He Can See the Future.. But Only When They Put Him in the Jacket

[00:00:00]It was the year 1991 when America went to war against Iraq. The sound [music] of gunfire and bomb blasts echoed everywhere. The American military wanted to wipe out enemy forces [music] and terrorist hideouts at any cost. But among all of them, one American soldier, Jack Starks, was the only one whose ears, [music] amid all the noise, could hear the screams of innocent people and their cries for help. [music] He noticed that among the Iraqis taken prisoner by his army, there was a child. Seeing the child frightened, Jack went to free him.

[00:00:29]But then the child pulled out a gun and shot Jack [music] directly in the head.

[00:00:33]Jack collapsed in agony right there.

[00:00:35]Sometime later, wounded [music] soldiers were brought to the military camp, Jack among them. The medical team examined Jack and found [music] that he was dead.

[00:00:43]They were about to take him to the morgue when in the very next moment, Jack [music] suddenly opened his eyes, as though he had awakened from death itself. Jack was immediately taken to the hospital. After a long course of treatment, >> [music] >> his life was saved. But the doctor told him that due to the head injury, he had developed retrograde amnesia. [music] Because of this, Jack would no longer remember many things from his past. And whatever painful memories he had, his mind would automatically suppress them within [music] itself, such as the traumatic event of being shot, which he would not remember. For nearly a year his treatment continued at the military hospital, and then after [music] making a full recovery, Jack set off toward home. He had no one in this world, so he looked for a sense of belonging in everyone he met. He helped whoever he could. On his way home, he came across a woman and her little daughter on the side of the road. The woman was so intoxicated she [music] couldn't even hold herself together. Jack went over to help them. The little girl introduced herself as Jackie [music] and said their car wouldn't start. Jack began fixing the car. In the meantime, Jackie spotted Jack's military dog tags in his bag and liked them. [music] Jack told her she could keep them. Jackie was very happy.

[00:01:48]By then, the car was fixed. Just then, Jackie's mother, Jane, came out angrily and began cursing at Jack. Jackie tried to explain that Jack was helping them, >> [music] >> but Jane was in no state to understand anything in her intoxicated condition.

[00:02:01]She told Jack to leave immediately. Jack didn't [music] take it personally and walked off smiling on his way. A little further down the road, a [music] stranger gave Jack a lift, but they had barely gone any distance when a police officer pulled their vehicle over. And right here, the story took a new turn.

[00:02:17]Jack was [music] now sitting in a courtroom where he was being tried. In truth, on that day when Jack was hitching a ride from [music] a stranger to get home, something terrible had occurred. However, due to the amnesia, Jack had no memory whatsoever of what had happened. The police officer [music] was found dead at the scene, shot three times. Not far away, Jack was also found wounded, hit by that officer's bullet.

[00:02:39][music] A gun was also lying near Jack, but the stranger who had given him the ride had vanished. [music] Looking at the crime scene, the police concluded that Jack had shot the officer, and that before dying, the officer had also fired at Jack, [music] wounding him. Jack knew he was innocent, but unfortunately, due to the amnesia, Jack had no memory of the incident, [music] not even of the stranger who had given him the lift, so he couldn't prove his innocence. He [music] did, however, clearly remember Jackie and Jane, but the prosecution argued that Jack was fabricating the [music] story of Jane and Jackie just to save himself, because no record of a mother and daughter by those names could be found. [music] No last name, no address, nothing at all. When all the evidence began turning against [music] Jack, his lawyer proved that Jack was a mental patient, so no murder charge was filed against [music] him. But he was sent to a criminal psychiatric hospital called Alpine Grove for treatment. At the hospital, Jack was [music] kept like a prisoner. At regular intervals, heavy doses of medication were given to him. Even though [music] Jack believed he was not insane, he still had to take those medicines. This continued for some days, and then one night, two guards [music] came to his cell and forcibly taped his mouth and gave him an injection, which put Jack into a kind of drugged stupor. [music] The guards then grabbed Jack and brought him down to the basement where the facility's chief doctor, Thomas Becker, strapped a straitjacket onto him, tightly binding his hands and feet, [music] and then removed the tape from his mouth. Jack kept pleading with the doctor that he was not crazy and kept asking what was being done to him, but the doctor ignored his words and locked him [music] inside a drawer, the kind used to store corpses. Inside that dark and cramped [music] drawer, Jack began to suffocate. He screamed and cried out to be let out, but there was no one to hear his calls. After a short while, Jack fell completely [music] still. He began seeing scenes from his past before his eyes, some painful, like the moment he was shot, the pain of which he felt again. He also looked back into memories of his childhood when his mother was doting on him.

