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Without time moving, Jonah finds himself losing motivation to do anything. He tries to think about the right answer between past or future, but he does not want either one. Finally, Jonah gets the idea to separate the adults and have groups of kids talk to them away from each other. He and Katherine ask Angela what to do, but she does not know.

Angela clears up many of Jonah’s questions about time travel and how time works. People cannot go back and forth through time however they wish. She defines the paradox of the doubles, how a person cannot “live through a particular time more than once” (300). She also says that since the plane crashed when it was not supposed to, the last 13 years are damaged time, and people could only travel to points of damage, “places where the pain of the time damage was most intense” (301). Angela herself is contaminated; JB told her that she would have married a plumber and had five kids if the plane had not appeared that day. She further explains that JB gave Jonah the files from Reardon’s office to increase the damage so he could get closer and travel to more points in time.

While Jonah and Katherine puzzle out all the implications of how time got messed up, the group of kids talking to Gary untie him. Gary convinced them the future was a better choice. Gary grabs the Taser from Chip, Tasers Katherine, and gets the Elucidator. Gary starts the process of returning the kids to babies. Katherine confesses she is not Daniella, thinking it will stop Gary and Hodge. It does not.

Jonah attacks Gary. Gary throws him off easily, but Jonah manages to grab the Elucidator. He tosses it to JB, who sends Hodge and Gary to time prison before sending kids back in time. When JB points the Elucidator at Chip, Jonah and Katherine latch onto Chip. Jonah manages to grab the Elucidator, and then he, Chip, and Katherine are in the nothingness, hurdling toward “a vague hint of light” (312).

JB yells at them through the Elucidator. The three are on their way to the 15th century, and JB says Jonah and Katherine cannot go because their presence will damage time too much. Jonah doesn’t care. He demands that JB tell them how to bring everyone back to the 21st century. JB refuses, so Jonah proposes a deal. If they can fix the 15th century, JB must let Chip come back to the 21st century, and if JB does not let them try, they will “mess up time even worse than Hodge and Gary did” (313). JB agrees, and the book ends with Katherine, Jonah, and Chip landing in the 15th century.