The Paradox

Quan, Col Trung and his NVA forces ambush GI-Mitch and his fellow soldiers.Jen and Reggie attempt to help, but are taken prisoner by Quan and Trung, and marched back to the time machine.A wounded GI-Mitch secretly follows from within the jungle.

Jen learns that Col Trung is Quan’s grandfather, and realizes that Mary’s village is about to be massacred. She lies to Mary in order to get her to leave the areaGI-Mitch surveys the aftermath of Colonel Trung’s massacre of Mary’s village, and angrily sets off to kill Col Trung.  Jen is spotted by Quan as she tries to stop an ambush of GI-Mitch

Quan proves to Col Trung that he’s from the future.Jen, pretending to be a reporter, interviews schoolteacher Mary who later flirts with a GI named Mitch. Jen slowly realizes that GI-Mitch is actually her grandfather.

Jen and bodyguard Reggie go to Vietnam to scatter Mitch’s ashes; she recounts a childhood incident where her brother was killed trying to save her. Jen discovers that Quan and his brother Bao have built a replica of her time machine, and gone back to 1968 Vietnam.She decides to follow and make Quan return before he alters history. In 1968 Vietnam, Quan and Bao are interrogated by their Grandfather, Col Trung  

Jen Calle creates a time machine in present day California, and is frustrated that her Grandfather Mitch, a Vietnam Vet, refuses to watch her test it. Jen argues with fellow scientist Quan about the dangers of time travel to the past, and goes into the future two weeks, where she notices some troubling changes. She returns to the present day with news of a certain car crash involving an Asian woman.Grandfather Mitch is alone, and pulls out his pistol.