During one of his time loops, Roy survives long enough to call his estranged wife Jemma (Naomi Watts) only to learn she's dead. A flashback reveals that the day before Roy's time-looping begins, he visits Jemma at Dynow Labs under the pretense there may be a job waiting for him there. Jemma acts suspiciously, dropping hints and insisting Roy open the birthday present she sent him.
It takes until Roy's 141st attempt at surviving the day that he remembers the birthday present. He opens the package, revealing the book The Mythology of Iset and Osiris, though it takes him a couple of more kills for him to successfully read the book — due to trying to read the book at inopportune times. We eventually learn the book refers to the Osiris Spindle — the device Jemma has developed for Colonel Ventor. Roy happens upon his son Joe (Rio Grillo), who doesn't yet know Roy is his father. Roy follows him to a retro video game convention in Underground Atlanta, and shortly afterward realizes this is his first time surviving the day past 12:47 pm.
Outside Underground Atlanta, the killers track him down and execute him as he protects Joe with his body. This is Roy's second big clue, as it lets him know the killers couldn't find him because he was underground, meaning he has some kind of electronic tracker on his body. In the Chinese restaurant where he's been killed so many times, Roy talks to the annoying security consultant Dave (Sheaun McKinney), who helps him discover he has a tracking device in his tooth. With a lot of booze and a pair of plyers, Roy takes care of the tracker, finally giving him a snowball's chance of surviving.
