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Timecop (1997) Season 1 Episode 1
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00:16Oh
00:38What brings you out on a night like this?
00:43Looking for some company?
00:46Are you all right?
00:49What's the matter?
00:50Cat got your tongue?
00:53Come on, love
00:54You're scaring me
00:56Oh my God
00:57Oh my God, you're in
00:58You jack
01:02Help me
01:04Help me
01:29Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! Help! You just killed Jack the Ripper.
01:53Thank you, sir. I thought I was a goner for sure.
01:57The knight's still young, Catherine.
01:59How do you know my name?
02:01You're famous, Catherine. You were murdered by Jack the Ripper.
02:05But you just killed him.
02:07No, Catherine. I just became him.
02:16Help! Help! Help!
02:24The year 2007. Time travel is a reality.
02:28And it's fallen to criminal evidence.
02:31With history itself at risk, the United States has formed the Time Enforcement Commission.
02:36A top-secret agency responsible for policing the temporal stream.
03:04And a lead team of agents track unlawful travelers across time.
03:08Their mission, protect the past. Preserve the future.
03:12These agents are known as Time Cops.
03:25Just relax, Logan. They're only holograms. It's not going to hurt.
03:30Famous last words from the esteemed TEC Science and Research Division.
03:34If you're not completely still, you'll induce vertigo.
03:42Hemmings, didn't you tell me two months ago you're only going to be here for a week?
03:45Temporal Systems Evaluation is an ongoing project.
03:48I'm here as long as I need to be.
03:50Besides, I find you much more resilient than those guinea pigs.
04:01Okay, slow it down.
04:05It's going too fast. It's giving me a headache.
04:07That's because you're trying to make sense of everything you're seeing. Stop thinking.
04:11Not too easy for you, Logan.
04:14Oh.
04:15Well, if you want my professional opinion, your little migraine machine is a bust.
04:19It's called a sublimator.
04:20And those images it was bombarding at you were absorbed directly into your subconscious.
04:25Great. So it's a waste of time I won't remember having.
04:32So you wouldn't have any idea what was going on in New York, Maine, 1954?
04:37Dial-Up for Murder was the number one movie at the box office.
04:40The pajama game opened on Broadway.
04:42And Bloomingdale's introduced the first automatic coffee machine.
04:46How the hell did I know that?
04:47I just downloaded your subconscious mind with information about 1954 New York.
04:51And I can do the same thing for any era.
04:54Great.
04:54Great. I'm sure every Jeopardy contestant in the world would love five minutes with you.
04:58It's not about trivial pursuit, Logan.
05:00Try to remember that every time you travel to the past, you potentially endanger the future.
05:04You mentioned television to someone in 1850.
05:07All of a sudden, World War I is broadcast live on CNN.
05:10Yeah, yeah. I know the dangers.
05:11And I know that you have a natural inclination to help people beyond your mission parameters.
05:16So think of this as a safeguard.
05:20Only safeguard I need is my instinct.
05:23Oh, your instinct.
05:25Okay.
05:26And then next time, just pack a loincloth and a club.
05:31Officers Logan and Hemmings report to Captain Matuszak in the dome.
05:40Logan.
05:41Hemmings.
05:45We've got level three.
05:47We isolated the ripple's origin.
05:481888, London, England.
05:50What about a specific day?
05:52Any second, we're just narrowing the field scan.
05:58Number seven.
06:011888.
06:11Funny, I didn't hear a knock.
06:13Clearly, our chief historian is conducting serious research here.
06:16I don't expect a time monkey like you to understand this.
06:19But tabloids give you the real pulse on the culture.
06:22They're the spice rack of history.
06:24Always adding a little flavor.
06:26Enough.
06:28Easter, what do you know about 1888 London?
06:30Ah, Victorian England.
06:32Britannia ruled the waves and inflicted Sherlock Holmes, Oliver Twist, and Peter Pan on the rest of us.
06:38Does November 7th have any particular significance?
06:41Give me a second.
06:48Oh, well.
06:49Looks like I forgot Victorian England's most dubious contribution, the first modern serial killer.
06:54November 7th, 1888, was the day Jack the Ripper murdered his fourth victim.
07:00One Catherine Eddowes.
07:02Oh, wait a minute.
