[applause]
You already are the oldest president in history.
And I recall that President Kennedy had to go days on end
without sleep during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Is there any doubt that you'd be able to function
- under such circumstances? - [Reagan] Not at all.
I will not make age an issue in this campaign.
I'm not going to exploit for political purposes
my opponent's youth and inexperience.
[audience laughter]
[moderator] Erin Tieng,
you were quoted as saying that your mom
and Missy need you at home.
Sorry to fact-check you, but that's not what Missy said.
[moderator] Correct. Missy said, and I quote,
"I never asked you to be a martyr."
[Erin] That's not fair.
After Dad died, there was nobody else.
My mom couldn't even balance the checkbook on her own, okay?
[Reagan] You're saying your mother sat you down and said,
"Erin, I need you to take care of us forever"?
There was nobody else...
Now you're dead.
What? I'm right here.
You're dead, Erin.
You stood there and watched it happen,
just like you've done with everything in your life.
That's when you were needed.
No.
There was nothing I could do!
[Mac] Oy! Erin!
Wake up!
We're here!
Wake up!
Come on already.
It should be right around here somewhere.
There's nothing here.
There's plenty here.
This is the truck yard for the plant.
But I'm guessing the Brandmans
didn't make it over here so much.
Mac, this is all closed down, just like it was in 2019.
So what or who is still around?
[dance music playing in distance]
What the hell is that?
[chatter in distance]
[music continues]
[cheering]
This is the place.
You sure?
- [music continues] - [indistinct chatter]
What's up?
You must be Little Tiff.
Just "Tiff."
You Big Tony?
Word.
Slide me your hand.
What are you gonna do with them?
[woman] The music and lights were crazy.
[woman 2] That was wild.
[Big Tony] You're gonna go down the hall and to the left.
[man] Are you ready?
- [dance music blaring] - [indistinct chatter]
[laughter]
[Mac] What the fuck?!
♪ ♪
[man] Are you ready?
Okay! Wait here!
I'm going to the stage to find me!
♪ ♪
Your nose!
Aw, shit!
- Are you okay? - Hey! Get off me, psycho!
We're good.
[♪ Future Shock: "Eternal Fire"]
[cheering]
♪ Eternal fire ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Eternal fire ♪♪
[indistinct chatter]
No toilet paper.
Okay, that's gross.
Excuse me.
No water, either.
These people are animals.
Fuckin' KJ.
She's just lucky I held back.
I would've mopped the floor with her ass.
What's wrong with her?
One minute, she's swooping in and rescuing me.
The next minute, she's punching me in the face.
That girl is crazy.
Hey, you listen to me.
You're handling all this like a champ.
Mac...
No, I'm serious.
Rocky Balboa out there needs to get her shit together
and suck it up like the rest of us.
We got enough problems without her flying off the handle
every time she has the slightest inconvenience.
Mac!
Now, don't you start with me now, too.
Will you just look down?
No. No. [groans]
[chuckling]
Yeah, yeah.
You look great.
So, obviously, we wanted to be careful
not to draw the Old Watch
to any of our future selves again.
- We still want to be careful, that is, but... - Hey.
It's okay.
You said they didn't realize
that there are more than two of you, and that's,
with apologies, how many bodies they found.
So they took off and don't realize you're here.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess so.
So, wouldn't it stand to reason
that they're no longer after you?
Yeah.
I guess so.
You're taking all of this really well.
I have to admit, it's a little...
Am I? I guess.
Current theories about the quantum geometry
of space-time suggest that randomly traversable wormholes
through time may exist.
So it only makes sense that you traveled
through something like a wormhole to get here.
[taps key]
Whoa.
So weird.
Hey.
You've been through a lot.
You look exhausted.
You want to crash at my place?
Yeah.
But I need to find the other girls I came with.
There are other time travelers?
[siren wailing in distance]
[yawning]
[woman] There she is.
Killed it with those lights, Tiff.
You the best, Tiff.
Later, Tiff.
[Mac] It's really hard to believe
that you actually grow up to be that.
[woman 2] Love you, Tiff.
Yeah.
I mean, she looks pretty, uh...
