It's time.
After all these years.
All these decades.
All this waiting.
All this planning.
The day has finally arrived.
MY day has finally arrived.
Good morning, everyone.
I hope you're all staying dry.
Hey Professor, did you see today's paper?
A missing person's report.
Yes.
Look a little lower.
At the item left behind.
(Professor)
Robert Goodfellow's hat.
(Felix)
Professor
a series of tremors have just been reported in the city.
They're emitting  quantum particles.
It has to be Robert.
He's letting us know where to find him.
Where are you going, Professor?
Robert Goodfellow and I have known each other for a very long time.
This is something I have to do alone.
Actually, I just remembered that I drove my car off a cliff.
Felix, could I borrow your car?
(Felix)
Uh, sure.
Can we go with you?
Please?
All right, fine.
You can all come as long as you stay out of my way.
Not you, Felix.
I need someone to watch the lab.
I will take your car keys, though.
I've been expecting you.
I don't know what you're planning to do with that—
is that my interdimensional gateway?
What's it doing here?
You threw it in the dumpster.
I thought I'd do my part for the environment and recycle it.
There's something different about it.
I'm glad you noticed my modifications
for you see
it is no longer an interdimensional gateway
but a temporal gateway.
A time machine?
Yes, how do you do?
I am Robert Goodfellow.
Why'd you kidnap that dude over there?
(Robert)
He is important to my plans.
Everything I have ever done in life has led to this moment
and this man will play the most important role.
There's something weird about him.
He looks familiar
(Professor)
Yes, now I recognize him.
He's you!
Almost...
We were good friends, Professor, weren't we?
Until the day my behavior suddenly changed.
You remember that, don't you?
Too well.
Then you betrayed me.
Would you like to know the reasons for that change?
My memory returned.
I learned who I was
where I came from.
Nearly all of it.
Of course, some details were missing
but I had enough to go on.
And what did you learn?
This man, Robert Goodman, is me.
Was me.
He will become me.
(Roger)
I don't get it.
To fulfill my destiny
for me to exist
I must go back in time with Robert Goodman.
We will merge into one being
have our memories repressed
and I will appear in your laboratory in the past, Professor
where you will meet me for the very first time.
I still don't get it.
I do.
This Robert Goodfellow guy.
His existence is just a cycle.
All he's ever done since he got his memories back
was to just follow a set path to make sure he exists.
He's had no free will to speak of.
Actually, no one has free will.
Then this whole time
everything you've ever done was so you'd keep the cycle going.
So I'd exist.
Yes, Professor.
What about that guy?
(Robert)
Everything he was will become a part of me.
Yeah, but, he's just some guy.
The newspaper said he had a wife and kid.
Do you have memories of them?
No, those are the memories of Robert Goodson.
I'm Robert GoodFELLOW.
In other words
he dies so that you can be born.
A necessary sacrifice.
It has to be done to preserve the cycle.
Why send us the message and bring us here?
Is that to preserve the cycle, too?
(Robert)
These two inventions I stole from your possession, Professor.
I no longer have use for them.
(Professor)
That's it, then?
You'll be on your way?
Guys, we can't let him do this!
Robert Goodson's just an innocent bystander.
What if we stopped him, Professor?
What if we kept Robert Goodfellow from going back in time?
That would break the cycle.
(Roger)
And what happens if THAT happens?
(Professor)
He doesn't know.
We have no way of knowing until we do it.
Let's do it!
Stop right there, Roger.
Breaking the cycle could be catastrophic.
All of reality could collapse
or the universe could fold into itself and then implode.
Don't the theories say an alternate universe could be created?
One that existed outside of the cycle?
You mean one where Robert Goodson stayed here with us.
And Robert Goodfellow.
I see now.
My God, you knew those were possibilities, didn't you?
(Robert)
Tell me.
What would you do if you knew that if you strayed from your path
you would possibly end the universe?
Possibly.
Would you do it?
Would you risk it?
All in the name of free will?
This is something I have to do.
Not just for me
or you
but for all of existence.
Goodbye, Robert Goodfellow.
My dear friend.
All this time, you were a hero
and I never knew it.
I wish I too could say goodbye
but I'll be seeing you shortly.
I only wish I could have told you the truth earlier
but it, like many things, was not to be.
-- Goodbye
- Bye Robert.
Bye.
I envy you.
You're about to exist in a future I know nothing about.
