

He also learns that the machine is not impervious and he is not immune to those who do not understand him or the machine's purpose. George knew that his machine was stationary in geographic position, but he did not account for changes in what happens over time to that location. They were also unbelieving, and skeptical of any practical use if it did indeed work. He tells his guests of his travels in his time machine, the work about which his friends knew. Wells - George to his friends - arrives late to his own dinner party. On January 5, 1900, a disheveled looking H.G. As Wells and Amy search for Stevenson, Stevenson conversely is after Wells to obtain the master key to the time machine. But Wells is also picked up by a young woman named Amy Robbins. There, Wells is dismayed to find that the future is not Utopia as he had predicted. Where Stevenson has gone is 1979 San Francisco. Not telling anyone except his trusting housekeeper, Wells follows Stevenson in order to capture and bring him back to face justice. Just as the police are about to capture Stevenson, he uses the time machine to escape, with Wells being the only one who knows what happened to him.

Unbeknown to Wells or anyone else among that circle, Stevenson is better known to the public as Jack the Ripper. He has just built a time machine which he is displaying to a group of skeptical friends, including surgeon Dr. Wells believes that the future holds a Utopian society.
