James Franco
Jake Epping
Series
An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
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8 episodes available
A small-town English teacher, Jake Epping, learns from a friend that there is a portal that leads from the present back to 1960. Jake's friend asks him to help him stop John F. Kennedy's assassination by going back in time and finding out who really killed Kennedy... and killing them.
Unnerved by the impossibility of his mission, Jake travels to Holden, Kentucky in order to save the family of his friend Harry Dunning, who were all murdered on Halloween by Harry’s father Frank. But does Jake have what it takes to kill a man?
Jake finds an unlikely ally in his quest in local drifter Bill Turcote. He gets a teaching job in a small town near Dallas and discovers romantic sparks with school librarian Sadie Dunhill. Jake constructs a double life - spying at night on Lee Harvey Oswald as the potential assassin within Jake builds. Trailing Oswald takes Jake into the dark side of Dallas, where he realizes Oswald may not be the only threat Kennedy will have to face.
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Jake Epping
Sadie Dunhill
Al Templeton
Lee Harvey Oswald
Marina Oswald
Bill Turcotte
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