500 things we learnt from Timecop

2. TEC code 40.8 subsection 9 is "time travel with intent to alter the future" which is punished by immediate execution. And there are 8 subsections that are more important.

3. Although altering the future is a crime (punishable by death), TEC agents travelling back in time wear uniforms from 2004 with patches on the shoulder that say "Time Enforcement Commission" thereby altering the future by letting people see futuristic clothing which also suggests IN WRITING the possibility of time travel.

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Even if it just blows out windows and starts fires leaving the structure itself standing never throw the bomb in the backyard, instead run down the stairs in a dramatic fashion while carrying your dying pregnant wife...then again throwing the bomb out back, covering her body and gently carrying her out afterward would just be way to easy.

When traveling in the past to make yourself rich, secure funds...etc. Just don't get greedy and no one can track all your movements even if they run an entire governmental department in the future to do so.

12. In the future when all cars drive themselves, they'll still need headlights.

13. When you have time traveling abilities and need to kill someone, travel back just ten years when they have bad-ass martial arts abilities; it would be too easy to pick them off with a sniper riffle when they're in grade-school.

14. Uzis don't kill horses.

15. A person traveling in time will only retain the memories from the past they originated from. When they return, they will magically re-consolidate with the potentially altered non-time-traveling version of themselves, inconveniently overwriting the memories created as a difference between the two histories, thus ending up as some poor amnesiac who hasn't a clue what has been going on for the past ten years. Don't worry, it's in the TEC Technical Manuals.

18. Houses & cars in the future look hideous.
19. Max doesn't bake cookies for a living.
20. A special rocket car is needed to go back in time but all that is needed to go back to the future is a handheld computer.

Never interrupt Senator McComb when he's talking to himself.

Don't tell anyone Palmer killed you, He's on bail.

Does McComb look frozen to you?

You're allowed to have a life, it's in the manual.

Tomorrow might have been a brighter day.

23) Time Traveling cops have no debriefing after the end of their mission so none of their co-workers know what they just came back from or why they were out time-travling in the first place.

24) Futuristic guns and dead bodied can be left littering the area wherever fight scenes take place and it doesn't radically alter the timeline, even of the dead bodies who could very well be the 10-year-older version of anyone who encounters them.

25) Even though people know that "same matter cannot occupy the same space", they can luckily bet that this only means it'll result in the two same pieces of matter melding into each other in a giant grotesque pink column rather than destroying the universe or something.

26) Similarly, when two piece of the same matter are about the share the same space, clothing and guns do not act as "shields" in any way, making it possible for a clothed person to simply pass through a gun held up by someone.

27) Even though all the cells in your body replace themselves every 7 years, your body (including your clothes and your gun) are all considered the "same matter".

28) What turns a horny computer dweeb into a guy who straightens up and flies right (but is still a computer expert) was the fact that some random Senator didn't get bought out at a computer chip company during the formative period of said computer geek's youth, 10 years ago.

29) A woman who tries to kill you several times is someone you can now trust (and trusts you) once you come visit her in the hospital.

30) Telling your past wife that she's dead in the future is a big no-no. However telling her all about time travel is A-OK and has no bearing on the future.

31) Even though your superiors tell you specifically not to go after a powerful senator, you can count on your next case getting interrupted by said senator just completely coincidentally being the bad guy who shows up for it.