Colleen Goodwin is a fictional character appearing in the 2011 film Source Code. She is portrayed by Vera Farmiga.
She is part of a program to send the body of an officially deceased serviceman , in a simulation in order to find a terrorist and prevent another attack.
Biography[]
After the first test of the machine, Colter Stevens, an officially deceased soldier returns from the simulation. Captain Colleen Goodwin shows her memory tests on the screen, after which the subject remembers that he is Captain Colter Stevens, a helicopter pilot who was last deployed to Afghanistan. Now he is confused, seeking his unity and demanding explanations.
Little by little, we learn that he is still on a mission, his job is to find a bomb hidden on a passenger train heading for Chicago. You have eight minutes to complete the task, at which point the train explodes and it returns to the cabin and can start the mission again in a short time.
After persistent questioning, he is told (this time Rutledge, the leader) that using software, quantum physics and parabolic calculations, he scanned the memory of a passenger traveling on a train, eight minutes before the explosion, and loaded it into Stevens' brain. he experiences the scene and all events as real. For those sitting on the train, this is Sean Fentress (in the bathroom he saw the stranger in the mirror, whose body he is carrying on the train). Stevens' job is to use the time he has to find the bomb and, if possible, the person responsible for the explosion and relay that information to Captain Goodwin.
It's kind of a time loop, but he's told it's not time travel, he's perceiving an alternate world.
Stevens tries to remember how he got into this program when told that he was selected from among many volunteers. He vaguely remembers the last deployment in Afghanistan, where the helicopter he was driving came under enemy fire.
When he begins to abandon the mission, which proves too difficult, he is told that the train explosion was only the first action, after which a dirty atomic bomb will explode in downtown Chicago, killing two millions of people.
Goodwin and the creator of the source code, Dr. Rutledge, tell him that this is not a simulation, but visits to the past of alternate worlds. It cannot change the past or save the lives of individual passengers. Instead, you need to get information that will help them change the future in the real world.
When he still doesn't understand how things work after the explanations, Goodwin assures Stevens that "Everything will work out eventually."
Stevens enters the source code system several times and tries a little differently each time, which gives information about the possible location of the bomb, the movement of the passengers, the contents of their luggage (for passengers, each appearance of Stevens is new).
Suddenly, Stevens uses the simulation internet to learn the truth about his unit. When faced with this information, Goodwin is forced to tell her that he was shot while deployed, his body is badly injured, and only part of his brain can be used. However, it can use the source code to perform tasks. Of the many other soldiers, he was chosen alone because he was the most suitable. Stevens then asks Rutledge and Goodwin to let him die as well. They make a promise to do so, but on the condition that he successfully completes the mission.
Stevens discovers that the bomb was planted by Derek Frost, and that he plans to repeat an atomic attack. With Stevens' information, they can capture the man with his white truck (and the bomb in it), and the atomic bomb that would ruin Chicago doesn't go off.
After the mission is successfully completed, Rutledge and his colleagues will celebrate and, contrary to his promise, Rutledge has Goodwin erase Stevens' memory. With this, Stevens would forget what had happened so far and become fit to perform new tasks. Stevens, meanwhile, convinces Goodwin to send him back one last time to save the train, then turn off the equipment keeping him alive. Goodwin fluctuates, finally realizing the man has this opportunity and then deserved death. Stevens calls his father from the train and then sends a long text message.
In an alternate universe, Goodwin will receive a text message from Stevens explaining that he thinks the source code is not only appropriate for representing alternate worlds, but also for creating them.
Personality[]
Goodwin is very loyal to her leader, but also to the army. Although she does not accept certain decisions, she lets it happen. This is exploited when Rutledge repetitively dispatches Stevens.
However, she eventually rebels and accepts Stevens' death, giving him what he wants.
Special Moments[]
Appearances[]
- Source Code (2011)