...out there, huh?
No.
I mean, you're, like, the life of the party.
[Erin] Future you seems...
really cool.
My poor time-traveling babies.
Come here.
All of you. Come on.
Come on.
You, too.
Let's get you guys to bed.
♪ ♪
[footsteps approaching]
Nice work.
Just like Mom does it.
[chuckles softly]
Yeah.
But we do it better.
You like?
It's, uh...
cool.
Not what you were expecting?
I'm just confused as to why we're still in Stony Stream.
Yeah.
I can see where that's coming from.
But a lot has changed here since what you remember.
A lot.
You'll see.
I'm sure.
Wait.
Is this...
Were we valedictorian?
Are you really surprised?
- Not really. - [chuckles softly]
Tomorrow. It's late.
You need your beauty rest.
Sorry.
It's fine. I'll be on the futon.
You sure?
I can move 'em.
Promise.
Sweet dreams.
[doors close]
[Tiff] Hey.
KJ.
[KJ] Hmm?
Do you think we can trust her?
You mean, can we trust you?
Forget it.
Forgotten.
[birds chirping]
♪ ♪
- [drawer opens] - [utensils clinking]
[drawer shuts]
You hungry?
Uh, I'm starving.
[refrigerator door opens]
Hey, where's KJ?
[adult Tiff] She said she needed some air.
I went to the market.
I remembered we like...
blueberry Pop-Tarts with...
no frosting?
- Mm-hmm. - And...
Rice Krispies?
You're the best.
I was thinking last night.
I have a theory that might explain
how you traveled through time,
why I don't remember any of it
and how we might be able to get you back.
You have a theory?
Yep. And I think I nailed it.
Nailed it? And you know all of this
because you're some kind of... dance DJ?
No. I hypothesized all this,
because we went to MIT.
Also, I'm a lighting designer.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Nailed it. - [wrapper crinkling]
[Erin] You all seen KJ?
[Tiff] She went for a walk.
[adult Tiff] Said she needed to clear her head.
I gave her some clean clothes and some cash
in case she wanted to hit up the doughnut place.
I don't know if she should be out there alone.
What if the Old Watch comes back?
[Tiff] Relax. It's cool.
Right?
Totally.
You've all traveled through time.
I'm sure she can handle sitting on a bench for a few minutes.
[Mac] Good. Maybe she'll chill
the fuck out.
[♪ Pavement: "Spit on a Stranger"]
♪ ♪
♪ However you feel ♪
♪ Whatever it takes ♪
♪ Whenever it's real ♪
♪ Whatever awaits ♪
♪ Whatever you need ♪
♪ However so slight...
May I help you?
Yeah. Um, I'd like to see the Kubrick.
Okay. We started showing 2001 about 20 minutes ago.
Okay. Thank you.
Sorry. I just...
You've only missed the monkeys.
I can still sell you a ticket if you want to see it.
Okay.
Sure. [chuckles]
[laughing]
[Tiff] Remember when she grounded us
for cutting our hair?
[adult Tiff] Oh, I totally remember that.
They really hit it off.
Tiff has always been in love with herself.
[laughing]
They just met.
Give it time.
[♪ Johann Strauss II: "The Blue Danube"]
♪ ♪
[soft, shuddering breaths]
♪ ♪
I've been going over Larry's documentation,
and he seems to have recorded
every local appearance of one of these wormhole openings
that I assume you guys use to travel through time.
So did you figure out when the next one appears?
'Cause younger you has no idea.
[adult Tiff] I'm just missing a few key data points
to decipher date and location.
Yeah, figures Larry would screw us again.
No.
Wait, that's it. Larry can tell us what we're missing.
- He's dead. - [Tiff] No, he's not.
Not right now.
Are we really talking about this right now?
I bet he's still on his stupid farm.
- All we'd have to do is go there and get the code... - [Mac] Bad idea.
No fucking way should Erin ever have to see him again.
And you probably shouldn't be so eager
to see him, either, after he made you look
like a total idiot.
Take that back. Because I am not an idiot!
Okay, everybody calm down...
My idea is the best idea we have,
and you both know I'm right.
