Amazing Stories "The Rift" is a time-traveling adventure story with a classic Steven Spielberg feel and the series finale for season 1. Similar to episode 3, "Dynoman and the Volt", "The Rift" features a young boy as the protagonist. It opens with Elijah Whitaker (Duncan Joiner) riding in the car with his stepmom, passing through Dayton, Ohio on the way to San Diego, California when a sudden storm fills the sky and a fighter plane from World War II crashes in a nearby creek. They jump out of the car and Mary rushes down the slope to free a soldier from the plane, a young man by the name of Lieutenant Theodore Cole.
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