Solos [s1.e01]

Leah

by David Weil, directed by Zach Braff

Release: 21 May 2021
Format: TV Episode
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

While talking to her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, brilliant scientist Leah Salavara’s subconscious brings up just the idea that’s needed to video chat with herself in other times and eventually complete the final step that leads to actual time travel with a surprisingly complex set of motives.

— Michael Main

Okay, so in order to run a reverse dimensional location search, I need to know what the interdimensional VIN is on your computer.

DEBUT

Solos (s01e01), “Leah” (Amazon Prime, 21 May 2021).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2000 to 2099: Leahs from 2019 through 2029

Timeline Models

Pruned Timeline: When Leah-2024 sends Leah-2019 to an unspecified future time, both Leah-2024 and Leah-2029 mysterious dissolve. And yes, we agree that the whole panicked handwaving around this isssue mentioning the [tag-butterfly effect is just sloppy writing.

Time Travel Methods

Unexplained Time Travel Methods: Something scientific, it would seem, but we never really see the machine.

Themes

Fix Your Own Past!: In the end, Leah’s motivation is to fix her own past from about 2019 to 2024.
Letters, Texts, Phone Calls, Talking, and Other Direct Communications through Time: video chats
Self-Visitation
Selves-Visitation: Leah-2024 has a kind of video conference call with herself in 2019 and 2029.

Groupings

Solos (TV series)

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From Leah’s lab, 2024 ⋙ to the same lab, 2029. Note: a video chat with herself.
From Leah’s lab, 2024 ⋙ to the same lab, 2019. Note: another video chat with herself.
From Leah’s lab, 2019 ⋙ to an unspecified place and future time at an unknown time. Note: If we understood what happened, Leah-2024 sent Leah-2019 to her future, thereby destroying both Leah-2024 and Leah-2029.