Going to '99 Larry is probably the only way
to decode exactly when and where the next folding will occur.
And unless you two have a better idea on how to get home...
- That dude is a piece of shit, Tiff. - [door opens]
- I didn't say he wasn't. - Okay. What's up?
[adult Tiff] Hey, baby.
You said you'd give me a ride to work.
[adult Tiff] Yeah, um, something came up.
I'm a little busy.
What, are you babysitting?
I thought you could just... take the bus or something.
Oh. Wow.
Cool.
Thanks.
I'm guessing you're pissed
because I didn't come over last night.
If you think I gave a second thought
to where you were last night, then you've...
Where's the farm?
About 20 minutes or so out Route 183.
All right, let's go.
Uh, hey, wait, what farm?
We have to take Wembley to the highway to get to 183.
Which means the shop is on the way.
Cool.
You good here?
Judging by your reactions, I was assuming you didn't want to go.
Yeah. I don't want to go.
Great.
TV remote is on the stereo cabinet.
Don't touch the stereo or the game console.
Food is in the fridge.
Come on.
[door opens]
[door closes]
You want to play video games?
Yeah.
That guy kind of smelled.
[dance music playing]
So, you work at a record shop?
I'm a high-end vintage vinyl dealer.
And I'm gonna be a half hour late.
Uh-oh.
[baby talk] Is somebody upset with me?
Come on.
You know I didn't mean what I said about last night.
I'll call you tonight?
We'll see.
[skateboarding]
[singsongy] You know you can't stay mad at me.
[picks up skateboard]
So, why do you act...
that way around him?
What way?
Uh...
Stupid?
- [chuckles] - Yeah.
I'm...
actually playing it pretty smart when you think about it.
I mean, he was pissed, and...
I was smoothing it over.
By changing who you are?
Well...
you're gonna learn it's actually smart
to sometimes act a certain way
in order to get what you want.
What do you want from him?
You'll understand when you're older.
But it's just better to keep things copacetic.
You know? Easy.
Fewer headaches for me if...
I don't have to think about him that much.
But he's your boyfriend.
How is that even a real relationship?
Well...
it's kind of not.
I definitely wouldn't say "boyfriend."
Russ and I are completely different people.
For one thing, he has no drive.
Zero ambition.
[chuckles] Yeah.
He still lives in Stony Stream.
[sniffing]
These clove cigarette things are bullshit.
[line ringing]
[Mei Lien] Hello.
Hello?
Is somebody there?
Hello?
[shudders]
[inhales sharply]
I just, um...
...wanted to hear her voice.
I get it.
Do you want to call Dylan?
Your house is probably still around.
You could call your parents, too.
If I never talk to my dad again, it'll be too soon.
Dylan's probably at medical school.
I doubt he even came home for the summer.
Mm, what about future you?
What about it?
Dylan in 2019 must have told you something about yourself.
Yeah.
Um...
it's just that...
...I am also at medical school.
But it's for animals.
Veterinary school?
Yeah, exactly.
Apparently, I want to help animals or something.
It's in Florida.
Wow. [chuckles softly]
So you grew up to be pretty cool, too.
I'm really happy for you.
You're lucky.
I wouldn't say I'm lucky.
Hey.
I've got a crazy idea.
- [insects buzzing] - [birds chirping]
♪ ♪
This is close enough.
Think you might see your '99 self in there?
I hope so.
Somebody's got to keep my mom and Missy
from killing each other.
So, what kind of vet do you become?
You know how it goes.
They teach you how to treat all sorts
of different kinds of animals at first.
Horses are kind of my specialty, though.
I mainly go to them at, like,
whatever stable they happen to be at.
But then I also have this place of my own
where they can come to if they need to
while I nurse 'em back to health.
In Florida?
No, that's after school.
I guess my brother likes to visit with his girls
so they can come and pet the horses,
- feed 'em carrots and stuff. - [door slides open]
[Mei Lien] I'll be outside.
[Missy] Okay, I'll be out in a sec.
[Mac] She looks really good.
[Erin] She does, but don't let that fool you.
Missy doesn't understand her at all,
and she's going to be taking off any day now.
