Time Will Tell
- by Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe, directed by Rob Bowman
- TV Episode
- Mystery and Crime
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Time Will Tell” by Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe, directed by Rob Bowman
(ABC-TV, USA, 21 October 2013).
A murder investigation leads to a suspect (Doyle) who says he traveled back in time to stop a catastrophe that will result in at least half the people on the planet dying.
—Tandy Ringoringo
Ryan: I thought it was kind of derivative.
Esposito: Like a mash-up of 12 Monkeys and Terminator.
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 2000 to 2099: the home time of the story (presumed 2013) and the time of the traveler (2035, not shown)
- Timeline Models
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Retrievers: Doyle’s pocket device will retrieve the bad guy, provided that Doyle can find him.
- Time Tethers: Doyle seems to be on a time tether that will pull him back at a preset time.
- Themes
- Butterfly Effect: brief mention
- Changewars
- Fix the Future!: Doyle asks for help to stop the scientist’s murder.
- Stop the Apocalypse!: Half the world will die!
- Time Cops: Even though Doyle calls himself a temporal anthropologist, he seems more of a cop.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Time Will Tell” by Terri Edda Miller and Andrew W. Marlowe, directed by Rob Bowman
(ABC-TV, USA, 21 October 2013).
Indexer Notes
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- Content—After Doyle disappeared while Castle was trying to catch him to return Doyle's gadget, Kate Beckett spills coffee on a letter that they’d used to solve the crime. The reason they had the letter was that the bad guy from the future had a photo of the letter, and the stain that Kate's coffee left on the formerly pristine letter is an exact match with the stained letter in the photo. Hence, definite time travel.