Game6Conley
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This timeline explanation might help you if you do re-watch it.Yeah, I didn't understand what's going on. Maybe I'll watch it again, but I just don't feel it's worth investing multiple viewings just to be able to understand the story.
Events in brackets are not verified by the evidence given in the movie but are nonetheless probable. The numbers next to peopleÂ’s names represent how many times they have time traveled. They also differentiate different people who have the same name.
Timeline 1 (not shown in movie)
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets a timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and no one exits. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and then goes to the park bench.]
8:30am Abe0 sets a timer on box A and leaves for the hotel.
8:45am Box A turns on and no one exits.
After ~9:00am Aaron0 leaves the park bench and most likely goes to work.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe0 drives to, stays in, and returns from a hotel in Russellfield. He calls his mutual fund company to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe0 enters box A and disappears. He will emerge in Timeline 2 as Abe1.
After 3:15pm Rachel calls Abe0 but he doesnÂ’t answer. [Abe0Â’s family and friends have no idea where he is and most likely a missing person report is filed. Aaron0 is possibly blamed for the disappearance. The police most likely find the box at the storage unit and time travel is thus introduced to the world with its inventor not around to enjoy the fame he would receive. No one ever sees Abe0 again.]
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Timeline 2 (not shown in movie)
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and no one exits. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and then goes to the park bench.
8:30am Abe0 sets a 15 minute timer on box A and leaves for the hotel.
8:45am Box A turns on and Abe1 exits. At some point, he buys the stocks that he had heard from his mutual fund company would do well. He takes a taxi to the park, approaches Aaron0 at the park bench and convinces him to not go to work.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe0 drives to, stays in, and returns from a hotel in Russellfield. He calls his mutual fund company to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day. Aaron0 asks Will to invite his cousin, who is RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend, to the party. Abe1 takes Aaron0 to various labs to try and explain why the fungus is growing on the weeble.
Before 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 watch as Abe0 enters the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe0 enters box A and disappears.
After 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 park their car in a field and discuss time travel and theorize that Aaron0 probably went to work the first time through. Rachel calls Abe1, he answers and invites her to the party.
Evening At the party, RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend shows up and pulls out a shotgun but he doesnÂ’t fire. Abe1 and Aaron0 are not there. Aaron0 builds box B. At some later point in time, Aaron0 finds out about what happened at the party and wishes he could have been there to take the shotgun from RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend and be the hero.
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron0 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 enter the boxes and disappear. They will emerge in Timeline 3 as Abe2 and Aaron1.
After 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0Â’s families and friends never see them again. [Eventually, their time machines are probably found at the storage unit, and the world discovers that they had time traveled. They are hailed as the first time travelers, but are not around to enjoy their fame.]
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Timeline 3 (not shown in movie)
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron0 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and Abe2 and Aaron1 exit. They go and buy the stocks that they know will do well.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
Before 3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 watch as Abe1 and Aaron0 enter the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 enter the boxes and disappear.
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron1 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 enter boxes and disappear. They will emerge in Timeline 4 as Abe3 and Aaron2.
After 3:15pm Once again, Abe2 and Aaron1 are never seen again, [and time travel is eventually discovered by the world.]
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Timeline 4
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron1 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and Abe3 and Aaron2 exit. Abe3 tells Aaron2 about a dream he had at the beach. Aaron2 makes a mental note of this dream.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 enter the boxes and disappear.
After Wednesday, probably Thursday or Friday:*
Aaron2 discovers on the storage manifest that Abe3 has 2 rooms rented under his name. He finds the room and discovers Abe3Â’s secret failsafe A. He goes and gets box A and box B, folds them up, gets inside failsafe A with the boxes, and disappears. He will emerge in Timeline 5 as Aaron3. When Aaron2 disappears, Abe3 goes to his failsafe and realizes that it has been turned off. He also finds that box A and box B are missing. Since there was only one failsafe, there is no way for Abe3 to go back and catch Aaron2. [He explains to Aaron2Â’s family and friends what has happened to Aaron2.]
*Since we donÂ’t know the exact day that Aaron0 finds the failsafe, nor the time that Abe0 turns on the failsafe, we are also unsure as to whether he finds failsafe A before or after the catastrophe with Rachel which sends Granger back in time to save/see her. If anyone can verify the time that Aaron0 finds the failsafe or the time that Abe0 turns it on, please email me at wildonrio@gmail.com.
