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Synopsis
Flung backwards through time, Dirk and Todd make a horrifying discovery about the nature of their case, and find themselves with a unique opportunity: solve their case before it even starts.
Tropes
- I Can Explain: Dirk drops this line when Zachariah Webb threatens to kill him and Todd. He then tells Webb about the Time Machine and the Blood-Stained Letter they sent back to him.
- Flashback-Montage Realization: Todd's realisation about Dirk's foreknowledge of things comes with a montage of flashbacks to pivotal scenes in the past.
- My Future Self and Me: Dirk meets his past self and tells him vague references to the events happening, setting the Stable Time Loop.
- Noisy Robots: Zachariah Webb's Diesel Punk armour makes constant noises as he moves around.
- Punk in the Trunk: Farah gets locked up in the trunk of a car. The tight space allows the camera to show her curves in close up.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Todd delivers one to Zachariah Webb telling him how his obsession about his greatest mistake made him blind to the pain he caused to others in his pursuit to make amends.
- The Reveal:
- Zachariah Webb, Edgar Spring, and Patrick Spring are all the same person.
- Dirk encountered his future self and knew more than he let on all along.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Zachariah Webb wages a stupendously glorious and catastrophic one against the Men of the Machine.
- Stable Time Loop: Dirk and Todd can't change the past, and only cause what already happened.
- That Liar Lies: Todd calls out Dirk for lying to him about his "hunches" which were actually clues provided by his future self.
- Time Travel: Dirk and Todd travel back a week in time and back. Also, naturally, Zachariah Webb, who invented the time machine.
- You Monster!: Todd is not happy when he discovers that Dirk actually met with Future-Dirk beforehand and told him "Three Questions, One Answer" and to seek out Todd, and that Dirk was hiding the truth about knowing time travel was involved.
