Timeline / 11/22/63

Timeline 1

2009

• English teacher Jake Epping reads Harry Dunning's essay about how his father murdered his mother and three siblings, and cries.
• June: Jake attends Harry's graduation ceremony and takes him to Al Templeton's diner to celebrate.

June 2011

• Al asks Jake to come to the diner, where he last ate the day before. Al, appearing much weaker and much older, tells Jake he has lung cancer. He also tells him about the time portal in the back of the diner. Later that afternoon, Jake time travels for the first time.

September 9 1958

• 11:58 AM: Jake arrives in Lisbon Falls, Maine. He meets the Yellow Card man and gives him fifty cents.
• 12:00 PM: Jake goes to the Kennebec Fruit Co. He meets Frank Anicetti Sr. and Jr., and enjoys a root beer.
• 12:30 PM: Jake returns to 2011.

June 2011

• Jake arrives two minutes after he left.
• Al tells Jake that every time he travels to the past, the whole timeline is reset. Al tells Jake he needs to go back and prevent John F. Kennedy's assassination; that doing so could correct many of history's mistakes. He warns that it's difficult to change the past, but that it's entirely possible. He managed to save Carolyn Poulin from being paralyzed by doing so.
• The next day, Jake shows Al Harry's essay, stating that he needs to go back and prevent the Dunning family murders to see if he can change the past.
• Al gives Jake some money and IDs for his new identity as George Amberson.
• 7:57 AM: Jake returns to the past.

Timeline 2

September 9, 1958

• 11:58 AM: Jake arrives at the same place, date, and time. However, the Yellow Card Man hits him this time. Jake retaliates, but discovers he's now the Orange Card Man and once again gives him fifty cents.
• 12:00 PM: Jake goes to the Kennebec Fruit Co. and meets Frank Anicetti Sr. and Jr. again, though they don't remember him. He once again enjoys a root beer.
• To better fit in with the time period, Jake gets a haircut, makes a bank deposit, buys 1958 clothes, rents a room at the Tamarack Motor Court, and disposes of his cell phone.

September 10

• Jake buys a car and drives to Derry, Maine, where Harry grew up.
• Jake meets Bill Turcotte and rents a room at the Derry Town House.
• In a discussion with bartender Frank Toomey, Jake learns of the many recent child murders and kidnappings in town.

September 11

• Jake goes to the library and City Hall to find census records for the Dunning family, but can't find any.
• That afternoon, Jake runs into Richie Tozier and Beverly Marsh, who tell him the Dunnings live on Kossuth St.

September 12

• 5:00 PM: Jake goes to the Center Street Market and finds that Frank Dunning, Harry's father, works there as a butcher.
• 6:45 PM: Jake follows Frank on the bus and finds he's living alone.

September 18

• 12:00 PM: Jake buys a .38 Police Special revolver.

September 19

• That evening, Jake follows Frank into The Lamplighter bar, where he meets Chaz Frati, who tells him about Frank's history of alcoholism and violence. Jake also learns that Frank is separated from his wife and children.

October 5

• 3:45 PM: Jake follows Frank to a cemetery and finds him putting flowers on his parents' graves.

October 31

• On the day of the murders, Jake wakes up that morning vomiting and suffering from terrible diarrhea. He theorizes this is the past attempting to prevent him from interfering.
• 5:20 PM: Jake hides out in the backyard behind the Dunning house.
• 5:45-7:45 PM: Bill Turcotte finds Jake and takes away his gun. Frank was responsible for the disappearance of his first wife, Bill's sister Clara, and their child 20 years earlier, and thus Bill wants to be the one to kill him.
• 7:55 PM: Jake provokes Bill by calling him a coward and takes his gun back.
• 8:00 PM: Jake enters the Dunning house and finds Frank beating his wife with a sledgehammer. Jake shoots him in the shoulder, but Frank ends up killing his son Arthur and then attacks Jake. Bill returns in time and kills Frank with a bayonet.
• 8:15 PM: Bill begins suffering a heart attack. Jake tells him he's a hero.
• Midnight: Jake returns to Lisbon Falls and back to 2011.

