The story starts off by introducing readers to a man named Eckels. He has signed up to go back in time to hunt, and the company taking him is Time Safari Inc. Eckels is a bit of an overconfident, pompous, rich blowhard. Travis and the other Time Safari guides try to dispel some of Eckels' overconfidence. They tell him that nothing is guaranteed about the expedition and that he might not come back alive.
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The story starts off by introducing readers to a man named Eckels. He has signed up to go back in time to hunt, and the company taking him is Time Safari Inc. Eckels is a bit of an overconfident, pompous, rich blowhard. Travis and the other Time Safari guides try to dispel some of Eckels' overconfidence. They tell him that nothing is guaranteed about the expedition and that he might not come back alive.
Eckels and the other time traveling clients will be going back in time to the age of dinosaurs. The goal is to shoot and kill a Tyrannosaurus rex. Time Safari Inc. has everything in place. They have correctly identified which dinosaur to kill in order to not mess up a future timeline. They have put in place a floating sidewalk so that no safari member steps on and destroys anything in the past that might in turn affect the future. Everything seems to be perfect. That is until Eckels sees the T. rex. Eckels loses his cool completely and enters a full panic mode. He's terrified. Travis orders him back to the time machine, but along the way Eckels steps off of the path.
The rest of the safari members return to the time machine and head back to the present. Once back in the present though, it is clear that not everything is the same as they had left it. The language written on signs is different and the government leader is somebody different. The reader then finds out that Eckels stepped on a butterfly in the past, and its death had vast repercussions throughout the rest of history. The last thing that the reader and Eckels hear is Travis firing a gun.
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