07:03There's some serious revisionist history going on here.
07:07Remember, the body of Sir William Gull, distinguished Harley Street physician, was discovered ten feet from Catherine Eddowes.
07:12But I thought the Ripper only targeted women.
07:15Yeah, he did.
07:16Five ladies of the night, to be exact.
07:17The problem is, William Gull was the Ripper.
07:22What are you talking about, Jack?
07:23The Ripper was never caught.
07:25That's because those yahoos at Scotland Yard couldn't find a kilt in the spin cycle.
07:29I, on the other hand, have studied the evidence and am of the opinion that William Gull was Jack.
07:34He's the only likely suspect.
07:36If Gull was the Ripper and he was killed on November 7th, how then could he murder his fifth and
07:41final victim, Mary Kelly, two days later?
07:44That, Officer Hemmings, is a true time paradox.
07:48And I'd suggest the source of your ripple.
07:51Someone must have gone back and taken out Jack the Ripper.
07:54Well, Mary Kelly still died, so obviously this guy is no saint.
07:58Maybe he went back to take the Ripper's place.
08:01Whew.
08:02If you're right, I don't want to think about the domino effect this sick puppy could have on history.
08:08Suit up, Logan.
08:10Temporal insertion at six minutes.
08:23How was your crash course in Victorian England?
08:26Ah, some of them may have to come up with an ass with a chaser.
08:30I can't believe I have to go back and save Jack the Ripper.
08:33You don't.
08:33Sir William Gull died six months after his last victim's death.
08:36According to Easter, Gull's life had no real historical repercussions beyond the Ripper murders.
08:42Well, what's the plan, then?
08:44Catch this no Ripper.
08:45We know he's going to complete Gull's work and murder Mary Kelly.
08:48She died on November 9th.
08:49Her body was dumped in Dorset Mews in a district of London called Whitechapel.
08:53So we're going to put you back in the early evening.
08:55Then she'll give you enough time to get to Dorset Mews and grab this guy.
08:59And save Mary Kelly.
09:00Oh, don't start, all right?
09:02You know the rules.
09:03History says she died that night.
09:05It's your job to preserve history.
09:06Get in, get out, don't stir the pot.
09:08Think you can handle that, Logan?
09:12I'll just have to care of my instinct.
09:34Logan, we're going to put you down within a five-block radius of Dorset Mews.
09:38It's in the shadow of Big Ben.
09:39You can't miss it.
09:40As long as I don't land on a steeple.
09:42If you know the drill, we can get you in the ballpark.
09:44We don't know exactly where you'll drop.
09:46Still have a scar from landing on the White House fence.
09:49Clear the platform.
09:57Clear the platform.
10:05Initiate temporal stream.
10:09Just another brick in the wall.
10:2110.
10:2810.
10:3010.
10:3010.
10:346.
10:355.
10:374
10:383
10:40Beckian polarity achieved
11:22That means I can kiss you
11:28I'll take that back
11:30Charles, help me
11:31That won't be necessary, I can find the door all by myself
11:36Who the devil are you?
11:38It's really a long and very complicated story
11:41Call the constable Charles
11:43He tried to attack me
11:47Come on, put him up
11:49I'll sort you out in short time
11:51Listen pal, I don't want to embarrass you
11:53In front of your wife on your wedding night
11:54So why don't you just let me pass
11:58I was home county's boxing champ
12:00Two years running
12:14Thank you
12:15Now where are his clothes?
12:20See you tomorrow
12:25Come on
12:28Come on
12:34Come on
12:38Come on
12:44Come on
12:44Come on
12:45Come on
13:04Oh, my God.
13:17All right, Kelly.
13:48Oh, you picked the wrong night to sew your roots.
13:51And you picked the wrong night to kill an innocent woman.
13:53Oh, the world's not going to miss one more streetwalker.
13:56Besides, it was her destiny.
13:59Well, I'm your destiny.
14:01And you're going down.
14:15Oh, you do not have any idea who you're dealing with.
14:20I'd rather deal.
14:26I'd say I'm dealing with a dead man.
14:32Go back inside!
14:49Go this way.
14:55That's him.
14:56That's the man who attacked my wife.
14:59There's much for getting in and out.
15:01What on earth?
