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"I can't interact with my past self. Just like you can't interact with your future one. It can mess too much up."
Nico Minoru meditates, hovering magically above the ground, before going to her phone. When there is a knock at her door, she finds Alex Wilder, to her pleasant surprise, and asks how he knew where she was. Wilder, in fact the Wilder from 2028, tells her that he has been there before and shoots at her with a Energy Pistol. Minoru freezes the bolt, leaving Wilder confused since she does not have the Staff of One. Minoru tells Wilder that she has leveled up.[1][2]
2028 Stein arrives, knocks 2028 Wilder down, and closes the door. He explains to Minoru that he is from the future and so is the Wilder that shot her, having traveled back in time to kill all of the 2021 Runaways. Stein looks outside and finds that 2028 Wilder is gone. Minoru tells Stein that she was away studying magic with a Master, and notices a deep scar on Stein's neck. Stein says that someone named "Victor" gave it to him, but that it is not important for their current situation. He says that they need to gather the others, and Minoru mentions she was about to do that anyway.[1][2]
At the Hostel, the 2021 Runaways gather and 2028 Stein explains that he should not interact with his 2021 self, who is still in his workshop, just like how 2021 Alex Wilder should not interact with 2028 Wilder. He explains that one of them tried to kill Wilder in 2028 by putting a bomb in his office, and that 2028 Wilder does not know who planted the bomb so is coming after all of them on the day that Minoru originally brought them all back together in memory of Gert Yorkes. Stein warns that if 2028 Wilder cannot get to them, he will go after someone they care about. Karolina Dean wonders if he will go after Julie.[1][2]
Julie returns to her apartment and finds 2028 Wilder outside, recognizing him as Alex Wilder from Dean's birthday party. He says that he wants to leave something for Dean. Julie tells him that Dean will be home in about an hour, and Wilder asks if he can wait for Dean. Julie offers to text Dean, but 2028 Wilder pulls the Energy Pistol on her and knocks her out.[1][2]
Dean returns home and finds Julie on the floor. 2028 Wilder steps out and tries to shoot Dean, but Minoru enters with Molly Hernandez and 2028 Stein and uses a strangling spell to stop him. Stein confronts Wilder, but Wilder uses his device to time-jump away again. Julie wakes up and meets Minoru, then Dean then leads her away.[1][2]
2021 Wilder enters the house, having waited outside so he did not meet his future self. Minoru realizes that Julie is Dean's girlfriend, and Hernandez reminds her that she was gone for 3 years and no one knew where she was.[1][2]
Dean explains to Julie that she has to do something with her friends and leaves.[1][2]
Stein says he has tracked 2028 Wilder's time travel to the day before they discovered PRIDE's Rite of Blood and became friends again. He gives the other Runaways time machines to travel to 2017Atlas Academy together.[1][2]
↑ 1.01.11.21.31.41.51.61.71.8Following the events of Split Up on November 16, 2017 (see other references) at the end of Runaways: Season 2, Smoke and Mirrors is said to pick up "36 hours" later (the second morning after), making this November 18, 2017. The season then spans two more days until November 20, 2017 when the team is taken to the Dark Dimension at the end of Rite of Thunder. In The Great Escape, while explaining to "Tina Minoru" the slow progress on Wizard's 5G program, Mita Nansari says, "The third quarter issue with wave device battery drainage was also [...] unexpected," implying the third quarter of the year, July-September, was fairly recently, fitting with this now being November, during the fourth quarter of the year. At the beginning of Lord of Lies, a flashback to Amy Minoru's memorial service, which is implied to be soon after her death, is shown to be "two years ago." With Minoru's death occurring in October 2015 (see 2015 references), this maintains that the present day is still in late 2017, having not yet crossed over into 2018.
In Enter The Dreamland and Merry Meet Again, upon the group's return to the real world, it is said that they were in the Dark Dimension for "six months," making this now May 2018. In Merry Meet Again, Dale Yorkes says that it is now "Day 189 of living off the grid," making it either 188 or 189 days since the end of Season 2 (depending on whether or not Dale is counting inclusively), so either May 22, 2018 or May 23, 2018. As he says this, a calendar can be seen in the background, and, although the days of the week do not match May 2018, it can be seen that Yorkes has crossed off 22 days, making this the 23rd of the month, fitting perfectly with May 23, 2018. From here, the present day events continue until May 26, 2018.
In Merry Meet Again, Karolina Dean states, "We did miss a lot the last six months. Graduation, prom, summer jobs, making any plans for the future." Although this works nicely with them having missed prom and graduation, both of which would have happened in or around May, the mention of them missing "summer jobs" implies this is at the very end of the summer, so around August, rather than earlier. However, in The Broken Circle, Chase Stein tells Gert Yorkes that she hasn't missed the "late registration deadline" for entering into Smith College, presumably for the fall semester. The late registration deadline for most colleges is generally around late August, which, if this scene were to occur at the very end of summer, would only be days away. Yorkes expresses earlier in Merry Meet Again that she seeks to get a part-time job and a GED before entering college, which she would have significantly more time to accomplish if this were the beginning of summer rather than the end. In Cheat The Gallows, on what is stated to be the three-year anniversary of Gert Yorkes' death, Molly Hernandez is shown to be in her senior year during school time and is implied to be graduating soon, with one of her classmates telling her, "We're really gonna miss you when you graduate, Molly." This implies that this is around May 2021, with her senior graduation just around the corner, thus making Gert Yorkes' death May 2018, with graduation having just happened. Additionally, Dean has a schedule up for her "Summer 2022" semester of college. Although the year is incorrect, this reiterates that this is during the summer semester, which would have started in May, as opposed to the start of the fall semester, which would have started in August. Later, Julie implies that Dean's birthday in "February" was not that long ago, which fits better with May as opposed to August. Finally, and most importantly, the present day events of the season ending in May 2018 places the show just barely before Avengers: Infinity War, which would not only be very problematic for the setting of the season if it were to partially occur after the Snap, with the event never being addressed by any of the characters, but Jeph Loeb confirmed that the seasons released in the wake of Infinity War would mostly occur before the Snap (1, 2), which would almost certainly apply to this season. Thus, it can be assumed that Dean is referring to the Runaways having the missed the opportunity to apply for and get summer jobs, which occurs during the spring for most high schoolers.
In Devil's Torture Chamber, a letter is momentarily shown with a "July 25, 2019" date. Similar to Karolina Dean's "Summer 2022" timetable, which also operates off of the belief that the latter half of the season takes place in mid-2019, this may easily be discarded as an error, as this places the events of the entire show after the Snap, which is highly unlikely.
