Clockstoppers

Ladies and gentlemen,

American Airlines is announcing...

flight number 1243

to Costa Rica.

All passengers holding tickets

for flight 1 243...

may now proceed to gate 50-B..

Come on.

Put me in with the cargo.

Sir, the 10:
00 to Costa Rica is booked,

but I can get you out in the morning.

Not if I'm dead, you can't.

Thankyou for nothing.

Hey, watch it.

Who does he think he is,

somebody important?.

- Sir, you forgot your keys.

- Keep 'em.

I need a vacation...

real bad.

Hey, watch it!

I hope you're happy.

Sir?.

I think it's time you came

back to work, Dr. Dopler.

Hey, Zak!

Let's take a look

at another example.

Say Amy is out for

a leisurely drive in her VW bug...

and along comes Eddie

in his Ferrari.

Hey, come on, that could happen.

Totally.

So, you're doing 20.

Eddie's doing 220.

-What does he look like when he goes by?.

-I don't know.Just a blur, I guess.

Exactly. And if he was going fast

enough, you wouldn't see him at all.

From Eddie's point ofview, you would

look as ifyou were standing still.

And that is a basic example...

of Einstein's theory

ofwhat, Eddie?.

Highway safety.

Relativity.

Relativity.

- Didn't do your reading assignment?.

- That's a funny story.

See, science is a discipline.

This department has trained

some of the best minds in the world.

But nobody ever gets there

by just coasting along.

I don't mean to sound like your father,

but I take pride in my students.

I want to see them succeed. That means

doing the work, being persistent and...

not looking for

the quick-fix, easy way out.

We'll finish up Einstein when I get back

from the applied science congress.

In the meantime,

you guys have a couple days off...

to prepare foryour midterm.

- Hey, Dad.

- Hey, Zak.

This is a rare honor.

Come on, I visit you at work

every now and then.

But careful analysis reveals

it's usually because you need something.

That's crazy.

Can you co-sign for my car?.

I got the down payment together.

There's a few cars I liked at Benson's,

and their lot stays open until 9:00.

Hold on a second.

Hey, Jer.

Where's my stipend

on the NASA consultation?.

- We finished that job three months ago.

- Working on it.

So maybe we can get there

around 7:
00?.

Dr. Gibbs, your batch is up on the

mainframe. It's some pretty wild stuff.

- I'll be down in a minute.

- What are you working on?.

Last weekend an old student sent me

a project he's working on with QT Labs.

You remember Earl Dopler. One of the

best students to ever pass through here.

That freak who used to come over

and eat a lot of potato salad?.

He isn't a freak.

Eccentric, maybe.

Anyway, the word on this project

is very hush-hush.

Let's just say that,

hypothetically speaking...

it were possible to accelerate

your molecular structure...

until the rest of the world

seemed as if it were standing still.

- Cool.

- It's called hypertime.

Imagine being able to perform delicate

surgery between the beats of a heart.

This technology is going to

revolutionize medicine, science, travel.

Speaking of travel,

a car would be really nice.

So, did you download

those consumer reports?.

I was gonna do that

before you got home, but--

-Dad, you already blew me off last week.

-No, I was in a meeting with the dean.

Of course that's never

happened before, right?.

I want you to do your homework on this.

Let's see those safety reports.

- And we'll talk about it at home.

- Does that mean we can go tonight?.

It means we'll talk about it

when I get home.

Good enough.

Yes!

It's very safe

and a great father-son activity.

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