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I don't think Jack started to question his doubt against Dan's travels when he was being kicked out of the house, but rather after the fact, when the tidbit about John Snow was brought up by Garrity. It looks like Jack was spending that "fake" bill at the bar, which means that he actually swapped it out from the evidence bag. I wonder if it would trigger any alerts after being introduced back into circulation, because I presume that's when it starts to begin getting hard to trace. I recall from an economics class that a dollar in circulation X-tuplies its value as it goes through the commerce system from party-to-party.

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"But what is more important, at least short term, is that Langley asked Dan if other people were interested in his work and that time traveling could be used to defeat terrorism."

I actually think it was more that he was trying to continue using the novel metaphor, and people's "interest" in the novel, to tell Dan that he knew the FBI were onto him. I thought he was saying that the FBI were onto him because they thought HE was a terrorist, not that time travel could defeat terrorism.

"Did Past Jack release Past Dan?"

I'm pretty sure Jack never figured out it was Dan he was chasing that day, and he never would've arrested Past Dan or else Present Dan would've remembered it happening.

Also, at first I thought the same as you about the workplace romance gossip at the beginning of the episode, but by the end it became pretty apparent that it was more referring to Dan and Livia, or at least Katie's perception of what might happen as they work together more and more (especially if Dan stays in the past as long as Livia stayed in the 80s/90s, which she no doubt is worried will happen).

I really enjoyed this episode, more for the present-day story and the time travelling itself (aka Livia's answers) rather than the travelling backstory. I have enjoyed a couple of these this season, so I don't completely ignore them, but the show is certainly succeeding on its present-day storyline.

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I did not see that coming, Livia living in the past. I was wondering what her 'home' time was. I just hadn't considered that her time spent with Dan during their relationship was during one of her trips. (She's right, that was a loooong trip.) Does she have other assignments too? Or is she traveling just to interact with Dan?

I loved Katie's line about Dan going to a key party and the thing that turned him on was Nixon.

Good episode, it gave some answers and raised enough new questions to keep me coming back.

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I'm confused.

Dan travels in time in his current clothing. How come Livia is wearing current clothing as well?

When Dan travels, does time pass at the same speed? I know he doesn't return to where he left off, but does the amount of time that passes stay the same? Does he always come back to the present or could he return somewhere else?

When he changes the outcome of things, why doesn't it change everything? For instance, Katie knows what is going on, but the dad that said his daughter is in prison, now has a daughter that is an elected official. So what happens to that conversation?

Like I said -- I'm confused.

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Well I thought this episode was great! It was the first time that I thought the series is now hitting its stride with the case and small tidbits of information from Dr. Langley and Livia. I felt the small things from the past episodes(the money) finally started to show up and have a real impact in this episode even though they have been alluding to it for some time now. In fact this episode was better than last weeks!

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Since the rule is that you can only time travel in your lifespan, does this mean that Livia is still alive in 2007 since she traveled there last week which would put her around 80 in Dan & Katie's present? Or is she really dead sometime after 1948 which would have precluded her having a paradox of living two lives concurrently in the 80s during her "long trip"?

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Okay-- I like the show, but one thing keep coming into my mind last night. Why can't Dan just leave the stolen money in the past -- then the FBI wouldn't be looking at him for it. Am I being stupid here -- cause I was confused when he gave money during the robbery , if that was all of it then the FBI mess wouldn't of happened

just my thoughts

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Oh! She put the money in the coat?!? I didn't see that, and couldn't figure out how they got rid of the money during the search warrant. Thanks!

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Ok last week we saw Livia go to 2007 and get Dan's money and this week Dan still has the money. Did Dan just use a little bit of the money and bring the left over money with him back?

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I don't think that the 20 dollar bill that Jack was comtemplating at the bar was the evidence bill. He was staring at it because he was coming to terms with the fact that Dan may have been telling him the truth. Spending the original twenty wouldn't serve any purpose since it could easily be traced right back to him.

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I think this was one of the best episodes.

I think that Langley was warning Dan that the FBI is investigating time-travellers in order to try to use them against terrorists (àla “Déjà Vu”). He said them tried that on him and that's why he left.

I think that Jack did spend the $20 bill evidence. It shows that he might be starting to believe his brother and will do what he can to help him.

I can't wait to see what's happening next!

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I'm waiting for the episode where Dan holds on to Livia as she travels back to 1948 and he gets to go all the way back there. Wouldn't that be fun! The mind boggles. This whole episode had me staring at the screen, mouth open wide and grinning like an idiot. When Garrity mentioned the plane and the $20 bill, the whole 'grand design' of these first few episodes amazed me. Then when Livia's situation came to light, my mouth got a little wider. But nothing beats the subtext in Dan's conversations with Dr. Langley. This show deserves to be repeated through the strike so more people can pick it up. If it's cancelled, it'll be the first show I think I will truly mourn.

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I don't believe Jack spent the $20 that was in evidence but he was contemplating it.

