Traces in time

A policeman from 2193, Darien Lambert ( Dale Midkiff ), sets off in 1993 to catch and bring back to the XXII century more than a hundred escaped criminals hiding in the XX century, where they were transferred using the Trax time machine, invented by Dr. Mordechai Sambi (Peter Donat) scientists from the XXII century. Lambert is assisted in capturing the fugitives by his Micro-Pellet Projection Tube weapon (a three-button mini energy pistol disguised as a car alarm) and the SELMA computer ( Russian “Selma” , an abbreviation from “Specified Encapsulated Limitless Memory Archive” - Russian specific encapsulated unlimited archive of memory , voiced by Elizabeth Alexander ) disguised as a credit card.

According to the series, a game was created with the same name for the SNES console.

• June 15, 1993 - Darien Lambert arrives in the past.
• 2129 - Fair War.
• 2142 - first contact with the alien race of the Procardians through radio transmission.
• August 17, 2160 - Birth of Daryen Lambert (At the beginning of episode 2-20, another date is 2157).
• 2164 - Hemisphere War.
• 2169 - birth of Elissa Channing-Knox.
• 2178 - Lambert enters the International Police Academy at West Point ; Dr. Mordakai Sambi of MIT receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for his theoretical work on teleporting particles.
• 2193 - Lambert takes a leap into the past.

Season One

• 1x01. “A Stranger in Time (Part 1)” (“A Stranger In Time (Part 1)”)
• 1x02. “A Stranger In Time (Part Two)” (“A Stranger In Time (Part 2)”)
• 1x03. “To Kill A Billionaire”
• 1x04. “Fire and Ice” (“Fire and Ice”)
• 1x05. Revealing Cards (Showdown)
• 1x06. The Prodigy

The boy runs 100 meters in 8.86 seconds ... Is this possible? Yes, if he is from the future! Lambert understands this while chasing another runaway, accidentally learning about this record. Met with a boy in the town where he lives, Darien becomes his friend. Suddenly, his father appears, a fugitive from the future, who stole him from his mother and took him with him to the 20th century. He is very rude to Darien and takes his son away from him by force. Subsequently, he sees a drawing drawn by Lambert for a boy - a building from the future, and begins to understand that Daryen is a policeman and he will send him back to the XXII century if he finds one more ... He decides to flee the town with his son, after having robbed the bank. Darien appears at the very last minute, sending him back to the future and taking away the boy from him.

• 1x07. “Death Takes A Day Off” (“Death Takes A Holiday”)

Fugitive - an Italian mafiosi drug dealer of the 22nd century.

• 1x08. Challenger (The Contender)

A fugitive comes to Lambert and asks for help to return to the future his son - a famous boxer. In order for him to agree to return, he must be defeated in a boxing match.

• 1x09. The Night of the Savage

Lambert arrives in London to find a maniac killer from the future, drinking blood, and meets a reporter who agrees to help him in the search.

• 1x10. Treasures of Ages (Treasure of The Ages)

A fugitive treasure hunter obsessed with the idea of ​​finding a treasure of centuries.

• 1x11. “The Price of Honor”

Lambert is trying to help the state. US Secretary who is being blackmailed by a fugitive from the future.

• 1x12. Face of Death

Lambert climbs into the Peruvian jungle to find the culprit.

• 1x13. Revenge

The Nazi gang is announced, led by a fugitive in time.

• 1x14. “Darien Comes Home”

USA. Illinois State Chicago. Brothers Zachary and Josh Eliot were wanted in the XXII century for computer theft of money from bank accounts. In our time, they hired a young guy, a talented programmer, a computer cryptologist to find the password for entering ... the main computer of the US Treasury Department. Darien is hired by an assistant. Darien also visits the area where he will be born in the future. But he doesn’t find here a single house or institution that is familiar with, except for Sheperton’s restaurant.

• 1x15. “Two Beans in a Wheel”

Darien gets a new partner, a female police officer from the future named Eva Thorne. Together they track Sambi.

