US Air Date: 08/10/2007

Writer: Tom Szentgyorgyi

Director: Alex Graves

Vasser and his wife are contemplating whether Dan has some sort of genetic condition – but this isn’t about his travelling, it’s about him leaving the toilet seat up. He jumps to the past just as his wife invites him to join her in the shower, and ends up shoeless in 1989.
As Dan tries to orientate himself, he’s knocked aside by two men fighting, one of whom is trying to bundle the other into the back of a van. Dan intervenes and saves the latter, who reveals himself to be Alan Pratt. Vasser returns back to the future only to realise that he jumped just before the San Francisco earthquake, and begins researching its victims (including his editor’s sister). After lying to Katie about whether he’s met anyone he knew before during his travelling, he jumps once again to find Livia waiting for him. She reveals that on occasion, you jump to the same day because events haven’t been set right, and also that she was travelling before she met Dan, but stopped soon before they got together. Dan’s watch is broken, so Livia loans him hers (can you see where this is going yet?).
Vasser tries desperately to warn the police about the impending disaster, but nobody will listen to him. In the meantime he learns that Pratt is a compulsive gambling addict, who eventually talks Dan into telling him where he used to play poker. In the present, his wife has to talk to one of Dan’s sources and uses her old journalistic wiles to get results, while Livia finds out about Dan and Katie. The earthquake strikes, and Dan pulls Pratt from the wreckage, who is overjoyed to be alive. In the present it emerges that he became a lawyer who defends the helpless. Trouble is on the horizon, however, as Katie finds Livia’s watch in her husband’s jacket.