June 2011

• 7:59 AM: Jake reappears in the present. Al treats his wounds, but he finds that history has changed so that Al doesn't know Harry.
• 4:15 PM: Jake calls Ellen Dunning, Harry's sister, and finds out that most of his siblings are still alive. However, Harry was killed in Vietnam.
• 8:00 PM: Al overdoses on his medication. Jake finds his body, along with a note once again telling him to prevent Kennedy's assassination.
• 8:30 PM: Jake once again returns to 1958.

Timeline 3

September 9

• 11:58 AM: Jake finds the Yellow Card Man has committed suicide. His card has also changed to black.

September 10-13

• Jake repeats many of his steps from the beginning of his first trip into the past.

Late September-Early October

• Jake goes to Chaz Frati and bets on the Yankees, winning $3000.

October 5

• Morning: Jake has a terrible migraine and nearly falls down the stairs. His car also won't start, so he takes it to a mechanic.
• 3:45 PM: Jake travels to Longview Cemetery, where Frank is putting flowers on his parents' graves. Jake shoots him three times, killing him.

October 13

• Jake leaves Derry and stays in a cabin in West Maine.

Late October

• 5:00 PM: Jake offers Andrew Cullum, the man who would've accidentally shot and paralyzed Carolyn Poulin on a hunting trip, $200 to teach him how to play cribbage on November 15th.

November 15

• Jake and Andrew play cribbage, once again preventing Carolyn from being paralyzed.

November 17

• Jake leaves Maine and travels to Sunset Point, Florida, where he rents a beach house.

Spring 1959

• Jake begins writing a novel and makes a bet with Eduardo Gutierrez, winning $10,000.

Fall-Spring 1960

• Jake begins substitute teaching at a local high school.

July

• Suspicious that Gutierrez might have an inkling about his unlikely winning bets, Jake leaves for New Orleans.

August

• Jake learns someone burnt down his house in Florida and suspects it was Gutierrez. Jake leaves for Dallas.

Early September

• Jake travels to Jodie, Texas, where he finds another Al's diner. He also meets Deke Simmons, the local high school principal, and his girlfriend Mimi Corcoran, the school librarian. He impresses the two of them and gets a position as a substitute teacher.

September 28

• Jake places another bet and wins $1,200.

November 16

• Following Al's notes, Jake goes to Fort Worth and spies on Lee Harvey Oswald's mother Marguerite and his brother Robert.

Spring 1961

• Jake continues teaching and directs the school play.

May 18

• 7:45 PM: Jake tells one of the students in the play, Mike Coslaw, not to be afraid of performing, and explains to him how talented he is.

May 19

• The school play is extremely successful.

Early June

• Mimi admits to Jake that she has terminal cancer and invites him to her and Deke's wedding reception party.

June 22

• At the reception party, Jake meets Sadie Dunhill, the school's new librarian. He begins falling for her.

August 27

• Mimi dies of her cancer. Jake and Sadie plan a memorial assembly at the school.

September 1

• Jake and Sadie go to a high school football game.

October 9

• Jake pays Silent Mike to bug two lamps. He then goes to Mercedes St. and pays Ivy Templeton to call him when she moves out.

October 14

• Evening: Jake and Sadie chaperone the school's Sadie Hawkins dance. They waltz and swing dance together.

October 15

• 12:15 AM: Jake and Sadie kiss in his car, where she admits to him that she's a virgin.
• 12:40 AM: Sadie calls Jake and apologizes to him for running away. She invites him to dinner and tells him to bring a condom.
• Evening: Jake goes to Sadie's house and the two have sex.

October 16

• 7:00 PM: Jake picks up the bugged lamps from Silent Mike.

