Plot
A rare atmospheric phenomenon allows a New York City firefighter to communicate with his son 30 years in the future via short-wave radio. The son uses this opportunity to warn the father of his impending death in a warehouse fire, and manages to save his life. However, what he does not realize is that changing history has triggered a new set of tragic events, including the murder of his mother. The two men must now work together, 30 years apart, to find the murderer before he strikes so that they can change history--again.
Keywords: 1960s, 1990s, 2000s, affection, altering-history, alternate-history, amateur-radio, aurora-borealis, bad-cop, bar
What would you do if you could change the past?
What If?
What If You Could Reach Back In Time? What If You Could Change The Past?
What If It Changed Everything?
The Future Is Listening
A son's only hope to stop a murder is the father who's been dead for 30 years.
What if you could talk to someone you love... who has been dead for 30 years?
John Sullivan: You on the job?::Jack Shepard: Long time ago. Do I know you?::John Sullivan: Do I look familiar?::Jack Shepard: No. What house you work?::John Sullivan: 7-4 homicide.::Jack Shepard: Hot shot.::John Sullivan: No, just working the job. As a matter of fact, I caught a case that goes back to your day. One of the Nightingale murders.::Jack Shepard: No kidding.::John Sullivan: No. Missing teenager, disappeared back in '68. Found her bones last week buried out by some old diner by Dyckman Street. Mary Finelli. Yeah, talk about dumb luck. The odds of anyone finding that 30 years later and the chance of hitting a dental? Forget about it. The best part is, she's the first victim. She knew the killer, so I bet those old bones are gonna do a lot of talking. Not for nothing, the past is a funny thing. We all have skeletons in the closet, we just don't know when they're gonna pop up and bite us in the ass. Huh, Jack? You changed your MO, 'cause if they knew your mother was the Nightingale, they would have looked at the family. They would have looked at you.::Jack Shepard: What are you looking at?::John Sullivan: Stealing your life away. You went down 30 years ago, pal. You just don't know it yet.
John: I want you to remember this word, okay? It's kind of like a code word: Yahoo. Can you remember that?
John: Shoulda, woulda, coulda, pal.
Frank: I'm still here, Chief.
John Sullivan: You gotta be more careful, cause I can't lose you again. Not like that.::Frank Sullivan: You won't John. You won't. I swear to God, no matter what. You got it? You hear me?::John Sullivan: I hear you.::Frank Sullivan: So how old are you?::John Sullivan: I'm 36.::Frank Sullivan: 36. You're all grown up. You must be married and everything.::John Sullivan: No, I'm not married.::Frank Sullivan: What? Too busy playing ball?::John Sullivan: It didn't work out. I gave it up.::Frank Sullivan: What happened?::John Sullivan: I blew my arm out senior year. Didn't have a shot.::Frank Sullivan: Oh, I'm sorry Johnny. I know that had to hurt.::John Sullivan: Thanks.::Frank Sullivan: So what did ya wind up doing? You join the department?::John Sullivan: Actually I went the other way. I'm a cop.::Frank Sullivan: [laughing] What? You're 3rd generation fire fighter. Come on I thought you were gonna grow out of that cop thing.::John Sullivan: Well you got Satch to thank for that one.::Frank Sullivan: You're kidding me huh. Satch? He was always crazy about you ever since you were born. You're still my little chief, right?::John Sullivan: Yeah, I'm trying to be. I'm trying.
Frank: I'm not a cop, I'm a firefighter.
[Offering John coffee]::Fred: You want black? Sugar?::John: It's all good.::Fred: You'll get black
Julia Sullivan: What's going on here, Satch?::Satch: Frank says that he talks to Johnny, little Johnny on the radio in the future, and this guy claims to be your son!::Julia Sullivan: Well, I talked to him too, once. He's a cop.::Satch: You talked to the guy on the radio?
Frank Sullivan: [talking about Julia] Well I just knew. She melted my heart. You got anybody?::John Sullivan: Yeah, kinda. Something I gotta work out, but she's worth it. [pause] You go ahead and get some rest. I'm tired too.::Frank Sullivan: I almost don't wanna click off here. Maybe we won't get this back.::John Sullivan: We will.::Frank Sullivan: Ok. I'll be here tomorrow.::John Sullivan: I know.::Frank Sullivan: I love you son.::John Sullivan: I love you too dad. I missed you so much.
Frank Sullivan: John, say hello to my wife Julia.::John Sullivan: Hi.::Julia Sullivan: Hi John. Frank tells me you're a cop.::John Sullivan: Yeah, that's right.::Julia Sullivan: My six year old keeps telling us he wants to be a policeman right after he retires from the majors. We just bought him a badge and a whistle for his birthday.::John Sullivan: Yeah, I remember I used to play cops and robbers all the time, and y - my mom wouldn't let me have a toy gun.::Julia Sullivan: Sounds like your mom and I would get along.::John Sullivan: Yeah, she's pretty special. I'm real proud of her.::Julia Sullivan: I bet she's proud of you too, being a cop and all.::John Sullivan: I hope so. I hope she knows how much I love her.::Julia Sullivan: She knows. Mom's always know how much their kids love them, even if they don't tell them all the time. Well I gotta go. It was good talking to ya John.::John Sullivan: You too.
