Timecop

Timecop (1994)

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McComb: Elections are won with television. You don't need the press, you don't need endorsements, you don't even need the truth. You need money.

Fielding: I really could care less whether you like me or not, but you don't know a thing about me. I was with IA for two years, I'm field-rated in weapons and tactics, and speak three languages. Impressed?
Walker: I'm blown away.
Fielding: I read the Atwood file.
Walker: You didn't mention you could read.

McComb: When I'm in office it's going to be just like the 80's. The top 10% will get richer and the other 90% can emigrate to Mexico where they can get a better life.

Walker: Freeze.
McComb: Do you realise how inappropriate that word is? Do I look frozen to you?
Walker: You look like shit to me.

Matuzak: You're allowed to have a life, you know. I read it in a manual somewhere.

McComb: OK. This is a real mess now. I hope you're happy. This is a real mess. You turned what was gonna be a simple, ordinary murder into a bloodbath.

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Walker: There is never enough time.
Melissa: Time for what?
Walker: To satisfy a woman.
Melissa: Then you never want to miss an opportunity.

Irish Cop: Poor bastard. Tomorrow might have been a brighter day.

Fielding: You're not funny.
Walker: I'm never funny.

Palmer: Fifty thousand volts, motherfucker. Have a nice day.

McComb: Never interrupt me when I'm talking to myself.

McComb: That's C-4. Not only will it turn this house into dust, but it will also separate every part of you from every other part of you.

McComb: You see, I'm an ambitious Harvard-educated visionary who deserves to be the most powerful man in the world and you... you're a fucking idiot who never figured out that the only way to make anything of himself with all that fancy kicking was on Broadway.
Walker: Thanks for clearing that up.

Other mistake: When the man is in front of the Senate committee asking for appropriations for the Time Enforcement Commission, he states that you can not go into the future as it has not happened yet. During the scene with Atwood scanning the USA Today, the date on the paper is October 30, 2004. So, one could assume that this is the current date. Later on in the movie, there is a news report on the television with the woman stating that McComb's campaign might be denied federal campaign matching funds, and that McComb might have to withdraw from the race. Now, being that the election is only three days away on November 2, 2004, it would be a little too late to withdraw from the race, not to mention the lateness in the determination if he is eligible for federal campaign matching funds.

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Question: How can their house still be standing in 2004 when it was destroyed in 1994? Even if they rebuilt it it wouldn't look s old, it would only be a few years old.

Answer: In one of the flashbacks, it is shown that the wife designed the house and had been thinking about it for a long time. I think the easiest answer to this is: the house was simply rebuilt the same as it was.

oldbaldyone

Answer: My understanding was the timeline had been reset in such a way that the explosion had never happened.

raywest

Except that the explosion did happen. When Max carries Melissa out of the house to prevent her death again, their house is exploding in the background. This is because McComb had placed a bomb in the house to ensure that the explosion would kill Max which of course had ultimately failed.

The explosion happened, but it was before Max returned to his own time in the future. Once he went back through the time portal, everything somehow reset itself to before the bomb being detonated. The previous events in the past were erased in favor of an alternate timeline. The movie does not attempt to give a logical explanation, and it makes no sense, as most time-travel stories never do, but a "suspension of disbelief" is employed here. We're supposed to accept that it happened. Max is the only character who knows what the previous timeline was like, but he now has no idea of current events (like his wife and son being alive) in his alternate life during the intervening time from when he was in the past and returns to the "new" present.

raywest

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