father, i give you .  eternity.
look father, what my flights of fancy have wrought. i used your hypergate to build my time machine.
over the years i have struggled in vain to harness the awesome power of time. all my experiments at creating a stable doorway have been futile. until now. today you will witness my ultimate triumph.
once this core material in fully introduced into the control console, i will open a doorway stable enough for one person to take one trip through time and space as well. today, i will change history.
i will return home, to the very day you took us on this cursed mission. i'll stop us from taking off. i'll do what you never could. i'll save the family. i'll save us all.
i'm going home. i'm going to save the family.
let me tell you about my father. my father was a walking ghost. never there when i needed him. he dragged his family into deep dark space and lost them there. my father is not coming to the rescue.
and then what? all of us lost in space. don't you see? i can do what you never could. i can save us all.
you will. the future is never what it looks like when you're ten.
look around you, doctor. at this hostile world. do you really think a boy could have survived all alone?
no.
once the core cylinder is fully injected, the planet will begin to come apart and the time doorway will stabilize. then i jump in.
tell me again, old monster, how did the girls die?
in all the years since, the spiders have never re-surfaced. why?
focusing the aperture. remember, the energy around the portal will rip a man to pieces.
not for me.
i'm not your son.
dad?
the core.
you could have taken the core and left before it was too late. you saved me instead.
look. they made it.
so many years ago and i can still feel it. our sun. our earth. it's all i've thought about. going home.
a long time ago, you told a small boy that one day he'd understand how precious he was, how much his father loved him. today is that day.
all i could see was your need to go forward at any cost. what you never showed me was your love. i lost that. robbed by time. i could never see how much you cared. until now.
father, take my hand.
don't make me wait another lifetime to know how you feel.
i can't. there was only enough power for one person, one trip, remember?
it's good to see you again, mom. it's good to see you alive.