He smashes a nearby monitor and demands, "is she alive or is she dead?" The group gives both answers - she is alive in the past and yet dead in the present. This is still not what Doug wants to know. Denny ( Adam Goldberg) tries to make it simpler, showing a piece of paper and then folding it to bring two points together. The scientists try to tell him about an Einstein-Rosen bridge, or spacefolding technology, but the advanced physics jargon just infuriates Doug. He knows that the images are not from the dead past because Claire reacted to the laser light. Meanwhile, the viewing room system goes down completely, with several people shouting, "who breached the field?!" Doug angrily confronts them for lying about the system. It shows on the wall behind her, and she sees it and reacts to it. As the surveillance continues, Doug watches her getting dressed, and later reading to her niece, he suddenly raises a laser pointer and directs it at the viewing screen. However, she will be busy when he wants to meet, so they do not make a deal. She receives a call from the terrorist, asking about purchasing her car. She even writes about it in her diary, which Doug holds and reads four days later, after it was collected as evidence from her apartment. As they observe her, she obviously has the sensation that she is being watched, calling out, "who's there?" and looking around. Doug directs them to focus on the mysterious dead woman, Claire Kuchever, and follow her last days since it is likely she was murdered by the bomber. He asks pointedly how satellites are providing audio, and the team looks startled but provides an explanation. They explain that it is via a system of satellites, and that it takes four days to assemble the information so that it can be viewed just one time. He watches the hundreds of people moving around, and after a few minutes starts firing questions at the team about a technology that can provide this type of live surveillance from four days ago (4 days, 6 hours, 3 minutes, 45 seconds). The team shows him moving images of the ferry boarding, from any and every angle. Doug is invited by FBI Agent Pryzwarra ( Val Kilmer) to join an experimental surveillance team led by Jack McCready ( Bruce Greenwood). Doug also learns that his partner, Agent Larry Minuti ( Matt Craven), was evidently killed in the bombing. The agents believe that her death was meant to look like part of the explosion, but the body arrived too soon. Her body was found one hour before the explosion, but burnt with the same explosive.
He is informed by Sheriff Reed ( John McConnell) about the corpse of a woman, Claire Kuchever ( Paula Patton), that washed up on shore. Lonely ATF agent Doug Carlin ( Denzel Washington) is assigned to investigate the terrorist attack. 7.5 to 8 out of 10.In Algiers, New Orleans, an explosion of a ferry transporting sailors from the USS Nimitz and their families on a Mardi Gras excursion causes 543 casualties. Genre fans are shoo-ins and those who think they don't like sci-fi should enjoy this one too. The cinematography, the implementation of technology, and even a beautiful (but presently dead) damsel in distress, combine to give the actors, who are uniformly good to excellent, the boost to put this in rarefied good sci-fi territory. This is the way to do sci-fi with believable real life situations. The story, the characters, and the effects mesh well to suspend belief to the point that you "get on-board" and enjoy the ride. It's original enough to be compelling-where we are not in some distant future, but the here and now. So here we have a present day crime thriller crossed with sci-fi time travel.And, this movie kicks butt, works so well, in fact, it's nuances should be studied in film school. Disaster, at least for me, looms large when sci-fi meets real life drama. I usually like present day drama when it's believably real. I usually like sci-fi when it's pure sci-fi.
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