15:09Back away from him, sir.
15:12He's the Ripper.
15:14Hold on, guys.
15:17Your work speaks for itself.
15:19I didn't do this.
15:21Tell it to the hangman.
15:22Jack.
15:30What don't you understand?
15:32Don't you people invent English?
15:34I've been telling you all night.
15:35I am not Jack the Ripper.
15:36I was chasing him.
15:37You were just a good smear tonight.
15:39Pull the other one.
15:41Inspector Wells.
15:43This is the Ripper.
15:45Oh, congratulations, Constable.
15:48Well, I guess you bobbies can show a Scotland Yard boy's a thing or two.
15:51Thank you, Inspector.
15:52I take it that you have an eyewitness to the crime and a murder weapon?
15:55Well, not exactly.
15:57So then this man is just a suspect?
15:59Which means there's still an investigation,
16:00which leads me to believe I am not out of a job yet.
16:04No, sir.
16:05Then get the crowd out of here and cordon off the area,
16:08or I won't be able to say the same about you.
16:13Finally a cool head.
16:14Inspector, my name is Jack Logan.
16:16Oh, as if this case wasn't enough of a circus.
16:20An American is thrust into the fray.
16:23Please, we haven't got much time.
16:24Oh, I think you'll find me to be a very efficient man, Mr. Logan.
16:32So far, I can place you at the scene of the crime,
16:35and I have an irate colonel who claims you assaulted him and his bride,
16:41then stole his clothes.
16:43All right, I admit I borrowed his clothes,
16:46but everything else is completely false.
16:48I pray someone can vouch for you.
16:52She can.
16:57And who might you be?
16:59Anne Thompson.
17:00And your occupation?
17:01You know what I am.
17:03Am I to assume that Mr. Logan was in your paid company?
17:07No.
17:08He was fighting another man outside my door.
17:10Can you describe this other man?
17:14I'll never forget him.
17:15He had a face of pure evil.
17:17That's the Ripper.
17:19You're coming with me to Scotland Yard.
17:21Didn't you hear what you just said?
17:22I can hardly take the word of a fallen woman
17:24over that of a colonel in Her Majesty's army.
17:26So much for equal rights.
17:28Curb your tongue, Mr. Logan.
17:30You're in serious trouble.
17:31And so is this woman.
17:33She's the only one who saw the Ripper's face,
17:34and I can guarantee he'll be back for her.
17:41Lads, I want two of you to escort this woman home
17:44and stand guard outside her building.
17:46Two isn't going to be enough.
17:47Lock him up.
17:49I'm not there.
17:56Lock's moving towards the level five.
17:58I'm scanning everything from the London Times to the Lambeth Post.
18:01There are still no anomalies and no red flags.
18:03Something's changed in 1888.
18:05It hasn't shown up yet.
18:06Then why is the ripple turning into a tidal wave?
18:08It's a computer, not a crystal ball.
18:10There may be another problem.
18:12We've never had anyone back this far for so long.
18:15We still don't know what effect such prolonged temporal displacement has on human molecular structure.
18:20In English, Hemmings?
18:22Theoretically, the longer Logan stays back,
18:24the greater the chance he could be squashed like a temporal grape.
18:29Sounded less painful the first time.
18:31Theoretically.
18:32How long is too long?
18:34I haven't determined that yet.
18:36I thought you two were problem solvers.
18:39Widen the scan.
18:41Something's going on back there.
18:42It's your job to find out what it is.
18:50Temporal grape?
18:55Temporal grape?
19:06Temporal grape?
19:09Temporal grape?
19:10Temporal grape?
19:10Temporal grape?
19:11Temporal grape?
19:12Temporal grape?
19:14Temporal grape?
19:16Temporal grape?
