01x02 - T. P. Apprentice

[bunniefuu]

[bells jingle]

[chimes tinkling]

[pop]

[funky adventurous music playing]

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon ♪

Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon ♪

Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Bon, Bon ♪

Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Come on ♪

[upbeat retrowave music playing]

[music fades out]

[funky adventurous music continues]

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon ♪

Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon ♪

Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Time Patrol, Bon, Bon, Bon, Bon ♪

Come on ♪

Come on ♪

Bon, Bon ♪

- Come on ♪

- [music fades out]

[somber music playing]

[Bon] I'm

[hesitates] relevant to history?

I'll be joining Time Patrol?!

- [mother] Bon.

- [Bon gasps]

[murmurs]

[mother] Bon.

- Bon?

- [woman] Bon.

Mr. Bon?

We'll be landing in Dubai shortly.

Were you able to get any sleep, sir?

[adult Bon] Yes.

I was dreaming about my youth.

Yet, I went halfway around the globe

during that short nap.

What an amazing age we live in.

[flight attendant laughs]

And it's all thanks to you, Mr. Bon.

Your invention saved humanity

and changed the world.

- [Bon chuckles] Hmm.

- I am so honored to meet someone

- Hmm.

- who made such an impact on history, sir.

[present-day Bon] Hmm. [chuckles]

I'm gonna be someone

who changes world history.

I'm gonna be in schoolbooks.

[sighs, giggles]

[clock ticking]

Hmm?

Eleven?!

[lock clacks]

I'll see you later! Have a nice day!

I mean, really, Mom.

Why didn't you come wake me up?

I had thought things would be different

now that I've become a Time Patrol agent,

but everything's exactly the same

as it was yesterday.

T・P APPRENTICE

[panting]

Class must have started hours ago.

Huh?

Who's that sitting at my desk?

[teacher] This is an important formula.

- Hmm?

- You'll be using it a lot.

- So be sure to memorize it.

- [Yoko giggles]

What? Who the hell is that?

Huh?

[grunts] Hmm?

SLEEPYHEAD

I don't get it.

WAIT IN THE BATHROOM NEXT TO THE ENTRANCE

But something weird

is definitely happening again.

- [footsteps approach]

- Mm.

Yo!

Aah! But But

- That's right. I'm also Bon Namihira.

- You're another version of me!

Look, I made an excuse to leave class.

Now give me your bag

and get back there already.

But how the hell did you

No time to worry about that now.

We don't want the teacher

to get suspicious.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, uh

Ta-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!

- This is so much fun!

- Huh? Huh?

And so, we're moving on

Namihira, you need to go

to the bathroom before class.

I'm sorry, sir.

[whimsical music playing]

I'm glad I wasn't marked down as late.

But what is going on?

I wonder if those Time Patrol agents

are behind all of this.

Hmm.

[birds chirping]

And where did they go?

It's like they just disappeared.

The girl,

did she say her name was Ream?

And what was the name of that thing

that was flying around again?

[Buyoyon] Uh Buyoyon.

Yeah, that's right. It was

[gasps]

- Hey there, Bon. What's up?

- [chuckles]

Hey, Ream!

I thought you'd forgotten all about me.

Adding a new member is no easy task.

[scoffs] I've been busy with preparations.

So does that mean

I'm an official Time Patrol member now?

No. You're an apprentice.

You haven't even been trained yet.

[Ream] I'll be your instructor.

And that means, we'll be working together

as a team for a while.

- [snaps fingers]

- Come on out!

- [rustling]

- [Time Boat whirs]

It's just been hiding there

this whole time?

So does it come out

whenever anybody calls it?

[Ream] No, it only responds

to my voiceprint.

It's time to gear up.

This is the Forgetter.

You should put it on.

Anything else?

[Ream] I can't give you

everything at once.

Stingy.

Hey. You're not a permanent member

during your apprenticeship.

So stop complaining.

[Ream] Press the red button

to activate it.

[trills]

The Forgetter is a device that erases

anyone's memory of the Time Patrol.

Time Patrol members must always

turn it on while they're in action.