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Timeline 5
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and Aaron3 exits. He hides failsafe A in another room for the reason that his double is coming back in it. He takes one of the boxes and makes his own failsafe (we will call it failsafe cool.gif and sets a timer. The other box he puts where failsafe A had been as to deceive Abe1 that it is failsafe A (we will call this one failsafe C). He also sets a timer for failsafe C. Failsafe B and failsafe C turn on, no one exits. Aaron3 goes to his house in a hooded sweatshirt and puts some type of chemical in Aaron0Â’s milk. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and goes unconscious from the chemical. Aaron3 hides Aaron0 in the attic and then goes to the park bench to wait for Abe1.
8:30am Abe0 sets 15 minute timer on box A and leaves for the hotel.
8:45am Box A turns on, Abe1 exits and takes a taxi to the park. At some point, he buys the stocks that he had heard from his mutual fund company would do well. Aaron3 begins recording conversations with a hidden tape recorder. He leaves an earpiece in his ear so that people will ask what he is listening to, when in fact he may not be listening to anything. This way, the next time through when he already has everything recorded and needs the earpiece to reproduce to his recorded conversations, people will have already asked about the earpiece and the conversations will be the same.
After 8:45am Abe1 approaches Aaron3 at the park bench and says he is listening to basketball. Abe1 thinks he convinces him to not go to work when Aaron3, in reality, wasnÂ’t planning on going to work.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe0 drives to, stays in, and returns from a hotel in Russellfield. He calls his mutual fund company to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day. Aaron2 asks Will to invite his cousin, who is RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend, to the party. During the conversation, he shoots for a basket and makes it in. Abe1 takes Aaron0 to various labs to try and explain why the fungus is growing on the weeble.
Before 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 watch as Abe0 enters the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe0 enters box A and disappears.
After 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 park their car in a field and discuss time travel and theorize that Aaron0 probably went to work the first time through. Rachel calls Abe1, he answers and invites her to the party.
Evening Aaron3 goes to the party. There, RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend shows up and pulls out a shotgun. Aaron3 attacks him, takes the shotgun from him, and is considered a hero by everyone. Abe1 isnÂ’t there. Aaron3 builds box B.
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron3 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 enter boxes and disappear. They will emerge in Timeline 6 as Abe2 and Aaron4.
After 3:15pm Abe1, Aaron3, and Aaron0 are all missing. A few days later, Aaron0 breaks out of the attic, [and explains to his family what happened to him. They all find the time machines and discover what happened. Aaron0 probably takes credit for inventing time travel since Abe1 has disappeared and isnÂ’t there to argue.]
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Timeline 6
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron3 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, Aaron4 exits first, and then Abe2. In Abe2Â’s perspective it appears that he (Abe2) exited first. This is because time is going backwards when Aaron4 exits so it takes a minute or so for Abe2 to catch up to Aaron4Â’s time. [They then both go and buy the stocks that they know will do well.]
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
Before 3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 watch as Abe1 and Aaron3 enter the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 enter boxes and disappear.
Evening Abe2 and Aaron4 talk with AaronÂ’s wife Kara about what she would do with all of the money in the world. Aaron4 mentions how he wants to go punch his boss Platts in the face and then somehow go back and tell himself not to. He can then live with the satisfaction of punching his boss, but not the consequences. Kara is impressed and calls him a hero (alluding to his actions at the party which Aaron4 probably told her about earlier.) Kara complains about rats in the attic, not knowing that the noises are actually coming from Aaron0.
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron4 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 go back to the storage unit and enter box A and box B. They will emerge in Timeline 7 as Abe3 and Aaron5.
After 3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 are gone forever. Aaron0 later breaks out [and takes credit for inventing time travel.]
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Timeline 7
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron4 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, Abe3 and Aaron5 exit. Aaron5 knows that Abe3 has just had a dream about the beach because he had told it to him in Timeline 4. For fun, Aaron5 describes Abe3Â’s dream before Abe3 has a chance to tell him about it, as if it was his own. Abe3 reacts by merely adding a few details, but he is obviously a little confused.
After 8:45am Aaron5 has an ear bleed. This is most likely a side effect from so much time traveling. Aaron5 and Abe3 go and buy the stocks that will have the highest gain.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 go back to the storage unit and enter box A and box B. They disappear.
Afternoon/Evening Abe3 finds out about how Aaron5 (at the time, Aaron3) had gone to the party and risked his life to take the shotgun from RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend. Abe3 is angry because he doesnÂ’t think RachelÂ’s life is more important than Kara and Lauren having a father. Aaron5 argues that things are better now, alluding to how his wife thinks more highly of him (she had called him a hero the night before).
Thursday:
8:30am Abe3 and Aaron5 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm At the hotel, Aaron5 forgets about his cell phone being on and answers it. He tells Kara to save him some dinner because he wonÂ’t be home in time. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe3 and Aaron5 enter box A and box B. They will emerge in Timeline 8 as Abe4 and Aaron6.
