Amazing Stories (r2s01e05)

The Rift

by Don Handfield and Richard Rayner, directed by Mark Mylod

Release: 3 April 2020
Format: TV Episode
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

After a dogfight, a World War II plane flies through a time rift and into a 21st-century field near Dayton, where a single mom saves the pilot from the wreckage and her step-son saves the pilot from other dangers.

— Michael Main

Sir, I know it’s a doorway and all, and we gotta send everything back there, but in training they did not really tell us what happens if we don’t.

DEBUT

Amazing Stories (v2s01e05), “The Rift” (Apple TV, 3 April 2020).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TRANSLATIONS

Arabic subtitles: Unknown Arabic series title, [ex=bare]الصدع | Rift | “Alsade”[/ex].
Bulgarian subtitles: Unknown Bulgarian series title, [ex=bare]Процепът | The crevice | “Protsepŭt”[/ex].
Czech subtitles: Neuvěřitelné příběhy (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“Trhlina” | Rift[/ex].
Danish subtitles: Fantaastiske fortællinger (v2s01e05), “Unknown Danish episode title.”
Dutch subtitles: Unknown Dutch series title, [ex=bare]“De scheur” | The rip[/ex].
Estonian subtitles: Unknown Estonian series title, [ex=bare]“Lõhe” | The rift[/ex].
Finnish subtitles: Hämmästyttävät tarinat (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“Aukko” | Hole[/ex].
French subtitles: Histoires fantastiques (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“La faille” | The flaw[/ex].
German subtitles: Unglaubliche Geschichten (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“Der Graben” | The ditch[/ex].
Hebrew subtitles: [ex=bare]סיפורים מופלאים | Seypevreym mevpelayem[/ex], [ex=bare]הקרע | The rift | “Heqr'e”[/ex].
Hindi subtitles: [ex=bare]अमेज़िंग स्टोरीज़ | Amezing storeez[/ex] (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]दरार | Rift | “Daraar”[/ex].
Hungarian subtitles: Elképesztő történetek (v2s01e05), “Unknown Hungarian episode title.”
Indonesian subtitles: Unknown Indonesian series title, [ex=bare]“Celah” | Rift[/ex].
Italian subtitles: Storie incredibili (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“Il varco” | The gateway[/ex].
Latvian subtitles: Unknown Latvian series title, [ex=bare]“Plaisa” | The rift[/ex].
Lithuanian subtitles: Unknown Lithuanian series title, [ex=bare]“Prasivėrimas” | Breakthrough[/ex].
Malay subtitles: “Unknown Malay series and episode titles.”
Modern Greek subtitles: Unknown Greek series title, [ex=bare]Το ρήγμα | The rift | “To rigma”[/ex].
Norwegian subtitles: “Unknown Norwegian series and episode titles.”
Polish subtitles: Niesamowite historie (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“Szczelina” | Gap[/ex].
Portuguese subtitles: Portugual. Unknown Portuguese series title, [ex=bare]“A Dobra” | The fold[/ex].
Portuguese subtitles: Brazil. Histórias maravilhosas (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“A Fenda” | The gap[/ex].
Russian subtitles: [ex=bare]Удивительные истории | Udivitel'nyye istorii[/ex] (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]Разрыв | Rift | “Razryv”[/ex].
Slovak subtitles: Neueriteľné príbehy (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“Trhlina” | Rift[/ex].
Slovenian subtitles: Unknown Slovenian series title, [ex=bare]“Špranja” | Cracks[/ex].
Spanish subtitles: Spain. Unknown Spanish series title, [ex=bare]“La grieta” | Rift[/ex].
Spanish subtitles: Latin America. Cuentos asombrosos (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“La grieta” | Rift[/ex].
Swedish subtitles: Unknown Swedish series title, [ex=bare]“Revan” | Rift[/ex].
Tamil subtitles: Unknown Tamil series title, [ex=bare]பிளவு | Rift | “Pilavu”[/ex].
Telugu subtitles: Unknown Telugu series title, [ex=bare]వగులు | Bends | “Vagulu”[/ex].
Thai subtitles: Unknown Thai series title, [ex=bare]รอยแยก | Rift | “Rxy yæk”[/ex].
Turkish subtitles: İnanilmaz öykület (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]“Geçit” | Passage[/ex].
Ukranian subtitles: [ex=bare]Дивовижні історії | Dyvovyzhni istoriyi[/ex] (v2s01e05), [ex=bare]Розрив | Rift | “Rozryv”[/ex].
Vietnamese subtitles: Những chuyện ly kỳ (v1s01e05), [ex=bare]“Khe nứt” | Cracks[/ex].

34 translations

PRIOR WORKS

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 1940 to 1949: Cole’s time, 1941
Circa AD 2000 to 2099: the story’s time, circa 2017 (based on Pauline’s age)

Timeline Models

Time Travel Methods

Time Rifts

Themes

Never Change the Past!: They believe that changes to the past cause disasters in the present.
Time Itself Has an Agenda: I think the rift has a will.
Top Secret Time Travel: an unnamed federal agency

Real-World Tags

1971 San Fernando Earthquake: past rift disaster
Cataño Oil Refinery Fire: past rift disaster

Groupings

Amazing Stories (TV series): (v2s01e05), 3 April 2020

TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)

From above Rangoon, Burma, 24 December 1941 ⋙ to above Route 24, near Dayton, Ohio, circa 2020. Round trip. Note: Cole flies through the rift and back again two days later.

INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)

Swedish title—Translation from <a href='https%3A%2F%2Fcontext.reverso.net%2Ftranslation%2Fswedish-english%2FRevan'>reverso.net</a>.
Telugu title—'Google translations has no translation of వగులు except in larger contexts, so we have inferred the translation “Bends” from those larger translations.