[00:04:35]>> [music] >> During this, he also saw some unknown faces. For a few moments, he screamed and cried out in pain, [music] but then he suddenly fell silent. About 3 hours later, the doctor pulled him out of the drawer. The doctor had expected Jack to be unconscious [music] by now, but Jack was fully conscious, eyes open, filled with tears. The guards took him back to his room. The next morning, Jack was sitting in the [music] activity hall, dejected, watching television. Just then, a patient came up to him. [music] His name was Rudy McKenzie. Rudy forcefully began talking to Jack, telling him about himself. He claimed he had been admitted [music] there because he had tried to kill his wife 30 times, and he said this as though it were some [music] great achievement. He wanted to befriend Jack, but Jack didn't pay him much attention. That same night, >> [music] >> the two guards brought Jack back to the basement again, but this time, Jack did not resist. Seeing [music] this, Dr. Becker began to reassure him, saying that everything he was doing was for Jack's [music] benefit. But then, Jack grabbed the straitjacket and hurled the heavy jacket at Becker. Becker's face was badly cut. The guards restrained Jack, [music] put the jacket on him, and locked him in the drawer again. This time, Becker gave Jack a heavy dose of medication. Jack kept screaming in fear that he didn't want to stay there, but Becker felt not an ounce of compassion for him. However, Becker's assistant, Kendall, [music] did feel sorry for Jack's condition. He pleaded with Becker to release Jack, but Becker refused [music] and reminded Kendall that everything they were doing was part of the treatment. In truth, what Becker called treatment was in reality his cruel experiment. His aim [music] was to inflict such torment, such fear, and such pain on patients that the violence, anger, and hatred within them would be suppressed forever.

[00:06:14]Even if [music] it cost them their lives. Becker didn't care about that because in his eyes every patient who came to that hospital was a criminal for [music] whom he had no sympathy at all.

[00:06:23]He believed that criminals, even those who were mentally ill, deserved the death penalty. That was why he performed these merciless experiments on them. But Becker had no idea whatsoever what patients actually [music] experienced inside the drawer. That night, the heavy dose of medication slowed Jack's mind so profoundly [music] that he lost consciousness. His subconscious mind took over. Suddenly, a vivid, clear scene appeared before his eyes. He found himself standing alone on the side of a road, completely alone and disoriented.

[00:06:51][music] At that very moment, a girl coming out of a restaurant noticed Jack.

[00:06:56]Seeing him shivering in the cold wearing only a thin coat in [music] the freezing wind, she came up to him. She thought perhaps Jack was waiting for a taxi. She said to him, "If you're waiting for a cab, it's [music] Christmas Eve today.

[00:07:07]You won't find one. If you'd like, I can give you a lift." Jack got into her car.

[00:07:12]The girl first took [music] a few sips of alcohol, then asked, "So, where do you need to go?" Jack seemed a little confused. He said, "I don't know." The girl was surprised.

[00:07:20]>> [music] >> She assumed he must be new to the city.

[00:07:22]She took him to her home. Once there, she tried to find some shelter for Jack, but because of Christmas, nothing was available. Jack began to leave, but the girl stopped him and said she couldn't let him die in the cold outside. [music] Jack thanked her and was about to introduce himself, but the girl said she didn't want to know anything about him.

[00:07:40]She told him to leave her house as soon as morning came. Then, [music] drunk, she fell asleep right there on the sofa.

[00:07:46]Jack felt sorry for her because, like [music] him, she was entirely alone in life. To learn more about her, he began looking around at the scattered items in the apartment. Suddenly, [music] his attention was drawn to a military dog tag. When Jack read the name on it, he froze. [music] It was his own tag, the very tag he had given to the little girl Jackie just [music] days ago when he had fixed her car. In that same moment, he also spotted a few photographs of Jackie and her mother Jane. [music] He rushed to the girl and asked her what relation the child and the woman in the photo were to her. The girl said it was a photo from her childhood >> [music] >> and that the woman in it was her mother.

[00:08:21]That meant the girl was telling him she was Jackie herself. Jack asked in astonishment, [music] "What year is it?"

