SYNOPSIS:

The Time Job JERRY (early to mid 30s) is a man unable to get a job because of a robbery he participated in during his college years. His degree in electrical engineering gets him nothing so he’s had to cut out a small career as a wireman, specializing in disarming security systems on various heists. He’s only been caught once, but 12 years later he’s desperate to go legit, because he’s going to be a father. He needs a job now, one that will pay out big. He wanders down the unforgiving downtown streets. Just then a classic looking black limo pulls up and the man inside offers him an invitation to a job, but is mum on the details only that the payout is enormous. Six figures at least. Next morning Jerry is inside a sprawling mansion and meets is old friend safecracker DODD. They see other men some familiar some not, all have one thing in common: larceny, armed robbery… thieves, all with particular skills. Later they are introduced to the mastermind behind the Job, a man known only as MR. WELLS. Wells gathers them all around a LCD screen and shows images of a building in Downtown St. Pete in 1931. He explains the place once held a certain priceless artifact called The Persian Goddess for four years until it was “lost” mysteriously. Wells pauses for effect and says The Persian Goddess disappeared… because they stole it. “They” as in the men gathered here right now. This elicits confusion and laughter. Jerry guesses Wells is claiming to have invented a Time Machine. Wells calmly explains they are actually inside the machine now since he had his mansion built around it. The machine itself is a vast complex some of it extending underground, it exudes enough energy to displace objects from the time stream into the past or future. They laugh. When Jerry asks why somebody with a time machine would want to steal something from the past, he smugly says its for the same reason some of you steal anything: because someone told you that you couldn’t have it. But they still need proof. So Wells asks for a volunteer. DODD volunteers. Wells says he will send him into the future, and sends him to a back room with a Time Chamber in it. Ten seconds later out steps the Dodd’s double. Then ANOTHER Dodd steps out. Three identical men stand side by side. Wells explains each is the same man sent to slightly different moments into the future. Then Wells has them all fingerprinted and on the screen all see their fingerprints are identical, impossible even for twins. Wells says the past is set so their success is assured: it’s the perfect crime and the payout is four million dollars each, but if they miss the rendezvous they are stuck in the past. They all have a night to think it over. Jerry’s conscience bothers him, something isn’t right about this whole thing. Jerry thinks hard, even prays, he knows it’s wrong to steal, but he feels like circumstances have left him no choice. Next day he meets the driver: He’s in. They drive back the mansion and are prepped for their time trip. A techie explains the side effects of time travel: disorientation, dizziness, vomiting, and temporary amnesia. Techie gives them all meds for it, but Jerry doesn’t trust it and so doesn’t take the pills. Even after Wells insists, Jerry fakes taking it. Dodd also doesn’t take it. Wells has them all dress in period outfits, wear period guns, and they will drive to the building where the heist will (did?) take place in period trucks. The Time Machine will displace them all when they lie down in the ”Displacing room” the energy acceleration starts from beneath them and the world goes white. Suddenly Jerry is laying in a grassy meadow among the men and Wells vomiting stumbling around temporal equilibrium all out of whack like coma patients. He comes to eventually and lies saying the meds didn’t work on him. The crew canvases the museum the day before the heist. Everything looks good. Jerry’s job is to cut the alarms and the phone lines. Easy. They all are staying at a bed and breakfast down the street from the museum owned by a sweet girl named MIRANDA. Jerry and her hit it off the day before the heist. Dodd teases Jerry about fraternizing with the natives, and you never know she might be your great grandma. The day of the heist everything runs smoothly until they try to make their getaway with the artifact men start dying either from gunshots by the cops who were tipped off or by poison. Jerry finds Dodd who is carrying a member of the Team, named CARD who is dying of the poison. Apparently the pills were slow acting poison. Wells set them all up. They make it back to Miranda’s place and try to nurse Card, but there is nothing in the medicine cabinets. Card is dying painfully, loudly and Miranda hears and helps them keep him calm, but suddenly he starts convulsing-this is it. Then Miranda pulls out her lipstick pulls the head off and stretches out a long needle and plunges it into Card’s heart. He stops moving. Dodd erupts, grabbing Miranda thinking she killed Card but she insists she only slowed down Card’s heart so the poison’s effects are slowed while the nano bots cure