Journeyman is a new NBC romantic mystery drama which features Dan Vasser (played by Kevin McKidd) as the Journeyman himself. Vasser is a San Francisco newspaper reporter and family man who is suddenly given the gift of time travel, letting him be free to go wherever he wants in time. Not only does he change people's lives but he also has to deal with the difficulties of his actions, and him being mission from his present life. Through his time travels, he gets reunited with his long lost fiancé, an event that further complicates his relationship with his present wife.
"Journeyman: Winterland (#1.8)" (2007)
Hugh Skillen: You, uh, you gotta second?
Dan Vassar: [jokingly] Uh oh.
Dan Vassar: That, and we watched Nixon's "I am not a crook" speech on TV, on the day it actually happened.
Katie Vasser: Honey, I love that you went to a wife swapping party and it was Nixon who turned you on.
Dan Vassar: I don't wanna do this anymore Liv.
Livia Beale: Yeah, I know.
Dan Vassar: Some higher power wants me to do his dirty work, I wanna know why.
Livia Beale: Good luck with that.
"Journeyman: Double Down (#1.7)" (2007)
Livia Beale: How much money are we talking about?
Dan Vasser: I had over twenty thousand dollars in that drawer, give or take a few.
Livia Beale: You never heard of a bank?
Dan Vasser: It wasn't exactly tax deductible.
Dan Vasser: This wasn't exactly my best year.
Livia Beale: I don't know if I ever said it, but... I want you to know, I'm sorry.
Dan Vasser: For what?
Livia Beale: For leaving... for not telling you the truth. Wasn't easy for me either.
"Journeyman: Keepers (#1.6)" (2007)
Dan Vasser: What day is it?
Livia Beale: I dunno - I just got here. You want a new travel tip?
[Automobile]
Livia Beale: registration tags - it's 1965
Dan Vasser: Oh yeah? Kid's on his cell phone.
Livia Beale: Okay... so it's not a perfect system.
Livia Beale: Are you gonna steal Jack's car?
Dan Vasser: If he's still living where I think he's living. There she is...
Livia Beale: This is some kind of teen fantasy for you, isn't it?
Dan Vasser: No... yeah!
"Journeyman: Blowback (#1.10)" (2007)
Livia Beale: I die, you mourn, she comforts... you and Katie, you don't come together unless Livia and Dan come together first. She filled a vacuum I created.
Dan Vassar: So... you could say your mission was to get us together.
Livia Beale: I'm starting to wonder.
The school that his son goes to is called Herbert Wells. Herbert George Wells, also known as H.G. Wells, was the author of ‘The Time Machine’, another story about a man that travels through time.