That's the rule,

and you must always follow it.

- [boy] Hey! What's up, Namihira?

- [Bon] Hmm?

Look at that thing.

Is that a new go-kart model?

You dog.

Guess I just ruined your plans

for a joyride with that pretty girl!

What? You got the wrong idea!

Just go away!

Oh, I'll go.

I'll go tell Furuta about this.

He's gonna love it.

Why did we have to get found out by him?

That guy's the worst blabbermouth

in the whole school.

No worries. That's exactly

what the Forgetter is for.

FURUTA

- [knocking]

- [boy] Furuta! Furuta!

You're not gonna believe what I just saw!

- Answer the door!

- What?!

What is so important?

You have to come see

what's going on in the park.

And why's that?

Uh, it's something

Uh Uh

Uh, what was it exactly?

Uh Uh [grunts]

[Furuta] Go away!

[Ream] The right handlebar

is for spatial traveling,

and the left handlebar

is for time traveling.

The left pedal starts the boat,

and the right pedal activates the brakes.

Where are all the gauges?

There aren't any.

The computer handles that stuff.

You just sit down and grab the handlebars.

The weak electric current

that passes between your brain cells

will then flow directly into the boat,

and the computer will decide

where we need to go next.

Hop on, and I'll show you

how it all works.

[Time Boat whirs]

- Off we go.

- Off to where?

We'll go somewhere

you're familiar with first.

[Time Boat whooshes]

Guh.

We traveled to my room.

- [Bon 1 snoring]

- [Bon 2] That's me asleep in bed.

[Ream] We traveled back

to eight o'clock this morning.

- [Bon 1 snores]

- [father] Is Bon still in bed?

We better wake him up

or he'll be late for school again.

[mother] Well, I'm not doing it today.

It's the same thing every morning.

No matter what I do to get him up,

he goes right back to bed.

- It's time he learns the hard way.

- Hmm. Well, I guess it can't hurt.

Hey! Snap out of it, sleepyhead!

It's clearly not working.

You're just gonna have to go to school

in his place this morning.

[Bon 2] What?

- [Bon 1 murmurs]

- [Bon 2] Oh! I get it.

Then we'll swap

once he finally shows up in class.

This is awesome.

Once I become a Time Patrol agent,

I'll never be late to school again.

[giggles]

Hmm?

Class must have started hours ago.

SLEEPYHEAD, WAIT IN THE BATHROOM

[Bon 2] Oh. Ahem. Excuse me.

[teacher] Yes, Namihira?

May I

May I go to the bathroom, please?

Ta-ha-ha-ha-ha! This is so much fun!

This time traveling business is a breeze.

I'm gonna work as hard as I can

to become a full-fledged member

of the Time Patrol.

NAMIHIRA

I'm back!

Welcome home!

Huh? Hey there. Where's Ream?

She decided to go home

and get some homework done.

Really? So then, she's a student too?

[Buyoyon] Yeah, she's a lot like you.

Just another person

from a time period in history

who's been assigned

as a Time Patrol agent.

It's a shame she's not here.

I wanted to go

check out the French Revolution

and figure out

how I could save Marie Antoinette.

- [Buyoyon] Absolutely not!

- [gasps]

Read this right now!

TIME NAVIGATION LAW

"Time Navigation Law." Okay.

[Buyoyon] Read chapter one,

article one out loud! Go!

"Time Patrol must not save an individual

if that person is known to have had

an influence on the flow of history."

I remember Ream saying

something like that too.

So I heard that I was spared

because I'm going to be

relevant to history.

Tell me about my greatness.

Am I an awesome genius?

No. More trivial than awesome.

[scoffs] Forget about it.

Hey, that's a seriously

patronizing attitude

for someone

who's a flying mutant jellyfish.

Humph! A mutant jellyfish?

How dare you slander me!

I'm a creature

who transcends time and space!

[grumbles]

Wah!

[Buyoyon] You've clearly got

a lot to learn, so start studying!

[Bon muttering wearily]

Come on.

Do I really have to read all of these?

[Buyoyon] You have to read

and memorize them.

