Upstairs at the party, Travis presents Mr. Wallenbeck and his daughter with a holodisk recording of their hunt, insisting that it was Mr. Wallenbeck's shot that brought the Allosaurus down.

Next, we get our first look at the exterior of Time Safari, showcasing its prime location at street level directly facing a noisy intersection. Notice further details indicating that we are in the future, such as square traffic lights and taxi cabs with many corners. In fact, all you have to do to know what something will look like in the future is to add more corners. People will put corners on anything in the year 2055. Write that down in your notebooks.

FAIL #8
Meanwhile, everyone is at the party enjoying their classical music and hors d'oeuvres when Hatton spots a woman (Catherine McCormack) approaching, prompting him to shout wildly for security. Fortunately, this woman is able to walk up and spray everyone with blood from a champagne bottle while the security guards chill out in the doorways.

The woman is finally dragged away while she screams, "You keep messing with the past, one day you're gonna ruin the future!" Notice that she is apparently the only person in the world who thinks Time Safari is a bad idea. The government doesn't care, the public doesn't have a problem with it, and security around here has proved remarkably lax. Alicia doesn't even know what to make of this outburst:

Alicia: What was she yelling about?
Hatton: The usual. "Time jumps will destroy the world." Crackpot. A century ago, she would have been screaming about the internet or biotech.

"...the internet, or bio-tech..."

FAIL #9
If anyone was running around screaming about the internet in 1955, yes, they might be seen as a crackpot. However, this is not an excuse for everyone else in 2055 to have NEVER thought that messing with the past might jeopardize the future. This is a huge failure on the part of, well, everyone on earth.

FAIL #10
Travis follows the woman outside, where she identifies herself as Dr. Sonia Rand, who invented TAMI. Yes, she invented time travel, which means that everything horrible that's about to happen is technically her fault.

FAIL #11
Travis and Sonia cross the street for a long time. Sonia explains that she signed a contract allowing Hatton to take all of her research and use it for whatever he wants while erasing her name from the patent. Perhaps she should have considered not signing a contract allowing Hatton to take all of her research and use it for whatever he wants while erasing her name from the patent.

Sonia accuses Hatton of "destroying the world with [her] dream," begging the question of what she thought time travel technology might be used for if not traveling through time. To be sure, even the prospect of using it for "good" (i.e. preventing the Holocaust or 9/11) is an ethical minefield, raising mind-blowing questions clearly not occurring to many people in 2055.

FAIL #12

Travis offers to show Sonia what motivates him, which turns out to be the study of extinct animals. This leads to the rather shocking development that all the animals in the world have been killed by a virus, and the last wild animal died 38 years ago. (We also learn that Sonia got a D in biology, which is really not good enough for an actual scientist.) It would probably be impossible to overstate how quickly the human race would go extinct if there were suddenly no more animals.

On the other hand, this scene provides crucial character development for Travis, as we can finally see the valiance of his work with Time Safari. He explains that he has invented a way to take "remote DNA readings" on time jumps, so he can eventually reconstruct all the animals that died before "the virus."

FAIL #13
Travis goes on to explain that Time Safari's methods are foolproof: the Allosaurus was going to die in the tar pit anyway, before being engulfed in lava from a volcanic eruption. Travis complains, "Don't you think I wish people were willing to pay for a photo safari?" We cannot help wondering if Travis has ever actually tried offering a photo safari into the past to take pictures of extinct animals, because it sounds like something a LOT of people would pay for (especially since no one under 38 has ever laid eyes on any live animal).

Sonia takes this opportunity to inform Travis that Hatton only cares about money, and that changing the past can ruin the future, two fascinating facts that we definitely haven't heard yet.