Murder at Birdland

Martin wakes once again in a New York hospital—but this time the calendar tells a different story. Before leaving the city, he takes one last walk through its streets. The neon and music of 52nd Street have vanished, and the Dunham exists only as a memory. He returns to Kansas and makes one more desperate jump to find Sondra. 

As the clock ticks toward 11:50, Martin braces for the moment he has been moving toward all along. The hours are charged with contradiction: dread of what will happen beneath the Birdland awning, and an unexpectedly joyful stretch of time with his father. In the end, Vincent is right—it does not unfold the way Martin believes it will. In a shadowed alley, he finally confronts the truth.

With violence pressing on him like a raging current, Martin is forced into a split-second choice that reveals a side of himself he's never known. As past and present collide in uncanny ways, he resolves to seize control of his fate. The chapter ends with an unexpected encounter that signals everything is about to change.

In this episode, we're reintroduced to Vincent Costello, Martin's uncle, who has traveled back to 1949 with a gun and a plan: force Martin to return with him to 2001. We gain new insight into who may have killed Tony Martin—and why—but far more questions remain unanswered. An unexpected altercation involving Sondra's cats spirals into a sudden and disturbing act of violence.

Shooter drags Martin to Times Square expecting answers—and gets a very different trip that reveals the truth about Martin's secret.  As Martin and Sondra travel into the past, they grow closer. Martin is faced with a decision but before he can make it he is interrupted by an unexpected visitor. Note this Episode features a composition by Mike Steinel which is part of the Murder at Birdland Suite: Wierdo.

Martin spends a night—and most of the next day—under intense interrogation at the police station, the victim of mistaken identity. He's reunited with what was taken from him in the mugging, most crucially the Styrofoam sleeve. He's no longer trapped in 1949, but his future is anything but secure. When he reveals his secret about looping to Sondra and Shooter, the truth lands with unexpected and unsettling consequences.

Martin breaks into Tony's room at the Dunham and makes a startling discovery. The dream that has plagued him for weeks takes on new significance as the song within it begins to come into focus. At Roseland, Martin lands in trouble for playing bebop, while Sondra reveals her love of fast cars. Their relationship shifts into something deeper when Sondra teaches him how to dance.

Martin spends the evening absorbing the truth about Sondra's future: she will become Professor Sondra Bednarczyk—the woman who will one day introduce a young Martin to jazz. As dawn approaches, the two walk to Lindy's at 49th for an early-morning breakfast. Over coffee, Sondra shares stories of her childhood in Nebraska, while Martin continues to guard his secret. But as the night gives way to morning, it becomes clear they may not be alone—and that something dark is watching them.

In this episode, Shooter and Sondra spring Martin from Bellevue. Sondra discovers his musical talent, hires him as her coach, and offers him a temporary place to stay. Along the way, Martin meets Prez and Billie—Sondra's cats—and uncovers a revealing clue about her past, one that hints at her future as well.

Martin wakes in a hospital after a brutal mugging, stripped of his most important possessions—the photographs he needs to return to 2001. Trapped in 1949, he relies on the help of Shooter and Sondra, two unlikely new friends. But with too much he can't explain and no clear way out, the situation grows increasingly bleak.

Martin gets a taste of the late-night magic of 52nd Street, sharing drinks with Shooter and Sondra as they listen to Count Basie. He's both intrigued and unsettled by Sondra's uncanny familiarity—she reminds him of someone he can't quite place. When Billie Holiday sits in and delivers a spellbinding performance, Martin tries to capture the moment, but nothing goes as planned.

Martin Spencer's timing is off—he arrives a day early—but the mistake turns lucky. It gives him a full night to roam 52nd Street and, against all odds, cross paths with two of his musical heroes: Art Tatum and Count Basie.

Martin finally makes it to 1949 and the 3 Deuces. He meets a club photographer named Shooter, a doorman named Gil, a pretty coat-check girl named Sondra and crosses paths—unexpectedly—with his father, Tony Martin. As he listens to Charlie Parker, Martin realizes he has reached the moment he's long prepared for, but with no plan for what comes next.

With the help of a bit too much alcohol, Martin shares some of the secrets he's been carrying with his good friend Grady. The results are a little bloody, but he recovers—and finally makes the big trip: to New York City and 1949.

Martin Spencer slips back to 1949 and into Tootie's Mayfair in Kansas City, where he watches Tony and Sylvia and nearly gets the chance of a lifetime—playing with Bird. But the visit teaches him just how dangerous time travel can be.

Martin Spencer travels to Kansas City to meet his Uncle Vincent and experiments with of time travel with the help of his neighbor Denice.

After discovering that his biological father, Anthony Costello, was murdered in New York City five decades ago—and once belonged to a notorious Kansas City crime family—Martin Spencer begins searching the past for answers. As he pieces together the mystery, he starts to plan something extraordinary: a journey back to 1949.

After a sleepless night spent grappling with revelations about the murdered father he never knew, Martin Spencer discovers an extraordinary gift. In the morning, in his mother's house on Elm Street, his experiments with time mark the beginning of a journey filled with mystery and possibility.

Martin Spencer travels in the rain to his home town, Morgan Kansas, to attend his father's funeral. His thoughts are occupied by his recent encounter with his patient Thomas Gaylord. After the funeral Martin's mother Sylvia reveals a secret that she's kept from him for five decades. 

In this episode we find Martin Spencer, a 50 year old clinical psychologist and amateur jazz musician, studying the stormy fall sky from his office, listening to jazz, thinking about New York in the forties and preparing to meet his new patient: Thomas Gaylord, a young man with an interesting past. His life is about to change and he senses it.