Niyati

Verity Adwani is trapped in a burning lab at the Southwell Institute. Just before Verity and her boss, Dr. Henry Southwell, are blown up in an inferno, Verity reveals she’d been trying to stop her own death and was unsuccessful. Despite being given the where, when, and how, the details changed and now they will both die. She has one last chance to stop it. The timeline resets. Weeks prior to the fire, the lab operates as normal. Verity is assigned a case: multiple girls have been found murdered in Northern Virginia. Verity performs the autopsies. The victims died from having their throats slashed almost ear to ear. After death, they were stabbed in the heart. In flashback, we follow the victim’s final moments. The audience sees Verity is at the crime scene prior to the police. She traveled in time to try and stop it, an innate ability that manifested in her childhood. Verity travels further back in time to visit her favorite restaurant, it just so happens to have only been open in the 1980s. The FBI flagged the murder weapon for links to a serial killer case from 1986. During a discussion, Verity accidentally sends a pen forward in time. She’s only ever sent herself through time before. Verity is frustrated. She already doesn’t understand why she has the ability she does, or why she can send inanimate objects now. Her innate time travel is evolving. Back in the 1980s, Verity tries to stop one of the 1986 murders. She fails, and becomes a police eyewitness instead. She discovers that she has “already” been involved in the case. In the 1986 series of murders, she is a suspect and arrest warrants were issued with her assumed name and sketch likeness. Verity questions destiny. Is it really inescapable? She knows when and where these crimes occur, yet she can’t stop them. What is the point of doing the things she can do if she can’t help people? Is her gift good for nothing more than era-hopping dance parties? Not that the dance parties aren’t fun. Her boyfriend drags her out for an evening to unwind and they dance the night away era by era. Her joy is quickly dashed. She receives a package containing photos of her dancing throughout the decades. Someone knows her secret. Verity unravels. Despite her best efforts, she can’t stop the crimes. She needs to stop the killer instead. Her next step is to coordinate with the detective currently on the case. His mentor was the detective who issued an arrest warrant for Verity in 1986. Is Verity destined to die? According to at least a half-dozen versions of herself, she is. A letter arrives for Verity, the same one from the fire at the start. Someone is looking for her. Every time she tries to escape her death, it comes in a different form. She can’t run. She can’t stop it. And she doesn’t know who is behind it. Verity frantically tries to stop the crimes or to find some key that will help her find the suspect. She’s unsuccessful. In her stress, she overshoots her arrival back to her time. In the not-so-distant future, she stands over a crime scene. She stares at her own dead body.