Things we know:

Dan is a newspaper reporter.
He was in love with Livia [Moon Bloodgood], still is, but she disappeared from his life in 1997 when the plane she was on crashed.
Dan and Livia were engaged.
He is married now to Katie....and has a son, Zack.
Dan gets hurled back in time.
Dan is a good man; when faced with the opportunity to make love to Livia again, in one of his trips back in time, he stops himself when he sees his wedding ring and says "I can't"...and leaves.
Dan's brother, Jack, is a cop.
Dan's wife, Katie, used to be his brother's girlfriend.
Livia is a time-traveler too.
Livia seems to know more about the 'purpose' of the time-travel trips.


Things we don't know:

How is Dan transported back in time?
Who or what is causing the time-travel trips?
And why?
Is Livia trapped in Time?....In Dan's timeline, she is presumed dead....so where does she live now?
Who is 'Eddie'?
[Dan's wife Katie asked if he'd been "hanging out with Eddie again?"]
Will Dan be hurled into the Future?
Will Dan get in trouble in the past, trying to spend the money in his pockets that's from the future?


Miscellaneous Stuff we've learned:

It's bad to be driving when you are suddenly hurled back in time....your car will become projectile.
Cell phone transmission gets cut off when you get hurled back in time.
You have to be careful about running into yourself, when you go back in time.



Anyone else have anything to add?
I have probably left something out.
And please feel free to add things as the Series progresses.

We also know:

When Dan is on his "trips" present time continues to move forward without him
The purpose of the trips is to do "good"
Dan's pretty smart [hiding the "new" wedding ring in the past so he can later dig it up]
Katie was jealous of Dan and Livia


Other Miscellaneous Stuff we've learned:
Hiding a anniverssary ring in the past to be found in the future is a great way to say I'm sorry
When you go back in time 10 years most people won't recognize that you've aged

Just a heads-up. We will probably merge this thread a little later, with the theories thread, so we can keep facts and theories together. You guys are off to a great start laying out the facts we know, don't know, and how it might eventually help us understand what's happening to poor Dan.

Thanks!

hey thanks for da info.....

Okie dokie.
I thought about puting this info there, in the Theories thread...
But I figured that that thread was just for, you know, theories.

Oooo...good ones, Almack.


Yeah, that's a problem.
Poor Dan.
I guess it would just be too easy if he got plunked back down right where he left.


And according to Livia...you will screw up...that's part of it.
Whatever that means.


Yeah, that was brilliant wasn't it?
Dan's getting the hang of this little time-travel problem that he's being plagued with.


Oh yeah she was.
I noticed that look too....like she wanted Livia gone.




Yup...it worked great.
But it sure made a mess in the back yard.


Thank you!
I wasn't going to mention that.
[I guess we're not supposed to pick at that one, heh. ]

They're fine being separate for now, and may stay that way. We'll just see what directions the discussions take us.

They may be trying to keep production costs down, but I would have put more into the details of his travels, like clothing, hair and makeup. When Dan took his own place at the table, not only would he have aged, but his hairstyle (hopefully) would have changed. And why didn't his friends notice he had different clothes on?

Dan is a good man; when faced with the opportunity to make love to Livia again, in one of his trips back in time, he stops himself when he sees his wedding ring and says "I can't"...and leaves. - Guest123


when I saw that scene - MY first thought was, WHAT if he's, ya know..."right in the middle of the act" when he hurls back to his own time, LOL!

I think lucky for him he was wearing almost the exact same type clothes, blue jeans and white button down shirt.

It appears as if not only does time keep moveing while he is away on his trip, but it appears to move twice as fast. (He was gone for one day when he had no shoes and pants and when he came home she said he was gone for almost two days)

More info to prove Dan is very smart: He went to sleep fully clothed with shoes on at the ned of the episode.. Oh and the ring thing under the patio was perfect, simplely brilliant.

Dan's brother is a major @#$@#!@#$^@#$^&*

Yes, there is definitely a story there, one that involves Dan's wife.

I agree.
Jack said something to Dan, like..."I wouldn't do that to a brother".
That seemed like a dig, at Dan marrying his ex-girlfriend.
We don't know how Jack and Katie broke up, but most guys would have a problem with their brother marrying their ex-anything...girlfriend, wife, whatever.

Dan is a human GPS. Otherwise, it was just plain lucky for him he broke up the deck directly over the EXACT Spot where he had buried it in the past.

I think he planned on it being under the patio. He stopped and looked around like he was useing trees or other landmarks to get his location right, no GPS, just smart. My dumb *** would end up needing a back hoe to find the ring. The movers and the lawers would be there first.