Fall

• Jake and Sadie begin dating.

November

• Deke tells Jake he knows he has a shady past and urges him to tell Sadie the truth.
• Jake and Sadie admit that they love each other.
• Vince Knowles, one of the students at the school, dies in a car accident. Classmate Bobbi Jill Allnut, riding with him, suffers disfiguring facial injuries.

December 11

• Ivy Templeton calls Jake to tell him she's moving out. He tells her that he'll pay for a copy of her key. With this, Jake has obtained a key to Oswald's future apartment.

January 1 1962

• Midnight: Sadie tells Jake she knows he's hiding something from her.
• Afternoon: Jake goes to Oswald's future apartment and places one of the bugged lamps there.

February

• Jake and Sadie hold another play to help pay for Bobbi Jill Allnut's plastic surgery.

Spring

• The show is once again a success.
• Sadie breaks up with Jake, saying she knows he's lying to her about something.

June 8

• Mike Coslaw and Bobbie Jill thank Jake and give a fountain pen as a gift.

June 9

• Jake moves into an apartment on Mercedes St., Fort Worth, near Oswald's future home.

June 14

• Jake sees Robert Oswald picking up Lee's family, including his wife Marina and daugher June, from the airport when they land from Russia.

June 15

• Jake buys a pair of binoculars.

July 5

• 6:00 PM: Jake has dinner with Deke and his friend Ellie Dockerty. When Ellie shows Jake a picture of Sadie's ex-husband, he asks them to be on the lookout, since he doesn't trust him.

July 7

• Jake buys an omnidirectional microphone for additional spying. He also writes Sadie an apology letter, saying he has a job he needs to do.

August 3

• The Oswald brothers come to see the apartment that Lee will rent. He doesn't like it, but he rents it because he's sick of living with his mother.

August 10

• 5:00PM: The Oswald family moves in.

August 13

• Marguerite visits Lee's home to drop off groceries and toys. Lee is furious that she keeps treating him like a child and the two argue. After she leaves, Lee hits Marina.

August 25

• Lee and Marina go to a party hosted by some of Marina's Russian friends. Lee makes a scene by praising socialist principles.

Late August

• Lee and Marina continue to argue often, and he abuses her several times.

September 6

• Sadie calls Jake and tells him she's met someone else. Jake is jealous, but also thinks she sounds depressed.

September 15

• Afternoon: George de Mohrenschildt visits Oswald because he hears about his socialist ideas. They then talk about the “great” Cuba, politicians such as General Edwin Walker being communists, and Kennedy’s uselessness. Oswald tells him about his Hands Off Cuba group and how he’s been visited by the FBI multiple times.

September 24

• Jake moves into an apartment on West Neely St., Dallas where Oswald will be living in the future.

October 2

• Jake breaks into the upstairs apartment and installs the second bugged lamp.

October 16

• The Cuban Missile Crisis begins.

Mid-October

• Marguerite visits Lee and demands how he’s going to support his family when he quit his job. They argue and when she leaves, he punches and kicks Marina.

October 22

• 8:30 pm: Kennedy announces that any missile launched from Cuba will be considered as a Soviet Union attack and will mean war. Knowing Sadie was paranoid about this, Jake calls her and gets no answer.

October 23

• 12:30 am: Jake goes to Sadie’s house and finds her trying to overdose on pills and alcohol. He puts her in the shower to wake her. When Sadie expresses her concern about a nuclear war, Jake tells her details about the outcome of the Crisis to calm her down.
• Morning: Sadie promises to not ask Jake questions about the job he came here to do, and they resume their relationship.

November

• The Oswald family moves in near Jake.
• Lee and Marina fight again, and Marina runs away with June, seeking help from one of her Russian friends. A few weeks later, they're back together.

December 27

• General Edwin Walker calls Cuba "the cancer of America" and justifies segregation on T.V.

