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Question - how did this happen?

posted 11 years ago by JoeyBagOfDonuts
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In the pilot episode, when that captured ... Can't remember his name... And he was in the jail cell, when he licked the envelope which had TXP in it, he vanished into the past. How did this happen without him being in the Trax machine?

[–] timmytony80 8 years ago

I see this is pretty much a dead board.

[–] stugood-07006 8 years ago

Plothole?

[–] Tjanssen411 8 years ago

I'd need to re-watch but I thought they explained it...

much like when Darian sends them Home, the combination of the TXP and the transmission tone activates the 'leap'

[–] PaladinNJ (21524) 6 years ago

I thought it was established that the machine could be used over distance as well as time. Sambei only jumped into the machine because he hadn't directed it at a target. Unfortunately he killed his hostage in the process.

[–] PaladinNJ (21524) 6 years ago

Rewatching now on DVD. The Trax machine has to be on either the sending or receiving end to work. In the case of Sepp Dietrich Sambei used the machine to pull him out of the cell. Then he sent him into the past on another transmission.