After 3:15pm Abe3 and Aaron4 are gone forever. Aaron0 later breaks out [and takes credit for inventing time travel.]
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Timeline 8
Thursday:
8:30am Abe3 and Aaron5 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, Abe4 and Aaron6 exit. They go to buy the stocks that will have the highest gain.
8:45am-3:15pm While walking down the street, Aaron6 once again forgets about his cell phone and it rings. He doesn’t answer this time. Meanwhile at the hotel, Aaron5’s cell phone doesn’t ring this time around, and Kara never talks to either Aaron. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day. Since Aaron5 doesn’t answer the phone, this “breaks symmetry”. Abe4 is worried and Aaron6 pretends to be worried, but since this affects nothing, they realize that causality isn’t as dangerous as they thought.
3:15pm Abe3 and Aaron5 enter box A and box B. They disappear.
Afternoon Aaron6 sees Granger0 clean-shaven.
5:00pm Abe4 sets 15 minute timers on box A and box B.
5:15pm Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
Friday (not shown in movie and very theoretical):
2:00am Some kids are hitting cars and setting off car alarms. This wakes up Abe4. He goes to Aaron6Â’s house and tells him how they should now go punch Platts. This way they could go get in the boxes, become Abe5 and Aaron7, and go back and stop the kids from waking Abe4 up. Abe4 would then never have the idea to punch Platts, he would never tell Abe6, and then they would get in the boxes as planned the next day.
After 2:00am [Abe4 and Aaron6 go to PlattsÂ’ house and punch him in the face. Meanwhile, RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend finds Rachel alone and most likely kills her. Her father, Thomas Granger0, finds out and contacts Abe4 to try and get a grasp at how it happened. Granger0 is terribly upset, Abe4 sympathizes with him, and decides to tell him about time travel. Granger0 is overjoyed and begs to let him go back with him (Abe4) to stop the ex-boyfriend. Abe4 agrees but doesnÂ’t tell Aaron6 in fear that he would be mad at him for divulging time travel to an outside person. Abe4 and Granger0 enter boxes. They will emerge in Timeline 9 as Abe5 and Granger1. Some type of court case is begun to try and explain what happened to Abe4, Aaron0, and Granger0. When Aaron0 breaks out of the attic, he is most likely blamed for the twoÂ’s disappearance. Aaron6 most likely goes fugitive as to not be blamed.]
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Timeline 9
Thursday:
Afternoon Aaron6 sees Granger0 clean-shaven.
5:00pm Abe4 sets 15 minute timers on box A and box B.
5:15pm Box A and box B turn on, Abe5 and Granger1 exit.
Friday:
2:00am The kids wake up Abe4. He goes to Aaron6Â’s house and tells him how they should go punch Platts. Meanwhile, Abe5 and Granger1 are outside Aaron6Â’s house in Granger1Â’s car. If anyone has a valid theory as to what they are doing outside Aaron6Â’s house, please email me at wildonrio@gmail.com. I cannot figure this out.
After 2:00am Abe5 gets out of the car and begins running around Aaron6Â’s house, most likely looking for a way in (I donÂ’t know why). On their way to go to PlattsÂ’ house, Aaron6 notices Granger1 sitting in his car. He also notices that he now has a 2 or 3-day-old beard, while earlier he had seen Granger0 clean shaven. Abe4 calls Rachel, gets Granger0Â’s number, and calls and verifies that Granger0 is indeed at home. Aaron6 gets upset and starts to chase Granger1. Abe4 goes after them. Granger1 faints from being close to Abe4. Aaron6 and Abe4 canÂ’t figure out how Granger0 found out about time travel. Abe4 secretly goes to failsafe C, thinking it is failsafe A, and goes back in time to try and figure out how Granger finds out. After Abe4 goes back, Aaron6 follows him in failsafe B, probably taking both of the boxes with him to make failsafe D and failsafe E. Abe4 and Aaron6 will emerge in Timeline 10 as Abe6 and Aaron7. Aaron0 and Abe5 remain in this timeline to take the places of Aaron6 and Abe4. [While Aaron0 is still locked in the attic, Abe5 goes and saves Rachel. Aaron0 eventually wakes up completely confused as to everything. Granger1 is possibly disposed of, as Granger0 is still in the world with no running boxes to send him back. Since his daughter is saved, he has no reason to go back or even know about time travel anyway.]