If you can't do that,

you'll never cut it

as a Time Patrol agent.

[Bon groans]

- [Time Boat whirs]

- Sorry about the wait.

Oh, hey, Ream.

What's going on?

- I have to give this back.

- [Ream] Hmm?

[Ream] Memorize it?

- [Buyoyon] Uh-oh.

- [Ream] Who in the world told you Aha!

Ouch! It's not my fault he believed me.

[clanks, whirs]

Let me show you

the compressed learning system we use.

Put all the books you want in there.

[uplifting music playing]

- [beeps]

- This cable has electrodes.

Attach them to your forehead.

- And now what happens?

- [beeping]

- [whirring]

- Hmm?

[murmurs anxiously]

Something's coming in!

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!

All right. Input complete.

Tell me about chapter three, article 56.

- What does it say?

- What?

You can't possibly be serious, right?

Mm. Actually, wait a second.

Article 56.

"Time Patrol agents must never

use the time machine

in the pursuit of wealth."

That's perfect.

Can you explain the segmentation

of reversible time?

Sub-spatial pops caused

by five-dimensional oscillation.

Describe the principles of the Timeceiver.

It uses the waves

from the trans-dimensional medium

called Dimentron.

- [Buyoyon] Hmm.

- [Bon] This is incredible.

- I really know all that stuff now.

- [Buyoyon] Mm-hmm. [chuckles]

Om. [chewing]

Wow! So you spend your normal life

in the world of 2056?

I do. I'm in the third year

of middle school.

- No one knows I'm a Time Patrol agent.

- [munching]

[gasps] I think I'm in love.

- Om.

- Hey. I've kinda been wondering.

- Is that thing also a Time Patrol agent?

- [slurping]

Nah.

It's just a creature that tags along

with me when I go on missions.

I never asked it to come along,

but it's quite helpful, sometimes.

What are you guys talking about?

About what an outstanding member

of Time Patrol you are. Right?

- [Buyoyon] I sure am.

- Outstanding.

- [Timeceiver beeps]

- [Ream] Mm.

A command from headquarters!

We got a mission?

[whirring]

[Ream] September 15th, 1947.

This is Hana Yamada.

She lives in the Koto area of Tokyo.

She drowned in the flood

caused by a typhoon.

- We're going to go save her life.

- Let's do it.

This will be your first assignment.

She's not far

from our current location or time.

Do you wanna try driving the Time Boat?

Sure thing. I'm ready.

- [pedal clacks]

- [Bon] Engine's on.

[Time Boat whirs]

[Buyoyon chuckles]

[Bon] Let's go!

[Time Boat whooshes]

[epic music playing]

[Bon] Nineteen

What year was it again?

It was year 22 of the Showa era.

That's the same as 1947.

We're here.

That was well done for a first-timer.

[wind whistles]

[Bon] There's nothing but rubble here.

[Ream] That's because the Second World w*r

only ended two years ago.

Uh, Bon, aren't you forgetting

something important?

Huh? Oh.

My bad.

[trills]

[Ream] I'll drive from here on out.

We need to hurry.

[music fades out]

[rain pelting]

[Bon] All the road signs are in English.

[Ream] Japan was still occupied

by the Allied Powers during this time.

[Buyoyon] It's really

coming down hard now.

Let's find her on foot.

[Buyoyon] I'll go on ahead!

[Ream] Buyoyon has good intuition.

It's useful in situations like this.

[whizzing]

Has everyone evacuated?

I think so. But I can't vouch

for Mr. Kinoshita or Mrs. Yamada.

- [man 1] Okay then. I'll go check on them.

- Hmm.

[Ream] This area is called

the Zero-Meter Zone.

The elevation is at sea level here,

so it tends to get flooded very easily.

You know a lot about this place.

- It's the compressed learning.

- Huh.

[whizzing]

[hurried footsteps approaching]

- [curtain rustles]

- [man 1] Mrs. Yamada!

Oh no.

Where could she have gone?

Why would she go out in this storm?

[murmurs]

Mrs. Yamada!

Well, hello there.

