There is an abundance of heroics going on here, but arguably, future Muri is the one who saved them all with her initial plan. So, Muri engineered the toxin, Dan brought it back to the present, Emmy came up with the theory that the aliens could’ve been here long before the attack, Dorian provided the claw, Charlie analyzed the claw, Dan’s student solved the “volcano mystery,” Dan’s dad got the team into Russia, and they killed the alien bastards together. However, Muri’s plan is to send Dan back with a vial of the toxin in the hopes that he can save the world in the present day, effectively creating a new timeline at the expense of hers. While Muri and Dan do eventually engineer a toxin that could eliminate the aliens completely, they’re too late to save the world in 2051-the creatures have overtaken the base and all is lost. The scientists from 2051 have built two rafts on the river, one thirty years ahead of the other, and as far as time-traveling goes, they’re only able to hop between the two rafts.

It’s explained in the movie via a simple visualization: Time flows ever-forward, like a river. Unlike most time travel movies, The Tomorrow War doesn’t linger too long on its time travel logistics. Shocked by the news that he’s essentially destined to abandon his family, Dan commits to helping Muri in the future in hopes of changing the trajectory of his own life and timeline for the better. She tells him that she plucked him from the past because she needed the father she knew before he went off the deep end, when he was the hero she remembers adoring as a child. Naturally, this resulted in Muri harboring a great deal of resentment for the man he became.

She reveals to Dan that, in her timeline, he eventually separated from Emmy and left the family, falling into a deep depression that ultimately leads to his death in a car accident. After the rescue mission in Miami, Dan comes face-to-face with his daughter Muri (Yvonne Strahovski), all grown up and leading the resistance against the aliens.

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