The man, picked up the last double vodka and drained the glass. “The end of the world, more or less. I couldn’t get some more of these could I?” He shook the empty glass.

The barman took the glass off him and filled it with vodka. “But, surely you can stop it, surely someone can stop it? Surely you can do more than just drink vodka in a bar?”

“I’ve tried three times, I’ve failed three times. I might have even made it worse, It’s hard to tell.”

“I won’t accept there’s nothing you can do, not if you can time travel, you could solve anything with time travel, can’t you?”

“Ok, what would you suggest.”

“Well, I guess the most obvious solution is to go back to before the chain of events even started and stop them, you know, kill the bad guy before he’s a bad guy.”

The man took a large gulp of vodka. “Kill someone for something they haven’t done yet? Does that seem right to you?”

“If it saves the world, I think so.”

The man produced a shiny pistol. “And what if it’s you Thomas J Slynt, what then?”