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Timeline 10
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and Aaron3 exits. He hides failsafe A in another room, takes one of the boxes and makes failsafe B and sets a timer. The other box he puts where failsafe A had been and sets a timer for it also. Failsafe B turns on and Aaron7 exits. Failsafe C turns on and Abe6 exits. Aaron3 goes to his house in a hooded sweatshirt and puts some type of chemical in Aaron0Â’s milk. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and goes unconscious from the chemical. Aaron3 hides Aaron0 in the attic and is about to go to the park bench to meet Abe1 when Aaron7 attacks him. They fight, but Aaron7 is overtaken. They talk, and Aaron7 convinces Aaron3 that he is unnecessary because he (Aaron7) has already recorded all of the conversations, as Aaron3 was planning on doing. Aaron3 decides to leave, and Aaron7 tells him what he (Aaron7) plans on doing. Aaron3 leaves and becomes the narrator and Aaron7 goes to the park to meet Abe6. Meanwhile, Abe6 goes to Abe0Â’s house, gases him, and locks him in a closet.
~8:45am Abe6 approaches Aaron7 at the park bench. Aaron7 listens to his recordings and tries to create the same conversation they had in Timeline 5. Abe6 notices and faints from shock/fatigue from being in the machine.
After 8:45am Abe6 has an ear bleed. Aaron7 explains about how he found the failsafe and went back to record the conversations. Aaron7 goes to the basketball court to have Will invite RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend to the party. Although he misses the shot this time through, it doesnÂ’t affect the outcome of the conversation.
After 3:15pm Abe6 and Aaron7 discuss whether or not they should invite Rachel to the party. They decide to do so to make sure that the ex-boyfriend can be caught in the act, and thus go to jail, making it impossible for him to threaten her life later when sheÂ’s alone. Rachel calls Abe6 and he invites her to the party.
Evening Abe6 and Aaron7 go to the party. They remove the bullets from the ex-boyfriendÂ’s shotgun. When he brings the gun in, Aaron7 takes it from him [and the ex-boyfriend is arrested] (although this may have taken more than a few times to get right).
After Monday:
Daytime At the airport, Abe6 is angry with Aaron7 for messing with time travel too much. Aaron7 comments on how Abe6 wants his wife and kid. Abe6 gets angrier and they part ways. During their conversation, Aaron0 breaks out of the attic and Abe0 breaks out of the closet. Abe6 goes to secretly take pieces from the machine so that Abe0 and Aaron0 never discover time travel, and Aaron7 goes to France to build a room-sized time machine.
Timeline 1 (not shown in movie)
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets a timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and no one exits. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and then goes to the park bench.]
8:30am Abe0 sets a timer on box A and leaves for the hotel.
8:45am Box A turns on and no one exits.
After ~9:00am Aaron0 leaves the park bench and most likely goes to work.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe0 drives to, stays in, and returns from a hotel in Russellfield. He calls his mutual fund company to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe0 enters box A and disappears. He will emerge in Timeline 2 as Abe1.
After 3:15pm Rachel calls Abe0 but he doesnÂ’t answer. [Abe0Â’s family and friends have no idea where he is and most likely a missing person report is filed. Aaron0 is possibly blamed for the disappearance. The police most likely find the box at the storage unit and time travel is thus introduced to the world with its inventor not around to enjoy the fame he would receive. No one ever sees Abe0 again.]
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Timeline 2 (not shown in movie)
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and no one exits. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and then goes to the park bench.
8:30am Abe0 sets a 15 minute timer on box A and leaves for the hotel.
8:45am Box A turns on and Abe1 exits. At some point, he buys the stocks that he had heard from his mutual fund company would do well. He takes a taxi to the park, approaches Aaron0 at the park bench and convinces him to not go to work.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe0 drives to, stays in, and returns from a hotel in Russellfield. He calls his mutual fund company to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day. Aaron0 asks Will to invite his cousin, who is RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend, to the party. Abe1 takes Aaron0 to various labs to try and explain why the fungus is growing on the weeble.
Before 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 watch as Abe0 enters the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe0 enters box A and disappears.
After 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 park their car in a field and discuss time travel and theorize that Aaron0 probably went to work the first time through. Rachel calls Abe1, he answers and invites her to the party.
Evening At the party, RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend shows up and pulls out a shotgun but he doesnÂ’t fire. Abe1 and Aaron0 are not there. Aaron0 builds box B. At some later point in time, Aaron0 finds out about what happened at the party and wishes he could have been there to take the shotgun from RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend and be the hero.
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron0 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 enter the boxes and disappear. They will emerge in Timeline 3 as Abe2 and Aaron1.
After 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0Â’s families and friends never see them again. [Eventually, their time machines are probably found at the storage unit, and the world discovers that they had time traveled. They are hailed as the first time travelers, but are not around to enjoy their fame.]
