In Washington DC in 1994, the Senate Oversight Committee (SOC) is being spoken to in the capitol building by George Spota, who explains that for the past 20 years, Doctor Hans Kleindast, the Nobel laureate who help the government with the space program back in the 1960s and 1970s, has been doing research, and his field of research has been time travel. The SOC believes that Hans is a quack — until George tells the SOC that Hans actually succeeded in his research and took a trip to the past then back to the present. You can’t travel into the future because the future hasn’t happened yet. George makes it clear that a covert agency is needed to police time travel, so the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) is formed. Named as the director of the TEC is Commander Eugene Matuzak, formerly of the Washington DC police department. Senator Aaron McComb, who sees possibilities, agrees to chair the oversight on the new program. Sometime later, at a shopping center, TEC agent Max Walker and his wife Melissa are being watched by a pair of shady looking men. Later, at home. Max and Melissa spend some passionate time together. That night, Melissa is about to tell Max something extremely important when the phone rings. Max answers the phone and is told to go to TEC headquarters. Max gets dressed and as soon as Max opens the front door to go outside, he is attacked by the two men from the shopping center. As the two men are beating Max up. Max sees Aaron looking out the window of the bedroom that Melissa is still in, and Aaron is holding Melissa hostage, forcing Melissa to watch Max’s beating. The two men outside then shoot Max, who is wearing a bulletproof vest — and then an explosion engulfs the house, killing Melissa. On October 30, 1929, on Wall Street in New York City, a man named Lyle Atwood enters an office building and rides an elevator up to an office. There is a sudden ripple in the office, and Max enters from the future. It turns out that Lyle is Max’s partner, and Lyle is planning to stop the depression from happening. Max wants to know who Lyle is working for, and Lyie calls two security men into the office to deal with Max. Max beats up the two security men, and Lyle pulls out a gun and opens fire on Max. When Lyle runs out of bullets, Max forces Lyle to admit that he’s working for Aaron, and that Aaron has paid off a lot of other TEC agents as well. Lyle then jumps out the window. Max jumps out after Lyle, grabs him, and takes Lyle with him back to present time, which is now the year 2004, ten years after Melissa’s murder. TEC judge Marshall sentences Lyle to be immediately executed, so Lyle is sent back to 1929 and is dropped to his death from the point in midair where Max and Lyle disappeared to 2004. At TEC Headquarters in 2004, Aaron, Max, and Matuzak are showing Senator Malcolm Nelson around the TEC building. Aaron reminds everyone that people who go back in time risk coming into contact with a past version of themselves. The same matter cannot occupy the same space at the same time, because if that happens, and if it’s a person accidentally making physical contact with their past version, that person will die, and their body will disappear from the face of the Earth. Later, Max tells Matuzak that Aaron wants to shut down the TEC so no one can stop him from altering the past to his advantage, because Aaron is now running for President of the United States. Aaron’s fading campaign for president is dealt a blow when he is denied federal campaign matching funds. Just before Max wakes up, two men break into his home to kill him, but Max turns the tables and kills the two men who broke in. TEC internal affairs investigator Sarah Fielding questions Max. Max soon learns that Sarah may be on the wrong side in this. Max must travel back and forth in time to bring Aaron down…and when Max goes back to 1994 and finds out what Melissa wanted to tell him 10 years ago, it gives Max incentive to at least try to prevent Melissa’s murder.
—Todd Baldridge
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1994年在华盛顿特区，乔治·斯波塔在国会大厦与参议院监督委员会（SOC）对话，他解释说，在过去的20年里，曾在20世纪60年代和70年代帮助政府进行太空计划的诺贝尔奖获得者汉斯·克莱因达斯特博士一直在做研究，他的研究领域是时间旅行。SOC认为汉斯是个庸医——直到乔治告诉SOC，汉斯的研究确实取得了成功，回到了过去，然后又回到了现在。你不能进入未来，因为未来还没有发生。乔治明确表示，需要一个秘密机构来监管时间旅行，因此成立了时间执行委员会（TEC）。前华盛顿特区警察局指挥官尤金·马图扎克被任命为反恐委员会主任。参议员亚伦·麦科姆看到了可能性，同意主持新项目的监督工作。一段时间后，在一家购物中心，TEC特工麦克斯·沃克和他的妻子梅丽莎正被一对形迹可疑的男子监视。后来，在家里。麦克斯和梅丽莎在一起度过了一些充满激情的时光。那天晚上，当电话铃响时，梅丽莎正要告诉马克斯一件非常重要的事。麦克斯接了电话，被告知去TEC总部。麦克斯穿好衣服，麦克斯一打开前门出去，就遭到购物中心两名男子的袭击。这两个人正在殴打麦克斯。麦克斯看到亚伦从卧室的窗户往外看，梅丽莎还在卧室里，亚伦把梅丽莎扣为人质，迫使梅丽莎看着麦克斯殴打。外面的两名男子随后向身穿防弹背心的麦克斯开枪，随后爆炸吞噬了房子，杀死了梅丽莎。1929年10月30日，在纽约市的华尔街，一个名叫莱尔·阿特伍德的男子进入一座办公楼，乘坐电梯到达一间办公室。办公室里突然起了涟漪，麦克斯从未来走了进来。原来莱尔是马克斯的搭档，莱尔正计划阻止抑郁症的发生。麦克斯想知道莱尔为谁工作，莱伊把两名保安叫到办公室来对付麦克斯。麦克斯殴打了两名保安，莱尔掏出枪向麦克斯开枪。当莱尔的子弹用完时，麦克斯强迫莱尔承认他为亚伦工作，而亚伦也支付了许多其他TEC特工的报酬。然后莱尔跳出窗外。麦克斯在莱尔身后跳了出来，抓住他，把莱尔带回到了现在，也就是2004年，梅丽莎被谋杀十年后。TEC法官马歇尔判处莱尔立即执行死刑，因此莱尔被送回1929年，并从麦克斯和莱尔失踪的半空中坠落至2004年。2004年，在TEC总部，亚伦、马克斯和马图扎克带着参议员马尔科姆·纳尔逊参观了TEC大楼。Aaron提醒大家，时光倒流的人有可能接触到自己的过去版本。同一个物质不能同时占据同一个空间，因为如果发生这种情况，如果是一个人意外地与他们过去的版本进行身体接触，那么这个人就会死亡
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back in用臂部或背部与对方接触, 用臀部或背部撞人; 后内刃; 重新参与叫牌
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