the poison. Jerry and Dodd look confused. Miranda calmly explains she is not who she says she is. Miranda is in fact a Temporal Enforcer from the future. She won’t say how far in the future. She was sent to stop Wells from getting back with the artifact and stop any big temporal shifts. Turns out you can change the past…sort of. If Wells gets the artifact back with him the time stream will rearrange it so that Wells WILL get the artifact legitimately by “chance.” Wells would have gotten away with the perfect crime…a crime that never happened. During this revelation Jerry wonders how Wells could have figured this all out. She says her department exists outside of time and has reason to believe Wells has done this before. But how would he remember? She explains sometimes time travelers accidentally remember some of the previous time stream. No one knows how or why. Wells wants them all dead and the artifact, and the satisfaction of knowing he outsmarted everybody. Jerry, Dodd, Miranda and Card have 48 hours till the time machine opens a wormhole for their return. They have to get to the rendezvous point-the meadow where the mansion will be in 70 years- or be erased. One police chase later they hole up in a farmhouse half way between the town and the meadow with Miranda in tow because she helped them bring Card back to life so she’s involved now. Dodd thinks Miranda is in love with him and Jerry with her, he shrugs it off. But that night Jerry ends up sharing a lot about himself with her and mutual passion begins to emerge, but Miranda distances herself. Card still doesn’t trust her, or what she says about them all getting clemency for helping her get Wells. The next morning it’s a three-way chase between the cops, Jerry and Co. and Wells with his henchmen. It all leads to a gun battle/race against time at the meadow. During the melee Card betrays them all. They are pinned in a cross fire and running out of time, Miranda makes a powerful future gun from nano bots and sand and Jerry gets them out of the fire fight. But Card shoots her in the back of the head. Jerry shoots Card. Jerry looks at her wound and discovers she is an android! She tries to tell him to leave her and get Wells Jerry begs her to tell him how to fix her. She does. She’s not 100% but she can get up and move. Jerry still has questions. Miranda explains all Temporal Enforcers are “Artificals” because they remember altered time streams completely. Plus they are expendable. She convinces him not to give up, gives him her gun. He can’t fire it, she grabs his arm and says a code he feels a prick and she says Jerry can use it that he’s been deputized. She smiles and tells him to go and don’t let that SOB Wells get away with this. She says she’ll try to finish her repairs herself just go get Wells and get home, his family needs him. Jerry and Wells grapple in a final shoot out which turns into a grapple. Wells beats his way out of Jerry’s grasp but Jerry rebounds and goes through the wormhole finds himself back in the Mansion in the big Time Chamber displacing room. Wells punches him back through, but he comes back and fights through the temporal disorientation and sickness. Jerry disarms Wells and has him at gunpoint. Wells tries to convince Jerry to come back with him, and perhaps be “recast” by the Time Stream as one of his staff and live richly. Jerry pauses shakes his head and shoots the artifact with the future gun vaporizing the artifact. Enraged Wells tries to kill Jerry but Miranda comes through and grabs Wells, saying: “you have the right to remain silent,” and shoves a small device in Wells’ mouth. She calls her superiors and sends Wells disappears in a flash of white light into the future, Miranda’s future. The wormhole is closing around Jerry and Miranda. They only have two minutes to spare. Jerry holds Miranda whom he now realizes is in love with her, no matter if she is a machine. Miranda is overwhelmed by Jerry’s love and feels unworthy of it. She confesses she loves him too, in spite of her efforts to turn it off. He asks her to come back with him. She tearfully says she can’t. They have 20 seconds. Jerry and Miranda hold each other and kiss passionately. When the wormhole like a white tornado almost envelops them, Miranda whispers in Jerry’s ear to remember her. Jerry says he’ll try. Hard. She vanishes. Jerry is alone when the time countdown ends the wormhole closes. Then everything rearranges. Jerry wakes up in his bed, but it’s not his dingy apartment. It’s Wells’ mansion, but it’s now his mansion! Jerry is the brilliant inventor of a new type of laser gun used by law enforcement, a gun that looks very much like the future gun he had in his hand when Miranda left him in the wormhole. Was it all a dream? Jerry goes to see his ex-wife Lacy in the hospital, she gives birth to his son. Then a nurse off camera congratulates him on a beautiful baby boy. Jerry turns and it’s Miranda, but he doesn’t remember her. He thanks her and leaves, but turns as if almost remembering something as she stares at him from around the corner longingly. THE END

THE TIME JOB