A Second Chance

Summary

"St Mary’s is back and nothing is going right for Max. Once again, it’s just one damned thing after another.

''The action jumps from an encounter with a mirror-stealing Isaac Newton to the bloody battlefield at Agincourt. Discover how a simple fact-finding assignment to witness the ancient and murderous cheese- rolling ceremony in Gloucester can result in CBC – concussion by cheese. The long awaited jump to Bronze Age Troy ends in personal catastrophe for Max and just when it seems things couldn’t get any worse – it’s back to the Cretaceous Period again to confront an old enemy who has nothing to lose.''

So, make the tea, grab the chocolate biscuits, settle back and discover exactly why the entire history department has painted itself blue…"

Spoiler Plot Summary for A Second Chance (ASC):
 * Max was pressed into taking the retiring 79 year old Professor Penrose to 1668 Cambridge to see Isaac Newton, then the pod malfunctioned and took them to no time, no where. They preset instructions and coordinates, and opened the door, possibly causing a Big Bang of a new universe.
 * Max commits to leaving St. Mary's after the Troy assignment with Leon
 * Jump to Troy, before the war
 * Max returns to St. Mary's to find Prof. Rapson high on hallucinogenic honey. Ian Guthrie eats it and under the influence, says "Elspeth, I looked for you." Helen Foster also eats the honey, and tell Peterson she loves him


 * Jump to Troy, ten years into the war. Leon wants to save a child. When Max refuses and threatens to shoot the child, he leaves with the child, then returns alone. Max notes that they do not ever speak directly to each other again.
 * Jump to see the execution of Agammenon
 * Max and Peterson jump to view the migration out of Africa
 * Leon dies, a heart attack.
 * Dr. Bairstow talks about Peterson becoming director and Max deputy director, and how once when Leon was ready to quit, he went on an unknown mission and came back better
 * The whole of St. Mary's jumps to nineteenth century Gloucester to participate in cheese rolling
 * Max is kidnapped by Clive Ronan, who takes her to the Cretaceous to kill her, but ends up getting his own, eaten alive by raptors.
 * Rescued by young Leon, who also mentions that he has to take a book to a schoolgirl; they have a violent fight, then hook up and he's set on the road to healing emotionally, but Max has to not go with him
 * Max realizes Joe in the pub is the child from Troy
 * Max's "last jump" is to Agincourt at Pas-de-Calais, France. Peterson hurt, Max killed.
 * Max wakes up with Mrs Partridge, who has taken her to a new universe with a living Leon and Izzy
 * Leon gets a call from Dr. Bairstow to run, that the Time Police are coming