Winter 1963

• Lee continues to abuse Marina.

February

• Jake discovers that Marina is pregnant again.

March 2

• The Oswald family moves in upstairs from Jake.

March 8

• Jake buys a .38 Police Special revolver, planning to kill Oswald on April 10th.

March 10

• Jake witnesses a happy moment with the Oswald family and feels guilt over having to kill him.

Late March

• de Mohrenschildt tells Oswald that anyone who kills General Edwin Walker would be doing society a favor.
• Jake finds Oswald filming General Walker’s day-to-day life and hiding a rifle in an alley near the General’s home.

April 6

• 2:15 AM: Jake considers his plan for killing Oswald on April 10th, the day that Oswald is planning to shoot the general.
• Evening: Jake asks Sadie to marry him. She says yes.

April 8

• 10:00 AM: Jake leaves Al's notebook in a safebox at the bank.

April 10

• 3:00 PM: Sadie discovers that someone has broken into her home and vandalized it. John Clayton, her ex-husband, then grabs her and threatens to either kill her or the man she's with.
• 3:33 PM: Marina shows up at Jake's door and asks him if he's seen her husband. He tells her he hasn't.
• 3:39 PM: Jake gets a phone call from Clayton threatening him to come to Jodie, or he'll kill Sadie. Sadie screams in the background as Clayton slashes her face with a knife. Jake decides he can't kill Oswald today.
• 6:45 PM: Jake calls Deke to tell him the situation while driving to Jodie. He tells Deke to meet him near Sadie's house so they can trap Clayton inside.
• 6:50 PM: Deke enters Sadie's house from the front door pretending to be a neighbor bringing a casserole. When Clayton is surprised to see him, Sadie trips him over a stool. Jake enters the house from the back door. Clayton is knocked out and the casserole lands on his arm.
• 6:55 PM: Jake almost shoots Clayton, but Sadie stops him. However, Clayton then regains consciousness and then commits suicide by slitting his throat.
• 9:00 PM: Oswald attempts to shoot the general, but misses.

April 13

• Jake visits Sadie in the hospital. She's ashamed of the disfiguring scar on her face, but Jake tells her he still loves her.
• Jake, Deke, Ellie, and Sadie's other friends meet with Dr. Ellerton about Sadie's case, but he tells them there's only so much he can fix with plastic surgery.
• Mike and Bobbi Jill pitch the idea of hosting another school play to pay for Sadie's potential plastic surgery.
• Evening: de Mohrenschildt visits Oswald and jokingly asks how he missed the shooting, though Oswald denies the attempt.

April 14

• The nurse tells Jake that Sadie's parents visited the night before. Her mother seemed nonchalant about the attack and said that she "couldn't blame" Johnny.
• Jake decides to put his mission on hold and stays with Sadie.

April 18

• Jake and Deke bring Sadie home from the hospital.

April 24

• Jake watches Oswald leaving for New Orleans.

July 12

• 6:00 PM: Sadie helps Jake get ready for the school play, but decides not to come out of humiliation for her disfiguring scar and being thought of as charity.
• That evening, the show is yet another great success. As Jake begins to make a speech on Sadie's behalf, she arrives and confronts her fear of facing society.

July 13

• Jake admits to Sadie that he's a time traveler and tells her about his mission to save JFK. To prove it, he "predicts" that Tom Case will win in a boxing match against Dick Tiger.

July 22

• Jake goes to Frank Frati and bets on Tom Case.

August 5

• Sadie has her first plastic surgery. Jake decides to take Sadie back to the future with him.

August 6

• Jake wants to ensure that Oswald, and not de Mohrenschildt, tried shooting the General. He calls de Mohrenschildt, pretending to work for a company that he can benefit from, and asks him to prove that he wasn’t involved in the General’s shooting.
• de Mohrenschildt shows Jake a newspaper article clipping of his wife and him at a bar on the night of April 10th.