[00:08:26]Jackie said, "2007." That meant it was 15 years [music] into the future. Jack couldn't believe it. He asked Jackie where her mother Jane was. Jackie told him that her mother had passed away [music] during her childhood. Addicted to cigarettes, one day she fell unconscious in bed while smoking. The [music] bed caught fire and she burned to death in the flames. Since then, Jackie had been completely alone in the world. Jack then also introduced Jackie to the [music] truth, that he was the same Jack who had fixed their car when she was a child and had given her his military dog tag. But [music] hearing this made Jackie furious. She said that Jack had died at Alpine Grove Hospital on January 1st, 1993. [music] Jack couldn't believe it. He kept insisting he was indeed that Jack, but Jackie wasn't willing to hear any of it.

[00:09:10]She shouted at Jack and [music] told him to get out of her house. Jack came outside and began to cry. But when he gathered himself, [music] he saw that he was still bound in the straightjacket inside the locked drawer.

[00:09:20]Jack [music] couldn't understand what was happening to him. He remained in the drawer all night, hungry, thirsty, and struggling [music] to breathe. The next morning, Dr. Becker pulled him out. Jack was barely conscious. He had become [music] completely weak from hunger and thirst.

[00:09:35]Sometime later, in the hall, he was being given more medication. Just [music] then, Becker came up to him.

[00:09:41]Jack pleadingly asked him what was being done to him, why he was being kept locked in the drawer, [music] but Becker dismissed it all, saying Jack had a delusional disorder. The drawer, [music] the straitjacket, it was all an illusion he was mistaking for reality.

[00:09:55]Saying [music] this, Becker began to walk away. Just then, a doctor stopped him. It was Dr. Beth [music] Laurenson, a psychiatrist who oversaw Jack and the other patients' care. Beth had already grown suspicious [music] of Becker's illegal experiments because his previous patient, Tad Casey, had died during his treatment. [music] Beth was afraid the same fate might befall Jack. She told Becker to please not do to Jack what he had done to Tad Casey. Becker reminded her of the horrific crimes Casey had committed. [music] He had raped and murdered a young girl and then climbed a tree and began howling like a wolf.

[00:10:27]Becker argued [music] that such monstrous criminals were spared punishment because of their mental illness, but their mindset never truly [music] changes. And he was simply trying to change that mindset. Saying this, Becker left. On the other side, Jack was convinced that none of it [music] could be an illusion. He believed he had been placed inside the drawer and that he had also traveled to the future, to 2007. To get to the bottom of this, he spoke to Rudy and asked whether he knew anything about Becker's secret drawer experiment. Rudy told [music] him that Becker had performed the same experiment on him as well. Jack asked whether he too had experienced the [music] future inside the drawer. Rudy answered without hesitation, "Yes." Jack's suspicion turned into certainty, but this also deepened his worry [music] because if his journey to the future was real, if he had truly met the adult Jackie, [music] then what she had told him about dying on January 1st, 1993 would also [music] be real. Today was December 26th, 1992. That meant Jack would die four days from now. [music] Jack was overcome with dread. He needed to find out how he died so he could prevent it, [music] but to do that, he needed to travel to the future again. He asked Rudy what he should do to get Becker to send [music] him back to the drawer as soon as possible. Rudy said it was simple. All he had to do was give Becker a hard time. No [music] sooner said than done. Jack created a scene in the hospital and pushed Becker's buttons.

[00:11:44]That same night, [music] Becker gave Jack the medication and locked him back in the drawer. This time, Jack was [music] completely calm. Shortly after he began losing consciousness and suddenly [music] visions began to appear, but this time it was not the future that appeared before his eyes. It was [music] his past. The very incident that had made him appear to be a criminal. Everything was now crystal clear in his mind. He had taken the lift from the stranger. Then, the police [music] had stopped them. The officer had barely opened the door when the stranger suddenly drew a gun and began firing at him. [music] The man was in fact a dangerous criminal who had stolen a car and was on the run from the police. He fired [music] three shots at the officer, but before dying, the officer returned fire. The bullet didn't hit the criminal. [music] It went straight into Jack. Jack fell to the ground and the criminal cleverly wiped his fingerprints off the gun, threw it near Jack, and fled. [music] When the police arrived at the crime scene, they concluded that a confrontation had taken place between Jack and the officer and that Jack was the killer. But now, after this truth resurfaced, [music] Jack felt peace in his heart for the very first time because he was now certain he was not a criminal, [music] but simply a victim of circumstance. The moment Jack came out of that vision, he found himself in the future [music] again. Inside a restaurant stood Jackie, who was astonished to see him back. By this point, Jackie too had come to believe that Jack had traveled from the past to the [music] future because Jack had described with pinpoint accuracy the moment from her childhood when he had met [music] her, fixed their car, and given her his military dog tag. Jack asked Jackie for help to go to Alpine Grove together to find out how he had died. Jackie took him to Alpine Grove Hospital. After 15 years, [music] the place had changed considerably. Dr. Becker no longer worked there, but Dr. Beth was present. She was [music] astonished to see Jack. Jack lied to hide his identity, telling Beth that the Jack who had been a patient there 15 years ago was his uncle, [music] and that he had come to find out more about him. He asked Beth how she had known his uncle. Beth said Jack had been her most special [music] patient, one she could never forget. Jack asked what it was about him that had made him so special.