[tender music playing]

Why are you so panicked?

I was concerned.

Where have you been?

[Mrs. Yamada] I went grocery shopping

and then to the station to pick up my son.

You went to get your son?

[Mrs. Yamada] I waited a long time,

but he never came.

Maybe he decided

to take shelter somewhere.

Now, listen to me.

You should evacuate

to the elementary school

while you still can.

[Mrs. Yamada] I do appreciate

you looking out for me,

but there's no way

I'm leaving this house anytime soon.

I have to make dinner.

From the way it's coming down,

this whole area's gonna be

underwater before dawn.

Now, now.

Why would I leave when my son

will be coming home any minute?

He'll be so disappointed

if he arrives back

- only to find that I'm not here.

- [man 1 sighs]

[man 1] So you've heard from him, then?

[Mrs. Yamada] No.

Not since he was drafted three years ago.

But I can tell, you see. I just know.

I know that my son is definitely alive

and that he's coming home soon.

[man 1] I understand that's how you feel.

But the truth is

that you can't outrun water.

There's gonna be a flood.

I'll be just fine once my son gets here.

I'm sure he's had a tough time out there,

and he deserves a good home-cooked meal.

[sighs]

[man 1] Just get to higher ground

when the storm gets worse.

- Please don't stay here!

- You know what?

I'm gonna go grab that woman

and make her evacuate.

[both gasp]

- Don't go!

- Why not?

- [grunts]

- [Buyoyon] The Time Navigation Law!

Oh. That's right.

Chapter five, article one states,

"Never exert physical force

upon the rescue target."

Yep. And that rule's gonna

give you headaches from here on out.

We have to save the target

in the most natural way possible.

- [rain pelting]

- [thunder rumbling]

[Bon] Floods are awful.

When my grandpa was little,

his house was washed away

by a massive typhoon.

[Buyoyon] They gave this typhoon

the name "Kathleen."

It submerged the entire

southern part of the Kanto region.

[Ream] And?

Did you find his current location?

Oh no.

- [Timeceiver beeps]

- You've got to be kidding.

- [sighs]

- [Bon] What's wrong?

I asked headquarters

to check on something.

A ship arrived in Uraga.

And sure enough,

Mrs. Yamada's son was on it.

Great. Then he should be almost home.

He couldn't get on the train.

It was already too full.

He's sleeping in the back of a truck

that pulled off the road for the night.

- Huh?

- He must have been exhausted, fell asleep.

He probably couldn't wait

to get back home.

But when tomorrow comes,

he'll find his mother is gone,

along with everything else.

No way.

No, we can't let that happen to him.

Why are you just sitting there

like you don't care?

Stop yelling at me!

This is breaking my heart,

and I'm trying to come up with a solution.

[grunts]

[grumbles]

- [Buyoyon] Emergency! Emergency!

- [gasps]

The river is overflowing.

- It's gonna flood!

- [Bon gasps]

[Time Boat whirs]

- [Bon] Mrs. Yamada! Mrs. Hana Yamada!

- [pounding on door]

You need to evacuate!

This house is going to get

washed away soon! Please!

[Mrs. Yamada] Yes, yes.

I appreciate your concern.

But please don't trouble yourself

worrying about me.

I'll be fine.

Soon I'll be reunited with my son,

and he'll take me away from all this.

- Mrs. Yamada!

- Dammit.

There's no way he'll get here in time,

unless he can fly or something.

[gasps, grunts]

- That's it.

- [Bon] Huh?

We're going to make that man fly.

Uh

[Time Boat whooshes]

[Ream] Uraga, here we come!

[dramatic music playing]

[wave crashes]

[man 2] It's breached!

- The levee is breached!

- [tree trunks cracking]

[man 1] Evacuate now! Evacuate!

[timber cracking, clattering]

[water rushing]

[suspenseful music playing]

[Time Boat whirs]

Are we sure that's the right truck?

- [Buyoyon] There's a man's sleeping in it.

- [Ream] Zoom in a little closer.

[whizzing, trilling]

[Ream] That's him.

