The Lazarus Project

Why's time jumping backwards?

- Because we made it. - We?

We’re a top secret multinational organisation dedicated to preventing

and undoing mass extinction events.

- If you use it now... - We’d wake up yesterday,

until we go a whole year and get to July 1st, 2023,

and that becomes our new checkpoint.

It’s a lot to take in.

How’d you like to come and save the world with us?

I don’t know anything about saving the world.

- You pick it up as you go along. - See you later.

You can’t turn back time to stop what happened to Sarah.

Dennis Rebrov...

He’s on almost every terror watch-list in the world.

He’s ex-Lazarus?

You want to turn back time?

- Yes. - A nuclear warhead

nicknamed "Big Boy" was hijacked.

- Worked out where Big Boy is? - Yeah.

I’m gonna bring her back, Shiv.

They are resetting the clock.

I can’t marry you, George.

I think we’re different people now.

He’s been shot! I need help!

What the hell happened?

It was an emission of gravitational radiation

caused by two black holes merging together.

There was a big explosion. Everything in the known universe got zapped.

So how do we stop it exploding again?

Oh, it’s already started collapsing in on itself.

In three weeks it’ll go again. We can’t stop it.

So we’re just gonna keep living the next three weeks on loop?

It’s the singularity. It’s self-destructing.

I don’t think we can stop it. So, someone’s behind this.

If you wanted to work out a way

of turning back time yourself,

what do you do? If it were me, I’d find the one person

smart enough to know how all this works,

- and I’d put them to work. - Janet?

How did you find Janet?

- Your new recruit led us straight to her. - George?

He went to her apartment in Barcelona just before the nuke went off.

- I was in Lazarus, just like you. - When?

Long time ago now.

- Dennis didn’t mention it? - No.

- You betrayed me. - I had to save her.

- No, you wanted to save her. - You won’t find Janet.

Someone’s found a way to break through the checkpoint.

Found a way to send her back in time.

It’s a serum.

It’ll help you remember the time you’ve lost.

I love you, Sarah. I always have.

Every time.

Sync & Correction Vost -

Hurry up Reggie. He’s been shot!

Fucking hell. You can time-travel.

I was making dinner,

and there was a huge bright light in the sky and then a rush of noise.

It was like, like the end of the world.

Then suddenly I was in my living room, and it was three weeks earlier,

and I just... what the hell, George?

Listen, there is a lot I need to tell you,

and show you, and explain, and none of it’s gonna be easy.

But I am gonna...

- Mate... - Oh God.

George, George, listen to me.

Janet left Rebrov a message.

I think he’ll know where to find her,

and she’ll know how to fix this loop.

You need to talk to Wes.

You have to tell her everything, George.

Everything.

I just, I can’t believe you took the serum.

- You told me to. - Yeah.

- You never do what I tell you to. - And we wonder why?

Okay, uh, I gotta go in there and talk to some people.

- So are you gonna... - Yeah, yeah, I am, I am.

It’s just I am going to admit to some crimes.

- Quite a lot of crimes, actually. - What exactly did you do?

Uh...

Yeah, things got out of hand.

I did some bad things.

But I did them for a good reason.

I just need to go and explain that.

Come on.

So let me understand something.

After you worked out the location of Big Boy,

after you killed Shiv,

evaded the police,

fought off terrorists,

exploded a nuclear warhead,

then murdered the Russian ambassador and her husband;

causing an outbreak of war so potentially destructive

that we had no choice but to turn back time itself.

After all that...

she dumped you anyway?

Uh, yeah.

I like you.

If time were moving in a linear fashion right now,

I would put you in jail for the rest of your natural life.

- You do know that, don’t you? - Yes, ma’am.

Rebrov was here.

The other turncoat. He believes that Janet has been sent back to 2012.

He believes that someone has invented a True Time Machine.

Is that even possible? That’s classified.

Strictly for agents of the Lazarus Project, which you no longer are.

Wes...

Ma’am, I’d like to stay and help. I wanna help fix this.

I can’t have people working for me that I don’t trust,

and I don’t trust you as far as I could throw you.

Though, I think I could probably throw you pretty fucking far right now.

So I don’t doubt that you want to help to put things right.

But I don’t want you within a hundred miles of here.

So get out.

- Wes... - Now!

You stay.

Sit down.

How much of the serum did George give you?

Five mils.

A smaller dose might have worn off eventually,

but, no, I think you’re stuck like this.

What... What does it...

What is happening right now?

You’re stuck in an infinite time loop of three weeks.

The world is destroyed on the 21st of July.

The machine we use to harness the power of the singularity

automatically takes us back to

one second past midnight on the 1st of July,

by which point the events that will lead

to the destruction of this planet are already in motion.

We’ll keep going back, and the world will keep being destroyed for,

in theory...

infinity.

I think I’m gonna be sick.

And there’s nothing you can do about it?

If I’ve learnt anything in this job,

it’s that there’s no such thing as impossible.

What did George tell you that what we do here?

He said you save the world.

And now you’re going to help us.

Welcome to the Lazarus Project, Sarah.

Sarah, I don’t...

Hurry up Reggie. He’s been shot!

You need to shoot him in the heart.

I don’t like shooting them in the heart.

Well, then you’re gonna keep getting brains on your floor.

Anyone for a cup of tea?

It's a group calling themselves The Time Break Initiative.

Clue's in the name.

From what we can gather they've been working

behind the scenes for years to develop their time machine.

Dr. Samson, Dr. Li, Dr. Morgenstein, Dr. Gardner,

Dr. Wong, Dr. Wheeler.

These six individuals were all placed

on an open assignment wanted list by the Time Break Initiative

- in early 2024. - Wanted dead or alive?

Just dead, actually.

What exactly can you tell us about the Time Break Initiative?

I worked for them.

Went where they sent me. Didn’t ask questions.

So you killed and kidnapped a few people for them?

I go where the money is.

Very noble of you.

Look I don’t know much about them,

but they knew about you.

They had us watching all of you.

My guess is, they were trying to build a time machine of their own.

And if Janet really was sent back to 2012, then they were successful.

And if we wanted to build a time machine of our own to fix this loop?

I’d start with finding these guys

and hope at least one of them is still alive.

Wes?

You heard the woman.

Let’s go.

Hey, you all right?

- Hi. - Hey.

- Good to see you. - Mm, yeah.

So how have you been?

You know, keeping busy.

- How about you? How’s everything at...? - Work?

Yeah. Are you, like, a full agent now?

I work at a desk, mostly.

There’s talk about me going into the field,

but I don’t think I’m ready.

It’s just been a lot.

I didn't know Wes was gonna make you join.

What was gonna happen, once you’d given me the serum?

I was just gonna teach the same three weeks of primary school forever?

Hmm.

Listen, um,

how are you guys doing at figuring out the loop?

What? What, you can't talk to me about... Jesus!

I was an agent there way before you.

I’m not there now, cause I threw it away to help you.

I never asked you to do that.

Yeah, you couldn’t ask me, because you were dead.

I wouldn’t have been dead in the first place

if you hadn’t forgot that a fucking bin lorry was gonna run me over.

- Yeah, I-I got distracted. - Clearly.

What do you want, do you want me to beg?