[00:13:49]Beth told him that her friend had a son named Babak Yazdi who was mentally unwell, very slow, unable to walk, move around, or speak properly. [music] Jack had helped her in treating Babak. Jacky asked how, but Beth deliberately chose not to tell Jack anything more about it.

[00:14:04]Then, Jack came straight to the point and asked [music] how his uncle Jack had died. Beth told him that his death had been caused by a blow to the head. Jack asked how the head injury had occurred, but Beth began concealing [music] the truth again, saying she didn't know.

[00:14:18]Though from her demeanor, Jack understood clearly that she was hiding something. When he pressed [music] her, Beth said Dr. Becker would know more about that. Jack and Jackie came out of her office. Jackie promised [music] Jack she would get Dr. Becker's address for him. Jack and Jackie had by now spent quite a lot of meaningful time together.

[00:14:33][music] They had fallen in love with each other.

[00:14:36]That night, the two of them shared warm, tender moments. Then, when Jackie woke up the next morning, she found that Jack was gone. In truth, [music] as soon as the effect of the medication wore off, Jack had returned to his own time, but he was unconscious. When he awoke from the stupor, [music] he found himself in a hospital bed with Dr. Beth caring for him. Beth wanted to know the truth from Jack about what Becker was doing to him. Jack told her everything, but when he said he had traveled to the future, [music] Beth laughed. She thought Jack was making up a story. She also told him he had a delusional disorder, that because [music] of it, he couldn't distinguish between the story playing in his mind and reality. Then, Jack said that Rudy also knew that every patient [music] who had been put in the drawer had traveled to their own future, even Rudy himself. At this, Beth [music] smiled and said that storytelling was simply Rudy's habit. He told everyone he was there because he had tried [music] to kill his wife, but the truth was that Rudy's wife had run off with another man, which had driven [music] him into a breakdown. He had locked himself in a room for 2 months. Jack was surprised to hear this, but he had one more piece of evidence to prove his [music] claim. He mentioned Babak to Beth. Babak, the mentally ill son of Beth's friend who she was treating. She had never [music] told anyone about Babak, but hearing his name from Jack gave her a jolt. Then that same night, >> [music] >> Becker locked Jack in the drawer once again. Jack traveled to the future once more. Jackie was overjoyed to see him.

[00:16:00]She told him she had gathered more information [music] about Dr. Beth and Dr. Becker. Jack asked what she had found out about Beth. Jackie [music] said that Beth had originally believed her friend's son's brain was slow, but in reality, he suffered from seizures, [music] epileptic brain episodes. Beth had used a mild electroshock therapy on him, which stopped the seizures and cured him. Jackie further explained that after Jack returned from this visit, he would be the one to tell Beth about Babak's [music] seizures and about treating him with electroshock therapy.

[00:16:28]After that, Jackie took Jack to a church where they encountered Dr. Becker. Jack [music] stepped forward and stood before him. Seeing Jack, Becker went pale with fright as though he had seen a ghost. He thought this was not Jack himself, but perhaps his son. [music] But Jack cleared up the misunderstanding. He told Becker he had come from the past and [music] that this time travel was made possible thanks to Becker's own drawer experiment. Jack asked directly, "Doctor, [music] I know that I will die on January 1st, 1993. I have come to find out how I died. Were you the one who killed me?" Becker defended himself saying, "I didn't kill you, Jack. All I remember is that the last time I pulled you out of the drawer, you spoke [music] some names." Jack asked which names.

