The film begins in 1995 showing a young woman leaving her baby boy on the steps of an orphanage, where he lives there after. Twelve years later, this boy, called Lewis (Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry), is a brilliant inventor of fantastic devices, but has yet to be adopted and fears that he will never do so. Convinced that his birth mother abandoned him against her will, he attempts to invent a memory-scanning machine that will allow him to remember his mother in the hopes that he can find her. His roommate, Michael "Goob" Yagoobian (Matthew Josten), becomes his assistant during long hours of building, which causes Goob's Little League baseball team's performance to suffer. Goob attempts to be supportive, but eventually tires of it.
At Lewis’s school science fair, judged by one Dr. Krunkelhorn (Laurie Metcalf), Lewis is approached by a thirteen-year-old boy named Wilbur Robinson (Wesley Singerman), who claims (falsely) that he is a "time cop" from the future and that a man wearing a bowler hat has stolen a time machine that Wilbur wishes to recapture. The sinister 'Bowler Hat Guy' (Stephen Anderson), for whom Wilbur is searching, sends Doris (Ethan Sandler), a robotic hat with mechanical arms, to sabotage Lewis’ memory-scanner. As Lewis begins demonstrating the use of his machine, it explodes, throwing the science fair into chaos. Lewis runs out, leaving his machine, whereupon the Bowler Hat Guy steals the memory scanner, now repaired by Doris.
At the orphanage, Lewis goes to the roof, crushed by his apparent failure. Wilbur appears and tells Lewis to go back to the science fair and fix the machine. Lewis agrees, under the condition that Wilbur proves he is from the future. Wilbur then takes Lewis to a flying time machine, and uses it to take them to the year 2037, thirty years forward. Meanwhile, Goob is visited by the Bowler Hat Guy, who advises him to nurture whatever resentment he has against Lewis. This scene acts as a foreshadow to later events.
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