"I'm sorry, sir. I was having a dream, sir."
"You were having a dream, were ya? And what were you dreaming about that it took you so sodding long to get to your mark?"
"I was in a helicopter, sir. And there was a storm, sir. And I don't remember the rest, sir."
"At least it was a bloody military dream. All of you, in the yard, four minutes, and you can thank Private Hume for having to do it in double time. Move!"
In the yard, the men do push ups, then sit ups in the rain. The man next to Desmond says, "I hope your dream was worth it, mate."
Desmond says, "Sorry, pal, I've never had a dream that was so vivid. It was like I was actually there."
The sergeant yells, "You got something to say, Hume? I asked you a question!"
Crunches
Episode 4x5, The Constant - Time Jump 2-here!" Desmond looks around. He's standing in the rain and the other privates are still doing sit ups.
The sergeant walks over. "Here? Here what? What the hell are you doing on your feet? Are you finished with your crunches because you want to run?"
The men are made to run and one of them pushes Desmond forward and says, "Keep moving, or so help me, I'll kill you myself."
Later the two of them load crates and the other man asks Desmond what is going on with him. Desmond says that if he told him, he'd just think Desmond was crazy.
"I already know you're crazy."
"This morning, when I was in the yard doing crunches, I left."
"What do you mean you left?"
"I was on a boat and then I was back here, right where I started."
"If you're trying to get tossed out of service-"
"Billy, I'm telling you the truth, man."
"Who else was on this boat? Anyone you recognize?"
Desmond thinks for a moment and then says, "Penny. There was a photo. Penny was in the photo." Desmond gets up and walks away.
"Ah, Des, where are you going?" Billy asks, but Desmond doesn't answer.
Desmond goes to a pay phone and takes out change. Another private bumps him, making him drop his change, and says, "Thanks for this morning, Hume."
Desmond reaches down to pick up the change-
Penny's Move
Episode 4x5, The Constant - Time Jump 3In the rain, Private Desmond gets oriented, then picks up the change. He goes into the phone booth and dials Penny's number. She answers and he says, "Penny?"
"What do you want, Desmond?"
"Penny, listen, I'm in trouble. I think something's happened to me. I'm confused. I need to see you."
"You broke it off with me and then you joined the army. And then you call with some expectation that I still care about you? Yeah, I think you are confused, Desmond."
"I've got two days leave starting tonight. Can I come and see you?"
"No! And don't bother showing up at the flat, either, because I've moved."
"Moved? Where?"
"It doesn't matter. Desmond, I'm going to go. Please, just don't call me."
"Please, please, Penny, I-
Daniel
Episode 4x5, The Constant - Time Jump 4He's in the phone booth by himself, gripping the receiver. Penny is gone. He drops the phone and there is nothing written on his hand.
Desmond goes to the college and finds Daniel. Daniel is speaking with one his students and when the student walks away, Desmond says, "Are you Daniel Faraday?"
"You are?"
"I'm sorry, I'm Desmond Hume. I was told I could find you here. I think I've just been to the future."
"The future?"
"Yes. I spoke to you there. You told me to come here to Oxford, to find you. You said you'd help me."
"Why didn't I just help you there, in the future?"
"I'm sorry?"
"Why would I put you through the headache of time travel? You know what I mean? Just seems a little unnecessary. And don't you think my esteemed colleagues could have come up with something just a little bit more believable, huh? What kind of a prank is that?" He walks away talking about paradoxes.
"Set your device to 2.342 and make sure it oscillates at 11."
Daniel stops and turns.
"Now, you're going to tell me who told you those numbers."
"You did."
"This is ridiculous."
"I know about Eloise."
Daniel takes Desmond to a room. "What is all this?" Desmond asks.
"This is where I do all the things Oxford frowns upon." Daniel grabs his journal. "Alright, this future version of me, uh, he referenced this meeting, right? Obviously, so I'm going to remember you coming to Oxford. I'm going to remember this here, right, now."
"Actually, no. Maybe you just forgot."
"Yeah, right," Daniel says. "How would that happen?"
"So, this is changing the future?"
"You can't change the future." Daniel puts on a heavy vest.
"What's that for?" Desmond asks, pointing to the vest.
"Radiation."
Desmond looks around. "Do I get one?"
"You don't need one. Prolonged exposure. I do this twenty times a day."
"So what do you put on your head?"
Daniel laughs. He turns some switches, then gets a rat out of a cage. "This is Eloise," he tells Desmond. He puts Eloise down under a light.
"What does this do?" Desmond asks.
"This, if the numbers you gave me are correct, will unstick Eloise in time, just like you." He turns on the light. Then he watches Eloise. Desmond asks what happened and Daniel says she's not back yet. A little bit later he lifts the door to a maze. Eloise correctly maneuvers through the maze as Daniel gets more and more excited. "It worked! This is incredible!"
"I'm sorry, how's a rat running through a bloody maze so incredible?" Desmond yells.
"What is incredible, is that I just finished the maze this morning. I'm not going to teach her how to run it until an hour from now."
"You sent her to the future?"
"Her consciousness, her mind." Daniel runs over to the chalk board and erases.
"So how does that help me?" Desmond asks.
"You. Help you? I don't understand, am I supposed to help you? Didn't I send you back to help me?"
"I don't know why you sent me here. All I know about you, you end up on some bloody island."
"An island? What island? Why would I go to an island?"