And Mom is going to get sick.
[Missy chuckling]
Thank you.
[indistinct chatter]
[Missy laughs]
[indistinct chatter continues]
[Mac] Hey, it's tough, man.
Feels like the whole world should stop
when you're not around.
But it just keeps on going without you.
And it really sucks.
- [Mei Lien] Look how pretty you are. - [Missy] Thank you.
[chuckling]
There's a lot going on under the surface
that you just can't see.
You want to get out of here?
No.
We can wait a little longer.
[Mei Lien and Missy speaking indistinctly]
- [laughing] - [indistinct chatter continues]
♪ ♪
Play it cool.
I know.
[door opens]
Hey there!
How you folks doing on this fine afternoon? [chuckles]
Uh...
can I help you two?
I don't want to play games with you, Larry.
I'm sorry?
We're with the STF Underground.
Yeah. Um...
you must be at the wrong place, so...
Relax.
You can trust us.
[Tiff] We know everything about Heck
and Naldo and the entire time war.
In fact, I know a rough layout of every building on this farm.
And I know you.
She came from the future.
[Meemaw] Larry, is someone out there?
Uh, hang on, Meemaw. Uh...
I'm just grabbing some tools from the barn.
- [Meemaw] Be careful. - Uh, always. Hey! [scoffs]
Hey, kid, you can't just...
Hey, hey, stay out of there!
[Tiff] Of course. It's not here yet.
[sighs] How are we gonna get home now?
What are you looking for?
You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
All right, you two need to tell me...
Do you know what this is?
I have one just like that.
Correction: This is that one.
You really are from the future.
Just her.
Can I see?
This is my handwriting.
There are so many entries. Look at this.
My God, how many years of work is this?
- Twenty and change. - [chuckles] Wow.
I-I only have two foldings recorded right now.
[chuckles]
[sniffs, exhales]
So, this,
this is the folding when I first met the Standard Time Fighters.
Heck and Naldo, y-you know them, huh?
- Yes. - And this one here...
That's when they left me embedded with the Underground.
To await further orders.
You're a new recruit?
Um, about 18 months.
But I guess...
[exhales] Wow, I guess... I guess a lot more happens.
It sure as hell does.
Larry, we need your help.
How do I know this isn't some ruse
cooked up by the Old Watch to sniff me out?
Because we didn't blow you away.
Yeah, but you need my code.
You're gonna give me that code
because you owe me big-time.
- What do you mean I... - You betrayed
me and my friends!
Four 12-year-old girls!
And then when you promised to take us home,
you left us trapped here, in 1999,
and a woman died!
Someone died?
[Tiff] We didn't ask for this.
But now we're here,
in a random time that isn't ours.
And who knows if we'll ever get home?
All because of you.
So give us the cipher.
Because just seeing you again,
let alone having to ask you for help,
makes me sick to my stomach.
[takes deep breath]
♪ ♪
Okay. Follow this formula,
and you'll be able to decode the coordinates.
No.
I'm a good guy.
The STF, we're the good guys.
[adult Tiff] Look, I don't know who you are
in 2019, but right now you seem...
okay.
I am.
- I really am. - [adult Tiff] Then you have
the power right now to change something for the better.
Thank you.
I'm not gonna do that to you.
What I did.
I won't hurt anybody.
And I'll do whatever it takes to make sure that never happens.
- I hope that's true. - [Meemaw] Larry,
sweetheart, where are you?
Uh...
Coming, Meemaw!
Hey, uh...
how can I get in touch with you again if I need to?
You won't.
We're Tiffany Quilkin.
We're listed in the phone book.
[choir singing eerily]
[Mac] At least some things never change.
Stony Stream still hanging up the same shitty decorations.
You don't get it.
What's there to get?
Just... knowing,
like, really knowing when you're gonna die.
It messes with you.
And you start to forget about it for a little bit.
And then when you remember...
I just can't help but think...
[chuckles] ...what's the point?
At least you got a lot of years left.
It doesn't get better for me, Mac.
Of course, you don't understand.
You got this whole exciting future ahead of you.
Right?
With your brother and becoming a veterinarian.