I noticed that too. I guess whatever moves him through time ages his appearance appropriately

We also learned citrus explodes.

Wrong, his appearance does not change. That is kinda dumb.

Wow! That is sooooo coooool!

You mean hunk? I think Reed Diamond is cute.


I know - how funny was that??

Yeah...what was up with that?
Makes me wonder how Livia came to know that.
Did she just happen to have an orange in her pocket one time when she went back in time?


Other stuff we now know:

- Livia somehow knows when she is about to leave a time-trip.

- Katie broke up with Jack....and he wasn't happy about it.

- Homeland Security doesn't like it when a passenger leaves a plane in mid-flight.

Here's some questions I'm waiting for the show to reveal. Anyone can add some more.

1. Why is JM travelling, mechanism and why him?
2. What is Livia's state (dead, in time travel limbo, a figment, or just a computer program..etc)
3. How did JM ended up marrying his present wife who was his brother's ex.
4. Does JM's son have a significant role to play soon?

I'm guessing that by 'JM', you mean Journey-Man, DanVasser/Kevin McKidd?

Yup....these are the major questions....the 'big unknowns'.
Especially your no.1 on your list up there.
How are Dan & Livia being hurled back in time?....And why them?
And who or what is determining which people are the ones that they go back in time to help?


Here's something we now know, common to both Eps 1 & 2:

- The persons that Dan ultimately ended up helping....Neal Gaine's son & the Pilot guy....were both people who saved the lives of other people.

- The persons that Dan starts out 'tracking' have been the ones who led him to the person who was the ultimate purpose of his time-trips....sort of like bread crumbs....leading him to the people he was sent back to help.

Why was livia on the plane that crashed? I don't know about you all but in the pilot when she came home to future Dan she looked like a flight attendant(her clothes at least). Dan does say she is an Assistant D.A. though. Also why would he tell not to stress school so much?

Dan thought she had been on the plane that crashed, but we don't know the purpose of her trip, or later why she got off.

Remember when he saw her in the cafe, he didn't yet know she was really still alive and time-traveling like him. He still thought she had a relatively short life to live, and was offering her the best advice he could knowing that.

The term 'journeyman' itself was used years ago to imply a level of expertise within a trade or occupation.
You started out as a 'novice', and worked to reach the level of 'journeyman'.
I think that the sequence was:
Novice-Apprentice-Journeyman-Expert-Master

Dan started out as a novice, in his first time-trip.
Then he quickly learned things in each trip which have helped him subsequent trips.
Livia appeared to him, and gave him advice....
Was Dan her 'apprentice'?
Is Livia an 'expert'....or a 'master'? She has been doing this time-travel a long time.
That's something we don't know yet.

It's like Dan reached 'journeyman' level in Ep1.
Dan is a quick study.

After Ep3, we now know....

- Dan and Katie got married 7 years ago, 2 years after Livia 'died'.
- Katie was 'there' for Dan, consoling & helping him to deal with losing Livia...this is probably how they became close.
- Livia was a time-traveler before she ever met Dan....and didn't tell Dan about it.
- Livia didn't answer Dan's question about how long she's been a time-traveler.
- It's 3 for 3 now....the people that Dan is supposed to help, have all gone on to help other people.


Things we still don't know....[There are a lot!]...

- How long was it after Livia 'died' that Jack and Katie broke up?
- Has Dan been assigned to Livia as a sort of 'apprentice'?...She is showing up a lot on his time-trips.
- Who or what is calling the shots on these time-travel-trips?
- Where does Livia live? What time period does she go back to? Or is she stuck in time-travel mode now?

Why does he ask any questions about what is happening to him? Why doesn't he try to find out from Livia?

I agree but it seems two things are against this right now. First externally, at the moment the producers/writers wants to lead us down further to future episodes by piecemealing explanations. Secondly, in the story itself, the first time Livia saw Dan she seemed to have given him a tacit warning on how to procede within the time he's been trasported to. She too is piecemealing explanations while seemingly controlled by a higher force. What this "force" is, hopefully we'll find out later. One theory I could think of is maybe for a traveler to be assured of returning home is for him to succesfully fulfill his mission. Failure to do so would strand one to that time, until he does fulfill it. Maybe this is why Livia was able to stay with Dan for awhile. Her mission probably was fulfilled with the plane crash she was involved in. Probably this is why she disappeared shortly thereafeter.

In Episode 2 when Katie and Jack were talking on the sidewalk, Katie said to Jack, "That was 8 years ago."

Thank you!
I thought she said "7 years"....but the closed captioning said "8 years"....so I wasn't sure.
CC has made some small errors on occasion, so I decided to go with what I thought I heard.
I was hoping that someone would comment on this.

