History Fridge / DejaVu2006

** In Timeline 1 Carrol uses his original car to blow up the ferry. Claire is not harmed. Doug sends the note[[note]]They don't know about Claire, so they don't track down Carrol via his phone call to Claire. Then how do they know what to write in the note, i.e. when and where to find Carrol? Probably because they simply see him while watching normal security-camera footage from the dock and find his night visit to the dock suspicious.[[/note]] back in time, creating Timeline 2. [[note]]Without knowing Claire, does Doug go back in time to Timeline 2 to try to save the ferry passengers? It doesn't seem to matter: If he does, he doesn't manage to prevent the ferry explosion and end the branching of timelines. Claire is not on the ferry to help him as in Timeline 4, and his confrontation with Carroll [[ForWantOfANail goes differently than in Timeline 4 anyway because he doesn't stop by Claire's house]].[[/note]]

*** That mystery might be quickly solved with the "Snow White" team investigating whether Carroll had accomplices, or because the five cops in the end saw ''someone whose description matches Larry's partner Doug'' in the car on the ferry with Claire, or because Claire's story may be weird and may or may not include how Doug claimed to be part of a "special surveillance unit", could foresee answering-machine messages and Carroll's actions, disappeared in the explosion, and then "reappeared" with different memories. The remaining mystery for the "Snow White" team is what happened in the previous timelines.

*** That mystery might be quickly solved with the "Snow White" team on the case again in case Carroll had accomplices, or because the five cops in the end saw a lookalike of Larry's partner Doug in the car on the ferry with Claire, or because Claire's story may be weird and may or may not include how Doug claimed to be part of a "special surveillance unit", could foresee answering-machine messages and Carroll's actions, disappeared in the explosion, and then "reappeared" with different memories. The remaining mystery for the "Snow White" team is what happened in the previous timelines.

** Timeline 2: Like in the movie (Timeline 4, where Doug's partner goes alone and Carroll ruins his car) or via a different mechanism[[note]]Without Claire's involvement in Timeline 1, the investigation there goes very differently than in the movie (Timeline 3), so the note probably arrives in Timeline 2 at a different time than in the movie (Timeline 4). Via the same mechanism as in the movie (Timeline 4, where Doug's partner goes alone and Carroll ruins the car) or a different mechanism (for example, several policemen stake out Carroll at the dock and see his car, scaring him away and making him want to switch cars to not get recognized by his car), the note causes Carroll to get Claire's car.[[/note]], the note causes Carroll to get Claire's car. Thus Carrol kidnaps Claire, kills her at the warehouse, and uses her car to blow up the ferry. Claire's body is not wearing a red dress and there is no message for Doug on the fridge. Doug nonetheless goes back in time creating Timeline 3.

*** That mystery might be quickly solved with the "Snow White" team on the case again in case Carroll had accomplices, or due to Claire's weird story about who this lookalike of Larry's partner Doug was whom the five cops saw in the car on the ferry with her. A story which may or may not include how that Doug claimed to be part of a "special surveillance unit", could foresee answering-machine messages and Carroll's actions, disappeared in the explosion, and then "reappeared" with different memories. The remaining mystery for the "Snow White" team is what happened in the previous timelines.

** In Timeline 4 Future!Doug does everything the previous Doug did last time, except this time he recognizes his own bloody clothes from the previous timeline, realizes that so far he did everything the same as in the previous timeline where Claire died, i.e. that she is in danger by staying at home. So he takes Claire with him to the ferry. They are successful in preventing the bomb from going off on the ferry but Future!Doug is killed. Claire then encounters the Doug from this timeline.

** In Timeline 1 Carrol uses his original car to blow up the ferry. Claire is not harmed. Doug sends the note back in time, creating Timeline 2.
*** They don't know about Claire, so they don't track down Carrol via his phone call to Claire. Then how do they know what to write in the note, i.e. when and where to find Carrol? Probably because they simply see him while watching normal security-camera footage from the dock and find his night visit to the dock suspicious.
*** Without knowing Claire, does Doug go back in time to Timeline 2 to try to save the ferry passengers? It doesn't seem to matter: If he does, he doesn't manage to prevent the ferry explosion and end the branching of timelines. Claire is not on the ferry to help him as in Timeline 4, and his confrontation with Carroll [[ForWantOfANail goes differently than in Timeline 4 anyway because he doesn't stop by Claire's house]].

** Timeline 2: Without Claire's involvement in Timeline 1, the investigation there goes very differently than in the movie (Timeline 3), so the note probably arrives in Timeline 2 at a different time than in the movie (Timeline 4). Via the same mechanism as in the movie (Timeline 4, where Doug's partner goes alone and Carroll ruins the car) or a different mechanism (for example, several policemen stake out Carroll at the dock and see his car, scaring him away and making him want to switch cars to not get recognized by his car), the note causes Carroll to get Claire's car. Thus Carrol kidnaps Claire, kills her at the warehouse, and uses her car to blow up the ferry. Claire's body is not wearing a red dress and there is no message for Doug on the fridge. Doug nonetheless goes back in time creating Timeline 3.

* Although one may initially assume that when Doug goes back in time he is still operating in the same timeline he left, this is not the case. This is evidenced by the fact that the movie shows [[spoiler:Doug travel from a timeline where the ferry explodes to a timeline where the ferry explosion is prevented]]. There are actually 4 individual timelines in the story, only in the last of which Doug succeeds in preventing the bombing.

*** Without knowing Claire, does Doug go back in time to Timeline 2 to try to save the ferry passengers? It doesn't seem to matter: If he does, he doesn't manage to prevent the ferry explosion. Claire is not on the ferry to help him as in Timeline 4, and his confrontation with Carroll [[ForWantOfANail goes differently than in Timeline 4 anyway because he doesn't stop by Claire's house]].
** In Timeline 2 Doug's partner intercepts Carrol, who kills him and ruins his car. Thus Carrol kidnaps Claire, cuts off her fingers and burns her alive at the warehouse, using her car to blow up the ferry. Claire's body is not wearing a red dress and there is no message for Doug on the fridge. Doug then goes back in time creating Timeline 3.

*** They don't know about Claire, so they don't track down Carrol via his phone call to Claire. Then how do they know what to write in the note, i.e. when and where to find Carrol? Probably because they simply see him in the footage from the dock and find him suspicious.

* Although one may initially assume that when Doug goes back in time he is still operating in the same timeline he left, this is not the case. This is evidenced by the fact that [[spoiler:the ferry explosion happens in at least one timeline but is prevented in at least one other timeline]]. There are actually 4 individual timelines in the story, only in the last of which Doug succeeds in preventing the bombing.

* Although one may initially assume that when Doug goes back in time he is still operating in the same timeline he left, this is not the case. This is evidenced by the fact that [[spoiler:the ferry explosion happens in one timeline but is prevented in the next timeline]]. There are actually 4 individual timelines in the story, only in the last of which Doug succeeds in preventing the bombing.

* Although one may initially assume that when Doug goes back in time he is still operating in the same timeline he left, this is not the case. There are actually 4 individual timelines in the story, only in the last of which Doug succeeds in preventing the bombing.

** In Timeline 4 Future!Doug does everything he did last time except this time he takes Claire with him to the ferry. They are successful in preventing the bomb from going off on the ferry but Future!Doug is killed. Claire then encounters the Doug from this timeline.

*** They don't know about Claire, so they don't track her call to Carrol. How do they know what to write in the note, i.e. when and where to find Carrol? Probably because they simply see him in the footage from the dock and find him suspicious.