August 7

• Sadie announces she's going to return to the future with Jake.

August 29

• Jake and Sadie go to a boxing match, where Tom Case wins just as he described.

August 30

• Jake collects his $2000 from the fight bet. However, he's confronted by Akiva Roth, a friend of Eduardo Gutierrez, who claims that Jake has been cheating in all his bets. Roth and his gang brutally beat Jake, who is barely able to make it to the street before collapsing. A neighbor calls him an ambulance.

September-October

• Jake sustains many injuries, temporary amnesia, narcolepsy, and a severely damaged knee. He stays at Parkland Hospital.

October 3

• Oswald returns to Texas. He and Marina are somewhat separated.

Mid-October

• Jake is moved to the Eden Fallows Rehabilitation Center. He struggles to remember his mission and who he's supposed to kill.

October 20

• Audrey Rachel, the Oswalds' second daughter, is born.

November 18

• Jake retrieves Al's notebook from the safebox and recalls his mission and Oswald's name. He doesn't plan to tell Sadie he's recovered his memory.

November 19

• Jake retrieves his revolver from his apartment.

November 20

• 9:00 AM: Jake leaves Sadie a note, saying he can't wait for her and has to complete his mission. He promises to return and bring them both back to the future.
• 10:00 AM: He travels to Oswald's old house on Mercedes St., where he plans to spend the next two nights.

November 21

• Oswald begs Marina to take him back. She refuses.
• Jake decides that, if he fails to shoot Oswald, he won't go back to 1958 again.
• Sadie discovers that Jake has probably gone to Mercedes St. and plans to find him the next morning.

November 22

• 8:15 AM: Sadie finds Jake and wakes him. She tells him that she's coming to help him, since he's still recovering and anything can go wrong. Jake agrees.
• 8:40 AM: Jake and Sadie head to downtown Dallas, where the assassination will take place.
• 9:15 AM: Their car gets a flat tire, so they pay a woman on the street to call a service station and have it towed.
• 9:30 AM: They take a bus into downtown Dallas.
• 10:18 AM: The bus gets into an accident, so the two start walking.
• 11:10 AM: The couple threaten to kill a man if he doesn't give them his car. With that, they begin driving again.
• 11:20 AM: The car's engine dies. They begin walking, but Jake's knee begins to give out.
• 11:40 AM: Sadie pays a homeless man $50 so Jake can have one of his crutches.
• 12:05 PM: They find a car on the street. Jake breaks into it, finds a spare key in the glove compartment, and they use it to reach their destination.
• 12:20 PM: Jake and Sadie reach the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald will shoot Kennedy from the sixth floor. However, the entrance is locked.
• 12:21 PM: Jake yells for an employee to open the door, claiming they are friends of Oswald. The pair are let inside.
• 12:25 PM: Jake and Sadie start up the stairs.
• 12:28 PM: Jake reaches the sixth floor.
• 12:29 PM: Finding the room in which Oswald is stationed, Jake opens fire. He misses, but distracts him from shooting Kennedy.
• 12:30 PM: Oswald is outraged, but takes a shot at Kennedy anyway. He misses. Jake tries to shoot Oswald again, but he also misses. Oswald, enraged, then tries to shoot Jake. He manages to duck in time, but the bullet hits Sadie just as she reaches the top of the stairs. Both she and Oswald are killed, while the president's security guards hear the gunshots from the street.
• 1:20 PM: Jake is taken into custody by the police.
• 2:20 PM: Dr. Malcolm Perry comes in and treats Jake's knee. Later, when he's being interrogated by Detective Will Fritz and FBI Investigator James Hosty, Jake tells them the majority of his story, claiming he was friends with Oswald and came to suspect he was planning on killing the president.
• Late afternoon: John F. Kennedy calls the police station to thank Jake for saving him and his wife. Jake is then taken to the Adolphus Hotel.
• Jake calls Deke to inform him of Sadie's passing, and ensures that his car and Al's notebook were safely towed and picked up by him.
• 9:10 PM: Agent Hosty meets with Jake in his hotel room, telling him that he's loved by America but that there are holes in his story. Feeling threatened, Jake states that he could tell anyone that the FBI had been investigating Oswald and failed to stop him trying to assassinate Kennedy. Hosty offers Jake a quiet escape, where he can mourn Sadie in peace. Jake agrees.
• 10:00 PM: Jackie Kennedy calls Jake to give him a heartfelt thanks. Afterward, he leaves a note behind and quietly leaves the hotel.
• 11:20 PM: Jake takes a bus to Little Rock.

