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Five Days to Midnight

Also known as 5iVe Days to Midnight, this is a five-part Mini Series which ran on the Sci Fi Channel in June 2004. It features J.T. Neumeyer, a physicist who discovers a briefcase containing postdated documents and evidence which indicate he will die five days in the future.

Tropes:

Alternate Universe: Created by JT being saved. Carl names the trope directly.
Chekhov's Gun: Lots of them, but the gun JT hid behind a radiator is an aversion, since he got out-Xanatos'd by Sikorski.
Child Prodigy: Jessie Neumeyer.
Corrupt Cop: Irwin Sikorski.
Drives Like Crazy: Carl when coming to kill JT.
Go Mad from the Revelation: Carl Axelrod is certain that the universe demands JT's death. It puts him over the edge.
Imported Future Phlebotinum: The "super-metal" case.
Papa Wolf: JT gets a little aggressive when his daughter is in danger.
Psycho Ex: Roy Bremmer.
Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Jessie Neumeyer's goal.
Screw Destiny: JT decides to do this.
Stable Time Loop
Whodunnit To Me: The whole point.
Write Back to the Future: Inverted.
You Can't Fight Fate: Carl is convinced of this.