• 1x16. “Lost Boy” (“Little Boy Lost”)

A man sends his deaf and dumb boy to the forest.

• 1x17. "The Mysterious Stranger" ("The Mysterious Stranger")

Lambert travels to Mexico to arrest Alvin, a fugitive convicted of drug crime.

• 1x18. “Framed”
• 1x19. Songbird (Beautiful Songbird)

Due to the delay at the airport caused by the transfer of time, Darien does not have time to fly away. At the airport, he accidentally encounters a singer who has not yet become famous, but of which he himself is a fan. Subsequently, it turns out that she is being pursued by a certain G.R. He is a maniac who has holographic recordings of her concerts from the future and is obsessed with the idea of ​​making her a superstar without any effort on her part. Darien learns that he is the next fugitive ...

• 1x20. “Photo Finish”

Salma discovers that history has been changed at several horse races in Australia.

• 1x21. Darrow Lawyer for Defense (Darrow for the Defense)

While Lambert finally gets a tip on Sambi through one of his accomplices and prepares to find out his last known location, he meets Laura Darrow, a lawyer from the 22nd century, on the threshold of his house.

• 1x22. "One on One" ("One On One")

Dr. Sambi lures Darien into an old mine (where Sambi has a laboratory). He forces Darien to commit suicide by pumping him DXP. Thanks to the help of Salma (which was not taken away by Dr. Sambi before Lambert’s capture), and the splinter in the finger (the pain of which helps Darien to some extent resist DXP), Darien escapes death and escapes from the laboratory a few seconds before her explosion.

Season Two

• 2x01. "Return of the Yakuza" ("Return of the Yakuza")

The head of the Yakuza, whom Lambert managed to catch in the XXII century, fled to the XX century.

• 2x02. "Missing" ("Abduction of Selma").

Robbers attack Darien near the gas station, stunning him and taking his wallet with Selma from him. Having woken up, Daryen, together with a policeman who arrived at the scene, begin to search for Selma thanks to the “footprints” she leaves (gas station explosion, small natural disasters). The robbers, realizing that strange things have happened since they robbed Lambert, decide to burn Daryen’s wallet with Selma in it. Darien arrives at the very last moment, saving Selma from the fire, and his partner arrests the robbers.

• 2x03. “To Live or Die in Docker Flats” (“Live and Die at the Docker Mines”)

A search for some missing fugitives leads Lambert to a small village in the middle of the Docker Plain.

• 2x04. “A Close Encounter”

Salma receives a signal from an alien ship in distress. Although Darien and Selma are surprised, after all, the Procardians made contact with the Earth only in the year 2142, they are sent to the site of the UFO crash near a small town. Near the crater, they find a luminous humanoid boy who can understand English but is not able to reproduce human speech. Selma translates his answers. It turns out that a few years ago, a research group of Procardians visited Earth, and his wife was accidentally left. Despite the quarantine imposed on the Earth, he flew in to look for it. Unfortunately, the alien inadvertently wounded a local hunter, leaving him in a coma, and the local population gathers a crowd to hunt him. In the end, Darien finds out that the local dumb waitress is the alien's wife, reuniting the couple and pacifying the locals, claiming he works for SETI . Realizing that the Procardians will not return to Earth for the next half century, he sends them to the future, where delegates from Procardia are expected to arrive.

• 2x05. “The Gravity of it All”

A scientist from the XXII century - Dr. Carter Buck - invented an anti-gravity belt that gives a person the opportunity to fly like a bird. With his acquaintance, he is going to show it in public, but during one of his flights he is noticed by Darien and finds him a teacher at a local university. Buck shows Darien a belt, explaining that he is absolutely safe to fly, and Darien flies in it for a while. Subsequently, Lambert returns to the house of Buck, finding with the help of Salma that he forgot his jacket, and finds the house empty. Thanks to the transmitter built into the belt by the doctor, Lambert pursues the abductors of Buck and his inventions all the way to Mexico and, having freed the doctor from captivity and having lost the belt as a result of the explosion, he escapes from there together with Buck, defeating the leader of the gang of kidnappers and notifying the Mexican authorities about what happened.

