

Not just the title of the movie, the Adam Project refers to the magnetic particle accelerator that wreaks havoc at the end of the film, which is part of Louis' work that eventually leads to the creation of time travel.

Big Adam, meanwhile, sees Laura for the first time in an echo of their original meeting, meaning the couple found each other again after all. The three of them head outside for a game of catch, before both Adams are returned to their fixed time – so 2022 for Young Adam, and 2050 for Big Adam.īack where they belong, Young Adam hugs his mother, rectifying one of his older counterpart's biggest regrets. The trio have a very emotional group hug after Louis tells Big Adam how much he loves him, and then Louis reassures Young Adam that he'll be okay. But, when both Adams try to warn their father of his impending death, Louis doesn't want to hear it, as no one has a right to change the future. The Adams and Louis then escape before the accelerator is completely sealed off, and head back home, their work complete. On its way, it drives straight through Younger Sorian, fatally wounding her, and so killing Older Sorian too. She fires at Louis, but the bullet is dragged into the accelerator because of its magnetic core. As Young Adam escapes her, a bullet breaks the protective casing around the accelerator, and all hell breaks loose as every magnetic object in the area is sucked towards the machine.Įventually, the Adams and Louis end up held at gunpoint by Sorian.

Sorian isn't going to go quietly, though, and both adult and younger Sorian arrive, with Young Adam as the older Sorian's hostage. The algorithm exists on a hard drive in the accelerator, which they need to destroy to stop time travel from being invented. Louis designed the algorithm to stabilise the wormholes, and it's this equation that makes time travel possible. Louis eventually decides to join them after a chat with their mother Ellie (Jennifer Garner), though, and tells Big Adam that his plan to destroy the magnetic particle accelerator won't work – he needs to take out ISPCA (that's Infinitely Shifting Plasma Containing Algorithm). Sorian then tries to kill Laura in 2018, but doesn't succeed, so Laura ends up stuck in the past. She went back in time to give her younger self some tips to amass her wealth and gain control of time travel in the future, and, because she altered the time stream, the trip doesn't show up in the records. That person turns out to be Maya Sorian, the business partner of Adam's father Louis. She was stranded in 2018 after travelling back to investigate an anomaly in the time jet records, where someone returned from 2018 with no trace of anyone ever going back. Laura takes the Adams to her cabin, where she's been staying for the last four years. In 2022, he meets his younger self (Young Adam) and they're soon joined by Laura, who gets them out of a tight spot fighting against some armed forces from the future who are after Big Adam. That's an accidental destination, though: he was aiming for 2018, because he's on the hunt for his missing wife Laura. The Adam Project picks up with adult Adam – Big Adam – travelling back in time to 2022.