19:23you've got no passport there's no record of you in any transatlantic ships and log
19:30what did you do mr logan fall out of the sky and right into the middle of my murder inquiry
19:36i know a lot about this case and i want to help you oh you wouldn't be the first murderer
19:40who
19:40wanted to assist in his own investigation inspector both you and i know that i did not
19:45kill mary kelly how did you know the deceased woman's name we only identified her 10 minutes
19:52ago oh keep going the more you talk the more you incriminate yourself the more we talk the less
19:57time we have to catch the ripper you've already wasted a day i have a suspicion he's right in
20:01front of me the ripper's first three victims were killed with a knife mary kelly and katherine eddowes
20:06were slashed to death with something different a weapon which has your coroner scratching his head
20:10only the murderer could know that
20:20the ripper is using a concentrated energy source
20:25that can cut through anything energy source i mean what lunacy is this i mean you're beginning
20:33to sound like my nephew herbert at least he confines his preposterous fantasies to the realm
20:40of fiction you got a case you can't solve and a killer on the loose who has no intention of
20:44stopping
20:44if you don't let me help more women are going to die starting with anne thompson i'm contacting the
20:50american embassy in the morning and you better hope they can explain your enigmatic presence
20:55otherwise i'm charging you with murder you have no idea what you're dealing with there's one thing
21:01i've learned about killers they want to be caught because on their heart of hearts they know
21:06they're guilty you're gonna have to trust me on this one the ripper just wants to be famous
21:26many have tried many have died
21:34is that the thames down there that's right biggest sewer in landon if the fall don't kill you that
21:41will
21:44i gotta get out of here
21:46who doesn't
21:49my last cellmate went crazy
21:52when he got out he actually moved to australia
21:56now that's hell on earth
22:00what are you in here for
22:03they think i'm jack the ripper
22:05wow
22:07the only way you're gonna get out of here mate
22:10is to find a chisel
22:13and dig
22:29what kind of watch is that
22:31kind of lets travel through time
22:34i've been picking their own pockets
22:36so i have
22:54good evening
22:55gentlemen
22:57you know you barbies really should carry guns
23:05i'm looking for the so-called ripper
23:17down here
23:36i want my pocket watch
23:43don't you mean your temple controller
23:48my fellow time traveler
23:51and from your earlier heroics i assume that you're a member of the esteemed tec time cop
23:59i still want my watch back
24:00i was thinking it might be safe here if i tossed it in the river
24:03oh wait
24:05what if some peasant got a hold of it at low time
24:08suddenly you've introduced time travel to a world that hasn't even grasped the electric light bulb
24:15then i'll just have to keep it close to me
24:18you wouldn't want to destroy your ticket home
24:20oh you are wasting my time officer
24:23can't you see that i am in the process of improving history
24:26how can you improve anything by killing more women
24:31jack the ripper was nothing but a sideshow freak
24:34i intend on killing five times as many women as he did
24:42and when i'm finished
24:44history will remember the ripper as the one true homicidal genius
24:51i'll tell you what
24:53i'm gonna start with your little dorset muse harlot
24:55but if i've got your time piece
24:58are you ever gonna get back to enjoy your fame
25:01that's all you're really after
25:04oh don't you ever presume to understand me
25:07i'm a visionary
25:09once you've mastered the art of murder
25:12you've touched the face of god
25:16you're not a visionary
25:18you're a psychopath
25:19you're a psychopath
25:44you're a psychopath
25:47you're a psychopath
25:49to get to you.
25:53Haven't had that one before.
25:55I don't know what you're expecting,
25:56but I've got my standards.
25:58That's not the reason I'm here.
26:00Go.
26:01Because you didn't do me no favours with the police.
26:03They've been out there all night, scaring away customers.
26:05That's the least of your problems.
26:07The man you saw was Jack the Ripper,
26:09and he's coming back to get you.
26:16You've been troubled from the moment
26:17I laid out on you.
26:19You knew I should have kept me door shut.
26:23You went out of your way to save my life.
26:26Now let me save yours.
26:28I can take care of myself.
26:30Been doing it since I was 12.
26:35Are these yours?
26:37They're nothing.
26:41You've got real talent.
26:48Well, I'm just a working girl.
26:51Draws pretty pictures, take her mind off her life.
26:54Believe me, men don't pay me for my pictures.
26:59Maybe one day they will.
27:01No, on my luck, that won't be till I'm dead and buried.
27:05Oh, I think it might be sooner than that.
27:09They're about to be published in the Whitechapel Gazette.
27:12Are you mad or something?
27:14It's a tabloid, right?
27:15Yeah, but they never print one of my sketches.
27:18Well, they would if you offered them a sketch of Jack the Ripper.
