Frequency [2000]
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The film is set in New York City during October 1999. John Sullivan (Caviezel), a 36 year old homicide Detective, is still traumatized over the death of his fireman father, Frank Sullivan (Quaid), thirty years ago. Living in the same house where he grew up, he discovers his father's ham radio following a breakup with his girlfriend Samantha (Melissa Errico) and begins transmitting.
Because of unusual aurora borealis activity, John discovers he has managed to make contact with his father exactly 30 years in the past the day before his death in a warehouse fire. John is able to warn his father of the fire that would have otherwise taken his life and although Frank initially disbelieves that John is his future son, he heeds John's advice when he realizes that John accurately described the outcome of both Games 1 and 2 of the 1969 Major League Baseball World Series, which had yet to be played when their initial conversation takes place.
In the next conversation, Frank is momentarily occupied and allows 6-year-old John and his best friend Gordo to talk to John on the radio, who, knowing the adult Gordo is into finance and the stock market tells him to remember "a magic word": Yahoo, telling him it's like "Abracadabra".
Having saved his father from the fire, John now creates a new timeline, while paradoxically retaining his memory of the old. The following day, in this new altered timeline, John discovers that Frank had died of lung cancer from chain-smoking and John's mother Julia Sullivan (Elizabeth Mitchell) was murdered by a serial killer. In the old timeline John's mother left her job as a nurse at a hospital to attend to Frank's funeral arrangements, but in the new timeline, she remained at work and was present to save the life of a man who is later revealed to be the "Nightingale Killer", a man who would have died that night from being given a lethal mix of Benazepril and Benadryl had she not been there to correct the error. In the erased timeline, the "Nightingale Killer" had killed only three nurses before his death, with the corpse of one victim not being discovered until 1999. Having been saved from death, he goes on to kill a total of ten women with Julia being sixth.
Using information from 1999 Police files on the impending six killings, John and Frank work together across the gap of time to stop the murderer in 1969 and save Julia. Frank successfully averts the murder of the first expected victim, but when he tries to prevent the next, he is attacked by the killer in a nightclub bathroom and his driver's license is taken from his wallet. When he regains consciousness, Frank rushes to the woman's apartment only to find he is too late.
But all is not lost. John realizes the killer's fingerprints are now on Frank's wallet and John tells his father to seal the wallet in a bag and hide it in the house under a floorboard where it will remain untouched for 30 years. Once Frank accomplishes this, it suddenly appears in 1999 in the same spot. John retrieves it, takes the wallet to the crime lab and learns that the fingerprints belong to a now-retired Detective named Jack Shepard (Shawn Doyle). After learning that Shepard's mother is dead in this new timeline when she was alive in the first timeline, John realizes that she's yet another one of his victims, but no one made the connection as Shepard hid the fact from authorities. However, with his driver's license having been planted at the latest murder scene by the Shepard, Frank becomes a suspect of the murders and is taken in for questioning by his Police Detective friend (and John's later boss), Satch DeLeon (Andre Braugher).
At the station, Frank is confronted by Shepard but electrocutes him and then triggers the fire alarm to escape the station. Later searching for evidence in Shepard's apartment, Frank is caught in the act by Shepard and chased to a stockyard. With Frank's accurate prediction of the outcome of the World Series (specifically, batsman Cleon Jones' "shoe polish" hit incident) provided by John thirty years later, Satch is finally convinced of the truth about Shepard and Frank is cleared of all suspicion after a fight in which Shepard is presumed drowned. However, John knows this cannot be true because his 1999 family photo still shows his mother absent, meaning she was still murdered.
That night, while father and son are talking on the radio, Shepard suddenly breaks into the Sullivan household, both in 1969 and 1999 at the same time and a brutal fight occurs in both time periods in which 36-year-old John is overpowered by Sheppard and 6-year-old John is held hostage. Thanks to Shepard being distracted by the struggle over the radio and an attack from Julia, Frank manages to blow off his hand with a shotgun, causing him to flee. In 1999, Shepard's hand suddenly shrivels and vanishes before his eyes and the inside furnishings of the house suddenly change as well. From the shadows comes Frank, alive and aged and shoots Shepard again, killing him as he attempted to fire back. In this final timeline, Frank neither died in the warehouse fire nor from having lung cancer, upon quitting smoking 30 years earlier at his son's request.
The film concludes with a neighborhood baseball game in 1999. Frank and Julia are there, along with John, the girlfriend who had left him in the original timeline and is now his pregnant wife and his son, Frank. The film shows his best friend Gordo playing outfield and chasing a hit baseball. It smashes into the headlight of Gordo's Mercedes-Benz and we see the personalized license plate that says "1Yahoo", telling the audience that John's single-word advice about Yahoo 30 years earlier has paid off. As John wins the game with a home-run that allows both himself and Frank to score, a montage is shown of John's life with his parents in the new timeline.
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