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Timeline 3 (not shown in movie)
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron0 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and Abe2 and Aaron1 exit. They go and buy the stocks that they know will do well.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
Before 3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 watch as Abe1 and Aaron0 enter the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron0 enter the boxes and disappear.
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron1 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 enter boxes and disappear. They will emerge in Timeline 4 as Abe3 and Aaron2.
After 3:15pm Once again, Abe2 and Aaron1 are never seen again, [and time travel is eventually discovered by the world.]
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Timeline 4
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron1 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on and Abe3 and Aaron2 exit. Abe3 tells Aaron2 about a dream he had at the beach. Aaron2 makes a mental note of this dream.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron1 enter the boxes and disappear.
After Wednesday, probably Thursday or Friday:*
Aaron2 discovers on the storage manifest that Abe3 has 2 rooms rented under his name. He finds the room and discovers Abe3Â’s secret failsafe A. He goes and gets box A and box B, folds them up, gets inside failsafe A with the boxes, and disappears. He will emerge in Timeline 5 as Aaron3. When Aaron2 disappears, Abe3 goes to his failsafe and realizes that it has been turned off. He also finds that box A and box B are missing. Since there was only one failsafe, there is no way for Abe3 to go back and catch Aaron2. [He explains to Aaron2Â’s family and friends what has happened to Aaron2.]
*Since we donÂ’t know the exact day that Aaron0 finds the failsafe, nor the time that Abe0 turns on the failsafe, we are also unsure as to whether he finds failsafe A before or after the catastrophe with Rachel which sends Granger back in time to save/see her. If anyone can verify the time that Aaron0 finds the failsafe or the time that Abe0 turns it on, please email me at wildonrio@gmail.com.
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Timeline 5
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and Aaron3 exits. He hides failsafe A in another room for the reason that his double is coming back in it. He takes one of the boxes and makes his own failsafe (we will call it failsafe cool.gif and sets a timer. The other box he puts where failsafe A had been as to deceive Abe1 that it is failsafe A (we will call this one failsafe C). He also sets a timer for failsafe C. Failsafe B and failsafe C turn on, no one exits. Aaron3 goes to his house in a hooded sweatshirt and puts some type of chemical in Aaron0Â’s milk. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and goes unconscious from the chemical. Aaron3 hides Aaron0 in the attic and then goes to the park bench to wait for Abe1.
8:30am Abe0 sets 15 minute timer on box A and leaves for the hotel.
8:45am Box A turns on, Abe1 exits and takes a taxi to the park. At some point, he buys the stocks that he had heard from his mutual fund company would do well. Aaron3 begins recording conversations with a hidden tape recorder. He leaves an earpiece in his ear so that people will ask what he is listening to, when in fact he may not be listening to anything. This way, the next time through when he already has everything recorded and needs the earpiece to reproduce to his recorded conversations, people will have already asked about the earpiece and the conversations will be the same.
After 8:45am Abe1 approaches Aaron3 at the park bench and says he is listening to basketball. Abe1 thinks he convinces him to not go to work when Aaron3, in reality, wasnÂ’t planning on going to work.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe0 drives to, stays in, and returns from a hotel in Russellfield. He calls his mutual fund company to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day. Aaron2 asks Will to invite his cousin, who is RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend, to the party. During the conversation, he shoots for a basket and makes it in. Abe1 takes Aaron0 to various labs to try and explain why the fungus is growing on the weeble.
Before 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 watch as Abe0 enters the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe0 enters box A and disappears.
After 3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 park their car in a field and discuss time travel and theorize that Aaron0 probably went to work the first time through. Rachel calls Abe1, he answers and invites her to the party.
Evening Aaron3 goes to the party. There, RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend shows up and pulls out a shotgun. Aaron3 attacks him, takes the shotgun from him, and is considered a hero by everyone. Abe1 isnÂ’t there. Aaron3 builds box B.
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron3 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 enter boxes and disappear. They will emerge in Timeline 6 as Abe2 and Aaron4.
After 3:15pm Abe1, Aaron3, and Aaron0 are all missing. A few days later, Aaron0 breaks out of the attic, [and explains to his family what happened to him. They all find the time machines and discover what happened. Aaron0 probably takes credit for inventing time travel since Abe1 has disappeared and isnÂ’t there to argue.]
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Timeline 6
Tuesday:
8:30am Abe1 and Aaron3 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, Aaron4 exits first, and then Abe2. In Abe2Â’s perspective it appears that he (Abe2) exited first. This is because time is going backwards when Aaron4 exits so it takes a minute or so for Abe2 to catch up to Aaron4Â’s time. [They then both go and buy the stocks that they know will do well.]
