[ WP ] You are in the audience at a convicted murderer 's execution , when he/she is asked for any last words , he/she scans the crowd finishing with you and looking into your eyes simply says , `` I forgive you . ''

This was it, my only chance, humanity ’ s only chance. I had, roughly, just 30 minutes to find the mark and figure out a way to neutralize it. That was all that we could manage to calculate, even that was a guess. I am scanning the crowd furiously for the beginning, agent zero, the end of mankind as we know it. If I didn ’ t find the source of the virus it would mutate and in only 12 more years it would wipe out 76 % of the population. We had no other solution, travel back and sacrifice one life to save the lives of many. The only catch was that even though we developed time travel it wasn ’ t corporeal time travel, only the consciousness could go back. While it allowed for the ability to move more freely it also prevented any physical contact with the past. The change would have to be made some other way. As I scan the crowd again it hits me, I ’ ve seen this face before, 9 years ago. An assignment from my psych class. I wrote a paper on the mind of a death row inmate. I had attended an execution to get a feel for what happens at the end of a stay on death row. As I watched them begin the injection on the inmate he looked across the crowd and stopped on me. He gazed deep into my eyes, I could almost feel him reach into me. He then said the last 3 words of his life, “ I forgive you. ” That moment stuck with me all my life but I never knew what it meant until now. I still remember it like it was yesterday but for him it is 3 years away. It was then that I knew what to do. As I entered the police officer ’ s body, my consciousness merging with his, he can see me. He can see the future that is to come. He sees what lies ahead for us. He knows there is only one answer. He unholsters his sidearm. He points the pistol at his son. He saves the world. 

