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[Sound of shower]
[Woman screams]
[Men laughing]
-Oh God.
[Scream stifled]
-I'm gonna need you to be quiet. Okay?
DONALD: Hey!
-It's him! -Get him!
DONALD: You're gonna be all right.
Someone from the street has already called the police and they're gonna be here soon, okay?
You just need a few minutes and these guys are gonna be out until they get here.
Just go to the corner and wait, you need to report these guys.
But you're gonna be all right. Just go wait by the street. [Portal noise]
-Wait, who are...
JONAS: Hold up.
Take me through it again. DONALD: Dude, it's foolproof.
First, I check the internet, TV, newspapers, for whatever crimes happened in the last 24 hours--
Assaults, robberies, muggings, whatever.
Once I find something I can stop, I lock down the when and the where and I take it to Virginia.
-No, we can't keep changing the past.
-Uh, I think we've kind of proven that we can.
-But, Donald, what if we stop something from happening that's supposed to happen?
-How do you know what's supposed to happen? -Because it happens naturally.
-Oh. So, this woman is supposed to get sexually assaulted, never find out who did it,
and be haunted by the memory of it for the rest of her life?
-To the time machine.
DONALD: And after our usual "We should, we shouldn't" song and dance, we head to the kitchen, where Virginia stops time
while I'm thinking about the time and place of the crime I want to stop.
[Eerie silence]
When she pulls me into stopped time, I take the portal I make back to the moment of the crime and stop it.
After I shut down the bad guys and console the victim, I head back through the portal to the kitchen,
where Virginia starts time up again and everything's back to normal, minus one crime.
JONAS: Why do you guys go to the kitchen to make the portals?
DONALD: I don't know, but it's convenient. Fighting crime makes me snacky.
-But there's no portal on the other side, right? In the past?
-You can't see it, no, but it's there.
-But if you can't see it, how do you know where it is? -Just gotta remember where you come out.
-That's a system that's designed to fail. -Seemed to work well for the past couple of weeks.
-Yeah? What's with your new outfit?
-Well, it seems really counter-intuitive, but the people
I'm trying to save are much less afraid of me when I'm wearing this.
I think it was the bright blue tights.
The black helps me blend in with the dark of the night.
The lightning bolt mask serves as a focal point
so that when they're describing me later, all they remember is the mask and the beard.
Now, I just gotta commit to one name to shout at the bad guys at the crime scene.
Have you seen the sketch?
NEWSCASTER: It's been less then two weeks since the first reported sighting of The Electric Con.
In that brief period, he has been credited with stopping at least twenty different crimes in progress.
-Yeah, as soon as the gun came out, you know, I thought that was it.
But then this Doctor Electrician-guy comes out of nowhere and like blasts him with this taser gun or something.
You know, I don't really know what it was to be honest.
-I'm just glad that Mister Electricon was there, okay?
The police wouldn't have made it in time, and I'd be dead for sure.
Thank goodness that weird jogger just appeared with his lightning whip thing.
-A lightning whip? -Oh, dude, I've been working on lots of crazy stuff.
Now, if you'll excuse me, a girl was attacked in a bar last night and I'm going to save her.
-Wait! What you are doing shouldn't be possible. -What?
-If you see a news report in the present and then go stop the crime in the past
there's no crime.
So, you're never going to see a news report to get you to go stop the crime in the past,
so the crimes gonna happen.
-What? -It shouldn't work.
-I don't care if it should or shouldn't work. It does.
-Donald, have you done any investigation into time travel theory at all before you started messing with time lines?
You're probably creating paradoxes everywh-- -Hey! You're arguing time travel theory with a time traveler.
You can do all the research you want on the internet about how time travel SHOULD work.
I'm a time traveler, I'm telling you it DOES work.
-You're gonna destroy the universe.
-I'm gonna save lives. You ready Virginia?
-VIRGINIA: You are holding me emotional hostage!
-Let's do it.
[Door creaks open]
-Am I gone yet?
-Double five for luck, come on, come on, come on. Yes! Let's do it! Let's fight some crimes!
-No.
-Okay, I'm now ready to hear what you have to say about paradoxes.