Okay.
So, Katie and Dan got married about a year after Livia disappeared.
And we still don't know when Katie and Jack broke up.
If Livia disappeared on Dec. 31st, 1997....then, that is almost 10 years, isn't it?
I hope they give us more to go on about this.

I just remembered something.
In Ep1, it was Dan & Katie's wedding anniversary....right?
Did they show the date on anything? Because I wasn't looking for it then, so I didn't notice.
Anyone notice?

If we knew the date of the wedding, then....
Wedding Date + 8 years back = about how long it was since Dec 31st '97, when Livia disappeared.

The reason that this bugs me [the amount of time it took for Katie to switch from Jack, to Dan] is because I've seen so many guys have a huge problem with their ex-anythings* hooking up with a brother or close friend.
And Jack seems to be fairly okay with it.



*[By "anythings", I mean: ex-wife, ex-girlfriend, ex-object of affection, etc....I've seen brothers get pi$$ed off at one another over a girl that one of them liked, but hadn't asked out, and the other brother asked her out.]

-It seems like Jack still has feelings for Katie.

-Now Livia knows Dan married Katie, and Katie knows Dans has seen Livia. Neither seem to be very happy with those revelations.

-It seems like Dan can't do what he wants on the trips. He wanted to try to save his boss's sister but that lawyer just kept on popping up in his path.

-Not sure if its been mentioned but Dan takes with him whatever is physically in his possession when trips

Questions:

-I would what is the largest object he could take with him, could he cause another person to come with him?

-Would there be a way that Dan could show somone else the effects of his traveling. Clearly having someone live that should have died years ago has more effect than just them saving someone else.

-If Livia has been tripping for years what time period is she really from?

-Why did she stop for such a long time?

When Katie was talking to Jack, I took it to mean she broke up with Jack 8 years ago, and married Dan 7 years ago. She was talking about Jack being still bitter.

Jack is a well played Jerk. I just can't stand his character. He gives me the creeps. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some pretty heavy skeleton's in his closet as well. He comes off as all righteous, but I'd love for him to be a dirty cop or something.

So, okay....the most time that could have elapsed between Jack & Katie's breakup could be 1 year, maybe 1.5 years more or less.
I've known guys who were pi$$ed off forever because a brother, or best friend, got envolved with a woman that they were once envolved with.
So I'm thinking that there is still a part of the story that we don't know yet.
Something that would explain why Jack seems to be mostly 'okay' with Dan & Katie being together.

Those are big ones.
And also:

- How old is Livia, really?

And it seemed like Dan's feelings for Livia sorta changed a little bit, when he learned that Livia had been time-traveling before they met...and she hadn't told him about it.
I hope Dan tells Katie about that little revelation.

We know that a headache preceeds the journey and we know from the first show that other people can see the warp that happens to space as he journeys.

Ep 4:

We now know

-Livia knows (at least sometimes) when she is going to run into Dan. When Dan asked her who she was waiting for, she ansered something like no one now. So she was waiting for Dan and knew he was going to be there.

-Katie knows that Livia travels like Dan

-No one in the past still notices that Dan has aged or Livia (Katie talks to future Livia)

-Dan's trippping is really affecting Katie to the point that she's accepting support from Jack.

-Dan's boss is completely clueless


More Questions

- Has Livia killed somone before during her travels ("I't like the wild west...")

- Who is this specialist that was able to call Dan in the past and what connection does he have with all of this.

- Why is Jack such a pr!ck

This part had me really interested and curious last night. Does this man have some connection to what is happening to Dan? I am sure he does. I thought that was really weird how he called him like that. I can't wait to see more.

And Livia does seem to know what she is doing. Why can't she just clue him in? Unless, she is being told not to.

It's all about the TACHYON!! Dan talked to a professor (who works with tahcyons) who called him in 1998 eventhough Dan only talked to him in the present. Its more intriguing that the professor said that he knew Dan's dad!! Maybe this may explain why Dan is travelling.

With a quick Google search I found http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_tech/node142.html which says,
'Tachyons and Time Travel
Special Relativity states that nothing that is moving initially slower than the speed of light can be accelerated to exceed the speed of light. This is not strictly speaking the same as the statement that nothing can travel faster than light. It is in principle possible that particles exist which move faster than light from the moment they are created. If such particles did exist, however, Special Relativity implies that they could never be slowed down to velocities below the speed of light. The existence of such particles, called tachyons, has not been totally ruled out, but several experiments have tried, without luck to detect them. If they did exist, and they interacted with ordinary matter, it would give us the means to communicate with the past. Tachyons could literally be sent outwards, bounce off a tachyonic mirror, and return before they were sent. This in turn would give rise to a great many logical problems. For example, if you sent a message back in time that caused your grandfather to be killed before your father was conceived, then you would not be around to send the message that prevented your birth, so that you would be around to send the message, so that you wouldn't be around....etc.'