8:45am-3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
Before 3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 watch as Abe1 and Aaron3 enter the storage unit.
3:15pm Abe1 and Aaron3 enter boxes and disappear.
Evening Abe2 and Aaron4 talk with AaronÂ’s wife Kara about what she would do with all of the money in the world. Aaron4 mentions how he wants to go punch his boss Platts in the face and then somehow go back and tell himself not to. He can then live with the satisfaction of punching his boss, but not the consequences. Kara is impressed and calls him a hero (alluding to his actions at the party which Aaron4 probably told her about earlier.) Kara complains about rats in the attic, not knowing that the noises are actually coming from Aaron0.
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron4 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 go back to the storage unit and enter box A and box B. They will emerge in Timeline 7 as Abe3 and Aaron5.
After 3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 are gone forever. Aaron0 later breaks out [and takes credit for inventing time travel.]
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Timeline 7
Wednesday:
8:30am Abe2 and Aaron4 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, Abe3 and Aaron5 exit. Aaron5 knows that Abe3 has just had a dream about the beach because he had told it to him in Timeline 4. For fun, Aaron5 describes Abe3Â’s dream before Abe3 has a chance to tell him about it, as if it was his own. Abe3 reacts by merely adding a few details, but he is obviously a little confused.
After 8:45am Aaron5 has an ear bleed. This is most likely a side effect from so much time traveling. Aaron5 and Abe3 go and buy the stocks that will have the highest gain.
8:45am-3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 drive to, stay in, and return from a hotel in Russellfield. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe2 and Aaron4 go back to the storage unit and enter box A and box B. They disappear.
Afternoon/Evening Abe3 finds out about how Aaron5 (at the time, Aaron3) had gone to the party and risked his life to take the shotgun from RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend. Abe3 is angry because he doesnÂ’t think RachelÂ’s life is more important than Kara and Lauren having a father. Aaron5 argues that things are better now, alluding to how his wife thinks more highly of him (she had called him a hero the night before).
Thursday:
8:30am Abe3 and Aaron5 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
8:45am-3:15pm At the hotel, Aaron5 forgets about his cell phone being on and answers it. He tells Kara to save him some dinner because he wonÂ’t be home in time. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day.
3:15pm Abe3 and Aaron5 enter box A and box B. They will emerge in Timeline 8 as Abe4 and Aaron6.
After 3:15pm Abe3 and Aaron4 are gone forever. Aaron0 later breaks out [and takes credit for inventing time travel.]
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Timeline 8
Thursday:
8:30am Abe3 and Aaron5 set 15 minute timers on box A and box B and leave for the hotel.
8:45am Box A and box B turn on, Abe4 and Aaron6 exit. They go to buy the stocks that will have the highest gain.
8:45am-3:15pm While walking down the street, Aaron6 once again forgets about his cell phone and it rings. He doesn’t answer this time. Meanwhile at the hotel, Aaron5’s cell phone doesn’t ring this time around, and Kara never talks to either Aaron. While in Russellfield they go to the library to find out which stocks had the highest gain that day. Since Aaron5 doesn’t answer the phone, this “breaks symmetry”. Abe4 is worried and Aaron6 pretends to be worried, but since this affects nothing, they realize that causality isn’t as dangerous as they thought.
3:15pm Abe3 and Aaron5 enter box A and box B. They disappear.
Afternoon Aaron6 sees Granger0 clean-shaven.
5:00pm Abe4 sets 15 minute timers on box A and box B.
5:15pm Box A and box B turn on, no one exits.
Friday (not shown in movie and very theoretical):
2:00am Some kids are hitting cars and setting off car alarms. This wakes up Abe4. He goes to Aaron6Â’s house and tells him how they should now go punch Platts. This way they could go get in the boxes, become Abe5 and Aaron7, and go back and stop the kids from waking Abe4 up. Abe4 would then never have the idea to punch Platts, he would never tell Abe6, and then they would get in the boxes as planned the next day.
After 2:00am [Abe4 and Aaron6 go to PlattsÂ’ house and punch him in the face. Meanwhile, RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend finds Rachel alone and most likely kills her. Her father, Thomas Granger0, finds out and contacts Abe4 to try and get a grasp at how it happened. Granger0 is terribly upset, Abe4 sympathizes with him, and decides to tell him about time travel. Granger0 is overjoyed and begs to let him go back with him (Abe4) to stop the ex-boyfriend. Abe4 agrees but doesnÂ’t tell Aaron6 in fear that he would be mad at him for divulging time travel to an outside person. Abe4 and Granger0 enter boxes. They will emerge in Timeline 9 as Abe5 and Granger1. Some type of court case is begun to try and explain what happened to Abe4, Aaron0, and Granger0. When Aaron0 breaks out of the attic, he is most likely blamed for the twoÂ’s disappearance. Aaron6 most likely goes fugitive as to not be blamed.]
