Editing Timecop (section)

==Plot==
In 1863, in [[Gainesville, Georgia]], a time traveler armed with futuristic weapons slaughters five Confederate soldiers and steals their shipment of gold bullion.

In 1994, following the invention of time travel by Dr. Hans Kleindast, the U.S. Department of Justice funds the creation of the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) to prevent alterations to the past. While users cannot travel to the future, as it has not yet occurred, they can change the past, creating ripples that reshape the present. Senator Aaron McComb volunteers to oversee the TEC, while police officer Eugene Matuzak is appointed its first commissioner. Police officer Max Walker is offered a TEC position, but before he can accept, he and his wife Melissa are attacked by unknown assailants. Walker is left for dead while Melissa is killed in an explosion.

By 2004, Walker, now a veteran TEC agent, travels to 1929 to arrest his former partner Lyle Atwood, who is using future knowledge to profit from the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|stock market crash]]. Atwood confesses that he works for McComb, who has been secretly funding his failing presidential campaign through illicit time travel. Fearing McComb will erase his family from history, Atwood refuses to testify and is executed by the TEC. When McComb visits the TEC, Walker subtly implies his suspicions about him.

After surviving an ambush at his home by McComb’s henchmen, Walker is assigned a new partner, Sarah Fielding. They travel to 1994 to investigate a time disturbance and discover a younger McComb being bought out of a computer chip company by his partner Jack Parker. The 2004 McComb arrives to stop the deal, warning his younger self that the chip will soon be worth billions. He also cautions against physical contact, as the same matter cannot occupy the same space. McComb kills Parker, and Fielding betrays Walker, revealing she is working for McComb. In the ensuing shootout, McComb wounds Fielding and escapes to 2004.

Walker returns to a heavily altered 2004, where McComb is a wealthy presidential frontrunner and has shut down the TEC to eliminate interference. Walker convinces Matuzak—who is unaware of the timeline changes—that they were close friends. They deduce that McComb is using Kleindast’s original time travel prototype, and Matuzak helps Walker return to 1994 before being killed by McComb’s guards. McComb concludes that Walker must be erased from history before he ever joined the TEC.

In 1994, Walker finds a recovering Fielding at a hospital, and she agrees to testify against McComb. However, before he can secure her, she is murdered. While reviewing hospital records, Walker discovers that Melissa was pregnant when she was killed. Realizing this is the day of her murder, he tracks her down, reveals he is from the future, and convinces her to stop his younger self from leaving for work that night.

That evening, McComb's henchmen attack the younger Walker, but both Walkers and Melissa fight them off. The 2004 McComb arrives, takes Melissa hostage, and threatens Walker with a C4 explosive. Accepting that he will die in the blast, McComb is confident that without Walker's interference, his younger self will become president. However, Walker reveals that he has lured 1994 McComb to the house. He pushes the two McCombs together, causing them to merge into a writhing, screaming mass before disappearing from existence. Walker carries Melissa to safety before the house explodes, leaving her beside his unconscious younger self.

Back in 2004, Walker finds that Matuzak and Fielding are alive and that McComb disappeared in 1994, erasing his future crimes. Returning home, Walker discovers his house rebuilt and is reunited with Melissa and their young son.