27:21Tabloids are always looking for something to spice up a story.
27:24What could be better?
27:29Why don't you start drawing?
27:55What could be better?
28:25What could be better?
28:38Are you ...
28:46The water-free prue.
28:46Have you come with a thriller?
28:46What could be better?
28:46Bye-bye.
28:46Bye-bye.
28:53Bye-bye.
29:08How does it look?
29:12All too real.
29:14You really think they'll print it?
29:17Is there anything like the tablets back home that printed in a heartbeat?
29:32Take this to the Whitechapel Gazette and hide somewhere safe.
29:36Whatever you do, don't come back.
29:38The Ripper will be looking for you here.
29:41How do we get past them bobbies?
29:44Play a little fox and hound.
30:01Howdy, boys!
30:13The Ripple just busted through level six.
30:15Hold on to your surfboards.
30:18I've got a live one.
30:19Okay, this is a November 10th, 1888 edition of the Whitechapel Gazette.
30:23Now, when my computer scanned this paper two hours ago, this sketch wasn't there.
30:28Let's magnify it.
30:32Right-hand corner, what does that say?
30:38Logan Graphics, son of a gun, is sending us a message in a bottle.
30:42Run it through the infrared scanner.
30:43I want every inch of the sketch analyzed.
30:59It's a fingerprint.
31:02How did Logan do that?
31:04Nineteenth-century printing data was downloaded in the sublimator.
31:07I guess you can teach a time monkey new tricks.
31:11Now that we have our time traveler's mugshot and fingerprint, let's find out who he is.
31:24This man has a pocket watch in his possession.
31:26Find it.
31:32How are we all?
31:33Thank you, gentlemen.
31:35Yes, sir, Inspector Waltz.
31:37You have no idea what you're holding in your hands.
31:40Well, according to your cellmate, it does more than tell the time.
31:44A man reduced my jail to rubble looking for it, and I want answers, Mr. Logan.
31:49I can't tell you.
31:51Oh, come now.
31:52The last time we spoke, you seemed to have the answers for everything.
31:54The man who destroyed your jail is the Ripper.
31:57You give me that watch back, and I'll help you find him.
32:00That's awfully magnanimous of you, Mr. Logan, but you're still not telling the truth.
32:06And I have no patience for liars.
32:13No!
32:14Do that.
32:21The Ripper is a time traveler.
32:23This watch is his passport back to the future.
32:26I've been sent to stop him.
32:28Truth is, I'm a policeman just like you.
32:33I know if you write stories and read them at the dinner table.
32:38Herbert, I say.
32:39Nobody cares about men from Mars or time machines.
32:45I guess I owe the lad an apology.
32:48Sir, we found the girl coming out of the Whitechapel Gazette.
32:52Where is she?
32:53So officers are escorting her own?
32:55Straight into the Ripper's hands.
32:56Come on.
33:11They're alive, thank God.
33:13That's not who he's after.
33:22When all hands come together, she dies.
33:33Is there no end to the games this man will play?
33:37When do all hands come together?
33:40He's talking about time.
33:42Of course.
33:42All the hands of a clock come together at midnight.
33:44What time is it?
33:4711.45.
33:48Maybe the answer's staring us right in the face.
33:51Big Ben?
33:53But how can you be certain?
33:55Because it's the most famous clock, and this guy thinks he's become the most famous killer in history.
34:08And it looks like we've got a winner.
34:11Our temporal intruder's name is Ian Pascoe.
34:17That's weird.
34:17There's no driver's license or photo ID.
34:20Read me his social security number.
34:22I'll run it and see if he's got an FBI file.
34:33You want to know why Pascoe doesn't have a driver's license?
34:36He can't drive yet.
34:38He's only 13 years old.
34:40You're telling me Logan's fighting a teenager?
34:43Yeah, what happened?
34:44Kid going to a prepubescent rage?
34:46He's fighting the adult Pascoe.
34:49But that means...
34:50Pascoe's from the future, my guess, at least 20 years.
34:53Oh, we need to find this kid today.
34:55Get him into some serious therapy.
34:57It's too late.
34:58He's been missing for two months.
35:00According to his file, he had an altercation with his foster parents.
35:04He poisoned them the next day.
35:08Great.
35:08We can't find him now.
