Crime Traveller: Difference between revisions

''Crime Traveller'' was a short-lived British television series from [[The Nineties]], created and written by [[Anthony Horowitz]]. Police detective Jeff Slade discovers the existence of a time machine (maintained by Holly Turner, daughter of the inventor) that can be used to travel up to a day into the past. Slade teams up with Turner and [[They Fight Crime|they start using the machine to solve crimes]] by visiting crime scenes ''as the crime is occurring''.

 

* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: It's not known what would happen if a time traveller met himself, but it's taken for granted that it would be bad. Probably a good idea.

* [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]]: Averted. They're not trying to explicitly change history, just learn more about the details of any mysterious/uncertain case, so it could get properly investigated.

* [[The Slow Path]]: Since the time machine can only be used to travel into the past, the traveller can only get back to the "present" by the same method as everybody else. Good thing it's got such a short range, eh?

** Of course, the physics of time travel do mean that anything that changes you between departure time and being at departure time again resets, such as the cut to the forehead that Slade receives in the first episode. Even if you do age after a time jump, you will revert back to the age you were to begin with.

* [[They Fight Crime]]: He's an ordinary London police detective, she's a police science officer who inherited a time machine created by her father. Together, they solve cases by travelling back in time.

* [[Time Travel]]: In theory, it's all [[Stable Time Loop]] and [[You Already Changed the Past]]...but in practice, slip-ups by the writer sometimes result in [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] moments. Oh, and you cannot travel into the future, since it hasn't occurred yet (unless you travel to the past and catch up with the point of "present" you departed from).

 

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