[ WP ] Everyday for the past week the same man goes in the middle of Time 's Square and kills himself .

`` Well shit, this is a new one.'' 
 
 `` That's why I called you, I thought you might enjoy it'' Rich said. 
 
 `` What do we know so far?'' 
 
 `` Just what I told you on the phone. Every day, this guy shows up, walks to that same spot at 12:05, and shoots himself in the head'' 
 
 `` Has anybody tried to stop him''? I asked. 
 
 `` Not yet. It took a few times for anybody to catch on, and after that, it became a temporal matter.'' 
 
 `` I see''. 
 
 I adjusted my chem stick and took a deep drag. A flood of neural stimulants rushed in to my brain, and I started to look around. 465 people in the square, 301 men, 160 women, 3 unknown. 17 likely armed, 15 in an official capacity. Of the remaining three, 2 men, 1 woman. 
 
 `` Found our shooter yet?'' 
 
 `` I've got two candidates. Hair color?'' 
 
 `` Brown'' Rich said. 
 
 `` Got him''. 
 
 `` You want to intervene?'' Rich asked, pausing with his hands on his own chemstick. 
 
 `` Not today. I want to watch.'' 
 
 Rich rotated his own chemstick, and took a drag. 
 
 At 12:04:30 the man I had identified as the likely shooter walked to the middle of the road, and at 12:05:05 pulled out a gunpowder handgun 
 and shot himself in the right side of the head. 
 
 The predictable chaos ensued and the proper authorities handled it, although with far more interest and curiosity than such a scene should merit. They had caught on as well. 
 
 Rich looked at me. `` See what I mean? We have no idea where this guy is coming from, how there is more than one of him, or why he's doing this, especially now. We've got no ID on him, and biometrics are negative. So this guy is either from the future, or somehow farther back than we've got records.'' 
 
 `` Parallel, maybe?'' 
 
 `` That was my first thought, but parallel has never happened without a major energy spike. It's happened maybe, three times in recorded history, and twice in the future that we know about, and you know as well as I do that we've never succeeded in doing it here. I have n't ruled it out, but it does n't make a damn bit of sense. Plus, parallel means he ought to have a match here.'' 
 

