Come Again?
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Seven Days: Season One: Come Again?
Jonathan Axelrod, the world's expert on cold fusion, calls some guy on the backstep team (forgot his name) and says he has important news. Unfortunately, he gets sick on his way to the site and runs off the road. Parker backsteps to rescue him and find out what the important breakthrough was. Parker and Olga stop Axelrod from eating the tainted sandwich and let him drive off. However, some guy runs Axelrod off the road anyway, killing him. When Parker calls in to report, he is suddenly transported to a point in the time travel just before he arrives at his destination. After convincing trhe team that he is not insane, Parker and Olga save Axelrod. They almost make it before Parker loops again, but are delayed because Axelrod's fiancee's ex-husband shows up and starts shooting. (Typical Jealous lover reasons.) Parker loops again, and he and Olga head through the whole sequence again, this time much faster and much more irritated. Just when you thought this was over, the fiancee's ex-husband shows up again and manages to shoot Olga. Parker stops the backstep people from fixing the malfunction that created the loop so the timeline he's now in won't happen and Olga won't die. He loops one last time (I promise!), arrests the ex-husband, saves Axelrod, and they all go to Nevada to enjoy the wedding.

Sorry if this plot summary is a bit long! I'm new at this.

I actually like this show! Aside from the technobabble explanation for the loop, I thought the episode was pretty good. And if this aforementioned technobabble malfunction was so important, why wasn't it detected sooner, like maybe the moment it occurred?
By Scott Neugroschl on Thursday, October 22, 1998 - 10:06 am:

I thought this was a fun episode... I particularly liked the scene between Parker and Olga at the end in the wedding chapel.

If the time machine (does it have a name?) lands in the same place it takes off from, doesn't that cause a problem with muliple objects at the same point in space-time?

Of course, when he comes back, we have the "butterfly" effect described in episode 1, and quantum randomness causes a "many-worlds" split off of the universe, causing everything to be different.

I caught it about 20 minutes in, so I missed the technobabble explanation... what caused the loop? And why were there white roses in the time machine?

By Aaron Nadler on Friday, October 23, 1998 - 6:37 am:

The reason why the loop continued was because when he backstepped originally, the system didn't close up the hole in the space-time continuum that the backstep machine causes, allowing the sphere to travel back in time. Since the s-t continuum wasn't closed, he continued to travel back over and over again until the Backstep Tech Support guys closed it. The white roses were for Olga-- he learned that they were her favorite (in the future) and he wanted to use that to his advantage.

By Richie Vest on Friday, October 23, 1998 - 11:09 am:

I noticed in this episode the Head guy (played by Alan Scarfe) said he authorized this Back Step. In the other two he said someone else had so i guess this would be a changed premise.

By Scott Neugroschl on Friday, October 23, 1998 - 2:14 pm:

What about Ramsey? Doesn't he come off as (even more of) a jerk in this episode? Hasn't he realized yet that Parker may actually know what he's talking about? Yet when Parker calls, telling him that it's an emergency and the time loop must NOT be fixed this time through, he futzes around, and then CASUALLY saunters over to the lab... What is his problem, anyways?

By Matt Nelson on Sunday, November 15, 1998 - 6:38 pm:

Yay! I'm the first one to post this! In the scene where Olga gets shot, Axelrod's fiancee' calls Frank "Jonathan!" Really loud! For those of you who don't know, that's the ACTOR'S name! And, even if it WERE his name, how would she know his name? She didn't have time to find out his name in the previous scene; Axelrod immediately gets out of the car, starts kissing her, and then Frank and Olga go right into their dialogue. Either way, OOPS...

M@

By K.N.D. on Monday, November 16, 1998 - 5:11 am:

This sounds like the famed "Carrie" nit from Star Wars. ( Luke gets out of his X- wing,
very excited. He sees Leia (played by Carrie Fisher) and yells "Carrie!" :-

By Jack B. on Thursday, December 17, 1998 - 8:59 pm:

This is the first episode I saw. Here's one nit I saw: Parker and Ogla end up working together on all the times through. When Parker first backsteps, he claims that future-Ogla said that he and Ogla should work together. However, he makes no such announcements in the other loops. So why does she go along?

Question: Did Jack actually try to poison the cold fusion guy? It seems a little out of character to me.

By Knd on Friday, December 18, 1998 - 10:51 am:

It's "Olga" to you, Mister. (Sorry to be so trivial, but the other spelling looks like a
cave woman name.)

By Jack B. on Friday, December 18, 1998 - 3:00 pm:

Oops, sorry...

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