Eventually, Sonny reveals himself as a Torus mercenary and kills everyone. He also realizes that the ARQ does not function as a perpetual motion machine, but in fact generates the time loop as a way to continue using the energy from the gasoline used to catalyze the process, making it seem as if it is generating endless energy. Renton theorizes that the ARQ is causing a time loop. When Renton and Hannah wake up together, she can now recall the previous iteration. Hannah accidentally shoots Renton in an ensuing scuffle. Once they have the three men captured, though, Renton reneges on the deal, demanding that Hannah abandon the Bloc and come with him. Though he does not trust Hannah, Renton and Hannah work out a deal where they will split the scrips after using the cyanide gas to force Father and his group to stand down. She admits that she grew to resent him after he abandoned her to Torus, who tortured her. In the next iteration, Renton questions Hannah about her past before freeing her. Renton surrenders the scrips and then Sonny shoots him. The plan fails when Hannah reveals that she is a member of the Bloc. This time, after freeing the two of them, he asks Hannah to help poison the intruders with cyanide gas. He wakes with a start back in bed with Hannah, only to relive the same scenario. Hannah urges him to comply with the men, but he tries to escape and dies. He explains that he built the ARQ, a working perpetual motion machine, while working for Torus and then stole the machine. Their leader, 'Father', says he represents a rebel group known as the Bloc and demands Renton surrender money or 'scrips' that he had stolen from their rival organization, the Torus Corporation.įather and the two other men, Sonny and Brother, leave to eat in another room and Renton is able to cut himself and Hannah loose. The men break in once again and bind him and Hannah to chairs in another room. Three men break into his bedroom and, when Renton breaks his neck while escaping, he wakes with a start where he was just a moment earlier. Renton wakes up beside his former lover, Hannah. He attempts to save his former lover, played by Rachael Taylor, while learning who has targeted him and why. Robbie Amell plays an engineer whose invention causes a time loop during a home invasion. The film was released on Netflix worldwide on September 16, 2016. It was selected to be screened in the Discovery section at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. ARQ is a 2016 American-Canadian science fiction action film directed by Tony Elliott.

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