That's when Jason makes a big realization-it was the Jason from this universe who kidnapped him.

This device is based on the theory that every choice we make in our lives, big or small, leads to the creation of a parallel version of ourselves-and a whole new parallel universe. There, Jason learns that he was responsible for inventing a box capable of travel between parallel universes. He drags Jason back to the facility, which we now know to be called Velocity Labs. What else was going to happen? Their post-getting-it-on bliss is rudely interrupted by a man who bursts through the front door and shoots Daniela. In her memory, Jason had broken up with her when she told him she was pregnant-the complete opposite of what Jason remembers.Īnyway, Jason and Daniela hook up. Ryan gets upsets and storms off, but Daniela is intrigued. After the event, Jason attends a party at Daniela's apartment and comes clean, telling Ryan and Daniela everything he remembers about his life from before the kidnapping. Huh? Even more oddly, she seems to have a thing going on with Ryan Holder.

Oddly, she acts like they're not married. Jason checks out the trippy installation piece and finds Daniela. After some research, Jason finds a phonebook listing for Daniela under her maiden name, and he learns that she's putting on an art exhibit. He returns to his home but doesn't find any sign of Daniela or their son Charlie. He gets freaked out and sneaks away through a window. Even weirder is the fact that everyone there seems to know him. When he wakes up, Jason is in an advanced scientific facility. The kidnapper injects our hero with a strange substance, and Jason passes out. One night, after attending a celebration for his former colleague Ryan Holder, Jason is kidnapped by a masked bandit and dragged to an abandoned power facility on the South Side of Chicago. His wife, Daniela, was once an artist, but she put her dreams on the shelf to start a family with Jason. Jason Dessen is a happily married former research scientist.

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