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Shaken by Claudia's revelation, J.T. attempts to run a secret ballistics test on the gun she carries in her purse. Meanwhile, the results of the other tests are coming in. Tim Sanders says the crime scene photos and clippings are authentic, even if they are technically impossible. Brad reports that the briefcase is, without a doubt, from the future, made of a super-strong, ultra-light material that will make them both rich beyond their dreams if only J.T. will let him reverse-engineer it.
Carl, meanwhile, emerges from a frantic all-nighter with an unsettling conclusion: Not only does physics indicate that J.T. will die on Friday, but Carl has predicted that the universe will be irrevocably damaged if he does not. Just when it seems things can't get worse, J.T. meets Roy Bremmer, whose people have been spying on J.T. and Claudia. The crime boss has a proposition: If J.T. hands over Claudia — or, as Bremmer knows her, Angela — J.T. and Jesse will be allowed to live. But if J.T. warns Claudia or helps her get away, none of them will survive.
Faced with this threat, J.T. decides that running from fate might be better than trying to change it. He takes Jesse out of school and heads to the airport, determined to leave the city where he's supposed to die. Before he can leave, both Claudia and Sikorski find him. Sikorski has more information. Not only is Claudia not who she appears to be, but J.T.'s brother-in-law Brad is bankrupt and desperate, maybe desperate enough to kill for the briefcase. Sikorski wants J.T. to stay home, where he can protect him. But J.T. isn't willing to take the chance.
Despite nagging questions about Claudia's motives, J.T. invites her to join him and Jesse on the next flight out. But their escape is short-lived. The plane is turned around when authorities fear a passenger has SARS — and everyone is transported to a hospital to be quarantined. Could the isolation ward be the safe harbor J.T. was seeking? Maybe ... but just as he's beginning to feel a bit more secure, Dan arrives to announce that the SARS alert was a false alarm and the quarantine has been lifted.
That news, however, is not nearly as unsettling as what J.T. sees as he leaves the hospital: Passing through the E.R., J.T. notices a dead body on a gurney. It's Mandy Murphy, who he saved from the falling tree. Fate, it seems, can be delayed, but not denied.
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5ive Days To Midnight (2004) - 1x03 - Part Three