It could be catastrophic. Like throwing a stone in a lake...

...and it causes ripples in the water. Only, they're ripples in time.

So you can't go back and kill Hitler, much as we'd all like to...

...because it could cause a chain reaction of events...

...that could alter or even destroy mankind.

And that, my good senators, is where you come in.

We have to form a brand-new covert agency...

...to police this technology and to actually protect time.

It's gonna be called the Time Enforcement Commission, or the T.E.C.

This man is Commander Eugene Matuzak of the Washington Police Department.

He is our choice to run the commission.

How much is this gonna cost?

- A lot. - How much is a lot?

More than a little and less than too much.

This is not a good time to ask for money. You know, the economy--

Suppose one of our foreign competitors goes back in time and invents the computer?

Or the airplane or automobile?

Wanna talk about the state of the American economy?

How about this one? Saddam Hussein finances a trip back to 1944.

He gets our technology and Iraq becomes the first country to have the atomic bomb.