[whizzing, trilling]

Press the Gravity Canceler.

- Gotcha.

- [beep]

[metallic groaning]

[truck whirs]

- Whoa.

- We gotta hurry.

[suspenseful music continues]

This doesn't seem right.

We're supposed to use

the most natural way possible.

[Ream] It's fine

as long as it looks natural.

And there's nothing unusual

about the truck moving while he's asleep.

[Bon] What if someone sees?

[Ream] The Forgetter

will take care of that.

We just have to put the truck down

near Mrs. Yamada's house.

- [man 3 grunts]

- Oh no. He's waking up.

What do we do?

[Ream] Bon, take the Time Controller

and turn the Time Lock on.

- Wait, what? Why me?

- Here.

[murmurs nervously]

Bon, just grab it.

Come on! You know how to do this.

You did the compressed learning!

- Huh?

- [Ream] Do it!

- We're running out of time.

- [music intensifies]

[man 3] Huh?

- Time Lock on!

- [thrum]

- [music fades out]

- [zap]

[Time Boat whirs]

[rain pelting]

[Time Boat whirring]

I can't see her house anymore.

[Bon] Was it washed away?

Let's put the truck down

where the water isn't too high.

[crash]

[Bon] Time Lock off!

[thrum]

[Time Boat whooshes]

[man 3 grunting softly]

[gasps]

What in the world's going on?

[Bon] Mrs. Yamada!

Mrs. Yamada!

- Mrs. Hana Yamada!

- I found her!

She's down over here!

- [Buyoyon whizzes]

- [Time Boat whooshes]

[both gasp]

[Bon] Mrs. Yamada!

Now that we've located her,

let's move her closer to her son.

Yeah. Use the Gravity Canceller again.

[trills, beeping]

[Ream grunts]

It's blocked. There's a branch in the way.

- I'll go move it!

- [Buyoyon gasps]

[Ream] It's not safe!

- [branch crunches, snaps]

- [panicked murmuring]

[yelps, grunts]

[sighs]

[dramatic music playing]

[grunting]

[strains, grunts]

[strains, grunts]

- [branch snaps]

- [Ream gasps]

- [Bon straining]

- [branch creaking]

Ah!

Try to do it now!

[trilling, chimes]

[Ream] We got her!

[whizzing]

- [triumphant music playing]

- [Bon] Hmm. Mm.

- [music fades out]

- [water rushing]

- What am I supposed to do?

- [truck rattles]

Huh? Whoa. Whoa!

[murmuring anxiously]

[breathing heavily]

[murmurs in disbelief]

[rain pelting]

Could that be Mom?

Mom!

[Mrs. Yamada groaning feebly]

Huh?

[man 3 grunting]

I'm coming, Mom!

[grunting breathlessly]

- [Mrs. Yamada] Taro?

- [Taro grunting]

- Uh.

- [water splashes]

[gasps] Taro, it's

[whimpers, groans]

- [tender music swells]

- [Mrs. Yamada] Oh. Oh.

[Taro grunting]

- Mom!

- Taro.

[grunting breathlessly]

- Oh, Taro. [gasps]

- [Taro] Oh!

Oh, Taro.

[crying]

[whimpers]

[tender music continues]

[Bon] I'm so glad they're both okay.

[Ream] Yeah.

And now that they're together,

our mission is complete.

[Time Boat whirs]

So how would you grade

your first assignment?

I think I did just great.

I'm on my way to being

a permanent member of Time Patrol.

- [gasps]

- Whoa!

Somebody's getting a bit

ahead of themselves.

I think your next step

will be an assignment in a time

that's much, much farther away from yours.

[Time Boat whizzing]

Boy, I am totally beat.

But, you know this is a nice kinda tired.

- Hmm.

- [music fades out]

- [mother] Bon!

- Guh!

[dramatic sting]

Your father and I work hard

to set a good example for you every day,

and you repay us

by coming home covered in mud?

There will be no dinner for you

until you finish your homework.

[Bon, whining] But I've been

working hard too.

[bird squawking]

["Tears in the Sky" by Lena Leon playing]

[music fades out]