Neumeyer, a physicist who discovers a briefcase containing postdated documents and evidence which indicates he will die five days into the future.

Neumeyer" (despite the unlikelihood that such a person would also live in Seattle and have paid a visit to the same grave), and attempts to open the combination-locked briefcase to discover more about its owner.

Upon opening the briefcase, Neumeyer finds a police file complete with photos, newspaper clippings, and evidence detailing his brutal murder five days in the future.

At first he thinks it is a prank perpetrated by an exceptionally brilliant but eccentric graduate student named Carl Axelrod.

He tracks down Irwin Sikorski, the homicide detective whose name appears on the police file as investigating officer.

's girlfriend Claudia gives him a blue parka; the case file says that he will be wearing this same coat when he is found dead in five days.

that he had previously scheduled a doctor's appointment on the date of the predicted autopsy, and wouldn't have been able to be there.

The back of one of the newspaper clippings in the briefcase is the story of Mandy Murphy, a young woman killed by a falling tree in a windstorm.

Yet less than an hour into the flight, the plane must return to the city when a passenger becomes dangerously ill. At the end of the episode, it is reported that Mandy Murphy has died in a horrible car crash.

resigns himself to his fate and makes a video for Jesse, listing things he would have liked to have seen in the future.

changes his tactics to alter the future and tries to remove the motives or block the opportunities of the suspects on the list: The day ends with the escape of Carl from the hospital.

Sikorski reveals that he knows Claudia will inherit $12 million worth of property from Bremmer.

He intends to force Claudia to sign a quitclaim, then kill her and J.T., and gain ownership of the property.

Carl loses control of the Jeep, which crashes into the bar, knocking down Sikorski.

Carl intends to kill J.T., believing that the events revealed by the briefcase must not be altered.

tells Carl to look in the briefcase, predicting that the police file has changed to reflect the deaths of Bremmer and Sikorski, and now details their unsuccessful plots to kill J.T.