a sci-fi thriller series starring Timothy Hutton as a physics professor who discovers evidence predicting his own murder five days in the future, launching a race against time to uncover the truth behind fate, time travel, and free will.
Physics professor J.T. Neumeyer is celebrating his daughter's tenth birthday, as well as mourning the tenth anniversary of the death of his wife who died giving birth. While at the cemetery, J.T.'s daughter Jesse finds a futuristic briefcase with "Professor J.T. Neumeyer" on it behind her mother's headstone. J.T. thinks that it must belong to some other "Professor J.T. Neumeyer" (despite the unlikelihood that such a person would also live in Seattle and have paid a visit to the same grave), and attempts to open the combination-locked briefcase to discover more about its owner. He finally succeeds by entering his daughter's birth date. Upon opening the briefcase, Neumeyer finds a police file complete with photos, newspaper clippings, and evidence detailing his brutal murder five days in the future.
To determine whether or not the future can be changed, J.T. tries saving the life of a woman who, according to the pictures from the future, is also suppose to die in the following few days.
Since the material from the future states that J.T. is going to die in a local nightclub, he decides to leave town before the supposed day of his death arrives.
J.T. changes tactics by attempting to appease or in some other way prevent anyone with the motive to kill him from getting a chance to do it on the fateful evening.
As all his plans to avoid his grim fate backfire and put both himself and his family in even more danger, J.T. is forced to improvise and hope that, just for once, a twist of fate can work in his favor as well.
