The gang up in the ITTDB Citadel showed this five-minute film to me on my first prime birthday of the 2010 decade.
By the end of the first season, one principal character has seemingly been trapped in the 2043, and Cole is stuck in 2015, having just gone against fate in a major way, but with a third principal character poised to spread the virus via a jet plane.
P.S. Whatever you do, whether in narrative time or elsewhen, don’t bring up this adaptation as dinnertime conversation with Terry Gilliam (but do watch it if you can set aside angst over a lack of a consistent model and just go with Cole’s flow).
—from “Splinter” [s01e01]
And just for fun . . . we get to see a flying pig three times! [Sadly, we have no Flying Pig tag. —the curator]