- Seeing your nieces grow up. It's really... - Jesus!
Will you shut the fuck up?!
What do you want?
You want some sad middle-aged future?
Sounds great.
Hey, I know.
Why don't you just not get into some big fucking robot in 2019
and kamikaze your stupid ass?
Problem solved.
You are such a fucking jerk!
No shit, genius.
You and KJ deserve each other.
Go fuck yourself.
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
[laughter]
Please.
- I have to pee. - Okay, fine. I'll be here.
Getting candy.
[clerk] Hi. How are you?
[chatter continues indistinctly]
[KJ] Hello.
Oh, hey. Cool. You came.
Wow. Have you been here all day?
Oh, um, no, I just came for the last one.
- Why didn't you come sit with us? - I got here late,
and I didn't want to bother you or anything.
- It's all right. - Yeah.
Okay, so what did you think of it?
- [chuckles] - [laughs] Um, you know, at first,
I was kind of confused.
- [laughs] Yeah. - But then I just...
- I don't know, I stopped thinking about it so much... - Yeah.
...and I listened to the music
and watched what was on the screen,
and it was really beautiful.
It's a movie that you cannot come at logically.
- You just have to let the experience wash over you. - [chuckles]
- Yeah. - You know?
Um...
When did you know?
Know what?
[sighs] Um...
[chuckles] Just, uh...
When... [sighs] d-did you know...
...that you were someone who liked...
...movies?
Um...
Ones like these.
I mean, how did you know
that you were someone who felt this way about...
Mo-Movies.
Mm-hmm.
Well, uh...
Mm... [exhales]
[inhales deeply]
The good news is that everybody moves at their own pace.
And it can be overwhelming,
but every person's journey is different, you know? And...
a lot of people are not gonna understand at first, but...
you find a movie
that you really connect with and it...
feels really, really, really, really, really great.
You just try to listen to that.
Hey, do you want to grab some coffee with us down the block?
Uh, KJ and I were-were thinking
about skipping Barry Lyndon anyway.
[KJ] I got to go.
- Hey. - Hi!
[soft jazz music playing]
Proud of you.
Poor guy was practically on the verge of tears
as it was.
I'm proud of us.
I mean, we did everything we set out to do:
valedictorian of our class,
a graduate of MIT.
Well...
technically, we didn't graduate. [chuckles softly]
Wait, what?
I don't understand.
You said we went to MIT.
That's what you said.
We did... go.
We just...
...left our sophomore year.
We quit?!
[scoffs]
Oh, my God, we quit?
MIT isn't what you think it is.
That place had nothing to teach us.
Look, when I first got there, I was elated.
I-I remember touring campus with Mom.
It was everything.
But then reality started to set in.
The looks, the comments.
And, furthermore, it was so rigid.
There was no room to do anything outside the box.
There was one way to do it, and it just got to the point
where I couldn't take it anymore.
It worked for Steve Jobs and Bill Gates,
so why shouldn't it work for me?
This is working for you?
Hell yeah, it is.
And, frankly, I'm starting to get insulted by you acting
like it shouldn't.
I call my own shots.
I pursue my own projects.
Like what?
Like this educational start-up
on the Internet we're getting off the ground.
We are going to break barriers and change minds
in a way that has never been done before.
Educational, like a school?
Like an institute?
That's the idea.
It's up to us to make our success real.
Right?
Yeah.
I have good reason to believe
that we'll be very successful at this.
So do I.
[door opens]
[adult Tiff] Hey.
Glad you're back.
That was a long walk.
You feeling better?
Sure.
- [door closes] - [footsteps approaching]
We're making really positive progress with the ledger.
We're on the verge of decrypting all of Larry's code
so we can locate the folding that will take us back to 1988
will appear.
I want nothing to do with anything
that has to do with Larry.
[door opens]
I'm going out for a smoke.
Hey!
Did you just bogart my cloves?
Great.
I'm real sorry about them.
Literally all of them.
[door opens and closes]
♪ ♪
I'm sorry.
I saw myself while I was out.
So what's the report?
Did Mommy and Daddy get you a convertible for sweet 16?
