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This template contains the plot outline for the second three acts of, which is the same as the plot of. The content of this page is included on both of those articles to avoid the need to change the same content in two locations.

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Nudar wants to take the time sphere for a ride, Farnsworth objects, because time travel invariably creates a paradox. Nibbler informs them that it is a paradox-correcting time code, which means everything will work out all right. Nudar travels back to one day prior, where he meets himself, and apparently made out with himself (and possibly more). Suddenly the Smell-O-Scope falls upon the new duplicate of Nudar and kills him. In Farnsworth's words: "Paradox resolved. Someone get a mop!"

A problem occurs with their plans to steal all things of value in Earth's history. Because the time sphere can only get them back to the past, not forward into the future, they may be able to steal things, but they would be dead before they could reap the benefits. Bender informs them that he can travel back in time, steal the stuff, then hang out in the basement of the building, and come up after a few centuries or more. And so his stealing of Earth's past values begins. And in 2308, where the Nobel Peace Price is being given to MC Svensson for bringing a truce between the East and West Coast Rappers, Bender's ship and it's decoys destroy the original New York (1ACV01) while escaping after stealing the Nobel Peace Prize.

Meanwhile, Hermes' wife LaBarbara has left him for Barbados Slim. Lars informs him that since the scammers bought the hospital, his body won't be fixed for months, or maybe even years.

Farnsworth wants to sell off his doomsday devices in order to make money, but he won't sell his favorite, the Spheroboom (very similar to the one used to stop chronoton particles from bombarding the universe (3ACV14), possibly a replacement), which he places in a satchel he then handcuffs around his wrist. The scammers order Bender to get it, using the old method of "Switcheroo", replacing the real satchel with an empty one. Bender does this by sawing off the professor's hand. When Hermes sees how well Zoidberg sewed the professor's hand back on, he asks if he could do the same for him and his body. Hermes asks Bender to go back in time and get an undamaged body from the past; Bender, curiously, does not object. Unfortunately, after they get the body, Zoidberg puts Hermes' head on backwards.

Meanwhile, the professor has invited the Globetrotters to assist in figuring out how paradox-free time travel is possible, and 'Sweet' Clyde's "razamatazz" calculus ensures it is. The reason is due to the doom field in the equation, which means that a duplicate created from a time travel is always doomed. This essentially means that, although no paradoxes are created, the universe balances itself out by eventually destroying duplicated matter.

Lars and Leela go out on a date, and Bender has finally stolen all the stuff the scammers wanted. However, now that the scammers are rich, they suddenly care if the universe gets destroyed. They intend to delete the code from Bender and vaporise Fry&mdash;rather than just removing the tattoo&mdash;in case he memorized the code. Fry escapes by using a mirror to read the code off of his tattoo. He travels back to January 1, 2000, 12:30 AM, 30 minutes after he was frozen. Bender is ordered to travel back a few moments before he arrives (just to be safe) and terminate him (hence the "cool" sunglasses he wears, mimicking "The Terminator"&mdash;though he just claimed it was brighter in the past).

Bender arrives at 12:28 a.m., but after drinking the beer Fry left before he was frozen, Bender (for the first time in his life) needs to go to the bathroom. So he goes back 19 seconds in time and asks the former Bender to wait for Fry to come while he goes to bathroom, creating a doomed Bender duplicate.

Before Fry arrives, another copy of Bender arrives in a tuxedo and says that he is Bender from "way at the end." He tattoos the time code on the backside of the Fry that is within the cryogenic tube, thus revealing how he got the tattoo in the first place. Fry arrives, and Bender threatens to kill him, but when Fry explains he is his friend, Bender goes through a moral crisis and ultimately enters his Automatic Destruct Sequence due to an internal error in programming caused by the tension. Before he can explode, Fry kicks Bender into the freezer and sets it for 1 million years.

The Bender in the bathroom leaves, and spots Fry waiting for the elevator. He tries to catch up, but is too slow. He considers commiting suicide in what he initially believes to be a suicide booth, only to stop after realizing it's actually a telephone booth. After giving up on suicide, he begins his hunt for Fry, and continuously fails in finding him. During the 2000 election, he attacks Al Gore's manager (also named Philip Fry) and winds up destroying Gore's ballots, resulting in victory for Bush. After 12 years, he finally catches up to Fry on the docks of New York City. Fry has grown a long beard and is walking off a boat, but it's clearly him (identified by a brief shot of the tattoo). Bender calls for a cab (driven by Al Gore) and offers the former Vice President $100 to catch up with Fry. However, Gore's "Hybraxi" (a hybrid taxi) gets into an accident, and Bender is hurdled to Panucci's Pizza. Al Gore ominously explains that the hundred dollars Bender would have given him could have bought him one gallon of gas.

Bender lands in from of Pannuci's, near Seymour. While he at first thinks he's lost Fry, he spots him in the window above the restaurant, and shoots into the window, destroying much of the building (and fast-fossilizing Seymour in the process). It collapses, and Bender is suddenly filled with remorse over killing his best friend.