So we are definately moving towards a technical reason for the travelling rather than a mystical one.

- Katie also now knows that Dan sees Livia "all the time".

- Dan's father was named 'Frank' and he worked for 'The San Francisco Register', too...before Dan.

- Elliot Langley:

- Works at 'Livermore Labs' in Livermore, California.

- Said about Dan's father: "Frank and I go back a long, long way...we met when I was at NASA."

- When Dan asked about going out to Livermore to see Langley, Langley said: "I think you'd have some clearance issues"....This implies that Langley is working on a high-clearance project.

- Langley calls Dan while on a time-trip, on Dan's older cell phone.

- Jack is the older brother....he referred to Dan as "little brother".

- Jack hasn't been dating. And....he seems to still have a thing for Katie.






- Do tachyons cause headaches? Is that what's causing Dan's headaches?

- How did Langley get Dan's older cellphone number?

- Did Langley screw up?

When it starts to dawn on Dan, that Langley is calling him in the past, and Dan starts to question this....then Langley suddenly claims that he is "having trouble hearing him"....and quickly hangs up.
Was that a 'Woops' on Langley's part?

Livia told Dan: "We do what we have to".

- Was she referring to her & Dan as 'we'? Or does this mean that there are more time-travelers that Livia is aware of, or knows?




I am so glad they finally gave us this big clue about 'What could be causing the time-travel?'

Yup....and I am glad of that.
I would rather it be a technical reason.

But, another thing that we 'Don't Know' is....Who is choosing these people that Dan needs to help?

In the first 3 episodes, the people that Dan helped ended up being people who would go on to help other people.
But it Ep4, we weren't shown that Melissa and Neil, the people Dan helped, went on to do anything altruistic.

True, the company she and her ex founded was the software for people to day trade at home..

Is that so people can spend more time at home with their families??

I think we are looking at chain reactions throughout the season, maybe that software was used for something else the benefits society??

I dunno...'day trading' has messed up some people's lives too, when they blew all their savings.
Maybe the cop went on to help people?

In the future, Dan looked these two people up, and Melissa was dead and the cop's career was ruined because it had seemed like he killed her.
Dan changed all that.
We really weren't given any more info about what happened to them after Dan changed it, not like in the other episodes....unless there was a scene that I totally missed?

I see they are signed for two episodes, so they must be coming back at some point

hahaha! I can see the beginning of this episode now. Katie throws Dan a orange for breakfast, while he's on his way to work, Dan throws it in his pocket. Gets to work or wherever, gets his headache,
bamm, time travels, orange explode in his pocket, liva comes up behind him or whatever,
says, "I told you!"

I have a feeling that ALL of the things we have been noticing the past episodes will be coming to a head in the season finale (if this show doesn't get cancelled before that).

Hopefully we will get better ideas in the finale about:

1. Livia's own time travel adventures, what really is her role around Dan. Is she as "lost" as he is with regards to time travelling. Does she know more and just won't say anything.
2. The roles of Langley and this new scientist. They know more than they are telling Dan.
3. Is there still some feelings between Katie and Jack, and for that matter
4. Is there still some feelings between Dan and Livia?
5. Is it really the Tachyons? I'm still wondering where Dan initially got the idea that tachyons might explain his time travels. I reviewed the episiode where it was first mentioned and it seemed like it just came out of the blue when Dan asked an assistant to help him about the matter.
6. Is Dan's son even his own? Its a crazy idea but I'm just throwing around things here. What were Katie and Jack planning to do in the hotel anyway when Dan overheard their conversations?
7. And finally, talking about offsprings - Does Dan have a child with Livia...somewhere in another time?? Anything is possible.

Our hero has been fortunate whenever he's been transported in time in that there's been no serious injury, apart from an incident in a car, and few questions by others, considering the number of times he's traveled.

He also seems to be fortunate in his choice of clothing when he does take a trip.

However, we haven't been shown his reactions yet should he suddenly find himself moving through time while taking a shower, occupying his ceramic throne or in the throes of a passionate embrace.

Turning up naked on the streets of San Francisco wouldn't be unusual for that city, but I'm sure he might find it a bit embarrassing, to say the least. Not to mention explaining it to the people who are around when he makes the trip back to the present.

One of those scenerios may be in an upcoming episode, so I heard.