When they were trying to figure out a way to save their daughter on the tricycle, why wouldn't they turn her around so when time caught up with them, she's be riding the other way, away from the truck instead of towards it. I know things were stuck, but 'm sure both of them cought have picked her and the tricycle up and move her
"What are we supposed to use? Harsh language?"
As Jim tells his wife, "everything's petrified." If he can't even pick up a phone receiver, good luck picking up a 40 pound child. Better questions would be, where did the limbo being guy come from? How did he get stuck between the past and the future?
KS
He got there the same way they did, however when time caught up to him, he was not in the exact same place, and he was stuck there.
So he was a pilot and like Jim Darcy, broke through some sort of space/time continuum with an experimental aircraft? That's what I wanted to know. He looked like some businessman, not a test pilot.
KS
He was not a pilot. He got trapped in time the same way they did.
The wife was not a pilot. She was just driving her car.
I assume it's just some kind of ripple in time. Here is the Wiki entry for that episode:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Premonition_%28The_Outer_Limits%29
Here's my question. He crashes the experimental plane, and he is caught in time,
he runs over to his wife who has crashed her car, and she also is caught in time.
(In two separate places.)
Everything that is trapped in time is almost infinitely heavy, so why he is able to cut the seat belts out of her car? They should be like iron.
The crashed plane and car were only a few feet apart and in the same "timezone" as the pilot and his wife were so anything inside the time bubble could move, including anything inside the crashed plane or car. That's how I figure it, at any rate.
KS
Fortunately, the wheel and brake idea worked, but wouldn't it have been less of a risk to simply lay the stack of seat belts in front of the tricycle tire? The tricycle would have stopped abruptly, and the girl might have fallen off, but it seems more likely to have worked than what was actually done (i.e., the belt might have slipped off the truck wheel, or the belts tied together might have come apart, etc.).
What I wish we could have seen was the reaction of the truck driver when he found a bunch of car seat belts suddenly tied to his truck.
Think the safety belts would have vanished into limbo! They were attached just long enough to do their job.
shareBack in the days when slapping your hysterical wife was considered appropriate.
shareSolution #1: toss his flight suit over the girl's head. She'll stop pedaling.
Solution #2: poke mom's purse or those flares into the tricycle spokes so it can't move.
The script does't suggest there's ONLY one solution. Of course there are other ways he could've attempted to
stop the truck. This was a way he chose. And it worked. Good grief.