If you consider the universe as a giant novel, changing events for some characters may have no impact on others. Changing Abbie (Angela) from criminal to congresswoman (is that really a change?) might change Abbie's timeline and that of those in contact with her but not necessarily other people. I consider time travel like changing versions of a novel with the changes printed on different color pages. Well there is a blue version, a red version, a yellow version etc. and then there is a multicolored version. Dan and Livia live in different colored versions for the most part Dan in the multicolored version where the pages have changed to bring about the greatest good and his travels to the past are to other single color time lines to bring the various different colors into his version. Lidia lives in a single color version travelling to other single color versions which have been discolored to shed the other color pages from her single color future and return them to either the original version of the multicolored version. She is the one working to keep the blue line blue and Dan is the one trying to make the best possible outcome in a multi-colored version.

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I have a DVR+HD... and I rewound just to make sure... and you can very clearly see the serial number on the 20 at the bar was the same one that the FBI agent had on his desk in the evidence bag. The question becomes... how did he get it out of the bag? And does he think noone will notice? I wonder if some episode from now Dan will have to leap... err... journey... to help his brother out of this hole he's digging himself in.

What I didn't understand... I thought Livia "took" all the money with her? Or were there two bags? (I havent watched episode 6 or 5 yet... so my answer is probably in there.) I just figured the whole bag search scene was them using their reporter smarts to mess around with Agent Weasel.

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Some strange editing IMHO.Facts discussed between Dan and Katie did not come out during Dan's travels, unless I missed it all. It seems inevitable that Dan and Livia will hook up again as will Jack and Katie. Especially now Jack finally believes Dan is travelling. Meantime Garrity seems more concerned with discovering facts about Dan re his time travels rather than money laundering, so he must represent the bad guys in Gvt. Meantime Langley is pretty useless running no defense for Dan. Overall the possibile twists and subplots are beginning to rival LOST!

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1. Do we know it's a rule that people can only travel within their lifetime or is that just a leftover from Quantum Leap?

2. I think the doctor was telling Dan that the government invested in his research because they thought it was a plausible way to go back in time to "stop" terrorism before it happens. How many people would love for there to be a way to go back in time to capture the pilots from 9/11 before they boarded the plane? It would have stopped both the actual attack and the retaliatory war. Variations of this concept were seen in both Deja Vu and Minority Report.

3. I agree that changing one person's life wouldn't necessarily change everyone's life. So Katie could still be aware of the changes Dan has effected in people's lives, although the individuals are not.

4. Livia took the money back to Dan to get in the card game on the night Katie rescued him. Then he brought back the rest to his house in 2007. He only needed between 10K & 20K to get in the game.

5. I think Dan got rid of the money he had left in the robbery. He didn't have the whole stash to begin with, Dillon took some. He spent either 10K or 20K in the card game. $100 is in the hands of the FBI in 2007. Shouldn't it all be accounted for in 2007 now? The FBI would know about the pile in the robbery because none of the thieves got away...unless Abby took some with her, but I don't think she did.

6. MORE JOHN SCHNEIDER!!! I love seeing that man on my TV screen.

7. I suspected that Livia was on a "mission" while she was with Dan - why else would her traveling have stopped for so long? But I didn't expect that she was from the past. If she is from the past, and the rule of traveling in your lifetime is correct, Dan should be able to find "old" Livia in 2007. She would be in her 80s.

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The transfer of money from the bag to the jacket was not at all realistic. Had that amount of of money been placed in Dan's sport jacket he'd have looked like the Michelin Man.

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I am pretty sure the rest of the McClean money (sans the 100 the FBI has and the large chunk spent in the card game last week) was left at the robbery.

Did anyone catch what year the robbery took place in? Was it before or after the hijacking? Either way, the money is probably in some vault as evidence from the shooting and is not traceable by the feds.

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I got in my head during the episode that the taller hippie with the quartz was going to turn out to be Elliott Langley, and that making sure he returned to the straight and narrow was Dan's real mission and not Abby/Angela.

Even after he was killed in the deli, I figured maybe he was Elliott's brother and had been the inspiration for Langley to work with quartz in connection to time travel.

Oh well. Still a good episode even if nobody did enough research about Neil Young. (He didn't play at the Winterland in '74 from what I could find, but he did do so in '73.)

Yeah... I'm that geeky.

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Journeyman is one of the more intelligently written new shows this season. However, word on the blogs say it is targeted for cancellation. It evidently isn't hitting the desired Nielsen numbers hoped for. However, when one considers that the Nielsen Media research people aren't currently able to monitor the users of TiVo or DVR devices, the current Nielsen cross section probably consists of lower income, lower tech, less educated viewers that are probably either asleep or too exhausted before 9pm on any given weeknight. The general complaint I've heard about Journeyman is that you have to really pay attention or it is too easy to get lost and confused. One reason I use a DVR is so I can enjoy these more complex story lines at a decent hour when my brain is more able to absorb a show's brilliance. But alas, Nielsen is probably more driven to insure advertiser's commercials are viewed in their entirety without the ability to fast-forward the DVR advance button.

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