

David sees an elderly Jim outside a window but Jim refuses to speak with him. David finds that he himself never returned. Jim had also returned and had been chastised and hospitalized after telling the truth about temporarily visiting 1984. She says that the Eldridge had reappeared minutes after disappearing. Jim's wife Pamela, who is now a senior citizen, immediately recognizes David from 1943. Learning that they are near Jim's birthplace, California, David decides to try to find his family. David and Allison then evade military police, who have arrived to take David into custody. Jim, who is suffering increasingly severe seizures, is hospitalized before disappearing from his hospital bed in a flash of light. They are tracked and apprehended by the police.

Confused by their surroundings, they are shocked when Allison tells them that the year is 1984. Fleeing to the parking lot, they take a woman named Allison hostage and force her to drive them away. An energy discharge from Jim destroys two arcade games, forcing an altercation with the owner. Eventually they find their way to a roadside diner. Startled by the appearance of an unfamiliar aircraft (a helicopter), they flee and Jim is nearly electrocuted by an electric fence. They land during the night in a small town, which also disappears, leaving them marooned in a desert. David and Jim's attempts to stop the experiment fail and they jump overboard to escape. Doctor James Longstreet and his team conduct an experiment to render the ship invisible to radar but a malfunction causes the ship to disappear. In 1943 United States Navy sailors David Herdeg and Jim Parker serve aboard destroyer escort USS Eldridge, docked in Philadelphia Harbor.
