 While the rest of the team is away, Murdoch finds that the machine is about to be swamped with interference, and may soon be unusable.He decides to take matters into his own hands and transmit a message far back into the past to remedy the situation.To get around the 24-hour limit of the machine, he asks Anne, who had learned machine code programming at her university, to write a program that would repeatedly bootstrap itself back in time until it reached the date desired.