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* ILied: After Brody jumps out of the plane, the Time Traveler reveals to him that she lied about the plane being in danger and him becoming a great president who would lead humanity into a new age of enlightenment.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: A popular presidential candidate traveling on a plane and seeing an intangible image of a woman claiming to be from a BadFuture where his plane crashed (because of another time traveler's accidental interference), and his ineffectual opponent ended up winning. She convinces him to jump out of the plane by claiming that she will use future technology to halt his fall moments before hitting the ground. This appears to happen, but then she explains that she is here to kill ''him'', as he is the one who will become PresidentEvil due to his paranoia. The falling scene repeats, and nobody catches him this time. The plane lands without problems.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: A popular presidential candidate traveling on a plane and seeing an intangible image of a woman claiming to be from a BadFuture where his plane crashed (because of another time traveler's accidental interference), and his ineffectual corrupt opponent ended up winning. She convinces him to jump out of the plane by claiming that she will use future technology to halt his fall moments before hitting the ground. This appears to happen, but then she explains that she is here to kill ''him'', as he is the one who will become PresidentEvil due to his paranoia.ego, paranoia, and selfishness. The falling scene repeats, and nobody catches him this time. The plane lands without problems.
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* Foreshadowing: While being interviewed by a reporter, Brody makes an off-the-record statement that there will be no privacy in the future. This foreshadows that he is the evil future President who has the US citizens constantly monitored.
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* Foreshadowing: {{Foreshadowing}}: While being interviewed by a reporter, Brody makes an off-the-record statement that there will be no privacy in the future. This foreshadows that he is the evil future President who has the US citizens constantly monitored.
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* BatmanGambit: The Time Traveler’s plan to kill Brody depends on him being selfish enough to abandon everyone else on the plane to save himself, and it works.
* Foreshadowing: While being interviewed by a reporter, Brody makes an off-the-record statement that there will be no privacy in the future. This foreshadows that he is the evil future President who has the US citizens constantly monitored.
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* PresidentEvil: A time traveler approaches a presidential candidate and warns him that his loss in the upcoming election will pave the way for one of these. As she continues to win him over, she eventually convinces him that his staff will sabotage his chances of winning, and that he needs to jump from the plane and leave them all to die (she'll protect him with her future-tech). He complies, and she's true to her word. Then she reveals ''he'' is the President Evil she spoke of, having gambled that he would be self-centered enough to save his own hide at the expense of everyone else. The plane will be fine, and he's just ensured that his political career is tarnished beyond recovery. Oh, and she didn't really save him. She just gave him a few minutes to find out the truth before putting him right back in mid-air to splatter on the ground.
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* PresidentEvil: A time traveler approaches a presidential candidate and warns him that his loss in the upcoming election will pave the way for one of these. As she continues to win him over, she eventually convinces him that his staff will sabotage his chances of winning, and that he needs to jump from the plane and leave them all to die (she'll protect him with her future-tech). He complies, and she's true to her word. Then she reveals ''he'' is the President Evil she spoke of, having gambled that he would be self-centered enough to save his own hide at the expense of everyone else. The plane will be fine, and he's just ensured that his political career is tarnished beyond recovery. Oh, and she didn't really save him. She just gave created an illusion to tell him a few minutes to find out the truth before putting him right back in mid-air ending the illusion, revealing that he is still falling from the sky and about to splatter on the ground.
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*EpisodeOnAPlaneCastingGag: In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Creator/BruceBoxleitner played a man who opposed an [[PresidentEvil evil president]]. Here, he's the evil president.
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* ItsAllAboutMe: Brody has no problem dooming everyone else on the plane to save his own skin.
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* KarmicTwistEnding: This episode has a recently-elected senator aboard a plane that's going to crash. A time traveler tells him that he has to open the door and leap out, sacrificing the lives of all on board, so he can live to be elected President and usher in a new enlightenment, or else his opponent would be elected and become a ruthless tyrant. In the end, he jumps out with seconds to spare... whereupon the time traveler tells him that ''he'' was destined to become the tyrant, and lets him fall to his death while the plane lands safely.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' No idea is so strong it should not be tested by doubt, and no man so powerful that he is infallible.
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' No idea is so strong it should not be tested by doubt, and no man so powerful that he is infallible.infallible.
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* BottleEpisode: Almost all of this episode takes place on a plane.
* EpisodeOnAPlane: This episode takes place almost entirely on a plane.
* InvisibleToNormals: The Time Traveler appears to Senator Wyndom Brody in the form of a {{Hologram}} that only he can see and hear as the projection is keyed to his neural signature.
* MileHighClub: Senator Wyndom Brody has sex with his mistress Catherine Walsh, a member of his campaign team, on his plane.
* NoNameGiven: The Time Traveler is not named.
* NoPartyGiven: Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary and has replaced Governor Stanton as the frontrunner for his unnamed party's presidential nomination.
* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: The Time Traveler tells Senator Wyndom Brody that history has been altered and the Age of Enlightenment that he created as President has been replaced by a new timeline in which the US is a police state where people are constantly monitored. In this new timeline, acts of terrorism and riots were widespread throughout the country and [[PresidentEvil a weak President was able to capitalize on the situation by becoming a tyrant]]. She does not name the President, but Brody is certain that it is Governor Stanton, his opponent for his party's nomination. The Time Traveler convinces Brody that he must save himself and correct the course of history by jumping out of the plane, which will crash on re-entry. She assures him that she will transport him to safety. However, when he does so, the Time Traveler reveals that her true mission was to change history and prevent him from becoming President as his selfishness, egotism and paranoia combined to turn him into the tyrannical President of whom she spoke. She accomplished her mission by appealing to Brody's considerable sense of self-importance and desire to save his own skin. The Time Traveler then allows him to fall to his death. The plane lands safely without him.
* PresidentEvil: A time traveler approaches a presidential candidate and warns him that his loss in the upcoming election will pave the way for one of these. As she continues to win him over, she eventually convinces him that his staff will sabotage his chances of winning, and that he needs to jump from the plane and leave them all to die (she'll protect him with her future-tech). He complies, and she's true to her word. Then she reveals ''he'' is the President Evil she spoke of, having gambled that he would be self-centered enough to save his own hide at the expense of everyone else. The plane will be fine, and he's just ensured that his political career is tarnished beyond recovery. Oh, and she didn't really save him. She just gave him a few minutes to find out the truth before putting him right back in mid-air to splatter on the ground.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: A popular presidential candidate traveling on a plane and seeing an intangible image of a woman claiming to be from a BadFuture where his plane crashed (because of another time traveler's accidental interference), and his ineffectual opponent ended up winning. She convinces him to jump out of the plane by claiming that she will use future technology to halt his fall moments before hitting the ground. This appears to happen, but then she explains that she is here to kill ''him'', as he is the one who will become PresidentEvil due to his paranoia. The falling scene repeats, and nobody catches him this time. The plane lands without problems.
* TimeTravelEpisode
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* BottleEpisode: Almost all of this episode takes place on a plane.
* EpisodeOnAPlane: This episode takes place almost entirely on a plane.
* InvisibleToNormals: The Time Traveler appears to Senator Wyndom Brody in the form of a {{Hologram}} that only he can see and hear as the projection is keyed to his neural signature.
* MileHighClub: Senator Wyndom Brody has sex with his mistress Catherine Walsh, a member of his campaign team, on his plane.
* NoNameGiven: The Time Traveler is not named.
* NoPartyGiven: Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary and has replaced Governor Stanton as the frontrunner for his unnamed party's presidential nomination.
* OppressiveStatesOfAmerica: The Time Traveler tells Senator Wyndom Brody that history has been altered and the Age of Enlightenment that he created as President has been replaced by a new timeline in which the US is a police state where people are constantly monitored. In this new timeline, acts of terrorism and riots were widespread throughout the country and [[PresidentEvil a weak President was able to capitalize on the situation by becoming a tyrant]]. She does not name the President, but Brody is certain that it is Governor Stanton, his opponent for his party's nomination. The Time Traveler convinces Brody that he must save himself and correct the course of history by jumping out of the plane, which will crash on re-entry. She assures him that she will transport him to safety. However, when he does so, the Time Traveler reveals that her true mission was to change history and prevent him from becoming President as his selfishness, egotism and paranoia combined to turn him into the tyrannical President of whom she spoke. She accomplished her mission by appealing to Brody's considerable sense of self-importance and desire to save his own skin. The Time Traveler then allows him to fall to his death. The plane lands safely without him.
* PresidentEvil: A time traveler approaches a presidential candidate and warns him that his loss in the upcoming election will pave the way for one of these. As she continues to win him over, she eventually convinces him that his staff will sabotage his chances of winning, and that he needs to jump from the plane and leave them all to die (she'll protect him with her future-tech). He complies, and she's true to her word. Then she reveals ''he'' is the President Evil she spoke of, having gambled that he would be self-centered enough to save his own hide at the expense of everyone else. The plane will be fine, and he's just ensured that his political career is tarnished beyond recovery. Oh, and she didn't really save him. She just gave him a few minutes to find out the truth before putting him right back in mid-air to splatter on the ground.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: A popular presidential candidate traveling on a plane and seeing an intangible image of a woman claiming to be from a BadFuture where his plane crashed (because of another time traveler's accidental interference), and his ineffectual opponent ended up winning. She convinces him to jump out of the plane by claiming that she will use future technology to halt his fall moments before hitting the ground. This appears to happen, but then she explains that she is here to kill ''him'', as he is the one who will become PresidentEvil due to his paranoia. The falling scene repeats, and nobody catches him this time. The plane lands without problems.
* TimeTravelEpisode
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-->'''The Control Voice:''' We live in an egocentric age, where many of us believe we are the sun in our own universe. But what happens when these illusions collide with reality?
A presidential candidate is warned by a time traveler that he must jump out of his plane before itcrashes.crashes.
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