November 23

• 12:00 PM: Jake takes a second bus to Pittsburgh.

November 26

• 12:00 PM: Jake returns to Maine.

November 27

• An earthquake occurs in Los Angeles, knocking down many bridges and killing 7,000 people. Jake worries that his changing the past may have caused this.
• He returns to the time portal and discovers the Green Card Man, who has replaced the Yellow Card Man. The Green Card Man tells Jake that they watch over time travel bubbles, and warn when someone comes to alter the past. He also states that each trip into the past leaves residue and that repeatedly traveling to the past leads to many strings of reality. If things are altered too much, reality itself may be affected.
• Jake returns to 2011 for the third time.

1964

• The worldwide search for "George Amberson" turns up nothing.
• John F. Kennedy defeats Barry Goldwater in the election by only 40 electoral votes. Lyndon Johnson remains Kennedy’s Vice President. Texas Governor Connally works "like a slave for Kennedy” because Connally was personally embarrassed by the 1963 assassination attempt in Dallas. This was called "The Embarrassment Endorsement." Many who would have opposed Kennedy’s “New Frontier” initiatives supported them because they were ashamed that Kennedy was almost killed in Dallas.
• Kennedy upsets right-wing voters and "the military establishment" by declaring North Vietnam "less a danger to our democracy than the racial inequality in our schools and cities."

1965-1966

• Kennedy sends large amounts of economic aid to South Vietnam. He does not withdraw American troops entirely, but restricts them to the city of Saigon and a perimeter around it called "The Green Zone."
• The Civil Rights reforms never materialize since "Kennedy was no LBJ." The Republicans and Dixiecrats filibuster for one hundred and ten days, with one actually dying on the floor and becoming a right-wing hero. In response, Kennedy makes a statement that will haunt him until the end of his life: “White America has filled its house with kindling; now it will burn."
• Race riots escalate across the country.

1967

• The Tet Offensive, or "Great Saigon Fuck-All of 1967," occurs a year earlier than it would have. Harry Dunning is paralyzed when his helicopter crashes.
• Preoccupied with the Race War, Kennedy allows South Vietnam to fall to the North. Public opinion heavily swings against Kennedy
• One month after the fall of Saigon, Martin Luther King is assassinated in Chicago by Dwight Holly, a former FBI agent claiming to be working under order of J. Edgar Hoover. In response, Blacks set fire to Chicago and a dozen other American cities.

1968

• George Wallace is elected the 36th president of the United States, with Curtis LeMay as his vice president.
• By this year, earthquakes begin hitting the world as a result of the changes made to the timeline.

1969

• June: Wallace declares all-out war on Chicago and attempts to firebomb the Blacks into submission.
• Later that same month, Wallace gives Ho Chi Minh an ultimatum: make Saigon a free city like Berlin or see Hanoi become a dead one like Hiroshima. Ho refuses.
• August 9: On the 24th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki, the United States drops a nuclear weapon onto Hanoi. Wallace calls it "God's will" and earns massive approval ratings.