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Timeline 9
Thursday:
Afternoon Aaron6 sees Granger0 clean-shaven.
5:00pm Abe4 sets 15 minute timers on box A and box B.
5:15pm Box A and box B turn on, Abe5 and Granger1 exit.
Friday:
2:00am The kids wake up Abe4. He goes to Aaron6Â’s house and tells him how they should go punch Platts. Meanwhile, Abe5 and Granger1 are outside Aaron6Â’s house in Granger1Â’s car. If anyone has a valid theory as to what they are doing outside Aaron6Â’s house, please email me at wildonrio@gmail.com. I cannot figure this out.
After 2:00am Abe5 gets out of the car and begins running around Aaron6Â’s house, most likely looking for a way in (I donÂ’t know why). On their way to go to PlattsÂ’ house, Aaron6 notices Granger1 sitting in his car. He also notices that he now has a 2 or 3-day-old beard, while earlier he had seen Granger0 clean shaven. Abe4 calls Rachel, gets Granger0Â’s number, and calls and verifies that Granger0 is indeed at home. Aaron6 gets upset and starts to chase Granger1. Abe4 goes after them. Granger1 faints from being close to Abe4. Aaron6 and Abe4 canÂ’t figure out how Granger0 found out about time travel. Abe4 secretly goes to failsafe C, thinking it is failsafe A, and goes back in time to try and figure out how Granger finds out. After Abe4 goes back, Aaron6 follows him in failsafe B, probably taking both of the boxes with him to make failsafe D and failsafe E. Abe4 and Aaron6 will emerge in Timeline 10 as Abe6 and Aaron7. Aaron0 and Abe5 remain in this timeline to take the places of Aaron6 and Abe4. [While Aaron0 is still locked in the attic, Abe5 goes and saves Rachel. Aaron0 eventually wakes up completely confused as to everything. Granger1 is possibly disposed of, as Granger0 is still in the world with no running boxes to send him back. Since his daughter is saved, he has no reason to go back or even know about time travel anyway.]
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Timeline 10
Monday:
Before 8:30am Abe0 sets timer for failsafe A and goes back home to sleep. It later turns on and Aaron3 exits. He hides failsafe A in another room, takes one of the boxes and makes failsafe B and sets a timer. The other box he puts where failsafe A had been and sets a timer for it also. Failsafe B turns on and Aaron7 exits. Failsafe C turns on and Abe6 exits. Aaron3 goes to his house in a hooded sweatshirt and puts some type of chemical in Aaron0Â’s milk. Aaron0 has cereal for breakfast and goes unconscious from the chemical. Aaron3 hides Aaron0 in the attic and is about to go to the park bench to meet Abe1 when Aaron7 attacks him. They fight, but Aaron7 is overtaken. They talk, and Aaron7 convinces Aaron3 that he is unnecessary because he (Aaron7) has already recorded all of the conversations, as Aaron3 was planning on doing. Aaron3 decides to leave, and Aaron7 tells him what he (Aaron7) plans on doing. Aaron3 leaves and becomes the narrator and Aaron7 goes to the park to meet Abe6. Meanwhile, Abe6 goes to Abe0Â’s house, gases him, and locks him in a closet.
~8:45am Abe6 approaches Aaron7 at the park bench. Aaron7 listens to his recordings and tries to create the same conversation they had in Timeline 5. Abe6 notices and faints from shock/fatigue from being in the machine.
After 8:45am Abe6 has an ear bleed. Aaron7 explains about how he found the failsafe and went back to record the conversations. Aaron7 goes to the basketball court to have Will invite RachelÂ’s ex-boyfriend to the party. Although he misses the shot this time through, it doesnÂ’t affect the outcome of the conversation.
After 3:15pm Abe6 and Aaron7 discuss whether or not they should invite Rachel to the party. They decide to do so to make sure that the ex-boyfriend can be caught in the act, and thus go to jail, making it impossible for him to threaten her life later when sheÂ’s alone. Rachel calls Abe6 and he invites her to the party.
Evening Abe6 and Aaron7 go to the party. They remove the bullets from the ex-boyfriendÂ’s shotgun. When he brings the gun in, Aaron7 takes it from him [and the ex-boyfriend is arrested] (although this may have taken more than a few times to get right).
