![]() I was approached to do Timecop, and I loved the auspices. It wasn’t at all planned from the beginning that I would make two films with Jean-Claude Van Damme back-to-back. Richardson and Verheiden then teamed up to write the screenplay for the movie adaptation. After capturing the robber and returning to present time, Walker is sent back to the mine to stop the criminal's personal robotic bodyguard, which is still operational and wreaking havoc in the timeline. The comic told a story of Max Walker, a Time Enforcement Commission agent in pursuit of an illegal time traveler robbing a South African diamond mine in the 1930s. Richardson developed the story, while the comic was written by Mark Verheiden and drawn by Ron Randall. Mike Richardson wrote a three-part story titled "Time Cop: A Man Out of Time" that was included in the launch of the Dark Horse Comics anthology series in 1992. Walker returns home to find Melissa alive and waiting for him with their young son. Matuzak and Fielding are alive and active in the TEC, whereas McComb no longer exists. Walker escapes with Melissa before the bomb explodes and lays her down beside his unconscious younger self before returning to the future.īack in 2004, Walker finds the timeline has changed for the better. After McComb wounds Melissa, Walker pushes the two McCombs together and, as the same matter cannot occupy the same space, they merge into a liquefied mass before disappearing from existence forever. Walker, however, reveals that he had previously lured the younger McComb to the house, who enters the room. McComb reveals that he sent the assassins back to kill the younger Walker, and even though he will die in the ensuing explosion, his younger self will survive and become President with Walker gone. With the assailants defeated, the older McComb steps in and takes Melissa hostage, confronting the older Walker with the bomb. That night, the younger Walker returns home and is attacked just as before, with the assailants revealed to be in McComb's employ, but is unknowingly aided by his older self who has been lying in wait. Realizing that she would be killed later that night, he tracks her down and reveals himself to be from the future. While at the hospital, Walker finds a record of a recent visit by his wife Melissa, discovering that she was pregnant. Matuzak sends Walker back to the past in a prototype time machine, sacrificing himself in the process.īack in 1994, Walker finds Fielding in the hospital and after interrogation she agrees to testify against McComb, though she is murdered in her room shortly thereafter. Walker appeals to Matuzak, who has no knowledge of the alternate present. McComb is now sole owner of the computer company and is a presidential front runner while the TEC is being shut down due to budget cuts. Walker returns to the TEC to find the future altered. Fielding turns on Walker, revealing that she works for McComb, and after a shootout with McComb's henchmen, Fielding is wounded and Walker escapes back to 2004. Older McComb specifically tells his younger self not to touch him as the same matter cannot occupy the same space, and then kills Parker. They are interrupted by the older McComb, who arrives from 2004 to stop the exchange claiming the chip will become highly profitable. They witness a meeting between young McComb and his business partner Jack Parker, where McComb wishes to withdraw over a disagreement about a new computer chip. Walker is assigned a new partner, TEC rookie Sarah Fielding, and together they are sent back to 1994 to investigate McComb. ![]() Refusing to testify, Atwood is sentenced to execution and is returned to 1929 where he resumes falling to his death. Fearing that McComb will erase him from history, Atwood attempts to jump to his death, but Walker catches him mid-leap and returns to 2004. When confronted, Atwood admits to be working for Senator McComb, who needs the funds for his upcoming presidential campaign. ![]() Ten years later, Walker is a veteran of the TEC working under Commissioner Eugene Matuzak, who sends him back to October 1929 to prevent his former partner, Lyle Atwood, from using knowledge of the future to financially benefit from the U.S. While at home with his wife Melissa, he is attacked by unknown assailants and witnesses the house explode, killing her. Police officer Max Walker has been offered a position with the TEC but is unsure whether or not to accept. The Time Enforcement Commission (TEC) has been established to police the use of time travel, with Senator Aaron McComb overseeing operations and financing. By the year 1994, time travel has been developed and is used for illicit purposes.
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