:05:00
His field of research
has been time travel.
:05:03
- Time travel.
- Time travel.
:05:05
- Well, beam me up, Scotty.
- That's very funny, Senator.
:05:08
- Wanna know what's funnier than that?
- He's gonna tell us.
:05:12
The funny thing is...
the good doctor actually did it.
:05:18
I thought that'd
get your attention.
:05:21
He did it. The technology is
in the folders in front of you.
:05:24
You won't understand it
any better than I can.
:05:26
Now, you can't go forward,
because the future hasn't happened yet.
:05:30
However, you can go back,
and that's where things get tricky.
:05:32
If you go back and change something,
it's serious. It could be catastrophic.
:05:37
It's like throwing
a stone in a lake...
:05:39
only now there
are ripples in time.
:05:42
So you can't go back and kill Hitler,
much as we'd like to...
:05:45
because it could cause
a chain reaction of events...
:05:48
that could alter
or even destroy mankind.
:05:51
And that, my good senators,
is where you come in.
:05:53
We have to form a new agency to police
this technology and protect time.
:05:59
It will be called the Time Enforcement
Commission or the T.E.C.
:06:02
Eugene Matuzak of the Washington P.D.
Is our choice to run the commission.
:06:07
- How much is this gonna cost?
- A lot.
:06:11
- How much is a lot?
- More than a little
and less than too much.
:06:14
This is not a good time
to ask for money. The economy...
:06:17
Suppose one of our competitors goes
back in time and invents the computer?
:06:21
Or the airplane or the automobile?
:06:23
You wanna talk about
the American economy, Senator?
:06:25
How about this one?
Saddam Hussein finances a trip to 1944.
:06:29
He gets our technology...
:06:30
and Iraq becomes the first country
to have the atomic bomb.
:06:33
- Oh, you like that one.
- Not bad.
:06:36
Try this one.
We think there's already been a ripple.
:06:39
Ten days ago, the C.I.A. Broke up
an arms sale to terrorists...
:06:43
in Hamburg, Germany.
:06:45
Ordinarily, that sort of news
doesn't cross the president's desk.
:06:47
What made this different...
:06:49
was that the purchase
was made with gold bullion...
:06:51
and the bullion
was dated 1863...
:06:54
and stamped
"Confederate States of America".
:06:57
We had it carbon-tested
and authenticated. It's real.
:06:59
Now, just think
about what I'm saying.