Character Relationship Map: Millennium

Characters

• Bill Smith (played by Kris Kristofferson) — protagonist

  NTSB investigator assigned to the 1989 commercial airliner crash. He investigates the anomaly, becomes suspicious of time traveler Louise Baltimore, and ultimately travels through the Gate with her to...

• Louise Baltimore (played by Cheryl Ladd) — protagonist

  Future time traveler sent to 1989 to distract and deter Bill Smith from uncovering the truth about the crash. She reveals her mission, becomes pregnant, and escapes to the future through the Gate with...

• Arnold Mayer (played by Daniel J. Travanti) — supporting

  Theoretical physicist and key developer of the Gate time travel technology. He investigates crash artifacts, dies while reassembling a stun weapon, and his death triggers a catastrophic paradox that f...

• Sherman (played by Robert Joy) — supporting

  Louise's android advisor from the future. He is present during the Gate's destruction and survives the blast wave long enough to quote Winston Churchill before the timeline is rewritten.

Canonical Relationships

Family, romantic, and professional connections based on plot evidence.

• Louise Baltimore → Sherman (Professional Advisor And Principal) — Sherman serves Louise as a future-based technical or advisory companion.

  Sherman is identified as Louise's android advisor from the future and is present with her during the Gate's destruction.

• Bill Smith → Louise Baltimore (Romantic Partner) — Their relationship begins as Louise's deception but develops into a bond that leads them to escape together.

  Louise gains Bill's trust and seduces him into a one-night stand while attempting to distract him from the investigation. She is later pregnant and tr...

Story Dynamics

Alliances, conflicts, and narrative interactions that evolve throughout the story.

• Bill Smith → Sherman (Alliance Shared Escape) — Bill and Sherman are connected by the final evacuation and destruction of the Gate.

  Bill and Louise step through the Gate as it is destroyed, while Sherman remains at the Gate and is engulfed by the blast wave.

• Louise Baltimore → Arnold Mayer (Conflict Mission Opponent) — Louise's mission places her in opposition to Mayer's investigation and knowledge of time travel.

  Louise reveals her mission to Bill and Mayer because their discoveries could change history, while her future depends on preventing that investigation...

• Bill Smith → Arnold Mayer (Alliance Investigative Allies) — They combine official crash investigation with theoretical knowledge to uncover the time-travel operation.

  After becoming suspicious, Bill visits Mayer, and the two discuss Louise's mission and the time-travel explanation for the crash.

Story Analysis

An aviation investigation uncovers a future civilization's desperate time-travel program and culminates in a dangerous escape through a collapsing Gate.

Plot Progression

1. The Impossible Crash — A commercial airliner suffers a bizarre accident, and the flight engineer reports burned corpses despite the lack of evidence for a pre-crash fire. Bill begins investigating while Mayer considers the...
2. A Future Without Children — The future is revealed as a polluted world where humans cannot reproduce. Time travelers abduct people facing death and use organic replicas to limit the effects of their incursions.
3. Artifacts Across Time — A stun weapon links a 1963 incident to the 1989 crash investigation. The matching artifacts give Bill and Mayer evidence that the mystery involves more than an ordinary aviation accident.
4. Louise's Dangerous Mission — Louise is sent to distract Bill and stop his investigation, using seduction to gain his trust. Bill becomes suspicious and confronts the mystery with Mayer.
5. The Gate's Last Passage — Louise reveals her mission, but Mayer dies while reassembling the stun weapon. His death creates an infinite timequake, forcing the future population toward a final evacuation through the Gate.