"Stop!"
Timekeeper Raymond Leon has cornered fugitives Will Salas and Sylvia Weis with his gun pointed at their direction. He has been chasing them for stealing time and distributing it to the poor population of Dayton. With this, they're trying to take down the system, something he won't just tolerate of them doing.
"You can run," he commented after wiping sweat from his forehead.
"So can you," Will replied back before saying adding detail. "You're from here, aren't you?"
He's referring to the ghetto.
"Long time ago," the Timekeeper replied.
"Yeah," Will added.
"I worked out how to escape."
Will and Raymond are not so different from one another. They are two people that lived in the ghetto and learned how to escape. They are also different; Will steals time to give to the ghetto, while Raymond becomes a Timekeeper to stop time from being stolen.
"And now you make sure no one else does," the fugitive realized.
"It's the way it has to be. I didn't start the clock. I can't turn it back. I keep it running. I keep time," the cop explained his reason.
"You keep time," Will added. "I'm gonna need some of that time you borrowed from me. Unless you want us to die on the way to our execution."
As soon as he showed his timer on his left arm, which shows he only has one hour and twenty-seven minutes to live, Raymond started to realize something. He should have got his per diem before he left his station, but he ignored this as soon as he saw the fugitive couple at sight. He should have got it from the Timekeeper car he stole from one of his men, but he didn't.
"Time..."
He looked at his left arm to see he only has five seconds; five seconds left to live. The Timekeeper realized his fatal mistake as he turned to face the couple.
He has lost the game.
With five seconds up, he times out as his life fades away in existence, dropping his gun and himself down to the ground. As Will and Sylvia stole his per diem and left the ghetto, two soldiers with heavy green armor arrive near his dead body.
"Sir, what should we do now?" one contacted his superior.
"Bring him in. It's time to test out our resurrection experiment with him," was the reply.
"Got it."
Next, Raymond's corpse is being placed in a body bag and taken away by the soldiers that are called Destroy Entertainment Soldiers.