Following his near death in 1995, Detective Jack Reardon awakens eighty years in the future. He has been retrieved by an institution that uses time travel to bring together great minds from the past to serve humanity. Reardons task: capture serial killer Joseph Fiines, who has escaped from the institution after being mistakenly retrieved from Reardons time. Reardon succeeds in capturing the killer, but the attempt to return him to the past is sabotaged and Fiines himself is killed. Reardon now faces a dilemmaFiines must be returned to the past to live out his life as destined, thus preserving history, but that now seems impossible. A risky plan is conceived, but complicated by the unknown saboteur, who desperately wants to prevent Fiines return to the past. To assure the plans success, Reardon must identify the saboteur and make an unthinkable personal sacrifice.