35:09Logan can't stop him then.
35:11Whoever said time is on your side.
35:15Oh!
35:23Inspector Wells, I'm up here.
35:39I'm sure the inspector will understand that this is just between you and me.
35:42One time traveler to another.
35:45Where's the end?
35:47You show me yours.
35:48I'll show you mine.
35:50Give me the watch.
35:53This is no time for games.
35:55That's my point, exactly.
35:57The more you quibble, the more time just...
36:02takes away.
36:04No.
36:11All right, then.
36:13I'll be the mature one, and I'll go first.
36:17I want to illustrate the gravity of my point.
36:23So, I dreamed of this little-fashioned accessory.
36:30And aligned it with C-4.
36:35What do you think?
36:38See, it's calibrated to Big Ben here.
36:40So, I guess you could consider it the ultimate ticking cog.
36:44Look, just between you and me, I wouldn't want to be caught dead in it after midnight.
36:53Oh, don't waste your precious energy.
36:57It's made from an impenetrable alloy.
37:00Just in case you're wondering, that's a little ahead of your time.
37:06I thought we were going to keep this between fellow time travelers.
37:10Miss Thompson raises that interesting time paradox.
37:14Does her life affect yours?
37:16If she dies, will you ever be born?
37:20Yes, the world will be different.
37:21But how?
37:23Well, and that is a Pandora's box you just do not want to open.
37:32So, be a good little boy.
37:34Give me the timepiece, and I'll give you the deactivation code.
37:41You're not a visionary.
37:46You're a coward, and I bet you're not willing to die for this watch.
38:24Give me the code.
38:27You'll have to guess.
38:29Tell me.
38:31I'm from your future.
38:33I know everything.
38:37The code is the day you catch me.
38:52Come on, Logan, think.
38:54You said it was the day you catch him.
38:58He thinks I'm never going to catch him.
39:06I know.
39:08I've been nothing for trouble since you laid eyes on me.
39:26I have no idea how I'm going to explain this to my superiors at Scotland Yard.
39:32Say what I'm going to say.
39:34Ripper escaped through a time door.
39:36I've got a pension to think about.
39:41Then just tell them that Jack the Ripper murders are over.
39:44I still didn't get my man.
39:46Neither did I.
39:52Blasted nephew.
39:54Can't get his nose out of anything.
39:56Allow me, Inspector.
39:57Always wanted to meet H.G. Wells.
40:16You never cease to surprise me, Mr. Logan.
40:21Elementary, my dear Inspector.
40:24Elementary.
40:25Elementary.
40:26Elementary.
40:27Elementary.
40:27Elementary.
40:27Elementary.
40:28Elementary.
40:47Officer Logan, returning from London, 1888.
40:52About time.
41:01The eagle has landed.
41:09Almost had him.
41:10You did the right thing, Logan.
41:12The Ripper spree ended at five victims.
41:14No one else died.
41:15You preserved history in your own unique way.
41:18I know.
41:18I shouldn't have altered that news feed.
41:21Actually, I thought that was a brilliant piece of police work.
41:24Really?
41:25What's one more anonymous sketch of a Ripper suspect?
41:28He's not going to change anything.
41:30I guess I was wrong about your migraine machine.
41:33I guess I misjudged your instinct.
41:39One question, though.
41:41The vault is for retrieve future technology.
41:43Why are you depositing that antique?
41:45You know the golden rule of future tech.
41:48Don't ask.
41:49Don't tell.
41:51Pasco's still out there.
41:52Shouldn't we at least study the watch?
41:55Too dangerous.
41:57What if your scientific curiosity was influenced?
42:00Future has to proceed at its own pace.
42:02You know that.
42:04Just think of me as a safeguard.
42:17Logan, I'd like to give this to you.
42:19This is my first edition of the Time Machine by H.G. Wells.
42:22Oh, thanks, Easter.
42:23I'm touched.
42:24Oh, don't be.
42:24It's worthless.
42:26Your temporal intervention has defiled a classic.
42:29What was once a glorious sea of words on parchment is now punctuated by a series of illustrations.
42:36Like literacy needed another foot in the grave.
42:44Illustrations by Anne Thompson.
43:05I'm going to be a little bit more than a piece of information.
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