When Lorraine’s 12-year-old self, Lorrie, appears with the hopes of bringing their mom back, she has to try. Lorraine puts everything on the line. Her relationship with Buck, her dad's secret project, and her own future all hang in the balance.
Buck tries to warn Lorraine that listening to her grief-stricken, 12-year-old self is a mistake, but she won’t hear any of it. The hope of seeing her mom is too tempting a vice, and who can blame her?
Although Lorrie is as mean as fire, Buck sticks with Lorraine through thick and thin. Even when it leads to destroying her father's time machine, stealing from Huson labs, and her Uncle Sebastion (bless Uncle Sebastion), Buck is there.
And so is her dad.
He works tirelessly on the TIME machine, creating a rift between himself and Lorraine, who sees it (and him) as the cause of her mom’s death. Nevertheless, he is always there, making her favorite meal and fixing her mistakes.
That is, until he can’t.
After she steals from Huson labs and Lorrie time-travels one too many times, they get wise and come down full force on the family. The failed TIME experiment nearly ends up just like it did eight years ago, all thanks to Lorrie, who tries to shove her dad into the machine!
The little terror, Lorraine, and Buck escape, but her dad is captured.
When Lorraine and Buck make it to Uncle Sebastian, he is rightfully fuming. He harbors them for one night and then tells them he is going to turn them in.
After a brief excursion and car theft, they return to Uncle Sebastian and are all three incarcerated at Huson Labs.
Uncle Sebastian may be willing to turn in a thief, but he isn't willing to let his best friend be killed for Lorraine's stupidity, so he breaks her and Buck out with the hopes of finding Lorraine's dad and fleeing.
It's a great plan, except Lorrie is the bane of all existence. She appears with one of Uncle Sebastian's "failed" experiments. Mind control. She effectively attaches it to the biggest agent and wreaks havoc as she kidnaps her dad.
After a near-death experience fighting the agent, Lorraine and company track Lorrie back to the house. Back to the basement. Back to the TIME machine.
At the foot of the TIME machine, Lorraine has a choice. Let Lorrie kill her dad and potentially get her mom back, or save the family she has left.
Lorraine chooses her dad, reigniting the memories of her mom’s death and harnessing the machine's energy to time-travel one last time.
She goes back, says goodbye to her mom, uses Uncle Sebastian's mind-wipe invention on Lorrie, explains everything to her heartbroken dad, and returns to her right time, where she commits to building a life with her family—her dad, Buck, and Uncle Sebastian.
