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Season 4, Episode 5

Episode Title: Time Travel and the Filmmaker's Trek

Air Date: 2014-05-16

Overview:

Rian Johnson, Richard Kelly, and Roberto Orci, masters of weaving time travel into film, dissect the elements that make for a believable "operating system" when writing a comprehensible screenplay timeline. A Conversation About Cheating with my Time Traveling Future Self follows, with one man's attempt to better his life by traveling back in time to offer himself advice.