1972

• The earthquakes worsen, the world suicide rate skyrockets, and fundamentalism of all kinds blossoms.
• India and Pakistan go to war. Bombay and Karachi are both destroyed by nuclear weapons. The US, Russia, and China join together to force India and Pakistan to discontinue their war under threat of being "bombed back to the stone age."
• May 15: President Wallace is assassinated by Arthur Bremer while campaigning for re-election at a shopping mall in Laurel, Maryland. The gun he uses is a .38 revolver. LeMay takes office.
• November: Hubert Humphrey is elected the 38th president.

1976

• Ronald Reagan is elected the 39th President in a coast-to-coast landslide. "The Hump" couldn’t even hold onto his home state of Minnesota.

1979

• 2,000 people commit mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
• November: Iranian students overrun American embassy in Tehran, taking 200 hostage and executing them via beheading on live television. Reagan doesn't use nukes on Iran, but sends in troops. Muslim extremists form a terrorist group known as Al Qaeda, or "the Base," and begin planting roadside bombs in a guerrilla war against the Americans.

1980

• The Beatles reunite for a peace concert. A suicide bomber in the crowd detonates his vest, killing 300 spectators and blinding Paul McCartney.
• The entire Middle East goes up in flames.

1981

• The Soviet Union collapses. Former Soviets begin selling nuclear weapons to Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists.

1983

• John F. Kennedy dies, aged 66.

1994

• By this year, the Middle Eastern oil fields are "so much black glass. The kind that glows in the dark."

1999

• June 19: The Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is hit by an earthquake and experiences a meltdown, spewing radiation across New England and Southern Quebec.

2004

• Bill Clinton campaigns at the Democratic national convention, but suffers a heart attack and dies. His wife, Hillary, takes his place and goes on to become the 44th president.

2005

• Maine votes to leave the United States and becomes a Canadian province. President Clinton is happy to say good riddance.
• By this year, massive earthquakes occur fairly regularly in California, the Midwest, Europe, and China.

2008

• During an earthquake in Japan, Hokkaido and three smaller islands sink into the ocean.
• Hillary Clinton is re-elected.

2010

• A terrorist sets off a suitcase nuke in Miami, killing 10,000 people and rendering the city uninhabitable for 60-80 years. The Gulf of Mexico is also declared "dead soup."

June 2011

• At least 28 nuclear bombings have occurred since "Hanoi Hell."
• In the 48 years since saving Kennedy, George Amberson has become a near-mythical figure. Entire conventions have been held to discuss whether he was really a savior or was actually part of the plot.
• 8:30 PM: Jake appears in a dirty bathroom at an abandoned convenience store, noting how much history must have changed.
• 8:40 PM: He sees a group of kids, all deformed by radiation, jumping a man in a wheelchair. Jake saves him, and discovers the man is actually Harry Dunning.
• 8:45 PM: Harry lets Jake into his house and provides him with an abridged alternate history of this timeline.
• 9:30 PM: Shaken by just how badly things have turned out, Jake decides to return to 1958 one last time.

2080

• The projected date for when the earthquakes would destroy the planet, creating a second asteroid belt.

Timeline 4

1958

• September 9: Jake once again arrives at 11:58 AM and meets the Green Card Man, who now begs him to return to 2011 and restore reality. Jake runs away, wanting to live a life with Sadie.
• September 30: Jake stays at the Tamarack Motor Court. He doesn't want to change history, just live a life with Sadie.
• Early October: Thinking about the butterfly effect, Jake wonders what might happen if he and Sadie did end up together.
• October 7: Jake ultimately decides that changing the past is too risky, and so returns to 2011 for the last time.

2011

• June: Jake returns at 9:30.
• Later that year, Jake moves to Westborough, Massachusetts. He finds a newspaper article from 1963 stating that Clayton still attacked Sadie, but she survived.

2012

• April 17: Jake learns that Sadie has been featured in a recent newspaper article as "The Citizen of the Century."
• June: Jake travels to Jodie, Texas, where he meets a 79-year-old Sadie. She tells him that the assassination of JFK sparked her interest in public service. The two then share a dance that night.