- "We weren't the first. We had to keep trying."
- — Wayne (Traveler 5008)
Wayne is a skydiver. He is host to two separate Travelers whose mission is to prevent the Core Traveler Team from being ambushed while retrieving the Fraser meteor.
Averted death[]
Wayne was not initially a host candidate. However, his older sister Carrie was overwritten seven times during a skydiving jump, resulting in the creation of many alternate timelines. Wayne's fate differs greatly between these:
- If Traveler 5001 never arrived in the 21st, Wayne would have completed his skydiving jump successfully.
- During the timeline where Traveler 5001 arrives in the past, Wayne sees Carrie go into convulsions while screaming in agony - common reactions to being overwritten. She stops before he has time to react. He successfully lands, concerned but unharmed.
- During the timeline created by Traveler 5002, Carrie's convulsions go on for twice as long due to the two concurrent overwrites. Wayne tries to help Carrie but the two collide in midair, knocking him unconscious and unable to pull his own parachute. He falls to his death.
- Traveler 5003 creates a timeline in which Wayne's parachute is opened. However, an unconscious person is unlikely to land safely, so his death is probable in this timeline and those created by Travelers 5004-5007. The historic time of death recorded for Wayne is 12:33 PM.
History[]
Host[]
Little is known about Wayne's life prior to being overwritten. He was going skydiving with Carrie and their friend Lars (who was watching from the ground). The three stopped at a rural gas station on the way to the remote area and briefly encountered Grant MacLaren and his team.
Traveler (Number Unknown)[]
After seven consecutive attempts to save the team using Carrie as a host, the Director elects to use Wayne, who's subsequently overwritten mid-skydive by a Traveler whose number is never specified. Wayne demands Lars' car keys as soon as he lands while Lars weeps over Carrie's dead body. He drives to the location of the nearby pickup truck with a dog inside, steals the dirt bike on its back, then circumvents the route taken by Travelers 5001 and 5003 to avoid being tailed by an unnamed guard working for Vincent Ingram.
The guard notices Wayne nonetheless and gives chase, but momentarily hampered by the truck of an unnamed logger in the way. The guard kills the logger and catches up to Wayne, ultimately shooting him as well before he could rescue the team.
Traveler 5008[]
The above attempt causes a new T.E.L.L. to be activated on the logger, resulting in dual downloads: Traveler 5008 in Wayne, and Traveler 5009 in the logger. 5008 essentially retraces the actions of his predecessor, only this time he encounters no interference from the guard because 5009 killed him. 5008 arrives just in time to see the ambush happen, but because 5009 was much closer than him he was able to warn MacLaren's team earlier. The Travelers succeed in killing their would-be ambushers, although 5008 is shot in the arm.
Wayne and Traveler 5009 inform the team of the multiple rescue attempts, then debrief them on their next mission.