

01:13:22Bye.

01:13:27Hmm.

01:13:29I'm sorry

01:13:30to disappoint

01:13:30you, Ella.

01:13:32But you

01:13:32must understand

01:13:33my home is

01:13:34here.

01:13:35I understand.

01:13:37I do.

01:13:42Maven is

01:13:43a lucky

01:13:43woman.

01:13:46Goodbye,

01:13:47Adam.

01:13:48Goodbye.

01:13:58I, uh,

01:13:59I think this

01:14:01is what I'm

01:14:02supposed to

01:14:02tell you

01:14:02that things

01:14:04will never

01:14:05be the same

01:14:05without you

01:14:06here.

01:14:08But in this

01:14:09case,

01:14:09it needs to

01:14:09be.

01:14:11I hope

01:14:11you think

01:14:12of me.

01:14:13Only

01:14:13every day.

01:14:15Everything

01:14:16you've done

01:14:16here,

01:14:17everything

01:14:17you've

01:14:18inspired,

01:14:19I'm very

01:14:19thankful

01:14:20that all

01:14:23will have

01:14:23been worth

01:14:23it just

01:14:27to have

01:14:27known

01:14:27to have

01:14:30been home

01:14:31with you.

01:14:33And I have

01:14:34something for

01:14:35you, um,

01:14:36nothing big,

01:14:37just maybe you

01:14:38can put in your

01:14:40secret ornament

01:14:41collection.

01:14:44If not, it can be

01:14:45a souvenir from

01:14:46the future.

01:14:47With you.

01:14:49Always.

01:14:51I'll cherish it.

01:14:52You have to go.

01:14:59You have to go.

01:15:10Come on.

01:16:20It's impossible for us to be together.

01:16:26I'm ready to go home now.

01:16:29I know what love is.

01:16:32And I'm ready to share it with others.

01:16:34Welcome home, Ella.

01:16:43Ada!

01:16:49Miss Ella!

01:16:51By God's grace, Jehovah!

01:16:53We prayed for you.

01:16:54Your prayers worked.

01:16:55Thank you for giving me a reason to come home.

01:17:02If I may, what day is it?

01:17:04Why, it's Christmas Eve, ma'am.

01:17:06Use this for your Christmas dinner.

01:17:07Oh.

01:17:07And all else will fall into place.

01:17:09I promise.

01:17:10How can I ever repay your kindness?

01:17:12By doing the same for others when you are able.

01:17:15Merry Christmas.

01:17:16Merry Christmas, Miss Ella.

01:17:30Mr. Edward Benson and Mrs. Edith Benson.

01:17:35Still no sign of Miss Ella, sir.

01:17:37I can't feign joy when my Ella's still missing.

01:17:45Another tree?

01:17:46We made that in Ella's name.

01:17:48She intended to start a proper charity to help this community.

01:17:51And we see it as a fitting way to welcome her home.

01:17:55Much of Newport has already donated whatever they can.

01:17:59Bless you, Sadie.

01:18:09Sadie!

01:18:10Charles!

01:18:13Thank heavens!

01:18:14We feared the worst!

01:18:15It's good to be home.

01:18:18His father.

01:18:19Greeting the guests, Miss.

01:18:20He's been so worried.

01:18:22I placed your gown upstairs with the faith that you would return home.

01:18:25I'll be right up to help you dress.

01:18:27Thank you, Sadie.

01:18:28I'd like to thank you all for coming.

01:18:37It is with a heavy heart that I must announce that my dear Ella is not...

01:18:47Oh, my child.

01:18:55Father.

01:18:55I was so worried.

01:18:57I thought I'd lost you.

01:18:59I was lost.

01:19:00But I found my way back.

01:19:02Come, my dear.

01:19:04We have much to celebrate.

01:19:06Everett Thornton is here and is very eager to meet you.

01:19:10Father.

01:19:11I must speak with you.

01:19:14In private?

01:19:16Of course.

01:19:17Everybody, please, enjoy yourselves.

01:19:25What's happening here?

01:19:27What's happening is that I have seen the life that waits for me.

01:19:32And I want it.

01:19:34I owe it to others.

01:19:36To myself.

01:19:37I cannot marry Everett Thornton.

01:19:43But you haven't even met him.

01:19:45He's come all this way.

01:19:47You've always wanted me to be someone I am not.

01:19:52But I understand now it stems from worry.

01:19:54Of course I worry.

01:19:57I love you.

01:19:58I know you do.

01:20:00Right now, it might not seem that I can be both who you want me to be and who I'm destined to be.

01:20:07I think that we'll find, in time, they're the same person.

01:20:15Father, if I am to marry, it must be for love.

01:20:20And I'm starting my charity.

01:20:24I hope to do both with your blessing.

01:20:27And do you have someone you love?

01:20:31May I present to you Mr. Rex Grafton.

01:20:37How did you...

01:20:46It's quite the story.

01:20:48And you are...

01:20:49Father, may I present...

01:20:53Rex Grafton.

01:20:56The man who rescued me.

01:20:59Ah, you're the navigator.

01:21:02Sir.

01:21:03You found her?

01:21:04My eternal thanks.

01:21:06What can I ever do?

01:21:07To repay you.

01:21:09It was my honor, sir.

01:21:13The half-stance.

01:21:16Yes.

01:21:17Yes.

01:21:17Wait, Christine.

01:21:42Look.

01:21:42I hope that means she got home safely.

01:21:47Hi.

01:21:48Hi.

01:21:48I'm so sorry to interrupt, but, um...

01:21:51I was told to give this to you on the stroke of midnight on Christmas Eve.

01:21:56It's been in my family's lockbox for generations.

01:21:58I can't believe we finally get to see what's inside.

01:22:00You are full of surprises, Rex Grafton.

01:22:16How is this possible?

01:22:18When I left you at that dock, I realized that if Adam was not going to accompany you on the journey, I could.

01:22:26I got a boat and I followed you.

01:22:27And I got to thinking, he said his parents had passed.

01:22:31He was an only child.

01:22:32He wasn't from here.

01:22:34He had no relatives to speak of.

01:22:36And my father never met him, except my courier.

01:22:39Correct.

01:22:40So, maybe he was the Rex Grafton that was sent out.

01:22:44But I was the Rex Grafton that brought you home, so therefore...

01:22:49It was you.

01:22:52It was always you.

01:22:54Yeah.

01:22:54So, we are to marry?

01:23:02If you'll have me.

01:23:04If not, I'll be stuck here for another 20 years.

01:23:09You had me at Rex Grafton.

01:23:12Merry Christmas, Ellen.

01:23:24Merry Christmas, everyone.

01:23:54Merry Christmas, everyone.

01:23:56Merry Christmas, everybody.

01:23:58Merry Christmas, everyone.

01:24:20Merry Christmas, everyone.

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