Jessie Blake is on her way to a Halloween costume party with her friend Kyle who is a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They decide to stop in at his lab so he can show her the time travel machine that he has been working on. He asks her where she would want to go back in time, theoretically speaking. She suggests she would like to go back to eighteenth-century Scotland to meet the Bard, Robert Burns. Jessie is working...