[00:17:09]Becker said, "Nathan Piowsky, Jackson, McGregor, Tad Casey." Those were the patients he had tried to treat who had died. He had been surprised [music] to learn how Jack could have known about them. Jack smiled and said, "You just told me those names yourself." Becker fled in a panic. [music] Just at that moment, Jack's condition began deteriorating. He understood that in the present time, the medication [music] was wearing off. He was about to return to his own time. He quickly asked Jackie for the address of her old home, where she [music] had lived with her mother.

[00:17:37]Jackie gave him the address, and at that very moment, Jack returned [music] to his own time. When Becker pulled Jack out of the drawer, Jack's eyes were full of tears. He spoke the names of all three patients [music] before Becker, the ones Becker had killed under the guise of experiments. Crying, Jack told Becker that one day they would all come before him like spirits. [music] They would not let him live in peace. At the time, Becker couldn't make sense of it.

[00:18:02]A little later, Jack was lying in the hospital bed. Dr. Beth came to him [music] wanting to know how Jack had learned about Babak. Jack replied, "You yourself told me about him, doctor, in the future. [music] And you had also figured out that Babak's brain isn't slow. He's slow because of the seizures. You gave him a mild electroshock therapy, [music] which cured him." Beth said that electroshock therapy was for adults. Using it on children was dangerous. She said she would never do such a thing and left.

[00:18:28][music] Yet, Beth treated Babak like her own child. She desperately wanted to heal him by any means possible. So, she gave Jack's words a chance, just once.

[00:18:37]That very night, she [music] gave Babak a mild electroshock therapy, and he was cured. Beth was overcome with joy. She came back [music] to Jack, deeply grateful. She said that if she could ever help Jack in any way, she would be glad to. Jack told her that according to the future, he [music] would die today.

[00:18:53]But before that, he needed to meet someone. Would she take him there? Beth said yes. Despite his weakened [music] condition, Jack set off for Jackie's home. Meeting the little Jackie filled Jack's heart with emotion. [music] He gave her mother, Jane, a letter in which he had written everything. How Jane's cigarette addiction would take [music] her life. How her daughter, Jackie, would be left destitute, and how her life would be destroyed by substance abuse. But Jane couldn't [music] bring herself to believe him. Then Jack told her that he had seen the future, and according to it, he was going to die today. If Jane didn't believe him, she should come to Alpine Grove Hospital tomorrow, [music] and she would find his body. Then Jack returned. On the way back to the hospital, he made one last request of [music] Beth, that when his final moment came, she should put him in the drawer so he could return to the future. During this time, Jack was feeling extremely weak [music] because he had left the middle of his treatment to go and give Jane the letter. Beth was helping him out of the car when suddenly a memory flashed in Jack's mind, [music] the moment in the Iraq War when he had been shot. As the child in his memory fired at him, [music] Jack experienced a physical jolt in reality, and he lurched forward, falling [music] headfirst directly onto the ground. His head split open. Blood began pouring [music] from his wound. It seemed impossible for Jack to survive, so Beth granted his last wish. She immediately called Becker's assistant Kendall [music] to the scene.

[00:20:13]Together they carried Jack down to the basement. They gave him a heavy dose of medication and locked [music] him in the drawer. Jack's breathing slowly faded away, and he was freed from that body forever, stepping into the future, a future that had now changed. He was standing outside the very same restaurant where he had first met Jackie. [music] There he saw a new Jackie, one whose life now appeared to be filled with happiness and warmth.

[00:20:36]Jane had read the letter Jack had given her and recognized her mistake. She had resolved that she would not let her daughter's future be destroyed. She had given up cigarettes and survived. She had given [music] her daughter a full, loving life, the kind Jackie had never had in the old timeline. [music] Jackie had grown up with her mother by her side, safe and cared for. And now, standing outside that restaurant, Jack saw her smiling, a Jackie [music] who had not been broken by grief, who had not been left alone in the world.

[00:21:04]Jack watched [music] her from a distance, his eyes filled with quiet joy. He had come from a time of pain, [music] injustice, and amnesia. He had been locked in drawers, drugged, stripped of his dignity, and condemned for crimes. Jack watched her from a distance, his eyes filled with quiet joy. He had come from a time of pain [music] he never committed. He had even faced his own death, but in the end, all of it had led him to this, a changed future, a life saved, and a love that transcended time itself. [music] And with that, the story came to its end. And that's the end of the movie.

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