Notice! This post contains spoilers for Netflix’s Time Cut.
Since Time cutAs the time travel drama plays out in two alternate timelines, it’s hard not to question the ages of its main characters, Lucy and Summer, in each. Although Time cut is quite linear compared to most high-concept time travel films, it uses its science fiction elements to introduce several intriguing twists. After initially revealing how the murder of four teenagers in 2003 reverberated into the future and impacted the life of a young Lucy in 2024, Time cut begins your time travel story.
In its opening arc, it shows how Lucy coincidentally comes across a time machine that sends her back to 2003, allowing her to alter the fate of her sister, who was one of the four teenagers murdered. Her journey to save her sister brings with it its own set of challenges that make Lucy question whether changing the past is worth it. Since Time cutBecause the time travel drama plays out across several different timelines, it may be perplexing for some viewers to determine how old Lucy and Summer are in each.
Summer turns 18 in 2003
Summer turns 39 years old in the alternative timeline of 2024
Time cut does not appear to explicitly mention Summer’s age in the 2003 timeline. However, since it establishes that she is a senior in high school and about to graduate, She looks like she’s almost 18. As the film’s opening arc establishes, she dies at age 18 when Sweetly Slasher attacks her during a high school party. As Lucy later goes back to 2003 via the time machine and ends up in the year just days before Summer’s death in the OG timeline, Summer was around 18 years old when she met Lucy.
Since Summer was 18 years old in 2003, she should be around 39 years old in the new 2024 timeline.
In Time cutIn Lucy’s final moments she manages to save Summer from the Sweetly Slasher, who erases her own existence but ensures that her sister lives to see 2024. The film does not portray what happens in the new 2024 timeline. However, after returning to 2003, Lucy reveals that her parents did not recognize her, confirming that they never had a second child because Summer lived. Since Summer was 18 years old in 2003, she should be around 39 years old in the new 2024 timeline.
Lucy is still 3 years away from being born in 2003
Lucy will be 18 in 2024
As Lucy is also portrayed as a high school graduate who gets an internship at NASA in the 2024 timeline, she is around 18 years old in 2024. When she travels back to 2003, she technically doesn’t exist because she was born after her sister’s death. If she is 18 in 2024, she was probably born 3 years after her sister died in 2003. Therefore, she is about 3 years away from being born when she travels back in time to visit her sister in 2003.
Considering that Quinn is also the same age as Summer in the 2003 timeline, he was probably around 39 years old when he finally created the time machine and traveled to the past to kill Summer and her friends. A 39-year-old version of Quinn likely also exists in the alternate 2024 timeline, and he may have even invented the time machine again. However, since Lucy’s arrival in Time cutThe 20023 timeline helps Quinn realize that people still care about him, his new version in the 2024 timeline wouldn’t have used the machine to return to 2003 and become the Sweetly Slasher.