Yeah, the...
the house and the cars and the clothes all...
look really nice from the outside.
But sometimes you just got to look a little deeper,
and it's just...
it's just all really confusing.
But I look happy.
Now.
In the future.
That's good.
Happy is good.
Yeah.
I guess I don't really know that much about her life, though,
but...
I know that she's in New York
and she wants to make movies.
And...
I think that...
...maybe she's sorted some things out.
I think that maybe...
I think she might be...
Or...
I guess...
[inhales deeply]
I might be, um...
You know what happens to me?
I die.
Yep.
Brain cancer.
I make it all the way to 16.
Cool, huh?
Dead in four years.
Found out in 2019 from Dylan.
Hilariously,
I think me kicking the can got him to turn his shit around.
Grow up to be this amazing doctor,
family man.
I'm in the ground, but he got the brass ring.
It's weird.
Whenever stuff gets really bad,
I always tell myself to suck it up and stick it out,
'cause I know it's all gonna be different when I grow up.
The second I turn 18, I'm leaving my shitty house
and getting the fuck far away from Stony Stream.
And just thinking about that
would make it okay.
Doesn't matter if everything is shit right now,
'cause, one day, it's gonna be so good.
[sniffles] But that's all such bullshit.
'Cause it never gets any better.
This is it.
♪ ♪
[sniffles]
You can't tell the others.
What? Why?
Because I... [sighs]
Because I don't want them
looking at me the way that you're looking at me right now.
[door opens]
This is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.
I mean, physicists have been saying
that time travel is theoretically impossible
because the second law of thermodynamics says
time only moves forward,
n-not to mention quantum divergences
where you have closed time-like curves and whatnot.
But now you and I are about to just...
find out actually how to do it.
It-it's absolutely crazy and...
amazing!
Do you get how huge of a discovery this is?
Yeah.
I mean, it's pretty neat.
It's mind-blowing.
[chuckling]
- [exhales] - [chuckles]
Okay. [mutters]
Mm-hmm.
Wait, I think I got the first part figured out over here.
See, some of the characters in his code are used
over and over again.
I think they might be the latitude
and longitude coordinates for his farm.
I think you're right.
And here's the moon cycles.
I think that means that these two values must be
the month and day of the folding appearance.
[adult Tiff] Mm.
Which means we need to focus on the values four characters over,
since we know the first two stand for a one and a nine.
As in "1999."
Bingo.
Okay.
Here we go.
The next folding is...
...July 25...
...two thousand
and...
six.
That's not for seven years.
[Erin] Seven years?
Okay.
So, you can all crash here for a while,
- but... - Seven years?
We cannot stay here for seven years.
That is completely unacceptable!
Ideally, no...
Do it again.
Double-check it.
You have to be wrong.
I'm sorry, okay?
But I don't think we're wrong.
[scoffs softly]
Fuck this. Okay?
[shuts off engine]
- [insects trilling] - [birds chirping]
[sighs]
♪ ♪
[whooshing]
Geez!
[gasps]
[♪ Red Hot Chili Peppers: "Parallel Universe"]
♪ Deep inside of a parallel ♪
♪ Universe ♪
♪ It's getting harder and harder to tell ♪
♪ What came first ♪
♪ I'm underwater where thoughts can breathe ♪
♪ Easily ♪
♪ Far away, you were made in a sea ♪
♪ Just like me ♪
♪ Christ, I'm a sidewinder ♪
♪ I'm a California king ♪
♪ I swear it's everywhere, oh ♪
♪ It's everything ♪
♪ Staring straight up into the sky ♪
♪ Oh, my, my ♪
♪ A solar system that fits in your eye ♪
♪ Microcosm ♪
♪ You could die but you're never dead ♪
♪ Spiderweb ♪
♪ Take a look at the stars in your head ♪
♪ Fields of space, kid ♪
♪ Christ, I'm a sidewinder ♪
♪ I'm a California king ♪
♪ I swear, it's everywhere, oh ♪
♪ It's everything ♪
♪ Christ, I'm a sidewinder ♪
♪ I'm a California king ♪
♪ I swear, it's everywhere, oh ♪
♪ It's everything ♪♪