After Monday:
Daytime At the airport, Abe6 is angry with Aaron7 for messing with time travel too much. Aaron7 comments on how Abe6 wants his wife and kid. Abe6 gets angrier and they part ways. During their conversation, Aaron0 breaks out of the attic and Abe0 breaks out of the closet. Abe6 goes to secretly take pieces from the machine so that Abe0 and Aaron0 never discover time travel, and Aaron7 goes to France to build a room-sized time machine.
Here's how the machine works. (Which helps answer the question in the spoiler from the post on page 9)
The machine works like this, Lets say you enter the machine at 12:00, thats the A end. When you exit, lets say... 12:10, 12:10 is the B end. If you get in at 12:00 (A), then exit at 12:10 (B ), you did nothing except spend 10 minutes in the box. But, if you don't exit voluntarily out of the machine, and you just stay without exiting at the B end, the machine will automatically kick you back to the A end. If you would to do that, this is what would happen
you enter at A (12:00) you spend 10 minutes till B (12:10), then you get kicked back to the A end (12:00) which takes another 10 minutes. To you, you just spent 20 minutes in the box and got out at the time you entered. To someone outside of the box, it looks like you got in the box and immediately exited the box, so you've accumulated 20 minutes for no reason while no one accumulated any time at all. They were smart to think of turning the machine on at 12:00 (A end), not entering, but leaving it on to 12:10 (B end) and THEN entering. Like the movie says, Enter at the B end, exit at the A end.
So you turn on the machine at 12:00, leave it running for 10 minutes. At 12:10, you enter the machine, you stay in it for 10 minutes, when you exit, you'll exit at 12:00 (A end).
This is the complex part of why Abe got out first then waited a minute, then Aaron got out, coughing, disorientated, and Abe tells him he got out too early and thats why he felt that static shock pain.
From A to B, time is going linearly, regular:
12:00 12:01 12:02 12:03 12:04 12:05 12:06 etc.....
But they get in at the B end, so the machine at that point is going from B to A:
12:10 12:09 12:08 12:07 12:06 12:05 12:04 12:03 12:02 12:01 12:00
See, they're traveling back in time, so the order is reversed, 12:10 would be earlier than 12:00. From their perspective, it feels like time is going foward as usual, but its actually counting down backwards to the moment they started the machine. So if Aaron gets out at 12:01:
12:10 12:09 12:08 12:07 12:06 12:05 12:04 12:03 12:02 12:01 (Aaron exits) 12:00 (Then Abe exits)
See, Aaron, by exiting at 12:01, exited earlier and before Abe, because in the box they're moving back through time, but once they get out of the box, time starts going foward again so:
12:00 Abe exits, but Aaron got out of the box too early, so Abe has to wait a minute to see Aaron exit at 12:01.
you enter at A (12:00) you spend 10 minutes till B (12:10), then you get kicked back to the A end (12:00) which takes another 10 minutes. To you, you just spent 20 minutes in the box and got out at the time you entered. To someone outside of the box, it looks like you got in the box and immediately exited the box, so you've accumulated 20 minutes for no reason while no one accumulated any time at all. They were smart to think of turning the machine on at 12:00 (A end), not entering, but leaving it on to 12:10 (B end) and THEN entering. Like the movie says, Enter at the B end, exit at the A end.
So you turn on the machine at 12:00, leave it running for 10 minutes. At 12:10, you enter the machine, you stay in it for 10 minutes, when you exit, you'll exit at 12:00 (A end).
This is the complex part of why Abe got out first then waited a minute, then Aaron got out, coughing, disorientated, and Abe tells him he got out too early and thats why he felt that static shock pain.
From A to B, time is going linearly, regular:
12:00 12:01 12:02 12:03 12:04 12:05 12:06 etc.....
But they get in at the B end, so the machine at that point is going from B to A:
12:10 12:09 12:08 12:07 12:06 12:05 12:04 12:03 12:02 12:01 12:00
See, they're traveling back in time, so the order is reversed, 12:10 would be earlier than 12:00. From their perspective, it feels like time is going foward as usual, but its actually counting down backwards to the moment they started the machine. So if Aaron gets out at 12:01:
12:10 12:09 12:08 12:07 12:06 12:05 12:04 12:03 12:02 12:01 (Aaron exits) 12:00 (Then Abe exits)
See, Aaron, by exiting at 12:01, exited earlier and before Abe, because in the box they're moving back through time, but once they get out of the box, time starts going foward again so:
12:00 Abe exits, but Aaron got out of the box too early, so Abe has to wait a minute to see Aaron exit at 12:01.
I wouldn't ruin the first viewing of the movie by checking these spoilers. If you see Primer and are left scratching your head, then check them out.
