Paradox Page #5

Synopsis: A group of young scientists are working on a secret project that may allow them to travel ahead in time. They test it by sending one of their own ahead one hour. He returns pleading with them to shut it down, explaining that within that hour, they will all die.
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Michael Hurst
Production: Parkside Pictures
 
IMDB:
4.6
TV-MA
Year:
2016
90 min
172 Views


Sh*t. The internet's out, too.

It was all working before.

Who are we gonna call anyway?

Hello, 911,

we're in a top secret lab

under the city

doing experimental time travel.

And by the way, there's

gonna be a bunch of murders.

Look.

That's him. That's him.

That's him on the CCTV.

So the killer cut the lines.

When was this?

Eleven minutes ago.

No, no, we were,

we were all in the lab.

No, we weren't.

Mr. Landau left right before.

Are you trying to accuse me?

Him. He wasn't there either.

Hey, f*** you, man. You wanna

lose both your arms, too?

Hey, hey, hey,

relax, relax, relax,

he's not accusing you, okay.

No, actually, I kinda was.

Guys, guys, nobody but us

is down here.

So whoever the killer is...

it has to be one of us.

Sh*t.

Well, it isn't me.

I hardly know

you f***ing people.

Yeah, but you know

what we've built down here.

You know what it might be worth.

The only reason I'm down here is

because I was blowing bubbles.

Alright?

Okay, so who's Mr. Bubbles?

And who put him in charge?

You wanna a f***ing piece of me?

-Hey, hey, hey, stop it.

-We have a time machine.

-Stop it.

-We have a time machine.

None of this

has to happen, okay?

Somebody goes back.

And they warn us not to come.

So whoever the killer is...

he doesn't get

to kill anybody. Not today.

Yeah, that's good. I like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No.

We can't do that.

We'll cause a paradox.

Remember when Lewis said

all he wanted to do

was go back and stop himself

drunk driving that night?

Only reason I joined this

project in the first place.

-Remember what we told him?

-That he'd cause a temporal paradox.

Okay. Now try,

you know, f***ing English.

He'd go back to stop the

accident from happening.

And so, the accident

would've never have happened

and he would've

never have gone back.

And then, well, then he's

Schrdinger's cat.

Crippled and not crippled at the

same time. Except not that.

Is that the best you can do?

Look, this stuff is really

f***ing hard. Okay.

So what happens

if we make a para-thingy?

You're not listening.

-We can't.

-Why not?

Let me put this into words

you'll understand.

F*** you, man.

But yeah, okay, do that.

It's fate.

You can't fight fate.

We don't have a choice.

If we don't...

we're all dead.

So I say screw fate.

Let's not die.

Yeah. That sounds like a plan.

I'm getting something.

I think I'm getting something

from SM card from the camera.

It's just ridiculous.

Yeah, he's a f***ing a**hole

and I can't believe he's just...

throwing him in like that.

Yeah, sorry,

it's kinda in and out.

Can we fast forward

or something?

You know, we don't need to see

stuff that already happened.

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Michael Hurst

Michael Eric Hurst, ONZM (born 20 September 1957) is a British-born New Zealand actor, director and writer, mostly on stage and television. He is probably best known internationally for playing Iolaus in the television programs Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and companion series Xena: Warrior Princess. Most recently, he is known for his role in directing the popular Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand and Ash vs Evil Dead. more…

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