Bradley takes his first vacation in a decade and in doing so, is kidnapped. During questioning he takes a suicide pill, which ultimately leads to a Backstep. Trying to juggle two deaths, Frank experiences what he calls "time burps", where time just seems to go back by itself, and he uses these to repeat events again and again in order to get the desired outcome.

After the adopted son of Fidel Castro, a renounced boxer, is assassinated during a boxing match in America, the communist leader retaliated by launching secret nuclear missiles at Miami, triggering a Backstep.