Caption | Quaid in 1991 |
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Birth name | Dennis William Quaid |
Birth date | April 09, 1954 |
Birth place | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1975–present |
Spouse | |
Relations | Randy Quaid (brother) |
Dennis William Quaid (born April 9, 1954) is an American actor known for his comedic and dramatic roles. First gaining widespread attention in the 1980s, his career rebounded in the 1990s after he overcame an addiction to drugs and an eating disorder. Some of his notable credits include Great Balls of Fire!, The Big Easy, Far from Heaven, The Rookie , The Day After Tomorrow, and The Parent Trap.
Known for his grin, Quaid has appeared in both comedic and dramatic roles. Quaid had starring roles in the films Enemy Mine (1985) and Innerspace (1987). He also achieved acclaim for his portrayal of Jerry Lee Lewis in Great Balls of Fire! (1989). In 1989, he also appeared throughout the Bonnie Raitt music video for the song "Thing Called Love."
Quaid's career lost steam in the early 1990s, after he fought anorexia nervosa and kicked a cocaine addiction. He continued to garner positive reviews in a variety of films, however, such as Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp (1994). Quaid was also the guest star of a season 2 episode of Muppets Tonight (1997). He starred in the remake of The Parent Trap (1998), playing the part of the twins' father, and as an aging pro football quarterback in Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday (1999). Some of Quaid's more recent film credits include Frequency (2000), The Rookie (2002), Far From Heaven (2002), The Flight of the Phoenix (2004), In Good Company (2004), The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Yours, Mine and Ours (2005), Vantage Point (2008), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), and Pandorum (2009).
In 2009, Quaid guest starred in an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, playing Mr. Krabs' grandfather, Captain Redbeard.
He portrayed U.S. President Bill Clinton, alongside Michael Sheen as Tony Blair and Hope Davis as Hillary Clinton, in the 2010 film The Special Relationship.
Quaid and actress P. J. Soles were married on November 25, 1978. The couple were divorced on January 23, 1983.
On February 14, 1991, he and Meg Ryan were married. Quaid and Ryan have a son, Jack Henry (born April 24, 1992). They were divorced on July 16, 2001. In a 2008 interview with Insight, Ryan stated "Dennis was not faithful to me for a very long time, and that was very painful. I found out more about that after I was divorced."
Quaid dated Shanna Moakler in 2001. They were together when she was approached by Playboy and they discussed it before she posed nude in the magazine . The relationship lasted for eight months.
Quaid married Kimberly Buffington, an Austin, Texas, real-estate agent, on July 4, 2004. The couple had twins, born via a gestational carrier, on November 8, 2007, in Santa Monica, California. Their son Thomas Boone was born first at 8:26 am and weighed six pounds, twelve ounces (3.06 kg). Daughter Zoe Grace was born two minutes later weighing five pounds, nine ounces (2.52 kg).
On November 18, 2007, hospital staff mistakenly gave Quaid's ten-day-old twins a dosage of heparin 1,000 times the common dosage for infants. Their attorney said the newborns will "be fine now", but Quaid filed a lawsuit against the drug manufacturer, Baxter Healthcare, claiming that packaging for the two doses of heparin are not different enough. In May 2008, the Quaids testified before the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, asking U.S. Congress not to preempt the right to sue drug manufacturers for negligence under state law.
In October 2009, Dennis Quaid narrowly avoided being arrested for DUI, when a police officer managed to persuade him to get out of his car and get a cab.
In addition to acting, Quaid is a musician and plays with his band, the Sharks. Quaid also has a pilot's license and is a scratch golfer. In 2005, he was named as the top golfer among the "Hollywood set" by Golf Digest.
After the filming of The Express: The Ernie Davis Story Quaid went to Cleveland Browns Stadium to dedicate Davis's jersey.
There have been extensive stories about Quaid's past abuse of cocaine. In a candid 2002 interview with Larry King on his talk show, after King asked about his motives for using drugs, Quaid responded, "Well, you got to put it in context. Back in the late '60s, early '70s. That was back during the time where, you know, drugs were going to expand our minds and everybody was experimenting and everything. We were really getting high, we didn't know it. And cocaine at that time was considered harmless. You know. I remember magazine articles in 'People' Magazine of doctors saying, it is not addicting. It is just—alcohol is worse. So I think we all fell into that. But that's not the way it was."
When asked if he believed he had ever been addicted to the drug, he responded, "It was a gradual thing. But it got to the point where I couldn't have any fun unless I had it. Which is a bad place to be." Later in the interview he said, "But I saw myself being dead in about five years if I didn't stop."
In April 2011, while promoting his film, Soul Surfer, Quaid was very candid when it came to questions regarding his past drug abuse. Quaid blamed his sudden thrust into the Hollywood scene for his trouble with cocaine. He said, "Coming from where I came from - lower-middle-class life, from Houston into Hollywood - and all of a sudden this success starts happening to you, I just didn't know how to handle that." Quaid also made bold accusations about the American film industry in the 1970s, claiming, "Cocaine was even in the budgets of movies, thinly disguised...It was petty cash, you know? It was supplied, basically, on movie sets because everyone was doing it." On his addiction, Quaid said, "I'd wake up, snort a line, and swear I wasn't going to do it again that day...but then 4 o'clock rolled around, and I'd be right back down the same road like a little squirrel on one of those treadmills."
Quaid works with the International Hospital for Children in New Orleans, Louisiana. He makes trips to Central America to help build medical clinics and transport sick children back to the U.S. for treatment they cannot get locally.
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