Greg says this part sucks. So we'll see how it goes.
Barry 11/6/18 pg 162
Slade used his dead memories to build the machine without Helena.
I another timeline Barry went through the proper channels and raided Slade's office. But someone else got their hands on the machine and started going back in time cause more FMS started happening.
The plan now is for the two of them to take out Slade and destroy the machine thoroughly so nobody else will ever know about it.
Helena 11/7/18 pg 169
Nice
They want to get up to the 24th floor cause that's where Slade is. They get spooked walking up the stairs and go in on the 8th floor and they a woman and they tie her up in her hotel room. Helena cuts herself.
Barry 11/7/18 pg 177
She used the memory of cutting herself to jump back from 15 minutes in the future. Slade was waiting for them on the 24th floor and he killed Barry and Helena barely made it to the machine to come back. This time they hit the lab first. It doesn't go much better.
Helena 11/7/18 pg 185
She's got a shotgun on Slade and they're talking about the good Ole days. Then a lot of philosophy talk about whether the machine is good or bad. Then Slade says you won't understand until you travel like I've traveled. Then the lights go out.
Barry 11/7/18 pg 188
Slade runs for it and they're all in the dark and it's not great. Barry runs after and finds slades dead body. Thers tons of cops. Gwen (remember her?) Is one of them. Barry is all, tell your men to stand down Nd she's all, they're not my men. Then some guy is all step out and talk to us. Gives me teal Mr Anderson from the matrix vibes. Barry tells Helena to run and he gets shot to death.
Helena 11/15/18 - 4/16 pg 195
I miss the expanse and its consistent chapter sizes.
The government has the machine. Well, a very small DARPA group run by a man named Shaw who likes cinnamon altoids amd not respecting other people's personal space. Helena is a prisoner, but they let her attend meetings. They start doing little things. Max 5 days in the past. Stop a school shooting here, end a serial killer there. Then hire ups find out and start giving them military assignments. This all seems pretty well contained until on day Helena gets a call from Shaw saying he's been ordered to send someone back a year to do an assassination.
Then the tunnel she's in gets exploded. Then she's fine. Then a bridge gets blown up, then it's fine. This happens over and over again. Turns out someone hacked Slade's computers a year ago. They sold the schematics to lots of people. Every major government now has a time machine and a bunch of terrorist groups too. That's what's causing this disaster loop. Terrorists are going back in time to do terror and then governments are going back in time to undo the terror. But wait, it gets worse. It's on wiki leaks. Anyone with the resources can create a time machine now.
Helena is sick of this. She puts herself in the machine and goes back to her 16th birthday when her parents gave her a truck and she drove it to the convenience store. The description of this happening is spectacular. Its like shes killing her 16 year old self. So good.
Helena 10/15/1986 pg 237
Helena is happy to be back with the young healthy versions of her parents. She's worried she might forget why she's here. She writes herself a note in her journal that she's got 32 years to stop the climate.
Book 5
Barry 4/16/19 Pg 245
Barry and Helena live several lifetimes together and they never really get any better. Lifetime after lifetime they try to do something different but it always ends the same way. Nuclear holocaust.
This changes a little when one lifetime Helena doesn't find him at a bar in Portland Oregon to start their life together.
They talked about Portland earlier in the book, but i assumed it was Portland Maine because in the next sentence they mentioned his grandparents in New Hampshire.
Instead he does what he did in his first life, move to New York and live his whole cop life with a dead daughter and everything. But when he gets his memories back he calls Jee Woon, who confirms a theory of Barry's that at some point, Slade figured out how to go back without everyone else getting dead memories. But he doesnt know how.
a few lifetimes later helena gets the idea to kidnap Slade. In that life they're near San Francisco and Slade and Barry watch San Francisco get all blown up. In that moment Slade tells Barry the secret. You have to jump back into a dead memory. Also to stop all this they have to go back to the beginning. Back to when Slade first used the chair.
Barry Antarctica pg 298
Barry is in a research station. His memories start to come back and he recognizes Helena on a TV screen. She tells him to wait till AL his memories come back before he watches the next part of the video. She tells him she's dead.
Barry is planning to commit suicide and gets a good start at it after he sees the news that nuclear Armageddon is happening.
But then he remembered what Slade said. Go back to the beginning. He used the chair on November 5th 2018. Barry has to go back and stop him.
Barry pg 311 November 4th 2018
He's back at the brunch at the beginning of the book with his ex wife as they celebrate his dead daughter.
Lots of real emotional stuff at that brunch.
Barry November 5th 2018 pg 322
I guess he flew from New York to San Francisco last night. He goes to Slades apartment. He tells him the short story of what happened. Slade tries to shoot him with a gun. Barry snuck in earlier and replaced the bullets with empty shells. I guess he kills him. Hes got plenty of real bullets. That scene just sorta cuts off.
He goes to a bar where Helena is. He sits next to her. That scene also cuts off and that's the end of the book.
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