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Timecop
Directed by	Peter Hyams
Produced by	Sam Raimi Robert Tapert
Written by	Mike Richardson Mark Verheiden
Starring	Jean-Claude Van Damme Mia Sara Ron Silver Bruce McGill Gloria Reuben
Music by	Mark Isham Robert Lamm
Cinematography	Peter Hyams
Editing by	Steven Kemper
Distributed by	MCA/Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	September 16, 1994
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
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Timecop (1994) is a science fiction thriller feature film directed by Peter Hyams.

Timecop stars Jean Claude Van Damme, Ron Silver, Bruce McGill and Mia Sara, set in the future where time travel is possible. Van Damme plays a Time Enforcement Agent, part of a specialized police organization. He is conflicted, because he knows it is possible to prevent his wife's death, but his job as a Time Enforcement Agent prevents him from acting on such a prevention.

Timecop was Jean Claude Van-Damme's highest grossing film (breaking the $100,000,000 barrier for worldwide gross) and his last commercially successful film before making a series of straight-to-video releases. It was also regarded as one Van Damme's better films by critics who usually derided his acting ability.

Contents 1 Plot summary 2 Cast 3 Quotes 4 Spinoffs 5 Trivia 6 External links

• Tagline: "Turn back the clock, and you're history."

Max Walker (Jean-Claude Van Damme) is a Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) Agent. Walker was once just an ordinary police officer who was one day offered the chance of a lifetime, to time travel and enforce it. This choice turns his life upside down and brings him into conflict with the corrupt Senator Aaron McComb (Ron Silver).

Prior to working at the TEC, Walker's wife Melissa (Mia Sara) was killed in a raid on their home which resulted in the house being destroyed in a huge explosion with Melissa inside. Max is constantly haunted by her memory and is also tormented by the idea that it is possible to save her by travelling back. However, changing the past would mean breaching his vow to protect the timeline from alteration through time travel.

On a mission to arrest his former partner, Lyle Atwood (Jason Schombing), Walker travels back to 1929 to discover Atwood using knowledge from the future to buy up large stocks, which will in the future be worth millions. After a brief fight with some hired thugs, whom Walker makes light work of, Walker confronts Atwood who reveals that he has been collecting money for Senator Aaron McComb who is gathering money to become the President of the United States. Atwood pleads with Walker to spare him, hinting that the two may have had a greater friendship; however, Walker responds with "I don't have a choice, I have to take you in". This theme of honor and duty is echoed throughout the movie, and eventually Walker concedes that he does have a choice. Atwood attempts suicide, but Walker saves him in the hope he will testify against McComb. Atwood stays quiet and is sentenced to death.

With the knowledge of a possibly corrupt senator, Walker is intent on finding out more. Accompanied by a new partner, Sarah Fielding (Gloria Reuben), he is given a mission to investigate a time fluctuation in 1994 at a computer factory. Also at the factory is a young Senator McComb. Walker infiltrates the facility just as a future version of Senator McComb arrives. The future McComb explains that the younger McComb needs to take over the company which owns the factory, as it will be worth billions in the future. Walker attempts to arrest the older McComb; however, he is double crossed by Fielding who reveals that she too is corrupt. A fight ensues as McComb escapes back into the future.

Walker returns to the future only to find that his organization, the TEC, is being decommissioned. Everything has changed, and only Walker knows what has happened. Realizing that it is the effect of McComb's interference, Walker knows there is only one more chance to go back before the time travel equipment is scrapped forever. After convincing his commander and friend Eugene Matuzak (Bruce McGill) that the prototype of the time travel equipment was never destroyed, Matuzak agrees to launch Walker back one last time, dying in the process.

Walker arrives back again in 1994. He now needs to contact Fielding, who is in the hospital after McComb shot her. Walker wants her to testify against McComb and eventually finds her. Fielding agrees and Walker says he needs something to prove she existed, as McComb may travel back and kill her family to prevent her birth. Walker finds Fielding's blood sample, but as well discovers his former wife's blood sample which indicates she is pregnant. Walker returns to Fielding, but he is too late: she has been murdered. Realizing that he was to be a father, Walker decides that he now must save his wife Melissa.

While at the mall searching for Melissa, Walker recognizes two of McComb's thugs and realizes that McComb must have made some changes to the past which caused the death of his wife. Walker confronts his wife and explains that he is a future version of her husband. Bewildered, Melissa agrees to help out the future Walker by playing along with the younger Walker.

In the final showdown, McComb's thugs show up at the Walker home, but this time Walker is not so complacent—and there are two of him. The two Walkers eventually defeat McComb's thugs one by one. The younger Walker is left half dead as the older Walker confronts McComb, who is holding Melissa hostage. McComb explains his whole plot and that he was attempting to kill off Walker and other TEC agents before they joined so he could traverse time unhindered. McComb sets a bomb and explains that although he will die, his earlier self will remain alive; however, Walker has set him up. The younger McComb arrives at the house, responding to a message Walker secretly sent. Enraged, the older McComb attacks Melissa. Walker grabs the younger McComb and shoves him into the older one. As the movie states "The same matter cannot occupy the same space", the two McCombs fuse and implode into a pool of disappearing blood. Walker quickly picks up Melissa and carries her to safety before the bomb explodes and destroys their house.

Walker returns to the future, having set things right, but not knowing what to expect. Walker is elated when he returns to see that things are back to normal. However, there is something different. McComb is presumed dead, as he disappeared ten years prior (as a result of merging with his past self) and Walker's wife is alive. Walker heads for home, and on his way out, he passes by Fielding, who knows nothing of him. Walker returns home to find his wife Melissa there to greet him, as well with their son.

• Jean-Claude Van Damme - Max Walker
• Mia Sara - Melissa Walker
• Ron Silver - Senator Aaron McComb
• Bruce McGill - Commander Eugene Matuzak

• The Senate oversight committee is discussing the cost of policing time travel:

Senator: How much is this gonna cost?

George: A lot!

Senator: How much is a lot?

George: More than a little, and less than too much.

• Walker standing behind his wife outside a clock store:

Walker: (seductive tone) There's never enough time...

Melissa: Enough time for what?

Walker: To satisfy a woman...

• Atwood pleas with Walker.

Atwood: I can't tell you anything! He'll send somebody to wipe out my grandparents, it'll be like I never existed. My Mother, my Father, my Wife, my kids, my fucking cat!

• Walker throws a man down the stairs of his apartment block as Fielding arrives:

Fielding: I'm Fielding, I'm with Internal Affairs.

Walker: He messed up my apartment. You can kill him.

• Walker and Fielding arguing:

Fielding: You're not funny, you know.

Walker: I'm never funny.

The film, which was originally based on a comic, spun off into a short-lived television series named Timecop which ran for nine episodes in 1997 on ABC. It starred T.W. King as Jack Logan and Cristi Conaway as Claire Hemmings.

In 2003, a Direct-to-DVD sequel was released titled Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision starring Jason Scott Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith, and directed by Steve Boyum.

A game based on the movie was released on the SNES in 1995.

In Heat Vision and Jack, a character recognizes the astronaut played by Ron Silver as being "the bad guy from Timecop". He then asks Silver for an autograph but is unable to provide a pen.

In Comedy Central's South Park episode "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes", Eric Cartman tries to convince Kyle to purchase three copies of Timecop DVD's because Wall-Mart sells three copies for $18, while one copy is $9.99. In the end Kyle responds "Wait, I don't even want one copy of Timecop" and declines.

• Timecop at the Internet Movie Database