Total Reality 1997

In 2107, Earth is under the iron rule of a military-political party known as the Bridgists. A galaxy-spanning rebellion against their control culminates in the near-total destruction of life on Earth, setting the stage for a desperate last stand. The rebels push back, but the Bridgists gain the upper hand near Proximia 2 in the Alpha Centauri system. After a brutal starship battle, the Bridgists claim victory, yet rebel Commander Tunis and Colonel Norris manage to escape aboard a time-travel shuttle that slips back to Earth in 1998. In a grim twist, the Bridgists destroy the rebel ship, even though it carries civilians. As the disaster looms, the Bridgist lieutenant [David Bradley] as Anthony Rand attempts to halt the destruction, but in a fateful turn he ends up killing his own commander and is imprisoned.

Rand’s fate shifts when he is among four prisoners—[Misa Koprova] as Wingate, [Brian Faker] as Frankel, and [Melik Malkasian] as Uriah—who are recruited to travel back to 1998 and kill Tunis. They have a strict deadline: 48 hours, or their bio-implants will self-destruct and end their lives. The mission is as much a race against time as a bid to avert a future ruled by the Bridgists. The quartet materializes in late 1998 America, where Rand’s team steals a car and Uriah deftly takes the wheel. They quickly cross paths with Cathy Easton, a businesswoman from 1998 played by [Ely Pouget], who breaks into her ex-husband’s house and stumbles upon Tunis and Norris. The newcomers reach the scene just as gunfire erupts, Uriah is killed, Tunis makes his escape, and the house is blown apart in a final, explosive confrontation. Rand manages a narrow rescue of Cathy, and as FBI agents descend to investigate the blast, Uriah’s bio-implant detonates, adding to the confusion.

Back at Cathy’s place, Cathy reveals a crucial link to the larger conflict: she was once married to John Bridges, the author who helped spark the Bridgist movement. Rand realizes that Tunis’s time jump may have been driven by this revelation, and in a desperate bid to protect Cathy, he and Wingate set in motion a dangerous plan to outmaneuver their pursuers. They blow the house and vanish into the night, hoping the blast will obscure their trail. Meanwhile, Wingate detects a signal from Tunis and Norris’s bio-trackers hidden in an old warehouse. Frankel, meanwhile, discovers the bio-trackers stored in a wooden chest, but the moment the chest is opened, the trackers self-destruct, terminating his life in a final, grim act.

The plot thickens when John Bridges survives an assassination attempt, and Cathy becomes the prime suspect in the ensuing chaos. Rand and Wingate rush to shield Cathy from the growing net closing around her, helping her to escape as they press on to locate Tunis. Rand dispatches Wingate back to their ship and presses forward with Cathy, determined to confront Tunis once and for all. Their pursuit leads them into a dangerous confrontation with the political machine surrounding John Bridges and the shadowy forces behind the Bridgists, with Congressman Jerry stepping into the fray to secure political backing that could tilt the balance of power.

Conversations unfold as Rand and Cathy track Tunis toward the man who started it all. They visit John Bridges, eliminating his security guards and pressing him for answers. Cathy urges Rand not to kill, insisting there may still be a chance to set things right, but Tunis beats them to the punch and abducts Jerry, intending to clone himself in Jerry’s image and use the disguise to run for president. A tense gunfight erupts as Rand and Cathy close in, and Jerry is killed in the chaos. Tunis manages to slip away, taking Cathy as a hostage, and the chase erupts onto a bridge where Rand corners Tunis and delivers a decisive shot. Cathy, leveraging her grit, dives into the river to escape, and Rand follows in deadly pursuit.

In the immediate aftermath, Wingate returns to the ship but finds the mission far from over. Rand is stranded in 1998 as his bio-implant nears its final countdown, while Cathy is arrested by the FBI, insisting she and Rand bore no part in the future catastrophe and that Tunis came from another time. The authorities choose to drop the charges when the truth starts to surface. Wingate reports back to the future, only to discover a stunning reversal: all space stations have vanished, and a lone cruiser from Earth has appeared to pull Wingate in. In this new reality, there has been no war, and Earth was never destroyed—an alternate timeline born from the tampering with time.

• Anthony Rand: David Bradley

• Tunis: Thomas Kretschmann

• Cathy Easton: Ely Pouget

• Wingate: Misa Koprova

• Frankel: Brian Faker

• Uriah: Melik Malkasian

• John Bridges: Michael Mendelson

• Congressman Jerry: Geof Prysirr

• Leader: Patsy Pease

In this sprawling, time-tangled tale, motives blur and loyalties shift as a small band of rebels fights not just for survival but for the shape of history itself. The future hinges on choices made in the past, and every escape, explosion, and bridge-crossing tests whether a single act of courage can rewrite an entire world. Bold, intricate, and relentlessly paced, the story keeps faith with its core idea: time travel can offer salvation or catastrophe, depending on who holds the reins and who understands the true cost of altering history.