• 2x06. Happy Valley

A fugitive from the future sells houses in a cottage town. Those who wish can purchase a house. But for some reason, some residents are going crazy or they are very uncomfortable. It turns out that the seller of real estate with his girlfriend is a scam. Purchase documents fully enter into force only after 2 years. And the task of the attackers to get the money is $ 50,000 (initial deposit), since the contract says that if the buyers do not live in the house for the prescribed time, then the money will not be returned. In the sales office in the basement there is equipment that emits special waves and, if desired, you can send them to any home. Radiation acts on sleeping people and causes nightmares and terrible visions when a person wakes up later ...

• 2x07. Lethal Weapons (Lethal Weapon)

Darien explores a weapon from the future that was used in a bank robbery.

• 2x08. The Cure

Dr. Maria Mills, suffering from an incurable disease, meets Dr. Lemish, who promises to cure her.

• 2x09. “Perfect Pair”

Lambert is looking for a fugitive and is preparing to send him to the future; however, the other person shoots the offender, burning him completely.

• 2x10. “Catch Me If You Can” (“Catch Me If You Can”)

Lambert follows in the footsteps of the criminal, but he walks away from Darien and teases him, leaving notes.

• 2x11. “The Dream Team”

Darien has been supporting the NBA player since his time.

• 2x12. “Almost Human”

Sambi creates an android - a double of Lambert and sends him after Darien.

• 2x13. “Mother”

The pursuit of a scam from the future led Darien to Bradwell's shelter. He suspects that the woman who works there is his mother.

• 2x14. “The Last MIA”

During the pursuit of a fugitive, Darien is shot. He is under the care of an army veteran, Ev Rankin. Rankin needs the help of Darien to free his son, who went missing in Cambodia.

• 2x15. “Split Image”

A robber is spotted during a crime, but he takes out his weapon and instantly freezes the guard.

• 2x16. "Cool Hand Darien" ("Cold-blooded Darien")

The criminals who robbed the bank in the XXII century hide in the XX century and get a colony of prisoners under their control, forcing them to mine platinum. One of the criminals is the inventor, thanks to the invention of which - a round plate with a supply of energy implanted in the chest and causing severe pain to a person with a special wand directed at it - the entire population of the colony was turned into slaves, including one of the criminals who decided to get out of the “case” . Lambert calls the wife of this criminal and asks for help in investigating the staged death of her husband. Darien decides to infiltrate the camp and finds himself (despite the fact that he managed to hide that he is a policeman from the future) with prisoners, having survived the operation to introduce a circular plate. After torture and beatings by the criminal administration, he, having miraculously survived, finds the person he was looking for (later it turns out that he was framed in the future and he is not a criminal). With the help of Selma, deactivating his plate, he raises a rebellion with him in the colony. Later it turns out that in the mine where platinum is mined, its owners, fleeing the state department check and wanting to hide all the “traces”, lay a bomb ready to explode ... At the last minute, Darien, his acquaintance and prisoners managed to escape, and the leader of the gang and his accomplices die in a blast.

• 2x17. "The Lottery" ("Lottery")

Lambert discovers that his favorite comedian from the future is in the present. In addition, he wins a large amount in the lottery.

• 2x18. Out For Blood

An innocent woman becomes the target of a killer from the future who wants to nip the clan of her girl’s killer.

• 2x19. “The Scarlet Koala”

Lambert is looking for a rare Scarlet Koala, whose blood is needed to stop the future plague.

• 2x20. Optic Nerve

Lambert is attacked by a criminal from the future who blinds him in retaliation.

• 2x21. “The Crash”

Lambert is quick to capture the next fugitive, but the offender says that he is just a little bastard compared to his boss, and that he is ready to bring Lambert to him.

• 2x22. Forgotten Tomorrows (Forgotten Tomorrow)

The witness in court suddenly loses his memory, and Lambert suspects unfair play. While investigating, Lambert is attacked with the same weapons that make him forget who he is.

• Footprints in Time on the Internet Movie Database